Burn the script
The Great Defection
LaunchingSeptember 17, 2026
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A podcast for women who feel
dissonance. In their life. In their body.
Before they can name it in words.

Feminists. Defectors. Mystics.
Weekly conversations from two American women who left — on the mental, financial, and cultural exits from a life (and maybe a country) that no longer fits.
Sarah Balter
Sarah Balter
Istanbul
Burned the script first. Eight years of building a life on the Bosphorus and no interest in going back.
Sarah Sadd
Sarah Sadd
Medellín
Left the prescribed life for Nicaragua, then Medellín. Building what's next.
The signature guide · Free for the list
Plan your exit. Defect with us.
The Script-Burner's Guide to Defection: a free field manual for women who are done with the systems that crush them. 24 pages on the mental unhooking, the money, and how to leave the US without becoming the American everyone dreads. Written by two women who actually did it.
Unhook your brain from the panic machine.
Runway math, real numbers, no fantasy.
Arrive as a guest, not a tourist.
One list: the guide now, episodes and letters at launch.
Unsubscribe whenever, no guilt trip.
The Great Defection
The Script-Burner's
Guide to Defection
A field manual for women who are done.
Istanbul · MedellínFree
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