The Learners: Anita Anthonj & Mel MacMahon

Mel, born in Ireland, wanted to learn German. Anita, born in
Germany, wanted to improve her English. As an intercultural couple
in New York City, they wanted to understand each other and their
respective cultures better. But they couldn't find any lessons or
teachers they liked. Taking life by the horns, they started their
own thing in 2016: Talaera, a platform for personalized English
training. Today, they are a husband-and-wife-team employing half a
dozen full-time staffers while the platform connects hundreds of
learners and coaches around the world every day. On episode 8 of
the Wunderbar Together podcast, Anita & Mel explore their
successes and failures with German and English, discuss the
challenges of being married AND running a company and – in a
surprise plot twist at the very end – share why learning to
cope with loss has helped them find deeper meaning in life.