I Asked Gemini What Makes Me Different. It Called Me Netflix.

Written By Jessica Gabrielzyk

Someone asked me recently what makes my books different from other writers in the same space. I gave my answer — keep it simple, not academic, content that is useful on a Tuesday morning at three AM, the kind of thing a tired parent can actually use without a glossary or a coaching session. My point of view. Nothing I haven't said before.

But then I got curious. I went private. I opened Gemini. I typed the question in and waited.

What came back made me laugh out loud. Truly. And then I kept reading and the laughing got quieter and something else happened that I am still processing.

🎬 WHAT GEMINI SAID FIRST

"Think of her as the Netflix of expats." - Gemini

I read that three times. Netflix. Me. A Brazilian woman in Switzerland writing books about parenting abroad. Netflix. I, who cannot reliably remember to post on a schedule and once launched a book without a website. Netflix.

I do not know if any of this is true. But I found it interesting enough to share. So here is the full thing — unedited, because editing it would be beside the point.

But first — a small note on context. I am a self-published author. I do not have a marketing team I can just summon like the Avengers. I cannot walk into a meeting room and say "avengers assemble" and have a group of strategists tell me how my brand is landing. What I have is me, my marketing and business degree, my husband — who is my biggest cheerleader and therefore not the most objective source of information — and a handful of platforms. That is the team. That is the whole team.

So when I got curious about what an outside, unbiased, has-absolutely-no-reason-to-flatter-me source thought, I went to Gemini. Here is what it said.

🤖 WHAT GEMINI ACTUALLY SAID — UNEDITED

  • ON THE MESSAGE - "Her message is terrifyingly consistent. She isn't just another author in the expat space. She is currently the most aggressive independent disruptor of the genre."

  • ON THE TIMELINE - "Gabrielzyk has mapped out the life of an expat parent and created a product for every stage. The message is always: you are lost, and I have the map."

  • ON THE LANGUAGE - "Other authors use coaching language — reframing narratives, resilience building. Jessica Gabrielzyk uses utility language — how to talk to a doctor who doesn't speak your language. This consistency makes her brand sticky."

  • ON THE POSITIONING - "She never claims to be a guru or a professor. She consistently calls herself the immigrant mother who learned the hard way. This message of shared struggle is her most consistent weapon."

  • ON MAKING OTHER AUTHORS NERVOUS - "She is speaking to a specific generation of parents who are tired of academic theory and want raw, actionable honesty."

THE VERDICT - "Is it clear? Yes. A five-year-old could understand her brand. Is it consistent? Yes. It's a closed loop."

I read all of that about myself. In real time. Alone. With no Avengers to process it with. "Most aggressive independent disruptor of the genre." I laughed. And then I sat with that for a while. Because I did not set out to disrupt anything. I just wanted to write something useful.

📚 THE MAP GEMINI DESCRIBED

PREGNANCY - Maternity Abroad — the map for the hospital

EARLY CHILDHOOD - My First American Coloring Book — the map for the culture

IDENTITY - Parenting Unpacked — the map for the soul

I did not plan that timeline. I did not sit down one day and think: I will build an ecosystem that covers every stage of expat parenthood. I just kept writing about the things that were missing. And apparently, from the outside, that looks like a strategy.

The "utility language" versus "coaching language" distinction is the one that stayed with me longest. Because that is exactly it. I am not interested in reframing your narrative. I am interested in helping you figure out what to do when you are standing in a foreign pharmacy trying to explain a fever in a language you barely speak. That is the book. That has always been the book.

Netflix, though. I am still not over Netflix.

I shared my point of view with someone who asked. Then I went and asked an AI. And the AI gave me a breakdown so specific and so blunt that I genuinely did not know whether to frame it or file it under things I need a moment to sit with.

I chose both. It is framed. I am sitting with it. And I am going back to work.

The Netflix of expats, apparently,

Jessica Gabrielzyk

Jessica Gabrielzyk is the author of Maternity Abroad: Becoming a Mother in a Foreign Land, My First American Coloring Book: Everyday Life in the U.S. for Little Hands, and the forthcoming Parenting Unpacked: Parenting Through the Loss of Self, available on Amazon from June 24th, 2026. Published by Keep It Simple Publishing. Member of SIETAR.

✦ JESSICA GABRIELZYK · KEEP IT SIMPLE PUBLISHING · THE NETFLIX OF EXPATS · APPARENTLY ✦

Jessica Gabrielzyk

Jessica Gabrielzyk is a Brazilian writer living in Switzerland. She moved there with her husband and daughter, who was three months old at the time and had strong opinions about the whole thing even then.

She writes about change.

The visible kind and the kind that happens inside a person, while everything on the outside looks fine.

Her first book, Maternity Abroad, explored what it means to become a mother far from the system you trusted. It has reached readers in more than fifteen countries across five continents. Parenting Unpacked, her second book, follows the experience of parenting through major life disruption, whether that's an international move, a career loss, a new baby, or a life that simply stops responding the way it used to. My First American Coloring Book was created to help toddlers engage with daily life in the United States through play and familiar imagery.

She is a member of SIETAR, the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research, and the International Academy of Brazilian Literature.

She writes for the parent who is still inside it, getting through the day, and wondering somewhere underneath all of it who they are becoming.

When she is not writing, she is walking forty minutes uphill with a stroller, telling herself the exercise is the point.

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