Posted on February 6, 2012 by thesmartexpat
Photo: istockphoto.com My latest blog post over at Expat Focus is the first of two which addresses transitioning to life as an accompanying partner and talks about acceptance as the first step in the transition. You can find the article here.
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Posted on January 26, 2012 by thesmartexpat
Breast Cancer Awareness campaigns on Facebook asking women to make cryptic comments about bra colours and where you put your handbag have created hype and hyperbole in the press and the blogosphere in previous years. However, 2012′s campaign has caused minor havoc to erupt in the expat community. This year, women are asked to post ”I’m [...]
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Posted on January 17, 2012 by thesmartexpat
Can’t tell you how excited I am that I’ve been invited, along with Louise Wiles (my co-conspiritor on the Career and the Accompanying Partner Survey) to participate in an online discussion with Tara Agacayak and Anastasia Ashman, initiators of the Global Niche. Louise and I contacted Tara and Anastasia to ask for their help in [...]
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Posted on January 10, 2012 by thesmartexpat
Happy New Year! I’ve been in Australia over the holidays visiting family and friends and enjoying some of the sunshine and warmth that I missed during the last Northern European summer. While I was away, I wrote my second article for Expat Focus on Goal Setting. If you haven’t thought about what you want to [...]
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Posted on December 7, 2011 by thesmartexpat
I was delighted to be asked by Expat Focus to join their group of expert columnists. As their Expat Coaching for Partners columnist, I’ll be writing about the issues that affect the lives of accompanying partners. My first column, about dealing with some of the seasonal challenges that are particular to expat families, is online [...]
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Posted on December 4, 2011 by thesmartexpat
What a phenomenal response we’ve had to our Career Choice and the Accompanying Partner survey! So far, almost 200 accompanying partners have responded to the survey – an amazing start and almost half way to our goal of 400 responses. Of course Louise and I have had amazing support from some influential people which has [...]
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Posted on November 14, 2011 by thesmartexpat
Photo: istockphoto.com My own career took me from London to New York on my first expat assignment in 1989. Fast forward nine years and my soon-to-be husband and I managed (after a 15 month separation and a with the help of a sympathetic boss) to move to Hong Kong and keep both of our careers [...]
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Posted on November 1, 2011 by thesmartexpat
Remember those moments. The moments in life where everything changes. There might be an epiphany; the course of your life is inexorably changed and everything that comes after is driven by a sense of clarity and purpose that didn’t previously exist. Or there might be some insignificant event; one which alters your perspective which in [...]
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Posted on October 20, 2011 by thesmartexpat
Life in a new country challeges each individual in different ways. Some people experience difficulty adapting to the new culture while others adapt seamlessly. While some find languages a breeze and are chatting like locals in no time at all, others live in a fog of incomprehension for months or even years. Still more are [...]
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Posted on October 12, 2011 by thesmartexpat
In March, I wrote about moving overseas and what makes those of us who do so step so far out of our comfort zones. As many of you who have moved overseas this summer have probably discovered, the decision to move to a new country is just the first of many times in your expat life [...]
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