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Hi Everyone! Fabulous to have you with us. This month we talk to: Deanne de Vries, a well-travelled, senior corporate woman and adventurer based in Kuwait; and Renée Coppinger, a stylish entrepreneur who survived the death of her husband to succeed as an entrepreneur in Spain. |
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Thanks for our new articles go to: Ines Hofmann for Culture Shock: It's A Good Thing; Kim Seeling Smith for Reinventing Yourself: 5 Steps To Creating A Better You; Susanna Zaraysky for 10 Travel Tips for the Seasoned Traveler; Deirdre Budd for Sleep and Your Child; and our Expat Women Girlfriend for her response to the confession, Death Abroad. |
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Deanne de Vries
VP Africa Strategic Initiatives, Agility (Kuwait) |
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Deanne De Vries is a career woman, a traveler and an adventurer. Born and raised in San Jose, California to Dutch parents, she has lived in Belgium, the Netherlands, Kenya, South Africa, the United States, the United Kingdom, Iraq and now Kuwait... |
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Fashion-lover Renée is a shining example of an expat entrepreneur who is both following her true passion and very successfully reinventing herself, over and over. From electronics, to fashion, to care giving, to study, to art and then back to fashion, she has set up businesses... |
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Culture Shock |
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Reinventing Yourself |
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Culture Shock
It’s A Good ThingInes Hofmann |
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Cathy was a lawyer in the United States, but when she accompanied her husband to Frankfurt she suffered from culture shock and every small step outside of her apartment seemed to be a great effort. Strange, this might seem to some, given that Cathy had just been working as a competent lawyer in the US... |
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Reinventing Yourself
5 Steps To Creating
A Better You
Kim Seeling Smith |
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As expats we are forced to reinvent almost every aspect of our lives when we choose to pick up, pack up and pluck ourselves down in another country. We have to negotiate a new country, a new culture, a new house, start new jobs (or life without a job), enrol our children in new schools...
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Death Abroad
Expat Women Girlfriend |
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My friend's husband collapsed and died suddenly at work this week from a brain tumour. It was terrible. Like any best friend would do, I have been doing my best to console and offer support in her time of need and help as best as I can with her two young children. But I really feel out of my depth: first with grief counselling and now with helping her... |
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10 Travel Tips
For The Seasoned Traveler
Susanna Zaraysky |
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If you consider yourself a master at the travel game, but you are still looking for some new ideas to save money and better navigate everything travel, read on to learn from Susanna Zaraysky who has lived in nine countries, traveled to over fifty, speaks seven languages and is the author of Travel Happy, Budget Low...
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How I Learned Spanish
Amanda |
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I was 40 when I got the final permissions necessary to move to Spain with my then 6 year old son in our 13 year old motor-home. Not just 40, but 40 and "useless at languages". I'd decided that when French arrived in my world – it thrilled me as much as a diagnosis of |
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Sleep And Your Child
Deirdre Budd |
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Of all the issues that parents find challenging today, sleep rates amongst the top three. Especially if you are an expat who has moved abroad and left the security of your support network at home, your partner is always travelling and you are feeling isolated and exhausted... |
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