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Hi Everyone! Fabulous to have you with us.
Firstly, a huge thank you to everyone who supported the launch last month of our new motivational book for expatriate women, Expat Women: Confessions – 50 Answers to Your Real-Life Questions about Living Abroad. Your support and early blog reviews gave the book a wonderful online buzz. Thank you!
Secondly, congratulations to the following winners of our US$5,000 book launch competition: Carrie Shearer; Andrea Cummings; Heidi Reyes; Heather Detrick; Gry Tina Tinde; Nicole Göksel; Cynthia Woods; Genevieve Faith; Carole Mobbs; and Jacqueline van Gent. We hope you enjoy your great prizes!
Back to this month's features… This month we talk to: Barbara Le Marrec, Chief Retail Officer for Starbucks Coffee Japan (responsible for 920 stores); and Rebecca Treherne, an expat entrepreneur in the Netherlands who founded the business, Alice in Cakeland.
Thanks for our new articles go to: David McKeegan, for Business Finance for Expat Women Entrepreneurs; and Philip McCusker, for 8 Tips for Controlling Your International Health Insurance Costs. We have also included the Expat Confession, Homesick New Mother Abroad, which is in our new Expat Women book. Plus we share this month's winning story "Expat, Always Blonde: A Girl, A Moped and A Dream" by Nola Lee, an American expat in Thailand.
To those of you going home for the holidays, enjoy. To those of you repatriating in this summer repatriation season, we wish you all the very best with your transition home and hope you will stay in touch.
Thank you very much Everyone - and have a fantastic June!
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| Success Story |
Barbara Le Marrec
Chief Retail Officer, Starbucks Coffee Japan
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Barbara Le Marrec, chief retail officer of Starbucks Coffee Japan and a member of the Starbucks Coffee International Leadership Team leads Retail Operations, Operations Services, Store Development, Store Planning, and Food Service for Starbucks Coffee Japan. Her responsibilities include oversight of the day to day operations and support of 920 stores... |
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Following the birth of her son in 2008, Rebecca longed to start a creative business from home. Missing American sweets, cakes and desserts, she discovered this was a virtually untapped market in the Netherlands... |
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| Business Finances for Expat Women Entrepreneurs |
Corporate Structures, Expat Taxes and Retirement Planning
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If you are a budding expat entrepreneur who has settled offshore permanently, establishing your business in your host country might be an appealing option. However, if you are planning on being abroad for just a few years - not forever - or you plan on living in multiple countries abroad, you may want to incorporate in your home country... |
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We have been living in South Korea for seven months. When we first arrived, I loved the thrill of it all. But now I hate it. We are living in a tiny apartment with no backyard or outside space and we all sleep in the same room. My son is cooped up inside unless we take a couple of forms of public transport to get to the local park. My husband works from home on occasion, and then I have the impossible task of keeping our sixteen-month-old son quiet... |
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| Money Matters |
| 8 Tips for Controlling Your International Health Insurance Costs |
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It used to be that the two things you could be certain of in life were death and taxes. The third one should be increasing insurance premiums every year for your health care. Even globe-trotting executives who are fortunate enough to have their family's health care covered by their employer might face a bit of a shock... |
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| Winning Story |
Expat, Always Blonde: A Girl, A Moped and A Dream
Nola Lee (An American in Thailand) |
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So it was there, only two weeks after my arrival in Chiang Mai, while standing behind that slender banana plant, that I made my decision. I would buy a moped... As the intuitive little blind man once more blazed towards me on his flaming scooter of death my fate was sealed. Danger must be mitigated! I had to take control of my own transportation needs... |
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Congratulations Milla (a Finnish expat in the UK)!
You have won a set of Explorer Mini-Guides, thanks to Explorer Publishing. |
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