Hi Everyone! Fabulous to have you with us. This month we talk to: New Zealand expat Yvette Adams, founder of The Creative Collective and Awards Hub, and a multi-award winning business owner and serial entrepreneur in Australia; Danish/Iranian repatriate Isabella Mousavizadeh Smith, creator of Books & Company – an international book café near Copenhagen; and British expat Fay Jones (in Spain) and Irish expat Fiona Butler (in Portugal) – two women who reinvented their careers abroad as franchisees.
Thanks go to licensed psychotherapist Dhyan Summers for her new article, 6 Ways To Build Your Resiliency Skills Abroad.
Thanks also to British author Jo Parfitt (based in The Netherlands), for sharing details with us about her newly-released novel, Sunshine Soup: Nourishing The Global Soul.
Ever thought about starting your own group overseas? Then this month's Expat Confession, Starting Your Own Club, could be for you.
Finally, if you have not yet done so, we invite you to download a sample from our new motivational book, Expat Women: Confessions – 50 Answers to Your Real-Life Questions about Living Abroad. Here's what Ruth E. Van Reken, co-author of Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds, thought about our book: "What a great book! For the first time, a real-life manual that will reassure every expat woman that she is not alone in her unspoken feelings and questions. I loved it!"
Thank you very much Everyone – and we wish you a sensational November! |
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| Success Story |
Yvette Adams
The Creative Collective & Awards Hub
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New Zealander Yvette Adams is a multi-award winning business owner and serial entrepreneur, currently based in Australia. Despite being only 34 years old, Yvette has already started five businesses, and won the Commonwealth Business Owner of the Year at the Telstra Business Women's Awards in 2010 – against 4,200 entrants... |
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| Business Idea |
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| Isabella Mousavizadeh Smith |
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Isabella Mousavizadeh Smith was brought up in Iran, Denmark and the United States. She later studied in France and then pursued a legal career in Denmark, before her husband's work took them to the Netherlands, the United States and Hong Kong. Now a repatriate in Denmark, Isabella runs Books & Company – an international book café near Copenhagen, servicing the area's large international community... |
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| Extract from Expat Women: Confessions |
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We are living in a very small village in Finland. We have been here for seven months now and I am still having a hard time meeting people. I know there are foreigners living here, but there seem to be no expat clubs or associations that bring us together. I have joined some online forums, but it is not quite the same as meeting someone for a coffee. What can I do? |
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| Meet the Author |
| Sunshine Soup: Nourishing The Global Soul |
| Jo Parfitt |
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Brit Jo Parfitt is an expat writing and publishing legend. She has published 27 books, inspired thousands, and lived abroad in Dubai, Oman, Norway and the Netherlands. We caught up with Jo to talk about the publication of her 28th book – her very first novel, Sunshine Soup: Nourishing The Global Soul... |
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| Motivational |
| 6 Ways To Build Your Resiliency Skills Abroad |
| Dhyan Summers, MA, Licensed Psychotherapist |
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More and more people are writing about the need for resiliency in expat communities. Human Resource Managers are specifying ‘resilience’ as a new criterion for overseas selection. Schools are bringing in special educators to teach parents how to enhance their children’s resilience. But what exactly is resilience and why is it so important that expats are resilient? |
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| Expat Careers |
| Starting A Franchise Career Abroad |
| Fay Jones and Fiona Butler |
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This month, we are including an extra feature – interviewing Fay Jones (in Marbella, Spain) and Fiona Butler (in the Algarve, Portugal) – to showcase two women who reinvented their careers abroad as franchisees. They each share with us their top five tips for becoming franchisees abroad... |
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| Winning Story |
An Unexpected Life Abroad
Meghan, An American in the UK |
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It was the first time in my life when I did not look like a minority. I was born in Korea but adopted by American parents.... In Tokyo, I blended in and looked just like everyone else! I physically looked Japanese so Japanese people spoke Japanese to me... When I opened my mouth, I sounded American – but I did not look American. In America, people thought I was from China or Japan... It was even stranger when I travelled to Korea... It was all very disconcerting...
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Follow Andrea
@andreaexpat |
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How Air Pollution Impacts Expat Kids
http://bit.ly/tTLl9i |
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Excellent Article about Moving Abroad and/or Moving Back Home (Matador Network)
http://bit.ly/ods96E |
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Registration Now Open for FIGT (Families in Global Transition) Conference, March 2012, Washington
http://www.figt.org/ |
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Reminder: David Pollock Scholarship Applications for FIGT Conference (March 2012) due December 2011
http://bit.ly/pWB3N3 |
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| If you would like to follow Andrea in 'real time' on Twitter, please click here. |
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Congratulations Sandra! (A Brit in the UAE)
You have won a set of Explorer Mini-Guides, thanks to Explorer Publishing. |
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