Expat Women Newsletter - Best of 2008

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Message from Andrea

Hello Everyone,

Welcome to our ‘Best of 2008’ newsletter. For those of you who are new to our community, or those of you who were too busy to keep up during the year, here were some of our audience favorites. Enjoy.

As a special end-of-year thank you, we would also like to give you our Winning Stories E-book, which showcases our winning stories from February 2007 to December 2008. Congratulations to all of our winners this year and we hope that each of you will consider Submitting a Story for us in 2009.

Warmest wishes for a safe, happy and healthy holiday season,

Andrea

Celebrity Success Story

Gail Elliott
Celebrity Supermodel

Gail Elliott left the UK to model in Japan when she was just 17. Whilst her expat life didn't start smoothly, she didn't give up. Instead, she went on to become one of the world's top supermodels in the 1980's, travelling the world to work with top designers like Gianni Versace, Calvin Klein, John Galliano, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Ralph Lauren, Gucci, Prada and Marc Jacobs.

Yasmin Le Bon, Gail Elliott, Cindy Crawford

Success Story

Paula Lucas
Founder, American Domestic Violence Crisis Line

Paula lived what looked like an ideal life in the UAE: A Newsweek photojournalist husband, worldwide travel, a successful business and beautiful sons. But in reality, she was trapped by domestic violence. Finally her chance to escape materialized, thanks to a thief…

Carol Bellamy
World Learning
(UNICEF & US Peace Corps)

Carol Bellamy assumed the leadership of World Learning in May 2005, having completed ten years as executive director of UNICEF, the children's agency of the United Nations. Prior to joining UNICEF, Carol was Director of the United States Peace Corps...

Expat Confession

Beware Your Friends
Expat Women Girlfriend

Ciao! I just moved to Italy a year ago and have started to meet people. I am married to an Italian citizen and am getting over my culture shock, my rollercoaster emotions and I am finally settling in. I met a woman…

Divorce Abroad
Expat Women Girlfriend

My 20-year marriage has been slowly disintegrating over the last four years, as my husband and I have tended to argue more and increasingly live our own separate lives. I thought that accepting his first expat assignment…

Business Idea

Fiat 500 Touring Club
Sophie Bye

We talk to Brit Sophie Bye about her innovative business idea to set up a touring club in Italy, with a fleet of vintage 1950's and 1960's Fiat 500 cars. We ask Sophie her Top Five pieces of advice for expats setting up a business...

The Antiques Diva™
Toma Haines

Toma Haines believes that trailing spouses “have been offered the greatest gift on the planet: the time and resources to pursue their dreams”. Toma's dream was to live abroad and create her own career in a suitcase…

Feeling Negative?

Are You Addicted?

Eliminate Your Negative Talk And Get Moving
Rebecca Wells

Moving and living abroad can be extremely exciting and often a positive step to make in life, it can also bring with it new challenges that test you to your limit and can leave you doubting your capabilities. Read Rebecca's five-step process and start 2009 with a whole new outlook…

Expat Assignments:
Are You Addicted?
Andrea Martins

If you love living abroad, you see your passport more than your home country, you enjoy a much-envied lifestyle and you hate the thought of repatriating, there is a good chance that you, like many expats before you, have been seduced by the addictive nature of international assignments…

Mothers

Students

Taking a Special Needs Child Overseas?
What to Know Before You Go
Rebecca Grappo, M.Ed

The idea of an overseas assignment for a family often evokes images of adventure, excitement, travel, and new cultural experiences. But what should a family with a special needs child know before moving overseas?