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EPISODE 36 October 27, 2022   Introduction British-Australian, Georgia Marnham, is an Iyengar yoga instructor whose story is full of twists and turns and fateful events that caused her to make dramatic shifts in her life’s direction, including country moves with extreme consequences: When in Sri Lanka, the 2004 tsunami struck; while living in Johannesburg,

EPISODE 35 October 6, 2022   Introduction My guest in this episode is Belgian, Suzanne Vanden Schrieck. I met Suzanne the summer of 2015 at a social gathering of international women in Lisbon and I was curious to learn that she’d trained as an osteopath in Belgium, ultimately practicing cranial sacral therapy. Around the time

EPISODE 34 September 6, 2022   Introduction Hayley Enright grew up in Florida in the US where she graduated from university with degrees in French and German. But in her mid-twenties, living in New York City, she had a sudden epiphany that changed the direction of her life. Returning to school, this time around, she

EPISODE 33 August 24, 2022   Elodie Ribeiro is a podiatrist and reflexologist, now based in Portugal. Elodie is second generation French of Portuguese heritage, her grandparents having moved to France in the 1960s. As a native Parisian, learning Portuguese from her parents and grandparents, her spoken Portuguese was old school and this she found,

EPISODE 32 August 10, 2022   Gillian Harrison is Scottish, from a town near Glasgow. Now living in Portugal, she moved here in 2018 from Hong Kong, where she and her husband and children had lived for 6 years, and on a boat! Gill has a background in marketing, but when her mother died from

EPISODE 31 July 27, 2022   Anglo-Brazilian Alexandra Clark was born and raised in Rio in a neighborhood on the iconic Copacabana beach, later living near Ipanema beach, made famous by the sultry bossa nova jazz song, “The Girl from Ipanema.” In her early teens, she made her first international move to attend boarding school

EPISODE 30 July 7, 2022   In this interview, my guest, Tanya Crossman, talks about her own experiences as a TCK relocating from Australia, her country of origin, to the US as a teen, and then living in China as a young adult and over the last 10 or more years living and working between

EPISODE 29 June 22, 2022   Sa-Eun Park was two-years-old when her family moved from South Korea to Saudi Arabia, where there were work opportunities for her parents, both of whom had struggled to survive the poverty and hardships of post-war Korea. In contrast to her parents early years, Sa-Eun spent her childhood adapting to

EPISODE 28 June 8, 2022   Born and raised in Germany’s Black Forest region, Kate is a mid-30s millennial, a self-professed ambitious career woman. She studied in the UK and Spain, relocating to Taiwan and then the US for work. Kate’s background is in digital marketing and business development, which she ultimately evolved into a

EPISODE 27 May 24, 2022   Born in Sri Lanka in 1984, Florence Chabert d’Hieres grew up in a loving family in Lyon, France with her adoptive parents, an Italian mother and French father. Fast forward to the pandemic: While in lockdown, and working from home, Florence saw a YouTube documentary, “The Stolen Children of

EPISODE 26 May 11, 2022   Ana Ghiban was born in 1998 in Bucharest, Romania, where her parents worked in the textile industry. When she was nine, the family relocated to Delhi, and there she attended an international American school. Three years later, the family moved to Dhaka, Bangladesh. A couple of years later, when

EPISODE 24 April 7, 2022   As I reflect the current crisis in the Ukraine, I’m reminded of eight women I interviewed for my book, Women Who Walk because eight of those 20 women either lived through a war, ultimately fleeing their home countries as refugees, or they worked in environments in the aftermath of