Episode 50: Holiday Intention Setting For Expats

Episode 50: Holiday Intention Setting For Expats

by | Dec 16, 2021 | The Empowered Expat Woman Show

Happy Milestone, TEEW!

Yay, ladies! The Empowered Expat Wife Podcast is turning 50! 50 episodes old that is…. no, strike that: YOUNG! (After all, JLo taught us that 50 is the new 30, right??)

This really feels like a milestone and I want to thank you all for being on this journey with me, for listening to the show that I put together with my best intentions and that hopefully adds value, nourishment and positive feelings to your life!

And to thank you I’m organizing a raffle where you can win a free pass to my new Coaching Program: Make 2022 YOUR Year!

I’ll take you through my revolutionary, soul-aligned goal-getting system to help you achieve what’s in your heart. To accomplish that, I’ve put together my favorite and most proven tools, that have helped many clients before you to get these results.

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And now:

Let’s set intentions for the holidays!

Are you able to go home for the winter holidays? Or will you have family and friends over?

The holidays are a season of joy, laughter, family and festivities…. or so we wish! They’re also a season of high expectations that can lead to disappointments; of potential conflict with loved ones and feeling the pressure to live up to other people’s standards. This holds true especially for us expats, who go long periods of time without seeing our extended families.

So what can be done to avoid disappointment? After all, if expat life and the pandemic have taught us anything, it’s that social contact, friendships and family are most important!

By setting intentions, we can make sure to be prepared for any scenario we may encounter AND we can create the best conditions for things to turn out as holly jolly as we hope for them to be.

In this episode

I’ll introduce 4 Intentions that you can set, in order to:

  • stop worrying about what others may think of you, your lifestyle and your choices
  • contribute to that bright, holiday spirit
  • handle polarization, differences and conflict
  • accept others for who they are and will likely continue to be

 

Keep your eyes peeled for additional content around this topic to be shared on my social media platforms:

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Episode 49: What To Do In Your Lowest Moments Abroad

Episode 49: What To Do In Your Lowest Moments Abroad

by | Dec 10, 2021 | The Empowered Expat Woman Show

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What To Do In Your Lowest Moments Abroad

 

We’ve all been there right? Those moments of utter frustration and weariness.

They may be related to culture clash, to paperwork and administrative hassles, or to an incidence in your personal or professional life… 

 

The bottomline is: going through turbulences abroad often makes dealing with them a little harder – because we’re already outside our comfort zone or at disadvantage (due to being a foreigner.)

And that can make us feel very alone and powerless.

 

In this episode, I share several, original and unique ideas for how you can blow off steam in a healthy way – while still honouring the very sucky circumstances that led you to that point of utter frustration!

Because you can’t expect yourself to just “snap out of it” in the blink of an eye. Most likely, the thing that’s coming up like an explosion for you in those low moments, is something that’s been bothering you for a while.

 

And so neither distractions nor false positivity can be the remedy.

 

My approach is to accept – release – and transform.

And I do that in a very practical and doable way.

Listen to the full episode to find out about 

  • the recent meltdown in my life that inspired this episode

     

  • 7 things you can do to accept – release – and consequently transform your frustration!
  • the details of my new offer “Make 2022 Your Year” – a transformational, 1:1 Goal-Getting Coaching Program

     

    3 people have already signed up and availability is limited so give yourself the gift of going after your dreams (writing a book? getting that diploma? starting a business? being awarded “world’s best mom” by your kids? ……………).

    Because your dreams, my dear, really matter! 🙂

    For more information and to sign up for this exclusive offer, go to www.myportablepurpose.com 

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Episode 48: Tackling Impostor Syndrome in Expat Women (with Melissa Parks)

Episode 48: Tackling Impostor Syndrome in Expat Women (with Melissa Parks)

by | Dec 2, 2021 | The Empowered Expat Woman Show

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Do you often feel like you aren’t ready for a certain challenge, no matter how well you prepare yourself for it? Or like you’re actually a total fraud and eventually, others will find out that you weren’t cut out for the job? Most likely: this is Impostor Syndrome getting in your way!

My guest today, Melissa Parks, has encountered this feeling many times throughout her career – and she’s learned to detect it, distance herself from it, and navigate her way around it so it doesn’t hold her back.

If you want to learn that too, this episode is for you!

 

We talked about:

  • What Imposter Syndrome is and how you can detect it
  • Why women living abroad are particularly prone to it
  • Some strategies to cope with this feeling
  • What not to do when battling with Impostor Syndrome
  • and more!

 

About Melissa

 

Melissa Parks is a coach and former psychotherapist with her PhD in Clinical and Health Psychology. Her professional career has included several different chapters and has allowed her opportunities to work in the field of mental and behavioral health in the United States, Spain, and the Netherlands.

She’s been working with the globally mobile community for the past 7 years, and currently provides mindset coaching for entrepreneurs who need help getting out of their own way on the path to being successful business owners.

She’s also a teacher of the Mindful Self-Compassion program and co-founder of the Location Independent Therapists Community. Her most recent professional project has been writing her memoir about her time abroad and how it helped her on her own journey towards greater self-compassion.

After 10 years abroad, she repatriated to the United States in 2019 and currently lives in Seattle with her husband, who has dual Spanish-Venezuelan citizenship, their 15-month-old son, and their dog – Pintxo.

 

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Episode 47: Navigating Professional and Emotional Shifts Abroad (with Juanita Ingram)

Episode 47: Navigating Professional and Emotional Shifts Abroad (with Juanita Ingram)

by | Nov 25, 2021 | The Empowered Expat Woman Show

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A move abroad – especially when initiated by your partner – can put a real strain on your professional goals and your emotional world.

Juanita Ingram has been there too: originally from Tennessee, USA, she’s followed her husband on assignments to London, Taiwan and most recently Singapore. But far from being a setback, she’s managed to embrace these changes and thrive, professionally and personally.

 

About Juanita

Juanita Ingram an award-winning attorney, filmmaker, author, fashion philanthropist, and actress. She is also a wife, mother of two, and the Founder and CEO of Purpose Productions Inc., as well as the founder of Dress for Success Greater London and Dress for Success Chattanooga.

And as if that wasn’t impressive already, Juanita also stars in her self-produced Reality TV Show ‘The Expats: International Ingrams’ –  that documents the international adventures and struggles of a black American family living, working, and learning abroad.Juanita is truly a role-model for all talented and ambitious expat wives out there who want to thrive, not despite the challenges international relocations can bring, but because of them!

And if you want to know how she does it all? This episode is for you:

 

You’ll learn:

  • how Juanita has dealt with the ‘trailing spouse syndrom’ and complex emotions abroad
  • why understanding and leveraging different life seasons will be a total gamechanger for you
  • how to pursue your goals & aspirations abroad
  • ways to prioritize yourself and build up the necessary confidence to accomplish
  • and so much more!

 

 

Follow Juanita

Website: www.iamjuanitaingram.com

Social Media: Instagram│ Facebook

Show Website: www.expatsshow.com

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Episode 46: Releasing Chronic Stress and Worry – with Jill Foster

Episode 46: Releasing Chronic Stress and Worry – with Jill Foster

by | Nov 17, 2021 | The Empowered Expat Woman Show

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Releasing Chronic Stress and Worry

 

Do you sometimes lie awake at night worrying – about life, and about your future? Or are you experiencing a lot of stress these days that make it hard to uphold your inner peace and calm? Then this episode is for you!

As expats, we are faced with a lot of uncertainty in our lives and that can lead us to experience stress and worry.

Today’s guest, holistic health coach Jill Foster, has been there, done that, too. An expat herself, she talks to us about

  • her journey of years of addiction and chronic stress
  • strategies to release chronic worry
  • healthy habits that you can adopt to reduce stress
  • how to fill your own cup to find greater peace and calm

She also guides us through a quick stress-releasing exercise you can do anytime (go to minute 20:00 to re-listen)

 

About Jill

Jill is an integrative health coach and creator of the Holistic Liberation Method that helps strong, sensitive, and self-aware women repattern chronic stress — so they can experience ease, balance, and most of all, freedom.

She’s about to host a free, 3-day event called De-Stress Yourself for which you can sign up here.

 

Follow Jill

Website: www.jyllin.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/JyllinHolisticLiberation 
Instagram: www.instagram.com/jyllin_holisticliberation 

Further Resources to deal with chronic worry

 

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Episode 45 – Dealing with Fertility Challenges Abroad (with Veronica Santini)

Episode 45 – Dealing with Fertility Challenges Abroad (with Veronica Santini)

by | Nov 11, 2021 | The Empowered Expat Woman Show

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There is never a good time to experience fertility challenges…

But going through them abroad can make this journey an even more painful, lonely, and isolated one.

My guest today, Veronica Santini, has been there too. Shortly before getting married to her Dutch boyfriend, for whom she had moved to the Netherlands, she received some stirring news: she was diagnosed with premature ovarian insufficiency (or early menopause) at age 32.

In this episode, Veronica opens up about her story and shares:

  • what the hardest part about experiencing fertility challenges abroad was
  • an upside to going through this far away from home
  • her advice for women in a similar situation
  • what’s helped her cope
  • how to find a community of women to feel held and supported

 

If you are experiencing fertility challenges and unwanted childlessness abroad, we hope you get some nourishment, support, and relief from listening to this episode.

If you have a friend going through this, please pass this episode on to her!

 

About Veronica

She is a yoga teacher and women’s health mentor for conscious and ambitious women, who are ready to unlock their full potential.

By educating women about their bodies and sharing rituals and holistic knowledge, she helps them connect to their full femine power and reframe womanhood, so they can embody the best version of themselves.

With a decade of experience teaching yoga, 700+ hours of training in multiple yoga styles and countless hours of studies about women’s health, but most of all, as a woman with firsthand experience facing an infertility diagnosis and menopause at age 32, she understands how difficult it is to reclaim your own body and voice in the society we grew up in.

She believes all women deserve to feel confident in their bodies and empowered to live a life in full respect of their female cyclical nature. For this reason, she helps women feel rooted in their bodies, connected to their voice and supported by a community, so that they can be the best version of themselves in any phase of their cycle or life.

 

Follow Veronica

Website: www.veronicasantini.com 
(download a free meditation to release anxiety and stress)

Instagram: @veronicasantini_yoga

 

Further Resources:

Veronica mentioned an Expat Medical Center in the Netherlands which you can find here: www.expatmc.net 

Articles:
“How Infertility Helped Me Reclaim My Womanhood” (Elephant Journal)
“The Toxic Spiritual Beliefs that can be dangerous when we’re facing Fertility Struggles” (Elephant Journal)
“How Connection Can Heal Women” (Thrive Global)

 

 

Episode 39: How to Successfully Plan, Prep and Pack for Your Next Move

Episode 39: How to Successfully Plan, Prep and Pack for Your Next Move

by | Jul 1, 2021 | The Empowered Expat Woman Show

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You’ve done it before and you’ll do it again: MOVING.

But if you’re like me, the thought of packing boxes doesn’t exactly fill you with joyful anticipation.

Today’s guest will change that: Inés is the founder of Minimalista Moving and shares valuable tips for:

– mentally and practically preparing for your next move

– avoiding stress and overwhelm

– packing boxes

– unpacking and settling in

– moving with children

– and more!

If you have another move ahead – you can’t miss this episode!

PS: This is the final episode of Season 1 as TEEW is going on a little summer hiatus! Happy Holidays!

 

Meet Inés

Inés is a “citizen of the world” born in Patagonia Argentina. An organiser specialised in home moves with an emphasis on minimalism.

Not because she’s a super organised person, but because she needs space to think clearly and to focus on the things that matter to her.

She has lived in 6 different countries and it was her last move from Barcelona to Gothenburg in Sweden with her family of 4 that made her realise the easier a home move gets when belongings are curated and we start packing early enough. There was less stress and more intention.

Minimalista Moving is all about:

  • Reducing our possessions to those we can pay attention to so there’s no chaos in our homes.
  • Using the home move as an opportunity to start with a clean slate & start living the life we want

 

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Free resources: minimalistamoving.com/9things (pre-packing tips and newsletter starting in July sharing my personal experiences after decluttering and moving abroad)
Episode 38: 5 Lessons of Your 5 Favorite Episodes

Episode 38: 5 Lessons of Your 5 Favorite Episodes

by | Jul 1, 2021 | The Empowered Expat Woman Show

Season 1 of The Empowered Expat Wife Podcast is coming to an end and I’m so excited and thankful for the tremendous feedback I’ve received!

It’s been a pleasure bringing weekly episodes on “all things expat partner” to you, having inspiring conversations with experts and to provide value to the expat community!

The Podcast will go on a little summer hiatus before coming back with an exciting new spin in the fall (more on this soon)!

But before I switch the mic for a glass of Campari Spritz poolside – let me give you the countdown of the most downloaded episodes:

 

*Rank 5*

Episode 11: How to Avoid Holiday Burnout and Blues

This episode was released before Christmas but can be just as valuable for the summer time!
I talk about organization hacks, setting boundaries and communication tips to navigate difficult conversations with loved ones, as well as how to practice self-care in the most hectic times.

 

*Rank 4*

Episode 10: Becoming Financially Empowered with Lisa Mitchell

With her 20+ years of international experience, Lisa is very candid as she talks about what questions Expat Partners should ask and what to look out for when moving abroad!

 

*Rank 3*

Episode 2: Finding your inner happy place – with Rachael Lynn

I met Rachael online and we immediately connected over our focus on the importance of connecting with ourselves. Listen to the full episode to find out how you, too, can grow deeply connected with yourself and find strength and guidance within.

 

*Rank 2*

Episode 25: The Empowered Stay-at-Home Expat Mom

This is the episodes I received the most messages and shoutouts for! I know for some of you, taking a step back from work and building a career has been a conscious choice. Yet for others it was a decision made out of a lack of choice upon moving abroad.

Either way, SHMs often duck around when asked “so what do you do?” Or feel that constant pressure that “I should really be doing more than that!” If this resonates – you need to listen to this episode to regain your confidence, see your value and plan your future in the most sensible manner!

 

And *Rank 1* goes too…

Episode 1: Your Roadmap to a Fulfilled Life Abroad

And I thought it’d be a great moment to remind you of my 4 Pillars of a Fulfilled Life Abroad framework I use with my clients. It’s a practical evaluation tool to see which area in your life needs some special attention and care, some improvement or healing.
Listen to the full episode to figure out which of these pillars you need to work on – and how!

 

Now I’d love to know… which episode has been your personal favorite? E-mail or message me to let me know!

Episode 37: How to Thrive as a Solo-Parenting Expat Mom – with Rhoda Bangerter

Episode 37: How to Thrive as a Solo-Parenting Expat Mom – with Rhoda Bangerter

by | Jun 17, 2021 | The Empowered Expat Woman Show

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Did you know that 12% of all expat couples do not live in the same country? Others spend periods of time separated, while again others have one spouse working long hours away from home or traveling. What these families have in common is that the stay-at-home spouse needs to ‘hold the fort’ and parent on their own.

Today’s Podcast guest knows about this all too well and shares her comforting, uplifting and practical advice to thrive in this situation with us!

Meet Rhoda

Rhoda Bangerter is the author of Holding The Fort Abroad and a certified coach for solo parenting moms in long distance marriages

She was raised in France, with a Welsh dad, a Syrian Armenian mum and is married to a Swiss man. Her husband has traveled abroad for work throughout almost their whole marriage. During those years, Rhoda has been solo-parenting and experimenting various ways to hold the fort while creating a joint life in a long distance relationship.

Along the way, she realized the huge number of moms around the world who experience the same challenges but with no resources to guide them through this journey.

 

In this episode…

Rhoda and I share about our own experiences with solo-parenting. You’ll also find out:

  • What the upsides of solo-parenting are
  • How to navigate the most common difficulties
  • How to take care of yourself – so you can give your all
  • How to re-connect after being separated from your spouse
  • How to involve the absent parent in the family life
  • and so much more

 

If you are holding the fort abroad while your partner is away, know that you’re not alone. We see you. And we celebrate you!

Follow Rhoda

Website: https://www.amulticulturallife.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhodabangerteramulticulturallife/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/amulticulturallife
Instagram: www.instagram.com/amulticulturallife

Join Rhoda’s Facebook Group: Solo Parenting Expat Mums

Further Resources

Rhoda’s book about solo-parenting abroad is out now: Holding the Fort Abroad

 

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Episode 36: Financial Freedom, A Crash Course for Expat Wives – with Haitham Sadek

Episode 36: Financial Freedom, A Crash Course for Expat Wives – with Haitham Sadek

by | Jun 10, 2021 | The Empowered Expat Woman Show

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If you thought Financial Freedom and Independence were concepts far outside your reach, today’s guest Haitham Sadek will make you reconsider!

This episode is a crash course on everything you need to know to start working on creating your own financially independent life!

 

Meet Haitham

 

Haitham Sadek wealth heights

In this episode you’ll learn:

  • what financial freedom is and why it’s so important
  • simple investment strategies for different budgets, personality types and ages
  • common myths and misunderstandings about investing
  • the main investment categories
  • how to ensure your own financial security if your husband is the one investing
  • how to shape the future through investments, according to your values
  • and more!

 

 

What would you do if money wasn’t an issue?

This question is powerful on so many different levels:

First of all, it’s only when we allow ourselves to dream big that we can get in touch of what we really, really want! (Aside from all the shoulds and can’ts that are so deeply engrained in us!)

Secondly, throughout history women have clearly been underrepresented in the rooms where important decisions were made. The world would possibly look quite differently had this not been the case.

‘What’s important now is to think about what world you want to see in the future? What world do you want to leave behind for future generations? You have a say! We all do.

And investing is one powerful vehicle for making your voice heard. You can reflect your most personal values and priorities in your investment decisions. 

This, to me, is probably the most motivating aspect of it all!

 

 

Follow Haitham

Find valuable resources and his signature courses at www.wealthheights.com 

Sign up for Haitham’s e-newsletter to receive tips and tricks to your inbox, that will make a difference.

Got any additional questions? You can e-mail Haitham here.

 

Further Resources

We mentioned:

The worldwide social trading platform eToro https://www.etoro.com

The book ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’ by Robert Kiyosaki

ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) – learn more about this here

Global 500 Companies – but which ones are they, actually!? Find out here

 

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