Missed Some Great Expat Links on Twitter? (28-29 June 2011)

Hi Everyone, Here are some great expat-related links I have tweeted recently, that might interest you. Enjoy! Andrea

Plight of the Expat Spouse - NY Times
http://nyti.ms/mGShiu

Expat Women Confessions: I Paint in the Nude
http://bit.ly/l8m06t

Are your parents in US Foreign Service? Check out this organization that's all about you
http://bit.ly/jtjiSR

New Cost of Living Facebook application by Expat Finder
http://t.co/aIDZuMs

Infographic: When foreigners dream about the US, where do they want to live?
http://t.co/2RkHsft

UAE Firms Still Not Able to Hire Expat Women in Public Relations Jobs
http://bit.ly/jUxcU9

6 Tips on How to Find a Decent Expatriate Job in China
http://t.co/GtU8bbQ

French-speakers? Interview with Corine Gantz, a French expat in the US and author of Hidden in Paris
http://bit.ly/lGY2Kn

Expats Struggle to Get Mortgages in France
http://t.co/H4yYtTC

Expat Tutors Must Come Clean to the Taxman or Pay the Price
http://t.co/np5WCUY

Expat in Germany, Nicole, Learns the Hard Way that Some Locals want to Teach Foreigners a Lesson http://bit.ly/kqh0fl

5 Tips for Repatriation

http://bit.ly/j8qPo2

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Thanks for your support and I hope you have a fabulous day/evening! Andrea @andreaexpat

Can You Help Nominate ExpatWomen.com for ForbesWoman's Top 100 Websites for Women?

Hi Everyone, It would be truly fantastic to be included in the ForbesWoman list this year for their Top 100 Websites for Women.

Could you please take 5 minutes to nominate us here in their comments section? (I posted this the other day, but forgot the link for those who receive the email feeds, so sorry!)

Thanks so very, very much if you can.  Andrea :)

Full disclosure: It takes a few minutes to register, then a couple of minutes to comment. 5 minutes. Thanks.

Missed Some Great Expat Links on Twitter? (22-23 June 2011)

Hi Everyone, Here are some great expat-related links I have tweeted recently, that might interest you. Enjoy! Andrea

Expat kids returning to Singapore called "Half-Pats" by The Straits Times

http://bit.ly/mALSqy

New Malta Divorce Rules Poses New Questions for Expats

http://bit.ly/kSNgxd

Does previous expat experience help adjustment in a new culture? Not necessarily

http://bit.ly/mwcmOn

Expats in the UAE: What's Your Dubai Bucket List?

http://bit.ly/lhqLQe

Loved this video by American Relocation Connections about moving home!

http://bit.ly/ltf0DK

Getting ready for Home Leave? Enjoy Expat Expert’s irreverent look at summer holiday planning

http://t.co/IMYGl3p

It has been 30 years since the founding of China's first expat newspaper
http://bit.ly/kJSJba

Moving Soon? Here's a spreadsheet you can use to compare movers
http://bit.ly/jC3QTG

Are you an Expat in Baja, Mexico? Check out Baja Tips Weekly

http://bit.ly/kf9fec

Should you stay or move? Tools to decide via Expat Interrupted
http://bit.ly/kaUtKO

Feeling overwhelmed because of a move? Good advice from Global Coach Center's blog
http://bit.ly/lGwEYW

Wisdom from Distant Shores
http://bit.ly/j0k05t

Meet Telegraph Expat's first video blogger, Emily. Blogging about parenting in Provence
http://tgr.ph/iikRG8

Why Brian Ware joined the outstanding clear-up operation in Japan
http://tgr.ph/j6IWrw

Italian Mom Finds a Rich New Life in China
http://bit.ly/izrW07

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Thanks for your support and I wish you a wonderful day/evening! Andrea @andreaexpat

PS. Missed our Twitter Links from 15-16 June? Just click here. Thanks.

Money Matters for Expat Women

Hi Everyone, If you are interested in learning more about money matters, including how they relate to expatriate issues, please do take a look at our Expat Women Money Matters page, anytime.

Here are some of our recent additions to that page:

The Expat Spouse as Household CFO: Basic Principles You Need to Know About Investing
Chad Creveling and Peggy Creveling
Investing is a full-time profession for many, and myriads of books have been written on the hows and whys of making smart investment decisions. Expats also must consider the role that different currencies and tax jurisdictions should play in their portfolio. Given the complexity involved, our goal here is to simply introduce you to some of the concepts behind successful investing...

Managing Currency Risk: As an American Abroad, In What Currency Should I Save and Invest? Part 1 of 2: Principles of Sound Currency Management
David Kuenzi, CFP®
Currency issues are often one of the most vexing and least well understood issues for investors. This is especially true for Americans abroad whose salaries and other income sources are often denominated in currencies other than U.S. Dollars (USD). The good news is that understanding how to properly incorporate currency considerations into a sound, long-term investment strategy is much easier than commonly understood...

Managing Currency Risk: Part 2 of 2: Practical Guide to Building a Globally Diversified, Multi-currency Investment Portfolio
David Kuenzi, CFP®
In this part two, we provide a practical guide on how and where investors can go to construct a globally diversified, multi-currency investment portfolio. Are multi-currency portfolios the exclusive realm of the ultra-wealthy who have accounts all around the globe? Do we have to open up investment accounts in the U.S. and Europe or buy complicated currency hedging products, such as futures or swaps?

Business Finances for Expat Women Entrepreneurs: Corporate Structures, Expat Taxes and Retirement Planning
David McKeegan
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 (depending on rules in your home country, of course)...

8 Tips for Controlling Your International Health Insurance Costs
Philip McCusker
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...

7 Financial Tips to Help Expatriates Prepare for When Danger and Disaster Strike Abroad
Lisa R. Mitchell
In Egypt during the civil unrest, the government shut down the Internet. Try conducting banking activities without phone or Internet service. How would you move money, pay bills and conduct other necessary banking transactions if you were stuck in the middle of political unrest or living in a country that experienced a natural disaster...

...and we have plenty more Money Matters articles here.

Happy reading! Andrea

Can You Help? Please Nominate ExpatWomen.com for ForbesWoman's Top 100 Websites for Women?

Hi Everyone, It would be truly fantastic to be included in the ForbesWoman list this year for their Top 100 Websites for Women.

Could you please take 1-2 minutes to nominate us here in their comments section?

Thanks so very, very much if you can! Andrea :)

Missed Some Great Writers' Links on Twitter?

Hi Everyone, Here are some great writers' links I have tweeted recently, that might interest you for your expat/business/personal writing endeavors. Enjoy!

A good discussion on Amazon as a publisher- they're not the bad guys
http://su.pr/1ikUXg

10 Questions to Ask Before Writing Your Book
http://bit.ly/jLVvEC

18 Things Learned at the Sydney Writers Festival
http://bit.ly/kBbm5k

Top 10 Best Resource Guides for e-Book Authors
http://bit.ly/lndGHu

How Blogging Saves Me and My Family from Personal Bankruptcy
http://t.co/otvWaX7

Highly Recommended: Successful Blogging in 12 Easy Steps - Excellent e-book!
http://bit.ly/mUvZIa

10 More Things You Never Knew You Could Do On LinkedIn
http://read.bi/lWw7QA

Got Something You Need To Do (like, write that novel maybe)? Watch Firefly Coaching's quick video - and then do it!
http://bit.ly/mEZ7zd

Top 10 Blogs for Authors
http://t.co/cWU4rNn

Practical Tips on Writing a Book from 23 Authors
http://bit.ly/iTb94p

13 Things I Got Wrong and 19 Things I Got Right in my First Year of Writing
http://t.co/E6Ils3j

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Thanks for your support and I wish you a wonderful day/evening! Andrea @andreaexpat 

Missed Some More Great Expat Links on Twitter? (15-16 June 2011)

Hi Everyone, Here are some great expat-related links I have tweeted recently, that might interest you. Enjoy! Andrea

Expat writes letter to China explaining why she decided to stay

http://bit.ly/jICE7P

Expat Entrepreneurship - A Lesson in Resistance and Acceptance
http://bit.ly/mlSSFH

Families split due to work: ‘Colony of wives’ in Mississauga
http://bit.ly/lD3SFa

Time to Return to Traumatised Japan
http://bit.ly/k1zxbY

9 Reasons Not To Retire Overseas (And Why They Don't Matter)
http://bit.ly/irSmJ3

Why You Should Visit a New Destination
http://bit.ly/jQrOoH

British Expat Uproar as Denmark Bans Marmite
http://t.co/QSNw4Xm

In Search of a Better Life - History of British and Irish Migration
http://t.co/TU9Y7CY

400,000 Indian Expats in Singapore - Are They Living the Best of Both Worlds
http://bit.ly/msRcss

Why does this expat entrepreneur live in Bali?
http://bit.ly/lopU6v

Where's home for you? Geographical schizophrenia. Spiritual geography. Expat life.
http://bit.ly/lgePI1

Do You Work Too Hard? Some Cultural Perspectives
http://t.co/JKxtQGl

The Bilingual Advantage
http://ow.ly/588lB

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Thanks for your support and I wish you a wonderful day/evening! Andrea @andreaexpat

Want one of Your Expat Stories included in Jo Parfitt's updated book 'Forced to Fly'?

Hi Everyone, Here is a message from our good friend, Jo Parfitt (author of 28 books and an expert on the expat writing scene)...

"Back in 1998 I published an anthology of humorous writings about living overseas and called it 'Forced to Fly'. I sold over 2,000 copies and one forward-thinking international oil company even bought 200 copies to give to their international staff. Now, thanks to constant prods from satisfied readers I have decided to republish it in a second edition later this year.

So, to celebrate, I would like to include 20 new pieces of writing of up to 1,000 words in length. They can be on any specific incident or any theme that could only have happened to you because you were living abroad. Like how amusing your life became when you lived in Holland and began to travel everywhere by bicycle, or how you entered into the local Oktoberfest with more gusto than was appreciated, or the pickle you found yourself in when driving in India.

Laughter is the best medicine and Forced to Fly not only makes readers laugh with its funny stories, but also includes chapters on coping with culture shock and how to be happy. In the second edition we will also have a brand new chapter on developing resilience.

Entries will close on August 31st 2011. All winning entries will appear in the book and winners will not only receive two free copies and have the ability to buy additional copies of the book at discount but their entries will be included on the blog throughout 2012. Please send your entries to me (Jo Parfitt) via email."

This is a great opportunity to have one of your articles published. So if you are interested, get your thinking caps on, and good luck! Andrea :)

Expat Women in India: Interested in Part-Time Work with Going-There?

Hi Everyone, If you are based in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai or Pune, and you (or someone you know might) fancy a few hours paid work that is flexible, please read on…

Going-There, a relocation company based in London with a fast growing network of operations in over 100 cities around the world, is looking for Destination Consultants for its Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai and Pune operations. They offer a service that you might wish you had, when you arrived here!

Going-There needs to recruit consultants who are personable, savvy, and with good people and communication skills. You must have excellent English, both written and oral and have home Internet access for the following post:

Destination Consultants

* You will help newly-arriving expats and their families settle in to their new lives in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai or Pune.

* You will assist with topics such as pre-arrival assistance, home-finding, school searches, helping new arrivals get wired in to the city with the least possible disruption.

* You will help make an often anxious assignee and their family feel at home.

* You will help to put a friendly face on a foreign place.

* You will need a good knowledge of the city and some knowledge of the local rental market.

This is a part-time post, project-based on an assignee package lasting 1-5 days per project, not always consecutively.

To learn more about the company, please visit the Going-There site.

Then, if you are genuinely interested and available, please urgently introduce yourself to Leigh Paton, who can also help you with further information. (Feel free to share this email with your friends and networks.)

Many thanks and good luck if you apply! Andrea

And the Winners of the Expat Women Book Launch Competition are...

Hi Everyone, We're delighted to announce the winners of our first Expat Women book launch competition for our new motivational book, Expat Women: 50 Answers to Your Real-Life Questions about Living Abroad. The winners, and their fantastic prizes are...

Prize 1: Career, Recruitment and/or Personal Branding Coaching - Valued at US$1,010!
Winner = Carrie Shearer!
Lois Freeke
Lois Freeke is an award-winning recruitment manager and career and personal branding strategist. She helps expats, executives and entrepreneurs manage their careers and effectively differentiate themselves for career and business success.

Prize 2: Personal Branding, Career or Executive Coaching – Valued at US$900!
Winner = Andrea Cummings!

Career by Choice Expat Career and Personal Branding Coaching (Megan Fitzgerald)

Megan Fitzgerald helps expats seeking inspiration and a sense of purpose draw out "untapped expertise" to become highly visible, sought after and land work abroad. She works with these global minded professionals and entrepreneurs to find what they do best to build careers that fit who they are and the life they want to live overseas.

Prize 3: Career and/or Executive Coaching – Valued at US$660!
Winner = Heidi Reyes!

Clear Horizon Coaching (Rebecca Wells)

Clear Horizon Coaching provides career advancement and personal branding coaching for senior and middle management executives. Clear Horizon Coaching helps you raise your profile and get ahead at work in 2011.

Prize 4: Career Coaching – Valued at US$500!
Winner = Heather Detrick!

Zest and Zen International Coaching (Anne Egros)

Global Career and Life Coach, Anne Egros, specializes in helping global executives, international managers and expatriates developing their international career. She helps her clients to have a successful expat life and provides support for transition management.

Prize 5: Blogging Consultation and Free eBook, Audio Book and More – Valued at US$499!
Winner = Gry Tina Tinde!

Successful Blogging (Annabel Candy)

Successful Blogging teaches small business owners and writers how to tap into the power of blogging to market their business or build a platform for their writing.

Prize 6: Writing Coaching – Valued at US$480!
Winner = Nicole Göksel!

Summertime Publishing (Jo Parfitt)

Jo Parfitt is the author of 28 books and runs Summertime Publishing. She specializes in helping new expat writers to get into print and loves empowering others to find their story and their voice.

Prize 7: Passport Career database access (3 months) – Valued at US$395!
Winner = Cynthia Woods!

Passport Career (Susan Musich)

Passport Career is a dynamic global job search tool (with loads of useful information) for organizations to support accompanying partners of international assignees.

Prize 8: Expatriate Life Coaching – Valued at US$300!
Winner = Genevieve Faith!

Live Life Now Coaching (Nicola McCall)

Live Life Now Coaching specializes in coaching for expatriate life and work issues. It aims to improve the fulfilment of employees, families and employers during expatriate assignments. Happier expatriates make happier employees, families and successful assignments!

Prize 9: Amazon Kindle (WiFi) – Valued at US$156!
Winner = Carole Mobbs!

Amazon Kindle

Kindle Wireless Reading Device. Wi-Fi. 6" Display. The #1 Bestseller on Amazon.

Prize 10: Amazon Gift Voucher – Valued at US$100!
Winner = Jacqueline van Gent!

Amazon Gift Vouchers

Buy something you have been saving up for on Amazon. Redeemable at your Amazon store of choice.

Congratulations to all of our winners and a big thanks to all of you who supported us and bought a copy of our new book. All winners will be emailed individually in the next 48 hours and should confirm their acceptance of their prize within seven (7) calendar days. For full terms and conditions of our competition, please click here.

Thanks and have a day/evening! Andrea

PS. If you have not yet downloaded a free sample of (some of) our book, but would like to, please click here. Thanks. :)

June 2011 Edition of Mobility Magazine Online

Hi Everyone, If you are in the expat, global mobility and/or relocation industries, you may be interested in the June 2011 edition of the Worldwide ERC® Mobility Magazine, which features the following:

Current Trends in Business Immigration Compliance and Enforcement
By Brendan Ryan

Are Fingerprint Scanners in Our Immigration Compliance Future?
By Lynden D. Melmed

Working Together on the Immigration Puzzle
By Jasmine A. Majid and Rebecca K. Peters

Global Standpoints on Workplace Harassment
By Stephanie R. Schreck, SCRP, SGMS

Middle East Culture Redux
By Sean Dubberke

Destination Profile: Spain
By Ellen Harris, GMS and Rosa Escalona, CERP2

Risk and Relocation: How Consistency Can Drive Success During the Homesale
By Anne Bodin and Pam Milani, CRP

Become a Mobility Enabler: the 12-Step Program: Part 1
By Tom Bruhn, CRP

Prepping and Training for Mobility and the London Olympics
By Caroline Meszaros-Suard

Happy reading! Andrea

New Expat Women Book - First Book Club Meeting

Hi Everyone, I want to give a big thank you to the book club of teachers at MKIS (Mont' Kiara International School) here in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for being the first book club to invite me along with our new book, Expat Women: Confessions - 50 Answers to Your Real-Life Questions about Living Abroad. They were all wonderfully enthusiastic listeners, who were also keen to ask questions and provide their own valuable insights. It was fabulous.

The added bonus was having six-time author David T.K.Wong present as well, to talk about his latest book, The Embrace of Harlots. David was extremely humble at the meeting, but afterwards, I looked up his website and find that he has lots of expat experience, and that he also gives away a GBP26,000 scholarship every year to a fiction writer who writes about the Far East. What a man!

Thanks Everyone at the book club meeting. And thanks Everyone who has supported us and bought one of our new books! Andrea

Back Row (L to R): Kathleen Walker-Cook, Ann Andrew,
Jennifer Heal and Julie Monroe.
Front Row (L to R): Lori Duralia, Kelly Kurth, Marie McDowall,
Andrea Martins (me), Rebecca Simpson and Malia McLaughlin.
Also at the meeting: Melanie Brodie, Laura Forgie,
Judy Morrison; Amy Scholdt; and David T.K.Wong.

Our book's very first cash sale - two books - thanks Laura from the MKIS library!

FIGT Conference - 2012 Dates Announced & Speaker Proposals Now Invited

Hi Everyone, The dates for the 2012 FIGT (Families In Global Transition) conference have now been announced. Next year's conference will held 29 - 31 March, again in Washington D.C..

If you are interested in speaking, proposals are now invited. The deadline is September 9, but that day will come around very quickly, so it would be smart to start your proposal now. 

Click here to see who presented at the 2011 conference. 

Click here for details of how to present at the 2012 conference.  

I hope that many of you wonderfully wise expatriate and repatriate women apply! Andrea :)

Words from FIGT

"For over 10 years, the annual Families In Global Transition conference has inspired, educated and brought together those serving families on global assignments as well as family members themselves.

The FIGT community of speakers has included top professionals across all sectors. FIGT's mission is to promote the positive value of the international experience, and empower the family unit and those who serve it before, during and after international transitions.

Our work is spread to hundreds worldwide through the words of our distinguished conference speakers and the connections they make with attendees."

Expat Women June 2011 Home Page

Hi Everyone, I hope you are enjoying a fabulous start to your month! Please take a few minutes to read, enjoy, share and tweet about our new June home page features below. Thanks and enjoy your week! Andrea

Success Story
Barbara Le Marrec
Chief Retail Officer, Starbucks Coffee Japan
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...
Read more

Business Idea
Alice in Cakeland
Rebecca Treherne
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...
Read more

Business Finances for Expat Women Entrepreneurs
Corporate Structures, Expat Taxes and Retirement Planning
David McKeegan
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 (depending on rules in your home country, of course)...
Read more

Expat Confession
Homesick New Mother Abroad
Extract from Expat Women: Confessions
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 and occupied...
Read more

Money Matters
8 Tips for Controlling Your International Health Insurance Costs
Philip McCusker
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...
Read more

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