Missed Some Great Expat Links on Twitter? (1-2 September edition)

Hi Everyone, I hope you have enjoyed a lovely week! Here are some expat links I have tweeted recently, that might interest you. I wish you a wonderful, fun-filled weekend, Andrea.

Top 25 Expat Mom Blogs
http://bit.ly/pQkTso

Some of China's Leading Local and Expat Women Talk about Working for Global Companies as a Female

bit.ly/pl8fm8

Landmark Divorce Case could Stop Expats Moving Children 'Home'
tgr.ph/r18m9I

A US Expat Woman's Experience as "Super Sized Me" in Asia

bit.ly/r1rmoq

Want to Speak at the 2012 FIGT Conference? Proposals Due 9 September!

bit.ly/nk1PDV

10 Tips for Expat Executives and Their Families Returning Home

wp.me/ptOFQ-CI

FIGT Invites You to Submit Your Favorite Recipes for their Expat Cook-Book Project

tgr.ph/oWUNLx

Why UK Expats Should be Able to Keep Their Votes
tgr.ph/ptfKUV

Diary Of An Expat Bride's Drama on Latest Flight Home

bit.ly/ofKWcg

One Person's Take on Airport Security Checks
nyti.ms/qUz3Qs

IRS Extends a Crucial Deadline for Expat Americans who Face Huge Penalties for Not Filing...
ow.ly/6e6yW

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Expat Women July 2011 Home Page

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

Success Story
Hinda Gharbi
President - Asia Pacific, Schlumberger
Hinda Gharbi is President of Schlumberger's Asia Pacific operations. Based in Kuala Lumpur, Hinda directs the operations of Schlumberger's portfolio of service and product offerings in the Asia Pacific region. Hinda is originally from Tunisia. She joined Schlumberger in 1996 as a wireline field engineer in Nigeria after earning a Master's Degree in Signal Processing and an Engineering Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) in France...
Read more... 

Business Idea
Words That Sell
Mel Henson
Once upon a time, Mel Henson lived in the hectic advertising world, employed as a full-time executive with leading London advertising agencies. But that all changed when Mel become a stay-at-home mother, retrained as a reflexologist, and moved to Luxembourg with her family. Unexpectedly, Mel later found herself working as a feature writer for a magazine in Luxembourg. This experience led her to start her copywriting business back in the UK, and to now launch her first book...
Read more...

Tips and Lessons for Entrepreneurs
Craving Success: A Startup Junkie's Path from Passion to Profits
Melody Biringer
If you are an expat entrepreneur, or someone wishing they had a business idea good enough for them to be an expat entrepreneur, Melody Biringer's new book - chronicling her lessons learned from starting 20 companies - is exactly what the motivation doctor ordered...
Read more...

Expat Confession
My Job Was A Mistake
Extract from Expat Women: Confessions
I am a thirty something professional who came here to Switzerland as a trailing spouse. I took a job here but my job is not all that I dreamed it would be. It is quite junior compared to what I used to do, and the salary also reflects this. I have a difficult time with my manager, who is inconsistent and erratic with regards to her expectations of me. My colleagues see me as "the foreigner". I am bored and lonely at work and am thinking that taking my job was a mistake...
Read more...

Expat Mothers
Emotional Resilience and The Expat Child
Julia Simens
Never underestimate the power of a five-year-old. When it comes to brainpower, a five-year-old has you beat...This may just be one of the reasons that expat children have the ability to be so resilient in their ever-changing, globally nomadic lifestyle. But just how resilient are you raising your children to be?
Read more...


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Missed Some Great Expat Links on Twitter?

Hi Everyone, Here are some expat-related articles and links that I have tweeted about recently, that might interest you:

10 Secrets to Managing Your Expat Career

http://bit.ly/h1UA4h


Should You Move Abroad or Will It Destroy Your Family?

http://bit.ly/dVBXcX

What is the Difference Between Traveling versus Living as an Expat?
http://bit.ly/ezVTz3

Video Trailer for Expat Niamh Ni Bhroin’s new book, The Singing Warrior http://bit.ly/gPpn59

How Many Expat Americans Live Abroad?
http://bit.ly/i1X851


"Why Chinese Mothers are Superior" from the WSJ

http://tinyurl.com/4mfsm32


Why We Should Still Be Talking About Tiger Moms

http://bit.ly/gCS0dT


Tips for Gaining Speaker Experience

http://bit.ly/gXDQeW


For Lovers of Books: GoodReads.com (4.3 million members!)

http://bit.ly/gpaiQg


Got "Dead End" Signs in Your Life?

http://bit.ly/ihT2Iu

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To sign up and receive our monthly, motivational Expat Women newsletters, please  click here.

Thanks for your support and have a great week!

Andrea
Twitter handle: @andreaexpat

Expat Women August Newsletter Highlights

Hi Everyone, Here are the highlights from our Expat Women August 2010 members' newsletter, sent out this week:

(If you are a member and did not receive your newsletter, please email us here, thanks)

* Success Story: Toni Brendish, Managing Director, Danone Dumex (Malaysia);

* Business Idea: Little Broadway, Tiffany Jansen;

* Home Exchanging: Tips For A Successful Home Exchange, Zoe Hine;

* Boost Your Brand: 10 Ways to Boost Your (Relocation) Brand Online, Andrea Martins;

* Learning Disabilities: The Evolution Of Learning Disabilities: A Global Guide For Parents, Kristina L. Dooley;

* Expat Confession: He Wants To Go;

* Mothering Abroad: Nora Kohri, Founder Of Care The World;

* The name of our Explorer Publishing mini-guide pack winner; and

* Our winning story by Expat Women member Lauren (again!) (an American in China), entitled The Strays of Dingbo.

Read our August Newsletter Here

If you are not a member of our main site, ExpatWomen.com, please join today to support us (and receive a link to download our free Expat Women e-book "Winning Stories"). This will also mean that next month your newsletter will be delivered directly to your inbox.

Thanks Everyone! Andrea

Expat Women Bloggers: Want To Be on Mamapedia... or Listed on Technorati?

Hi Everyone, I recently read in a Technorati newsletter that Mamapedia is looking for bloggers who write on topics that are of interest to mothers, to feature on Mamapedia Voices. They launched earlier this year and are reaching an audience of almost 1 million mothers!

You can get more information by signing up here: http://bit.ly/agucO. (They ask everyone to mention that you found out about this opportunity from Technorati. If you do, please mention ExpatWomen.com too - thanks.)

By the way, I see that Technorati have a blog directory that might interest some of you to list on as well - especially the "Travel" section. You never know who might find you unless you list, right?

Thanks, best wishes and good luck! Andrea.

Expat Women Blog Directory: www.expatwomen.com/expatblog/

Mother Of The Year Video

Hi Everyone, My good friend Mary Lynn in Mexico sent me a super-cool Mother Of The Year video over the weekend.

If you have not received one, visit the Moms Rising site and click on "Mom's A Star" then on "See the video and customize it for all the moms in your life". It should take you to the video, where you can put in your name and watch your own Mother Of The Year video almost immediately.

It is truly a lot of fun and should give you a smile for the day. Enjoy! Andrea

Motherhood and Me, by Lindy Bruce

Hi Everyone, Each month, we get sent a couple of books by authors/publishers to review for a potential feature on Expat Women. Some books get featured, some do not.

Today, I just finished reading our review copy of Motherhood and Me by Lindy Bruce (a South African who spent four years in Canada with her young family, before repatriating).

With a quote from O (the Oprah magazine) on the cover, I was hoping it would be worth my while... and it certainly was. Lindy's book completely surprised me and I highly recommend it.

In short, Lindy talks about the path to personal rediscovery, during/post motherhood. But she does so in a very easy-to-read, intelligent way, that really resonates with the reader and earns the reader's respect, unlike other books that seem like they are just trying to profit from the 'make-mothers-feel-good' market.

I think the following part of Lindy's prologue sums her book up best:

"Motherhood takes us on a journey. We think the journey is about learning how to love, nurture and support our children, but the further along the road we travel, the more we realise that the journey is actually about learning how to love, nurture and support ourselves! This is the incredible gift of motherhood, the opportunity it gives us to grow, evolve and expand; the opportunity it gives us to see and know ourselves better.

Yet in reality, motherhood can take you to a place where you feel like you've shrunk; where you feel as if you've forgotten what's true; where you can no longer see what you're passionate about; and where you feel like you've forgotten who you are. There is a gift in this harsh reality of motherhood. You can only start looking for something once you realise it's lost. This book will take you on a journey of rediscovery in which you may find what you think you've lost."

Along the way, I couldn't help but find parallels between motherhood and being a trailing spouse/partner, in terms of the impact on one's identity and self-esteem.

In conclusion, if you could do with a dose of 'me-time', grab Lindy's book and/or attend one of her workshops (in South Africa). I believe it would be time well spent. Congrats Lindy.

(PS. I will interview Lindy for our Expat Women April Newsletter. Look out for the interview there. Thanks.)

Seen 'The Mom Song'?

Hi Everyone, Someone sent me 'The Mom Song' today. If you're a mom/mum, and you have not seen it before, take a look - it's an opera song and it's fun.

Included below is the one sent to me, posted on You Tube last month.

I found another one on YouTube, posted one year ago, but the picture is not as clear, so I recommend watching the one below (or linked here, if you are reading this via email alert.)

Mothers, enjoy! Andrea

Expat Mothers Abroad

Hi Everyone, If you are a mother raising children abroad, you might be interested in the article Expat Moms Chronicle Raising Kids In a Foreign Country by Shannon Lowe on BlogHer.

We noticed Shannon's article because she included ExpatWomen.com in her article and has been sending people our way. :-)

Shannon's article quotes several expat mothers abroad. She also quotes Dina Zavrski-Makaric's article, Moving With A Teen.

Have a quick read if you are interested.