Hi Everyone, I hope you are enjoying a great start to your week! Here are some expat-related links I have tweeted recently, that might interest you. Best wishes, Andrea.
6 Women Tell Us How it Really is to Live a Life of Travel and Adventure
http://bit.ly/oYusC3
Interesting: Thinking of Working Abroad? Asia/China experience is Increasingly Important for Careers
ow.ly/64aCn
225,000+ Young Americans Soon Depart for Study Abroad Programs
go.usa.gov/Kur
From Expat to Native: 20 Years in Moscow
tgr.ph/raxFXz
What's It Like to Be an Expat CEO in India? Read about Jacques Challes of L'Oreal in The Economic Times
http://bit.ly/rk97Ep
American Expats: "To OVDI or not to OVDI, part 2" by Taxes for Expats - Regarding IRS and Expat OVDI Tax Program
http://bit.ly/qwRkbA
Expat Careers article by Megan Fitzgerald - Are You Managing Your Career Abroad?
ow.ly/62jbt
4 Bloggers' North-South-East-West Expat Dispatch posts
http://bit.ly/q5ShWf
http://bit.ly/pZkigD
http://bit.ly/otGiPf
http://bit.ly/qiKyYy
As Oil Prices Climb, Rethinking How We Fly
http://bit.ly/mRGmLV
Want to Speak at the 2012 FIGT Conference? Proposals Due 9 Sept
http://bit.ly/nk1PDV
Expats - Repatriating? Overwhelmed right now? Simple But Timely Advice
http://bit.ly/oEtJt8
27 Years of Nomadic Living
bit.ly/jLO02a
How I Devoted my Expat Life to Helping Spain's Abandoned Animals, by Chris Marshall
tgr.ph/oUrNXD
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Monday, August 29, 2011
Missed Some Great Expat Links on Twitter? (29-30 August edition)
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Thanks for your support and I wish you a fantastic week! Andrea @andreaexpat
Monday, June 6, 2011
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!
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!
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!
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 Gรถksel!
Winner = Nicole Gรถksel!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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. :)
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Be Quick... Only 2 Days Left in our Expat Women US$5,000 Book Launch Competition
Hi Everyone, If you would like to enter our big book launch competition, time is running out...
Our prizes include: Life Coaching; Career Coaching; a Successful Blogging Consultation; Personal Branding Coaching; Writing Coaching; Passport Career access; an Amazon Kindle; and an Amazon gift voucher!
Here's more about the book...
In Expat Women: Confessions - 50 Answers to Your Real-Life Questions about Living Abroad, experienced expats Andrea Martins and Victoria Hepworth share a wealth of wisdom and positive tips to motivate you at every stage of your expat journey. They cover popular topics like leaving family back home, transitioning quickly, intercultural relationships, parenting bilingual children and work-life balance. They also address more difficult issues such as expat infidelity, divorce, alcoholism and reverse culture shock.
If you have ever wondered what it is like to live abroad, work abroad or accompany your working partner abroad, this book is for you. If you are already living the expat life but have mixed feelings about settling in, rebuilding your identity, relationship changes, successfully managing your money and career, raising children far from home or repatriating, this book is also for you. Or if you are just looking for a motivational gift for your expat friends, clubs or companies, Expat Women: Confessions is likewise for you!
Here's more about the US$5,000 in prizes...
For each copy of our book bought in May 2011, we will thank you with one (1) entry into our fantastic US$5,000 book launch competition (if you email us your purchase e-receipt by 11:59pm 31 May 2011 New York time). For full terms and conditions, click here.
Prize 1: Career, Recruitment and/or Personal Branding Coaching – Valued at US$1,010!
Lois Freeke (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!
Career by Choice Expat Career & 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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
Amazon Kindle
Kindle Wireless Reading Device. Wi-Fi. 6" Display. The #1 Bestseller on Amazon.
Prize 10: Amazon Gift Voucher – Valued at US$100!
Amazon Gift Vouchers
Buy something you have been saving up for on Amazon. Redeemable at your Amazon store of choice.
Here's some nice words from the review copies sent out...
"What a great book! For the first time, a real-life manual that will reassure every expat woman that she is not alone in her unspoken feelings and questions. I loved it!"
Ruth E. Van Reken, Co-author of Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds
"A terrific book! Real-life examples of the challenges expat women face, with insightful and practical advice, this should be on the must-read list for anyone involved
with expatriate administration."
Andrea David, Head of Global Mobility, Bloomberg LP
"For once, a book that tells the truth about the expat experience. An inspiring account, and a must read for those contemplating an international assignment or those already on one."
Yvonne McNulty, PhD, Assistant Professor, James Cook University, Singapore
"A must for anyone who is, has been or will be an expat!"
Peggy Love, GMS, CERP, President, FIGT (Families in Global Transition)
"Expat Women: Confessions is a wonderful addition to the literature on the experiences of women during their lives abroad. Andrea and Victoria answer difficult questions with empathy, an upbeat attitude, and wisdom. This is a book that every expat woman should keep at her bedside for the moments that inevitably surface when abroad – and even after repatriation."
Elizabeth Perelstein, President, School Choice International and named one of Fortune Magazine's 10 Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs (2010)
"This book is a great resource for all expat women."
Leslie Brant Teixeira, Director, U.S. Department of State Family Liaison Office
Here's how to download a free sample of the book...
Here's how to support us and buy the book...
Buy on iPad (Coming June 2011) - or just buy it on the Kindle app on your iPad!
E-Book (Coming June 2011)
Don't forget to email us your purchase e-receipt and be entered into our fantastic US$5,000 book launch competition. For full terms and conditions, click here.
And if you like it, please, please leave a review on any Amazon site. Thank you so much. :-)
Here's where to go if you need images for your blog or expat club newsletters...
Here's where to go to request a full preview e-copy if you are representing a registered expat club and would like to review it for your expat club newsletter... Just click here and talk to Ashley, thanks.
Thanks Everyone! Andrea
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Expatistan: New Website Comparing International Cost of Living
Hi Everyone, Thanks to an interview on Megan Fitzgerald's great Career By Choice blog, I learnt this week about a very cool online tool for anyone interested in comparing how much it costs to live in different countries. The website is called Expatistan and it could prove a wonderful resource for current and wannabe expats.
Expatistan was created by Spanish software engineer, Gerardo Robledillo, who currently lives as an expat in Prague, Czech Republic. Gerardo also created World Taxi Meter (an online international taxi fare calculator) and 360 cities (an online community for panoramic photographers). To read more about Gerardo in Megan's interview, just click here.
To try Expatistan's cost of living comparison tool, just click here.
...Be warned however... when I tried the tool, it told me that my current city was 78% cheaper to live in than my home city... which means I probably won't be going home anytime soon! Andrea :-)
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Expat Women March Home Page
Hi again Everyone, Following on from our big announcement below of our new site, here the details of our March home page features. Please take a few minutes to read, enjoy, share and tweet about them for us. Thank you very much and we wish you a fantastic day/evening! Andrea
Success Story
Success Story
CEO, International Coach Academy
Making a bold move from Australia to China paid off for Bronwyn Bowery-Ireland, who was able to expand her modest coaching business into a million-dollar company: the International Coach Academy. Bronwyn leads this successful Shanghai-based organization which certifies and trains people all over the world to be professional coaches...
Business Idea
Making a bold move from Australia to China paid off for Bronwyn Bowery-Ireland, who was able to expand her modest coaching business into a million-dollar company: the International Coach Academy. Bronwyn leads this successful Shanghai-based organization which certifies and trains people all over the world to be professional coaches...
Business Idea
Frasia Golf Training Center
Pascale Bon Yin
Pascale Bon Yin's expat journey began almost twenty years ago, when she relocated first from France to Taiwan, then to mainland China. After a few moves within China, she now finds herself in Shanghai juggling her role as wife to Chinese filmmaker Yin DaWei, mother to adopted daughter Jiajia, and busy entrepreneur running the Frasia Golf Training Center...
Read more
Evacuations
Sudden Departures: How They Impact Expat Families
Rebecca Grappo
As I watched the events in Egypt unfold, my thoughts were with the thousands of expat children and families who are/were living in Egypt as well as their Egyptian friends and playmates. Maybe others are thinking about the political implications of this open rebellion, but I am thinking about the many families who may be ordered to leave quickly to other safe havens...
Read more
Living in a Global Village
How Do Expat Women Cope with Life Abroad?
Riana Schreuders-van den Bergh
When I first arrived in the Netherlands, I felt as if my life had come to an end. I had no job, no friends and no social support system. I missed my family back home terribly and had no idea who I was anymore. Joining up with other expat women did not seem to help me either - they all seemed so happy and in control of their lives, whereas I felt like...
Read more
Expat Careers
How Breaking The Rules Can Help You In Your Job Search Abroad
Megan Fitzgerald
Breaking the rules in a job search is an interesting topic, particularly in today's ever-changing global marketplace... Often the rules that create frustration and stress us out the most are the ones that are either not based on fact, or there is at least significant evidence to indicate that the opposite of that belief could also be true...
Read more
Expat Confession
Keeping My Relationship Alive
Expat Women Girlfriend
Recently, my girlfriends were talking about the decline in intimacy in their relationships with their husbands since both the arrival of their children and their transfer to Singapore. I feel the same. With my husband working long hours and traveling a lot, then coming home to three children who all want his attention...
Read more
Not a Member Yet?
Just a reminder that our blog is separate from our main site, so if you are reading this blog post online or you are only subscribed to our blog, you will not automatically receive our Expat Women monthly newsletters. To receive our March newsletter and to go in the running to win our monthly prize of a complete set of Explorer Publishing's Mini-Guides, please sign up today to our main site, ExpatWomen.com, and also receive your link to our free e-book of Winning Stories. Thank you!
Pascale Bon Yin
Pascale Bon Yin's expat journey began almost twenty years ago, when she relocated first from France to Taiwan, then to mainland China. After a few moves within China, she now finds herself in Shanghai juggling her role as wife to Chinese filmmaker Yin DaWei, mother to adopted daughter Jiajia, and busy entrepreneur running the Frasia Golf Training Center...
Read more
Evacuations
Sudden Departures: How They Impact Expat Families
Rebecca Grappo
As I watched the events in Egypt unfold, my thoughts were with the thousands of expat children and families who are/were living in Egypt as well as their Egyptian friends and playmates. Maybe others are thinking about the political implications of this open rebellion, but I am thinking about the many families who may be ordered to leave quickly to other safe havens...
Read more
Living in a Global Village
How Do Expat Women Cope with Life Abroad?
Riana Schreuders-van den Bergh
When I first arrived in the Netherlands, I felt as if my life had come to an end. I had no job, no friends and no social support system. I missed my family back home terribly and had no idea who I was anymore. Joining up with other expat women did not seem to help me either - they all seemed so happy and in control of their lives, whereas I felt like...
Read more
Expat Careers
How Breaking The Rules Can Help You In Your Job Search Abroad
Megan Fitzgerald
Breaking the rules in a job search is an interesting topic, particularly in today's ever-changing global marketplace... Often the rules that create frustration and stress us out the most are the ones that are either not based on fact, or there is at least significant evidence to indicate that the opposite of that belief could also be true...
Read more
Expat Confession
Keeping My Relationship Alive
Expat Women Girlfriend
Recently, my girlfriends were talking about the decline in intimacy in their relationships with their husbands since both the arrival of their children and their transfer to Singapore. I feel the same. With my husband working long hours and traveling a lot, then coming home to three children who all want his attention...
Read more
Not a Member Yet?
Just a reminder that our blog is separate from our main site, so if you are reading this blog post online or you are only subscribed to our blog, you will not automatically receive our Expat Women monthly newsletters. To receive our March newsletter and to go in the running to win our monthly prize of a complete set of Explorer Publishing's Mini-Guides, please sign up today to our main site, ExpatWomen.com, and also receive your link to our free e-book of Winning Stories. Thank you!
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