Posts by Amel Derragui
TN60: What you need to start and grow your own portable business – Best of Series
What do you need to start and grow a portable business as an expat partner? This week is entrepreneurship week! At this occasion you will find in this episode great inspiration, insights and tips to start and grow your own portable business as an expat partner. For those of you who know me well, you know that…
TN59: Career tips for expat partners – Best of Series
TN58: Expat Life Planning – Best of Series
While enjoying the amazing experience of living across the globe, a lot of serial expats, and particularly expat spouses, end up after few years completely detached from the safety net that is very difficult to build when not being geographically attached to one place. For example, having a proper retirement, health care and tax plan,…
A personal message for trailing spouses
To my dear nomad sisters, My name is Amel, I am a global nomad. I was raised as a kid across 4 countries, and built my adult life across 4 other countries. Although I have always felt so blessed to have this life and cannot imagine it differently, it has never been as challenging to define my…
Read Full PostTN57: Identity Week – Best of Series
Building a strong identity and self-confidence is probably the central piece of what is often at the origin of expat partners challenges when moving from a country to another. In the episode 51, we talked a lot about the general challenges of defining home and our identity when living on the move and adapting to so…