Posts by Amel Derragui

Lisa Webb grew up in Canada. After university she became a teacher for 8 years, then the assistant principal of an elementary school. Her husband, who is also Canadian was one day offered a job in Paris.  So they packed up their lives in Canada and moved to France. After a year in Paris, they were…

Dear Listeners, Thank you for your feedbacks! I have taken them into consideration, and made some changes on your podcast Tandem Nomads. Tandem Nomads is turning into a weekly podcast show. Tune in this episode and find out more! With care, Amel

Rashmi Aggarwala Zimburg grew up in India and studied in the US.Today she lives in Japan with her husband and two daughters. P reviously they also lived in Algeria, Indonesia and Austria. Before going into this global nomadic journey, Rashmi graduated from an MBA, built a career in business management and worked for 15 years in…

It is already quite complicated to manage our households’ finances in general, but it does tend to get even more complicated when we move from a country to another. I also noticed that in a lot of cases, even when expat partners are financially dependent, they are very involved in managing the finances of their…

Marcelle Yeager is American and lives in Chile. Prior to Chile, Marcelle and her husband also lived in Uzbekistan and Russia. Marcelle’s background is in strategic communication. When she and her husband agreed to take the first assignment abroad that he was offered, she quit her promising career back home and started taking some jobs…