We would all love to arrive at the years of our dotage proudly carrying a banner that says ‘No regrets’. Every decision we make is fraught with the fear of a mistake, ‘what ifs’ and the wish for 100% conviction that we are doing the right thing. The older you get, the more you realize [...]
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Was it all worth the risk?
Posted in Successful Expat Women on December 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dream fallout
Posted in Successful Expat Women on December 19, 2010 | 3 Comments »
What about the aftermath of following a passion or a dream? It’s interesting to read about how one should follow a dream and passion but I was never able to find an article about the ‘after’, the ‘what now?’ These questions were posed to my by Marie (not my alter ego – another Marie!) this [...]
On being famous and being human
Posted in Successful Expat Women on December 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »
It would be impossible to talk about successful expat women and not talk about Robin Pascoe. And I don’t mean talk about all the obvious stuff that expats all over know about her – it’s the anomalies, the irreverence and the intense compassion that touches me. As one reader said this week, enough adjectives If [...]
Getting back to the drawing board
Posted in Successful Expat Women on December 17, 2010 | 6 Comments »
The term ‘one-hit-wonder’ is a delicious term used to describe those amazing songs that a singer or a band was able to blow people’s minds with – and then they never even got close to doing it again. People can be like that too. Sometimes we are lucky enough to have our 15 seconds of [...]
Kiwi Kate
Posted in Successful Expat Women on December 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »
So far this week our successful expat women possessed authenticity, relentless energy and the incredible desire and ability to make a difference. Today’s gal has all these plus a bonus extra – dogged determination to make her sister’s lives a better place to live within. Kate Sheppard was a Third Culture Kid born to Scottish [...]
Expat+Harem
Posted in Successful Expat Women on December 14, 2010 | 14 Comments »
In stark contrast to some of the things I said yesterday, I want to feature an expat woman today who is extremely successful on a global level. However I hold her in high ‘success’ regard for other reasons. We all must aspire to someone, or something or somewhere depending on your point of reference. I [...]
Successful expat women
Posted in Successful Expat Women on December 13, 2010 | 5 Comments »
If I had read this title about 10 years ago I would have crawled into a hole in the ground. I then would have covered my head whimpering ‘Please don’t tell me about all the expat women out there who are BETTER than me’. That was then and this is now – and if ANY [...]
