Moving Countries 101

In this episode, Clare is joined by Dominic George who is a travel management consultant who runs Global Connect Solutions. He and Clare met when the airline she had booked to fly her and her family back from Crete, went bankrupt.   Dominic explains how a travel management consultant uses their knowledge and connections to solve any travel problems their clients experience and do so quickly....

In this episode, Clare is joined by Lilian Roeland who has been living in Spain, for decades. She was raised in The Netherlands and has also lived in South Africa and plans to live in Canada. She went on holiday to Spain, fell in love with the country and made it her home.  Lilian talks about understanding cultural differences and how not taking them into account enough impacts your life. She...

In this episode, Clare is joined by Micheline Mauvis who was heartbroken when she had to leave her home country of Zimbabwe. For 40 years she lived in several countries, including the UK, France, Portugal, and South Africa. Today, she is returning to the beautiful country of Zimbabwe and is planning to use permaculture to grow food sustainably.  She is very much on a healing journey and...

In this episode, Clare is joined by Fiona Whyte, a financial advisor and writer who moved to Spain just a few months before the first Covid lockdown. She explains why they chose Spain and lived in Airbnbs for the first six months. Fiona also shares how they ensured that their 14-year-old daughter could successfully finish her education and the steps they took to maintain a close bond with their 18...

In this episode, Clare is joined by Andreea Herman, a Romanian Christian, who lived in Spain and met her Indian Hindu husband when they both worked on a cruise ship. Today, they live in the UK. Andreea explains why they opted to live in the UK, and how they learned about each other's quite different cultures and decided in advance which cultural norms they would follow in each area of their life t...

In this episode, Clare is joined by Jess Zillessen who has recently lived in France and Cyprus and is in the process of moving to South Africa. Jess explains how becoming modern-day gipsies is taking her, her husband and two small children closer to their ultimate goal. She shares practical advice that others living a nomadic lifestyle can use to better handle moving home every week, getting visas...

In this episode, Clare is in conversation with Katie Sharpe, an artist who lives in California. Katie met her husband in the UK and moved to the USA with him, just 5 months before lockdown. Initially, Katie could not work which massively impacted her sense of self-worth and her relationships. She explains how she successfully navigated that situation, made friends, and set up her own business. Thi...

In this episode, Clare is joined by Sebastiano Zuddas, a leadership scholar at The Royal Academy of Engineering who specialises in creating digital twins for cities. He and Clare both moved to the UK as small children and have a parent from another culture. They discuss what it is like to grow up with the influence of two cultures, that of their home life and that of their new country. This episod...