The Time Is Now

Tracey Ellis is the co-founder and CEO of International Diagnostic Solutions (IDS), she is also an occupational therapist and disability analyst. Tracey has provided evaluation and treatment to children for over 20 years, and serves in several boards such as the Washington DC Health Professional Licensing Board. Her company International Diagnostic Solutions provides to global families educational...

Maryam Afnan Ahmad shares her insights and lessons learned on balancing family and career. She is originally from Pakistan and holds an MBA from Pakistan's Lahore University of Management Sciences.  She was living in Pakistan, she teaching at NUST Business School in Islamabad when she and her husband started their nomadic journey to China. Maryam conducted corporate and personal development progra...

Tandem Nomads is going through major events. Amel Derragui, the host, tells you about some important changes with the show, some milestones and learned lessons on the past year that you will need to know yourself if you want to start a portable business.  She shares her feeling behind organizing the first live Tandem Nomads event, reflects on the past year of Tandem Nomads, her motivations and les...

Freelancing is one of the best ways for expat partners to earn income, find flexibility and build a portable career.  I interview in this episode an expert in the field, Emily McGee to bring you some great tips and advice on how to start and grow a freelance business.  She shares her story on building sustainable business while moving from one country to another as an expat spouse. “I found freela...

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 entrepreneurship is for me not just a sense of business and a way to make money, but a re...

Pursuing a career while moving from a country to another is indeed one of the most difficult challenges for expat partners. And it is also one of the main topics of Tandem Nomads, so I have to say that it was very difficult to pick just 4 extracts from all previous episodes that can be valuable to you, because all the guests on Tandem Nomads shared some amazing inspiration regarding this topic, so...

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, building a secure estate or building savings, dealing with chil...

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 many different cultures. In the particular case of expat spouses, identity has a l...

Hello Nomad Nation, I hope that you enjoyed your summer break! As I took the time to rest, enjoy family time but also reflect on my own path as an expat partner and reflect on all previous Tandem Nomads episodes, I realized something very important that I share with you in this episode ( press play to know all about it! ). In fact, as you know, one of my main focus through Tandem Nomads is to prov...

When we go through so many transitions and change, I really think that it is very important to learn how to deal with our emotions and believes to make the best of each experience, even the most challenging ones. I have selected for you some of the best insights that have been shared by previous guests on Tandem Nomads. You will discover how mindfulness can be practiced and be helpful in many diff...

Last week, was Gentlemen’s Week where I interviewed male expat partners. Additionally to sharing their experience adjusting their careers to their spouse’s, many of them also shared some great inspiration on how to be happy in a relationship. This week we continue along this topic with the Nomad Couples Week, we discuss tips and insights on how to keep a healthy relationship while moving from a co...

It is Gentlemen’s week!! Best of series with short extracts from previous interviews of male “Trailing spouses”, or as I prefer to say male expat partners. They will share with us in just few minutes how they perceive their role as expat partners and how they manage to maintain their careers while following their spouses abroad. We will see that most challenges are definitely very similar to femal...

This week’s best of series is dedicated to parents abroad and TCKs. You will find extracts with great tips about giving birth, raising and educating kids abroad, but also about building an identity and sense of home when being a TCK. Karen Wilmot, interviewed in episode 40, is a midwife that created the fantastic concept of The Virtual Midwife . She brings online support for mothers who live far f...

In this Best of Series, I will share with you extracts from the first season's episodes. Each series is dedicated to a specific topic. In this series we focus on topics related to being a Global Nomad, like adapting to new cultures, building a sense of home when moving regularly from a country to another or dealing with some of the challenges that go with it. We start with Alison Trainer, a talent...

I am truly humbled and filled with joy by all the messages I’ve received from listeners and past guests of Tandem Nomads. Thank you for sharing your insights and incredible support! Tandem Nomads wouldn’t exist without you. Also, Tandem Nomads wouldn’t exist without all of you who are downloading on a daily basis Tandem Nomads podcast episodes and listening to these stories and tips from inspiring...

Our guest today is Bérengère Ferrier, she is an expert in marketing communications and will share with us some great tips on how to establish a business and find your first clients when you just arrive in a new country. For over 6 years, Bérengère worked in the city of Lyon for a leading French advertising agency, Saatchi and Saatchi, and successfully managed advertising campaigns for major global...

In this second part of my interview with the wonderful Marilyn Gardner, we will focus on her insights and tips that led her to become a successful blogger and writer, in addition to the portable job she created for herself. She will also share the struggles she had with repatriation and how she coped with it. Marilyn Gardner is an American third culture kid who grew up in Pakistan. Currently she l...

Marilyn Gardner is an American third culture kid who grew up in Pakistan. Currently she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As she says, her claim of fame is that she gave birth to 5 kids on 3 continents, and went on to raise them in Pakistan and Egypt before moving to the United States. Marilyn is an author, speaker, trainer and consultant. In fact, along the years she has found a unique way to co...

Erin Long is an American and a certified speech therapist. She quit her job to join her husband who works for the Foreign services and went to live with her family in both Mexico and Brazil. Today she lives in Serbia. While moving from one country to another she had the brilliant idea to start online speech therapy services, World Wide Speech , to help the English native speaking community around...

Olga Mecking comes from Poland and she had moved the first time to Canada to join her German boyfriend at the time. They then moved together to Germany. A marriage and three kids later, she now lives with her family in the Netherlands. Olga is a blogger, writer, and translator. She has co-written four books and writes for a variety of publications about life abroad, raising children, and traveling...

Kristin Louise Duncombe was born to American diplomats and raised in various countries. Today, she lives in Geneva and is a psychotherapist who specializes in working with international and expatriate families. Kristin is also an author. Her first book was selected as one of the Best Indie Reads of 2013. It is called Trailing: A Memoire , which tells her experience as a “trailing spouse” who follo...

Kristin Louise Duncombe was born to American diplomats and raised in various countries. Today, she lives in Geneva and is a psychotherapist who specializes in working with international and expatriate families. Kristin is also an author. Her first book was selected as one of the Best Indie Reads of 2013. It is called Trailing: A Memoire , which tells her experience as a “trailing spouse” who follo...

Jeremy Piccoli has some great insights to share with us as a male trailing spouse but also as a professional who helps companies plan expat packages for their employees. Jeremy comes from the US and is now an expat partner living in Basel, Switzerland. He used to work for the International Assignment Services group of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Boston before he joined the company AIRINC as a Tax Ma...

Kirsten de Greling-Visman is Dutch Canadian raised as an expat child across the Netherlands, Canada, the Dutch Antilles, the US, France and Spain. Kirsten then settled and built her career in the Netherlands as a program manager and career advisor in Universities. In 2007, although she was offered three major positions by various universities, she took the decision to leave her promising career to...

Karen Wilmot was born in South Africa. When she grew up she followed the footsteps of her mom and became a Midwife. Also, her passion for traveling took her around the world. Her career has allowed her to work on a diamond mine in South Africa, in a small village in Mexico, in a military hospital in Saudi Arabia and with the Royal family of Oman. In Oman, she also established between 2009 and 2015...