Season 1 · Episode 20
#20: Choosing split location – with Carole Hallett Mobbs
Holding the Fort Abroad · Rhoda Bangerter
March 6, 202338m 32s
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Show Notes
Synopsis:
Carole Hallett is an expat expert and host of the Expat Ability Chat podcast and founder of Expat child. After having lived as an expat, she is now living in her home country while her husband moves on assignment. In her coaching practice she has often seen that frequent business travel is a part of the expat experience.
In This Episode:
- Carole explains about her various moves as an expat in Japan, Germany and South Africa. She tells of how she met her husband and came to live the expat life as a couple too.
- How companies do and don’t support families in overseas assignments, scenarios to be aware of and what to put in place to put the odds in your favour, such as building up a support network.
- The importance of clearly communicating each partner’s needs, especially in a relationship where one partner is often travelling.
- The challenges of moving with teens, how to change school systems with older children.