Where it all began...
It's my curiosity about the world that led me to becoming a self-initiated expat for 15 years. Like many others, I thought life abroad would be an adventure. And it is! Except nobody prepared me for the rough parts of the adventure.
Struggles with feeling at ease in a new culture, making meaningful connections and establishing a career in a foreign country - these were all things I had to figure out by myself. But I was determined to keep going until I had made it work.
Over time I began to notice other expats quietly struggle just like I had. This made me realize that there's not enough honesty about the bad days of life abroad. So, in 2019 I started Bad Days Abroad to normalize talking about expat struggles so we don't have to deal with them alone.
Since then I've moved on to helping expats discover their needs and values and thereby help them decide whether to stay or go - because without a deep understanding of ourselves we won't feel good anywhere.
Struggles with feeling at ease in a new culture, making meaningful connections and establishing a career in a foreign country - these were all things I had to figure out by myself. But I was determined to keep going until I had made it work.
Over time I began to notice other expats quietly struggle just like I had. This made me realize that there's not enough honesty about the bad days of life abroad. So, in 2019 I started Bad Days Abroad to normalize talking about expat struggles so we don't have to deal with them alone.
Since then I've moved on to helping expats discover their needs and values and thereby help them decide whether to stay or go - because without a deep understanding of ourselves we won't feel good anywhere.
