Maria welcomes Expat and Culture Transition Coach Deborah Dahab to discuss her methodology to help expats deal with a move abroad with the awareness needed to create the smoothest cultural transition.

She explains how she helps people considering relocation outside of their home countries through her various expat coaching offerings.\

We also learn how Maria is seriously considering her own move and what people interested in expatriation should do when they are first thinking about a relocation to another country?

Deborah also explains how she left her corporate life as a marketing executive and decided to go back to school. She completed my Masters in Intercultural Psychology and with this knowledge she understood what happens beyond the practical side of moving.

Anna Bonavita, founder of Esperienza.org – a totally immersive experience with small-scale, intimate tours where you interact with locals with unique experiences. All in the Italian region of Emilia Romagna.

Storyteller, children’s book author, columnist, former TV anchor/host, wife, and mother Leslie Means is the founder of the popular online community and motherhood website, Her View From Home (2.5 million monthly readers), which encourages women to share their heartfelt stories of faith and family and to connect with one another. Her View From Home is thriving submissions-based publisher millions turn to for positive inspiration and advice on motherhood, marriage, kids, grief, friendship, life, gift guides, and faith. In 2012, a group of former TV industry professionals and authors got together to dream up a plan to create a place for women to share stories. Together, they won a business plan competition from the University of Nebraska, Kearney which helped make their dream a reality. Leslie started Her View From Homeworking out of her tiny closet. The website now receives over 2.5 million visitors each month and offers readers insightful and encouraging advice on motherhood, marriage, relationships, grief, faith, and life, as well as a collection of faith-inspired clothing (best-seller So God Made a Mother t-shirt) and lifestyle products. Means is publishing a book called So God Made a Mother (pre-order available Fall 2022), which will be out from Tyndale next year. So God Made a Mother is full of 50-60 powerful stories of motherhood—written by women of all backgrounds, from all stages of raising kids—meaning every mom will find herself somewhere within its pages. Leslie Means takes the reader on a journey that will make you laugh and cry and nod along, all the while highlighting a mother's God-given purpose and worth, just as she is. Means currently lives in Nebraska with her husband and three children, and, when she isn’t managing HVFH or writing her monthly newspaper column, is likely shopping at Target.

Maria speaks with Founder & CEO at AddWomxn, a collaborative of creative entrepreneurs with a vision to advance racial and gender equity in marketing and advertising. AddWomxn's diverse and inclusive team is highly experienced and deeply vetted. We strive to offer clients exceptionally strategic and impressively creative work through our collaboration of brilliant women entrepreneurs. AddWomxn empowers entrepreneurial women in a safe and supportive environment. We believe deep human respect and high ethical principles should guide all our relationships. Simply, we attract women of substance and clients of distinction for their passion to create a better world – a world that advances both gender and racial equity. BRINGING DIVERSE CREATIVE TEAMS TOGETHER TO SOLVE PROBLEMS! If you are a BIPOC creative, please connect with me. I want to hear your story, advocate for you, and connect you with others. BRANDING AND DESIGN LEADER. Well-versed in both the agency and corporate world. Thrives in making a difference by elevating teams to creatively solve problems by valuing diversity, collaboration, and innovation. FOCUSED ON GENDER AND RACIAL EQUITY. As a thought leader and speaker in marketing to women, and a tireless advocate for gender diversity in marketing, I feel it’s past time to bring our BIPOC sisters to the table. Committed to bringing more equity to the design world and championing our BIPOC designers, illustrators, photographers, and marketing creatives to build teams that are not only top-notch but diverse. #WhereAreTheBlackDesigners #HireBlack COMMITTED ACTIVATOR-IN-CHIEF. Committed to giving back and a tireless advocate for making a difference in our community. Founder of PurpleRide. Created and branded the annual fundraising bike ride from the ground up that has raised over $2.5M to date (in the Twin Cities alone). The event – now Purple Stride – has become Pancreatic Cancer Action Network’s signature fundraising event and has grown to over 50 events nationwide.

Jennifer Gilhoi of JenGilhoi.com. Jen is a friend, a business partner, and an inspiration to me, and many, many others. She’s committed to helping people make healthier choices. 

Lillian Rafson, founder and CEO of Pack Up + Go, launched the business in January 2016 at 23 years old. Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, and a graduate of New York University’s Gallatin School with a major in Consumer Culture, Lillian has always had a passion for travel and supporting small businesses. Without raising a dollar, Lillian has grown Pack Up + Go to a multi-million-dollar business. She has been honored as a member of the inaugural Pittsburgh Business Times 30 Under 30 class, a Tory Burch Foundation Fellow, a Travel & Leisure A-List Travel Planner, and a Top Woman in Hospitality. She is thrilled to share her love for exploration through Pack Up + Go’s mission of embracing the unknown and encouraging spontaneity in all of its travelers. Outside of Pack Up + Go, Lillian is a business coach, focusing on helping womxn entrepreneurs get their small businesses off the ground! 

Julie Bartkey is the host of the Three Women and a Bottle of Wine Podcast, which provides an opportunity to delve a bit into her love of journalism with two other pros who are more than colleagues- they are friends.

From the podcast website: When asked during job interviews, “Where do you see yourself in five years?”, I can’t stop myself from laughing. My plan WAS to be a sports broadcaster (Monday Night Football, to be exact), travel endlessly, and float home for holidays to visit siblings and parents. Hah!