Today’s guest on the Expat Money Show is Linda Mueller, a coach for expat partners who have given up their own careers in their home countries to help support their spouses abroad. Her company is called The Expat Partner Coach and she offers a program called Adapt & Succeed Abroad that addresses the key issues faced by expat spouses from planning a move to adapting quickly and creating connections. 

She has been featured in HuffPost, Women’s Health, MSN, and Thrive Global.

HERE’S WHAT WE DISCUSSED IN DETAIL IN THIS INTERVIEW:

• Linda and Mikkel discuss what it’s REALLY like being a spouse living overseas.
• Top tips and tricks to understanding if your spouse is saying ‘yes’ to the opportunity for them or not.
• Best bit of advice you can get from an experienced spouse & expat that has moved to more countries than you have probably moved homes!
• Why it’s so important to help your spouse to communicate & understand what lays ahead of them.
• Best advice from a veteran expat of 13 years, who has made 7 international moves
• Is reverse culture shock (coming back to the USA), real? 
• Linda shares what the move to Japan was like, not once but twice? What did she go through? Was she scared? Was it a massive shift?

RELATED PODCAST EPISODES

144: How To Raise Your Children To Be Multilingual – Sara Tarvin

138: Digital Nomad Life In Asia – Dean Kuchel

115: The Solution To Educating Your Children Abroad – Michael Strong

HOW TO REACH

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The Expat Partner Coach

CONCLUSION:

I had such an interesting conversation with Linda about living overseas with a spouse who has taken on a new job in different countries, 7 times. They were lucky enough to live in Japan twice and also one of my favourite places, Abu Dhabi UAE. 

Life can be daunting for a spouse that has their own career and is then asked by their spouse to give it up. Linda really understands what it takes to make the move and still keep her family together. If you’re thinking about moving, you’ll love this episode.

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Today’s guest on the Expat Money Show is Michael Strong, Founder of Expanse Online, an innovative virtual secondary school and he is one of the most experienced and creative school program designers in the country.

WHAT WE DISCUSSED IN THIS INTERVIEW:

• Public education in Michael’s opinion is abusive and fraudulent, listen to a better alternative
• Statistically, 75% of high school students are unhappy and only 45% are actively engaged in learning
• The increase in suicide rates in teens are shocking, why is this happening?
• We examine the rise in substance abuse in government-run schools and how to protect your child from it
• Why communication and compassion will always be necessary and how to foster them in your child’s education
• Mikkel and Michael go into what careers require higher education to be successful and what careers don’t
• How to prepare your child for the real world and set them up for success
• How Michael’s school rewards Emotional Intelligence in kids
• What does a school day and week look like at Expanse Online?
• Some have referred to this program as ‘Homeschooling by professionals’
• And so much more…

RELATED EPISODES

• 094: Alternative Ways To Learn, Enter The Workforce And Educate Children – Isaac Morehouse
• 078: Brandon Pearce -Travelling the Globe World Schooling your Children
• 036: Jim Rogers – North Korea, China, Mandarin And The Current State Of Education

HOW TO FIND MICHAEL STRONG’S WORK

• www.expanseonline.co

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CONCLUSION

Michael is an amazing human being, working to ensure his students get the very best education possible so that becoming effective adults is not that difficult. I really enjoyed the conversation, and personally got a lot out of it, I hope you do too!

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