Nomadic Diaries: Mastering Global Transitions

When Coming Home Means Choosing Between Family and Career

Doreen Cumberford Season 5 Episode 7

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Have you ever felt the profound challenge of transplanting your entire life from one country to another?

In this episode of Nomadic Diaries, the Re-Entry Series, host Linda Mueller chatted with the incredible Tanja Pleis, an award-winning international photographer.  

We dove into her journey of balancing family life and professional aspirations while repatriating from the U.S. to Germany. Tanja shared her challenges, for example, managing grief from the closing of her Chicago studio and adjusting to a much, much smaller town. She also offered insights into the evolution of taking a local business and creating a global business. 

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You can map the move. You cannot map the metamorphosis. Nomadic Diaries explores the interior journey of expat life — the belonging, the identity shifts, the repatriation, and everything that travels with you that can't be packed in a suitcase. This episode may be part of our Re-Entry Series (30 episodes on coming home) or The Belonging Project (29 episodes on belonging across cultures). Browse the full catalog at nomadicdiariespodcast.com and please share or leave a review if this episode resonated.