Carole is an Expat Life Mentor and Consultant. Dedicated to supporting you as you navigate moving and living overseas, and making your location independent lifestyle a reality. 

For 12 years Carole lived overseas, with her husband and daughter, plus assorted pets. She first moved to Tokyo, Japan in 2006 as a ‘trailing spouse’, with a 5-year-old daughter and two cats.

After five years in Tokyo – including one huge earthquake – the family moved to Berlin, Germany with one cat and a new dog. From there, they moved to Pretoria, South Africa and repatriated to the UK in 2018 with two completely different cats, the same dog, and a teenager (yikes!).

So, Carole has experience of both ends of expat life – there and back again!

I’m a British/Venezuelan entrepreneur and music composer who left London for Greece in 2010 to start fresh and build a life of freedom.

Today, I’m living a life I once dreamed of—a blend of location freedom, online entrepreneurship, and meaningful experiences abroad. Whether you’re planning to move abroad, start an online business, or reinvent your lifestyle, I’m here to inspire and guide you every step of the way. Subscribe for insights on location freedom, entrepreneurship, and creating a life you love.

For nearly 45 years I’ve been a Presbyterian pastor, serving churches in Wheaton, Illinois, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and (for five years toward the end of my career) Zürich, Switzerland.

I’ve also led mission trips, pilgrimages, and study tours to countries around the world. In recent years, I have embraced the joy and challenge of walking solo along the various Camino paths in Spain and Portugal, pilgrimages that have added depth and insight to my life. In the last few years, I’ve served two churches as an interim pastor—one in Lucerne, Switzerland, and the other in The Hague, Netherlands.

My passion for travel and adventure has informed my eight books, which explore themes of faith, life, and the human experience. My latest book, The Traveler’s Path (scheduled for late March 2025), finds meaning in all of this setting out and going places and meeting people.

I am a writer and editor with over a decade of experience in the nonprofit media world. Currently, I oversee The Progress Network at New America as its Executive Director. I also handled the organization's launch.

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I write the What Could Go Right? newsletter, which reaches 75,000 readers every Thursday morning, and co-host the WCGR? podcast. Both share underreported global progress and approach current affairs from a constructive perspective. My social videos for The Progress Network have been seen millions of times on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.

Raised in a Chinese family in the heart of the Silicon Valley, I was programmed to constantly strive for success and recognition. From winning international art competitions at the age of 5 to co-authoring a #1 bestseller at 24, my need to achieve was my entire identity and drove all my decisions.

By 30, I had already started 7 businesses. I was chasing accolades, excelling at most things I tried, yet I felt disconnected, unsure of my purpose, and eventually burned out.

The combination of a failed startup, poor decisions that finally caught up, toxic relationships, and consequently falling into a depression made me realize that something need to change — me.

I committed to transforming my life. I shifted my focus from external achievements to inner fulfillment, rediscovered my inner voice and passions, and rebuilt my life on my own terms.

Jennifer is a passionate advocate for women’s empowerment, emphasizing the beauty of leadership, motherhood, and entrepreneurship. Throughout every facet of Jennifer Lloyd’s journey, from her triumphant pageantry success to her inspiring mentorship of future leaders, she epitomizes the boundless potential within every woman. As she graces the world’s most prestigious runways or unveils the innate beauty in others through her photography, Jennifer embodies the captivating essence of confidence along with the unwavering bedrock of her faith. Jennifer Lloyd stands as a beacon of hope, an advocate for change, and a symbol of the enduring strength and beauty of the modern woman.

Julie Pham, PhD is a Vietnamese- born, American raised refugee, Cambridge-trained social scientist, an  award-winning community organizer, an Amazon Bestselling author, and TEDx speaker.

The creator, writer and host of her own web series/blog about travel, style and shopping, Ms. World Traveler Kerry Damiano has been to over 130 countries and all 50 states. Her love of all things glamorous, which she weaves into every YouTube episode, stems from her decades long tie to the pageant community.The recipient of the Legacy Award for over 25 years of contribution to the pageant industry, Best Pageant Coach, Best Sponsor, Best Pageant Judge and Best Forever Titleholder at the Global Beauty Awards, she has been involved in pageantry since 1981. In addition to training young women in fashion, runway, interview and public speaking, she freelances as a fashion and jewelry designer, and has a Scripture memorization ministry called “The Amazing Word.”

Marie DeCosse is the Founder & CEO of NOMAD Travel Groups: the home exchange platform designed for everyone. As a first generation Senegalese-American professional who spent her childhood growing up overseas, in Madagascar and Bangladesh, Marie's passion for travel began at a young age. After earning her CPA at the age of 22, and enduring a career in public accounting as an international tax specialist, Marie created NOMAD with the aim to empower a new generation of workers who wish to intertwine their careers with a love of exploration.

Mike Oppenheim has been interested in entertainment since he was a child, but became serious in 2003 when he began his music career with Punchclock & Smirk.

In 2006, he started his weekly philosophy essay, The Casual Casuist and In 2011, he earned an MFA in Fiction from Mills College with his novel Dysfunction. He has since released Baby Doll: The Book (2012), Too True to be Good (2017), The Apology (2021), and Ardor (2023).

Mike also makes short videos: Squawk (2018), YouScience (2020), & Me-Search (2021).

In 2021, Mike and his wife Elana started a metaphysical podcast, Coffin Talk with hundreds of interviews about metaphysics and ethics.

Mike also indexes books, eats avocados, runs a writing workshop, and loves his family.

I didn't know I had a photographer in me until I turned 30 and the unexpected chain of events brought me all the way from Russia to Greece. I had a whole new world to discover, so JPG format and my old point-and-shoot were not bad a way to record this new chapter of my life. Never have I expected though, that what started as a fun hobby would have turned into something more.

Here I am 10 years later loving every step of my journey as a professional photographer. From learning how to tame the light and compose a shot to finding my own style and my own meaning of photography. 

But I guess the best part of it all, that inspires, moves, and fuels me as an artist is being able to meet beautiful souls from all over the world, being able to witness a little fragment of their lives while sharing it with them, becoming a part of this moment and capturing it for them in my pictures!

Neil Laird is an LGBTQIA+, multiple Emmy-nominated director of historical films for Discovery, BBC, PBS, History Channel, National Geographic, and many other networks. He has produced over 100 programs around the globe that feature crumbling Egyptian tombs, lost Mayan cities, and mysterious shipwrecks at the bottom of the sea. But to his continued disappointment, he has yet to stumble upon a time machine to see these places when they were shiny and new. Prime Time Travelers, the first in a series of novels based on his years making antiquity TV, aims to remedy that grave injustice.

Salut. I'm Parimal, a designer, writer and occasional musician living in Berlin.

I also go by Félix. I'm interested in communication, languages, cross-cultural exchange, aviation, computer history, information systems and the European Union.

Scott Allen is a physician, author,  human rights advocate, detention health expert, clinician who treats adults with developmental disabilities, musician, husband, and father.  

At the age of 17, he ran away from home in Connecticut to respond to the refugee crisis on the Cambodian border in Thailand in the aftermath of the Killing Fields.  That work started him on a path that led to his medical education as a physician at Brown University, international work in Southeast Asia, and then community health center work in the National Health Service Corps in Mississippi and Rhode Island.  On return to Brown, he began treating patients in the states jails and prisons, work that eventually led him to collaborate with Physicians for Human Rights on efforts to improve health and human rights of those in detention.

Musician, Service designer, and passionate tech nerd 🤓 🎸🥁🎤🎹🎷

I’m an Irish expat, living just outside Paris with my French husband and three crazy kids. Growing up I was very shy. I felt like I didn’t really fit in. In my teens, I discovered that drinking meant I could step out of my shyness and be like everyone else. I loved languages, and with a sense of adventure, I travelled around, eventually settling in Paris. All along the way, no matter what the culture, the one culture I could always fit in with was the drinking culture!

And when I started doing all the grown-up things - career, mortgage, kids - in a foreign country, where I was never quite sure if I was getting it all right, I drank to relax, to cope with my stress and take the edge off my day.