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For years, Singapore with its many opportunities has attracted a large expat population. Some test it out for a few years and then move on, others sink in their roots and immerse themselves in the vibrant mix of local culture. "Dear Ms Expat" is a collection of 10 real-life stories from women who have made tropical Singapore their home. They each left their comfort zone in search of adventure, following a partner or in pursuit of a bright new career for themselves. The tales are as diverse as the women's backgrounds, with childhood spent either on rolling Australian farms, amidst Swiss mountains, or in small-town America. These women have reinvented themselves to become entrepreneurs, photographers, advocates, writers and leaders. Transplanted to a new environment, they worked hard to better themselves-whether it is for personal fulfilment, for their families, for the expat community, or for womankind at large. This book seeks to inspire and motivate by highlighting the sheer grit, spirit and determination of all the women featured.

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Publié par	Marshall Cavendish International
Date de parution	04 mai 2017
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9789814779449
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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DEAR MS EXPAT

2017 Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Private Limited, Sushmita Mohapatra and SavithaVenugopal
Published by Marshall Cavendish Editions
An imprint of Marshall Cavendish International

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National Library Board, Singapore Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Name(s): Mohapatra, Sushmita. | Venugopal, Savitha.
Title: Dear Ms Expat : inspiring tales from women who built new lives in a new land / Sushmita Mohapatra, Savitha Venugopal.
Other title(s): Inspiring tales from women who built new lives in a new land
Description: Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2017
Identifier(s): OCN 981258434 | eISBN 978 981 4779 44 9
Subject(s): LCSH: Wives--Effect of husband s employment on--Singapore Anecdotes. | Resilience (Personality trait)--Anecdotes. | Creative ability Anecdotes. | Aliens--Singapore--Anecdotes.
Classification: DDC 305.90691095957--dc23
Printed in Singapore by Markono Print Media Pte Ltd
To the strength that pushes prams
To the grit that wins boardroom battles
To the conviction that shatters glass ceilings
To the effort that breaks stereotypes
CONTENTS
Foreword
Introduction
MOUNA AOURI LANGENDORF
Winning in a Man s World
CAROLYN SOEMARJONO
Life across High Mountains and Messy Valleys
DANIELLE WARNER
The Unexpected Entrepreneur
ANGELINA GRASS-OGUMA
Scripting Success on Her Own Terms
ANDREA MCKENNA
Rising from the Ashes
MICHAELA ANCHAN
Creativity Needs Space
DIPASHREE DAS
Master of Her Fate, Captain of Her Soul
MANALE GANIERE
Rebirth in More Ways Than One
VICTORIA MINTEY
When the Actor Takes the Stage
CHRISTINE EDWARDS
The Business of Knowing Singapore
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
Foreword
Too often when the words expatriate and woman are used in the same sentence, a very specific caricature is invoked. This prosaic parody shows expatriate women as primarily concerned with leisure and lunching, and completely undermines the capabilities, passions and pursuits of the majority of women living overseas. Possibly the only reason such a dated perspective still exists is that it reflects the limitations society once put upon women, rather than the limitations of the women themselves.
As someone who has lived overseas for nearly 30 years, through many iterations of my own life-including breadwinner, wife, mother, entrepreneur, author and now financial educator and mentor-one thing that never fails to impress me is the resourcefulness of women.
I have known women from all walks of life and from all corners of the earth who have created businesses and charities, and launched artistic and educational projects. These endeavours often create jobs and opportunities for other women, and greatly benefit their newly adopted home countries. And unbeknownst to most, these ventures are often started with only a handful of other passionate people and, more often than not, on shoestring budgets.
This book profiles ten expatriate women and celebrates the lives and work they have created overseas. It is also a celebration of a country like Singapore that allows these types of opportunities to flourish for its expatriate community. Dear Ms Expat is an important resource because it reveals the challenges and difficulties of life on the road , and yet it also inspires us, because even under the most challenging circumstances, it shows how anyone can recreate their lives in any location. It is a welcome addition to a wide body of writing done by expatriate women, and should be used as a guiding light for new expatriates or for those who want to create more meaningful experiences overseas.
Andrea Kennedy
Founder and Educator in Chief Wiser Wealth
Introduction
Dear Ms Expat,
Packing your life into boxes and moving to a new country is never easy. Exciting, yes. Scary, a bit. A new culture, alien languages, unfamiliar flavours and unknown roads await you. A whole new world of opportunities, apprehensions, possibilities, questions-all fused into one big adventure.
Whether you are standing hesitantly at the brink of this new chapter of your life, or you have already jumped in headlong, we welcome you to the experience. It is sure to transform you as a person. You may draw your identity from your career, from your life as a homemaker or from being a citizen of a country-regardless, everything will be viewed through new lenses.
And we suggest you get the shade just right!
What may seem overwhelming initially will finally settle down to become life s routine. Or it may not. And that is where the excitement of uncertainty lies.
In the end, it is neither as easy nor as glorified as it looks. There are chaotic days, when you question whether anything makes any sense. It could be about leaving behind that cute vintage bookcase you found in a nondescript store, or it could be a complete existential crisis.
There will be weeks of self-doubt coupled with a need to hunt for familiar things (coffee, ice cream, cookies, mum s homemade muffins). Some months will sweep past, enveloping you in a spirit of hope and promise. But through this journey, there is comfort in knowing that trying circumstances beget inspiring stories.
This book tells you the success stories of ten inspiring women who chose to aspire to great heights, challenge the norm and reinvent themselves with astounding success. Hailing from different countries, their journeys are as diverse as they are similar.
The Diversity
These women have grown up on large farms in small Australian towns, the countryside in the U.S., in the comfort of warm homes in Austria or Switzerland, or in the hilly terrains of India. They have been brought up by single mums or authoritative fathers, in large families or small. In their homes, you will hear different languages- Japanese, German, English, Bengali, Lebanese and many more. They wear their battle scars well, and of that there are many-failed marriages, life-changing illnesses, or runaway teenage years.
The Similarity
As different as their journeys may have been, what binds these women together is their resilience-along with their determination to get things done, despite present or future uncertainties. They went on to set up companies, achieve unprecedented career success or create ecosystems for other women to succeed.
Our Story and Their Stories
We set up home in Singapore a few years ago, leaving behind well-thought-out career and life decisions, closeknit families, a bunch of friends and regular coffee haunts. We went through a gamut of emotions-hope one morning, despair on another. We wanted to quickly find comfort in routine while still being exploratory in spirit. We created holiday bucket lists. (You are probably nodding your head along, because you have tread these same paths.)
While making new friends (and meeting up with long lost ones), we were introduced to women who were going through similar struggles of finding new purpose, yet there were others who seemed to have aced it right away. We were intrigued. How do you set out on your own in a place so unfamiliar? Or how do you even begin scaling the ladders of corporate success when languages and cultures keep you wondering about your next move? That was when we started documenting these stories.
The experience has been enriching. Exhilarating too! The strength, the fortitude, the refreshing acceptance of self-doubts, questions and fears. We learnt, grew and looked forward to hearing their stories.
Life is right now, right here. There is no more waiting for the perfect combination of time and opportunity. If this book gives you the motivation to explore your potential, our work here is done. If it gives you the comfort of knowing that there are ways of getting past almost any obstacle, then our work is done too.
Come, meet these wonderful women with us.
Love,
Sushmita and Savitha
Mouna Aouri Langendorf
Tunisia
Founder, Woomentum
Winning in a Man s World
Tunisia, January 2011. Violence had erupted across the country after the self-immolation of a young boy, setting in motion the Arab Spring.
In a house on a quiet hillside, a young mother cradled her three-day-old baby, keeping away from the low French windows that overlooked the streets, listening warily to gunshots outside. The neighbourhood watch had cordoned off the house to keep the family safe.
The woman, a civil engineer entrepreneur, was also worried about her clients who were working with the government on large deals-a government that was now defunct with an absconding dictator, following a rather bloody coup d tat .
It changed the world as we knew it and it t