Expat Repatriation Reality - Reposting
The Plot Twist Nobody Warns You About! In this insightful conversation, Angie Weinberger returns to Nomadic Diaries to explore the complex emotions and practical challenges faced by expats and global citizens, especially around repatriation and defining "home." Angie, based in Zurich, shares her expertise on supporting expats and expat partners with global mobility. Key Topics Covered Maintaining International Connections: Angie and the host discuss the challenges of keeping deep global frien...
The Plot Twist Nobody Warns You About!
In this insightful conversation, Angie Weinberger returns to Nomadic Diaries to explore the complex emotions and practical challenges faced by expats and global citizens, especially around repatriation and defining "home." Angie, based in Zurich, shares her expertise on supporting expats and expat partners with global mobility.
Key Topics Covered
- Maintaining International Connections:
Angie and the host discuss the challenges of keeping deep global friendships alive, especially when returning "home." Practical tips like celebrating milestones and joining digital communities (e.g., Facebook groups, associations) are shared, along with the realities of how relationships may change over time. - Defining "Home":
Home is explored as both a physical place and an internal state of security and comfort. The guests reflect on how the concept evolves with experience and how global citizens can find their sense of home wherever they are. - Re-entry & Psychological Adjustment:
The episode dives into the emotional stages of re-entry, highlighting the "honeymoon," "negotiation," "adjustment," and "acceptance" phases (drawing from the Kubler-Ross grief model). Angie emphasizes that each repatriation journey is unique, and that support systems like coaching and therapy can be crucial during the process. - Invisible Grief:
Tanya brings up the "invisible grief" many experience when settling back into their home country, where others often can't understand the loss of international connections and lifestyle. - Leveraging Overseas Experiences:
to use their intercultural competencies after returning home—such as mentoring younger professionals, volunteering, or building international business networks. - Benefits of Working with a Global Mobility Coach:
Angie explains how her clients receive tailored support, ranging from technical advice on assignments to emotional coaching for family transitions. She highlights the value of long-term intentional coaching partnerships.
Notable Quotes
You’re able to build relationships beyond stereotypes, beyond the polarization, beyond the canceling…and you’re generally a bridge builder.” Angie Weinberger
Resources & Ways to Connect
- Angie Weinberger:
- Website: globalpeopletransitions.com
- Email: angie@globalpeopletransitions.com
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Angie Weinberger
The Global Mobility Coach
Angie Weinberger, the Global Mobility Coach
Angie Weinberger is on a mission to bring the “Human Touch” back into Global Mobility. As the Global Mobility Coach (@GlobalMobilityCoach), she combines executive coaching, her expertise, and workshop facilitation skills into programs for Global People. She has lived and worked in Germany, Switzerland, the UK, India, and Australia.
After graduating in “International Business Studies” from the University of Paderborn in 1997, Angie worked in International Human Resources. She specialized in Global Mobility during her corporate career at a large global bank. One of the Big Four Professional Services Firms in Germany hired her to lead Global Mobility. She moved to Switzerland with the same company in 2009. In 2012, she launched her company, Global People Transitions, to help Expats and Expat Partners enhance their Expat Experience. She also consults small and medium-sized businesses on Global Mobility Transformation and helps them strengthen the Global Mobility Manager.
Angie Weinberger wrote several workbooks, among them The Global Rockstar Album - 21 Verses to Find Your Tact as an Inclusive Leader (2023), The Global Mobility Workbook, Third Edition (2019), and The Global Career Workbook (2016). Together with her programmer, Usama Hafeez, she is developing a web application for online coaching, RockMeApp. Angie Weinberger also lectures at universities. She is a certified Executive Coach (with over 1000 coaching hours), group workshop facilitator, intercultural trainer, and systemic consultant. As a certified Intercultu…
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