Naomi Hattaway: Life as a Triangle
August 16, 2017 | Podcast, with kids
After several years abroad, Naomi and her family moved back to the States, where she wasn’t at all prepared for the challenges of repatriation. Learning about the idea that her experience had shaped her into a “triangle” helped her make sense of it all, and it led Naomi to create what is now a thriving community of people living global lives. Tune in as we talk about what it means to be a triangle, differing experiences of being an expat (and why she’d like to remove that word from our vocabulary completely), creating a location-independent real estate business, and so much more.
In this episode
- Setting up a location-independent real estate business
- What it means to be a “triangle”
- The problem with (and privilege of) the word “expat”
- Why a sense of belonging is important (and how to find it)
- How to handle the challenges of repatriation
- And so much more
Resources we talked about
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- Burmese Days by George Orwell
- Guardian article about “immigrant” vs “expat”
- Families in Global Transition conference
- Article about belonging
- Article about nomadic communities
- Remote Year
- This Is Where You Belong by Melody Warnick
- Re-Entry Relaunch Road Map by Cate Brubaker
- Mighty Networks*
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