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Boomeranging: Expat to Repat
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A podcast that explores the question: What could be so hard about returning home after years living overseas?In each episode, Margot Andersen sits down with a former Aussie expat to discuss how they survived repatriation and reverse culture shock. How they navigated the logistics of career, friends and family to successfully find their new place at home... and all without losing their global spirit!
Episodes
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S6 Ep8: Kerryn Colen
When Kerryn Colen and her family repatriated back to Australia from Canada after 11 years overseas during COVID, hotel quarantine was a silver lining. A silver lining that turned into a silver bullet to getting all the repatriation admin done in two short weeks. Kids enrolled in school, check.…
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S6 Ep7: Adam Ford
Adam Ford describes his approach to the job market after coming home as ‘pretty proactive because I knew it was going to be pretty difficult’. Adam was coming home to Australia with a North American finance career but what he really wanted was a role in the for-purpose sector. To achieve this, he...
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S6 Ep 6: Udo Doring
Udo Doring’s ‘normal’ adult life is not ‘normal’ for most Australians, but ‘normal’ for a person who grew up as a third culture kid with parents raising children in Indonesia, Vietnam, Hong Kong and mainland China. Which makes him a perfectly “normal” pick for CEO of the Advisory Board Centre, an...
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S6 Ep5: Jason Whiley
Many of my guests leave for overseas for a job opportunity…but few come home for one. Jason Whiley is one of the lucky few who after 18 years overseas, didn’t just come home with a job with global Security Tech company Giesecke+Devrient – but he came back with a newly created APAC role, which he...
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S6 Ep4: Bec Macdougall
When Bec Macdougall returned to Australia after nine years in London, she never imagined her journey would lead to a rural life in regional Victoria. Her time in London unlocked a passion for brand curation, where she took on a series of formative roles with the likes of Elle Macpherson’s…
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S6 Ep3: Andrea Barton
The stories of accompanying expats, often go untold. With a focus on careers as the primary driver for relocation, it is important to remember the families of those that transition. When Andrea Barton's husband was offered a relocation to Lagos, Nigeria, Andrea was forced to think about her…
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S6 Ep2: Adam Malouf
With a 25-year career bridging the worlds between Australia and the Middle East, Adam Malouf is now forging a new path, in a new sector and creating a new, albeit familiar life for him and his family. The possibility of unchartered opportunity first attracted Adam to Dubai in 2004, long before…
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S6 Ep1: Chelsea Guy
When Chelsea Guy came back from Tokyo, and the work experience of the lifetime, she found she had still a pay cheque but didn’t have a role. Chelsea had worked her way through various marketing roles at Toyota when there was an opportunity to put her hand up for a coveted secondment. Her…
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S5 Ep8: Angella Clarke-Jervoise
When Angella left Australia at aged 29, she knew she would be gone longer than two years. With expat parents and grandparents, a life overseas was always on the cards. But she didn’t know it would be 22 years. Or that her time overseas would include 13 years in Bahrain. Or that when she…
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S5 Ep7: Leonora Roccisano
Leonora was extremely excited when she landed in Hong Kong. A dynamic, exciting and unique place with family connections it had the potential to be her forever home. But in 2021 Covid made Leonora feel uncomfortably isolated from family and confirmed for her that Australia was where she wanted to...
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S5 Ep6: James Bingham
When James Bingham the IT Project Manager left for London in 2014, little did he know that he would come back to Australia almost 8 years later with a new career in an industry that to this day, you can’t do a degree or course in. Yet in a post COVID world, is now one of the most talked about...
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S5 Ep5: Mark Lindley
Mark Lindley left Australia for a life overseas with no job and returned 12 years later in the same situation. But in both scenarios – he had a grand plan underpinned by dreams to choose where he wanted to live and let the career follow. And it worked out for Mark – both in Dubai and today in the...
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S5 Ep4: Damien Otto
How does an Adelaidean who considers himself not a ‘big city person’ with no real aspiration to live overseas, end up loving life in Ho Chi Minh City? The is Damien Otto’s story after a generous leader at Commonwealth Bank connected him with career opportunities overseas which eventually saw the...
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S5 Ep3: Jacinta Reddan
If you are a future repat thinking life back in Australia might be too slow, then you might fall off your chair during this podcast when you hear that Jacinta Reddan, the former CEO of AusCham in Hong Kong thinks her professional life is just as fast-paced in Cairns! Which is good for Jacinta…
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S5 Ep2: Brett Cooper
After 21 years with the one employer and a life across multiple countries in Europe and Asia, it is somewhat ironic that Brett Cooper has now ended up in one country with multiple employers. Such is the adventure of an expat-repat! Brett’s career with Phillip Morris started in Sydney and took him...
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S5 Ep1: Andrew Tiernan
It took three attempts and a career 180 for Andrew Tiernan to move home to Australia after 18 years overseas but despite the bumpy role to get to Melbourne he says he is now ‘in the right place’. He has gone from a career working in financial services across Asia and Canada to the CEO of his own...
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S4 Ep8: Survey Insights: Do I Stay or Do I Go?
In this special podcast episode Margot and Simone chat about the findings of their recent Australian Expat Career Survey and the release of the report ‘Should I stay or should or I go?’ that explored the role work and job plays in an Expat’s decision to come home. With 450 Australians answering…
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S4 Ep7: Liz Ritchie
‘Forget Sydney and Melbourne and you’ll be happier’, is the message from podcast guest Liz Ritchie, CEO of the Regional Australia Institute, for expats living overseas and thinking about moving home. The Institute is an independent thinktank and Australia’s pre-eminent source of research,...
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S4 Ep6: LJ Ferrara
If you were an Aussie living overseas who managed to navigate your way home during COVID, chances are you are very familiar with the Aussie Expats Coming Home Facebook page and its founder LJ Ferrara. What started as a group to help LJ navigate her own journey home in 2018 after 20 years…
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S4 Ep5: Deborah De Cerff
Deborah de Cerff’s career is supporting the careers of expats. For the last 30 years, she has helped individuals and organisations move lives and careers across the world and back again. She is now Founder and Chair of The Employee Mobility Institute advocating, promoting and growing the talent...
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S4 Ep4: Louise Broekman
Senior Australian expats with global experience are highly sought after for positions on Advisory Boards according to Lousie Broekman, founder and CEO of the Advisory Board Centre. Louise founded the Centre 10 years ago and has grown the Centre to be one of the leading professional bodies for the...
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S4 Ep3: Julia Van Graas
Has the new era of flexible and hybrid working opened up new opportunities for C-suite expats looking to return home? Co-founder and Chief People Office of Leaders on Demand Julia Van Graas certainly thinks so. Julia leads a team of experienced, hands on c-suite executives who deliver on-demand...
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S4 Ep2: John Versace
Career, lifestyle and financial goals are all linked and so is the planning. John Versace is a financial planner at Apt Wealth and leads their expat practice. For the last six years he has talked to Australian expats every day in all corners of the globe, expats carving out careers in tech…
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S4 Ep1: Johanna Pitman
While the headline of a ‘skills shortage’ appears to be welcome news for any Australian expat planning to come home and find a new role, CEO of Advance.org Joanna Pitman warns it may not be the silver bullet expat think it is. Johanna speaks from her experience not only as CEO of the professional...
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S3 Ep7: Jan Lynch
Working overseas in much bigger countries and markets for many expats advances their career, however as Jan Lynch discovered when she came home to Melbourne, sometimes this overseas experience can advance yourself out of a career. This was what happened to Jan when she brought her e-commerce…
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S3 Ep6: Wage Reis
Data and tech. It is hard to find a skill and an industry in higher demand right now. So when Wage Reis came home in March 2020 after two years working for Facebook in London working with the world’s largest advertising agencies she too was confident that having this juggernaut brand on her CV...
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S3 Ep5: Claire Pales
For Cyber Security expert Claire Pales, starting her own business was always on her ‘career to-do list’ but it came about sooner than she expected. She certainly wasn’t planning for it to be right after returning from four years in Hong Kong with two young children in tow. However, some difficult...
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S3 Ep4: Kate Hewish
Kate’s husband had been buying her books on gardening for years. But as a marketer in financial services for over 10 years in the UK, planting was always a passion pursuit for Kate not a professional one. Coming home and settling in Brisbane, Kate thought she would continue her career in…
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S3 Ep3: Scott Cooper
New York, New York…If you can make it here, they say you can make it anywhere. And Scott Cooper is living proof. Scott initially went to New York following his partner and her career. He didn’t have a job or people he knew and to make his situation even more challenging, this expat thought his…
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S3 Ep2: Trena Blair
Trena Blair will be the first to admit, she didn’t want to come home from New York. In her two and half years in the city that never sleeps, she had met all three of her New York goals – to volunteer at the Met, to study at NYU and to secure a role. And she was happy. Very happy. But a career...
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S3 Ep1: Chris Edwards
People often do extreme things to avoid Sydney house prices but none more extreme than Chris Edwards and her husband. Fifteen years ago when staring down an exorbitant quote to renovate their tiny, inner city cottage – they decided to take an easier option. Move to Singapore. On their own coin…
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S2 Ep9: Season Wrap - The Covid Series
A special episode dedicated to all the COVID expat-repats – those Aussies who came home in the pandemic either as a direct result, a planned moved or in some cases just because they were passing through Australia when it all hit. Podcast producers Margot Andersen and Simone Pregellio share the...
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S2 Ep8: Prue Clarke
It was the Aussie sense of adventure that took journalist Prue Clarke to New York in 2000, it was the American dream that kept her there for 19 years. Like most expats, Prue’s story started with a plan to be away for ‘just a year’. But when her ‘just a year’ included studying at the prestigious...
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S2 Ep7: Andrew Whitford
Kissed on the backside by a fairy, is how expat Andy Whitford has described his luck being relocated back to Australia with an Asia Pacific role during COVID. After 15 years in Shanghai and Hong Kong and a previous expat life of six years in London, Andy was aware of how hard it could be to…
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S2 Ep6: Michael Ellis
“I wish I knew how it would be to be free.” Nina Simone This was the song that Michael Ellis used to describe his year of lockdown in the UK and his decision (and subsequent adventure) to get back home after 19 years living in London. In February, when UK COVID deaths were at over 1,800 a day,...
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S2 Ep5: Sarah Ntiamoah
For Change Manager Sarah , coming home from ten years in London was a change she thought she could handle. Like any project, she planned ahead. She started thinking and planning two years in advance, secured a job and didn’t lose so much as a sock during the relocation thanks to her expertise in...
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S2 Ep4: Nicole Webb
Nicole had a great career in Australia as a well-regarded journalist and newsreader with Sky News when her hotelier husband James was offered a new role, first in Hong Kong and then in the ancient Chinese city of Xi’an. For Nicole, the initial transition was challenging – her whole professional...
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S2 Ep3: Michael Waite
Michael Waite, his wife Whitney and three kids were on an 18-month global adventure, popping back to Australia for the Southern Hemisphere summer to visit family when COVID and family tragedy struck. With travel grounded, the former Seattle-based family had to put away their backpacks and…
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S2 Ep2: Bridget John
For six years prior to annus horribilis, Bridget John had been living a globally nomadic life between home bases in France, Morocco and Australia. She balanced work as a freelance brand consultant with building her vintage Moroccan textiles business all from the road. It was a lifestyle she had...
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S2 Ep1: Shane Masters
Over the last few years, Shane Masters has tried three times to come home. Past attempts have been thwarted by a lack of job opportunities which matched his background and experience. When he first left home for overseas after university, it was easier to get a job as a lawyer in London than it…
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Bonus Episode: Margot Andersen
Turning the mic on Insync Network Group founder Margot Andersen to hear her expat tale and motivation for setting up the network and podcast.
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S1 Ep6: Ben Deguara
Rugby boots and guitars – these are Ben Deguara’s secret weapons for integrating into a new life overseas. And he should know – he has done it twice already at opposite ends of the world. Ben is our series first “double boomeranger”. His first expat journey was to London for four years, starting…
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S1 Ep5: Glen Falting
Some people collect snow domes from countries they visit, Glen and his wife collected children. Their stints as an expat couple in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore all symbolically marked with the birth of kids – and doubly celebrated in Hong Kong with the arrival of twins. When they arrived in...
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S1 Ep4: Mandy Mirghashini
For Mandy, the decision to move to the Hague with her family was a case of taking an opportunity to walk in the shoes of the people she had spent her career advising. As a HR professional in global mobility for Shell, there was no better way to understand the experience of the expat and then…
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S1 Ep3: Jan McGrath
Jan told friends she was going to Hong Kong for a two-year adventure. Lucky no one held her mail, because she returned 18 years later via a life and career detour to the UK and the US. The initial lure overseas was the chance to launch HSBC’s world first chip-based technology for payments cards....
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S1 Ep2: Jane Hollman
Jane had a coveted job as the Head of HR for the AFL when she decided to pack it all in to go to New York with nothing but a suitcase, a three-month tourist visa and a pair of itchy feet. Arriving during the GFC, her skills in HR and leadership were in hot demand, but for all the wrong reasons.…
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S1 Ep1: Bryce Corbett
Bryce was at the end of a two-year working visa in the UK working for SkyNews when he decided he wasn’t quite ready to come home. He was working for the entertainment desk and one day when habitually swapping his copy of “Heat” magazine for the finance desk’s copy of the “Economist” he stumbled…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A podcast that explores the question: What could be so hard about returning home after years living overseas?In each episode, Margot Andersen sits down with a former Aussie expat to discuss how they survived repatriation and reverse culture shock. How they navigated the logistics of career, friends and family to successfully find their new place at home... and all without losing their global spirit!
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A podcast that explores the question: What could be so hard about returning home after years living overseas?In each episode, Margot Andersen sits down with a former Aussie expat to discuss how they survived repatriation and reverse culture shock. How they navigated the logistics of career, friends...
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