I’ve lived 30yrs as an expatriate, from Monaco to Burma, life experience is what I talk about
I‘m ‘The Ex-pat coach’. Having lived for over 30 years as an expatriate never more than 5 years in one place until now, in Burma. I have travelled to most parts of the world worked in business, and government, with the rich and famous in Monaco and the Burmese who have experienced 2 generations under military rule.
My experiences of working and socialising with the local populations and other expatriates are something I’d never have believed possible growing up in rural New Zealand. It is a life of extremes, a foreign land, sometimes with little security, struggling to communicate. But enjoying total new world view, experiencing new and different foods, people and cultures. It can be exhausting, exciting and lonely all before breakfast.
I talk on history and tourism how this effects local cultures. Tourism in 3rd world countries brings money and jobs, the real results are hidden coming to light when everyone goes home (or we have a pandemic). What can you do?
I talk on self-development having experienced cultures from isolated PNG islanders, to some of the richest people in the world, I’ve seen that money and happiness are seldom content partners. Self-development is about the self it has little to do with finance or status, and more on world view. How can you evolve with Spiral Dynamics?
