How Brilliant Women Can Stop Being Modest and Start Getting Promoted
Last month, my client Anna came to me frustrated and confused. She had just watched her male coworker get promoted despite doing less work than her and delivering fewer results. "I don't understand," she told me. "I led three major projects this year. He barely...
A New Year: How to Improve Work-Life Balance for Sustainable Success?
The new year offers more than a fresh calendar—it’s your chance to redefine priorities and craft a harmonious balance between career and personal life. Many professionals aim for better work-life integration, yet ambitious New Year’s resolutions often fade. Learn how...
Find The Right Cultural Fit
Finding a new job that’s right for you is a complex and time-consuming exercise. It’s not just about finding a role that suits your skills and abilities, it’s also about ensuring that you will fit in with the organisation’s culture: your job satisfaction and long-term...
Do You Feel Like You’ve Lost Yourself During Your Move Abroad? Here’s How You Rebuild Your Identity
Moving abroad is one of the most exciting adventures of your life It's a unique opportunity to see the world from a new perspective and experience what most people only dream of. From the outside looking in, it's easy to believe "expats have it all'. It's difficult to...
How To Make A Big Life Decision With Crystal Clear Clarity
Do you get paralysed with fear when you have to make a huge life decision? Making a decision can cause intense anxiety. The choices we make can move us forward towards the life we want to live. They can also keep us stuck and leave us with a feeling of stagnation. ...
Spotlight On Workplace Nutrition
Optimize your workday with these healthy eating tips! In the hustle and bustle of a busy workday, it’s easy to prioritize convenience over nutrition. However, making mindful choices about what you eat can greatly enhance your productivity, energy levels, and overall...
Navigating Job Hopping: Strategies to Overcome Challenges and Maximize Career Growth
In the past, it was the norm to spend your entire career at one company. However, the landscape has changed. Work dynamics, along with the evolving needs of companies and employees, have given rise to job hopping. But how often can you change jobs before being called...
How To Handle Painful Rejection and Make It Work For Your Future Success
Rejection hurts. But it's also unavoidable. Everyone, no matter how successful, will experience rejection. This happens in both our private and professional lives. Rejection can take many forms. It can be in a romantic relationship, friendship or a job search. But it...
Yoga For Perfectionists
I am a long-time yoga practitioner and teacher. I am also a perfectionist. At first glance, these two parts of myself collide and contradict one another. On one side, yogis are supposed to be OK with what is and let things be as they are without any attachment to the...
Mind-Body Techniques For Dealing With Stress
In acknowledgement of how stressful it can be to lead a highly mobile expat life, Expat Nest founder Vivian Chiona invited Ioulia Maimari, a clinical psychologist and cognitive behavioural therapist (MSc), to take a look at a few mind-body techniques to help us manage...
Is A Work-Life Balance An Impossible Dream?
5 tips on how you can make it work. Are you trying to achieve a work-life balance, but the attempt is stressing you out? Somehow you can't get it right, despite constantly working harder to achieve this equilibrium between personal time and work. This constant juggle...
9 Deceiving Fears Holding You Back In Your Career And How To Overcome Them
Fear is a warning signal and a way for you to protect yourself. It's a completely normal and human reaction. We all get afraid for various reasons. Fear is a powerful feeling, but it’s only when you let it take over that it can become a problem, both in your career...
Yes! It’s Possible To Change Careers When You’re 45+. This Is How.
In today's job market, we no longer expect to have a job for life in the same way our parents did. Employers now see regular job changes on a CV as something positive. It shows that you are brave to change jobs and have a willingness to learn. The way we work has...
From A Life That Unexpectedly Fell Apart To Creating Her Perfect Life
How Marie helped Arlette create a career and lifestyle she loves - in only a few months! About Arlette Arlette is in her mid-30s. She works in the Netherlands as a Marketing Manager and is originally from France. How Arlette's idea of her dream life suddenly fell...
How To Handle Stress At Work
Work-related stress can get the best of us all. Feeling some tension is normal, especially if you’re facing a deadline or a challenging assignment. But when work stress becomes chronic, it can end up affecting both your physical and emotional well-being. During this...
9 Tips To Quickly Get Started Saying “No” Without Feeling Guilty
Do you always say "yes" to requests and want to help everyone? Then you probably already know that you're a so-called "pleaser". Being kind and helping others is not a bad thing. But like being a perfectionist, it can harm both your career, health and relationships if...
How To Move From The Pleaser Trap To Setting Clear Boundaries
Saying “no” to a request isn’t always easy. If it was, so many people wouldn’t have a problem saying it. Those with this particular difficulty are often called “pleasers”. If you’re a pleaser, you probably already know it. You want to help others and don’t want to let...
There’s Nothing Wrong With Being A Perfectionist – If You Do It Right
There are many articles about how perfectionism is a negative character trait and how bad it is for you. And it’s true. Perfectionism taken too far can harm you and sabotage your life. But there is now also more talk about the positive aspects of perfectionism. ...
How To Actually Achieve Your Goals With Ease
With the end of a year and the beginning of another one, many of us set new goals for ourselves. But we also know that 90% of people who set themselves a New Year’s resolution fail. Existing routines, habits and commitments are difficult to break. Life also gets in...
Improve Your Time Management Skills and Feel On Top of Things
Now, more than ever, our work and life are intertwined. Because of the pandemic, many of us are working from home. This will most likely continue in some form, even when the pandemic is over. On top of this, there are especially demanding periods of the year, like...
7 Strategic Tips To Transition From Employee To Solopreneur
It's magic. Your professional life can take you to places. It can require you to use your skills in many different ways. It can trigger you to accept a variety of assignments. It can give you the chance to manage a team. It can also inspire you to start working for...
Standing Still Or Moving Forward In Your Career During Covid?
All around the world, we’ve seen how the Covid crisis has turned our lives upside down. Never before have we had to adapt to a world that is undergoing such a significant change in such a short time span. This pandemic has had an impact at different levels of our...
Relaunching Your Career After A Career Break
Re-entering the job market after a professional break due to parental leave, burn-out, returning to your ‘home country’ or relocating abroad can be rather overwhelming, as plenty of questions start popping up in your head, combined with a lack of self-confidence, and...
Job Interviews In A New World: 5 Tips To Get An Edge
With the start of the school year, you may have had a desire for change. If the summer period gave you ideas for a new job, this article is for you. Within this economic and social context disrupted by Covid, is the start of a new era where constantly shifting from...
Top 10 Reasons Why Identifying Your Career Values Is Essential
You know what it feels like, I am sure, when something feels so right and so natural to you. Conversely, I’m also sure you have already experienced the opposite: when you felt upset or even angry to have to please someone else or to have to work toward another agenda....
6 Excuses For Not Getting A Headshot
Just like when you go to a job interview, the first impression you give a professional connection or a recruiter on LinkedIn matters. Your photo is an important part of your profile along with your employment history, testimonials, and other qualifications. Reasons...
My 5 Steps For Managing Fear And Anxiety
I am happy to share the unique perspective that Rawia Liverpool gave to COVID, using it as an acronym. Instead of only thinking of the devastation the virus has brought us, it is also important to recognise how it may have helped us grow and learn. Are you feeling...
Where Do You Stand With Your Career Spring Clean?
I don’t know about you, but the Spring season is the perfect time to tidy things up. It energises me. Is that the case for you? Home Spring Clean I get rid of things I don’t use any more and give it to people. I keep what I like and what remains meaningful to me. I...
What’s The Right Move When You Relocate Abroad?
Expat partners must be realistic about looking to enter the local job market on arrival in a new country. Even when there are opportunities, one expert advises taking a patient approach.
Personal Branding In The Workplace
Personal branding...it sounds like something that the PR professionals of celebrities and politicians have to deal with. I have to admit when I first heard about the concept myself, I didn’t really see it as a concept even vaguely applicable to me. Well, this was...
How Understanding Your Values Can Be Your Personal Compass
Live Your Best Life: How understanding your values can be your compass Picture this scene: It is seven o’clock in the evening and your children’s homework has been completed. Your children have all been bathed and the concerns of the office have been resolved. Better...
Developing A Flexible Career
When I think about the word flexible, I immediately think of yogis, rubber bands and my career. Traditionally, we viewed a career as linear. This, however, has changed as most of us will enjoy two or more career paths in our lifetime. The ‘zigzag career’ is becoming a...
How My Life On The Move Has Helped Me Reinvent Myself
Marie’s Expat Journey My life as an “expat wife” started more than 20 years ago. Newlywed, we left our home country Belgium for a first posting in The Netherlands, where we stayed for 18 months. Having just graduated in Art History in Belgium, I found a part-time job...