Do you dream about moving abroad and changing careers? I invited three career changers to share what they learned about How to Change Careers as an Expat. Watch the video below to discover how they overcame their fears and embraced whole new lives.
This is the first of Repurpose Your Purpose's How to Change Careers series of live events. Watch more recordings.
Meet Sharolyn Wynter, who moved from the US to Portugal; Maryella Marie, who left California for Argentina; and Alessandra Marinetti, who moved from Italy to the US - twice!
And if you are new to my work, you might not know that I also moved from Italy to the US - when I was 19 years old.
We talked about:
- How they chose where to move to (or how they ended up there!)
- Getting in action vs. overthinking
- How to embrace doing work you love - even in a new country
- How to deal with fear and uncertainty
- The challenges of being an Expat
- How to be an Expat: why getting the right documents and paying taxes in your new country matter
- Paying off debt while living abroad
- ... and more!
Continue your journey:
- Join the Group Program to Change Careers - Repurpose Your Purpose's unique group coaching program designed for those who want to do work they love...but are not sure what that is yet.
- Join Sharolyn Wynter's The Xpat App and Xpat Chats
- And Maryella Marie, creative director of The Positive Force Team, is offering a network discount to all Repurpose Your Purpose folx.
- Sign up for the newsletter at ThePositiveForceTeam.org
- Add the promo code PositivePurpose2021 here
How to Change Careers as an Expat: about the Panelists
SHAROLYN WYNTER is a social entrepreneur who promotes holistic wellbeing, personal development, and community empowerment. She is the founder and CEO of Xpat, Inc. and creator of The Xpat App, which is noted as the first and only app designed uniquely for the Black expat community. Her platform focuses on enhancing the living abroad experience for the Black expat community through knowledge sharing, community building, and capturing the richness and diversity of the Black experience abroad. She is also an advocate for youth empowerment and STEM education which she supports through her service on the Board of Directors for Raising Expectations youth development program.
Prior to taking the leap of faith to build the lifestyle of her dreams as a social entrepreneur, Sharolyn worked for 10+ years at Deloitte Consulting in their technology practice and also served as the Director of Strategic Partnerships for Girls LOVE Travel, a community of 1.1 million female travelers. She credits the untimely passing of her father as the turning point that led to her drastic lifestyle and career change. Sharolyn currently resides in Lisbon, Portugal where she spends her leisure time scrapbooking, traveling, and investing in passion projects.
ALESSANDRA MARINETTI is the Sr. Director of Customer Education and Certification at Box. Her work is all about learning, transformation, connection, and being a global citizen.
Originally from Italy, she started her career as a university educator, helping students learn German and Italian. She went through her first professional transformation when she moved from academia to a brilliant eLearning start-up in San Francisco, California, where she helped customers make sense of technology-enabled learning and where she met some of the most passionate and driven learning professionals of her career.
Alessandra pursued her second transformation by moving to Geneva to work for the United Nations to build a learning function and learning programs from the ground up. While in Europe, she continued her international adventure going back to the private sector, where she led international teams focusing on HR Business Transformation projects. Her intercultural experience served her well, and she enjoyed facilitating change discussions with clients from all over Europe.
Alessandra now lives in the Bay Area where, after several years working at Linkedin, she now leads a team focused on Customer Education programs at Box. She is passionate about building transformational experiences for her team and to support customers' success through learning and certification.
MARYELLA MARIE [she/her] is a renaissance womxn and social impact multimedia producer who has spent a decade working with diverse technologists, independent artists, and divergent innovators across the globe to deepen their audiences’ emotional intelligence. She curates meaningful conversations and installations centered around belonging, amplifies underserved and underheard voices, and develops provocative initiatives that bridge our shared stories and connect us to an enlightened state of awareness.
Born in Los Angeles and raised between California & Georgia, Maryella Marie is an expat living in Patagonia, Argentina where she holds safe virtual space as a facilitator, moderator, and host, interviewing diverse women leaders on PowerToFly’s Chat & Learn program, facilitating sensual awakening workshops and discussion groups on the Joie de Vivre platform, and creative directing mindful collaborations at The Positive Force Team.
If you are interested in decolonizing the mind, activating your sensual bodies, and deepening your emotional intelligence through provocative art, visit ThePositiveForceTeam.org and join a virtual event that suits your needs. You can also learn more about Maryella Marie here.
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