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The Expat Diaries: Leaving Home, Finding Home

Real stories from women who've already done what you're dreaming about doing. The Expat Diaries explores what it really means to move abroad, build a life in a new country, and leave one home behind to create another.

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You moved to Spain? Tell me more! 🇪🇸

Two women who both live in Spain talk about what it's like to live there. Six months. Sixteen years. Three apartments, one giant Google map, countless bureaucratic forms, a second language you thought you spoke, kids asleep in strollers in the bar at 11 p.m., accidental pizza parties on school nights, and apparently quite a lot of vermouth. Somewhere in there, you stop being a person who moved to…

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What if you moved to Spain? 🇪🇸

Two women. Two lives. Two stories of leaving home and building a life somewhere new.

You moved to France Tell me more! 🇫🇷

What happens when the life you dreamed about becomes your ordinary Tuesday?

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What if you moved to France? 🇫🇷

Three women. Three lives. Three stories of leaving home and building a life somewhere new.

July. At my house.

Does living on a spaceship in another solar system qualify as a move abroad?

What if you moved to The Netherlands

And 7 years there turned in to 11 more digital nomading around the world

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What if you moved to The Netherlands

And 7 years there turned in to 11 more digital nomading around the world

WORKSHOP: The Big Downsize Before the Big Move Abroad

A recording from Vivian's live video

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We were not packing the same suitcase.

She thought I was packing for Italy. I knew I was packing for a whole new life.

June. At my house.

A book that stayed with me. A song that almost got me. A workshop for future expats.