Expat Business Hero: Inspiring Interviews With Expat Entrepreneurs & Business Experts

  Tulia Lopes is not acting! She's a Brazilian living in Germany and tells her story of bouncing back from business failure in Spain to becoming an award winning public speaker and coach & mentor, helping women boost their confidence & find their authentic message. Show Notes: www.tulialopes.com www.speakupandleadacademy.com On Amazon Books - Leading in High Heels

Dange Durrett left recently independent Lithuania for Chicago to raise her son and build her growth consulting business. She's on a mission to stop small businesses failing (85% do after 18 months) and explains why creating your own network can boost your sales and more! Show Notes: Labas Connect on Facebook www.LabasConnect.com

Steph Fonteyn, an internationally exhibited artist, Tedx Speaker and Team Building expert explains how she overcame post natal depression (& a career in HR) to realise her dream of being an artist and an entrepreneur. Show notes: Www.stephfonteyn.com Www.collaborativeart.ch Info@stephfonteyn.com Instagram: stephfonteyn Facebook: stephfonteyn

Martin Daubney, a Brit in Switzerland, has transformed his own experience with excessive corporate workplace stress into a coaching & training business helping other companies rid themselves of the same. In this interview we cover his transition from corporate leader to independent coach and trainer and how discovering his strengths was his first key step;  Show Notes: Martin mentions  - http://martynnewman.com/  - Emotional Intelligence and Leadership. To reach Martin -  Facebook Page - Inspire Coaching www.InspireCoaching.com martin@InspireCoaching.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/martindaubney/ and for a downloadable pdf of the very short version of Clear Your Head to Get Ahead...go to FaceBook Executive Anxiety (your email needed)  

I talk with Barbara Roux-Levrat, coach & mentor,  on how women, and men too, can lead a kick ass life by stop being too nice to everyone! Barbara's story, moving from the Dominican Republic (via Scotland) to Switzerland, will resonate with women (and men!) who want to stop pleasing everyone and live their life on their own terms.  Show Notes: You can reach Barbara as follows: https://www.facebook.com/emotionalStrength/ www.emotional-strength.com barbara@emotional-strength.com  

In this interview with Sweden's most innovative digital storyteller, Naseem Quraishi Larsson explains why telling your story on film, flaws and all, can be the key to connecting to your clients and re-creating your personal brand and identity. Especially after you've ditched your corporate career and need a new identity for your business. Naseem had a career in change management at IBM before redefining herself, with the help of film, as an expert in brand story telling and film making. A daughter of Swedish and Indian parents she moved country several times and that resulted in a rather depleted network at home. But putting her self out there on film help her create a network of partners and clients when she launched her business.  Naseem is a published author with a nationally distributed book on Leadership in Sweden and is soon to feature her short film, Changes, at the Cannes Film Festival. She runs free webinar masterclasses and a mentorship program as well as creating bespoke films,  details of which c

In this episode of The Expat Business Hero I talk (& laugh) with Keven Gambold who created a drone consulting business in the USA after leaving the British Royal Air Force as a Bomber Pilot.  Show Notes:  "How to Blow 1 Million Dollars - An Ex-Entrepreneurs Guide on What NOT to do". By Keven Gambold - Available on Amazon Today Keven runs www.UnMannedExperts.com a leading Drone Consulting Business. In the episode he refers to the book: "Crossing the Chasm :  Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers (available on Amazon)   Subscribe on iTunes

Justin Damian Furness wants to help you lead a fulfilled life and that's why he created the Life Print System, a transformation program he delivers around the world. In this interview, Justin shares the ups and downs of moving from South Africa to Switzerland, creating a business as an expat and the importance of 'adapt or die' as a guiding principle.  You can reach him on www.JustinFurness.net where he is offering a free 30 minute consultation called the 'Fulfilment Factor Assessment'. Show notes: www.JustinFurness.net https://www.facebook.com/jdfurness Instagram: @jdfurness Youtube: LifePrint System   Subscribe on iTunes

I feel for you. I know what it's like. The reality can be quite different from the dream. Didn’t they tell you that? In this inaugural episode Alex Congdon explores the fears and concerns that expats have in setting up a business in a foreign land and look forward to the upcoming interviews with expat business owners who have done it and become heroes to their families, the people they serve and to themselves.