Boomeranging: Expat to Repat

Apr 30 2024 1
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A podcast that explores the question: What could be so hard about returning home after years living overseas? In each episode, Margot Andersen sits down with a former Aussie expat to discuss how they survived repatriation and reverse culture shock. How they navigated the logistics of career, friends and family to successfully find their new place at home... and all without losing their global spirit!

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S6 Ep3: Andrea Barton

Apr 30 2024 42 mins  
The stories of accompanying expats, often go untold. With a focus on careers as the primary driver for relocation, it is important to remember the families of those that transition. When Andrea Barton's husband was offered a relocation to Lagos, Nigeria, Andrea was forced to think about her career and how she could reshape it. Throwing herself initially into community initiatives A

S6 Ep2: Adam Malouf

Apr 17 2024 42 mins  
With a 25-year career bridging the worlds between Australia and the Middle East, Adam Malouf is now forging a new path, in a new sector and creating a new, albeit familiar life for him and his family. The possibility of unchartered opportunity first attracted Adam to Dubai in 2004, long before the UAE was frequented by the volume of expat Australians who now work and live in the re

S6 Ep1: Chelsea Guy

Mar 26 2024 39 mins  
When Chelsea Guy came back from Tokyo, and the work experience of the lifetime, she found she had still a pay cheque but didn’t have a role. Chelsea had worked her way through various marketing roles at Toyota when there was an opportunity to put her hand up for a coveted secondment. Her assignment – digital marketing to support Toyota’s sponsorship of the Tokyo Olympics. For

S5 Ep8: Angella Clarke-Jervoise

Oct 24 2023 41 mins  
When Angella left Australia at aged 29, she knew she would be gone longer than two years. With expat parents and grandparents, a life overseas was always on the cards. But she didn’t know it would be 22 years. Or that her time overseas would include 13 years in Bahrain. Or that when she eventually came home, she would change her professional identity. For someone who had always w

S5 Ep7: Leonora Roccisano

Oct 04 2023 33 mins  
Leonora was extremely excited when she landed in Hong Kong. A dynamic, exciting and unique place with family connections it had the potential to be her forever home. But in 2021 Covid made Leonora feel uncomfortably isolated from family and confirmed for her that Australia was where she wanted to base herself. But she didn’t just flick the switch and jump on the next flight home.

S5 Ep6: James Bingham

Sep 12 2023 43 mins  
When James Bingham the IT Project Manager left for London in 2014, little did he know that he would come back to Australia almost 8 years later with a new career in an industry that to this day, you can’t do a degree or course in. Yet in a post COVID world, is now one of the most talked about subjects. Workplace strategy. James was working with NBCUniversal in London when he was

S5 Ep5: Mark Lindley

Aug 29 2023 35 mins  
Mark Lindley left Australia for a life overseas with no job and returned 12 years later in the same situation. But in both scenarios – he had a grand plan underpinned by dreams to choose where he wanted to live and let the career follow. And it worked out for Mark – both in Dubai and today in the Gold Coast. In this podcast, I talk to Mark about how he and his wife chose Dubai

S5 Ep4: Damien Otto

Aug 15 2023 27 mins  
How does an Adelaidean who considers himself not a ‘big city person’ with no real aspiration to live overseas, end up loving life in Ho Chi Minh City? The is Damien Otto’s story after a generous leader at Commonwealth Bank connected him with career opportunities overseas which eventually saw the Otto family pack their bags for a life in Vietnam. It seemed like the perfectly s

S5 Ep3: Jacinta Reddan

Jul 31 2023 33 mins  
If you are a future repat thinking life back in Australia might be too slow, then you might fall off your chair during this podcast when you hear that Jacinta Reddan, the former CEO of AusCham in Hong Kong thinks her professional life is just as fast-paced in Cairns! Which is good for Jacinta, who admits her biggest fear of moving to tropical north Queensland and a city she had nev

S5 Ep2: Brett Cooper

Jul 17 2023 34 mins  
After 21 years with the one employer and a life across multiple countries in Europe and Asia, it is somewhat ironic that Brett Cooper has now ended up in one country with multiple employers. Such is the adventure of an expat-repat! Brett’s career with Phillip Morris started in Sydney and took him to Switzerland, the UK, the Philippines, and Hong Kong. He hadn’t been on a plane