#2: An episode to share with your Parents & In Laws – with Helen Ellis

Synopsis:“You can’t expect your travelling partner to be your all in everything…Grandparents aren’t just visitors. They can become part of your support team.”Helen is NOT an expat, she is the mother of expats, a long distance grandparent and the author of a series of books on distance relationships between grandparents, distance sons and daughters and…

#0: Holding the Fort Abroad: What’s it all about?

Synopsis In this episode I talk about what you can expect from this podcast and why I am doing it. Extract from the book Holding the Fort Abroad: “Holding the fort, or, in American English, holding down the fort, is an expression that means taking care of things during someone’s absence. In March 2019, as…

#1: Creating a Life for Yourself – with Margaret Ghielmetti

Synopsis: Margaret Ghielmetti knows what it is like to be home alone when she thought she was moving abroad with her husband and not moving abroad waiting for her husband to come home. She talks about her journey from thinking she would be fine to the reality she encountered to finally being open about needing…
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Welcome to Holding the Fort Abroad, the podcast about frequent business travel and working away from home:

Holding the Fort Abroad is about sharing creative ways families have found to maintain relationships when a partner and/or parent works away from home a lot and how the non-travelling partner juggles the roles of home and their own pursuits. I interview expats who have experience, therapists and researchers and share my own tools for this life journey. Even if you don’t have a travelling partner, you will find gems in this podcast for your life.

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 “Stories help us imagine the future differently. Stories create community, enable us to see through the eyes of other people, and open us to the claims of others” 

- Peter Forbes

Supportive services for traveling and home-based parents

Families where one partner is away a lot for work or is living and working in another country for long periods don't often realise they are under more pressure than families who don't have this lifestyle.

However, I truly believe that split location families can build a strong unit, be a happy family with happy individuals even when living apart. I have witnessed families who are living this reality.

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