Welcome to Expatiate.
Once a month, something will arrive here that I haven't said anywhere else.
Sometimes it will be a story from one of the six countries I've called home, or from a village, a meeting room or a kitchen table somewhere along the way. Sometimes it will be a question I've been sitting with that I suspect you've been sitting with too. I won't tell you exactly what's coming, partly because I often don't know myself until I sit down to write it.
What I can promise is that it's written for you if you live between places, if "where are you from?" no longer has a simple answer, and if you have a feeling there is more available to you in this life than getting the logistics right.
The first one is on its way. I'm really glad you're here.
Chiqui
NICE TO MEET YOU
I'm Chiqui.
And I am, in every sense of the word, a citizen of the world.
I have lived in six countries and worked in over 20 in the 30+ years I have lived abroad. I am a trained anthropologist who turned her life's obsession - people and impact - into a coaching practice that consistently changes lives.
I know what it is to be high-functioning and discretely disconnected from yourself - and at times, from others. To have a beautiful life on paper but for life to be far from perfect. I know this from myself, peers, and my coaching clients.
You do not face logistical or superficial mindset problems. It’s about a deeper conversation, and that is very good news. Because you are where the answer lives.
And I know exactly how to take you to your most important destination: yourself.
