Thank You Heartbreak

Seasoned expat, transition coach, and author of A Great Move: Surviving and Thriving in Your Expat Assignment Katia Vlachos helps expats and globally mobile professionals navigate various stages of their moves. She joins Chelsea at 8:30 to talk about the similarities between leaving one's home base and leaving one's partner which, in both cases, is often an invisible grief that requires you to reimagine and rebuild your concept of home.Shedding a light on the complexity of uprooting with your partner, Katia emphasizes the conversations that are crucial to have before any move and admits to not even thinking about what a transition could do to not only her marriage but her concept of self. For instance, not only are expats having to adjust to a new culture but often their identities, both professionally and within their marriage, are having to be renegotiated.In addition to the life of an expat, Katia talks about:+ how the dreaded question—"what did you do today?"—can drive a wedge between