Rachel Yates - Every Expat Partner Needs a Back-up Plan

Rachel Yates has been a guest on our podcast already where she shared her expat story and we learned how she created her company The Expat Lifeline.

For this, our 20th episode (cue music and party poppers), we invited Rachel back to talk about the work she does with The Expat Lifeline. Our conversation is fun but the topic we tackled is deadly serious.

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In the interview, we discuss:

• The potentially vulnerable position that expat partners put themselves in when they take career breaks, become financially dependent or even just move countries
• Some of the issues expat partners should consider to address those vulnerabilities
• How to have the difficult conversations
• Why empowerment is important for expat couples

“A really strong and effective partnership has two equally strong players. Expat life is really tricky and the stronger you are individually, the stronger your relationship.” 

Rachel’s Global Girl’s Guide to Creating Your Backup Plan helps expat partners to address the risks that they take by becoming financially dependent.  It gives expat partners the information and the tools they need to address those risks and to put in place strategies and practical solutions to protect themselves.

Rachel has some great resources in her free members area. You can access it by scrolling down the page and clicking on the Sign Up button for the free members area.

Rachel recently ran the highly informative and widely viewed Moving With Kids Summit.  She interviewed a some of the foremost experts working with expat kids of all ages, covering topics from pregnancy and giving birth abroad to raising bilingual kids to supporting expat teens. There’s a wealth of great information in the summit and you can access it via The Expat Lifeline premium members area. If you'd like to hear Rachel's story, her previous podcast episode can be accessed here.

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