Inspiring Tales From Women Who Built New Lives in a New Land

A move to a new country is a life-changing experience. New identities, fresh ambitions and unforeseen challenges —so much comes to you all at once.

This book chronicles the real-life inspirational stories of ten expat women who rebuilt their lives, turned negatives into positives, with sheer grit and resilience. These are women who took the drama that life threw at them and used it as a catalyst to turn their lives around.

The tales are as diverse as the women’s backgrounds, with childhood spent either on rolling Australian farms, amidst Swiss mountains, or in small-town America. These women have reinvented themselves to become entrepreneurs, photographers, advocates, writers and leaders.

Transplanted to a new environment, they worked hard to better themselves—whether it is for personal fulfilment, for their families, for the expat community, or for womankind at large.

Here are stories of loss, hope, aspirations, failures and tomorrows.

Sushmita Mohapatra is a senior content and communications strategist, who has worked with firms like PwC, McKinsey & Company and Skyscanner. A former print and television business journalist, she now runs her own content marketing firm.

Savitha Venugopal is a journalist with 15 years of experience in print and digital media. She has written on gender, business, travel and lifestyle and has worked with leading newspapers in India.