064: An Expat in a New Country with Audrey Mezas

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About This Week’s Guest talks about being an Expat in a New Country

Audrey Mezas

Audrey Mezas is the Dutch owner of Expat in Amsterdam.

She is an Expat/Executive Personal Assistant to athletes, professors, families, international entrepreneurs, and business executives. She will help you as an expat in a new country to find your way around.

The difference between Audrey and say a relocation company is that she delivers “tailor-made personal” service for each of her clients and accompanies them almost everywhere they need to be.

Audrey also trains teams in Executive Excellence and has moved 17 times and lived on four continents.

Audrey is the “Expat in Amsterdam.”

Her tips to become more culturally competent are:

1. Get to know the locals; don’t stay in your expat bubble.
2. Make sure everyone in your family has a hobby or a sport to do. It keeps you connected to other people which will help you integrate.
3. Don’t wait too long to get started to get adjusted. Otherwise, it will get harder and harder to adjust later on.

Interview Links

Links that are mentioned in this episode:

• Website: http://expatinamsterdam.com

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Chris is passionate about Cultural Differences. He has been helping organizations save time and money when they work Internationally for the last 20+ years. While doing this he had the fortunate opportunity to hold lectures, workshops, and consulting projects on this subject World Wide. It has made him understand his own culture much better and appreciate the differences around the world.
His education is in Organisational Psychology and he has lived in the USA, the Netherlands, and currently lives in Belgium.

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