#92 Life Lessons from Frequent Business Travel and Global Relocations - with Flor Bretón-Garcia
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Flor Bretón-Garcia shares her experiences and lessons learned from frequent business travel and raising a family across cultures.
Episode Takeaways: Flor Garcia has experience of frequent business travel in family life, and now that her children have grown up she explains to us how she and her husband adapted frequent business travel with children who have flown the nest! Flor works across cultures and helps organisational leaders deliver sustainable, cost effective solutions for global teams. She is also the President of Families in Global Transitions. Key Takeaways Flor’s story and message to new mums with travelling partners Flor was born and raised in Venezuela, where she lived until age 22. In 2002, she left her homeland, got married, and settled in the southern United States. There, she and her husband started their family, welcoming their first son just a year and a half after marriage as her husband worked on building his career and started travelling. She acknowledged the loneliness of those years and offers hope. She emphasizes self-compassion: “You don’t have to know it all or do it all perfectly.” Avoid isolation and seek connections, even if language or cultural barriers feel daunting. Your capacity for resilience and adaptability is a gift to your children. “ there is the hope of knowing that…
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