Moving Abroad After Divorce and Finding a New Community with Jennifer Sontag

About this episode

Amy Stone interviews Jennifer Sontag about navigating life transitions, including moving abroad after divorce and building a new community.

If you love the show and you'd like to support it directly you can tip the host here https://imperfect-adulting.captivate.fm/support In this episode of The Art of Imperfect Adulting, Amy Stone speaks with Jennifer Sontag about navigating radical life transitions, from divorce and empty nesting to international relocation and career transformation. Jennifer currently calls Sicily, Italy home. Listeners and viewers will learn about the reality of moving abroad, how personal crises can lead to unexpected opportunity, and why adaptability matters more than ever when adulting gets messy. Jennifer Sontag is the founder of ViaMonde, a relocation agency which helps Americans relocate to Spain and Italy. Jennifer has always paved her own path, at just 19-years-old, Jennifer opened her first maternity boutique, The Stork’s Nest, that at the age of 28 she would sell to Macy’s — she’s always known how to turn a leap of faith into a thriving enterprise. Main Topics Covered: Overcoming the triple challenge of divorce, empty nesting, and a career change—all at once. The psychological impact of upheaval and why compartmentalization works in crisis. Rebuilding life after loss: moving cities…

People in this episode

Host: Amy Stone

Guest: Jennifer Sontag

Topics covered

• moving abroad
• divorce
• community building
• career transformation
• adaptability
• expat experiences

Keywords

• divorce
• relocation
• expat
• community
• adaptability
• career change
• Sicily
• ViaMonde

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ViaMonde, Macy's

Places: Sicily, Italy, Spain, China

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