Shannon Enete is an international resident from San Diego, currently residing in Costa Rica. Her first career of 10 years was spent serving San Diego & Kansas City as a paramedic. Shannon visited over 27 countries by the age of 30. Enete is the author of new release, Becoming an Expat: Costa Rica and Teeth Not Tears: Smiles Through the Rubble. She freelances for the Costa Rican Star, Jaco Journal, International Living, A.M. Costa Rica, Global Living Magazine, Pink Pangea, and the Costa Rican Sun. She is a columnist for Expat Focus and Voz de Guanacaste. In addition to writing, Shannon owns Enete Enterprises, LLC a video and print publication company that specializes in travel guidebooks and the creation of marketing videos for tourism, hospitality, and real estate sectors. 

Her first book was Teeth Not Tears: Smiles Through the Rubble, a biographical narrative that told the stories of two Haitian brothers, whom she met while volunteering in Haiti after the earthquake. "Their outlook on life was so beautiful and pure, I had to share their story with the world," says Enete.

Standout information about Becoming an Expat: Costa Rica

- There are a lot of guide books that generally direct you towards life overseas, but few that break down exactly what you need to do to obtain residency, start a business, use the healthcare, move your pets, enroll your children in school, and so on for a particular country. Becoming an Expat Guidebook Series fills that nees. Each guidebook will be updated every year or two depending on popularity, plus we will post updates between editions at: www.becominganexpat.com. 

- These guidebooks are packed with expat experiences, stories, and tips to help merge the gap between how rules and regulations are written on paper and how they actually play out.

- Also included is which apps are best for expats, which electronics will facilitate easy international living, expansive school lists, handy tax forms, and more.

You can learn more about Shannon and Enete Enterprises at http://eneteenterprises.com

Originally from Germany Gudrun Kittel-Thong has lived in Hong Kong for over 20 years and is the Founder of the Institute of Psychotherapy & Counselling.  She applies her combined coaching and counselling skills to work with individuals, adolescents and families many of whom with a diverse cultural background.

In coaching Sessions Gudrun works with professional and private individuals who want to gain new and better perspectives in their lives. By supporting her clients to rely and build on their particular strengths they find new achievable goals or clarify their immediate and long-term plans. Gudrun brings to Women in Charge with her Third Culture Kids sessions, teaching expatriate children and families to cope with life abroad.

In this episode, Jason and Gundrun discuss important topics regarding expatriation, such as

• Being initially overwhelmed with everything new
• Wanting to take the years abroad to re-evaluate the professional path often changing it altogether but not knowing where to start
• Stress with children because feeling stressed yourself
• Self-doubt, low self-esteem when living in an expat- culture that emphasises professional success and money but not creating a home and raising happy children
• Returning home after many years: Reverse culture shock; having changed in a different way than those who stayed in their home country; reintegration with hesitation; old friendships that survived the years and those that did not; new friendships with people who are different etc.

Learn more about Gundrun at http://coachgudrun.com/ or http://www.bluevermilion.com