Life in The Travel Lane: 8 Countries, 4 Continents & 37 Moves with Doreen Cumberford [Ep 21]
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Originally from Glasgow, Scotland, Doreen Cumberford has been an expat for over 40 years. She has moved 37 times living in eight countries on four continents - plus the country moves she and her husband have made more recently as international housesitters! She worked for the British Foreign and Commonwealth office in London, and Cameroon, West Africa. This was followed by three years in Dubai, 10 years in the US, two years in Japan, and then Saudi Arabia, where she lived for 15 years as an accompanying spouse to her American husband and where they raised their daughter. Returning to the US in 2010, she repurposed her expat experiences and launched her career as a cross-cultural trainer, consultant, coach and writer. She is the author of Life in The Camel Lane, a motivational memoir: DoreenMCumberford.com
In this final episode of Women Who Walk, I bid farewell to podcasting (for now). Throughout the three seasons and 48 episodes, I’ve had the honor of interviewing globally mobile women, who shared stories of courage, adaptability, and resiliency moving multiple countries for work, for adventure,...
Published 05/25/23
Jo Francis Penn is English, currently living in Bath. As an 11-year-old, she lived in Malawi, Africa; in her teens she lived for a short period in Israel; and as a young adult she lived in New Zealand and Australia. Once back in the UK, she made a career change, moving from tech into writing...
Published 05/11/23