Expat Business Hero: Inspiring Interviews with Expat Entrepreneurs & Business Experts
Starting and growing your business as an expat will test you to the limit but the rewards can more than compensate. Become a business hero for your customers, your family and of course yourself. But first you have to navigate your fears and concerns, adopt the right mindset, learn from others mistakes, build a supportive network and have a smart plan. Join Alex Congdon, a UK expat in Switzerland, as he interviews expat business entrepreneurs and experts from around the world as they share their stories and strategies, successes and failures.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 29
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2019
From Engineer To Award Winning Entrepreneur - With Barbara Lax
A brain-storming session at a BBQ with friends inspired Barbara Lax to quit her successful engineering career and create a winning child care concept for modern families and companies in Switzerland.…
Why Purpose Is The Foundation: With James Moffat
James Moffat is a Scottish born entrepreneur living in Switzerland. After 20 years in the corporate world and thinking, ‘Is this it?’ he found himself on the outside, looking for a new adventure. On …
How To Build Trust In B2B Sales - With Yuri van der Sluis
Yuri van der Sluis is a Dutch sales expert, speaker and author living in the Valencia region of Spain. His passion is helping B2B sales organisations to lead with trust because without trust in the s…
Are You Worth What You Charge? - With Janene Liston
One of the hardest things a business owner faces is setting the price for their products, especially if you are the product! Janene Liston moved from California to Switzerland and has taken her caree…
Why Entrepreneurs Need Community - With Johan Franzen
Johan Franzen, a Swede living in Switzerland, is proving there is entrepreneurial life after a long and successful corporate career. He's created what he calls a “virtual swiss army knife for your en…
How Podcasting Can Grow Your Business with Yann Ilunga
Yann Ilunga is a Swiss-Italian entrepreneur based in Helsinki. His passion is podcasting and as well as producing his own successful shows, he coaches those interested in starting and growing a podc…
I'll Tell You What Consumers Really, Really Want - With Guy White
Guy White is the founder of Catalyx, a successful and very innovative agency based in Geneva helping brands connect with their ideal consumers. Originally from the UK, Guy quit the safety of corporat…
Make Your LinkedIn Profile Talk To Your Audience - With Sarah Santacroce
Sarah SantaCroce is a Switzerland born and bred LinkedIn expert who spent time living abroad in California where she mastered the art of social media networks. Now living back in Switzerland, Sarah w…
It's Good To Talk About Mens Mental Health - With Carl Wahlers
Carl Wahlers, former rugby player and corporate manager wants men with mental health issues to get things off their chest. He's set up Blokes And Black Dogs, a support group in Switzerland for men w…
Why Women Make Great Entrepreneurs - With Melitta Campbell
Melitta Campbell, has a formula for helping women start a business on their own terms. Originally from Wales, she's now in Montreux, Switzerland and has overcome her own out of balance lifestyle to …
Why Clarity Is Your Force For Happiness - With Jonathan Cave
Jonathan Cave is a Geneva based New Zealander who quit the "good life" managing the lives & money of ultra wealthy families and is now on a mission to help individuals and teams connect with their p…
Why Hire A Business Mentor? With Alessia Minkus
Rewire your brain and get over your money issues - With NLP expert Michelle Masters
Michelle Masters, from California, is a world leader in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and has the incredible gift of helping people rewire their brains to overcome limiting beliefs around money…
How To Adapt To International Life With Sundae Schneider-Bean
Sundae Schneider-Bean is an intercultural strategist and host of The Expat Happy Hour podcast, which has been rated no.1 on iTunes Places & Travel section. Originally from North Dakota, she lives in …
The Singapore Solopreneur Making Personalised Art - with Samantha Dorri
Interview with Sam Dorri, a Brit in Singapore, who creates customised art for parents who want to preserve their favourite parenting memories in Singapore. Sam gave up working with big brands and ag…
Boost Your Confidence - and other lessons from China - with Stuart Elliott
Stuart Elliott, a British expat, arrived in southern China via a long detour through Southern Africa and whilst raising a new family, runs his global coaching practice from there. He's passionate ab…
How to boost the online visibility of your business - with Ekaterina Filippova
Ekaterina Filippova (Kat) helps entrepreneurs make their brands and websites more visible online, dare I say radiate? Her journey to Montreux, Switzerland started in a town in the Urals, Russia wher…
A dutch food techie goes to Malta - with Alex Greve
Interview with Alex Greve, a Dutch 'Food Techie' entrepreneur living in Malta & founder of KickDish.com, an e-commerce app unifying meal planning and grocery shopping. Tells the story of his ups & d…
Marrying an entrepreneur and thriving - with Stuart Kibbe
Stuart Kibbe moved from the USA to Geneva, Switzerland where he founded THE IT GUYS, a very successful IT services business. On the way, he mentored disadvantaged children in inner city London, a ph…
Freedom or Stability ? It's time to choose - with Diana Dentinger
Diana Dentinger is an Innovative Change Maker & Influential Thought Leader who inspires you to Live "who you really are". Entrepreneur, Corporate Team Builder & Executive Coach. From Chicago, USA, n…