The Time Is Now

Caroline Allen will share with you her great tips to help you write your book!

Caroline Allen is an artist, writer and a book coach. She began her expat career and expat life as a journalist at a Tokyo newspaper. She then worked as a travel writer throughout Asia, and ended up as a newsroom journalist in London, at The Independent, and the Financial Times. But few years down the road, she decided to make a career shift as she found her voice as a novelist and visual artist. For the past 20 years, Caroline has been working with people all over the world as a book coach, especially expats, on novels, memoir, and self-help books. She has now repatriated to the West Coast of the U.S. but plans to begin another expat adventure in a few years. Today, Caroline has three award-winning expat novels published and a yurt art studio tucked in the wild woods of the U.S. West Coast.

Marcelle Yeager’s background is in strategic communication. When she and her husband agreed to take the first assignment abroad that he was offered, she quit her promising career at home and started taking some jobs and doing some freelance work in Uzbekistan. Very soon after that she launched her first business Career Valet. Career Valet provides resume support and has empowered hundreds of mid to senior level professionals and executives to reach the next level by strengthening their career narratives.

On top of that business, Marcelle also launched a second business called Serving Talent, a service company specifically designed to help military spouses find a job and build their professional success while moving from a country to another.

In 2019 Marcelle made a big decision which was to close her second business Serving Talent, and she explains today why she chose to do that and what helped her make that difficult decision.