👩🏽‍🏭🔎 The power of reaching out, using your network and persevering🫂🤝🏽

In this episode, we continue the theme started last time on how being part of a professional community can support you both practically and mentally. 

Over the past 10 years that I have lived and worked in Scandinavia, I have had many conversations with expats and expat spouses who have struggled alone with getting gainful employment, not due to a 'lack of skills', 'language barriers' or 'cultural differences', but because of not knowing 'how'. This has very real impact on their mental health too - increasing instances of stress, anxiety and depression.  

Today, our Mental Health Expert Meghna Sckerl talks with two incredible women who reached out, leaned into their vulnerabilities and used career support, not as a crutch, but as a bridge to achieve their career goals. 

My first guest is the inspiring and passionate Nichole Chambless who talks to us about the brutal process of losing a job as a foreign resident while having the responsibility of 2 children and a ticking clock of stringent immigration rules. How the career network and career coaching helped getting through it a mentally healthy one.

We follow this up with a conversation with the unputdownable and delightful Anu Thakur who after having looked for a job for 2 years, decided to work with a career coach to re-assess her approach and achieved success after 4 years.  

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Web: greendooraps.wixsite.com/mentalspace

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You can reach Tremella Community on tremellaradio.dk or tremellaradio.eu

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You can reach Meghna Sckerl on the following links:

Web: www.green-door.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/TherapyIsForEveryone

Instagram: www.instagram.com/its.psycho.logical

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Photo of and by Anu, Nichole and Meghna