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Through personal coaching, group training, writing, speaking engagements and research, Rhoda Bangerter supports expat families where one partner travels a lot for work.

She was raised in France, with a Welsh dad, a Syrian Armenian mum and is married to a Swiss. Her husband has traveled abroad for work throughout their whole marriage while they lived in Geneva, Bern, New York and Bishkek, including two years when her husband was based in Kabul. During those years, Rhoda has been solo-parenting and experimenting various ways to hold the fort while creating a joined life in a long distance relationship.

Along the way, she realised the huge number of moms and dads around the world who experience the same challenges but with no resources to guide them through this journey. This led her to run extensive research, share her learnings through the book, “Holding The Ford Abroad”, and develop her services to support solo parents in long distance relationships or with travelling partners.

Rhoda speaks about the challenges of solo parenting and how to thrive in multicultural marriages. She has been featured in various platforms such as Families in Global Transition, Coffee with Expat Women, Ute’s international lounge and Tandem Nomads. She runs workshops for organisations who support families of staff in non-family postings such as the World Bank Group Family Network.