Invite me to speak about:
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Beyond surviving
Living and parenting abroad with a travelling partner
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Solo parenting
How to thrive when your partner is away for work
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Distance parenting
How the travelling partner can take part in family life
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Split locations
How to prepare

I am happy to customise a talk for your organisation’s needs. Contact me to let me know what would be most helpful for the staff who travel and/or for their families.
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.
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 a multicultural home and is married to a Swiss. Her husband has traveled abroad for work throughout their whole marriage including two years when he was based in Kabul.
She realised that many moms and dads around the world experience the same challenges she faced which led her to run extensive research, share her learnings through her book «Holding the Fort Abroad». Her message is «your challenges are real, don’t face them alone»
Rhoda Bangerter is a coach who has lived abroad with a travelling husband for over 16 years. She helps home based mums and dads live an intentional life and build family togetherness even when their partner is away a lot for work.
Speaker at
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Families in Global Transition Conference 2021
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Families in Global Transition Conference 2022
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World Bank Group Family Network
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Swiss Foreign Service Family Office
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World Food Program (October 2022)
Links to podcasts I have featured in :
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The Big Purple Blob
resources and podcast for Foreign Service Families
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Empowered Expat Wife
resources and podcast for expat wives
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Tandem Nomads
resources and podcast for portable careers
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Ute’s international Lounge
resources for multilingual families
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Coffee with an expat
community for expat partners to connect and share (Join the community on Facebook to have access)

Download 'Living, Loving and Parenting Across the Miles'
Research-Backed Strategies When One Partner Works Away From Home. It covers:
- Caring for you, as an individual
- Staying connected as a couple
- Parenting together, while physically apart
- Reconnecting when the travelling partner returns home
- Being prepared for emergencies