Expat Harem editors on NBC’s Today Show with Matt Lauer
By ANASTASIA ASHMANWhen America’s most popular morning talk show came to Istanbul in 2008, they asked us to explain Turkey to five million Americans.Here, Expat Harem coeditors Jennifer Gokmen and I...
View ArticleExpat Harem editors on Turkish Hour TV, New York
By ANASTASIA ASHMANWhen Tales from the Expat Harem was released by Seal Press in North America in 2006, my fellow editor Jennifer Gokmen and I embarked on a marathon 49-day 10-state book tour across...
View ArticleExpat images: unrecognizable vs. iconic
By ANASTASIA ASHMANOn my first serious expat stint, Southeast Asia in the ‘90s, I achieved a state of photographic oblivion.When I set out from Los Angeles I was already solidly unemployed,...
View ArticleMy global niche: an interview with Today’s Zaman newspaper
By ANASTASIA ASHMANAmerican reporter in Turkey Brooks Emerson asked me about the foreign edge, and the challenges of finding my niche in Turkey for his series on expat success stories in national...
View ArticleFrench ladies: how my sister and I stopped fighting by becoming foreign women
By ANASTASIA ASHMAN“Whoever gets a D in math has to sit in back.” That’s how I’d call shotgun when it was time to squeeze our teenage bodies into the family’s tiny Honda.My younger sister Monika didn’t...
View ArticleThe Global Niche muse: out of place and mistress of her domain
FEEDBURNER READERS: WE DON’T WANT TO LOSE YOU! This expat+HAREM delivery service is ending. Join the GlobalNiche.net list to evolve with us It only takes a minute to join.By ANASTASIA ASHMANTake a...
View ArticleGet creative about your place in the world: how to operate on a...
FEEDBURNER READERS — WE’RE SWITCHING TO AN EMAIL DELIVERY SYSTEM, THIS FEED IS ENDING: If you’re reading this through Feedburner — you won’t be getting many more expat+HAREM messages…we don’t want to...
View ArticleMapping your complex world
Have you tried mapping the complexity and richness of your life (and career) with an overlapping Venn diagram?Here’s what turned up when we did one for GlobalNiche — you can see all the relationships...
View ArticleSUM-it UP: mine yourself for purpose & profit
Watch a 2 minute intro video You add up. You make sense.See yourself as the complete package that you are.You’re a GOLD MINE of opportunity. Tap into it today. How?Uncover the real value you’ve...
View ArticleA holistic approach to your online presence
Not getting hired, promoted, asked to speak, invited to participate? Not getting read, funded, selected, noticed? You’re not being recognized.Here’s how you can change that.We show you how to overcome...
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