Meet Amanda
Accredited life coach, former diplomat
For years, I built my life across borders. I worked as a diplomat, lived in multiple countries, and constantly adapted to new cultures, expectations, and environments.
Somewhere along the way, I became fascinated by a question that would eventually shape all of my work: how do you stay deeply connected to yourself when your environment, identity, relationships, and future are constantly changing?
From the outside, my diplomat life looked exciting and successful - and in many ways, it was.
But underneath that adventurous, high-achieving life, I also carried a constant sense of restlessness. I was always focused on the next destination, the next challenge, the next chapter.
Looking back now, I can see that movement had partly become a way to outrun myself.
That realization became impossible to ignore when I moved back to the Netherlands during the pandemic, after several years abroad.
Three weeks after I moved home, my father unexpectedly passed away. A great sorrow, and other painful things happened at the same time. Suddenly, all the external distractions that had kept me moving disappeared.
What followed was a deep inner turning point: a 9-month coaching training I had already planned to do provided the structure for self-inquiry, emotional work, and learning how to stop living only in my head and future plans.
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It was a necessary foundation, because just two years later, my mom and grandma also passed away, and I experienced a painful break-up.
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I was forced to go inward and restructure what I had relied on for so long. For the first time, I started building a sense of home within myself - not tied to a country, relationship, achievement, or next adventure.
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A place where my full self was truly welcome. Creating not only a life on the outside I enjoyed, but also true belonging on the inside.
Today, I work with ambitious expats, global professionals, and internationally mobile people who often appear high-functioning on the outside, but quietly carry a heavy mental and emotional load underneath.
Many are stuck between multiple lives, multiple futures, or multiple versions of themselves. Career, relationships, home, identity, freedom, ambition - everything is intertwined.
My work helps them untangle that complexity, reconnect to themselves beneath the noise, and make decisions they can actually trust.
Not through surface-level motivation or endless overthinking, but through deep inner clarity, radical self-honesty, emotional work and aligned action.
Over the years, I’ve personally coached 240+ clients across more than 25 nationalities, guided hundreds more in my DIY programs, hosted the globally listened-to podcast This Expat Life, facilitated workshops around the world and been featured in publications like Business Insider.
At the core of my work is this belief: you do not need to choose between ambition and inner peace, freedom and rootedness, or growth and emotional depth. You can build an extraordinary global life without losing yourself inside it.
My role is to help you hear your own voice again beneath the noise of expectations, fear, self-reliance, and constant movement - so you can create a life that not only looks good from the outside, but genuinely feels like yours from the inside.
My life across borders
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2008-2009: 1.5 years of solo travel (at age 19) in South America, with several months spent in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Where I experienced who I really was, beyond the luggage of a difficult childhood I carried around.
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