Financial Wellness

• Managing Money Abroad

• Achieving F.I.R.E. to go abroad 

• Achieving F.I.R.E. while abroad

• Building Wealth Abroad

• Investing Abroad

• Purchasing Property Abroad

• “I live abroad and my plan for retirement is”

Professional Wellness

• Work Culture Differences and How You Overcame Them 

• Career Transition Abroad

• Burn Out

• Climbing the Corporate Ladder Abroad

• Building A Business Abroad- Your personal “How She Built This” story

• Building A Business Abroad- Key Insights (that have not been shared on the blog before), Trends, Regulations, Resources, etc. 

• Trailing Spouse Syndrome

Mental Wellness

• Homesickness

• Isolation

• Depression & Anxiety

• Access to mental health professionals

• Access to mental health medication 

• Overcoming or finding support for mental health issues

• Culture Shock

• Repatriation

Physical Wellness

• Gaining fitness Abroad

• Gaining physical healing abroad

• Gaining body acceptance abroad

• Being Disabled Abroad

• Encountering different beauty standards

• How has your concept of beauty changed while living abroad?

• How has your beauty regiment changed since living abroad?

• Having a chronic illness abroad

• Being pregnant abroad

• Suffering a miscarriage abroad

Emotional/Social Wellness

• Dealing with unsupportive family while abroad

• “I went abroad to put distance between myself and my family”

• Friendship breakups/breakdowns due to being abroad

• Making friends abroad

• How you built community abroad

• Dating abroad

• Getting married abroad

• Challenges/Benefits of an intercultural/international marriage/partnership abroad

• Raising children abroad

• Raising children with special needs abroad

• How to keep kids connected to your home culture while abroad

• Dealing with breakups abroad

• Divorce abroad

• Child custody abroad

• Dealing with death abroad

Other Interesting Topics

• Has your perception or identity within Blackness changed while abroad?

• How has living abroad liberated you?

• Has your perception of femininity been influenced or changed while being abroad?

• How safe and secure do you feel abroad?

• How has your sense and experience of vulnerability and softness changed since being abroad?

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• Please don’t submit articles already published on your blog or elsewhere. 

2. Be relevant and insightful

3. Fluent, readable and error-free

• Content must be written in high-level, error-free, and fluent English. 

• Break up your content, so it’s easy to read. This means including headings, subheadings, bullets, and any other visual elements to increase the readability of your piece.

• Write in a natural, conversational tone. 

•  Don’t shy away from showing off your sense of humor. 

• We’re all grown, so feel free to talk about your grown woman stories in an open and frank manner.

• Talk about your real-world experience. Talk about mistakes you’ve made, lessons learned and dreams achieved. Draw on your own personal experience to speak authoritatively about what you know.

• Take a position. If you disagree with common wisdom on a topic, talk about why the mainstream point of view is wrong or misleading. Back up your perspective with facts. Take screenshots. Include interesting data. Support your arguments with external references.

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• Don't sacrifice depth for the sake of brevity. Instead of trying to hit a specific word count, focus on clear, in-depth explanations.

• Always include a conclusion.

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• Where applicable, focus your article on real-world trends and tips. Back up your claims with source links.

• Always name your sources. For example, If you’re going to drop some statistics, link back to the original source.

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