FOR THE WOMAN WHO FOLLOWED HER SPOUSE ABROAD
You followed your spouse abroad.
Now it's time to build the part of this life that's yours too.
Build Your Social Life Abroad is a 5-week group coaching experience for the expat woman ready to build friendships and a social life with intention, not by accident.
5 weeks · 21 daily actions · 5 live calls with Susana
THE PART NOBODY WARNS YOU ABOUT
You know exactly how to pack a house.
Nobody taught you how to build a friendship from zero.
You've had the coffee. The one nice conversation at pickup, or in the hallway after Japanese class. You both said "we should do this again." Neither of you followed up. It's been three months.
You're in the group chat. The one for expat wives, or the mums from school. You read every message. You've typed a reply and deleted it more than once.
You watch other women make it look easy. Six months in and they already have a Sunday brunch crew. You've been here longer than that, and most nights it's just you and a screen.
It's not that you don't want connection. It's that nobody ever taught you how to build one on purpose, in a place where nothing is familiar and everything takes more energy than it should.
WHAT YOU CAN BUILD
In 5 weeks, you'll have real names in your phone,
and a calmer way of reaching for them.
Build Your Social Life Abroad pairs one small, doable action every day with the mindfulness tools that keep you steady enough to actually take it.
You're not overhauling your life. You're building one habit: showing up, on purpose, a little at a time, with support so you don't have to figure it out solo.
BE
Grounded
Simple mindfulness techniques, practiced live with the group, so reaching out stops feeling like a risk and starts feeling like something you can just do.
DO
One small action, daily
Your 21-day plan breaks friendship-building into steps small enough to actually finish: one message, one invitation, one honest conversation at a time.
HAVE
A social life, not a strategy
By week five, you'll have people, plans on the calendar, and a rhythm you built yourself, one you can keep going long after the program ends.
01
Week one — Arriving where you actually are
Ground into a daily mindfulness practice and take your first small, low-stakes step toward someone new.
02
Week two — From small talk to real talk
Practice moving a conversation past the weather and the school run, without it feeling forced.
03
Week three — Making the first move
Send the message, offer the invitation. We practice the exact wording live, together, before you send it.
04
Week four — Staying steady when it's awkward
Mindfulness techniques for the moments that used to make you retreat, so you can stay in the conversation instead.
05
Week five — Building it into a rhythm
Turn your 21 days of small actions into a social rhythm that keeps running after our calls end.
WHAT'S PROBABLY GOING THROUGH YOUR HEAD
"I don't have room for one more thing right now. My life abroad is already a lot."
IT'S MINUTES, NOT HOURS
Each daily action takes 5 to 15 minutes. This isn't a second job. It's one small, specific thing between the school run and dinner.
YOU ARE NOT DOING IT ALONE
Five live calls mean you're never guessing what to do next. We practice it together, then you go do it, then we check in.
IT CALM THINGS DOWN, IT DOESNT ADD TO THEM
The mindfulness piece isn't extra work, it's what makes the rest possible. It's how you send the message instead of typing it and deleting it again.
21 DAYS, NOT FOREVER
The mindfulness piece isn't extra work, it's what makes the rest possible. It's how you send the message instead of typing it and deleting it again.
WHO IS TEACHING THIS?
I've started over more times than I can count,
in languages that weren't mine.
SUSANA ORTEGA
EXPAT LIFE COACH
I'm Susana, and I've lived this exact story across six countries and 28 years abroad. I know what it's like to sit in a new apartment, in a city where you don't yet know the bus routes or a single person's phone number, and wonder if you'll ever feel like yourself again.
I built the BE→DO→HAVE approach that runs through everything I teach, because willpower alone never got me a single friend.
What worked was becoming someone grounded enough to reach out, doing the small unglamorous actions consistently, and letting the friendships build from there.
I currently live in Yokohama, speak English, Spanish, Catalan and some Japanese, and I've coached expat women through mindfulness approach, as you're about to start.
— Susana
FOUNDING MEMBER ONLY
Build Your Social Life Abroad
Founding Member Price
$ 297
$497
One-time payment · locked in for founding members only
5 weeks, 21 daily micro-actions
5 live calls with Susana — teaching, practice, and accountability
Mindfulness techniques to stay calm, grounded, connected, and at peace
Small group, so you're known, not just enrolled
