Over 18 years. That's how long I've called Barcelona home—longer than I've lived anywhere else in my adult life. For someone whose career spanned countries like Germany, France, Singapore and Australia, this wasn't the script I imagined. Like many globally mobile professionals, I spent my early career chasing the next opportunity, the next horizon. Each…

My father-in-law recently shared Peter Godwin’s memoir “Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss, and Occasional Wars” with me. Like my father-in-law, who grew up in Zimbabwe before migrating to Australia, Godwin is intimately familiar with the peculiar grief of belonging to multiple places and none fully. Born and raised in Zimbabwe, educated in England,…

A talented product manager moves from Bogotá to Berlin. Her metrics are strong, her team trusts her, yet she keeps hearing small comments: “Could you say that again, more clearly?” “Let’s have James handle the client call—he’s more… fluent.” No one is overtly hostile. Still, over time, the message is unmistakable: your ideas are fine, but…