Helping ausländer new moms in Germany with Gitanjali More

The Germany Expat Business Show

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Navigating German bureaucracy can be quite challenging, especially when you don’t speak German, are new to the processes and don’t know what support is available to you.

If you’re a new parent in Germany, you’ve probably heard of Elternzeit, Elterngeld and Kindergeld and are totally overwhelmed by everything you need to take care of for your baby. And after Elternzeit, many mothers want to change jobs due to a shift in priorities or the need for more flexibility at work.

Gitanjali More understands all of these challenges because she faced them too and wanted to make sure her research also benefited other parents in a similar situation.

With The Confused Mother, she supports international families to successfully apply for these and other benefits available to them here in Germany. She also offers mothers two job coaching programs when they want to make a shift in their career after their Elternzeit.

She is from India and has been living in Germany for 10 years, speaks fluent German, English, Hindi and Marathi and helps people new to Germany in all of these languages.

In this conversation we covered:

1. How she a long-standing family connection to Germany prompted her to learn German and eventually get a degree in International Politics at the University of Göttingen,
2. How and why she got the idea for The Confused Mother
3. How reach outs and direct emails to her existing network as well as strategic partners helped build her client base.
4. Her business model of coaching, consulting and tutorials
5. The difference in her marketing approach to indviduals vs. organizations
6. What percentage of her business is focused on becoming a mom in Germany vs. rebooting a career after having a child.
7. The biggest challenges she sees expat/immigrant women facing when becoming a parent and restarting their careers afterwards in Germany.
8. How stamina and having a plan are key to running a solopreneur business in Germany.

You can find this episode and all episodes as well as show notes for each at https://thegermanylist.de/the-germany-expat-business-show-podcast/
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Rozdziały

1. Helping ausländer new moms in Germany with Gitanjali More (00:00:00)

2. Expat Business Owners in Germany (00:00:03)

3. Social Media and Career Coaching Integration (00:15:27)

4. Professional Coaching and Return to Work (00:26:54)

5. Navigating Motherhood in Germany (00:36:17)

6. Balancing Business and Family Life (00:42:50)