More Magazine article:Excerpt on Sally Carr...........
........Not that an empty nest is a requirement for relocation. Sally Carr, 47, was determined to move her whole family -- husband and two girls -- abroad. For years, she had wanted to leave the fast-paced culture of the U.S. and live somewhere very different. And after exiting a big corporate job some years before, she was still trying to create a work life that wouldn't be based on decisions made in her 20s, Carr says. As an executive coach, she thought she should follow her own advice to pause and figure out what she wanted.
First order of business: persuade her husband, a professional photographer, to move his business. They decided on Ireland in part because Carr's mother was born there, giving Carr dual citizenship. Then she started lining up clients for herself. "When you're so clear about what you want to do," she says, "I think the stars align." When she broke the news of her impending move to her largest client, a Philadelphia-based sales training organization, she found an unexpected benefit: The company had a big European operation and needed people with Carr's specialty. They would have plenty of business for her.
This past summer, Carr and her husband sold their house in New Jersey and found a new home in the village of Kilcrohane, near Bantry, where their girls are enrolled in a two-room schoolhouse. "I'm incredibly proud that I've put myself in a situation where I don't fully know how it's going to turn out,'' Carr says.
