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What do you call a mom and a successful Physician’s Assistant who leaves her career and moves her family literally around the globe to Ghana, Africa? Mary Beth. You call her Mary Beth, because she is an everyday wife and mother just like you and I who had the courage to take a path as unexpected and crazy to her as it seems to us. Despite an initial reaction of “hell no!” when her husband proposed the move (which was an awesome opportunity for his career), Mary Beth eventually came to face her fears, challenge her assumptions, and considered what it might actually mean to do something so far off the expected path. She had the courage to consider the benefits, to see it as an opportunity to step into a new role, and to accept life might just be better out of her comfort zone. I chatted with Mary Beth to learn all about what it’s like to move around the world, adjust to a new country and culture, while stepping into a stay at home mom role and supporting her young daughters through such a big change. Hello Mary Beth! How are you? I’m good thanks! I’m so glad you were able to do this, I really appreciate it! Let’s start by getting to know a little bit about you and your background, tell me more about you and how you came to have to consider moving around the world. Well I am a mom of 2 kids and a wife. We were living in Colorado outside of Boulder for the last 10 years, that’s where we got married and started our family. I was working as a Physician’s Assistant specializing in oncology and blood disorders. I’ve been doing that, practicing as a PA for 13 years. My husband is an Engineer and has been with the same company since finishing grad school. One day he came home from a trip to Ghana, he had been traveling there a lot for work, he travels frequently for his job. I asked “how was your trip?” and he said “actually they want us to move there, they offered me a position.” I was making the kids food and I was like “yeah, we’re not moving. That’s not happening.” Leaping into the unknown: