Have you ever dreamed of moving away from your current living environment?
In this guest episode of Stay Rooted with Astrid Heystee, Cepee Tabibian joins Astrid to talk about moving abroad after 35, the fear that almost stopped her, and the community she built once she realized she was not alone in asking the question.
Cepee still worried leaving the US to move to Europe was a crazy idea. She did it anyway, and now runs She Hit Refresh, a community of 14,000+ women doing the same. In this episode she tells Astrid what that leap really took.
Cepee grew up in Houston, Texas, caught the travel bug on a high school exchange trip to the Netherlands, and knew Madrid was her place the moment she visited at 21, though it took until 35, with a stable career and a settled life, to actually move. She talks openly about the fear of being too old, friends who quietly questioned the decision, and the butterflies she felt the morning of her flight, and names what most people get wrong about moving abroad after 35. That this is only for the young, the wealthy, or people running from something rather than toward it.
Her own experience became the seed for She Hit Refresh, now a community of 14,000+ women aged 30 and over navigating the same move. Astrid and Cepee talk through what helped her build real friendships after a lonelier first stretch, and the mindset that carried her through doubting whether to move back home.
Partway through, Astrid reads Cepee's Human Design chart live as a working example. And they talk about travel and spinning your life into a new direction. They talk about travel safety and being street smart. And take a deep dive into why community is so important.
Chapters
(00:00:00) Meet Cepee Tabibian(00:01:13) Moving to Spain at 35(00:08:07) Why Travel Feels Like Freedom(00:16:00) Founding She Hit Refresh(00:20:04) The Hard Days of Expat Life(00:28:29) Human Design: The Open G Center(00:39:23) Human Design: The Defined Spleen(00:40:24) Human Design: Profile and Channels(00:58:41) Her Best Tip for Moving Abroad
About Cepee TabibianCepee Tabibian founded She Hit Refresh, a community of 14,000+ women aged 30+ moving abroad, mainly from the US, Canada, and UK, to Europe. Born in Houston, Texas, she has lived in Spain for nine years.
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