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Welcome and shanah tovah.<\/i>\u00a0 Why shanah tovah<\/i>? Because that is the Hebrew New Year greeting and it was the Israeli new year the day before this podcast came out. I learned this from Marion Burgheimer<\/a>, an Israeli cross cultural trainer I spoke with about the most\u00a0popular links on our Absolutely Intercultural Facebook Page<\/a>. She also told me that Shanah Tova is a wish for a good<\/b> new year rather a happy new year, as a good year makes you happy. Welcome to Christian Garry Kansil who is the latest person to like our Facebook Page<\/a>. I wonder if you\u2019re finding the links we post there of interest Christian?\u00a0In this show I talked to two cross cultural trainers to find out more about their work and how they got into it.<\/p>\n

absolutely curious<\/b>
\nHow do you become a cross cultural trainer? I\u2019m sure that this isn\u2019t something you told your careers adviser at school that you wanted to be when you grew up. So that was how I started my conversation with both of our guests in this show. First I asked Marion Burgheimer about how she came to be a crosscultural trainer.<\/p>\n

absolutely linked<\/b>
\nThen I spoke to Marion about some of the links which have proved popular on our facebook page and what made them popular. If you know of any interesting links which we should share on our Facebook Page<\/a> then leave us a comment there or use our blog or send us an email. Also use the blog to contact us if you know of someone we should be speaking to for a future podcast.<\/p>\n

absolutely lost<\/b>
\nSo now to our second cross cultural trainer, Margarita Gokun Silver, founder of the Global Coach Center<\/a>; same questions, what\u2019s your background and how come you became a cross cultural trainer and we\u2019ll see that Margarita\u2019s strength lies in helping the spouses of people who get stationed abroad and who are absolutely lost<\/b> in some cases. Here are some of the things they say:<\/p>\n