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This Messy Mobile Life

How a Mola can help globally mobile families create a life by design
​Mariam Navaid Ottimofiore
This Messy Mobile Life
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Do your family dinners happen in more than one language? Do you celebrate Christmas and Eid? Do you and your family feel at home in more than one country? If so, then you may be a MOLA Family and yes, this multicultural, multilingual, mobile life can get a little ‘messy.’

In South America, a mola is a shirt made from intricately stitched layers of patterns and cloth. Worn with pride, it represents who you are – inside and out. Mariam Ottimofiore presents a mola as the perfect metaphor for globally mobile families living between cultures, countries, languages, nationalities, identities and homes, who find their story hard to articulate. She has created the MOLA tool to help global families design and show their stories to the world. This is your ‘life by design.’

Pakistan-born Mariam is a writer, researcher and expatriate family specialist who grew up and lived in nine countries. Her husband is German/Italian and together they have raised their children in Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
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Raw, honest, inspiring and uplifting, This Messy Mobile Life comprises personal reflection, expert advice and survey research to help you take your global family from mess to mola.
A wonderfully welcome addition to the mobile, cross-cultural, and ethnically diverse community.
Michael V. Pollock
​Director of Interaction International, co-author of Third Culture Kids
This book will make thousands of expats more secure in their messy lives!
Christine Sperr
​Managing Director, ​Middle East, Santa Fe Relocation
​An outstanding new addition to the global family literature.
Robin Pascoe
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Every now and then, a book comes along that leapfrogs ahead of others on similar topics. Accessible, engaging and thorough, This Messy Mobile Life IS that book.
 Linda A. Janssen
​author of The Emotionally Resilient Expat

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  • About Us
    • Meet the Team
    • Contact Us
    • Our Privacy Policy
  • Services and Fees
    • Publishing Programmes
    • Selected Services
    • Terms and Conditions
  • Springtime Titles
    • Expat Bookshop
    • Springtime Direct
    • Expat Life >
      • Sink Then Swim
      • The Singing Warrior
      • The Newcomer's Dictionary
      • Badass Abroad
      • #Living the Dream
      • This Messy Mobile Life
      • Life After My Saucepans
      • Living Elsewhere
      • What About Your Saucepans?
      • Turkey Street
      • Perking the Pansies
      • Living Elsewhere
      • Drinking Camel's Milk in the Yurt
      • Passage to Persia
    • Memoir >
      • On Swallows' Wings
      • The Singing Warrior
      • Badass Abroad
      • #LivingTheDream
      • Life After My Saucepans
      • What about your saucepans?
      • The Soul Millionaire
      • Turkey Street
      • Passage of the Stork
      • Drinking Camel's Milk in the Yurt
      • Perking the Pansies
      • Passage to Persia
    • Health & Wellbeing >
      • Sink Then Swim
      • Meet Your Muse
      • Juicy Life
      • The ChrisLin Method
      • #LivingTheDream
      • How to stand Up to Sexism
      • This Messy Mobile Life
      • In Search of the Best Swedish Chokladbollar
      • Benjamin's Bedtime Journey
    • Foreign Language Books >
      • La vie en mouvement
      • Unterwegs im Zwischenland
      • Les Signatures de BioGéométrie​
      • Vida en Movimiento
      • Méthode Adamski
      • El Prologo
      • Tracce di BioGeometria​
      • Der Prolog
      • De Regreso a un Futuro Para a Humanidad
      • Retour Vers un Avenir pour L'Humanité
      • O Futuro Iluminado Pelo Passado
      • Retour Vers un Avenir pour L'Humanité
      • Hanna Och Den Flygande Mattan
    • Moving >
      • Sink Then Swim
      • The Newcomer's Dictionary
      • #LivingTheDream
      • This Messy Mobile Life
      • Living Elsewhere
      • Life in Motion
      • Going Local in Gran Canaria
      • Jump Down Under
      • Unpack
      • Deconstructing Brazil
    • Fiction >
      • The Guilty Can't Say Goodbye
      • The Legend of the Dancing Baobab Tree
      • Boudica's Daughters
      • A Family Just Like Mine
      • From Barcelona
    • Wealth >
      • Whose Career - Yours, Mine or Ours?
      • The Millennial Money Masterplan
      • Here We Are
      • The Flight of the Soul Millionaire
      • The Soul Millionaire
      • Secrets of a Financial Adviser
      • Retire to the Life You Love
      • Now It's Clear The Career You Own
    • Travel >
      • Travels Through Asia
      • The Twelve Days of Christmas Safari
      • Postcards from the Ege
      • Going Local in Gran Canaria
      • Deconstructing Brazil
    • Children and Young Adults >
      • The Legend of the Dancing Baobab Tree
      • The Twelve Days of Christmas Safari
      • Hanna and the Flying Carpet
      • Boudica's Daughters
      • A Family Just Like Mine
      • Benjamin's Bedtime Journey
    • Faith >
      • Unterwegs im Zwischenland
      • La vie en mouvement
      • Vida en Movimiento
      • Life in Motion
    • Music >
      • Ar Lan y Môr​
  • For Writers
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    • Paddy Hartnett, Proofreader
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