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One Of The Greatest Melting Pots

Celebrating 14 Years Of LIOS— Meet Our Melting Pot Of A Team

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
Apr 25, 2022
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Julia, our Simon Letter Managing Editor, is a first-generation Panama immigrant.

In fact, she was the first person in her family born in the country.

“I am thankful to my family who made the move to Panama more than 70 years ago,” Julia told me when she and I met three years ago.

“It was my forward-thinking grandfather who took the brave decision to venture into the unknown,” Julia explained. “He moved from China to Panama in 1949. Then, slowly but surely, he was able to bring the whole family over in the early 1980s.”

Sophia, our Editorial Director, meantime, was also born an expat but not in Panama.

Sophia was born in Singapore. This well-traveled young lady has also lived in Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Canada, the U.K., Spain, Colombia, and Panama.

“What brings you to Panama?” I asked when interviewing her for her LIOS position four years ago.

“The standard of living,” she said simply.

Sophia had been living in Colombia, working as a teacher, and, as she put it, she “was looking for a lifestyle upgrade.”

Marketing Manager Abby likewise arrived in Panama four years ago.

Abby hails from Venezuela.

“My mom is Panamanian,” she explains, “so, when things got uncomfortable in Venezuela and it was clear it was time for us all to relocate, Panama was the most sensible option.

“My family decided to move to Chiriquí, but I wanted to be in the city,” Abby says. “I wanted a fresh new start for everything… and that’s what Panama has given me.”

Our Customer Service Director Patricia and IT Manager Miguel are both Jamaican.

Miguel relocated to Panama more than a decade ago in search of employment opportunity and found it with LIOS a year later.

Miguel is also a runner. “Panama City’s Cinta Costera is a runner’s dream come true,” he says.

Covered benches on Cinta Costera - Panama City, Panama.
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Indeed, this pedestrian-only stretch that runs the length of the Bay of Panama through the center of Panama City is busy from early morning until well past sunset with runners, cyclists, skaters, and amblers of all ages.

Real Estate Sales Director Evren is Turkish. His sales team includes a Panamanian, an American, a South African, and three Irishmen—Neil, Darren, and Felim, none of whom have any intention of returning anytime soon to their native Emerald Isle.

“Go back to grey, wet Ireland,” Darren says, “and give up my new life here in Panama where the sun is always shining? I’d have to be daft to do that.”

Conference Manager Alessandra is Panamanian but also Italian and American… and her Conference Assistant Gloria is Panamanian, Spanish, and Guatemalan.

“My maternal grandparents were Spanish, and I have family in Valencia and some in France,” Gloria explains. “Because of the war in Spain they moved to Peru where they had my mom and uncles, then they wanted to start a business and decided that Panama was a good choice for that. They came here, first to Colon, then eventually they settled in Panama City.

“My dad’s family is in Guatemala,” Gloria continues. “He moved here to study with the Americans in Clayton. My mom was working with the Army. That’s how they met.”

Panama Circle Member’s Liaison Marion is a German who has lived in Panama City with her Panamanian husband for more than 35 years.

IT staff Dio, Cesar, and Leroy are Panamanians with serious programming chops.

Video Editor Kevin is a Zonian—that is, he was born in the Panama Canal Zone but raised in Indiana—and Customer Service Representative Wilbert is a Panamanian New Yorker—born in Panama but raised in Brooklyn.

Wilbert returned to Panama after graduating university in the States and serving in the U.S. Navy.

Every day, about 8 a.m., this diverse group of people meets up in a house in El Cangrejo to consider, day-by-day, options and opportunity worldwide and then to package the best of the lot of it for your benefit.

Next time you’re in Panama City, stop by. We’re a couple of blocks away from Einstein’s Head, a local landmark, in the building with the bright red awning.

Our eclectic LIOS team in residence loves to meet fellow wanderers.

Sincerely,
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Kathleen Peddicord
Founding Publisher, Overseas Opportunity Letter

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Kathleen Peddicord has covered the live, retire, and do business overseas beat for more than 30 years and is considered the world's foremost authority on these subjects. She has traveled to more than 75 countries, invested in real estate in 21, established businesses in 7, renovated historic properties in 6, and educated her children in 4.

Kathleen has moved children, staff, enterprises, household goods, and pets across three continents, from the East Coast of the United States to Waterford, Ireland... then to Paris, France... next to Panama City, where she has based her Live and Invest Overseas business. Most recently, Kathleen and her husband Lief Simon are dividing their time between Panama and Paris.

Kathleen was a partner with Agora Publishing’s International Living group for 23 years. In that capacity, she opened her first office overseas, in Waterford, Ireland, where she managed a staff of up to 30 employees for more than 10 years. Kathleen also opened, staffed, and operated International Living publishing and real estate marketing offices in Panama City, Panama; Granada, Nicaragua; Roatan, Honduras; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Quito, Ecuador; and Paris, France.

Kathleen moved on from her role with Agora in 2007 and launched her Live and Invest Overseas group in 2008. In the years since, she has built Live and Invest Overseas into a successful, recognized, and respected multi-million-dollar business that employs a staff of 35 in Panama City and dozens of writers and other resources around the world.

Kathleen has been quoted by The New York Times, Money magazine, MSNBC, Yahoo Finance, the AARP, and beyond. She has appeared often on radio and television (including Bloomberg and CNBC) and speaks regularly on topics to do with living, retiring, investing, and doing business around the world.

In addition to her own daily e-letter, the Overseas Opportunity Letter, with a circulation of more than 300,000 readers, Kathleen writes regularly for U.S. News & World Report and Forbes.

Her newest book, "How to Retire Overseas: Everything You Need to Know to Live Well (for Less) Abroad," published by Penguin Random House, is the culmination of decades of personal experience living and investing around the world.

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