Moving to Italy After 50 – Vanessa’s story

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What if the life you’ve built isn’t the life you want for the next 20 years…

And what if it’s never too late to start again?

In this episode, we cover:

• Why Vanessa and her husband decided to leave Australia and start a new life in Italy
• What it takes to move countries in your late 50s
• How to build friendships and community somewhere completely new
• Why home is about more than where you live
• What Italian women can teach us about ageing and confidence
• Why being kinder to yourself might be the biggest change of all

At 57, Vanessa packed up her life in Australia, sold the family business and moved to Trieste, Italy, with her husband, pets and furniture.

No Italian heritage. No language skills. No established community.

Just a feeling that there was more life to be lived.

You don’t have to move to Italy to change your life.

Sometimes it’s about questioning the rules you’ve placed on yourself, being open to something new and remembering that life doesn’t stop being an adventure after 50.

Turns out… starting over might be less about changing where you live and more about changing how you see yourself.