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EP 6: To Move or Not to Move? | Postdoc Gonzalo Dona (UT Austin)

Deciding when and how to move your family

Description

This is Episode #6 of the Anscombe’s Juggle podcast for parent-scholars looking to balance the demands of parenthood and academia. In this episode, Gonzalo Dona, a postdoctoral fellow in economics at UT Austin, tells us how his family managed to make four intercontinental moves with four kids in tow! We explore how to decide whether to move for a job; the ways moves are easier as a family than as an individual; logistics for carting his growing family of six across the whole world; and how having kids early in his career has helped to keep him going.

Chapters

0:00 – Intro and background

3:18 – Principles for selecting places to move to

7:43 – Preserving unity across different locations as individual vs. family

16:07 – Logistics for big moves

21:10 – Finding your groove in a new place

26:34 – Keeping your sanity wherever you are

31:43 – Reasons for having children early

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