Transforming from HR Specialist in Turkey to Global Speaker and Entrepreneur in America!

Burcu Onaranel Erten
4 min readNov 24, 2023

Would you move across the world just to discover yourself?

Not sure about you but that’s exactly what I did.

In this blog and following a few blog posts, I’ll be sharing my transformation from being a HR Specialist in Turkey to Global Speaker and Entrepreneur in America. This is a story I never shared in detail!

First of all, I am from Turkey and I was born and raised in a city called Bursa. As most people do, I followed the rules of the culture. What those are; getting a good degree, having a decent job, owning a car, getting married, having a child, buying a house… I did follow some of them until one day I had an “aha” moment and from that point on, my life changed.

In2015, I felt lost in my life. I didn’t feel like I belonged to the life I was living.

Even though I had so many things in my life that most people dream about: a decent job, a car, a loving family and good friends; I was not happy and I was super uncomfortable with this feeling. I wanted to find what was missing in my life. I started searching about the human mind, why we do what we do, how we can be fulfilled in life. And most importantly, how we can be happy…

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Burcu Onaranel Erten

Mission: To Create JOY! | Owner @Joyy! LLC | International Motivational Speaker | Certified Professional Life Coach | The Coffee o'clock Pod. YouTube @joyyburcu