CEO-level thinking for lean operators. Wherever you choose to run your business from.
I am Sonaya Williams.
Wife of ten years. Mom to two daughters, ages seven and nine. Business owner for fifteen years.
I have lived in three different countries with my family over the past nine years. New Jersey to London to Copenhagen to London to the Middle East (Doha, Qatar), where I am now.
That is the personal side. Here is the business side.
What I Actually Do
For the last decade, I have been the CEO Partner. That is the agency I run. We come in when a founder has built something successful and is now stuck inside it. The business is making money. The founder is exhausted. Every decision still goes through them.
We install the operating system underneath the business. The one that removes the founder as the bottleneck.
That work has a name inside our company. We call it the CEO Operating System, or CEO OS.
Most of my clients pay $6,000 a month for this work. They have teams of ten to fifty. Real revenue. Real complexity.
You probably do not.
Why This Publication Exists
I kept getting the same email from a different kind of operator.
Solo founders. Founders with a VA and two contractors. People running real revenue with small teams and big ambition. People working toward six figures and feeling like the business was already heavier than it should be.
The question was always the same: how do I get access to your thinking without the retainer?
The Global Life Project is the answer.
Every week, members receive a tool, template, framework, or system from The CEO Partner. Right-sized for solo and lean operators. All of it lives in the Global Life Library, the member archive that grows every week.
Same intellectual property I install inside seven and eight figure firms. Twenty-five dollars a month instead of six thousand.
Two Articles Every Week
Sundays are for life decisions. The Global Citizens Framework applied. Where to live, when to move, how to design a footprint that fits your family.
Wednesdays are for business decisions. The CEO Operating System applied. What to install, what to stop doing, how to run a small operation without becoming the operation.
Free for everyone. Members get the tools that come from them.
Who This Is For
Lean operators running real businesses with small teams. Founders working toward six figures. People who want CEO-level thinking applied to the way they actually run.
You do not have to live abroad. You do not have to be planning a move. You just have to be tired of being the system, the bottleneck, and the backstop all at once.
If that is you, this is built for you.
— Sonaya Williams Founder, Global Life Inc. Doha, Qatar
$25 a month. $250 a year. Cancel anytime.
They fall in love with a country on vacation. They panic after an election. They see someone else’s Instagram and think that could be us. They spend months researching visa costs and cost of living, and almost no time asking the harder questions, the ones that actually determine whether a move like this works.
Should I actually move? Is this the right time? What does my business need to survive this? What does my family need to thrive?
Global Life Project is where I work through those questions publicly, rigorously, and from lived experience.
Hi! I’m Sonaya. I’ve been living globally since 2015.
I moved from the US to the UK, got married, and had my first daughter in 2016. Then we moved to Copenhagen with an 8-month-old baby and had my second daughter in 2018. We moved back to the UK in 2022, when my older daughter was struggling to speak either English or Danish. We needed to stabilize. In 2025, we moved to Doha, Qatar, in the Middle East, where we live now.
Four moves. Three countries. Two daughters. One business running through it all.
I didn’t do any of this perfectly. But I did all of it intentionally, and the moves that went the smoothest were the ones where I had a strategic plan behind the decision, not just a feeling.
Before any of this, I started my business in 2011. The reason was simple: I was raised by a single mother who worked multiple jobs to keep us afloat. I watched her sacrifice her presence for our provision, and I decided early that when I had children, I wasn’t doing it that way. I wanted to be home. I wanted to be present. I wanted to build something that was mine, not someone else's.
So I built a business - The CEO Partner - working alongside high-achieving 6 & 7 figure entrepreneurs as their Fractional COO and Strategic Operator. For over a decade, I’ve been inside businesses helping founders build the systems, structure, and strategy that gave them their lives back. That’s the lens I bring to everything. Not inspiration. Operations.
When I started living internationally, I realized that the same thing that makes or breaks a business decision, structure, clarity, and honest assessment of risk, is exactly what’s missing from how most people approach global decisions.
So I built a framework. And then I started writing about it.
What is this framework?
The Global Citizens Framework is a three-phase process for making well-informed global decisions.
Phase 1 is DESIRE: It answers the question, "Should I move?" This is where most people need to start and where most people skip to the wrong thing. Before you research countries, you need to get clear on your non-negotiables, your risk capacity, and whether you and the people in your life are actually aligned with this direction. A move made without this work tends to unravel.
Phase 2 is DIRECTION: It answers the question, Where should I move? Once the decision is real, the question becomes fit, not fantasy. What does your life actually require? What does your business need to keep operating? What does the location need to offer to make this sustainable in the long term?
Phase 3 is DESIGN: It answers the questions, When and how do I move? This is the execution phase. Global footprint, business structure, legal and tax considerations, the commitment strategy, and the timeline. This is where decisions become plans.
What is this publication?
Global Life Project’s job is not to tell you where to move. It’s to help you decide whether to move and to build the foundation of clarity you’ll need before any of the other decisions make sense.
I publish twice a week:
Life articles on personal alignment, family considerations, identity, raising children across cultures, and the human side of the global decision.
Business articles on continuity, cross-border operations, tax strategy, business structure, and how to build something that moves with you instead of breaking when you do.
Every article is grounded in the framework. Every article is written by someone who has actually done this, not once, but across multiple countries, through multiple phases of life and business.
Why listen to me?
I’m not a relocation consultant. I’m not an expat lifestyle blogger. I’m not someone who moved abroad and built a brand around the aesthetic.
I’m an operator who has spent 14 years building businesses and helping others build theirs, and who has been living the global decision in real time since 2015. I have moved with a newborn. I have reversed a move because it wasn’t working for my child. I have rebuilt my business structure across three different regulatory environments. I have made this decision badly and well, and I know the difference.
Global Life Project is what I wish had existed when I started. Not a community for people who have already decided. Not a visa guide. A serious, structured publication for people who are in the middle of the most important decision they’ll make about how they want to live and who want to get it right.
If that’s you, you’re in the right place.
Two articles a week. The framework behind every one of them.
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