THE WANDERLUSTERS MIND PODCAST
Accepting himself, others and a new lifestyle after 7 years aboard with Billy Byrne
After 7 years of living in Scotland, having many European adventures Billy is now settling back into the Australian way of life. Billy Moved to Glasgow, Scotland at the age of 28 in 2012. After 2 months he began a 6 months solo backpacking trip around Europe. Eventually, Billy returned to Glasgow gaining suitable work. Within 1.5 years he was involved in the operation and management of a Mexican tapas and tequila bars group, moving with the company to Edinburgh and Aberdeen over the following 5 years. With many Europe trips in between as well as a trip to India.
Billy decided to travel abroad in his late 20s basing himself in Scotland. After 7 years he returned home to start a completely new life.
About Billy
After 7 years of living in Scotland, having many European adventures Billy is now settling back into the Australian way of life. Billy Moved to Glasgow, Scotland at the age of 28 in 2012. After 2 months he began a 6 months solo backpacking trip around Europe. Eventually, Billy returned to Glasgow gaining suitable work. Within 1.5 years he was involved in the operation and management of a Mexican tapas and tequila bars group, moving with the company to Edinburgh and Aberdeen over the following 5 years. With many Europe trips in between as well as a trip to India.
“It does take a while to readjust, especially after being away for a long period because I had built a life.”
In the episode...
What it was like to first venture off solo travelling in his late 20s and 30s.
Spending this 30th Birthday in Croatia, waterskiing all afternoon.
Billy’s terrifying bus trip in Croatia.
Being able to fly to Paris for lunch and the beauty of exploring Europe when living and working in the United Kingdom.
The ups and downs of solo travel.
What it was like living and working in Scotland.
How it was great to have family close when living abroad.
The deep appreciation that Billy has for his own country after living abroad.
What it was like returning home after living in Scottland for 7 years.
The thoughts that came up for Billy after being home for 12 months.
How happy Billy is with his life and especially since he hasn’t conformed to the pressure from society.
From city to small-town and living a new lifestyle.
Accepting himself and others for who they are and learning that you can’t change people.
The wisdom Billy gained from reading “The Power of Now.”
Why Billy continues to seek out travels and adventures….the excitement of the unknown and the adventures you don’t know what you are going to have, so why not go and have an experience.
“If you choose to do what makes you happy and it fails, the only person you have to blame is yourself and then you can just try and try again.”
Links
Instagram @billybyrne84
Travelling solo in South America, parenting and truly being open with Amy Vespa
When asked 'what do you want to do when you grow up,' 10-year-old Amy knew that all she wanted to do was travel. She loved the thought of different cultures, learning new languages, and nature adventures that were worlds away from her New York City suburb home. Amy spent years travelling abroad and, most recently, all over the USA.
As a Holistic Health Coach and nutritionist, Amy has combined her love of nutrition with her love of travel and helps women feel great and love life while also continuously exploring. Amy now has a co-explorer, her 6.5 year-old daughter, who has also caught the travel bug!
Amy travelled solo through South America in her 20s and really deepened her relationship with open-mindedness. She now travels with her daughter and instils this lesson in her.
About Amy
When asked 'what do you want to do when you grow up,' 10-year-old Amy knew that all she wanted to do was travel. She loved the thought of different cultures, learning new languages, and nature adventures that were worlds away from her New York City suburb home. Amy spent years travelling abroad and, most recently, all over the USA.
As a Holistic Health Coach and nutritionist, Amy has combined her love of nutrition with her love of travel and helps women feel great and love life while also continuously exploring. Amy now has a co-explorer, her 6.5 year-old daughter, who has also caught the travel bug!
“I realised that people are so open and so friendly and want to get to know you.”
In the episode...
Amys adventure to a small town in Chile
Letting go and learning something new.
Communicating with body language.
Travelling through her home country, the US and the differing regions.
How Amy was able to lean into openness and look at things with new eyes.
The series of experiences that helped Amy to realise how putting judgements on everything leads to not having the ‘full’ experience of a new place.
How having expectations and ideas of a place can taint your experience.
What Amy took from travel and her relationship to openness and applied it to her parenting.
The way Amys openness has filtered down to her 6-year-old daughter.
Why Amy continues to seek out travels and adventures…being immersed, feeling the energy and trying to understand the different way people live and experience life.
Moving to Australia and navigating intuition and fear with Kim Akrigg
Kim is an RTT(Rapid Transformational Therapy) Practitioner and Mindset Coach for female entrepreneurs. She works with women to uncover the blocks that are holding them back from what they want and rewire their beliefs so they can achieve their goals.
Kims biggest adventure has been moving to Australia from Canada on a whim 8 years ago! She got hired to shoot a wedding in New Zealand and thought she would stop in Australia along the way and has never left.
When it comes to adventures and travel, Kim believes in following your intuitive guidance and learning how to manage and understand fear.
About Kim
Kim is an RTT(Rapid Transformational Therapy) Practitioner and Mindset Coach for female entrepreneurs. She works with women to uncover the blocks that are holding them back from what they want and rewire their beliefs so they can achieve their goals.
Kims biggest adventure has been moving to Australia from Canada on a whim 8 years ago! She got hired to shoot a wedding in New Zealand and thought she would stop in Australia along the way and has never left.
“We’re always being guided and lean into your intuiition because it will never lead you wrong.”
In the episode...
How Kim came to move to Australia after going to New Zealand to photograph a wedding.
Kim had always wanted to live in a place with palm trees and originally came to Australia on a working visa.
Kim fell in love with the east coast and Byron Bay.
According to Kims Astro cartography charts she is living in a place in favour of her career and is excited to travel to Perth as this also has favourable lines and energies here.
Kims biggest lesson she has learned from travelling is knowing that you are always being guided and to lean into your intuition.
How intuition shows up for you.
How people can get confused between fear and intuition and how to step into the right choice.
What happens when you don’t follow your intuition.
Kims advise for following your intuition as we move through the pandemic.
What to do when you become overcome with fear.
Ways to stop leaning into ‘worst-case scenario’ thoughts and feelings.
Why it’s so good to see how other people are living.
What Kim wants to do once all the pandemic lockdowns are over.
Why Kim continues to seek out travels and adventures…there is always something to explore.
“Your intuition always shows up as guidance that never sounds like fear, it’s always going to be something that is coming from a place of love and it doesn’t always make sense.”
Remote hiking and deep nature connection to heal the mind with Caitlin Weatherstone
Caitlin grew up locally in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales and has extensive knowledge of local flora and fauna, as well as over 12 years experience in nature tour guiding, bushwalking, working with animals, women and children, hosting events and facilitating workshops, environmental conservation and education, ecological sciences, making body products, public speaking and writing articles about nature based topics.
From hiking the Larapinta Trail to being immersed in nature for her work Caitlin suffered a serious neck injury and turned to nature for healing.
About Caitlin
Caitlin grew up locally in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales and has extensive knowledge of local flora and fauna, as well as over 12 years experience in nature tour guiding, bushwalking, working with animals, women and children, hosting events and facilitating workshops, environmental conservation and education, ecological sciences, making body products, public speaking and writing articles about nature based topics.
Caitlin, professional question asker, Wildlife Ecologist, Environmental Conservationist and Nature Tour Guide founded Wild Search Australia in 2018.
She is an avid hiker and has done multi-days in Hawaii, far north Queensland, the Gold Coast Hinterland, northern NSW and Alice Springs. Caitlin is also an advocate for nature connection for mental and physical health.
“It’s our human birthright to have access to nature.”
In the episode...
Caitlin’s grand idea in the way she wanted to hike the Larapinta trail in Australia.
Caitlin had 10kg of food that she had arranged herself for the 2 and a half week journey.
The experience Caitlin had on the trail and how it ended (something I didn’t expect.)
Why it is so important to have your mind in the right space before starting this type of adventure that takes you so far out of your comfort zone.
Caitlin’s next job as an ecologist with the Northern Qual in the wet tropics.
How Caitlin sustained a severe neck injury when she just thought it was a bump on her head.
The challenge had with her diagnosis.
Why it’s so important to work on a positive mindset during injury rehabilitation.
If you believe you can do something and you set your mind to it, you can do it.
Caitlins dive into deep nature connection.
What it means to have a spiritual connection with nature.
How being connected to nature helped her to have gratitude and appreciation for the small things.
The freedom and healing results Caitlin felt and had when she dropped her anger and victim mentality to her injury and all that it had encompassed.
Why Caitlin continues to seek out travels and adventures…the natural world - the variation, the diversity and the beauty and being immersed in these wild places for my happiness and joy.
“I just want to throw myself into these beautiful wild places for my happiness, sanity and joy.”
Forging a different life path and expanding your mind through travel with Sophie Delightful.
Known by her close friends and family as simply J, she has many monikers - including Kegeleagle as a roller derby player, Sophie deLightful as a cabaret performer and Hussy as a participant in the Burning Man community. A few years ago she made the switch from full-time travel agency manager and part-time performer/producer, to focus on her creative endeavours full-time and change to a home-based travel consultant contract. The lightbulb moment happened while on "leave without pay", travelling through Costa Rica, and she hasn't looked back since.
Sophie Delightful made the switch from full-time travel agency manager and part-time performer/producer, to focus on her creative endeavours full-time and change to a home-based travel consultant contract.
About Sophie
Known by her close friends and family as simply J, she has many monikers - including Kegeleagle as a roller derby player, Sophie deLightful as a cabaret performer and Hussy as a participant in the Burning Man community. A few years ago she made the switch from full-time travel agency manager and part-time performer/producer, to focus on her creative endeavours full-time and change to a home-based travel consultant contract. The lightbulb moment happened while on "leave without pay", travelling through Costa Rica, and she hasn't looked back since.
Sophie has travelled on immersive trips to London, St Maarten island, Caribbean, extended travels around Europe and South/Central America as well as SE Asia, Australia, NZ and the USA.
“You have to travel with an open mind.”
In the episode...
How travel helped her realise the privileges that she has as a western white women.
You don’t need a lot to be happiness and money does not by happiness.
How Sophie has really taken a different path in her life, following her heart rather than following what is ‘expected’ of her.
Recognising that she is in a very fortunate position to be able to lead the life she wants.
Sophie’s experience working and living in St Maarten, living like the locals and gaining perspective.
Her advise to people who are feeling stuck in their lives.
The stress that drove Sophie to leave her full time job and change her lifestyle.
Sophie’s first experience travelling solo and feeling out of her comfort zone and how it made her feel so independent.
How getting robbed at gunpoint on a tour showed her how strong she could be in a challenging situation.
Learning to rely on yourself when you are travelling and how Sophie brings this back into her life back home.
That nothing needs to be permanent.
How there are simply endless options and ways to live your life.
Why Sophie doesn’t plan long term.
Rapid fire round
The last place Sophie visited - New Zealand
A place Sophie tells everyone to travel to - New Zealand and South America
Scariest place travelled to - Colombia
Favourite thing about travel - Exposure to different cultures, people and ways of living
Sophie’s next destination - Canada
Why Sophie continue to seek out travel and live abroad? There is still so much of the world to see and travel inspires her continuously nourish her soul and expand her way of living
“Travel has changed the way I am as a person and so I cant recommend it enough.”
Links
Website - www.sophiedelightful.com
Instagram - @sophiedelightful
Facebook - Sophie deLightful
Travel Agent Page - J Wilson Remote Travel Agent Student Flights
Travel for growth and how it impacts our perspective with Aaron Yeak.
Aaron is driven from within. He is an entrepreneur, traveller, and lover of great coffee and people’s stories. His career spans Formula 1, sport and recreation, management consulting and now takes him on a business journey with an unknown destination. Much like his travel he enjoys the journey as well as the destination in life and business and takes every opportunity to see the world through the eyes and footprints of others. Aaron is documenting his business journey to a “destination unknown” and has also written a book about his career transitions from standing track side at motor sport events to inside boardrooms as a management consultant.
Aaron Yeak has been travelling since the age of 2. For him travel is all about how you can grow and gain perspective of others. He loves taking his learnings and applying them into his life and business back home.
About Aaron
Aaron is driven from within. He is an entrepreneur, traveller, and lover of great coffee and people’s stories. His career spans Formula 1, sport and recreation, management consulting and now takes him on a business journey with an unknown destination. Much like his travel he enjoys the journey as well as the destination in life and business and takes every opportunity to see the world through the eyes and footprints of others. Aaron is documenting his business journey to a “destination unknown” and has also written a book about his career transitions from standing track side at motor sport events to inside boardrooms as a management consultant.
From the age of 2, Aaron has been fortunate to have spent multiple periods overseas including studying in China, Austria and Finland. As well as travelling to over 40 countries throughout Europe, Australasia, Asia and North America. Much of his time abroad has been spent exploring the local scene with friends who are locals.
“Your mindset, in the moment, is so important as has the potential to be an enriching experience or something you can grow from and learn from or something you can get stuck on and go on a bit of a negative spiral which you really don’t want to be in when you’re away from your comfort zone.”
In the episode...
Aaron has always travelled to visit family and friends.
Studying abroad in many different countries.
Aaron likes to travel ‘through the eyes of a local.’
Figuring out the way the locals live and learning to adopt their ways in their country.
How technology has changed the way we travel, the pros and the cons and how we should not let these changes override the purpose and reasons for why we travel.
When Aaron got scammed on his recent trip to Helsinki and how it made him feel.
Why your mindset is so important when you are travelling.
What Aaron learned from the way scammers operate.
The appreciation and different perspective that travel offers you.
How Aaron gets excited for travel, even if its just talking to others about their travels.
Using the learnings from his travel to impact others in their life.
What you interpret as travel and adventure is up to you and may be different to others.
Scratch the itch or inkling for travel because ‘what if you dont?’
How travel has formed who he is.
Rapid fire round
The last place Aaron visited - Melbourne/Sydney, Out of country - Vietnam
A place Aaron tells everyone to travel to - Scandinavia
Scariest place travelled to - Malaysia
Favourite thing about travel - Meeting people from all around the world
Aarons’s next destination - Vietnam
Why Aaron continue to seek out travel and live abroad? Curiosity and wondering what else is out there.
“Travel has made me less materialistic.”
Links
From Racetracks to Boardrooms, was an MBA worth it? Aarons Book
Facebook - Aaron Yeak and Race Tracks to Boardrooms
Linked In - Aaron Yeak
Twitter - @aaronyeak
Instagram - @aaronyeak
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About me...
Hi I'm Abby, Adventurer, Life coach, Speaker and Blogger.
After a successful sporting career I now love sharing what I have learned from my adventures and traveling the world.
I believe in turning into your adventurous life through your intuition and the little nudges from the universe.
Lets share the adventure. xo
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