THE WANDERLUSTERS MIND PODCAST
Kate Williams - Inspired by the world to build a thriving wellness business.
Kate left New Zealand at 20 years old to study the world instead of going to university. What she learned was something that school could never teach, travel opened her eyes to a whole new way of seeing life. At 25 years old, Kate found herself (on the Gold Coast) booking a last minute, one way ticket to Melbourne, triggered by what she claims to be a 'quarter life crisis' on the search to find a "good" job. After a year or so in the corporate world, feeling like a square peg in a round hole, Kate set off on an adventure again. Kate has not moved home to New Zealand but knows how it feels to move into many different situations. Now residing in Torquay, VIC, she has found a way to feel at home and has since created a business, Retreat Yourself Box, designed to encourage and inspire people to lead fulfilled lives.
Kate set out to study the world, after continually questioning the status quo she now runs her thriving wellness business 'Retreat Yourself.'
About Kate
Kate left New Zealand at 20 years old to study the world instead of going to university. What she learned was something that school could never teach, travel opened her eyes to a whole new way of seeing life.
At 25 years old, Kate found herself (on the Gold Coast) booking a last minute, one way ticket to Melbourne, triggered by what she claims to be a 'quarter life crisis' on the search to find a "good" job. After a year or so in the corporate world, feeling like a square peg in a round hole, Kate set off on an adventure again.
Kate has not moved home to New Zealand but knows how it feels to move into many different situations. Now residing in Torquay, VIC, she has found a way to feel at home and has since created a business, Retreat Yourself Box, designed to encourage and inspire people to lead fulfilled lives.
“Why do I want to ‘get the house’ and ‘get the car’ and I had to dig a little deeper to overcome the pressure I felt.”
When coming home...
- Emotions Kate faced - Hard and challenging to fit back in but used this motivation to fuel her next steps and make a change in the world.
- Biggest stress - Worried about what she was going to do with herself in her career.
- How Kate supported herself - Saw a life coach, spoke with family and took small steps to what she wanted to be doing.
- How Kate used her mindset - set small goals to a bigger vision and supported her to dig a little deeper.
- 3 Lessons learned from travel and reverse culture shock
- People are all the same, no matter your background, we all want to be loved we all want to be accepted.
- You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Ive learned to seek out adventure and excitement and finding adventure in everyday.
- Advise to herself for returning home - Don't worry about whats ahead, don't stress about what you think you 'should' be doing. Look inside and take small steps to your bigger goals. Do things that make you feel alive.
“One of the biggest things that travel has taught me is that people all over the world, no matter where you’re from or what your background is or where you live, we’re all the same. We’re all the same on the inside we’re all on the search for the same thing. We all want to be accepted we all want to be loved.”
Links
- Website: www.retreatyourselfbox.com
- Retreat Yourself Instagram: @retreatyourself_box
- Kate's Instagram: @a_piece_of_kate
- Retreat Yourself Facebook: @retreatyourselfhealthbox
Gabrielle Nancarrow - Bringing women together as a birth doula after living in the fast paced New York.
Gabrielle is a mum of two little girls and a birth doula. She grew up in Anglesea on Victoria’s Surf Coast and has lived in New York, Paris and Buenos Aires. She is currently back in Melbourne with her family and is close to launching a women’s space in the inner-west called Gather. Gather will be a place for women to come together and connect through the sharing of stories, thoughts and experiences. Gabrielle’s intention for the space is to bring connection back to a personal level and to provide a supportive place for women to come together free of judgement. She is passionate about speaking our truths, sharing our stories and celebrating honest motherhood.
Gabrielle has always been a traveller. After living in New York she has returned home to Australia to focus on her family, honest motherhood and purpose as a birth doula.
About Gabrielle
Gabrielle is a mum of two little girls and a birth doula. She grew up in Anglesea on Victoria’s Surf Coast and has lived in New York, Paris and Buenos Aires.
She is currently back in Melbourne with her family and is close to launching a women’s space in the inner-west called Gather. Gather will be a place for women to come together and connect through the sharing of stories, thoughts and experiences.
Gabrielle’s intention for the space is to bring connection back to a personal level and to provide a supportive place for women to come together free of judgement. She is passionate about speaking our truths, sharing our stories and celebrating honest motherhood.
“If you decide in a few years to go back, then you go back.”
When coming home...
- Emotions Gabrielle faced - Contemplation of life back in New York, Excited and happy to be back with family and friends, loss of identity.
- What had changed - Career was not fulfilling her in the way she would have liked.
- How Gabrielle supported herself - Fostered and continued to build her strong friendship network, connected with her sisters back in New York.
- 3 Lessons learned from travel and reverse culture shock
- The importance of family.
- Giving yourself time, being patient and being kind to yourself.
- Being in the moment and being present.
- Advise to herself for returning home - be patient, its going to be hard but you will come out the other end and know you have made the right decision.
“I really think people are looking for that strong offline community, just a presence where they can be seen and heard for whatever experience they are going through.”
Links
- Website: www.gatherwomenspace.com
- Instagram: @gabriellejoynancarrow
- Gather Womens Space Instagram: @gatherwomenspace
Habits to keep after your travels.
When we travel we start to lean in and embrace powerful new habits. Sometimes they come naturally and go along with the mood of our journey, other times there is no choice but to be a little more courageous. Yet sometimes when we return home and leave our travels behind we also leave some incredible habits that will serve us greatly in our day to day lives. As we switch from travel mode to everyday life mode think about how you can carry forward and embody these amazing habits into your everyday life.
9 habits that we develop on our travels but sometimes forget to apply when we return home.
“If you want to make a remarkable change in your life, change your habits.”
9 habits to keep after your
- Spontaneously trying new thing.
- Being curious to learn new things.
- Getting out of your comfort zone.
- Be adventurous.
- Keep it minimal.
- Awareness of your surrounds.
- Getting a good deal.
- Making new friends.
- Going wiht the flow.
Links
- On minimalism: Ep 18 Pip Honour - A wellness journey and a travelling adventure.
- On making new friends: Ep 29 Igniting friendships after a long time away.
- Related blog post: Nine habits developed from your travels that you should keep.
Margot Andersen - 7 years in London and returning home to help others in repatriation.
Margot spent 7 years living in London before returning 'home' to Australia approx 12 years ago. Whilst she loves being back and firmly believes she made the right decision to do so, the return journey was not quite as straightforward as she had anticipated. However it is these experiences that led her to start a network group called Insync aimed at helping repatriates reconnect as they return; as well as develop several career management and leadership programs in her consulting business to support both individuals and the organisations that they work for. She regularly writes and speaks on the topic of repatriation, global mobility and global careers and is passionate about helping people leverage the amazing experiences they have had as they return ‘home’.
Margot moved to London on a working visa and ended up staying there for 7 years. She faced challenges returning to the professional world when returning home before establishing her own successful business.
About Margot
Margot spent 7 years living in London before returning 'home' to Australia approx. 12 years ago. Whilst she loves being back and firmly believes she made the right decision to do so, the return journey was not quite as straightforward as she had anticipated.
However it is these experiences that led her to start a network group called Insync aimed at helping repatriates reconnect as they return; as well as develop several career management and leadership programs in her consulting business to support both individuals and the organisations that they work for.
She regularly writes and speaks on the topic of repatriation, global mobility and global careers and is passionate about helping people leverage the amazing experiences they have had as they return ‘home’.
“We are all hardwired to connect and belong and contribute and when we cant see it for ourself its very difficult to ask others to help us on that journey.”
When coming home...
- Challenges and Emotions Margot faced - Re-establishing herself in the professional world and in her career. Losing confidence and momentum in certain areas of her life.
- How Margot supported herself - Spent time with people who understood the journey she was going through. Participated in short courses. Got involved in the local community.
- Points about mindset - Get clear about why you want to come home
- 3 Lessons learned from travel and reverse culture shock
- You can do more than you think you can - the magic is on the edge of your comfort zone.
- Things wont always go 100% to plan.
- I want a rich, full life, there is an enormous world out there to go and appreciate but you have to decide what we want and go after it
- Advise to herself for returning home - Plan, aknowledge why you have come home and connect with others.
“Patience hasn’t been a big thing and we have to learn to be a little bit patient.”
Links
- Website: www.insyncnetworkgroup.com and www.margotandersen.com
- LinkedIn: Margot Andersen
- Facebook: @InsyncNetworkGroup
- Instagram: @insyncnetworkgroup
“There is great power in lived experience and shared experience.”
Travis Barton - Bartending in California to travel, adventure and life coaching as a global citizen.
Travis Barton is an expert at taking people who want to be extraordinary to epic new heights, through what he calls, adventurous coaching for extraordinary people. Travis has personally worked with a variety of people one on one, from executives and CEO's, to athletes and actors, to other coaches and entrepreneurs, supporting and challenging them in a powerful space to move passionately toward their dreams and goals, holding them at their highest self, creating space for real life changing magic to happen.
Travis began breaking down the social pressures through culture, travel and adventure and stepped into becoming citizen of the world.
About Travis
Travis Barton is an expert at taking people who want to be extraordinary to epic new heights, through what he calls, adventurous coaching for extraordinary people.
Travis has personally worked with a variety of people one on one, from executives and CEO's, to athletes and actors, to other coaches and entrepreneurs, supporting and challenging them in a powerful space to move passionately toward their dreams and goals, holding them at their highest self, creating space for real life changing magic to happen.
“The beautiful life that your imagining that adventurous life that you have in your heart, that is on the other side of your fear.”
When coming home...
- Emotions Travis expects to face when he returns home - Knows that this is where the lessons will come. Curious to see what will happen but feels connected to his new home. Exciting.
- How Travis maximises his mindset - Building courage like a warrior. Being conscious of your fears and how they are holding you back. Take responsibility for your life and your mind.
- 3 most important lessons that travel has taught you.
- Step and be open to change....You're never stuck. "If you do not change as you go, you will not arrive at yourself."
- Have an open mind.
- Dont ask what you can make money at....ask yourself what would you do it happiness paid the bills then figure out how to make money doing that.
- Advise for those wanting to not die with un-lived adventure inside them. - Ask yourself what is the big question that you are going to ask on your death bed, what is the answer that you want to hear to those questions? Choose to live in alinement with those answers not tomorrow but today.
“An adventure is not when everything is all good. An adventure is when things go to crap and how you choose to respond in the face of that.”
Links
- Website: www.travisbartonlife.com
- Travis' Instagram: @travbarton
- Travis' Twitter: @travbarton
- Books we spoke about
- Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
- Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
- Travel as transformation - Gregory Deal
- Travis' offerings
“Fear typically is the unfounded concept of our imagination that prevents us from living fully.”
Igniting friendships when returning home from travel.
One of the hardest things, I found when returning home from long term travel was re-establishing my friendship circles. There was a mixture of old friends, plus new ones and other friends I was meeting along the way. There were often times when I so desperately wanted to meet with an old friend and it just take off from where we left off, but instead I found that I was the one, pushing and driving and hoping the friendship would be the same, when it was never going to be that way, it had taken a new path.
One of the hardest things that so many people face I when returning home from long term travel is re-establishing my friendship circles.
“People come into our life for a reason, a season or a lifetime, when you figure out which it is, you will know exactly what to do.”
What I have learned when reconnecting with old friends.
APPROACH EACH FRIEND WITH ENTHUSIASM AND A ‘PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF’ MENTALITY.
- Be the one to actively approach and reach out to old friends to arrange to catch up.
- Be interested in what they have been doing with their life as well as sharing your story.
RELEASE EXPECTATIONS ABOUT HOW YOUR RELATIONSHIPS ‘SHOULD’ BE.
- Relationships may now be different closer or more distance depending on what has changed.
- The friendship doesn't have to be the same as it was.
- Acknowledge you have changed.
- Your friends may have changed or they may not have, both is ok.
CONTINUE TO SEEK NEW FRIENDS IN YOUR OLD HOME.
- Like on your your travels don’t let go of this skill just because you are now at home.
- Seek like minded people though community and events.
- Be the one to go first even if it feels out of your comfort zone
Links
- Related blog post: How to re-ignite old friendships after a long time aboard.
Hi, Im Abby...
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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