
THE WANDERLUSTERS MIND PODCAST
Thank you and wrapping up 2019
Taking a look back on 2019 and thank you all for your continued support. Thank you to all my guests, listeners and supporters.
Thank you so much for tuning in to the Wanderlusters Mind Podcast in 2019.
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Taking a look back on 2019 and thank you all for your continued support. Thank you to all my guests, listeners and supporters.
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Connect with me on Instagram @abbylewtas
Aligning her life through travel and school bus living with Laura Banks
Laura sold her house and left her corporate job to get the most out of living her life. She now lives on a school bus and runs her own business as a life coach, continually being an example for her clients to show them how getting outside their comfort zone leads to a truly rewarding life.
About Laura
Laura is an internationally certified coach and Neuro Linguistic Programming Practitioner for humans who are ready to let go of their limitations and live into their potential.
Her unique approach to creating powerful and lasting transformation can be summed up as mindset, magic and mechanics.
Mindset focuses on subconscious transformation, helping release the deep-seated beliefs, habits, thoughts and emotions that are holding you back, then re-wiring your brain with new programs.
Magic is about learning how to connect with and trust your truth - your intuition.
And mechanics is about taking the inner and outer action to create a life and business on your terms, one that feels good AND gets results.
After a car accident Laura went on a journey to become the sort of person she wanted to be and live a life she wanted to live – not the life she thought she ‘had’ to live.
Now, she loves challenging herself to get out of her comfort zone, which has seen her compete in a half-ironman triathlon, get a mystery haircut and convert a bus into a tiny home with her husband.
“To be living this lifestyle [on the bus] was a huge step outside my comfort zone.”
In the episode...
Laura’s first experience of travel was when she went to Japan on a school exchange.
She was originally going to travel to Japan but ended up meeting a ‘Kiwi’ and moved to New Zealand instead.
Laura has had many variations of stepping out of her comfort zone whilst travelling and the first was moving to New Zealand where she only knew her partner Matt.
Laura uses travel as a way to look at her values and they way she lives her life at home.
Laura and her partner Matt sold their house, brought a bus which they renovated and moved into to live in.
Minimalism was not originally part of something they had intended however it happened naturally when they moved into the school bus.
They get out and about every week in the bus to explore Tasmania.
Laura does have to think about all the challenges such as where to park the bus, emptying the composting toilet and managing transport to work.
Traditionally in her family they followed the ‘normal’ way of life and so living this style of life was outside her comfort zone however she always likes to ‘get outside her comfort zone.’
Laura was concerned that she would let her parents down when she would tell them they had sold their house and brought a bus to live in.
When they share their lifestyle with others, Laura recognises that their lives challenges others to think about the way they live their life.
Laura shares that the big changes were really just a collection of small steps towards something that she wanted.
Why Laura continue to seek out travel and live abroad? Because of the potential and possibilities that travel can bring in you and your life.
“You can just do YOU in the world”
Links
Website - laurabanks.com.au
Instagram - @_laurakbanks
Leaving the corporate world and travelling with intention with Anna Lundberg
Anna Lundberg is the founder of One Step Outside, where she helps peoples around the world build businesses and create a lifestyle that allows them an unimagined sense of freedom, flexibility and fulfilment. Since leaving her corporate job in 2013, she's now reimagining what success looks like and she's passionate about inspiring and supporting others to do the same.
Anna left on a 3 month adventure and it turned into a means of questioning many aspects of her life which eventually inspired change in her life.
About Anna
Anna Lundberg is the founder of One Step Outside, where she helps people around the world build businesses and create a lifestyle that allows them an unimagined sense of freedom, flexibility and fulfilment. Since leaving her corporate job in 2013, she's now reimagining what success looks like and she's passionate about inspiring and supporting others to do the same.
Her lust for travel all started with a sabbatical. Anna was between roles in her corporate job and her boss granted her a three-month break so that she could travel across South America. Halfway through that trip, Anna quit her job completely. For the next couple of years she took on consulting projects and travel between contracts. Once she realised that this was essentially just more of the same type of work, just for different companies, she 'quit' again and became fully nomadic as she trained to be a coach and built her business. Finally, she went 'back' to London, where she is now creating a base and opportunity to travel while feeling grounded and having more of a sense of belonging.
“Whatever you are doing, do it intentionally.”
In the episode...
Anna went to South and Central America cruising around the Galapagos, trekking the inca trail and many more adventures after she quit her job.
Anna did a little bit of consulting work before quitting and becoming nomadic.
Anna went paddle boarding down the Mississippi but let her intuition and events in her life guide her on her journeys.
Was confronted with a terrifying incident where her travel partner had a gun pulled on her.
The importance of getting out of your comfort zone whilst also being safe on your travels.
Settling back home was great as she was able to reconnect with her family and friends whilst also meeting her partner. Her internal challenge was the way she thought she would be perceived as an adventurer when she just was settling back into her routine lifestyle.
Many friends had started families and were moving in a different direction.
Now she is trying to find the balance between adventure, lifestyle and her career.
Reading lots of blogs, books and self analysis to assist her to find her way upon returning home.
Getting out of her bubble on her first 3 month trip put many things into perspective.
Anna used her inspiration from her travels to blogging, coach training and pondering her career.
3 things Anna have learned from travel.
Travel to step out of your bubble.
Be open to the growth and learning that travel can bring.
Travel with intention and for the right reasons.
Advise for others returning home: Trust your intuition, being curious, knowing there is no right answers and dont look outside yourself for the answers.
“Travel, I think, is the best way to grow and to meet new people an to shift your mindset on things. It just gets you out of that comfort zone.”
Links
Website - onestepoutside.com
Instagram - @annaselundberg
Facebook Group - One Step Outside
Abundance, Gratitude and Adaptability with Zoe Davenport.
Zoe Davenport was born with extra sensory abilities and has been extensively studying self-love, quantum physics and spiritual ascension for the past 10 years. Today, Zoe uses her multi-dimensional gifts to inspire and support the visionary leaders of the new paradigm. She seeks to guide them towards self-love, authenticity, creative potential, energetic mastery and the embodiment of their higher selves.
Zoe is an author and travels the world inspiring and supporting the visionary leaders of the new paradigm.
About Zoe
Zoe Davenport was born with extra sensory abilities and has been extensively studying self-love, quantum physics and spiritual ascension for the past 10 years.
Today, Zoe uses her multi-dimensional gifts to inspire and support the visionary leaders of the new paradigm. She seeks to guide them towards self-love, authenticity, creative potential, energetic mastery and the embodiment of their higher selves.
Her ability to hold the multi-dimensional field open accelerates a person’s potential and allows them to make a quantum shift in reality, jump to the highest timeline and ground their creative expression into the human experience. She is here to support those ready to expand upon their leadership roles - using her intuitive gifts of potential outcomes to easily guide a person towards their most aligned journey.
“I just feel so rich to have these experiences and all it takes is to trust in yourself that you can make anything that you want, to make happen in your life a reality, you just have to have faith and take that giant, massive, scary baby step forward and let the universe open up for you and help you become aligned with these amazing adventures and people and experiences.”
In the episode...
Zoe reminds us how incredible it is that we can get to pretty much anywhere in the world in a very short time. You can land in such a different place to where you left.
Zoe takes time to ensure her travel is abundant and joyful and really wants to feel grounded when travelling.
A story about when Zoe felt out of her comfort zone. She was in Costa Rica and faced with a challenging situation on her bus ride with the bus driver.
About stepping into her own energy and standing up for herself.
Not being in judgement of other people based on the situation you find yourself in.
Communicating through body language when you dont speak the local language.
Why saving money is not always the best option when you are travelling.
The biggest lesson Zoe has learned from travelling is how to be adaptable.
Zoe believes its so important to have gratitude and feel blessed for all the opportunities she has at her fingertips.
How Zoe challenged herself to be abundant with her travels and let go of a money story she had.
When returning home how its important to do things that bring you joy and make you feel grounded.
How you always have the ability to change your circumstance no mater what situation you find yourself in.
If your holding back with an adventure find a group that you can join to experience what you want.
Rapid fire round
What was the last place you visited? Sri Lanka
A place you tell everyone to visit? Canada
Scariest place travelled to? A street in Budapest
Your favourite thing about travel? Freedom
Wheres your next trip? Costa Rica
Why Zoe continues to seek out travel and adventure? Getting to connect with people around the world.
“Don’t try to fit into a lifestyle that isn’t serving you anymore, create your own lifestyle at home.”
Links
Website - www.zoedavenport.co.uk
Instagram - @zoedavenport1111
Facebook - Awakening to love
Zoe’s Book - Love is the answer - a guide to awakening the heart and stepping into true authenticity.
Running towards travel because it inspires your soul with Jade McKenzie
Jade McKenzie, owner of Event Head, is 5 x internationally award winning event professional and business coach with over 15 years’ experience in event management and business development in the corporate, not for profit and entrepreneurial sectors.
Jade McKenzie travels for business and personal enjoyment. She is a gypsy soul and loves the experiences and opportunities it brings.
About Jade
Jade McKenzie, owner of Event Head, is 5 x internationally award winning event professional and business coach with over 15 years’ experience in event management and business development in the corporate, not for profit and entrepreneurial sectors.
Jade specialises in working with thriving entrepreneurs and businesses ranging from start-ups to multi-millionaires who want to create successful and sustainable events. Having created, managed and executed a wide range of small and large scale events, she has worked within Australia’s most well-known venues, worked alongside celebrities and engaged high level corporate partnerships, whilst assisting to raise over a million dollars in charitable donations.
Jade's work has been enjoyed by thousands of people globally, with her events featuring in national and international media including TV, radio, print and digital platforms. She has taken to the stage delivering presentations and MC’ing in New York, London, Paris and across Australia and regularly presents online via masterclasses, webinars, podcasts, YouTube channels and video interviews.
Her passions include mentoring women in business, developing leadership in the workplace and empowering entrepreneurs to create impactful and sustainable businesses.
“Every time I travel, its like I just get the first chapter and I want to read the rest of the book. That’s what it feels like to me, honestly, it’s just a taste and I have to come back for more.”
In the episode...
Why home didn’t feel like home anymore and Jade started to feel like travelling felt more like home.
The big dived around being home and being away, in particular when her marriage was breaking down.
How her ex-partner questioned her about what she was running away from….but realising that she wasn’t running away from something she was running towards something.
Understanding that travel is part of Jades blood and it fuels her soul.
Why we dont question professional travel writers, photographers and people working in this industry, yet we question this on our own personal journey.
The biggest moments and insights come when Jade has space as the inspiration can flow in.
Taking the opportunities that she has access through her business and life situation.
How Jade feels when she is travelling and how she processes them and how she can bring that into her home life. She describes it as her ‘soul crying.’
Jade feels a part of her heart where ever she travels and always feels a sense of yearning to go back, but knows its more about appreciating that experience as it can be recreated
If you are wanting to travel and you are not, start small. Learn how to be savy.
Travel is not always glamorous - especially as a business owner and mum. Sometimes she feels confronted and conflicted and its important to work through these challenges.
Rapid fire round
What was the last place you visited? Queenstown, New Zealand
A place you tell everyone to visit? New Zealand
Scariest place travelled to? Shenzhen, China
Your favourite thing about travel? Being Braver by going out into the world and not knowing what will happen.
Wheres your next trip? Queenstown, New Zealand
Why Jade continues to seek out travel and adventure? It feels like just a taste…as if its the first chapter and she wants to go back and read the entire book.
“I wasn’t running away from anything, in fact, I was running towards something.”
Links
Website - www.eventhead.com.au
Podcast - Re-Awakened Women
Instagram - @theeventhead
Facebook - Event Head
Welcome to Season 2.
Welcome back to season 2 of the Wanderlusters Mind podcast. Im so thrilled to be back with you in 2019 and I have some amazing chats lined up for you hear on the show.
This year Im taking a slightly different angle on the podcast and I’ll be chatting to my guests about their incredible adventures and travels and the lessons, insights, learnings and growth that they have had from them. I believe travel and adventure is an incredible catalyst for growth and transformation and my aim is to share those stories with you here on the show.
Season 2 of the Wanderlusters Mind Podcast is about to begin. Sit back, relax and come along for the adventures.
Welcome Back
Welcome back to season 2 of the Wanderlusters Mind podcast. Im so thrilled to be back with you in 2019 and I have some amazing chats lined up for you hear on the show.
This year Im taking a slightly different angle on the podcast and I’ll be chatting to my guests about their incredible adventures and travels and the lessons, insights, learnings and growth that they have had from them. I believe travel and adventure is an incredible catalyst for growth and transformation and my aim is to share those stories with you here on the show.
I was honoured to learn that The Wanderlusters Mind podcast was nominated as a finalist in the Beautiful You Awards in the category of Podcast/Book/Product and the winners will be announced in March. Ill be keeping you up to date with the results.
Thank you to all my guests, listeners and supporters for making this show so incredible.
Links
Connect with me on Instagram @abbylewtas
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