THE WANDERLUSTERS MIND PODCAST

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Annie Soulsby - Seeing Tanzania grow.

Annie Soul is a life coaching specialising in travel. She blogs about her expertise at www.soulfultravels.co.uk. She has spent over seven years as an expat in Tanzania. Annie moved to Tanzania in 2010 after six months of teaching scientific fieldwork skills to volunteers on a bush camp with no running water or electricity the previous year. She went with the ambition of starting her own NGO and spent every single effort trying to make that happen. She made some really lovely lifelong friends and had awesome adventures, but needed a change and decided to leave in 2016.

Leaving the UK for 7 years in Tanzania and returning home again.

About Annie

Annie Soul is a life coaching specialising in travel. She blogs about her expertise at www.soulfultravels.co.uk. She has spent over seven years as an expat in Tanzania.

Annie moved to Tanzania in 2010 after six months of teaching scientific fieldwork skills to volunteers on a bush camp with no running water or electricity the previous year. She went with the ambition of starting her own NGO and spent every single effort trying to make that happen.

In the end the political situation changed dramatically and the experience was not the same as when she had arrived. She made some really lovely lifelong friends and had awesome adventures, but needed a change and decided to leave in 2016.

“You have to take some time to nurture your own feelings to ensure your strong enough to continue”

— Annie Soulsby

When coming home...

Emotions Annie faced - Upset to leave new friends in Tanzania behind, excited to return home, security, relax and not worry about basic needs.
Biggest stress - No one understands the change you have been going through.
How Annie supported herself - Concentrate on herself, take time to do things for yourself.
How did her mindset change - Self action, open communications, being selfish and investing time in herself
3 Lessons learned from travel and reverse culture shock

"Dont panic." (Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy)
Dont always listen to people when they say negative things about travel.
Research, Research, Research!

Advise to herself for returning home - Enjoy everything that you can. You know your strengths.

Links

Website: www.soulfultravels.co.uk

Annies Instagram: @soulfultravelsuk

Facebook: Soulful travels

Twitter @soulfultravels

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Kate Cashman - Following her soul calling after 9 months in Africa.

Kate is a rest and renewal coach, events creator, writer and speaker at The Breath Between. She helps busy professionals and entrepreneurs become leaders of their personal lives and find time, space and strategies to feel truly relaxed, renewed and ready to show up in their lives feeling energised and rejuvenated. She is also a lecturer in law, a mum to two small kids, a passionate traveler and lives in the green island of Tasmania.

Deciding to leave a corporate job as a lawyer and stepping into a PHD and Life Coaching business.

About Kate

She is also a lecturer in law, a mum to two small kids, a passionate traveler and lives in the green island of Tasmania.

“Travel teaches you to be courageous in times were you might not otherwise.”

— Kate Cashman

When coming home...

Emotions Kate faced - Anxiety, down, disconnect.
What had changed - Her perception on the world.
Biggest stress - Had no money and no car to get around, gut feeling screaming at her to change career paths.
How Kate supported herself - became introspective, spent time on her own, meditation, yoga and then getting out and about.
3 Lessons learned from travel and reverse culture shock.