Habits to keep after your travels.

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

1. Spontaneously trying new thing.
2. Being curious to learn new things.
3. Getting out of your comfort zone.
4. Be adventurous.
5. Keep it minimal.
6. Awareness of your surrounds.
7. Getting a good deal.
8. Making new friends.
9. 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.

Travis Barton - Bartending in California to travel, adventure and life coaching as a global citizen.

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.”

— Travis Barton

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.

1. Step and be open to change....You're never stuck. "If you do not change as you go, you will not arrive at yourself."
2. Have an open mind.
3. 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.”

— Travis Barton

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
  • 68 Questions to help you discover your life purpose.
  • Barefoot Business.
  • Travis' Book - The adventure of purpose.

“Fear typically is the unfounded concept of our imagination that prevents us from living fully.”

— Travis Barton

Igniting friendships when returning home from travel.

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.

Sora Surya No - Travelling intentionally, uncovering rituals and leading sacred circles.

Sora Surya No has always been a traveller at heart. She was called to hold circles and now travels the world leading sacred ceremonies for her sisterhood.

About Sora

Sora Surya No is a sacred space holder, strategy alchemist, transformative business coach, international retreat leader, inspirational speaker, fire igniter, heart whisperer, and world traveler.

She works with sovereign awakened women entrepreneurs to incorporate the art of feeling sacred into their business through rituals, ceremonies, and the divine feminine.

Sora loves to sit in ceremony with sisters and share the art of holding circle. She leads women through powerful experiences in her mastermind, on retreats, and from the stage. Sora blends real world experience with mystical transformation, ritualistic practices, inner reflection, and deepening community to help soulful feminine leaders create great impact while priestessing their life. She is a believer of sisterhood and living a life that is wild, free, and calm. You can find out more about Sora and her work at www.sorasuryano.com.

“Being nomadic and travelling a lot...it’s a lot of energy you’re constantly on the go and you’re constantly mindful of your awareness of things around you.”

— Sora Surya No

When coming home...

• Emotions Sora faced - Boredom, Cave in and turned into an introvert, Sometimes the best thing to do was to travel again.
• Challenges Sora faced from travel - Living in a location is more challenging than travelling through, recognising herself being judgemental of people when she was travelling.
• How Sora supported herself - Learning about her own cycles, finding community and friends, learning to create new experiences of travel whilst at home, creating intentions for travel, creating rituals, finding ways to feel grounded, do the things that helped prepare her to have a good routine (find the good coffee shops, yoga classes, health food shop). When Sora has a desire or frustrated about home she realised it is time to go somewhere new.
• 3 Lessons learned from travel and reverse culture shock

1. We are all similar in our worries and our fears….this gives us the opportunity to feel more connected.
2. Deeper understanding of self and that you can be closed off and to recognise that you need to be open for the greatest gifts to occur.
3. Feeling a deeper respect for herself and her connection to earth - learning about the medicine of earth.

• Advise to herself for returning home - Honour and be grateful for your experience and travels, acknoledge the lessons you have learned and apply them to your everyday life.

“What do I have to learn from the land and its people and can I do it with a lot reverence so that I am feeling that I am learning and getting more out of it than ticking a box.”

— Sora Surya No

Links

• Website: www.sorasuryano.com
• Instagram: @sorasuryano

Natalie Roberts-Mazzeo - Leaving the corporate world for the Mediterranean, India and a spiritual journey.

Leaving the corporate world to follow her calling to Europe and India, Natalie returned home to pursue her life of adventures and helping Miracle Mamas.

About Natalie

Natalie Roberts-Mazzeo is the founder of Miracle Mama, an online sanctuary that empowers and inspires mothers who are raising special needs children. Through coaching, community and connection, Natalie’s mission is to create a space for women to reconnect with themselves and what is most important to them.

Natalie is also a writer and speaker, based in Melbourne, Australia. She love’s a good chai, mojito and getting out into nature. Natalie also has a background in corporate, and is a qualified yoga and meditation teacher.

What Natalie is really known for is gathering, soulfully supporting and holding space for women who find themselves raising a child with conditions from mild to severe, to life-threatening. She supports them to find purpose and peace in their extraordinarily challenging circumstances, so that they can bring that love and compassion not only to their own families, but also to themselves.

Natalie left the corporate world and set off for Europe where she immersed herself in the Mediterranean countries of Turkey and Greece. For six months she lived in a treehouse, swam in the ocean, ate delicious food and learned about the local culture. She then headed to London to start a working holiday visa which didn't quite go to plan. She found herself packing up again and heading to India where she spent 6 months in Rishikesh practicing yoga and planting her spiritual seeds. 

“That sense of adventure and connection to mother nature has just been woven through my life.”

— Natalie Roberts-Mazzeo

When coming home...

• Emotions Natalie faced - Unsettling time, the challenge was in merging her two lives together, it was a hard thing to work through.
• Biggest stress - Felt like she was starting from scratch again, like her foundation was gone, Finances, pressures from society.
• How Natalie supported herself - Get out and explore the cultures she had experienced in Melbourne. Tried to keep her sense of adventure. Yoga and Meditation.
• How her thinking changed - learned to keep an open mind and push herself out of her comfort zone.
• 3 Lessons learned from travel and reverse culture shock

1. Adaptable and Resilate
2. Appreciating different cultures and making the most of your time travelling
3. Getting out of your comfort zone

• Advise to herself for returning home - keep your mind open and keep living your life on your times and enjoy the ride.

“I’ve always liked to test my personal limits my limits have always been at the edges of full on fear.”

— Natalie Roberts-Mazzeo

Links

• Website: miraclemama.com.au
• Facebook community: miracle mama community
• Natalies Instagram: @natalierobertsmazzeo
• The Reignite Program

“Returning home is like the shock of the familiar, and it’s so true because its a feeling that nothing had changed, yet for you, everything had changed.”

— Natalie Roberts-Mazzeo

Ways to move through Reverse Culture and Re-Entry shock

6 common things people to do help them move through reverse culture and re entry shock.

“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”

— Ibn Battuta

Ways to cope with moving home.

Its that common feeling so many face, after returning home from the trip of a lifetime you arrive back home and, as if in a blink of an eye, it feels like your entire life has changed.

Initially there is that excitement phase of seeing family and friends moves pretty fast and all of a sudden you thinking to yourself ‘what next?’ For sure everyone around you is asking ‘so, what are you going to do now?’

After working with and speaking to travellers who had experienced this feeling of Reverse Culture shock, I found a common theme of things they do to integrate back into their home country. Of course with everything, there are pros and cons, take what you like and leave the rest. The 6 most common things, that I have found, people use to move through reverse culture shock are.

6 things you can do to move through reverse culture and re-entry shock

1. Plan the next big trip.
2. Get back into routine.
3. Talk to family and friends.
4. Get involved with the community and attending events.
5. Move cities.
6. Seeking professional help

Links

• Ep 23 - Mindset and why its important for travellers.