THE WANDERLUSTERS MIND PODCAST
Julianna Barnaby - Soul searching in Central America.
Julianna is a travel blogger and creator of 'The Discoveries Of.' A travel writer who retrained as a lawyer and worked in London before going back to her original passion of travel writing.Julianna took the six weeks to spend time travelling in Central America and did a road trip up the West Coast of the US, before returning home to the UK.
Going full circle from travel writer to lawyer, six weeks in Central America and following her soul calling to return to travel writing.
About Julianna
Julianna is a travel blogger and creator of 'The Discoveries Of.' A travel writer who retrained as a lawyer and worked in London before going back to her original passion of travel writing.
Julianna took the six weeks to spend time travelling in Central America and did a road trip up the West Coast of the US, before returning home to the UK.
“Trying to be aware of my own feelings and my own thoughts a lot more rather than doing things automatically.”
When coming home...
- Emotions Julianna faced - Hard, tough and difficult to face returning home from travel. Sharp contrast. Felt like there was not much control.
- What had changed - Didn't want to be a lawyer full time anymore...but what do I do?
- How Julianna supported herself - started writing again
- How did her mindset change - being conscious of what she was feeling
- 3 Lessons learned from travel and reverse culture shock
- There is never a good time to do something. You need to make the time happen.
- Be open to experainces
- Some things are worth taking a gamble on.
- Advise to herself for returning home - I wish I had travelled sooner to figure out what I wanted to do.
“I wanted to write a travel website that I would want to read!”
“There is never a good time to do something, you can keep on waiting for the right time to do something....sometimes the right time is just the time you do it.”
Mel Cook - From Peru to Miami and falling in love.
Once known as shy Mel, she is now a girl full of swag who loves the opportunity to stay in shape. Mel is a body and lifestyle transformation specialist who loves life and loves inspiring people to achieve the body and lifestyle that they have always craved.Mel travelled for 4 month, a month in Peru and 3 months living in Miami. She spent her time training as a sprinter with an Olympic development coach, volunteering and working on herself.
From shy Mel to confident body and lifestyle transformational specialist.
About Mel
Once known as shy Mel, she is now a girl full of swag who loves the opportunity to stay in shape. Mel is a body and lifestyle transformation specialist who loves life and loves inspiring people to achieve the body and lifestyle that they have always craved.
Mel travelled for 4 months, a month in Peru and 3 months living in Miami. She spent her time training as a sprinter with an Olympic development coach, volunteering and working on herself.
“The way I do things in life is, I dont make my decision once I know how to do something...I make the decision and find a way of making it happen.”
When coming home...
Emotions Mel faced - Numb, floating and looking down on her life, unsure about next steps
How Mel supported herself - You always need something to look forward to, life coaching
How did her mindset change - Mindset is extremely important, you cant stop you have to keep doing things towards your vision.
3 Lessons learned from travel and reverse culture shock
Its hard work coming back home and feeling grounded and settled again.
Having a focus and a vision. Where you put your focus is where your energy goes.
Look within
Advise to herself for returning home - keep looking within
“We travel to get the high, adventure and excitement, but we can actually get all of that when were focused, disciplined and working hard towards something.”
Links
Website: www.imanifit.com
Mels Instagram: @meljaydeoliech and Imani Fitness Instagram: @imanitribetransformations
Facebook: Mel Cook
Facebook: Imanitribe
“When you make a decision whole heartedly, everything just falls into place.”
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”
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
Mike Campbell - Corporate marketer to living immediately.
Mike Campbell is a speaker, podcast host and writer behind liveimmediately.com. He encourages parents and organisations to live more with less, and to spend as much time as possible doing things they enjoy with people they love.
During 2016 Mike, his wife and then 4 year old daughter went on a family adventure where they attempted to house and pet sit their way through North America.
They spent winter in the north woods of Wisconsin, in a log cabin in the middle of a national forest, in a town called Clam Lake that has a population of 37 people. When they arrived there daughter was the youngest person in the town and Mike was the second youngest.
They then had spring in the Colorado Rocky Mountains of Breckenridge, summer in Rhode Island, and Autumn in Upstate New York.
Slow travelling through North America and spending quality time with his wife and daughter.
About Mike
Mike Campbell is a speaker, podcast host and writer behind liveimmediately.com. He encourages parents and organisations to live more with less, and to spend as much time as possible doing things they enjoy with people they love.
During 2016 Mike, his wife and then 4 year old daughter went on a family adventure where they attempted to house and pet sit their way through North America.
They spent winter in the north woods of Wisconsin, in a log cabin in the middle of a national forest, in a town called Clam Lake that has a population of 37 people. When they arrived there daughter was the youngest person in the town and Mike was the second youngest.
They then had spring in the Colorado Rocky Mountains of Breckenridge, summer in Rhode Island, and Autumn in Upstate New York.
“Everything works out in the end, if its not worked out its not the end.”
When coming home...
- Emotions and feelings Mike faced - finding life rhythm, juggle finances, career and life. Unknown of what will happen next.
- Biggest stress - Not wanting to come back to the 'normal,' trying to figure out what his next chapter was all about, continually maintaining the relationship with his wife and daughter.
- How Mike supported himself - Support has always been around him with his wife and family. Diving into setting up his new website and podcast.
- 3 Lessons learned from travel and reverse culture shock.
- Time is the true currency.
- Our kids are always in contact with us.
- The trip is only one part of the journey.
- Advise to himself when coming home - This is just another stop on the adventure, this is not the end, just another destination so enjoy the ride.
“You don’t know what the end result is and you think you might be able to predict how something will turn out, but more times than not it turns out completely different, but even more beautiful.”
Links
Website: www.liveimmediately.com
Podcast: Live Immediately
Mikes Instagram: @liveimmediately
Facebook: Live Immediately
Twitter: @liveimmediately
Hashtag - #liveimmediately
“When you start saying yes to your kids, they start asking for less.”
Michelle Steele - 2 time Olympian living and competing in the Northern Hemisphere.
2 time Winter Olympian Michelle, was the first Australian woman to compete in the event of Skeleton at the Olympics. Following a 10 year career in the sport Michelle retired in 2014 and now lives in Brisbane with her husband and 2 daughters.Michelle transferred into the sport of skeleton in 2004 at the age of 18 from Surf Life Saving and Gymnastics. Her first overseas experience was in Calgary with a team of Aussie girls learning to slide skeleton tracks. Michelle then followed the world cup circuit each northern hemisphere winter for 10 years. She spent a lot of time in Europe and North America, also raced in Japan and Russia.
Racing Skeleton in the northern hemisphere Winter Olympian Michelle spent half a year (for 10 years) living and competing abroad.
About Michelle
2 time Winter Olympian Michelle, was the first Australian woman to compete in the event of Skeleton at the Olympics. Following a 10 year career in the sport Michelle retired in 2014 and now lives in Brisbane with her husband and 2 daughters.
Michelle transferred into the sport of skeleton in 2004 at the age of 18 from Surf Life Saving and Gymnastics. Her first overseas experience was in Calgary with a team of Aussie girls learning to slide skeleton tracks. Michelle then followed the world cup circuit each northern hemisphere winter for 10 years. She spent a lot of time in Europe and North America, also raced in Japan and Russia.
“You cant have what you want, on the day sometimes, and thats how it goes.”
When coming home...
- Emotions Michelle faced - Eger to return home, intense and burn out but good to come home.
- What had changed - Came home to work, starting a family.
- Biggest stress - Missing the sport, setting herself up financially.
- How did her mindset change - Continually reflecting on the ups and downs and learning from that.
- 3 Lessons learned from travel and reverse culture shock
- Everything comes to an end - ebbs and flows, highlights and lowlights.
- Be open to new things - you can always find another way of doing something.
- Life is to be enjoyed.
- Advise to herself for returning home - know that there will always be another adventure, and it may look and taste and smell different and I may come about it differently but there are always good things to come if you apply yourself if you keep an open mind.
“You always through life pick up a little bit more insight and I always try to be reflective. There are so many benefits from the ups and downs from travel and racing and the good hard looks at yourself, the things that you have to get yourself through when there is no one else to help get you through.”
Links
Australian Olympic Committee: Michelle Steele
“Everything comes to an end... there are always ebbs and flows. You cant expect life to be highly exciting and special and the ultimate. There are always times in between and those times are needed, it doesn’t need to be emptiness but it does come back down and normalise.”
(Header photo source: Adam Pretty/Getty Images Europe.)
(Photo Source: Alex Livesey/Getty Images Europe)
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
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.
“Travel teaches you to be courageous in times were you might not otherwise.”
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.
- Flexibility.
- Open your heart to people
- We are so lucky to live where we do, we must be thankful for that.
- Advise to herself for returning home - Be ready to be a changed person, plan to have time for yourself and plan to have some things to do.
“Our hearts where burst wide open from the people we met.”
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.
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