Broadening your perspective through travel with Jamin Heppell

Jamin had a vision to run a marathon and climb a mountain on every continent. He wanted to create community and a business around his idea, so he drew on his passions and abilities to bring it all together.

About Jamin

Before co-founding Mountains and Marathons, Jamin was the director of three leadership organisations centred around the development of health and resilience. He has had the privilege of working with over 15,000 people from diverse communities across Australia and North America. 

Having bounced back from burnout, depression and seven major surgeries, Jamin knows what it's like to struggle and what it takes to transform. He is committed to peak health and performance and supporting others to do the same.

“Courage is not comfortable.”

— Jamin Heppell

In the episode...

• Jamins first taste of travel was when he went on a trip to Japan with his school.

• Things such as lining up for a train and selling alcohol in vending machines really ‘blew his mind’ and started understanding how different cultures can be.

• Jamin found himself outside his comfort zone when he couldn’t communicate in Puerto Rios, Argentina and he had to find a way to withdraw cash in a very small town.

• The real reason Jamin travels is to understand and explore different cultures and realises that this broadens his perspective.

• Jamin loves that getting into different places and cultures really enables him to connect with a new level of creativity. When in this space he believes he feels that he is able to step into bigger things that he is capable of.

• He is trying to create the digital nomad lifestyle whilst travelling around the world. This demands him to continually be creativity, innovative and think on his feet.

• Jamin found that running his business can be difficult, especially when they travel to places with unreliable business. He knows when this happens its time to move.

• Jamin sees his travelling similar to the ‘heros journey’ where he has an inner personal transformation so recognises that when he returns home he wants to make sure that his community is aware of this. He has planned to create a big homecoming which fits into his business and celebrate his return.

• Advise for people who have not yet taken the leap to go out and travel is the same as what he would give anyone facing their fears and that is in line with the quote ‘courage is not in never having fear, but in having fear and doing it anyway.’

Rapid fire round

1. What was the last place you visited? Munich, Germany

2. A place you tell everyone to visit? Chamonix mont blanc, France

3. Scariest place travelled to? Moshi, Tanzania

4. Your favourite thing about travel? The stories you create and the people that you meet.

5. Wheres your next trip? Uncertain - formally Tanzania but hoping to fit in a trip in-between

Why Jamin continue to seek out travel and adventure? An insatiable curiosity.

“I believe that our minds only going to expand as far as we are willing to stretch them and travel is quite a remarkable way to do that.”

— Jamin Heppell

Links

• Website - www.mountainsandmarathons.world

• Instagram - @mountainsandmarathons and @jaminheppell

The 'good' and 'bad' uncomfortableness of travel with Cydny and Marc Voicechovski.

Cydny and Marc are travellers at heart and so passionate about sharing stories of travel. They are now moving to Vietnam to experience living in a new country.

About Cydny and Marc

Cydny and Marc Voicechovski (voice-chov-ski) a.k.a, The V’s, call themselves "Adventure Motivators" with GOAL Traveler. They blog, vlog, and podcast regularly inspiring their followers to join the movement to Get Out And Live.  They consider themselves an ordinary couple with an extraordinary desire to travel and a passion to inspire you to do the same!

They may be seen hiking volcanoes or touring a country via campervan, but often end their treks splurging on 5-star views and 10-course tasting menus.  Why? Because they want to experience all aspects of what a location has to offer. They currently are about to embark on an upended journey that has them moving from New Jersey to Hanoi, Vietnam.

“I can do this, reminding myself that I have the power to do this, I’m much stronger than I think I am, and I am much more confident than I think I am.”

— Cydny Voicechovski

In the episode...

• Cydny talks about a time when she was in Kuala Lumper when she was very jet lagged and realised she was being disrespectful towards the muslim culture and how uncomfortable it made her feel.

• Marc talks about the good and bad uncomfortable. The first time he was on his own on another country and also when he was in an unsafe neighbourhood in Naples, Italy.

• Good uncomfortableness can stretch you and help you learn lessons and grow as a person.

• How the language barrier can lead you into difficult situations and how Cydny and Marc had their motorbike impounded.

• Travel has helped them to become more open minded.

• Travel has taught them to be patient with travelling itself as well as travelling with a partner.

• Marc realises that travel will not answer all your life questions but you will be more likely to ask more!

• The journey of travel really teaches you about yourself.

• If you are holding back from travel, start small. Also figure out what is holding you back and start from there.

Rapid fire round

1. What was the last place you visited? Vermont and Oregon.

2. A place you tell everyone to visit? Greece and Iceland.

3. Scariest place travelled to? New York City subway at night and Naples Italy.

4. Your favourite thing about travel? The most educational experience you can get and the food.

5. Wheres your next trip? Mont Tremblant, Canada

Why Cydny and Marc continue to seek out travel and adventure? Cydny says to get out of the day to day routine and face her fears. Marc says the pursuit to explore new places and the unknown.

“Just go somewhere and reflect on it afterwards.”

— Marc Voicechovski

Links

• Website - www.goaltraveler.com

• Instagram - @goaltraveler

• Facebook - Goal Traveler

• Podcast - The Just Go Network

Listen to the episode I did with Cydny and Marc on the Just Go Network Podcast.

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Stepping into her passion after travelling the world with Chloe Santarossa.

Chloe started travelling the world after a break up and after returning home and dabbling in a few jobs she decided to set up her own health and wellness business.

About Chloe

Chloe Santarossa is a Holistic health coach, yoga teacher & personal trainer. She believes that life is meant to be lived to the absolute fullest! Along side health and fitness, she loves to travel and live freely enjoying life and everything it has to offer.

It is Chole’s mission to inspire you to live a life full of passion so that you are motivated to jump out of bed everyday feeling amazing with the confidence to do ​anything your heart desires. She is here to empower you in making healthy sustainable choices through full body nourishment so you can feel strong, sexy and confident.

Chole set off on her first soul searching adventure after ending a long term relationship. She headed for Europe and her travels unfolded from there.

“Just do it [Travel] because you will not regret it at all.”

— Chole Santarossa

In the episode...

• After coming out of a long term relationship, Chloe went on a soul searching journey to rediscover herself, which she confesses, in the beginning, her intention was just to party and have fun meeting new people.

• How easy it is to meet like minded people and talk about common interests.

• Chloe and I met in Central America.

• Having an intention when you travel and a way to give back.

• Chloe went on a 26hour bus ride to work on a conservation project deep in the amazon. They had to trek into the project, crossing 14 rivers along the way and lived in a cage, hiding from monkeys in an extremely primal and unique way.

• Travelling meant she had to step outside her comfort zone and face her fears many times having to figure out ‘little things’ like boarder crossings, language barriers, currency etc. Its all about working towards an end goal. This mimics life as there are so many times when you are faced with uncertainty and fearful situations that you need to push through to reach the end goal.

• The fear mongers that scare you when you are going to travel on your own or to a country slightly different.

• Staying smart when travelling, you can avoid many problems that a lot of people face.

• Live a life thats inspiring and passionate. Have a career and community that you are passionate about and that you are excited to come home to.

• Chloe worked through my life coaching program where she had an incredible transformation which reignited her spirit to set up a life which she is passionate about and doesn’t have to ‘run away’ and travel all the time.

• We are the creators of our lives if you are willing to do the work, hold the vision in your mind and keep taking the steps towards what you want.

• Chloe now travels for a month at a time with her partner. They have relationship goals and always sets and intention and purpose for their travels.

• You can choose to live a life that inspires you.

• Chloe was excited to come home and tell all her friends and family about her travels but realised that they had not had the same experiences that she had and it would be difficult to have those conversations. She also felt lost and unable to find her place.

• Its ok to outgrow people, look for the people that have similar interests, attend workshops so you can up-skill yourself.

• Chloe’s advise to people who are holding back about having travels and adventures - Just do it as you will not regret it. It will help you to have more confidence and expand your experiences that will later help you in your life.

Rapid fire round

1. What was the last place you visited? Egypt

2. A place you tell everyone to visit? Croatia, Switzerland, Central America, Colombia, Brazil

3. Scariest place travelled to? San Pedro Sula, Honduras

4. Your favourite thing about travel? The freedom to decide what you want to do and the experiences you want to have.

5. Wheres your next trip? Sri Lanka & The Maldives

Why Chloe continues to seek out travel and adventure? Being fulfilled!

“We are all fearful of certain things and I think a little bit of fear is good, and when you overcome that it helps you grow as a person.”

— Chole Santarossa

Links

• Website - www.chloesantarossa.com

• Instagram - @chloe_santarossa or @_wandering_gypsy

• Facebook - Chloe Santarossa

Connecting with people to really understand cultures with Claudia Neiman

Claudia has travelled to many different cultures and spent a lot of time living in Spain. She is not in Finland working on projects surrounding cultural differences around the world.

About Claudia

Claudia is an organised creative which, although may sound oxymoronic, means that she is able to address problems in a open way and is willing to turn things upside down if that makes the most sense. Claudia is passionate about learning and the environment and her goal in life is to be happy (happiness is defined both by fulfilment and the ability to enjoy this feeling). 

“If you are going to experience other cultures, you are going to experience culture shock and if you don’t, its like learning how to swim without water.”

— Claudia Neiman

In the episode...

• Claudia has travelled to many countries with differing cultures.

• Claudia felt outside of her comfort zone when she was in Brazil and decided to hitchhike and got into a car with a local.

• She spend her first day in class in Spain with the teacher stereotyping Americans.

• You have to really understand the culture, you really have to spend quite a bit of time in that place.

• The real reason Claudia travels is for the people, the food, the experience that is like nothing that she has had before.

• How travel teaches you that there are so many different ways of doing things, not only one way!

• Claudia’s biggest insight and learning from travel is seeing how we are all connected and how we can get to know people even if we dont speak their language.

• Until we actually connect and have conversations with people we actually have no idea about their lives and their culture.

• If you haven’t had the experience of being a foreigner in another country, its really hard to know how difficult it can be to be judged for how you look, your race, sexual orientation, gender etc

• Claudia attempts to understand many different perspectives and be open to other peoples opinions.

• Travel has taught Claudia that we are all just looking for the place where we fit in.

• When everyone follows their own path and does their own things, it makes like interesting.

• Travel is what YOU make it! Whatever feels right for you can be the basis of your travels. Do what FEELS good for you.

• How travel should not just be about bucket lists and ticking a box.

Rapid fire round

1. What was the last place you visited? Cordoba, Spain

2. A place you tell everyone to visit? Granada, Spain and Lisbon, Portugal

3. Scariest place travelled to? Has not really travelled to “scary” places but has had scary moments in Rio, Brazil.

4. Your favourite thing about travel? Treating herself, people and food.

5. Wheres your next trip? Scandinavian trip….Sweden, Estonia, Iceland.

Why Claudia continues to seek out travel and adventure?

“The biggest reason that I travel is to put myself out there, to meet other people, but also to question these ideas that I have about myself and who I am and how I see the world.”

— Claudia Neiman

Links

• Website - sincerelyspain.com

• Instagram - @sincerelyspain

• Facebook - Sincerely, Spain

Leaving the corporate world and travelling with intention with Anna Lundberg

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.”

— Anna Lundberg

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.”

— Anna Lundberg

Links

• Website - onestepoutside.com

• You Tube Channel

• Instagram - @annaselundberg

• Facebook Group - One Step Outside

Abundance, Gratitude and Adaptability with Zoe Davenport.

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.”

— Zoe Davenport

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

1. What was the last place you visited? Sri Lanka

2. A place you tell everyone to visit? Canada

3. Scariest place travelled to? A street in Budapest

4. Your favourite thing about travel? Freedom

5. 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.”

— Zoe Davenport

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.