Stage 16: Home
Stage 16: Home
The Episode
The more we travel, the more we find that home becomes more illusive. Home is a place we crave in our most harrowing moments and forget in the spontaneous bliss.
But, the farther we travel from it, the more foreign it seems. It slowly becomes but a dream to us. Our lives consist of backpacks and tickets instead of a bed and a mortgage.
Many of us left because home doesn’t provide all that it could for us.
Others find gratitude in the homes they were raised in.
Travelers begin to define home differently. It may no longer be a physical place, but a person, a landmass, a journal.
We have to leave in order to find what needs to be discovered about ourselves or the world.
Some of us don’t return. Others do. For those to choose to come back, they reinvest in their communities differently. They bring new ideas to old places. They teach those who don’t have as easy access to alternative ideas or traveling.
And if we do choose to return, it won’t feel the same as when we left. We are more sensitive now to the pain, the triggers, the traumas of a past life. But those who have truly grown in their travels know how to overcome, to throw away the snake skin of their metamorphosis and begin to make home better.
Because they know home has been within them all along.
We Discuss:
How to be a digital nomad
Why being a digital nomad isn’t perfect
The struggles of being a digital nomad
The realities of being a digital nomad
Why being a digital nomad is glorified
Home doesn’t give us what we want
Redefine our relationship to home
How to make a new home in a new city
How to become comfortable with yourself
How to self love
How to travel anywhere comfortably
Why wellness is essential in the workplace
How to analyze other cultures work ethics
How to have good work life balance
Why work life balance is essential
How to make your home better after you have traveled
Travel helps you experiment with different lifestyles
Travel teaches you more than you could expect
Travel helps you grow
Travel shows you what you want your life to be like
Travel shows you what you want your home to be like
Featured Guests:
Jeremy Enns
The digital nomad life is the trendiest lifestyle to live. Being able to leapfrog around the world based on a whim sounds like the dream. Jeremy Enns loved the sound of that. Has be began his own podcasting company, he realized that he could sow digital living into his business as well. But everything has a catch. Jermey quickly saw the realities of the nomadic life and has come full circle on having the world at his fingertips.
If you need podcasting editing you can check out his business, Counterweight Creative, here and the amazing Podcast Power Pack here.
Georgia Clark
For many of us, home is a wonderful place to be raised. But it doesn’t provide the challenge we really need. Our ambitions might be larger than the city limits. That is why Georgia Clark left Sydney. Although it was comfortable, she would never be able to have the storytelling career that she so painfully wanted. So like the writer she is, she decided to scrap her first draft and start with a blank page. She headed to New York to craft the largest life for herself possible.
You can check out her storytelling and buy her books!
Cassandra Bianco
Cassandra was burned out. Like many of those working in the New York startup business, Cassandra was pulled by the high demands, the long nights, and working weekends. This couldn’t be how work was supposed to be. So when she got the chance to move abroad and work in a new environment, she took it. This propelled her around the world and as she kept traveling, she started collecting lessons and lifestyles from other cultures. She came back with a collection of new ideas and alternative work mentalities and she wanted to build into her community. That is how WellBeings became. Cassandra now brings alternative wellness into the corporate world that she once was apart of.
If you are looking to be part of a wellness retreat or want to bring in mindfulness and wellness experts into your corporate office, book Well*Beings!
Laura Bronner- Eternal Expat
Laura always new that home didn’t feel right. And when she did a study abroad trip, she got high on travel. Ever since then, she has been chasing that hit, the exploration, the experimentation, the freedom. And the farther she has traveled from her home, the more she has realized that it has been within her all along.
Learn how to live and travel in Mexico on her blog!
Resources:
Strangers Abroad is a travel podcast hosted by solo female traveler and storyteller, Adrien Behn. Strangers Abroad is ‘ This American Life’ for travel. Each show we bring you a theme and multiple perspectives on that theme. Each theme is a stage we experience when we travel and dissect it from every angle to make our listeners travel richer.