Today, I want take you back to where my nomad life all began because I happen to recording this where it all started, Costa Rica.

And to be honest, being there on this trip has surfaced some emotional stuff for me that I wasn't fully expecting to surface and it’s kind of caught me off guard. I want to share the lessons that are coming up, my story and some things I want to come clean about.

I've kind of been a little bit l offended when people ask me this question, which is: what are you running away from? And I have always thought, why do I have to be running away from something?

I'm not running away from anything.

But to be honest, I now understand 10 years later that at the time I was running away from something, that I just wasn't ready to acknowledge. And today I want to talk about that and my story of how I became a digital nomad and now have a life in Bali.

I also think that with everything that I share I just really hope that it falls upon the right ears, that there is someone out there who needs to hear this story and is gonna resonate with it, not just to help you feel less alone, but also to as a conclusion to this whole podcast to give you permission. Give you permission to follow your dream, whether you are running away from something or not.

So let me take you back to when my nomadic life began..

We will dive into:

The travel story of how my digital nomad life actually began
Why Costa Rica changed everything for me
What it felt like taking the first steps toward a remote job lifestyle
The emotional side of returning to the place where your dream started
The excitement, uncertainty, and discomfort of building a life as a digital nomad
Why sometimes our biggest life pivots begin with one spontaneous trip

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