Self-Discovery
How Horse Therapy Made Me A Better Entrepreneur
It was one of the most powerful lessons of my life.
Read MoreHow To Work Through Your Daddy Issues In Real Time
You won’t believe what happened next.
Read MoreHow I called in a $111k month while on vacation
I committed to walking the path of my soul’s highest purpose.
Read MoreWhy I Decided To Take 3 Months of Vacation A Year
What if life is meant to be easeful, abundant, and fun by design?
Read MoreWhat The Heck Is “Inner Child” Work, Anyway? (Let’s Demystify It)
Your relationship with your inner child has everything to do with what kinds of clients you’ll attract.
Read MoreWhat To Do When The Internet Haters Strike
What happens when you share a vulnerable post, and some random on the internet makes a snarky comment?
Read MoreUnexpected Advice From A Balinese High Priestess
Have you ever done a water ceremony?
Read MoreWhat’s the “Right” Amount Of Vulnerable?
The “right” amount of vulnerability is the depth at which you’re willing to meet yourself and be seen by others.
Read MoreA Free Way To Get High Or How Breathwork Has Changed My Life
It’s been two years since I started studying breathwork and it’s been the modality that has most changed my life.
Read MoreHow To Treat Resistance As a Friend
Here’s the thing with resistance. It’s always trying to tell you something.
Read MoreHow Your Relationship Patterns Are Ruining Your Business Success (And What To Do About It)
Remember the days when your boss told you to leave your personal life at home?
Read MoreDo You Even Really Know What You Want In Life?
It’s not uncommon for young entrepreneurs to feel a sense of disillusionment after a few years on the job.
Read MoreManifestation Babe Podcast (#111) – How To Use STORY To Manifest The Life of Your Dreams with Celinne Da Costa
What comes to your mind when you think storytelling?
Read MoreHow To Know When Your Brand Story Is Boring (And What To Do About It)
We’ve all got that one friend. As soon as I start to describe them, you’ll know who I’m talking about. Whenever you hang out, it could take half an hour or it could take all day, but they always bring up the same stories. Maybe it’s an embarrassing one from the office holiday party. Or…
Read MoreMeet The 26-Year-Old Who Used These Unexpected Mindset Hacks To Become A Millionaire… in 3 Years
Meet Kathrin Zenkina, master mindset coach and CEO of the multi-million dollar brand, Manifestation Babe.
Read MoreStop Idolizing Hustle Culture And Do This Instead
It seems that everywhere I go, people are suffering from the “hustle culture” pandemic.
Read MoreI Shared My Darkest Secrets With The Internet For 30 Days. Here’s What Happened.
Two months ago, I had a huge writer’s block as I was preparing the outline for my new book.
Read MoreHow To Scale To A Successful 7-Figure Business Without Sacrificing Your Happiness
Meet Ralph Ruiz, a master life coach whose focus is to help entrepreneurs lead a life of meaning and purpose.
Read More3 Ways To Transform Any Obstacle Into An Opportunity
Last month, I was about to catch a flight at the Guatemala City airport when I noticed that my passport and US permanent residency card was missing. As you can imagine, losing all my travel documents in a foreign country during a work trip (and to rub salt in the wound, on the same day…
Read MoreWords Beyond Translation: Hacerle Ganas
Antigua, Guatemala The expression “hacerle ganas” in Spanish captures a sentiment of strength and perseverance that I’ve consistently found present in Latin American cultures: specifically, what it means to keep moving forward towards a goal, even when faced with adversity. Hacerle ganas roughly means “to create the desire.” It is rooted in the common idiomatic…
Read MoreWhy I’ll Always Love Bali, An Island Paradise Like No Other
I’ve traveled to over 50 countries in six continents, and to this day, Bali is still one of my favorite places in the world. When I first arrived in Bali last year, I felt broken. Six months prior, I had left my corporate life in New York City behind, and was in the midst of…
Read MoreWords Beyond Translation: Waldeinsamkeit
Colorado, United States I recently came to learn of a German word that perfectly captures one’s deep and intimate connection with nature. Waldeinsamkeit roughly translates to “the feeling of being alone in the woods.” The structure of the word says it all: “wald” means woods/forest, and “einsamkeit” means loneliness or solitude. This word is about…
Read MoreI Didn’t Touch My Phone For A Week (And It Changed My Life)
I spent a week in complete and utter silence, cut off from all communications: that means no cell phone, social media, or Internet. For seven days, I woke up at 5 am and silently spent every minute of every day meditating while mindfully walking, sitting, or eating. Sounds a little extreme? It was. Even so,…
Read MoreWhat Entrepreneurs Can Learn From The Slovenian Mindset
Slovenia quickly became one of my favorite European countries for its dramatic natural landscapes, unique mix of Mediterranean and Alpine geography, meticulously built towns and cities, and amazing food and wine. But that wasn’t even what impressed me the most during my visit: it was how much I learned from the Slovenian people’s entrepreneurial mindset.…
Read More3 Ways Taking Risks Makes You A Better Person
How quitting my corporate job to travel the world full-time taught me to take risks and design the life I want from scratch.
Read MoreHow Minimalism Can Make You Wealthier
How living a minimalist-inspired lifestyle can help us generate the wealth and mind-space to pursue our passions.
Read MoreA Short Flight: Searching For Freedom
A short story about my time spent at a Dynamic Meditation retreat in the Nepalese mountains, and what it taught me about our joint human search for freedom.
Read MoreHow Fear Of Failure Can Motivate You
We all feel fear of failure when working towards accomplishing a goal: what matters is how we push through it. Some tips on how we can use fear as a tool for motivation.
Read MoreYou Can’t Get What You Don’t Ask For
You can’t get what you don’t ask for. How I asked for what I wanted, and traveled the world because of it.
Read MoreHow Screaming Helped Me Become More Aware
I spent a week dancing and screaming while practicing Dynamic Meditation. Here is what I learned from the experience.
Read MoreCan Having Less Possessions Help You Focus On What’s Important?
How living out of a carry-on freed me to focus on what’s important in life.
Read MoreWhat I Learned About Preventing Burnout – From Burning Out
After five months on the road as a digital nomad, I share four lessons I learned about how to prevent burnout.
Read MoreDear Solo Female Travelers: Some Tips Before You Go
Dear solo female travelers, make sure you know these things before you go!
Read MorePotential Won’t Get You Far Without Direction
One lesson I learned from Italy: we may have potential, but it won’t get us far if we don’t give it direction.
Read MorePersonal Freedom Should Not Be A Fight
I visited Dublin in the midst of my search for freedom from an old life. At the time, I did not know that I would soon decide to couch-surf around the world.
Read MoreUse Technology, But Don’t Let It Use You
In this day and age, we live and breathe technology. If we allow it to use us, however, it will obstruct our living experience and humanity.
Read MoreWhy I Quit My Job To Couch Surf The World
You and I have something in common. We both have a dream.
Read MoreLove Letters to Rome
A collection of some of my favorite photos and reflections of Rome.
Read MoreWhat Morocco Taught Me About the Pursuit of Dreams
Take a moment to ask yourself – where do you want to travel? Seriously. If you had your pick of any one place in the world, what would it be? And who would it be with?
Read MoreThe Difference Between Fantasies and Dreams (Bermuda)
Anyone who possesses a desire to travel has at some point fantasized about a dream destination. My first travel fantasy materialized at 12 years old, when I fell in love with Bermuda.
Read MoreHow Nature Inspires by Making Us Vulnerable (Boulder, Colorado)
I visited Boulder, Colorado during a period of high-strung, self-absorbed, drinking-the-New-York-Kool-Aid stress, desperate to find clarity by walking away from the asphyxiating confines of my concrete jungle.
Read MoreChicago: A Dark Soul at Peace
I found Chicago on an impossibly sunny winter weekend, right on the cusp of spring. Since I’d first heard of the city years ago, I’d felt inexplicably drawn to it; something about its reputation ensnared me, carrying with it a delicious allure of prohibition and bright city lights.
Read MoreThree Lessons Learned by a Traveler with a Broken Foot
There are few obstacles that can deter a traveler from pursuing our wanderlust. No money? We plan ahead, couch surf, and scour the Internet for deals. Not enough vacation days? We take weekend trips and work remotely. No time? We make it.
Read MoreA Love Letter to Cartagena, Colombia
There are many types of loves you encounter while traveling. The most common is the love tied to expectations: you know what you wish to find, and your love for that city is conditional upon achieving these goals.
Read More“If Used the Right Way, Disobedience Can be a Virtue.” Celinne by Herself, Paulo Coelho’s Blog
There will always be a voice of authority telling you that you cannot do something.
Read MorePrague: What Fairy Tale Dreams Are Made Of
When I dreamt of the quintessential fairy tale prince as a little girl, I did not realize that Prague was what I was looking for.
Read MoreThe Amazon: Breathing from the Lungs of the Earth (Colombia, Peru)
I don’t know what came over me when I decided that I had to explore the Amazon. It began with a gnawing and rapidly intensifying curiosity
Read MoreChiang Mai: The Quiet, Charming Soul of Thailand
As a Westerner with hardly any prior exposure to Asian culture, I couldn’t even imagine what my first venture there would be like.
Read More24 Hours in Tuscan Heaven
I believe that each one of us, whether we know it or not, has one spot that we instinctively run to when we are in desperate need of stability.
Read MoreWhen The Sun Sets In Rome…
It seems natural that the first official post would pay tribute to my city of birth – which also happens to be the most beautiful place in the world (bias aside) – Rome.
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