THE WANDERLUSTERS MIND PODCAST

Abby Lewtas 12/3/19 Abby Lewtas 12/3/19

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

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.

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

What was the last place you visited? Egypt
A place you tell everyone to visit? Croatia, Switzerland, Central America, Colombia, Brazil
Scariest place travelled to? San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Your favourite thing about travel? The freedom to decide what you want to do and the experiences you want to have.
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

An intuitive journey to Finland and her soul purpose with Tahlee Rouillon.

Tahlee Rouillon is music composer extraordinaire at Sonesence. She helps people become the calmest person they know, through her transformational meditones music. Meditones help produce relaxed brainwaves with a simple pair of headphones, making deep meditation effortless. Tahlee has been described as 'a musical genius', and 'the voice of an angel’.

Tahlee followed her intuition and returned to writing music, meditons and meditation tracks and found herself on an artist residency in Finland.

About Tahlee

Tahlee Rouillon is music composer extraordinaire at Sonesence. She helps people become the calmest person they know, through her transformational meditones music.

Meditones help produce relaxed brainwaves with a simple pair of headphones, making deep meditation effortless. Tahlee has been described as 'a musical genius', and 'the voice of an angel’.

Tahlee went to Finland, travelling solo for the first time to write her meditones album True North. It was based on the silence and stillness of a Nordic winter. She returned to Finland in 18 months later to write my follow up album, Luminous, based on a Nordic summer.

“You have been uprooted. You need to take time and space to take care of yourself.”

— Tahlee Rouillon

When coming home...

Emotions Tahlee faced - Felt very homesick for Finland.
What changed for Tahlee - Moved cities which she thought would be the same things as travelling.
How Tahlee supported herself - Relied on her meditation practice and her meditones. Cried a lot and called friends. Ended up creating a program called gentle transition to help herself and others.
How Tahlee used her mindset - Used the resilience that she had cultivated on her travels.
3 Lessons learned from travel and reverse culture shock

Life is not the same as travel.
People vary and people are different.
Tahlee is a highly sensitive person and needs to nourish in her downtime.

Advise to herself for returning home - Slow down, take your time, there is no rush. Allow things to unfold in divine timing because they are going to anyway!

“We drove past the place that I saw in my meditation that has the glass-domed iglus!”

— Tahlee Rouillon

Margot Andersen - 7 years in London and returning home to help others in repatriation.

Margot spent 7 years living in London before returning 'home' to Australia approx 12 years ago. Whilst she loves being back and firmly believes she made the right decision to do so, the return journey was not quite as straightforward as she had anticipated. However it is these experiences that led her to start a network group called Insync aimed at helping repatriates reconnect as they return; as well as develop several career management and leadership programs in her consulting business to support both individuals and the organisations that they work for. She regularly writes and speaks on the topic of repatriation, global mobility and global careers and is passionate about helping people leverage the amazing experiences they have had as they return ‘home’.

Margot moved to London on a working visa and ended up staying there for 7 years. She faced challenges returning to the professional world when returning home before establishing her own successful business.

About Margot

Margot spent 7 years living in London before returning 'home' to Australia approx. 12 years ago. Whilst she loves being back and firmly believes she made the right decision to do so, the return journey was not quite as straightforward as she had anticipated.

However it is these experiences that led her to start a network group called Insync aimed at helping repatriates reconnect as they return; as well as develop several career management and leadership programs in her consulting business to support both individuals and the organisations that they work for.

She regularly writes and speaks on the topic of repatriation, global mobility and global careers and is passionate about helping people leverage the amazing experiences they have had as they return ‘home’.

“We are all hardwired to connect and belong and contribute and when we cant see it for ourself its very difficult to ask others to help us on that journey.”

— Margot Andersen

When coming home...

Challenges and Emotions Margot faced - Re-establishing herself in the professional world and in her career. Losing confidence and momentum in certain areas of her life.
How Margot supported herself - Spent time with people who understood the journey she was going through. Participated in short courses. Got involved in the local community.
Points about mindset - Get clear about why you want to come home
3 Lessons learned from travel and reverse culture shock

You can do more than you think you can - the magic is on the edge of your comfort zone.
Things wont always go 100% to plan.
I want a rich, full life, there is an enormous world out there to go and appreciate but you have to decide what we want and go after it

Advise to herself for returning home - Plan, aknowledge why you have come home and connect with others.

“Patience hasn’t been a big thing and we have to learn to be a little bit patient.”

— Margot Andersen

Michelle Legge - 3 years 'leggin it' on a motorcycle through Europe

Michele Legge and her husband Ron are a West Australian couple in their 50s who decided not to wait until they retired to have a big travel adventure.

They spent 3 years motorbiking couch surfing house sitting and slow travelling around Europe. Michele welcome to the show and thank you for joining me.

Slow traveling with only 9kg lead and taking time to do the things you enjoy.

About Michele

Michele Legge and her husband Ron are a West Australian couple in their 50s who decided not to wait until they retired to have a big travel adventure.

They spent 3 years motorbiking couch surfing house sitting and slow travelling around Europe.

“I dont feel guilty just sitting and drinking coffee and doing whatever!”

— Michele Legge

When coming home...

Emotions Michele faced - Suffered with the idea of consumerism as she only travelled with 9kg. Realised she didn't need all this 'stuff.'
What had changed - Not much really Michele realised how important her female friendships were.
3 Lessons learned from travel and reverse culture shock

Don't spent your life asking 'what if.'
Life is short so don't take your health for granted.
No adventure is better than any other.

Advise to herself for returning home - Things will sort themselves out. Tears won't change anything.

“You cant get time back and its important to take time to do the things you really like doing.”

— Michele Legge

Amanda Kendle - 5.5 years of teaching English aboard.

Amanda is a lifelong travel addict who has lived and worked in Japan, Slovakia and Germany before returning to her hometown of Perth, Western Australia. She runs a travel blog at NotABallerina.com and is the host of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast, all about how beneficial travel can be for us in so many ways. She lives with her seven-year-old son and two cats and is always on the lookout for excuses to take her son travelling.

Five and a halve years of teaching English in Japan, Slovakia and Germany to travel blogger and podcast host.

About Amanda

“I always think about a Christmas I spent in Tunisia in Northern Africa. I went there by accident as it was the only place that had available flights left.”

— Amanda Kendle

When coming home...

Emotions Amanda faced - Resistance, hard work.
What had changed - Many friends had left, no friends from home wanted to hear about her trip, missed out on pop culture for 5 years so just couldn't relate to those around her. Couldn't contribute to the 'normal' conversations and didn't feel like she could fit in.
Biggest stress - Fitting back in with her friends, cost of living due to mining boom in Perth.
How Amanda supported herself - Having the job and Friends from the english learning school. Once she had children she found common ground with old friends as she was at a similar stage of life. Started a travel blog and looked and started planing for more travel.
How did her mindset change - Didn't want to have a 'liner' career path. Money became less important. Much more open minded.
3 Lessons learned from travel and reverse culture shock

Get outside of your comfort zone.
Adaptability.
Open minded and empathetic to others.

Advise to herself for returning home - Step back and remember to be empatheic to those around me.

“I realised how much I had grown from travelling and that I really wanted to give that to other people.”

— Amanda Kendle

LINKS

Website: notaballerina.com and amandakendle.com

Amandas Instagram: @amandakendle

Facebook: NotABallerina

Twitter: @amandakendle

Pinterest @amandatravels

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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

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 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.”

— Mike Campbell