THE WANDERLUSTERS MIND PODCAST
Travis Barton - Bartending in California to travel, adventure and life coaching as a global citizen.
Travis Barton is an expert at taking people who want to be extraordinary to epic new heights, through what he calls, adventurous coaching for extraordinary people. Travis has personally worked with a variety of people one on one, from executives and CEO's, to athletes and actors, to other coaches and entrepreneurs, supporting and challenging them in a powerful space to move passionately toward their dreams and goals, holding them at their highest self, creating space for real life changing magic to happen.
Travis began breaking down the social pressures through culture, travel and adventure and stepped into becoming citizen of the world.
About Travis
Travis Barton is an expert at taking people who want to be extraordinary to epic new heights, through what he calls, adventurous coaching for extraordinary people.
Travis has personally worked with a variety of people one on one, from executives and CEO's, to athletes and actors, to other coaches and entrepreneurs, supporting and challenging them in a powerful space to move passionately toward their dreams and goals, holding them at their highest self, creating space for real life changing magic to happen.
“The beautiful life that your imagining that adventurous life that you have in your heart, that is on the other side of your fear.”
When coming home...
- Emotions Travis expects to face when he returns home - Knows that this is where the lessons will come. Curious to see what will happen but feels connected to his new home. Exciting.
- How Travis maximises his mindset - Building courage like a warrior. Being conscious of your fears and how they are holding you back. Take responsibility for your life and your mind.
- 3 most important lessons that travel has taught you.
- Step and be open to change....You're never stuck. "If you do not change as you go, you will not arrive at yourself."
- Have an open mind.
- Dont ask what you can make money at....ask yourself what would you do it happiness paid the bills then figure out how to make money doing that.
- Advise for those wanting to not die with un-lived adventure inside them. - Ask yourself what is the big question that you are going to ask on your death bed, what is the answer that you want to hear to those questions? Choose to live in alinement with those answers not tomorrow but today.
“An adventure is not when everything is all good. An adventure is when things go to crap and how you choose to respond in the face of that.”
Links
- Website: www.travisbartonlife.com
- Travis' Instagram: @travbarton
- Travis' Twitter: @travbarton
- Books we spoke about
- Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
- Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
- Travel as transformation - Gregory Deal
- Travis' offerings
“Fear typically is the unfounded concept of our imagination that prevents us from living fully.”
Nikola Dóžová - Kenya, kayaking Europe to studying and consulting in digital marketing.
Nikola Dóžová is a lover great coffee, ultra marathon runs, books and nature. But most of all she love to do things in a different way.
Nikola travelled solo around Kenya for six months, paddled 1000 Kilometres in a sea kayak, went to walk the Pyrenees and many many other adventures. Right now she is in Iceland finishing my master degree in digital marketing and is a passionate adventure and travel blogger.
Six months in Africa to sea kayaking 1000km around Europe and now studying and consulting remotely from Iceland.
About Nikola
Nikola Dóžová is a lover great coffee, ultra marathon runs, books and nature. But most of all she love to do things in a different way.
Nikola travelled solo around Kenya for six months, paddled 1000 Kilometres in a sea kayak, went to walk the Pyrenees and many many other adventures. Right now she is in Iceland finishing my master degree in digital marketing and is a passionate adventure and travel blogger.
“We can do whatever we want (in life) its just up to us.”
When coming home...
- Emotions Nikola faced - Very sad and was very lost at home and was crying all the time. Felt very alone.
- What had changed - Not easy to find a job. Difficult to make money. Lost many friends.
- Biggest stress - Society.
- How Nikola supported herself - Implemented things from the new culture she experienced. Cooking and listening to music. Visiting old places. Spend time on her own and putting two cultures together. Getting back into sports.
- How did her mindset change - Very tough as in Africa there is time for everything. Felt more happy and free. 'Pole Pole' just slow down and take it easy. I was relaxed and happy and loved myself.
- 3 Lessons learned from travel and reverse culture shock
- Everything has its limits and its different in different cultures.
- Being kind, help people and smile, it will come back to you.
- Its very important to be a bit wild but also be humble.
- Advise to herself for returning home - Make time for myself to put together my thoughts and leasons.
Julianna Barnaby - Soul searching in Central America.
Julianna is a travel blogger and creator of 'The Discoveries Of.' A travel writer who retrained as a lawyer and worked in London before going back to her original passion of travel writing.Julianna took the six weeks to spend time travelling in Central America and did a road trip up the West Coast of the US, before returning home to the UK.
Going full circle from travel writer to lawyer, six weeks in Central America and following her soul calling to return to travel writing.
About Julianna
Julianna is a travel blogger and creator of 'The Discoveries Of.' A travel writer who retrained as a lawyer and worked in London before going back to her original passion of travel writing.
Julianna took the six weeks to spend time travelling in Central America and did a road trip up the West Coast of the US, before returning home to the UK.
“Trying to be aware of my own feelings and my own thoughts a lot more rather than doing things automatically.”
When coming home...
- Emotions Julianna faced - Hard, tough and difficult to face returning home from travel. Sharp contrast. Felt like there was not much control.
- What had changed - Didn't want to be a lawyer full time anymore...but what do I do?
- How Julianna supported herself - started writing again
- How did her mindset change - being conscious of what she was feeling
- 3 Lessons learned from travel and reverse culture shock
- There is never a good time to do something. You need to make the time happen.
- Be open to experainces
- Some things are worth taking a gamble on.
- Advise to herself for returning home - I wish I had travelled sooner to figure out what I wanted to do.
“I wanted to write a travel website that I would want to read!”
“There is never a good time to do something, you can keep on waiting for the right time to do something....sometimes the right time is just the time you do it.”
Mel Cook - From Peru to Miami and falling in love.
Once known as shy Mel, she is now a girl full of swag who loves the opportunity to stay in shape. Mel is a body and lifestyle transformation specialist who loves life and loves inspiring people to achieve the body and lifestyle that they have always craved.Mel travelled for 4 month, a month in Peru and 3 months living in Miami. She spent her time training as a sprinter with an Olympic development coach, volunteering and working on herself.
From shy Mel to confident body and lifestyle transformational specialist.
About Mel
Once known as shy Mel, she is now a girl full of swag who loves the opportunity to stay in shape. Mel is a body and lifestyle transformation specialist who loves life and loves inspiring people to achieve the body and lifestyle that they have always craved.
Mel travelled for 4 months, a month in Peru and 3 months living in Miami. She spent her time training as a sprinter with an Olympic development coach, volunteering and working on herself.
“The way I do things in life is, I dont make my decision once I know how to do something...I make the decision and find a way of making it happen.”
When coming home...
Emotions Mel faced - Numb, floating and looking down on her life, unsure about next steps
How Mel supported herself - You always need something to look forward to, life coaching
How did her mindset change - Mindset is extremely important, you cant stop you have to keep doing things towards your vision.
3 Lessons learned from travel and reverse culture shock
Its hard work coming back home and feeling grounded and settled again.
Having a focus and a vision. Where you put your focus is where your energy goes.
Look within
Advise to herself for returning home - keep looking within
“We travel to get the high, adventure and excitement, but we can actually get all of that when were focused, disciplined and working hard towards something.”
Links
Website: www.imanifit.com
Mels Instagram: @meljaydeoliech and Imani Fitness Instagram: @imanitribetransformations
Facebook: Mel Cook
Facebook: Imanitribe
“When you make a decision whole heartedly, everything just falls into place.”
Annie Soulsby - Seeing Tanzania grow.
Annie Soul is a life coaching specialising in travel. She blogs about her expertise at www.soulfultravels.co.uk. She has spent over seven years as an expat in Tanzania. Annie moved to Tanzania in 2010 after six months of teaching scientific fieldwork skills to volunteers on a bush camp with no running water or electricity the previous year. She went with the ambition of starting her own NGO and spent every single effort trying to make that happen. She made some really lovely lifelong friends and had awesome adventures, but needed a change and decided to leave in 2016.
Leaving the UK for 7 years in Tanzania and returning home again.
About Annie
Annie Soul is a life coaching specialising in travel. She blogs about her expertise at www.soulfultravels.co.uk. She has spent over seven years as an expat in Tanzania.
Annie moved to Tanzania in 2010 after six months of teaching scientific fieldwork skills to volunteers on a bush camp with no running water or electricity the previous year. She went with the ambition of starting her own NGO and spent every single effort trying to make that happen.
In the end the political situation changed dramatically and the experience was not the same as when she had arrived. She made some really lovely lifelong friends and had awesome adventures, but needed a change and decided to leave in 2016.
“You have to take some time to nurture your own feelings to ensure your strong enough to continue”
When coming home...
- Emotions Annie faced - Upset to leave new friends in Tanzania behind, excited to return home, security, relax and not worry about basic needs.
- Biggest stress - No one understands the change you have been going through.
- How Annie supported herself - Concentrate on herself, take time to do things for yourself.
- How did her mindset change - Self action, open communications, being selfish and investing time in herself
- 3 Lessons learned from travel and reverse culture shock
- "Dont panic." (Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy)
- Dont always listen to people when they say negative things about travel.
- Research, Research, Research!
- Advise to herself for returning home - Enjoy everything that you can. You know your strengths.
Links
Website: www.soulfultravels.co.uk
Annies Instagram: @soulfultravelsuk
Facebook: Soulful travels
Twitter @soulfultravels
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
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.
“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.”
Links
Website: www.liveimmediately.com
Podcast: Live Immediately
Mikes Instagram: @liveimmediately
Facebook: Live Immediately
Twitter: @liveimmediately
Hashtag - #liveimmediately
“When you start saying yes to your kids, they start asking for less.”
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About me...
Hi I'm Abby, Adventurer, Life coach, Speaker and Blogger.
After a successful sporting career I now love sharing what I have learned from my adventures and traveling the world.
I believe in turning into your adventurous life through your intuition and the little nudges from the universe.
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