Why I Quit Travel Vlogging After 1 Million Subs

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Summary

TLDRDenna berättelse handlar om en person som, efter att ha nått toppen av sin karriär som resevloggare, beslutar sig för att avsluta sin vloggkarriär för att söka djupare meningsfulla upplevelser. Genom att reflektera över sin bakgrund och sina resor inser hon att resevloggingen har blivit ytlig och att hon längtar efter att skapa mer meningsfulla kopplingar. Hon startar Joe Club, en journalingklubb, och börjar organisera retreats för att hjälpa andra att utforska sina egna resor och identiteter. Berättelsen betonar vikten av förändring och att vara modig nog att gå in i det okända för att hitta nya möjligheter.

Takeaways

  • 🌍 Resor är mer än bara destinationer.
  • 📝 Journaling kan skapa djupare kopplingar.
  • 🤝 Samarbete är kraftfullt.
  • ✈️ Retreats erbjuder meningsfulla upplevelser.
  • 📖 Berättande kan ta många former.
  • 💡 Att förändras är en del av livet.
  • 🌱 Sök efter djupare mening i dina upplevelser.
  • 💪 Var modig nog att gå in i det okända.
  • 🌟 Du kan inspirera andra genom dina erfarenheter.
  • ❤️ Bevara det goda i ditt liv för dig själv.

Timeline

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    Berättaren reflekterar över sin karriär som rese-vlogger och hur den började som en passion för att utforska världen och kulturer. Trots framgången kände de en inre konflikt och insåg att de inte längre kände sig kopplade till sitt arbete, vilket ledde till beslutet att avsluta sin vloggkarriär. De började söka efter djupare mening och insåg att de ville skapa något större än bara ytliga resevideor.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:12:54

    Efter att ha avslutat sin vloggkarriär började berättaren arbeta som programledare för en Netflix-show, vilket gav dem möjlighet att samarbeta med ett team och tänka mer kreativt. De insåg att de ville skapa berättelser tillsammans med andra, vilket ledde till att de började studera film och utveckla en egen rese-dokumentärserie. Berättaren startade också Joe Club, en journaling-community, och började organisera retreats för att kombinera resande med meningsfulla upplevelser, vilket gav dem en ny känsla av syfte och gemenskap.

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Video Q&A

  • Varför slutade du med resevlogging?

    Jag kände att det inte längre tjänade mig och att jag ville ha djupare upplevelser.

  • Vad är Joe Club?

    Joe Club är en journalingklubb som jag grundade för att skapa en gemenskap kring journaling.

  • Hur har dina resor förändrats?

    Jag fokuserar nu på att skapa meningsfulla upplevelser genom retreats istället för att bara dokumentera resor.

  • Vad är ditt nästa steg?

    Jag arbetar på ett nytt projekt som jag tror kommer att förändra hur jag reser och dokumenterar.

  • Hur kan man delta i dina retreats?

    Information om kommande retreats finns i beskrivningen nedan.

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    I decided to stop travel vlogging when I
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    was at the tip top of my career.
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    Hundreds of videos, dozens of countries,
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    a few languages, and the best brand
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    deals later, and I said, "Nope, I don't
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    want to do this anymore." I'd be funny
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    and goofy and bubbly, but when the
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    cameras turned off, I was like, "What
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    the hell am I doing? Can I continue to
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    do this?" I had to implode what was no
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    longer serving me. Cue the intro, sis.
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    You know, she's not your average Joe.
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    Not your average Joe.
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    My life is marked by people packing and
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    unpacking suitcases. Whether it was us
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    when we first moved or it was my
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    grandparents coming to visit, bringing
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    their language and culture with them. I
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    was always fascinated with travel. I was
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    always fascinated with language. And as
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    a kid who was born in a country and then
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    moved to another country where I was so
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    different, it was not this vain thing
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    like I want to travel. I want to check
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    things off a list. Travel to me was a
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    part of my story. It was a part of the
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    pain that separated me from my relatives
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    back home in Brazil. I grew up without
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    really knowing home. And when you grow
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    up without knowing home, not only do you
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    become an inbetweener of cultures, of
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    languages, of understanding of identity,
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    but it also opens up this huge beautiful
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    opportunity. What if I can travel around
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    the world? What if I can learn more
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    about places that I didn't even know
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    existed? What if I can learn more about
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    people, about myself, about connections?
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    And that was the motivation and still is
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    the motivation of travel. Then something
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    crazy happened. In my early 20s, I
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    decided to start a YouTube channel with
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    a college buddy. We really started it
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    from nothing. I came from an immigrant
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    background. He came from a background
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    where he always wanted to do more,
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    strive for more. And so we bonded
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    together in this hope of let's see the
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    world. Let's do what we can. And it
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    became something bigger than either of
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    us could have ever imagined. It was
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    extraordinary. during my 20s are all
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    documented in these beautifully edited
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    videos that I've filmed and edited that
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    we filmed together, edited together, and
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    overall just like became my career. And
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    after seven long years of filming
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    everything, of taking trips for the
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    videos, documenting every single moment
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    of importance in my life, I started to
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    feel some type of way. And it wasn't a
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    good way. It was a what am I doing? Why
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    am I only in front of these monuments to
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    make jokes or booty drop and not
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    learning about the history of the place?
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    Why am I not investigating why things
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    are the way that they are here? I felt
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    travel vlogging was surface. I felt like
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    you can't really say you know a place if
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    you've only gone for 3 days. And so even
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    though when I started realizing that I
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    started trying to change what I was
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    doing, I would spend a little bit longer
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    time. I would go back home to Brazil. I
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    would find meaning where I could. It
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    just wasn't connecting with me anymore.
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    And also to be honest, when you start
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    doing something when you're in your
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    early 20s and you're 28, by the time you
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    stop and think about what you're doing,
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    you can hope that you've evolved. And if
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    you haven't evolved, then I don't know.
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    But I definitely was evolving. And the
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    only reason I knew was because of the
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    pages of my journals. That was how I
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    knew that something was off. Because
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    when the cameras turned on, I'd be fun
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    and goofy and bubbly. But when the
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    cameras turned off, I was like, "What
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    the hell am I doing? Can I continue to
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    do this?" The travel vlogging career was
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    incredible. But it took me away from
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    family. I couldn't have any
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    relationships. I couldn't build any kind
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    of life for myself because my life was
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    built on leaving. My life was built on
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    going to get the content. And it was
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    very successful. And by the end of the
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    journey, I was sipping champagne first
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    class with my business partner being
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    like, "We've accomplished ridiculous
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    things." But I wanted more and uh I had
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    to implode what was no longer serving
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    me. At the time, I then auditioned for a
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    Netflix show and this show was
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    completely out of my comfort zone
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    because it was being a TV presenter. And
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    instead of vlogging myself and editing
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    myself and calling the shots, I would
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    now be a presenter on a show that became
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    gigantic and it was two seasons. It was
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    16 Netflix leagues episodes and I was
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    the extra host. They had real estate,
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    they had design, and then they threw in
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    my wildcard character, travel and
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    culture. But this is a show about
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    houses. And so when you're filming a
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    show about houses and you're the travel
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    and culture host, you got to piss your
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    ass off to get the segments. So I
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    started thinking like a producer. I was
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    like, "Okay, well, we're in this
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    polished luxury building. There might be
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    no travel or culture, but what about
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    functionality? What about this
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    historical moment?" And so I would pitch
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    my own segments. And this lasted a year.
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    You're working six days a week. You're
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    traveling every two days. You're packing
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    and unpacking your suitcase. The most
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    influential part of that experience
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    wasn't that I was seeing the best places
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    around the world, which was pretty damn
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    cool, but it was actually working in a
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    team. And after a seven-year career
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    travel vlogging, working with just me
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    and a business partner, and pretty much
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    out on the streets filming myself,
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    editing myself, doing everything alone,
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    I went from that to a 15 person crew.
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    And this is when everything started to
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    change for me. It was when I saw the
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    power of that teamwork. when I saw like,
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    oh, this is what it's like to
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    collaborate with a producer who loves
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    story as much as I do, or this is what
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    it's like to film with somebody who
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    loves getting the angles that I wouldn't
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    even be creative enough to think about.
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    This is what it's like to create a
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    package with the editor. Immediately, I
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    was like, I want to do this. I want to
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    make shows. I don't want to just travel
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    vlog. I want to think about a bigger
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    story with a team of passionate,
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    motivated people who can turn something
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    that I thought into something even
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    better. So around 2020 is when I
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    realized I couldn't go back to travel
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    vlogging the way that I was doing
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    before. I wanted something bigger. I
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    wanted collaboration. I wanted to work
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    with people that could make something
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    bigger as a group than singularly. I
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    knew that there was a knowledge gap. I
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    knew that all I knew had been run and
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    gun film on the street, which is really
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    good, and I knew how to edit, but I
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    didn't know how to build a serialized
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    show. This is when I decided to enroll
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    in film school for my masters. A plot
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    twist in my journey that I never thought
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    I would do. It's a negotiated program
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    that I found with Brain Dance and to
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    Montford University. It's this
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    alternative program. I'll link it in the
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    show notes, but essentially you create
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    your own final project. And my final
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    project was I want to make my own travel
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    docu series around languages. I want to
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    pitch executives in different streaming
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    platforms or maybe different platforms
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    in general because I believe that I can
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    be a showrunner and a showrunner is a
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    person who understands the business of
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    shows and also the story and you create
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    your own program. So, you basically
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    assign your own reading, you do your own
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    case studies, and you decide your
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    artifacts, aka your final projects. So,
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    I started this two-year program, and my
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    final project intention was a pilot for
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    my travel show. During these two years,
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    what I've been doing is breaking that
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    down into smaller steps. So, creating a
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    show bible, creating a lookbook,
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    creating episode beat sheets, and it's
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    been a blast. And I've been doing that
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    on the low. At the same time, I founded
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    my company, Joe Club, the journaling
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    club, which has been a beautiful
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    experience and transition in my life.
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    One of the main problems with travel
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    vlogging, in my opinion, was that it
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    almost felt too selfish. It was like the
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    benefits would end with me. I would get
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    these amazing trips. I would travel and
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    see these incredible things and I would
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    document them and I would sit and edit
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    and craft them into stories and share
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    them online and people would travel
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    vicariously through the videos. And
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    sometimes my favorite part was that it
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    would inspire them to take their own
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    adventures. But to me, the impact wasn't
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    direct enough. It was to look at me and
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    my awesome life. Don't you wish you
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    could have this too? That was a missing
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    piece that I didn't know how I was going
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    to fix. All my life I have journaled.
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    I've kept journals from way back when.
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    And I initially started journaling
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    actually because I never thought I would
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    be lucky enough to travel again. And so
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    if I were traveling, I wanted to capture
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    everything, the tickets, the memories,
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    the tiny laughable moments. And then
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    journaling just continued to be a way of
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    digesting my life. The pandemic hit when
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    I was in the middle of my Netflix show.
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    I had this huge oh moment because I
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    wasn't sure the Netflix show was going
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    to continue. I didn't have a successful
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    YouTube channel anymore. And I didn't
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    know when I could travel again and do
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    what I had done for the last 10 years
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    that was very successful. So what did I
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    do? I started sharing my journals online
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    on Instagram because that's something
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    that I could see myself doing for the
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    rest of my life that I had done up until
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    that moment. And it turned into this
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    amazing journaling challenge that I did
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    for 90 days. And around day 70, I asked
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    myself like, would people want to
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    journal together as a community online.
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    Next thing you know, I'm journaling,
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    pouring my heart out with a bunch of
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    brave strangers online, and we're having
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    this jam session of ideas, of emotions,
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    and of tangible actions that come from
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    introspecting as a global group. And
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    this is when I was like, this is
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    checking all the boxes. So, Joe Club was
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    born. I started hosting live journaling
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    sessions, creative format from scratch.
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    I couldn't go back to YouTube travel
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    vlogging. I just couldn't anymore. I'm
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    like there needs to be something else.
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    Like there needs to be a bigger vision.
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    And then I had this crazy idea like why
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    don't I create retreats for my
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    journaling club because that would
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    connect the dots that I feel like hadn't
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    been connected before. I would get to
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    travel the way that I've always
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    traveled. Going into the dirt roads,
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    meeting locals, building relationships,
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    but I would get to design experiences
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    for other people that may never have
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    gone out of their comfort zone like this
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    before. And so I started doing retreats.
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    Did the first two in Croatia, then
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    Mexico, then Italy, then Greece, then
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    Belgium. And I started hiring
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    facilitators from around the world. I
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    hosted retreats for them. I've done nine
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    retreats since the beginning. Mh. So
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    then I kept traveling with the same DNA
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    of learning about people, the world,
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    myself, but this time I was doing it
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    with strangers. And these strangers
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    became great friends. They're a giant
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    amount of work, but they've really
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    changed my life. I hired my first
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    full-time employee because I met her
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    after 2 years of working together at a
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    retreat. I introduced people to friends
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    that have become their confidants for
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    life. There's so much good that came
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    from retreats that I felt like travel
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    blogging couldn't even begin to scratch
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    the surface of. And the irony is that a
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    lot of the people who came to the
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    retreats, they didn't even know that I
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    vlogged. They didn't even know that I
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    had this seven-year career. And so, I
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    started seeing that you can make an
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    impact without sharing every single
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    little detail of your life. Which brings
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    me to the next point of the truth about
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    when you get older. Personally, I don't
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    know if I'm the only one. Please let me
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    know if you're watching if you feel this
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    way too. As I got older, I wanted to
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    preserve the goodness in my life for
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    myself. I wanted to keep the
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    relationships that I feel are the
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    closest close to me and I didn't want to
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    turn my whole life into content because
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    then when do you turn off? I took my
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    first vacation in Portugal last summer.
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    That was a true vacation where I was off
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    the grid for 6 days. 6 days that's all I
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    could afford honestly. I'm like damn
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    I've traveled all around the world but
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    none of it was for holidays. And that's
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    also a beautiful thing. There's a beauty
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    to never really having to take time off
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    cuz you love what you're doing so much.
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    But like, can my brain get a little bit
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    of a break? And I'm living in Belgium, a
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    country that I had never really spent
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    time in, that I never anticipated living
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    in. And here's the wildest part of all.
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    I have been documenting. I have hundreds
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    of gigabytes of footage from the last 6
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    years that I haven't put online because
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    I want to tell a bigger story. And if
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    that means pausing and focusing my
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    energy on other things like growing my
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    business or long format shows, then
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    that's what I'm going to do. And so,
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    make no mistake, I'm not done traveling.
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    I'm not done telling stories, but the
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    way that I want to tell them is going to
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    be a little bit different. And I just
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    wrapped up a really exciting project
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    that I believe is going to be the future
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    of how I travel and document, and it's
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    going to be good. So, I guess this is a
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    story about change. This is a story
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    about being aware and accepting that we
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    change, that how we want to live our
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    lives can change, and that even if at
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    one point that was your wildest dream,
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    maybe that changes. And when it changes,
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    you got to be brave enough to walk away
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    from it and honor that chapter and know
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    that it was beautiful. But be brave
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    enough to go into the unknown and go
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    into the unknown because you know that
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    there's something there that's waiting
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    for you that is so extraordinary you're
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    not even aware of how good it's going to
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    be. I'm going into the unknown again.
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    I'm excited to get to know you. I'm
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    excited to share, but in a different
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    kind of way. And most of all, I'm
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    excited to collaborate. I'm excited to
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    work with people who love to tell
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    stories, who love travel, who love
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    language. Thank you for being here. If
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    was? Let me know. I'm still figuring out
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    what the next chapter is. And I guess
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    that's the whole journey of change. You
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    go in blind, honey, cuz you don't really
  • 00:12:36
    know what's happening. But at one point,
  • 00:12:38
    you wake up and you're like, damn, I
  • 00:12:39
    can't believe I got through that. I feel
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    like I'm finally at the point where I'm
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    like, damn, I can't believe I got
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    through that. I can't believe I got
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    through all of this this change and I'm
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    better for it.
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