Falling in love with a new way of life with Lisbet Mellgren.

Lisbet is half Swedish and half Canadian and grew up in Sweden. She has always had an itch to travel, see the world and learn about new places. In 2008 Lisbet spent a lot of time travelling before moving to Canada where she ended up staying for four years. In 2012 it was time for her to leave and return to Sweden.

Lisbet quit her day job in Sweden and had a plan to go be a ski bum in Whistler. But one month before leaving she got a job offer to be the area manager for a Swedish ski company based in Fernie, British Columbia. She took the job and planned to go for a season. Little did she know that she would fall in love with a town the lifestyle and stay for four years.

Adventure, Life, Reverse culture shock, Travel, CanadaAbby Lewtas6 November 2018Travel, Reverse Culture shock, Canada, Skiing, Calm, travel itch

Travelling with space and feminine essence with Leticia Ringe.

Leticia is a Life & Purpose Coach, Host of the Create a Life that is Beautiful Podcast and qualified Theta Healer supporting her community to find inner peace, clarity & fulfilment through aligning with their purpose, embracing their feminine essence and creating a life that is beautiful to them. Empowering her clients to draw from both their masculine and feminine she created her signature online course, Embrace Your Feminine Essence, to teach you how to reconnect with your creative power, listen to your inner voice and develop a supportive lifestyle & mindset that allows your body, mind & soul to thrive.

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’.

Understanding identity after travelling the world with Jema Patterson.

Jema spent 8 years as a full-time international travel writer. This year - 2018 - she's experimenting with part-time travel life and having a home base. She spends her time writing about transformational travel at Half the Clothes dot com and co-hosting a podcast about how to be a content creator without losing your mind or selling your soul. She blames all her failures AND all her successes on being struck by lightning at the age of 18.

Life changing education in the Solomon Islands with Mellita Jones

Mellita is a lecturer in Science Education. Her involvement in overseas teaching and learning experiences began in 2010 when she led a small group of six pre-service teachers on a 4-week teaching practicum in the Solomon Islands.

Ten years later the program, which runs for the month of November every year, has grown to 20 pre-service teachers, three university staff members and two schools in Solomon Islands. It is a program close to Mellita's heart, and her work in the space has led to a number of other international engagements including writing the teacher education program fro the Pacific Region through UNESCO, working in Fiji and Kiribati with students and teachers, and recently, an appointment as the coordinator for international community engagement at her university.

The 'third space.' Growing up in Germany to a life in Australia with Kati Craythorn

From teenage years on, Kati has wanted to explore Australia but never quite envisaged getting "stuck" here. Kati grew up behind the Berlin Wal, in East Berlin. Travel always had a bit of an exotic allure to Kati and she has now lived almost half her life in Australia, and sometimes she wonders whether her "extended period abroad" will ever come to an end.

Adventure, Life, Reverse culture shock, Travel, AfricaAbby Lewtas25 September 2018Travel, Reverse Culture shock, adventure, Germany, South Africa, expat