Hi there, thanks for listening to the Sister Circle Podcast.

My name is Crystal Evans Hurst and I'm your host.

Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the podcast that's designed

to help you live your life well and to make it a life you love. Listen, you get to choose. Have you ever thought about traveling to the other side of the world to just work, eat, sleep, travel, and see new things just because you can?

Listen, if you're like me, you haven't really done that, maybe you've been working or kids or whatever,

but I got friends who do those kinds of things, and I can't wait to share my friend Nicole

Staples with you today.

In February of 22, you decided to go abroad and live for a little bit.

To live, yeah.

Uh-huh.

Why do you keep putting in the air quotes?

I don't know.

I guess it's because you didn't stay forever.

I guess I don't know.

I don't know.

But she went planning to be gone for it was a temporary live

situation was the original plan the original plan was really for like five

weeks six weeks. Just to backtrack a little bit, I in July I had 21 I had a cousin of mine mentioned that she was going to Paris for like three months

and I was like oh my gosh I'm so jealous and so cool I want to do that she's like why

can't you I was like because I have and I had no excuses like I had it I had a remote well because I always had a job where I couldn't just get up and go. So at this point I had a remote job

and I was working for myself, so I just needed good Wi-Fi,

basically.

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