What's Shaken Fire Nation, JLD here and welcomed episode 1592 of EO Fire. Right,

shall we today's most successful entrepreneurs? Seven days a week. Knock over that

domino fire nation. Start your chain reaction of awesome with TheFreedomJournal.com.

Now shall we today's featured guest, Yellis Vass? Yellis, are you prepared to ignite?

Absolutely, John. Yes. Yellis is a professional photographer and a writer. After feeling

disconnected with both, he started traveling at the age of 18. On that journey, he learned

to see the beauty of the world and founded inner picture stories. A place to help others

find that connection between travel and wisdom, between the outside world and the one within

us. Yellis, take a minute. Fill in some gaps from that intro and give us a little glimpse

of your personal life. Sure. John, I first of all just want to thank you for creating

this most amazing podcast. I really hope that you know how proud you should be on yourself

because you're changing millions of lives with it, mind included. To fill in those gaps

of that intro, in the age of 12 to 18, I lived in such a deep and unhappy state. I was

just horribly disconnected from this world and myself and spent most my time during those

six years just in my room. But once I was allowed to legally leave school, everything in

my body just pushed me to leave. And I listened to that gut feeling, which was the best thing

I could have ever done. I saved my whole life by simply listening to that voice. So I

went to South Africa for two months to work there on a volunteer project. And my initial

plan was to finish high school after that. But once I came back and I saw what I learned

about myself and this world from just those two months, I knew school was not where I needed

to go. So I paid my bags again and left the travel around the world for three years. And

on that journey, I became to learn who I truly was and what this world holds for each and

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