Hi everyone, Stephanie here. We're taking a break this week, so we thought it would be fun to share an episode from our friends at Zero to Travel. In this episode, you'll hear from professional photographer Leslie McKellar. She was forced to move out of her apartment in 2020 and seize the opportunity to travel full time. You can listen to and follow Zero to Travel wherever you get your podcast. And remember,

we'll be back next week with a brand new episode of Women Who Travel. Enjoy. I just want, like,

a reset button and just carve out a year and just go do what I love, which is travel.

When people think about doing a trip like this or doing something really big like this,

of course, you know, our brains are scrambling for like security and logistics.

And this is just such a big risk.

How do you know that, you know, it's not going to go disastrously?

And how are you going to afford this? And how are you going to make this happen? And how are you going to, you know, it's so risky. It's so risky. And I just feel like, but you know what,

it's also a risk to not do it. It's also a risk to not follow your heart, to not be open to new experiences, to stay in your routine all the time.

Like, that's risky.

Like, you're risking losing so much richness and so much experience.

That is today's guest, Leslie McKellar,

a member of this podcast listening community here,

who came through Norway and reached out.

She was eight months into a year-long trip.

And I thought, well, this is a great time to chat.

You're past the honeymoon phase.

You've been gone long enough

where you've been able to make some mistakes and learn from them. You have the ability to

really start to reflect on the experience so far. And of course, you have all the lessons you

learned leading up to the trip saving for a year of travel and all of the rest that goes into it.

And I'm so excited to share this one with you.

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