I Deserve This: Prioritizing Traveling for Myself

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🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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A special three-part series of the Women Who Travel podcast, presented by Cloudy Bay

This is a special Friday episode of the Women Who Travel podcast and the second installment in our three-part I Deserve This series, presented by Cloudy Bay. Designed to celebrate all the ways we treat ourselves when we travel, we hope to dispel the feelings of selfishness and guilt that often come with spending time and money on our own adventures and dreams. Kat Mason, Cloudy Bay's wine communications manager, knows those feelings: after falling in love with New Zealand on a four-week wine fellowship, she returned back to the U.K. in 2013, homesick for a place she had only just visited and feeling guilt over her lack of enthusiasm to return home. Pushing past those feelings, though, she made the jump with her then-four-year-old daughter and moved more than halfway across the world for a slower pace of life—exactly one year after her visit. We sat down with Kat to find out more about living abroad, how she prioritizes herself and her daughter on the road, her most memorable wine trips, and the importance of self-care on vacation.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. You're listening to Women Who Travel, a podcast from Condonast Traveler. I'm Lale Aricoglu, and with me, as always, is my co-host Meredith Carey.
0:13.7	Hello. This is our second installment from our special three-episode series, I Deserve this, which celebrates all the ways we travel for
0:21.5	ourselves, whether it's by furthering our education, finding a private slice of peace and
0:26.4	quiet, or simply spending those hard-earned savings guilt-free. For this week's chat, we're
0:32.0	catching up with Cat Mason, Wine Communications Manager at Cloudy Bay, New Zealand, who knows a little
0:36.9	bit about what it's like to travel for yourself. Originally from the UK, she up and moved to New Zealand, along with her daughter, back in 2013, and when she's not wine tasting for work at Cloudy Bay's Marlborough Estate, she's exploring everything the country has to offer and beyond. Thanks for joining us, Kat. Thanks for having me. I feel like I would very much like
0:56.3	to trade places with you right now in New Zealand. And I think a lot of people are probably
1:01.4	dreaming about making a big life change and maybe moving someplace new right now. So talk us through
1:08.4	what it felt like to make such a massive decision for yourself and your daughter when you moved to New Zealand back in 2013.
1:14.6	Yeah, it was, it was really interesting actually. It sort of, it was very easy and very hard at the same time.
1:21.6	I had been really fortunate the year before we moved to go to New Zealand as part of an educational scholarship, I was
1:29.5	studying wine at the time, and I was able to come to Marlborough, and I stayed in Marlborough
1:34.6	for about four weeks, travelling around lots of different wineries and learning about the industry
1:40.3	and actually got to stay at the Cloudy Bay Shack, which was amazing. It was a great moment to stay at the cloudy bay shack which was amazing it was a
1:45.7	great moment to stay at an iconic place that I'd sort of known from the wine industry in the
1:51.6	UK since I'd started working there so it was incredible to be able to do that and during that time
1:58.4	I sort of traveled around the region spent time with lots of different people,
2:01.6	spent time in nature, spent time just learning.
2:05.6	And when I came to leave, I felt heartbroken.
2:08.6	And it was a very strange experience.
2:10.6	So when I got home to the UK, I found myself sort of feeling homesick for New Zealand and it was it was an odd moment.
2:20.1	I sort of felt a bit guilty initially and sort of was like, well, you know, I shouldn't feel
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