Leaving Toxic Relationships and Being Brave-ish with Lisa Niver

LEAVE YOUR MARK: Freshly Brewed Career Advice with Aliza Licht

Aliza Licht

Business, Careers

5.0 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Although Lisa Niver has traveled in far-off locales from Vanuatu to Nepal, received numerous accolades as an award-winning travel expert who has explored 102 countries and six continents, and is the founder of the website WeSaidGoTravel, what people don’t realize is that this began fromthe wreckage of a rotten romance. As a newlywed, Lisa was on the adventure of a lifetime. She had quit her job, rented her condo, and traveled around Asia. To the outside world, Lisa was a woman living out her dreams of exploring ancient ruins in Cambodia and seeing orangutans in Borneo. She kept a dark secret in private: an abusive relationship. But, when she found herself lying on a sidewalk in Thailand, looking up at the sky in severe pain, she knew things had to change. At age forty- seven, Niver found the courage to set course on a new life. Feeling like a failure, pushing fifty, and moving home to her parents' house to start again from scratch, Lisa began taking one tiny "brave-ish" step at a time to take her life far away from the old one and into the adventurous world of travel writing. These small hurdles led to the challenge of trying fifty new things before turning fifty. From diving into shipwrecks, swimming with sharks, bobsledding at 3Gs, indulging in wild escapades, Lisa found herself traversing the worldon a journey of reinvention, personal growth, and discovering what it actually means to be "brave." Her new book Brave-ish chronicles Lisa’s inspiring expeditions to distant corners of the world, including Myanmar, Cuba, Morocco, Kenya, and Mongolia, but this is more than a travelogue. Brave-ish inspires readers to dream big, take risks, and embrace the unknown to create a life filled with wonder and excitement, even when courage seems elusive. In this episode, Lisa shares how she saved herself, took risks, embraced the unknown, and pressed the reset button when she fell off track. She also shares how she taught herself to rest, not quit. Lisa's story is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of perseverance.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Elisa Likt, and this is Leave Your Mark the podcast, where I brew fresh career advice with some of my most inspiring and successful friends.
0:09.6	It's professional advice that you can action immediately, whether you're just starting out in your career or well on your way.
0:16.6	With a massive to-do list and a large cup of coffee, I promise that you can get it all done
0:21.8	and still have time to post about it.
0:25.8	I'm very excited to have my friend Lisa Neiver here,
0:29.3	who is an award-winning travel expert
0:32.0	who has explored 102 countries on six continents.
0:46.1	Lisa, you are the travel queen. You have that amazing podcast,
0:52.6	make your own map, and you have interviewed everyone from Deepak Chopra to Olympic medalists to bestselling authors. I was honored to be on your show.
0:56.1	And you have a new book called Bravest. And I love this book. And I think especially because
1:05.2	you were extremely brave. And I cannot wait to share your story with everyone listening on Leave Your Mark.
1:13.5	And I think what I'd like to do is a little bit background right now. So people get to know you.
1:21.1	And I mean, obviously you went to Penn. What did you intend to do? I'm sure when you graduated
1:26.0	college, you did not foresee this life
1:29.4	necessarily. Yes. Well, first of all, thank you so much. It's an honor to be on your show for you.
1:35.7	And I did, like you say, I so appreciate you coming on mine. So thank you very much.
1:40.9	But I had grown up here in Los Angeles. I'm again back in Los Angeles. And I went to
1:46.3	Penn thinking that I was very interested in science. And I lived in the Ware College House,
1:51.1	which is the health and science house in the actual quad. And one of the reasons I wanted to live
1:56.1	there was because it was multi-year housing. It wasn't freshman only. And the man I met that very first day,
2:03.3	Dr. Carl Law, is still one of my very, very best friends. He was my advisor in the community house.
2:10.3	And we were actually just in an article in Women's Day about being friends for 38 years.
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