Lessons from the Road: Sydney Hatmaker on Saying Yes to the World Part 2

For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

Jen Hatmaker

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Description: In part two of this epic conversation, we continue our journey around the globe with Sydney Hatmaker to hear about some of the amazing adventures and experiences had during her six months travelling across Europe and Asia on a tiny budget. In this episode: ● We hear how staying connected while travelling can have some serious pros and cons ● Sydney tells us about the 200 hours of intense yoga training she underwent in the magical landscape of the Indian Himalayan Mountains ● She tells us about her heart-pounding experience climbing a (LITERAL) active volcano, Mount Rinjani in Indonesia, and how it was the hardest thing she has ever done ● And Sydney tells us how she ultimately decided that it was time to hang up the backpack and come back home. As you dream and make plans for 2025, we hope this episode inspires you to broaden your horizons, to take chances, and to say yes to new things. One thing we are sure of is that this once-in-a-lifetime adventure is sure to be repeated. The only question is where will we go? *** Thought-provoking Quotes: I get why people climb mountains. It’s so empowering. You push up hard against the growing edge of your own limits. I didn’t even know that I was capable of pushing myself that hard. You just take that feeling and it's contagious, it spreads to other parts of your life. – Sydney Hatmaker I met this amazing 70 year old woman in one of my hosels in Turkey who started backpacking when she retired. She had been all throughout the entirety of the Middle East. She was so incredible. We all gathered around her. She had the most incredible stories. – Sydney Hatmaker Resources Mentioned in This Episode: The 9 Enneagram Types Descriptions - https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/type-descriptions/ Skyscanner - https://www.skyscanner.com/ Rick Steves Travel Guides - https://amzn.to/41mKeFX Berghain Techno Club in Berlin - https://bit.ly/4gfaMNq Sagrada Familia - https://sagradafamilia.org/en/ Jen’s MeCamp - https://bit.ly/3D1qX2I The Banana Pancake Trail - https://trail.bananabackpacks.com/banana-pancake-trail/ Hostel World - https://www.hostelworld.com/ Pyramid Yogshala Yoga School - https://pyramidyogshala.com/ Guest’s Links: Connect with Jen! Jen’s website - https://jenhatmaker.com/ Jen’s Instagram - https://instagram.com/jenhatmaker Jen’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/jenHatmaker/ Jen’s Facebook - https://facebook.com/jenhatmaker Jen’s YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/JenHatmaker The For the Love Podcast is presented by Audacy. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Obviously, when you're in Europe, you were just spending money like you would never run out
0:10.7	because Europe's expensive.
0:12.1	And also, that was the front of your trip where you felt like I have so much money.
0:15.7	Have so much money.
0:17.8	But it's just so much more expensive.
0:19.1	But by the time you got over to Southeast Asia,
0:22.7	like give an average, like this would be an average of what a hostel cost,
0:27.3	what a meal would cost, you know what I'm saying?
0:29.5	Yeah, Europe is way more expensive and even more expensive than I had thought.
0:33.1	Like at this point, like people in backpacking for so long.
0:35.4	Like hostels have really raised prices.
0:37.4	I was paying anywhere from like 25.
0:39.6	So I think the most I paid was maybe like 50 or 60 a night for a hostel.
0:44.7	And then where I really spent my money in Europe was food.
0:47.4	I was eating good.
0:48.4	Yeah.
0:49.2	I don't have regrets there.
0:50.6	I think the like absolute cheapest travelers, they're like doing a lot of like their
0:57.4	own grocery shopping, like snack eating, like never going to restaurants. But like the food is such
1:02.9	like a big part of the experience in Europe and I ate good. So I don't regret that. But I spent like
1:07.6	nearly half my budget in like in the first weeks. In the first six weeks in Europe.
1:12.4	Also because I did find online a lot of people traveled with less money than I had.
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