You're listening to The Lively Show, episode 164.

Welcome to the Lively Show.

I'm your host Jess Lively and this blogcast is designed to

uplift, inspire, and add a little extra intention to your everyday.

Welcome to the show guys.

Thank you so much as always for listening. Today I am speaking to you and recording in Brooklyn, New York.

Before I head out to London and Europe later tonight, I'm so excited to go back to Europe.

It has been fun to be in the States, but I have really, really loved my time exploring there,

and eventually to get to other parts of the world in the months to come as well.

So I'm so excited to get back on the road

into foreign lands, if you will.

As you're listening to this right now,

I'm currently in London,

and I'll be heading to my next stop in Europe,

which I've not yet been to before. I'll share where that is exactly at the end of the episode, so stay tuned for where I'm heading next. As I'm returning to Europe, I've been thinking a lot this week about what life has been like before and after this experience and especially how life was different in the US before and how it's different now even being here because I don't have a house to settle me into a routine immediately after coming back to a culture I'm very familiar with.

So as I'm looking at my new, I guess you could call it a lifestyle, this digital nomad lifestyle, I'm realizing that travel and just generally speaking

how I've approached Europe has been simpler and more difficult of a lifestyle than my previous lifestyle was. I would say it was easier and more complicated.

And I think it's really interesting to see the duality here to say that it is simpler and

more difficult or before it was easier and more complicated.

You would think I would say that it would be more difficult and more complicated and

easier and simpler, but no, they have their own interesting challenges.

I'm going to go into what those were and how you could also apply this to your own life,

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