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JOIN UP DOTS - GET RICH & LIVE FREE (Business Coaching With A Touch Of Life Coaching Too)

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JOIN UP DOTS - GET RICH & LIVE FREE (Business Coaching With A Touch Of Life Coaching Too)

David Ralph of Join Up Dots

Education, Business

5.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Travel blogs make great reading, but do travel blogs make a good business? Today's guest joining us on the Join Up Dots podcast believes in travel, more travel and then when she is finished and wants a bit of rest: Travel. And this is not the pack your bags for two weeks each year, or for as many weekends as you can get, kind of adventure. She is a believer that "Your life does not have to fit in a box. You don't have to live behind the picket fence, slave away at that full-time job that sucks you dry, and the monotonous peak hour traffic runs. You can have the picket fence and a job you love of course, but, we're pretty sure you at least want to escape your everyday life for weekend getaways or a three-week vacation every year." But what is the fascinating thing about today's guest, is how close she came to buying into the status quo that life seems to be lived by. Settling into the routine or a life lived on other peoples terms. After meeting each other, falling madly in love and then beginning a five year honeymoon as they travelled the world teaching English, things came to a halt As she says "We returned home after the honeymoon and hit a major slump. This travel life we loved was over. That thinking changed everything and before we knew it we were chasing money making schemes all over the world trying to get the riches we needed to keep travelling. Let's just say $500,000 and no self-esteem later we woke up." "Why do we need to wait until we have the money to live what's in our hearts? Why not just start with what is in the heart today?" And with that thought, and I'm sure more than a touch of apprehension they set off on what has become their life, travelling, blogging and helping others to buy into the start the dream today mentality with their top ranked blog "Y Travel" and now with two children in tow, their success, and ability to grab more experiences in a month than most of us have in a lifetime is assured. So what was it about the nomadic lifestyle that had such a pull on them? And is it something that they think everyone can do, or does it take a certain type of mindset? Well lets find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots, with the one and only Caroline Makepeace. Show Highlights During the show we discussed such weighty topics with Caroline Makepeace such as: Why the words of Steve Jobs send shivers down her spine, as she has learnt from life that everything works out for the best. You may not know how this will happen but it does. How she is so aware that she can't escape the mundane routines of life that everybody else has to deal with, but can make sure that the experiences of life in between are so much better than everyone else. Why it is so important to get back to the things that you really loved as a kid, to build a life around the passion. Doing this helps you push through the hard times so much more easily. How her parents were so supportive with her dream to travel the world, although they would have been very happy for to get a safe job too. And lastly……… Why it is so important to watch out for the energy vampires in your life, and to ensure that you pull away as much as possible from the naysayers, and dream slayers.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Yes, hello there and welcome to today's episode of Weekend Rewind.

0:04.7

Yes, this is when we put our hands back into the Join Up Dot's Volt,

0:09.4

swirl it around a bit and find an episode that maybe has got lost in the midst of time.

0:16.0

And this is in response to the amount of requests we get from people who say, David, with all the episodes

0:21.8

you've released, where should we start? Well, it's very hard

0:25.2

to find a place, so we're just going to randomly pick one, and this is today's episode.

0:30.0

Enjoy.

0:33.0

When we're young, we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be.

0:38.0

But somewhere along the line, we forget to dream and end up settling.

0:41.0

Join Up Dotts features amazing people who refuse to give up

0:45.0

and chose to go after their dreams.

0:48.0

This is your blueprint for greatness.

0:50.0

So here's your host,

0:52.0

live from the back of his garden in the UK David Rall

0:58.0

Yes, hello their world. Hello there everybody wherever you are listening to us listening to

1:03.4

episode 474 of join up dots welcome to you it's gonna be a good one today

1:08.4

because I've already been flirting big time and the lady is going for it. I can feel that my powers are working

1:14.8

from her end and she likes to have a drink at any time of the day it seems it makes

1:18.8

no difference to us so she she's come to the right place that's what we'd like to do

1:22.2

on join up dots and she is a guest who is joining us and her passion I suppose and her believe is travel and then more travel and then when she's finished and wants a bit of rest, yeah go on in a bit more travel.

1:34.7

And this is not the pack your bags for two weeks each year or for as many weekends as you can get

1:39.3

kind of adventure. Her and her partner Craig are believers that your life does not have to fit in a box.

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