I’ve always been different. I’ve never really fit in. I was always “the weird one” in school. Right after graduating, I cut ties with everyone from school, because I didn’t want out of life what they wanted. I knew I had to find people who were like me. But I didn’t even know who I was or what I wanted out of life. Which is why I found myself jumping from relationship to relationship, hoping to find myself in one of them. I didn’t even know what to study, so I decided on an apprenticeship that taught me many different things: People skills, working hard, organizational skills and lots more. It was an apprenticeship in hotel management.

Probably one of the hardest ones you can do in Europe, but it was the best thing I could have done at the time as slowly but surely, I learned more about what I wanted and what I didn’t want.

I learned that I sure as hell wasn’t going to be stuck in a place like that, working long hours and doing hard physical work until I was 65, being underpaid and unappreciated. I learned that I was never going to settle for something that I didn’t love, simply because “it’s the easier option” — not in work and not in a relationship or any other part of my life. And I learned that I wanted to travel and live in different places, as that seemed to be the most expansive thing one could do.

So I worked hard and finally in 2019, bought a one-way ticket. I traveled for a few months and met many incredible people who gave me so much perspective and inspiration. For the first time in my life I was exposed to the concept of conscious living, taking good care of your body and mind, living sustainably, yoga & meditation and more… my mind was blown and it took me a while to process all the newfound information and inspiration until eventually, in 2020 I started learning about alternative ways of working — working online.