Two months of summer holidays are done. It is the morning of the first day of school, my son will move into secondary today and I can tell you, this is quite a step.
When I check my emails in the morning, I get a recommendation of a book, I already read ten years ago. And it changed my life. It was the start of everything, and it leaves me quite emotional looking back now to the big adventure that was our daily routine, while now I am standing here, preparing the school snack.
In 2015 I got in contact with the digital nomad scene, and got instantly hooked. Traveling the world while working with my laptop to finance the whole story? Sounded too good to be true as I always thought you needed to have some money on the side, to be able to do such huge trips. That's when the book recommendation of today's email, got into my hands back then. "Das große Los" by Meike Winnemuth, a journalist who won money on a TV show, traveled the world and afterward recognized that she didn't even needed the money as she couch-surfed all around.
That was my call. That was my enlightenment. That was my starting signal. If she can do it, I can too. And the rest is history:
In 2016 I went on a world trip with my son, instead of one year we stayed for six. A log, podcast, book (the cover became the picture you can see), startup and sometime later even a oundation was born on that trip. Of course, millions of fu*** ups included, but after all the best time and life with my son I could ever imagine.
Close to ten years after the initial ignition I stand here, while cutting an apple to arrange the school snack box. Years ago my mission was to get drinking water out of a stream in the taiga desert in Mongolia, now my vision is to supply amazing period panties to the world while changing period poverty on the go.
Isn't it just stunning once we look back to where we started? What kind of people, situations, and impulses influenced us to get where we are right now? Next week I will head towards another adventure. Another impulse that got me there. Another decision I made. And I am incredibly excited about where it will lead me.
