Lessons from Living in Costa Rica: The PITA Vida & the PURA Vida In 2021, Andrea moved her family to Costa Rica for a year. Why? To get away from Amazon, exit her comfort zone, live by the beach, make her daughter a global citizen and walk through some fire. She expected third-world hilarity and insta-community. What she got was transformation. You might get be curious about….

-How Pura Vida can be a Pain in the Ass

-How to heal from Nature, EVEN if you're a Badass Indoorsy person

-Why alone time is critical, even for extroverts

-The biggest turning point in Andrea's life

-Why anxiety can sometimes be a choice

-A BIG lesson from a LITTLE limpet shell

-The day the car door handle fell off on her hand

-How Jack Kerouac and The Dude factor in

-A chance to get a snail mail postcard from Andrea

Get ready for some real-time relationship woo and wisdom--from the front lines about how breaking rules, blurring boundaries and tossing tradition--along with polyamory and plant medicine--have been catalysts for finding our truth. The Permission to Be Human Podcast debunks the myths we were told about fairytales and forever, so we can create a new map for life, love, and conscious relationships. Freedom is, in fact, the new F word.

If you're seeking permission to choose your own path, and want to feel less alone along the way, we've got you.

With heart-shaped sunglasses,

Janelle & Andrea