In this episode of Explore Beyond, Courtney shares one of the wildest stories from her years living and guiding overseas.

While working as an outdoor expedition guide in Oman, Courtney experienced a rare medical situation after a fly flew into her eye and laid larva. What followed was a week of discomfort, multiple hospital visits, and eventually a late night emergency ophthalmology visit in Dubai where doctors discovered seven parasitic bugs living in her eye.

This story is equal parts unbelievable travel experience, wilderness medicine reality, and a lesson in resilience, intuition, and staying calm when things feel uncertain.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

• Living and guiding in Oman and the Middle East
• Recognizing when something in your body isn’t right
• Navigating hospitals in a foreign country
• The importance of trusting your instincts
• A wild but true travel story that Courtney now looks back on with humor

If you love real travel stories, behind the scenes experiences of living abroad, and moments that test your resilience in unexpected ways, this episode is for you.

In this episode of Explore Beyond, Courtney talks about loss and what it really looks like to experience sadness honestly instead of pushing it away.

After receiving a text about a friend’s aging dog, Courtney reflects on how easily we try to hero our way through grief, cover sadness with gratitude, and avoid feeling what is actually present in our bodies.

Through the lens of conscious leadership and personal experience, she shares how learning to sit with sadness, allow emotions to move, and create space for feelings has changed the way she navigates loss in her own life.

In this episode, you will hear about:

How we often avoid feeling sadness by distracting ourselves
 Why covering emotions with gratitude can keep us from processing loss
 What it looks like to let emotions flow through the body instead of holding them in
 How to create safe space to feel difficult feelings
 Why allowing sadness to be present actually helps it pass more gently

This episode is a gentle invitation to stop fixing your feelings and start allowing them to move.

If you are navigating loss, grief, sadness, or emotional heaviness, this conversation offers a grounded, compassionate way to be with what is here.

In this episode of Explore Beyond, Courtney walks you through one of her favorite conscious leadership practices: the Whole Body Yes.

This simple but powerful exercise helps you learn how to make decisions using your head, heart, and gut instead of obligation, habit, or outside influence.

Through guided reflection, Courtney helps you identify what a true whole body yes feels like, what a clear no feels like, and how to recognize the subtle “little no” that often shows up in everyday life.

You’ll learn:

• How to tune into your body for intuitive decision making
• How to recognize the physical signals of a yes vs. a no
• Why presence and awareness matter when making choices
• How to practice whole body yes with small decisions first
• How this practice builds energy, vitality, and clarity in your life

This episode includes a practical exercise you can follow along with to map your own internal compass and start making decisions that feel aligned from small daily choices to bigger life adventures.

If you’ve ever wondered how to listen to your intuition, trust your body, or stop saying yes out of obligation, this episode is for you.

In this episode of Explore Beyond, I’m doing something a little different I’m sharing one of my wildest travel stories from my years leading international expeditions.

This is the story of a jungle trek in Belize that didn’t go according to plan.

From the wrong fuel causing a literal fireball, to flooded tents, army ants, overgrown trails, night navigation through a boulder field, exhausted students, tears, rainstorms, and an unexpected jungle “shower” this experience asked everything of me as a leader.

It’s a reminder that leadership isn’t about control or perfection.
 It’s about presence.
 Adaptability.
 Keeping calm when others can’t.
 And finding creativity and humor when things fall apart.

This episode is equal parts adventure story, leadership lesson, and reminder that sometimes the hardest moments become the ones we remember most and learn from the deepest.

Pull up a seat and come with me into the jungle.

In this episode of Explore Beyond, I’m inviting you into the practice of presencing what it means to fully arrive in the moment you’re already in.

So often, we move through our days on autopilot, caught in routines, stories about the past, or worries about the future. Today, I share how consciously slowing down and tuning into the present moment has shifted the way I experience travel, everyday life, and even moments I don’t initially want to be in.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why presence can transform even mundane or frustrating moments
• How travel naturally invites curiosity and awareness
• A simple, embodied practice for presencing through the senses
• Using breath, touch, sound, and sensation to drop out of the thinking mind
• How presence helps soften fear and bring us back to what’s actually here

This is a gentle reminder that there’s nothing wrong with the present moment and that when we allow ourselves to fully be here, we often discover beauty, ease, and clarity we didn’t expect.

Take a few minutes. Slow down. And see what becomes available when you truly arrive.

In this episode of Explore Beyond, I’m talking about something that’s been showing up a lot in my life lately discomfort.

As we move into a new year, change is inevitable. New goals, evolving businesses, unfamiliar choices, unexpected transitions all of it can bring discomfort to the surface. And for a long time, my instinct was to run from it as fast as I could.

Today, I’m sharing how that relationship has shifted.

We explore what it looks like to:

• Notice discomfort instead of pushing it away
• Tune into where it lives in the body
• Understand the energy behind it
• Stay present without forcing a quick fix
• Let discomfort soften, rather than control our choices

Drawing from conscious leadership practices, personal travel experiences, and real moments from my own life, this episode is an invitation to slow down, listen inward, and gently be with what’s here.

If you’re navigating change, growth, fear, or something new that feels uncomfortable this conversation is for you.

No pressure to do it perfectly.
 Just an invitation to stay.

Welcome back to Explore Beyond  and welcome to 2026.

In this first episode of the year, I’m showing up without a script, without a plan, and with a whole lot of honesty. What started as a quiet morning with a dusty journal turned into a reminder of how much I need space to explore with myself and with you.

In this episode, I share:

• Why I decided to pick the mic back up after a long pause
• How journaling, vision boards, and creative rituals help me reconnect with my body and intuition
• What it looks like to be excited and scared at the same time
• Reflections on conscious leadership, fear, and continuous growth
• A glimpse into my love for travel including an upcoming conscious travel journey to Rwanda

This podcast isn’t about having it all figured out. It’s about being real, being curious, and allowing ourselves to explore beyond what’s familiar together.

If something here resonates, I’m glad you’re here.
 If it doesn’t, that’s okay too.

Let’s explore beyond.

In this podcast we are going to

• Determine your budget and travel dates
• Discuss researching your destination
• Booking accommodations
• Planning activities and excursions
• Talk about packing smart

Join us as we explore beyond. 

Sustainable travel is something that you may want to take into account as you are planning your next adventures. 

As the popularity rises in certain destinations, it's important to take into account the impact you have on local cultures.

Join us as we explore beyond 

The world of solo travel is incredibly exciting. 

From experiencing new cultures, meeting new people, and creating your own itinerary, you will feel empowered to step out of your comfort zone. 

I will give you tips for embracing the unknown, planning a successfull trip, creating your itinerary and packing for the unexpected. 

Join me as we explore beyond.