Have you ever met one of those people that seem to have lived multiple lifetimes in their short existence on this planet?

If not, you're about to!

Sara has experienced huge highs and super challenging lows.

Although, she might not tell you they were "lows" at all.

Her sunny disposition about the circumstances of her life could lead you to feel that way.

Everything she has experienced - from growing up poor, to starting her first business in her early 20s, to becoming a parent to her two siblings at 29 when her mother passed away - were all lessons.

Lessons that expanded her and forced her to grow into the super successful individual she is today.

25 years and five businesses later, she's putting the planning in for the future and building a freedom lifestyle that suits her own hippy nature.

As a seeker of uniqueness myself, I'm always SO interested to meet someone who does things differently.

Leah definitely matches this description.

As a self-confessed (and according to Gretchen Rubin's Four Tendencies Quiz), Rebel, Leah is motivated by choice.

(Perfect guest or WHAT!)

Conversely, a routine is something she repels.

Yet, she's managed to start and run several businesses from consulting to product development and be successful enough to travel around the world, living as a digital nomad.

Naturally, I am insanely curious as to how she is successful with this seemingly uncomplimentary set of personality traits.

Fortunately, for us, she dishes her secrets in our conversation!

As we transition into a New Year, this episode couldn't be better placed.

Tom and Ariana are SUCH inspirations for Rory and I...in life, parenting, business, you name it!

But, to their own admission, today's "after photo" isn't how it always used to look.

For more than 11 years, they've been fine-tuning how they run their (now) three businesses and applying those same principles in the way they show up in their family.

And family is TOP priority for them.

Family and personal time are the FIRST in their calendar and set the boundaries for how the rest of their lives are structured.

At a time of year when so many of us are examining our lives, setting goals and tuning into our aspirations, this episode is sure to inspire you to think about goal setting and building that ever-elusive "balance" in a whole new way into the next year and beyond.

It's amazing what you can learn about someone when you dive a bit deeper and ask the deeper questions.

That's exactly what happened during this chat with my dear friend and fellow Mum, Justine.

Justine and I met through a mutual friend in late 2016, hit it off straight away, then fell pregnant within weeks of one another.

Me with our little Zinnia and she with identical twin girls!

It was so comforting to go through the journey to motherhood and entrepreneurship with a close friend.

As a fellow entrepreneurial Mum, I'm constantly impressed and inspired by Justine's attitude to the challenges of life, business and motherhood throw her way.

From replacing her corporate income within 12 months of starting her business to traveling for two weeks in Iceland with her (then) six-month-old twins, Justine's sense of adventure knows no bounds.

I trust you'll be as inspired to pursue your freality, regardless of the judgments of others and societal limitations placed on you as Justine is after listening to this episode.

It's no secret, I LOVE talking about money!

I'm fascinated to learn what motivates people to save, earn and spend their money.

This is in large part due to the fact I don't (yet) know how to comfortably hold onto money and have a somewhat detrimental belief that money is always coming to me, so why bother saving it.

Hmm...

This isn't the case for Whitney Hansen.

She's hacked her own money mindset and accomplished some pretty amazing things with her money.

Of particular note, paying down $30,000 worth of student loan debt in just 10 months!

Having grown up in rural Central Queensland, Australia, I'm familiar with the reality of small-town life whilst also deeply believing that small-town folk can live big, beautiful, successful and FREE lives.

I lived in various small (and even smaller) towns all the way up until after I finished University.

Whilst at my rural University, as Rebecca describes I was one of those 20% of residents who were called upon to do 80% of the service to the community.

The "yes" woman - and that "yes" was often EMPHATIC!

Because, although I was up to my eyeballs in responsibilities and commitments, I had no idea how to say "no" and leave space for myself.

As a mother, this devil has appeared in my life yet again (old devil, new level) and is holding a pretty hard-to-look-at mirror in front of me.

Faced with perpetual judgment from others and a million different paths to parenting, I can often feel totally lost and not know which way to turn.

My conversation with Rebecca really helped me to reframe those parenting dreams everyone keeps telling me are unrealistic into intentions to carry with me, imperfectly along my parenting journey.

Saying "no" more often, living with intention and refusing to be held down as a consequence of living in a small town are all such important messages that I'm so grateful Rebecca is sharing with the world and I'm grateful for the chance to help further them and inspire my fellow small town ladies to live a life of their own freedom.

As a newly married woman, I know I still have a lot to learn about patience and personalities.

My chat with Kelly really brought this into perspective for me.

Hearing about her slow transition toward annual, extended trips abroad and the way she helped set her husband's mind at ease is inspirational.

Not to mention her next-level problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

(That I think are a MUST when trying to solve anything technological in Mexico.)

It's this patience and persistence I see as being the cornerstone to Kelly's ability to forge the freality she now enjoys.

From spending several months living in Mexico in 2017, to heading that way again in 2018, and plans to go even further afield in the future, she's truly set her life up to enjoy lots of location freedom.

All whilst growing and running a bookkeeping business online.

Get ready to dive into a seldom spoken-about topic: freedom from family.

After more than a decade of turbulence in my own family, with extended periods spent estranged from various members within it, I truly believe that while you can't choose your family, you CAN choose how you allow yourself to be treated by them.

This belief and the actions associated are, more often than not, rejected by society.

"Family comes first" and "family is forever" are excuses I've heard used for bad behaviour, time and time again.

I decided years ago that just because I may share blood with someone, that doesn't allow them to treat me poorly and it doesn't mean I must put up with it.

Bonnie knows this better than most.

She's been through the wringer with her family and has suffered terrible abuses at their hands.

Despite growing up in an affluent family, she quickly learned that her family couldn't buy her happiness.

This conversation is one that I believe NEEDS to see more light of day.

Families come in all different shapes, sizes, configurations and levels of involvement.

Bonnie and I want to empower you to choose your family because you want to, not because you feel you have to.

And to feel freedom around your family interactions or the lack thereof.

Do you ever have those doo-doo, doo-doo moments?

(Twilight zone, anyone?)

I experienced an AWESOME one when Mike and I jumped on to record this episode.

Turns out both of our daughters were born on North American Father's Day in 2018 AND both have names beginning with 'Z'!!!

SO COOL!

We both didn't even know that we had been expecting babies!

Last time we chatted, Mike and his family of (then) three were living out of an RV, traveling their way around America.

As I'm sure you can imagine if you've read much else on this site, I was THRILLED to learn about his experience and felt very inspired to do something similar with my new little family.

It's always SO encouraging to hear how other parents are traveling with their little ones.

And, more than that, how Mike built and grew his rapidly expanding relationship marketing business, MemberVault, both from that RV AND from the same Macbook he's had for the last several years.

That Macbook has handled EVERY line of code MemberVault is based on.

We talk about just how much freedom entrepreneurs now have to be able to create something from nothing with the low-cost of entry into the online space.

I couldn't think of a better first guest to have on the show than Michelle.

She was HUGELY responsible for the empowered way in which Rory and I were able to bring our little Zinnia into the world.

Through her like-no-other doula-rific (that's a word, right?!) teachings, we were able to detach from the WAY Zinnia decided she was coming and focus on making informed, empowered choices throughout.

Which, as it turned out, was EXACTLY what we needed through a 63-hour birth.