Ep.44 Growth From Adventures

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Make adventures happen. Like when you go on adventures, you just don't know at any age what that's going to do to you. Hey friends, thank you for listening to the All Things Good for you podcast. Join us as we explore ancient traditions, modern tools and practices in the world of health, wellness and personal development. I'm Amy Christiansen, your host and your curated mind coach.

And I'm your co host Brian Bowen, founder of Integrative Health, Inc. And Better Human Company High Performance Coaching. Are you ready to take control of your life and start feeling enthusiastic, empowered and limitless each and every day for a life well lived, let your curiosity flow with all things good for you. Cheers Amy. Happy Adventures Clink, clink, clink.

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Clinking, clinking and listening to a little reggae.

We are listening to reggae. It's like we're. I feel like we. I feel like we're in the mood for a vacation and we just kind of set one up for ourselves. I do feel like that quick vacation in an hour right after work.

Should I bring the infrared light in here and turn it on just to give us a little sunbill?

We really should have had that. We really should have had a red lamp in here anytime.

I mean, if you could picture it, people, an amazing red light, a reggae, reggae little wine.

It is the end of I finished my dry February.

Good job.

It was wonderful. It was very enlightening. It did not make me stop wanting to have an occasional glass of wine, but it did make me want to go to an occasional glass of wine.

Well, I will say we are talking about adventures and finding growth in adventures. And wine technically is a mouthful of adventure, right? Like so all the different notes and grapes, I might be reaching here a little bit.

No, you're not. Because that is truly one of my most favorite things. I don't just drink wine to have the feeling. I actually drink wine typically. Not that I haven't just had wine.

To have the feeling maybe once or.

Twice, but typically I really enjoy the process of tasting the wine, feeling the notes and like this is a little bit chilled. Not everybody knows you should probably chill a little red wine sometimes you got to get A little chill on it. Helps bring up the notes, helps settle some of the other things. I love wine, for that matter. But anyway, that's not what we're talking about tonight.

Well, the adventures of it.

The adventures.

So growth and adventures. So wine country. I've been to Sonoma. I've been to the Russian Valley. I've been to Napa, and I've been to the Willamette Dam. It for all. You good. Yeah. Some of the most beautiful experiences I've had in my relationship, for sure. But not just, like, to be connected.

Me too, Brian.

But to be connected with nature and to have, like, everything else. It's like, it's almost meditative sometimes. You know, you're just sipping the wine and you're in nature, and it's just like your nervous system just relaxes. You're like parasympathetic.

Italy. Have you been there yet? Have you gone to Italy?

I've been to Venice, so some people say that's not real Italy, which I. I have not been to Tuscany and things like that, but. But I'm excited to try that sometimes.

I think that's. I think you're going to be the more expansive topic and I'm gonna be more domestic topic tonight, because on our topic tonight, I have not had that much opportunity to travel. I had. I got married young, had kids young, and we just didn't travel a lot. And so now. Now my goal is to travel a lot more. So I have a lot of things coming up and exciting stuff so I can travel more because I do want to get out there and adventure. But you've been all over. But I could speak to making an.

Adventure in your backyard, which is. I mean, the. Having an adventure and having the ability to be open to those experiences, which we keep talking about through all of our podcasts, is to be curious. Right. To be open to that. And, you know, for me, I don't know about you too, or how you feel about, but, like, I don't need more money for a bigger house or more cars or anything like that. I just. The travel and the experiences, that's what my kids. That's what they remember, and that's what I remember. Those beautiful growth opportunities that we get that we're going to dive into and talk about it as we approach spring break. As we approach spring break. And so like you were saying, you. For traveling domestically, it's still. It's an adventure. It's being curious and. And being open and sometimes going into it with totally no expectations.

Yeah, just go and see, like, I. I could go. I could just jump in my car and go in any direction. Maybe I would have a town in mind or something. But I love to just drive and just go wherever and see what was what in the next town, or let's go four hours this way and see where I am.

I love it. I always, like something that you've said in the past, many times is if you're talking about going for a hike, it's just like. And just go for a hike and see what you see.

Yeah.

So, like, just see what you see. It doesn't have to be like this. This intense itinerary, which is fun, too, because. Especially for learning and that. But I love. I love that you just said that again. It's just see what you see.

There's tons of places in Denver that I've never been. I mean, you know, just in your local town, I bet you there are streets and stores and coffee houses or whatnot that you haven't gone and experienced and looked around in. So you don't have to travel to have a big adventure. But that's really fun.

I've never been to. Oh, my gosh, where's this Greeley? I've never been to Greeley.

I have not been to Greeley either.

Careful.

I'm picking my words carefully.

I said that for a reason, though. I said it for a reason, because there's a stigmatism about, like, what Greeley's about. Yeah. We got the slaughterhouses. We have some smell. But do you know that they have, like, an amazing opera there?

Heck no.

Or no. Symphony. Sorry, sorry. Correct. Symphony. Okay, so there's Symphony. There is amazing. So it's kind of like. Like, go and just push yourself and just see what you see. It's an hour and a half or something like that away. And I think we put these barriers up.

Sure.

Right.

We make judgments.

We make judgments from what other people.

Have told us or you may have smelled.

Yeah. But it is a great indicator of when a cold snap's coming. Because I smell. I feel like for some reason, like, you get a little bit of that.

Like the downwind that flows through us.

And listeners from Greeley, we love you. We love you. We love it. But so, yeah. So to. To. To let go of those boundaries of what you expect, and sometimes even just, you know, we raise the bar. It's fun to kind of go into it, you know, a little unknown. I'm actually going with my family to Hawaii, and I'm very excited. I'VE never been to Hawaii and this is our third attempt at it. But I see, it's interesting because I see the pictures of that people show me of Maui and typically I just see like these older, like 1980s high rises along the beach and I hear how beautiful it is. But when I see the pictures, I hate to say it, it just doesn't like, resonate with what I picture in my mind. And so I've decided, like, like I'm just gonna let it go. I'm not gonna go in with the expectations, but just to soak it in and the experience of, of what Hawaii and the islands have to offer and what, what. How can you just be and be.

In nature and how can you just go forward with a little bit of ooh, baby, I love your way.

I love it. I don't know. Just in case you can't hear this, Amy is head bopping and doing a little dance in her chair. I hope you can hear the reggae. We left it on for obviously travel experiences and adventure reasons. Speaking of adventure, Jamaica sounds fun too.

Jamaica is amazing. And oh my gosh, my last client just told me that he got a deal with Frontier for $350. It is a go anywhere, anytime for $350. Membership for $350 on Frontier.

Are you getting paid by Frontier? And you're getting, are you getting endorsements I don't know about? I'm not getting any.

Hey, Frontier, I'd like to travel with you. No, but I'm just okay. In, in, in perspective of a lot of times I think I put these boundaries on my life and that it's expensive to go here and it's really pricey to go over there and it costs a lot to fly here. And in reality, you can find some heck of a good deals. You can travel to different cities in different places without it being a complete fortune. So. Yeah, he just got a deal on Frontier where you pay $350. Now, there's some stipulations. You fly anywhere, anytime.

Oh, you're gonna go. You got the.

I know. Well, I'm excited.

I can see.

Okay. Domestic flights are one day advance notice.

Okay.

And international flights are 10 days advance notice. Now what we didn't know is if that includes if that's round trip, like if you get to Europe and then you, you gotta stay there for 10 days because it's gonna take you 10 days to book your trip back home. We don't know that part. But $350 to just fly around the United States when you wanted to.

That removes a big barrier for people who choose not to.

Like, hey, I'm gonna go visit Nashville over the weekend.

Are you?

No, but I should. I mean, if I had gotten the. If Frontier had told me they were doing a special, I would have done it.

So Frontier. Amy's email address is Amy Christensen.

It's Amy. Amy. Amy. Christianson.com Frontier Come on, help me out.

So I don't know if anybody's catching on to the point of tonight's podcast, so I'm just gonna throw wheel it back a little bit. So. So it's about growth through adventures and as we approach spring break, how important it is to explore. I just. We have a couple quotes for you tonight, and I think this helps it make sense, but St. Augustine, a quote from St. Augustine is the world a book, and those that do not travel only read one page.

Come on, who reads one page?

Well, and first of all, let me read the quote. The world is a book. Those who do not travel read only one page. I just put an extra word in there. I totally agree with that. But I have to say, I grew up in Missouri, have some family from Missouri who I love dearly, who. Some of them have not traveled that much, even in the United States.

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Right?

What do the pages offer us?

Well, I know that when we travel, we learn a lot of things. We learn about other cultures. I know that we learn a lot about our patients. So we're building resiliency, right? We're building empathy and understanding. I mean, think about the only place I really have done some traveling is Canada. And that's for Another story, another day, why I took so many trips to Canada.

Well, okay, I need to know. So we've had a lot of questions come in from previous podcasts that I put out about what happened to my girlfriend. And so now the new question is gonna be what happened in Canada?

I think I might have to put out a special request for a very special guest podcaster in the future to cover why I went to Canada so often. So we'll just leave those two things a mystery. What happened to Brian's girlfriend? And why did Amy go to Montreal so often?

I love it.

Well, I went to Toronto and Vancouver and Quebec City, which Quebec City's amazing. Montreal's amazing, too. They're all amazing. But Quebec City is probably my favorite.

So we went to different cities. That alludes to some other things. Okay.

It started a trend. The things we went there for started a trend in many ways, but I will say that we started. My sister and I had never. We didn't. We left our home with our. With our dad and got married very young because we're from Texas, Oklahoma, and had children really young. Love you, Texas. Love you, Oklahoma. Thirteen. Tis the way.

Were you 13?

No, I was super successful. I got married first, then had a baby, and I was in my 20s. Good job. The people in. In Boston when I lived there did not understand this because that's where I got pregnant. They're like, you're 22, you're 21, and you're pregnant. I don't get this. I'm like, listen, I'm from Texas. I got married first. Sorry, I'm totally kidding. Texas. I pick on Texas.

So our. We did. We're just looking. And we've had actually a lot of downloads from Texas, and I feel like those are gonna drop now.

I don't think they will, because you know what? Texans know how to laugh at ourselves because we love even our weird, silly idiosyncrasies and our stereotypes, we're okay with it. We're very strong people. Beautiful skin and great hair. Anyway, so my sister and I, this is going to be a little bit of a fat, a little divergent, but it makes sense, right? So my sister and I got married, had kids. Never really went anywhere other than we were always with our family. Like, we never were without our immediate family or our husbands or our children. And I was. I just had. Had Nick like nine months earlier. So I was 20. 20, gosh, 25. I was 25, got on a plane. Well, first of all, I called my sister, as I like to do to people and just say, I'm going to Canada for this event and you're going with me. And we're.

Are we talking about Cindy?

Yeah, Cindy.

Okay.

Yeah. My sister. I do have a sister. That's not my sister and her name is Nicole, but Cindy is my actual sister. And I do call her and Nicole and say, we're gonna go do this, so just get ready and go do it, and we'll find a way to make it happen. And I always did. And so I drug us to Toronto on our first adventure. And we. She's a few years older than me, but not much, and nobody can ever tell, ever. And so we get on a plane and we like. Like, it was like a light bulb. It was like if you're watching a movie, there is like a. A swishy, whooshy scene, and all of a sudden we're 17.

I love it.

And we had the most amazing, amazing trip. The flight attendants loved us. They gave us upgrades. They brought us chocolates, they gave us free drinks. We got off the plane and everybody loved us so much. They loved us that they had to ask us why we were there. And then we got to go into interrogation, and that was fun. And then we went downtown and we had an upgraded suite to a king suite. And they were like, you know what? You guys had a long day of travel. Help yourself to the mini bar. And I mean, we just had thing after moment after moment. Like, we'd go to a restaurant and.

They were out back to Canada for the pat downs. The free pat downs. The free.

Yes, thank you, Canada. You give great pat downs. No, but it was so much fun. And the whole trip was like this. And it literally changed our life. Like, the experience of in Toronto was not that much different than America, frankly, but. And, like, I studied my French for, like, two months before we went. I was all prepared. I didn't know, but we had so much fun, and we found ourselves and we found so much personal strength and identity in what we were doing and the connections we made with people and how people responded to us. That was so different than what we grew up with and what we were surrounded with. And I'm telling you, it changed the trajectory of our lives.

I'm having. I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to say it, because I'm having a thought about what I think you were traveling there for. And I'm not going to guess it right now. I feel like I'm remembering. Remembering some Amy conversation that. Yes.

So it's Very sweet. It's a good thing. But all this to say yeah, make adventures happen. Like when you go on adventures you just don't know at any age what that's going to do to you. And even like last like I've made this resolution in the last couple years that twice So I live in the mountains in Colorado. Right. Or did the at the base of mountains. And I made a resolution a couple years ago that I will spend at least two times out of the year on a beach and I have been successful at that. I went to Florida for the first time a couple years ago and that was amazing. It was fantastic.

Well because you were in San Marco Island.

I was at San Miguel. What? Yes. Yeah, San Marco. But then I went back and I went to Fort Myers and by the way Fort Myers, we love you guys. I can't wait for you guys to recover and I hope I wish you guys all well because I love Fort Myers a lot. You know they got hit really hard.

And my father in law's just north of there and didn't get hit at all which is so mind blowing.

Is mind blowing. Marco island is apparently fun again. It was, it was another understand like it just opened another perspective for me. I never thought I was going to be as somebody who traveled to a beach twice a year. You know I never felt like that was open to me.

So that's quick pause here if I could. That is a mindset. Yeah, a mindset. A limiting mindset for ceiling problem as a great book. I just read how he he puts it as you hit this upper limit ceiling problem of what you could should deserve whatever it is what's available and can afford. And it's amazing. Clearly with your amazing deal you just told us about on Frontier.

I always find great travel deals though.

So there, there's all those limiting beliefs and in your travel with your sister not only was it your your tribe, your people, your community which the happiest people in the world have a sense of community. Yep. Right. And you also met all these another amazing people.

Yeah.

And I something that you said that I was like I resonate a lot with is when you're really happy during your travel. It's amazing how many good things come your way. Like people feel your energy. Oh yeah.

Oh heck yeah.

I love to go to a rental car place. This is a side note when I'm traveling because I'm always excited you just.

Randomly go to go to rental car.

Well when I go to pick up my rental car I'm always just Just like, just goofy.

Yeah.

And I'm like, what? Yeah, I know. I've been traveling a lot. Whatever you do, I know it's been a rough day for you, but I'm having a great time. Whatever you do, don't give me an upgrade or whatever for free. And they like, 90% of the time, they do it. Yeah. My. My favorite one was I got a convertible Mustang in San Diego and I had like a July. Like, I'd rented like, the base model. And this lady was like, oh, my God. But my point is, you radiate fun and energy. Like, people want to support that they don't want, like, to deal with. But how can you. Like, it breaks the curmudgeon cycle. Yeah.

And.

And the curmudgeon.

Come on, end it.

Go somewhere and have fun. Right. It's. I think that's the whole point. Like one we can make. We can go anywhere. You really can find incredible deals. I had a friend that figured out how to go to Iceland for three days for like 400 bucks.

Yeah.

And they. Then she went on one trip where she went to. They flew into South France, they went to Italy and a couple of different places in Italy, and then went to Spain and Portugal and came back to Italy, and they did it all for like $2,400. Insanely easy, right? So money. And it wasn't that money was a factor. It was just that she kind of just enjoyed the process of finding inexpensive trips. So if you think that time and money are a restriction or a limiting belief factor around your experiences to be able to travel and have some adventures, you are wrong, my friends.

You're wrong. So I. Yeah, the why, though, I feel like, is really important. Like, I. The limiting beliefs. I totally agree with you. There's so many of the. Of that. Of that perspective going on. But the why. And the topic is growth through adventures. And, you know, I. I think there's a lot of people who are listening right now who can. They're listening. They're like, oh, my God. I. They haven't traveled that much. But the thing they remember is the experience they had travel.

Right.

And sometimes it might not have turned out the way they wanted to, but it was a crazy adventure. Whether it was like the weather was this and the boat was tipping and. But they ended up bonding with some great people.

Right.

It might not have turned out like the perfect vacation, because it's not. We're not talking about necessarily a vacation. We're talking about experience. We're talking about just being open to it. And you know, I remember like my, my oldest right now is getting ready go to college. But we, she got to go join this program where she got to go to the Dominican Republic in Haiti to help volunteer. And the growth I saw in her in that three weeks time or whatever that she was there. I was reflecting back when I was younger. I went to Spain by myself and I literally was in Birkenstocks and a backpack and I had like $350. I'd already bought my plane ticket and I had to go to, I had to navigate. I had to go to Heathrow and then from Heathrow I went to Madrid and then down to like Malaga and I went through Spain and then I went over to Morocco and then I came up into Cadiz and all this good stuff. But to navigate a country when I knew no Spanish.

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Only young people do that. But I'm not, I'm just kidding.

I know. No, but that, that's, that, that's a mindset.

That's true.

But you know, but I, I stayed at hostels and like, but it's a great experience. The people you meet, the community that you build, the people I met. But more importantly the reason I was bringing my daughter up in this is like that for younger people. If you are listening to this and you have kids, the self esteem.

Yeah.

And that kind of courage that it takes to navigate that and to, and to feel successful. And now it's so much easier because you can pull up an app. I totally like made it all the way through Spain and Morocco and the only time I had a language barrier was to find the airport leaving Spain. And you know what the word for airport is now? I had a joke and I had an O to everything.

Yeah.

And that's my Spanish. But I was on a bus and this guy, I'm like, I'm so lost. Where do I get off to the airport. And he's pointing to like this park and he points to a parking like, they write a note like, get off, basically. And he's pointing to the park, and I'm like, I get off the bus and he leaves.

He's literally in a park.

I'm in a park and I noticed there was just a handrail. Like, just a random handrail. And I'm like, okay, so I'm walking around this park, and there's a handrail in an obscure park in Madrid. And I'm sure you, somebody listening to this knows the exact park I'm talking about. And I walk up to the handrail, and there, sure enough, there's a stairway and it goes down to a bus station that goes to the airport. Like, no. No signs. Like, just obscure. But the word is airport, though.

You do have to have a little bit of sense of adventure. You have to. I, like, I may have bashed my sisters over the head a couple of times with. Just follow me. I know where we're going. There's a saying about Amy, whether you're hiking with me or going to a.

City, I know where I'm going is a red flag.

When I say it's not that far and we're almost there, it's probably a lie. It's probably a lot further, and we're not even close. But we're gonna have fun and we're gonna find, like, cool little shops and we're gonna. We had. We made so many friends in Montreal. Like, we had people come out of their stores calling us Texas Girls. The next time we visited, we had people running out of their. Not kidding you. They came out of their shops and yelled, texas Girls, you're back.

So there could be in Montreal, there still might be some posters or something of you, a picture of you and your sister.

I have no idea.

At Frontiers, at Frontier.

I don't think we ever flew Frontier here to Montreal. But you can make incredible memories, incredible friends. People enjoy you. You learn a lot. You learn a lot about yourself. You learn a lot about your own. I mean, you learn about a lot of cultures. So the last client that we just. I just had, who told me about Frontier, that didn't tell me they had a $350 deal. They just came back from Vietnam. He and his girlfriend were like, we just wanted to take a trip to somewhere we'd never been. And they went to Vietnam, and they were there for three weeks. And he talked about, you know, the food and the culture, and it's still kind of. It's a communist controlled political company or country, but the people don't. Aren't like that they're, you know. And he's like, it was a little weird. We went to the American War Museum, which of course ours is the Vietnam War Museum. And he said it was just fascinating to look at the different perspectives. Obviously there's a little bit of different perspective. Communism, control. Right. But he's like, but everybody was so nice to understand how they eat breakfast or how they live and what they do and how they're affected by the water coming through with the rice fields. And he's just like, there's nothing more intriguing and growth oriented. Because he was like, you just really come back with a different feeling, fresh understanding of how other people's perspective of the world is.

Yeah.

And what a gift.

And we're so tiny in this world. We're so tiny.

Yeah.

I think the cult, the cultural experience of the different cultures is very humbling.

Exactly. Yeah.

And. And I don't care if it's like a beautiful island that you're on and you explore the whole island, like leave your resort and you explore the whole island and get to see the intense poverty. Right. But yet still meet the most incredible, nicest people.

Yeah.

And then the other thing I just, it's. This is the most simplistic I can break it down to is we're all exactly the same human beings. We all still have fear. We all still want to care for our loved ones. We all still want to love. We all still feel the same feelings.

Yeah.

And it's amazing. You can dress it up, you can put a religion on it. You can put different rituals, you know, to it. We can, you know, have certain beliefs about the food we eat. We can have all this stuff. But still you strip all that away.

Yeah.

Take the skin off the muscles. They're all the same muscle attachments. Right. We all have this bony landmarks. It's just getting kind of gross.

I like my skin, Brian. But my point, we're going into silence and lands. This is not October. We're not going into.

As somebody who loves anatomy, it's like, it's amazing. Like it's. The bony landmarks are all the same.

All the same. No matter what.

My bicep tend to attaches the exact same places somebody in India's.

Yeah.

And. And the emotions, the brain still thinks about the same thing. We all still have self doubt.

Yeah.

We all still have anxiety. We all still have, you know, these different things. And so you can strip all the other, the other stuff away and it's just like we just, we forget that.

So real people and if you just show up and be kind and thoughtful and energetic and happy.

Yeah.

And I think people really enjoy seeing other people happy. For the most part. The ones that are cranky just walk away. It's fine, they go away. But back to like the benefits of travel. There's actually been some really good neuroscience research.

Neuroscience, okay. You want labs.

It's not a huberman lab thing, but come on, Huberman, let's talk about memory and adventures. Hello. But there was some studies about. There is a thing in here about dopamine. That's why. But point being, there was a study that, where they did this and they. Yes, they do it in rats first, but it also shows up in people. But they do show that people who travel and have adventures and novelty. So new experiences getting themselves out of the norm, forcing yourself to look at something different, try something different. It actually increases your long term memory. And there's a part of gray matter. So they've discovered this area. All right. I have it written down in here, the something or another. Now that's the dopamine one. We're looking at our nodes right now. There's a part of your gray matter that stems off that now know attaches to all these different parts of your brain. Everybody thought gray matter didn't matter. Gray matter matters.

Gray matter matters.

Right. I can't wait till we know everything about the brain. It's gonna be so amazing. But there's parts of the gray matter that help with long term memory and long term memory helps with longevity. So the better your memory, the longer you live, the healthier and more vivacious you are. So one of the things that helps build long term memory is novelty, new experiences and adventure.

Which I think ties into the things we've talked about earlier and a lot of people know now is the neuroplasticity of the brain.

Yeah.

So I. The neuroplasticity of the brain is the adaptability for these new neural pathways and stuff like that to grow. But I also think about, when I say neuroplasticity, I think about flexibility. But there's tons of research about the flexibility of human beings. Like the ability to get off the ground very simply, like very quick and very. Right. Show your longevity. So our flexibility in our own bodies also is kind of the same mirroring thing as a flexible.

There's something in our research that coordinated. Sorry to cut you off.

Yeah, you're good.

Wasn't there something in our. In our research that we were just reading about travel actually helps with like the physical body mechanics I mean, that.

Was in podcast 37, about the 17 minute and 35 minute mark. So we should go back and listen to. But flexibility. Gray matter.

Yeah.

Neuroplasticity. Travel. Travel. Experience adventures. Be open minded. And travel enforces. And not enforces. I don't like that word. But travel for that open mindedness, which allows for the flexibility. That's where I'm going with this.

Yeah. I think it just opens your brain up to being aware of other potentials and other perspectives. And I think that there's a part of our body and our spirit that needs something different and new. And I did make a side note about the dark side of. Of novelty. Because when you're experiencing something new, you can't. You're. You're getting a dopamine effect. Right. So you guys know how much. That's where the Huberman lab thing is. I still want to play the recording of like this. There's a funny little thing about Dr. Huberman saying dopamine and all these different.

It's a little funny frontier. And Huberman is giving you a kickback. And I have no sponsors. You have a sponsor.

Could Hooverman just say, hey, hey. Anyway, so there's a dark side. So you can get addicted. Like adrenaline donkeys. Like constantly needing something new to do anything new. Right. Novelties. Whether it's. I have to have new information, I have to play video games, I have to constantly do some other new adventure. And there are people who have adventure.

Might have an addiction.

I think you're fine. You have a. How many companies do you run, for crying out loud? Oh, wait, I have an addiction. I think. I think there's a point where it becomes unhealthy, but then it could be productive as well. But just to say, I think there's a point where we can love where we are and we can love our day to day activity. Every day cannot be a vacation. I don't know. Is that a limiting belief?

I'm gonna challenge that is a limited belief.

I'm gonna challenge that a little bit.

I did have a mentor. So you can't evolve by living in a hammock though. Oh, so you need some sort of tension to help pull you.

Yeah. Which really be deformed over time.

You would have a C curve for sure.

But if you stayed in the same place all the time, even if it was a vacation, you would be limiting yourself on novelty and adventure.

Yes. No, you definitely would.

Okay.

Yeah.

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And so the the opportunities for growth with adventures and travel obviously are expansive and sometimes the most simplistic too. And the one thing I look for forward to in my beach vacations is just to become still right. I like it. I like the adventures of we're gonna do some horseback riding anyway we have these adventures experiences, experiences. But it's. I like the nature part of it but I also just love lying there and hearing the power of the ocean and just listen to that. And I usually take a book with good intentions to actually read it.

Yeah.

And half the times I can I like here I just buzz, buzz, buzz. I can't sit still.

Yeah.

But the ocean just plops my ass down.

The ions are amazing.

Plops me down. Scions plops me down and says just stare at me. Shush. Quiets me down. And it allows for such reflection and it gives me a lot of my ahas. I have a lot of ahas when I come back. And so when I come back it's not that I'm just recharged because I I got to take a nap or sleep in but I've had these like. Like micro awakenings.

Yeah.

Does that sound cheesy?

No. What's wrong with cheesy? Cheesy's good. That's a good thing. But okay. But speaking of which, this is why I'm also going for the first time out of my comfort zone. Oh yes I am. You're going to Maui and I'm going to Tulum.

You're gonna get murdered. There's a mindset out there that if you cross the border you're gonna die.

That is such nonsense. I have a good friend that lived.

In Tulum for six months just by the way. We just lost 20 more. 20 more listeners from six.

We've lost Texas and Mexico. Good job.

Yeah.

No, I'm headed to Tulum because I have had a long term plan to. I have my retreats here in Colorado where we do. I do health retreats and mindset retreats and I've always wanted to do one on a beach. So Florida is part of it, and part of why my heart hurts a little bit for Fort Myers is that was my next scheduled plan to do my retreats there. Tulum was also on the plan, so it's just been upgraded. So I'm headed to Tulum in April to set up and lock down my retreat spaces.

Yeah.

So everybody can come and experience fun and escape and quietness by a beach and have that adventure in a safe space. A safe space. To Loomis.

So when you. When you get those dates locked down. We should talk about that.

We should.

And also talk about if I rake the sand every morning, if I can.

You might be the one male that's allowed. I think it's going to be a.

Women'S retreat, but I will rake the sand slowly with suntan oil on, like, in slow motion. Will that work?

Maybe right. Maybe right. Can you bring your needles and do acupuncture and down needling?

Oh, yeah. I mean, that's what I meant to say. Yeah.

Oh, that's bonus. All right. Everybody's coming now.

Yeah. So I think we need to hear more about that. So in the future podcast, let's talk more about retreats. Retreats.

Yes.

Who doesn't need a retreat?

They're amazing.

By the way, we went to a retreat. Ish. I mean, that. The. The growth day or the growth day. Sorry, this. Brendan, but my point, my point. I said we went to the. On this adventure and kind of scared, a little bit nervous, not knowing what to expect. At least I'm talking from my perspective. Like, I am not a person that you can't plop me down in front of 500 people. Or actually, it was 3,000.

It was a. It was.

It was a bit more. And, like, it's not necessarily my comfort zone. Like, I really.

I never would have guessed that about you. I love a crowd.

I. I can rally, but I like. I like those intimate conversations. You know what I mean? So the. The shaking hands and quick things and. And all that stuff and just plopping yourself in the middle of a conversation. But my point is that was an adventure.

Yeah.

And I didn't think. I wasn't sure, like, I knew where some of my resistance was, and I wasn't sure how it was going to go. But I was also excited just to. I went in totally. Like we talked about, I'm like, I'm going in with no expectations, totally open mind, and I'm just going to be. I keep hating this word. Vulnerable. I'm going to be vulnerable. I'm just going to do it. Right. Well, because I was vulnerable in Morocco when I got held captive.

Hello.

That was another story.

But yeah, have we podcasted on that one yet? Maybe we should tie that in with the adventures. You're totally safe in Morocco. Or maybe not. You're dissing on Mexico over here.

Have we had any listeners from Morocco?

I don't know.

I don't think so. I don't think so.

Morocco, we love you. So except for the people that kidnap people, not so much.

Hopefully captive and try to get me to smuggle hash heesh to Spain. That's a whole other thing. I'm not going to do it. Not going to do it.

Is this when you were 21?

This was when I was in my early 20s. It was a big adventure. It was great. But again, growth op. Growth. Huge, huge growth experience, Huge growth experience. So we went to this thing and it turned out to be like, I met so many great people and the experience of the environment and also the self confidence that I got and.

Because you were kidnapped and survived.

No, this was in.

Oh, in California. You got courage back. That's, you know, I'm the only one that sat out. I literally like backed out. So we had these group. You had these group breakouts for this thing that we went to. And we had to go in and be very vulnerable and talk about our stuff, like deep stuff. And I'm the, I'm the one that was like, I'm out. I'm gonna go walk. I gotta go for a walk. I can't. I can't even do this with people right now. I gotta sit and think. You didn't. You did every single session. We had new people every time.

But it was one of those, like, you just had to like bring them through. Like jump up and down inside of yourself and just be like, I'm just gonna do it.

We jumped up and down.

Literally, yeah. Every time we did jump up, it.

Was a lot of fun.

I have to though there's something to jumping up and down. But I get what you're saying, like, you can make an adventure and an experience out of a lot of different opportunity. So if it's not going to your local place down there down the road that you've never been to, or flying off to some foreign country and maybe being kidnapped, we're not. That's not gonna happen. Going into a retreat opportunity, right, like getting out and putting yourself in a different situation in a different scenario where you might have to confront some of your Own fears, insecurities, your own discomforts, your irritations and, and allow yourself to just let go of all the like little blocks we put ourselves on and just say, you know what, I'm just gonna have fun and go with it.

You know, I would love just, just popped up. We've shared a couple of our adventures and experiences. I would love to hear from some people.

Yeah.

About their adventures or experiences and how like what growth they got from it. Like, was it a self esteem thing? Was it, was it a relationship that developed or relationships with community? Was it opportunities of whether it's career.

Or language and communication?

I mean, what, like, what, what is it that people get? So I would love it if. Actually we'll just give them your email, Amy.

Oh, we're going to say it again. Amy. Amy Christianson.com.

Yeah, Amy Christianson.com.

Send me your story.

So send a story because I would love to, to circle back on this and share some of the stories that we're hearing from some of our listeners.

Yeah. And hopefully if you are listening to this and going, gosh, we go to Maui every week or every year and we don't have any of these feelings, it might be time to like do something new and different.

Yeah.

Yeah. All right.

I think spring break is coming up and I want to encourage everybody whether it's an adventure here or abroad or whatever. And if you feel like you're too busy, then you just, your job is too busy. You don't have the time. You have too much going on to challenge that assumption about your assumptions.

Yeah. Check and see. Or at least fill up the tank and go. Yeah, just fill up the tank and go. My, my great grandmother was really good at that, apparently.

Or call Amy or email her at Amy Christensen and ask her about what deals she has found on Frontier and she can put together a group. But grow from your adventures. The adventures are here. Don't just read one page. Don't just read one page.

Read the book.

Read a chapter.

Yeah. And even if this chapter is boring and the next one might be really great, I like it.

Cheers to your adventures.

Let's turn up that Bob Marley reggae over there. Good night, people. We hope that you're out there having fun.

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Cheers. Clink.

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