The Journey Isn’t Always What You Planned
A conversation about change, reinvention, and how travel can support the life you’re actually living
🎧 Listen to the episode here: Speaking of Travel on iHeart Radio featuring Well Placed Travel
There are moments when the life you’ve built no longer fits, even when it looks successful from the outside.
Last month, I joined iHeart radio podcast Speaking of Travel with Marilyn Ball to discuss making a bold, deeply personal shift: leaving behind a career as a corporate real estate developer and hospitality designer to change my life. We explore the uncomfortable in-between season where certainty disappears and identity feels fluid; how I found steadiness through eastern philosophies and practices like yoga, reiki, and meditation; and of course travel.
This conversation isn’t about dream destinations or checking boxes. It’s about reinvention. About how travel can support moments of transition when you’re questioning who you are, what you want, and what you need next.
What surprised me most about this conversation was how naturally it moved beyond travel as a product and into travel as a practice — a way of paying attention to what’s happening beneath the surface of our lives.
Travel shifted for me.
It stopped being about stimulation and started becoming a way to listen. That shift is at the heart of how I work today.
When I help someone plan travel, I’m not starting with destinations or hotels. I listening for context — what season of life they’re in, what needs attention, what’s not being said, and what they’re hoping to feel when they return home. Sometimes the answer is rest. Sometimes it’s expansion. Sometimes it’s beauty, privacy, challenge, or space to think.
This is why working with me looks different. I don’t believe the “best” destination exists in a vacuum.
The right trip depends on who you are right now. My role is to translate lived experience — mine and yours — into a journey that supports you.
🎧 Listen to the episode here: Speaking of Travel on iHeart Radio featuring Well Placed Travel
If you’ve ever been curious about what it’s like to work with me, this conversation is the best place to begin. When it resonates, the next step is simply a conversation.
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