I've found that the best things in life start with a push—or maybe just 20 seconds of insane courage.

After getting my B.Sc. in Animal Sciences, I spent the early years of my career working in marine conservation. When I lost my job to a natural disaster, I found myself inching toward the end of my 20s, stunted by the staleness of the pandemic, and stuck in a mind-numbingly safe Fortune 5 job. It hit me that the most dangerous risk of all in life is spending it not doing what you want on the bet that you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. 

I decided to say "f*ck it" and started traveling as much as I could. I finally saw those glaciers in Iceland, elephants in the jungles of Borneo, learned boxing in Indonesia, and crawled through the tunnels of an underground city from the Byzantine Empire. I got absolutely horrific food poisoning while scuba diving with sharks in the Philippines, and was stranded alone in a cyclone in Australia. Travel expanded the dimensions of my mind, gave me courage and profound joy, and completely transformed my worldview.

I masterminded my escape from my 9-5 with a glass of wine (fine, 2!), launching my own business while working full time, saving every penny, quit my job, and never looked back. And nothing in my life has been more terrifying, yet more worthwhile. 

My hope for you is that you’re inspired to just go, because if you want to live a happier, fuller life, you have take chances- lots of them.

Adventure travel blogger, storyteller, and scuba diver obsessed with being outside and underwater.

"I will never change. But I'll never stay the same, either."

Hi, I'm Sarah! And I've found that the best things in life start with a push—or maybe just 20 seconds of insane courage.

After getting my B.Sc. in Animal Sciences, Biodiversity, & Conservation, I spent the early years of my career working in marine conservation. When I lost my job to a natural disaster, I found myself inching toward the end of my 20s, stunted by the staleness of the pandemic, and stuck in a mind-numbingly safe Fortune 5 job. It hit me that the most dangerous risk of all is spending life not doing what you want on the bet that you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. I had wasted so much time people-pleasing my way off my own path to save for a time in my life that wasn't even guaranteed to come. 

I decided to say "f*ck it" and started traveling as much as I could. I finally saw the glaciers in Iceland, elephants in the jungles of Borneo, learned boxing in Indonesia, and crawled through the tunnels of an underground city from the

Byzantine Empire. I crushed beers on a sunny day with a family at their home in Cambodia (we couldn't speak a word to each other, but beer is a universal language), got horrific food poisoning scuba diving with sharks in the Philippines—turns out it was a parasitic worm, but that's the risk you take!—and was stranded alone in a once-in-a-hundred-years cyclone in Australia.

Travel expanded the dimensions of my mind, gave me the courage to try, fail, and handle it, and completely transformed my worldview. I grew obsessed with sharing it with anyone who would listen!

I masterminded my escape from my 9-5 with a glass of wine (fine, 2!), launching my own business while working full time, saving every penny, quit my job, and never looked back. And nothing in my life has been more terrifying, yet more worthwhile. 

My hope for you is that you’re inspired to just go, because if you want to live a happier, fuller life, you have take chances- lots of them.

Hi, I'm Sarah!