Then, in 2017, it all ended with a medical procedure gone wrong. In turn, I gained a thriving community of people who were not only interested in travel and food, but also storytelling, curiosity and personal growth. I kept the site ad-free and instead focused on long-form writing and creating resources that my readers asked for, which provided me with an income. It grew an audience quickly and received early press coverage, which propelled me into an unexpected career journey. I shared the experiences of coming back to myself through my travels with family, friends and former clients on my website, Legal Nomads. I moved to Asia, got cancer, and then coronavirus happenedīack then, there were few long-term travelers documenting their trips online. Slowly exploring the world helped me recalibrate. I became more negative in my thinking, quicker to complain. With 90-hour work weeks, I forgot some of those life skills. Even so, I discovered that travel returned perspective to me, something I had not realized I had lost during my years of corporate work.īefore I embarked on my career as a lawyer, I found it easy to put myself in someone else’s shoes and offer them grace. I didn’t travel to reject societal norms I simply wanted to experience life in an unconventional way. I planned to return to the legal field once that adventure ended. I quit my job as a lawyer in 2008, leaving for what I thought would be a one-year trip around the world. That was the instant that I realized I would likely never return to the life I’d worked so hard to build.īy then, I had spent almost a decade as an accidental entrepreneur, growing a business I loved centered around food and exploration. Sticking to the stereotype, that moment came for me at 5 a.m., on a morning about two months after I was left incapacitated by a lumbar puncture. That moment gets a lot of airtime in books and movies, often as a pivotal, middle-of-the-night epiphany in a protagonist’s narrative arc. During any life-changing event, there comes a moment when the fog of the crisis temporarily clears, and you realize with certainty that things will never be the same again.
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