SS7: My 18 Month Travel Around the World
For today’s show, I will share with you what happened during my 18 month travel around the world, where I went to, and how that experience transformed my life by shaping the way I think and the way I feel around the communities I went to.
If you are curious about the journey I had, please dive in.
[00:01 – 1:54] Opening Segment
- Welcome back to the show
- My 18 month travel was what transformed me to become an entrepreneur
- I wanted to create life by my own design
- This was an extremely important time in my life
- The transcendent meaning – where I create my reality
[01:55 – 08:03] Unfolding the Beauty and Sighs of the Travel
- The First Eight Months – Typical tourist style of travels
- Realization 1: I want to spend more time with intentional communities
- The Next Ten Months – Traveling slowly through Argentina
- Living a ranch life
- Remaing journey days: Patagonia
- Projects done by Argentines rather than Americans
- My personal reflections on the different kind of mindsets I have
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- Traveling for the first half
- Traveling for the second half
- The Change that happened
- The Anxiety & The Journey of Softening
- Actually Savoring the Now
- Challenge: Ask a traveler, “How did you feel to be on that trip?”
[08:04 – 09:15] Closing Segment
- Final words
- Connect with me in the links below
Tweetable Quotes
“It was so refreshing to feel like I was living somewhere, rather than continuously being a visitor.” – Sujata Shyam
“I wasn’t trying to get anywhere, and I wasn’t really seeking novelty all the time. What I was trying to do was go deeper and deeper into the places that I was living in.” – Sujata Shyam
“After a while, they all started to feel the same [experiences] It kind of felt monotonous.” – Sujata Shyam
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Suja Shyam is a real estate investor, underwriter, Short-Term rental operator, and Fund Manager. Since founding Luxe, her primary focus has always been helping others achieve their financial & life goals.
Suja’s desire to help people started at a young age and continued through the years as she graduated from Northwestern University, and the Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business.
After using her student loans to flip her first house during her MBA, she spent 4 years underwriting multifamily acquisitions for institutional buyers.
By way of bootstrapping her Short-Term Rental Business, and getting her hands dirty, Suja replaced her corporate income at the age of 33.
As a Managing Partner of Luxe Capital, Suja is responsible for acquisitions, fund management, and investor relations.
Integrity, exceptional communication, and delivering results to investors are at the core of every decision she makes.
When Suja isn't touring properties, or underwriting deals, you can find her rollerskating with her friends or exploring an unknown corner of the world.
