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Guest Blog with "My Guide to Globetrotting on A Budget" Author Andrea Clemons

Guest Blog with "My Guide to Globetrotting on A Budget" Author Andrea Clemons

Do you dream of traveling the globe but don't know how to pay for it all? The wait is over to find the answer to this conundrum and to get yourself started on bigger (and cheaper) adventures than ever before!   
Get ready to learn about the ins and outs of dream vacation travel hacks on budget with our guest and fellow adventurer, Andrea Clemons the author of the book, My Guide to Globetrotting on a Budget.

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I am so excited to feature another amazing guest, one who is the queen of travel hacks and taking the vacation of your dreams!  Sounds like an adventure to me.  Further, I wanted to share her resource because of how she teaches about "champagne taste on a beer budget."  Even as a Chief Adventure Officer, I will never teach to this level of detail that Andrea shares in her book.  She has mastered the art of points, miles, and bonuses and is here to make sure that we can use her travel hacking information to ensure we "don't go and not swim with the sharks."  Grab your book below and you'll learn just what I am talking about!

In my years of travel, especially over the last seven, I have been incredibly lucky to have it paid for by my employers.  Read more about how to make that a reality in my last guest blog with author Rhiannon Payne who wrote The Remote Work Era: The Guide for Women To Go Remote & Thrive In the New Age of Work.

While I was on assignment as a traveling consultant, I could take my rental car with unlimited and adventure around the area, enjoy the sites, and take in the local flavors.  Heck, when I worked in Maine (I've linked to the adventures throughout this paragraph for you to enjoy) I did entire road trips through the New England states on long weekends.  How about Boston and New York City, why not?  Want some Connecticut pizza, okay!  We would joke on Monday to see how many miles I had put on the rental car and see if I had hit more states on a weekend than some people have traveled to in their entire lives!

Now, let's all together get to learning how to plan dream vacations (not just paid work trip excursions) shall we?

Tell Us About Globetrotting on a Budget!

You know that here at Adventures for #RealLife we want to help everyone with travel and seeing the world without having to be an influencer or blogger.  A great thing to do for all of your life adventures are hacks, life hacks, travel hacks, you name it!  We have taught on life hacks like our favorite DIYs, now it's time for travel hacks from a pro.

Andrea has spent the last several years with a travel hacking hobby.  Years later, she is now sharing everything she has learned with us so that we can take that dream vacation just as she has!  Let her help you take that vacation of your dreams and take traveling on a budget to the extreme.
I'm a hardcopy girl myself, so I grabbed this one, but you can also enjoy it on e-book here!
While I wait for my book to come in the mail, let's check out some specific examples of this magic in action!

Just How Good Can It Be?

How about getting 7 nights in a Marriott hotel and main cabin flights on American for 2 people for a total cost of $30.32?!?

Wowza!

Want to Travel Along with Andrea?

"Gazing at the Northern lights, swimming with whale sharks in Mexico, snow-skiing the European Alps, scuba diving with manta rays, hiking to black/white/green sand beaches, and snorkeling with sea turtles, dolphins, and sharks.  These are just a few of the amazing adventures I have had in my short life.  Many of them would have been impossible if I had paid for them on my yearly salary.  Do you dream of adventure?  Or of experiencing first-class flights and luxury hotels?  It's not out of your reach.  These are all things I have managed to accomplish." 
Follow her on Instagram or Clubhouse (iPhone only):
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Meet Echo Schneider, Chief Adventure Officer

 
Overworked, burned out, and with waning loyalty to an industry that had lost its way and was no longer true to itself.  Of course, career burnout was at an all-time high in my sector and amongst the worst in any field.  It wasn’t all even just about work, though my perfectionism often got the best of me there more than other parts of my life.  I look back and see that I was overwhelmed and questioning so many areas of my life.  Was I doing the right things? From diet to products I bought, from how I was involved in the community to time I was spending with family, and from how I was walking out my faith and showing up in a meaningful way to my world. In this craziness is where I found myself.
 
Healthcare (watch my fingers make air quotes as I say that word and use the term loosely at best) in the US had long been bought and paid for and was no longer masking their symptom management and disease maintenance focus.  It had lost its focus on health; they could give you a pill or cut you open.  But to nurture your health and foster your body’s God-given ability to heal itself, they no longer knew how to do that.  Or worse, no longer desired to be in the business of prevention and healing.
 
As so many professional people were doing in the modern economy, we, as healthcare professionals, we’re doing more with less.  Mandatory overtime, poor ergonomics, and complete lack of an environment to practice self-care were the norm.  And to make it worse?  Because of our specific industry, we added in a loss of our medical freedoms just to stay and do our jobs.  The days of job security were long gone, and I watched in fear as friends and colleagues in sectors across the board were being laid off just to help top leaders move the stock up for shareholders.  How terrifying that this could be the reward for lifelong dedication and hard work!
 
At home, it didn't feel much better.  I fought to find a non-existent work-life balance and to be present while feeling exhausted (have you ever come home from work to fall asleep on the couch and finally be awoken when your Mom calls? Tell me this isn’t just me!).  I was disappointed in myself seeing my self-care fall away, time with friends and family slipping by, and I wasn’t spending the time I wanted serving with my church family or in my community.  
 
Add to that the confusion and frustration of what should have been simple daily choices.  What foods should I be eating? Is this trendy thing something I should try?  Wait, is the product good or bad, I paid more for it, but I feel like I saw an article on them that there was a recall or they were green-washing.  So frustrating and such a time-suck trying to keep up and have the health and abundance our family deserved!  I felt like at every turn that I was running to keep up and felt like I ultimately just found more of the same lies in the name of profits, and more ways my health was ultimately paying the price, yet again.
 
How could anyone thrive in this culture when even those who were well educated and seeking out something better faced with such daunting challenges?  I know, first-world problems, but I longed to create something more, a legacy for myself and others.  To break generational chains and I knew I wouldn’t be able to do it stuck in this rat-race.
 
Set the stage for that something.  I have, for so much of my life, been interested in learning, growing, and being a student of personal development.  From an investment with top leadership development companies through their programs for years to Law of Attraction to Conscious Language and so many others, I was finding the mentorship and teaching I needed to make the changes I so desperately desired.  
 
There wasn’t an overnight shift or an immediate awareness to change, but I began to find my path slowly and as a result, was investing myself in new ways.  I was raised by a wise and visionary Mother who had shown me what it was to be an entrepreneur.  I always admired that title and was drawn to it in many ways.  As I dabbled in businesses from my youth through college and beyond, I was picking up pieces of freedom and a stage where I could work for myself to create something new.  
 
As the years went on, I kept pushing myself in that path.  I was helping others, and I was welcoming a team of like-minded friends and family to come with me.  This was possible; we were doing it!  It wasn’t easy, we were doing a side-hustle while still being full-time professionals and wives and Mothers, but we were doing it none the less.

I'm so excited to have found a platform to speak truth. To show up for others in "true health" in ways that I didn’t know could exist when I started down this path.  But I know now that we don't have to settle any longer.  Any of us, friends!  It's time to live the great adventure that you were made for.
 
Now it’s time to move beyond business beyond vocation.  Now we are building a blessing.  That has so many meanings, one being the definition of “a herd of unicorns,” in case you didn’t know.  I was given the title of ‘unicorn’ from a dear friend when she came to know me and saw what I was capable of achieving.  And now it’s my turn to see that light in you.  Join me, and together, we can create a community and movement with a vision to change it all.
 
I don't care what your background is.  What education you received growing up in business, finances, or medicine.  Those things don't matter.  We are walking a new path to freedom in all areas of our lives.
 
I'm writing a new future and destiny for myself and my family, and I won't journey alone.  A mentor taught me to carry the confidence that God has called me to rise, but I will not rise alone.
 
I'm reaching out my hand to you (don't worry, I recently used a plant-based hand sanitizer) so that you are not alone; we will do this together!  
 
You are so worthy.  
 
Your family and your dreams are worth it.  
 
Together we can do this, but you must take the first step. ðŸ‘Š

I can't wait to connect with you via text, email, or on social media!

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