Staying Focus-Driven: How Giuliana Mendoza Tunes Out the Noise & Focuses on Her Purpose

Staying focus-driven sometimes means staying misunderstood.
Extroverts Can Be Loners, Too: How Solo Travel Taught Sarah Silvia to Love Spending Time Alone

“You can do more if you’re willing to be independent.”
Protecting Your Alone Time: Shelby DiNobile on Learning How to Prioritize Yourself

“Being alone can be worth a lot more than being in the wrong relationship.”
Looking Inward: Why Shelby DiNobile Decided to Get Off Social Media & What He Learned

“I needed to get away from all the distractions I had built around myself.”
Food Editor Ally Mitchell on the Power of Taking Risks Alone

Ally Mitchell has lived in Toulouse, France for over 3 years, transplanting her life to the southwestern Pink City to move in with her French partner, Gaylord. Today, she’s a food culture and history tour guide for Taste of Toulouse, a freelance editor, and the owner of Nigella Eats Everything, where she writes about food […]
How Heather’s Lonely Year at Uni Became the Springboard to Her Greatest Adventures

At age 25, Heather Lucas has already had the chance to call four different countries home. I met her in 2021 in France, when we both moved to Toulouse to do a month-long, intensive TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) program. But that wasn’t Heather’s first time living in the south of France. She’d […]