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July 30th at 4PM Pacific

The Sabbatical Journey Back to Yourself

Stop Living on Autopilot.
Start Choosing a Life That Feels Alive Again.

Join this free live workshop to explore how an intentional travel sabbatical could give you the time, space, and perspective to reclaim your freedom, see new possibilities, and begin creating a life that feels like your own.

Aaron and Brianna, each wearing two backpacks on a city street in Norway | BIG tiny World Travel

Most people do not need another vacation.

They need enough space to step outside the routine that has been shaping their life and ask whether they still want to keep living this way.

After nearly 20 years in corporate, I stepped away to travel through 21 countries. I did not leave because I had everything figured out. I left because I wanted more freedom, more aliveness, and more choice over how I spent my time.

That experience changed how I thought about work, money, travel, and what was actually possible.

In this free live workshop, I will help you explore whether an intentional travel sabbatical could become a meaningful turning point in your own life.

During this workshop, you will:

✓ Recognize where autopilot may be quietly draining your energy and excitement.

✓ Clarify what you want more of in this season of your life.

✓ Explore how extended travel could realistically work with your career, finances, relationships, and responsibilities.

✓ Identify the fears and assumptions that may be keeping the dream out of reach.

✓ Leave with one clear next step toward making it real.

By the end of the workshop, you will have a much clearer answer to a deeper question:

Am I willing to keep postponing the life I want, or am I ready to start finding a way toward it?

Reserve your free seat and give the possibility a fair hearing.

Aaron standing at an overlook in beautiful Norway
Aaron and Brianna posing on top of deposits in the Devil's Golf Course in Death Valley National Park | BIG tiny World Travel

Break out of autopilot and clarify what you want more of in your life
Explore how an intentional travel sabbatical could realistically work 
Leave with a clear first step 
Live Q&A for your personal questions

Our Story

From Corporate Burnout to a Bigger Life

We're Aaron and Brianna, travelers, partners, and two people who spent years doing what responsible adults are supposed to do.

We built careers, paid the bills, saved for the future, and waited for our next vacation to catch our breath. From the outside, life looked fine. Inside, something felt missing.

For Aaron, the pressure of corporate life eventually led to an ER visit after a particularly stressful period at work that caused panic attacks. It became harder to ignore the feeling that life was being spent preparing for someday rather than actually living.

In 2019, we decided to stop waiting.

We stored our belongings, left our jobs and apartment behind, and boarded a plane to South Africa with a rough plan and a lot of uncertainty. We simply decided that if we were ever going to take a meaningful break and explore the world, the perfect time was probably never going to arrive.

Over the next nine months, we traveled through 16 countries across three continents, experiencing everything from  self-guided wildlife safaris in Namibia to cat-sitting in Switzerland and exploring Patagonia. Then COVID changed the world and brought us home earlier than expected.

The trip didn't solve all our problems.

What it did give us was something even more valuable: perspective.

It showed us that there are many ways to live, work, and experience life. It reminded us that freedom, adventure, curiosity, and personal growth don't have to be postponed until retirement.

Most importantly, it gave us the space to reconnect with who we were beneath the routines, obligations, and expectations that had quietly shaped our lives.

Eventually, Aaron returned to the corporate world, but the perspective never left. The experience planted a question that kept getting louder:

What if more people could create this kind of space in their own lives before retirement?

That is why I have made it my mission to help other people do the same.

Not because travel is magical, but because stepping outside your normal environment can create the space to see your life differently.

A travel sabbatical can become a catalyst for clarity, renewal, and designing a next chapter that feels more aligned with who you are becoming.

If you've been wondering whether there is more to life than repeating the same routine year after year, you're not alone.

And you may be closer to that possibility than you think.

Why Most People Never Take Their Travel Sabbatical

  • Most people don't postpone a travel sabbatical because they lack desire. They postpone it because the money feels unclear.

    What usually happens is life keeps presenting reasonable reasons to wait. There is the mortgage, the career, the retirement account, the family obligations, the uncertainty, and the feeling that there will be a better time later.

    Eventually, many people find themselves stuck between a life that looks fine on paper and a growing sense that there is something more they want to experience, explore, or become.

    The challenge is rarely a lack of desire. It is turning a meaningful dream into a plan that feels realistic enough to pursue.

    This workshop is designed to help you do exactly that. You'll gain clarity around the costs, obstacles, and opportunities involved so you can stop guessing and start exploring what's actually possible.

    There will be a Q&A at the end where I will directly answer any questions you have.
Aaron and Brianna posing on top of deposits in the Devil's Golf Course in Death Valley National Park | BIG tiny World Travel