Tell me about your vision.
My big vision, I think, like a lot of people,
is to have a life of balance.
So I'm Irish, but I'm living in Australia.
So I don't really want to have to choose between my lifestyle
and my family.
Family is very, very important to me.
So time and financial freedom and location freedom
are my big vision.
And so I can choose, like, for example, in August,
I'm going home to Ireland for two months.
I'm taking my daughter with me.
We're going to spend lots of time with family.
I can work while I'm there.
I can relax while I'm there.
And I don't have to compromise on my lifestyle, essentially.
So that's my biggest vision.
That is awesome.
Thanks for sharing that.
How many people are in your family?
I have two sisters and a bunch of nephews.
And then I come from an Irish Catholic family.
So I have, like, 500 aunts and uncles and about 1,000
cousins.
No, I'm joking.
But it's pretty big.
But we're all really, really close.
So it's quite hard to try and stay
in contact when you're on the other side of the world
and time differences and everything.
So it's really, really nice to have the opportunity
to be able to go home for several weeks a year.
That is amazing.
Actually, I'm in the same boat as you, most of my family.
Not all of it, most of my family.
My parents did live in India.
That's where they're at.
And I've been based out of the United States
for the last 10, 12 years now.
And I see them almost every other year.
But I haven't gone back in a few years now since COVID.
It's been tough.
So yeah, I told you how it's kind of you
got to be connected with family.
That's amazing.
So Michelle, tell me, where did your vision come from?
I suppose it just came from moving to Australia.
So I used to live in the States for a little bit.
And that was easier.
There was always someone coming over.
You were always kind of connected.
It wasn't that far.
You'd be home in half a day if you had to.
I mean, right now, the fastest way for me to get home
is 33 hours door to door.
So really, I suppose it came when I moved to Australia
and I saw how difficult it is to get home,
how expensive it is to get home.
Back when I used to work in corporate,
we have 20 days off a year.
You can't go home for less than three weeks.
That's 15 days.
Add in travel on either side of that before you're using
all your holiday days to just go home.
So it was really stemmed out of that being like,
I want to spend more time with my family,
but I feel like I'm trapped.
But I don't want to move home.
And it just kind of came out of a lot of people talking about,
it was around the time digital nomads was a thing.
And everyone was selling that dream.
And I'm like, yeah, cool.
I could go and I could work in Bali.
And I could, cool, that sounds great.
But I would actually much prefer to go home to Ireland
and work there and spend time with my family.
So it just kind of slowly grew.
The longer I was here, the longer I was like, yeah,
that's definitely what I want.
That's amazing.
And I'm guessing that's your why as well, right?
Yes.
I mean, an extension of that, I had a daughter
a year and a half ago.
So now my why is a little bit more centered on her,
giving her the lifestyle that I know she deserves.
But also like that, I grew up, like I said earlier,
I grew up in an Irish Catholic family,
which means I have 100 cousins.
And we were all running outside.
And we all kind of lived close together.
And we're all playing out in the yard all the time.
Whereas over here, she doesn't have that experience.
So to be able to give her that experience
and know who her cousins are and know who her aunts are,
and I suppose, yeah, have that relationship with her family,
even though we live so far away.
So yeah, it's just deepened my why a little bit.
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