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Vanlife, The Beautiful Heart of Steph Lamas

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Vanlife, The Beautiful Heart of Steph Lamas

Podcast Episode Summary

Welcome to today’s episode, Vanlife, The Beautiful Heart of Steph Lamas.  Our conversation today really weaves us through how the Universe is constantly sending us messages for our soul’s growth once we release the mind chatter, how our bodies know what our hearts want and Steph shares with us how OCD has affected her life and how important awareness is.  It’s a great little convo about the unfolding of life in super real and raw ways, whether you’re in vanlife or not.  What a bright soul this one is.

Show Notes

What a beautiful tender heart
Love, kindness and animal crazy is in our DNA
How did your partner Alejandro and vanlife come into your life?
The Universe sends us the people and situations that are meant to continue our soul growth
A journey through a dog’s rescue
How we are denying our internal guidance constantly
OCD awareness and advocation
Ritual and mind connection
The power of sharing experience and support in communities
Who is your dream guest and why?

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Vanlife, The Sekr Way with Breanne Acio and Jess Shisler

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Vanlife, The Sekr Way with Breanne Acio and Jess Shisler

Podcast Episode Summary

Welcome to today’s episode!  The next one in my vanlife series!  It’s called ‘Vanlife, The Sekr Way with Breanne Acio and Jess Shisler’.

I sit down to chat with Breanne and Jess about their app called Sekr,, which has helped thousands of outdoor enthusiasts connect, create community and find resources. Through empowerment, connection, and support, they promise to make your life while on the road a home. We talk all about their separate journeys into van life and what motivated them to join forces to create and nurture deeper community in this space.  We also get into how important it is to build a life you love, create community for social wellness, find and offer authenticity in mental health, keep your dream alive amidst set backs, the reasons behind their re-brand and the importance of diversity and inclusion in the entire adventure industry.  It’s a very informative and timely conversation to have, whether you are in van life or not.  I often times find the energies that pop up in vanlife are at their core, the deep messages and themes that are true to human life.  I’m super excited for you to hear their mission and message today!

Show Notes

Breanne and Jess’s start to vanlife
The birth of the Sekr app from experiences
Building a life you love
Favorite part of vanlife
Most difficult part of vanlife
Virtual vanlife meetups
How social connection affects our life satisfaction
The importance of mental health transparency and inquiries
The last time you asked how are you and meant it
People nearby feature
Vanlife is not about the vehicle, it’s a way of life
Re-branding to Sekr
The importance of diversity and inclusion in the adventure industry
Who is your dream guest and why?

Links Mentioned

Sekr App
https://www.instagram.com/sekr.official/
Breanne Acio
https://www.instagram.com/theladiesvan/
Jess Shisler
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Vanlife, Making Sweet Sweet Music with Ira Wolf and Lee Henke

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Vanlife, Making Sweet Sweet Music with Ira Wolf and Lee Henke

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Welcome to today’s episode!  It is so dang good.  It is the first in my impromptu vanlife interviews and the bar has been set crazy high y’all.
Ira and Lee are so warm, hilarious and fun.  Our conversation was engaging and thoughtful from the start.  We are definitely on a first gathering post-Covid high and you can feel it.  The energy is pumping.  We get into the power in community, how Ira and Lee’s love and vanlife journey has unfolded, the healing vibration and vulnerability in sharing music, a live performance! What?  Yep that and so much more.  There’s talk of Alaska, hot tubs, mic drops and money!  Come on along for an hour that is going to elevate your spirit in so many ways babes.

Show Notes

How vanlife and music collide for Ira and Lee
The first gathering post-Covid
The unfolding of Ira and Lee’s love
Doing vanlife together
The bond of living parallel lives
The power of support groups and community
The New Earth Living of creating your reality
Reframing bravery
The shared experience of vanlife
“It’s Good To Be Back”
A beautiful live performance with Ira and Lee “Engine Trouble”
Lori loses her shit
Having an emotional support person
Sharing music is the ultimate vulnerability
The energy of live music compared to live streaming
Feeding off the energy of a crowd
The ultimate hot tub gig
An invitation from a place of vulnerability
Nothing is forever
A mic drop moment
We all had a hamster wheel jump in Covid
Some diamonds in the bottom of a dumpster fire
What does necessity mean?
Ira and Lee’s hearts are in the wilderness
Alaska calls
Lee’s dream starts with a saw and goes to Alaska
Being called back to the land
Show me the money!
Figuring out how to value ourselves in a whole new way
Art is necessary
Who is your dream guest be and why?
Generational gap jam session
To be a geese goose

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We Can Do Hard Things

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We Can Do Hard Things

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Hello!  I’m back!  Today I’m talking about the reason there was a surprise pause in the podcast and what conscious creation looks like in the face of adversity, external programming and expectation.  Changing your life isn’t easy, but it can happen with ease. When your dreams begin to show you actionable steps to take them in, that’s your Higher Self let you know that the Divine Time has come!  How can we help the Universe help us?  How do we create a flow for opportunity?  Let’s open these soul channels here today to release the abundance gates tomorrow!  I share my recent experience of upending my secure life and career to build out my new van and live in a tiny home on wheels to get closer to nature, my true home, and deepen my ability to support you in your soul expansion and dimensional shifts so that we can uncover our true soul’s calling and joy. It has been a wildly emotional, challenging and freeing ride.  I can’t wait to share it with you!

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Show Notes

Denying Our Dreams from scarcity
Helping the Universe help us
When it’s sink or swim
Living in a vibrational Universe
Our cellular wisdom
Re-programming a deep programming
Trust.  Trust.  Trust.
A personal example of conscious creation that has not been easy
A Higher Consciousness practice is essential
Turn down the noise
Let’s unleash our majesty 

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Behind The Cage In My New Van Build Reality

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This is Day 12 of my Van Build.

And no coincidence that I am behind a cage.

Back when I received all the inspiration and intuition that it was the perfect time to upend my entire life, head back to my hometown to spend that intentional time with my parents I had been thinking about for years and build out a van (and home) with my Dad.  I had stars in my eyes.  I thought it was going to be this incredibly bonding experience where we would be laughing and collaborating every day to create something so beautiful that I would drive away with into the great unknown of a whole new life.  Boy was I wrong.  The struggles that have presented themselves since the moment I settled in to their home have been astronomical.  Yep, I’m going there because I’ve been taken there.  And the team I had dreamed of to tackle this project was nowhere to be found.  What I did find every single day was two people with two very different ideas of how to build a tiny home on wheels.  Two people that have always worked independently throughout their lives and who now were suddenly in a very small space having to communicate, collaborate and concede.

Which brings us to this day, day 12.  This was the day of emotional overwhelm. I got angry. I fell back into an old story of unconscious unfettered reactivity. I had tried every way I could to resolve the building tension. Or so I thought.

Will we experience pain, overwhelm, fear, anger, previous behaviors in our soul growth journey? Yes, absolutely. Is it jarring? Yep. Does our ego want to be at a level of higher dimensional living that we no longer revisit old patterns, emotional outbursts, anger for days? You bet cha bottom dollar it does! So where does that leave us? In a place of curiosity and exploration. In a place of solid practice to ALWAYS fall back on, especially in the emotional explosions. We are working a muscle that responds faster, that breaks through deeper, that becomes a new habit. So while 1, 7, 20 years ago, the havoc that was unleashed on our body, mind and spirit in constant states of stress, karma and fear was our reality, we can now live in a state of balance and alignment with occasional jolts (and sometimes big ones) as we practice higher states of consciousness in those moments. It’s our chance to keep working that muscle out to shed the layers of programming, the patterns of stress, the karma from lifetimes. Leaning in to the uncomfortable emotion, exploring what’s underneath, using new tools of mindfulness and magic is becoming our new normal and it’s creating a frequency of support available to tap into for us all. Every time you practice your majesty, you emanate a vibration for others to draw from. Never underestimate the divine power we have to share through every conscious moment we create.

Thank you for allowing me to tap into your strength yesterday. It is through the trees, the air, the sun, the flow that I was able to fully release, reflect and understand what was really, truly underneath the constriction in order to expand further than ever before.

On to day 13…

Vanlife, The Unseen Experiences with Linnea Schmelzer

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Vanlife, The Unseen Experiences with Linnea Schmelzer

Episode Summary

Today I get to talk with Linnea of Linnea and Akela.  She is a self-taught van life builder, a solo female van lifer and very authentic human being and creator.  We had such a ball talking about the intricacies of women van builders and lifers in various ways, the soul growth that comes along with the whole process and finding joy in the ways the ways that we stretch ourselves in life. She’s helping to pioneering the way on youtube sharing her videos in an environment that’s typically male and couple dominated,  We also find out how this enormous transition has come at one of her most vulnerable times in life.  If you want to take a leap in your life, to embrace the fear to transform it or if you just want to get giddy and excited about all the things, come along for our fun, authentic and vulnerable exchange!  

  Show Notes

  • Linnea Schmelzer
  • Solo female van lifer
  • Solo female van builder
  • Why Linnea decided to create instructional videos for her van build
  • What Linnea does really well in her videos
  • Our Divine Feminine is coming online now
  • Learning from women
  • Let’s talk signs!
  • When people are triggered by your choices
  • Linnea’s draw to vanlife
  • How Linnea created a path to vanlife
  • We are nature
  • How van life might create a balance in technology and being outside
  • Linea’s family life in nature that led them to nomadic living
  • The very real meaning of how precious life is every day
  • Linnea shares a very deep grief from the loss of her father here on Earth
  • How vanlife supports the grieving process
  • Linnea’s sidekick Akela
  • Building the van around Akela’s needs
  • The benefits of a swivel seat
  • Redefining relationships
  • The soul growth in opening up and reflecting
  • Linnea quote
  • Taking a leap that your soul already knows
  • The negative effects of projecting fears onto others
  • We are taking risks every day
  • A big project catapults us into self discovery
  • Representation in all areas of life matters
  • What was your biggest discovery about yourself in the van build?
  • What was your biggest roadblock in the van build?
  • The puc light process
  • Embodying the Divine Feminine and Sacred Masculine
  • What does vanlife with intention mean to us?
  • “Bury your damn poop!”
  • Doing a van build on a budget
  • Encouragement to take on big projects alone for soul growth
  • Who is your dream guest and why?

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Recalibrating Thoughts and Building My Van

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I’m starting my VAN BUILD tomorrow! The one that I was suppose to start a month ago. Yep, here we are. And what was the delay? Energy, the delay was a blockage of energy, a lack of flow. It was old stories of fear, pressure and overwhelm, as well as new stories of difficulty. The noise crept in, got ahold and kinda ran wild. How difficult it would be, how much time it would take, the endless projects piling up, sifting through mounds of information. I was digging a hole deep enough to entertain the idea of abandoning my dream. People’s doubts became amplified. They started to feel like my own. I was manifesting the reality I was internalizing before I’d even begun! The build started to seem impossible and the days were ticking away adding the pressure of time to the unsettling mix.

So what was I to do? The one thing that I have now become more and more accustomed to in this New Earth calibration. I removed myself from the time pressure cooker that feeds off stress and doubt. I made it my job for days/weeks to recalibrate my thoughts, my energy and my connection. I had to peel back the layers that try to stick from all around. I went into creating the project in spirit so that I could begin it in physicality. I released the drive to begin from a space of overwhelm and pressure so that I could truly begin in a state of bliss. I spent those days in meditation to realign with my trust and belief and begin this project from the true blessing that it is. A chance to imagine and create my home from scratch with my pop, learning his wisdom, soaking in his passion, deepening our human space in this moment. To be in gratitude for my courage and to be open to the process, no longer dependent on the outcome. This took time, it took practice, it took intention and it took my ability to stop pushing through the resistance, create the space to explore it and then transform it. Mindset work transcends our timelines, our previous definitions of success.

Then I went and got myself a cute, yet functional pair of overalls to add to the excitement, the energy and the entire project!

Stick around. It’s gonna be WILD!

Vanlife, All Roads Lead Back To Me with Candyss Love

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Vanlife, All Roads Lead Back To Me with Candyss Love

Episode Summary

Today Candyss and I go super soul deep.  We have a very profound exchange about some of the pivotal moments in Candyss’s life that laid the path toward her soul growth journey, how relationships are our very best teacher and mirror in every way and how embracing our deepest shadow work allows for the greatest light.  We also get into how Candyss is staying present and conscious during her current relationship that is unfolding, the life-changing lessons her dog kid Cleo has gifted her with and the power of humans creating vibrations in this world and the heavens.  Finally, I surprised Candyss with a request to hear her angelic voice, if even just a couple of notes.  What she delivers literally brings heaven into earth by calling in loving spirits from each of our lives.  She brings us into her world of dedicated personal and soul growth in such a loving and vulnerable way. We met soul to soul and I hope it translates out to you in the airwaves.  The light that we created in this conversation is tangible, it’s magnificent and it’s magestic.  This is the divinity of humans having a raw and wild ride on Earth’s plain.   

Show Notes

  • What drew Candyss to a military career
  • The deep truth in her choice to become a police officer
  • What does safety truly mean?
  • Candyss’s vanlife vibe through Instagram
  • The van build
  • Lori gets to crack Candyss up!
  • How pain in relationship can be the best teacher
  • “The lesson is in the confusion, the chaos, the pain and the trauma.”
  • Every person is your own personal mirror 
  • Programming of an idea of relationship from little on
  • “We use relationships, as crutches as opposed to vehicles of growth.”
  • When it is that you can actually see someone else
  • The magic of what happens when we feel trust
  • “When the student is ready, the teacher appears.”
  • Our animals are pure energetic reflections
  • How our grip on control affects our soul growth
  • We look for distractions in our animal relationships
  • All spectrums of life are a part of the human experience
  • Even when things are working, they’re working
  • When you can drop soul deep in partnership
  • We are constantly creating in this world and others with every single interaction
  • Candyss honors us with her beautiful angelic voice on the spot
  • Candyss calls in powerful loved ones no longer in physical form
  • Who is your dream guest and why?

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Vanlife, The Adventure Allens Create Life Their Own Way

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Vanlife, The Adventure Allens Create Life Their Own Way

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Chris and Taylor Allen are an absolute delight!  They totally radiate love, joy and positivity, even after experiencing some devastating tragedies very early on in their relationship.  We dive into the pillar of their strength together, how they navigated life-threatening hospitalizations, the ways that vanlife has supported them throughout those experiences, vanlife community and diversity and how they leaned into the learning curve of living small and mobile.  We also get to hear their perspective on diversity and representation for people of color in vanlife and how it has evolved and progressed.  They share exciting ideas for supporting others through caravans for representation, an inclusive Ebook about how they’ve done vanlife on their own terms and a developing tour guide business in the works for them.  Seriously, we have such a ball in this episode!  As my inaugural vanlifers for the podcast, I feel immense gratitude we made this connection.  They have such love, openness and beautiful wisdom, there are many areas to draw from in this conversation!

Chris and Taylor also gave us some fantastic vanlife tips and tricks.  Click on the link in the show notes below to receive this free download!

Show Notes

  • The beautiful couple energy emanating from The Allens
  • How The Allens met and what made it align so quickly
  • Online dating mishaps and persistence
  • Going old school and what made them jump all in
  • Partners as part of a whole, two halves working together
  • Learning experiences in the beginning created their groove
  • Tragedy early on in vanlife
  • From boatlife to vanlife
  • How Chris used his recovery to learn about vanlife
  • Community was a key to Chris’s recovery
  • Chris keeps calm as an EMT
  • Humor as medicine
  • Taylor goes through a medical trauma
  • Chris held it down through Taylor’s recovery
  • The van’s supportive role in both recoveries
  • What the vanlife community means to Chris and Taylor
  • The philosophy of adapt and overcome
  • Vanlife encourages creativity and innate human skills
  • The evolution of diversity in vanlife
  • The evolution of representation
  • New podcast called Nomads at the Intersection
  • Another called Black Nomads Meet featuring People of Color
  • Making uncomfortable conversations more comfortable
  • Covert vs overt racism
  • “If the vanlife community can transform in the celebration of diversity, that’s representation that the whole world can do it.”
  • Developing caravans for representation
  • An E-book in the works from a couple that started vanlife in a different way
  • The benefits of being in a caravan
  • There’s no book to how to live in the van correctly
  • Vanlife tour guides
  • Baha caravan!
  • Who are your dream guests and why?
  • The Adventure Allens are a safe space for your questions
  • Vanlife can look any way you want it to look

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My Vanlife Dream and Mindset Shift!

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VANLIFE!!!

See that smile?? That smile is in large part to some big mindset work I’ve been doing. And also because I’ve worked harder on my dreams this year than I EVER have before, which has led me to my upgrade from part-time camper to full time vanlife! It  has also led me to the ability to sever my tie and reliance on the safety of my business in Portland and the security of the home I’ve lived in for the past ten years. It’s the dedication to shifting my mindset and belief system around money and soul purpose that have allowed me to take this huge leap of faith. I have always held on to money so tightly and come from a scarcity mindset of not enough, rather than more than enough. While I’ve always been a hard worker and very responsible, with that lower frequency belief I held money in a negative light, worried every time I spent it. Even when I had it to spend and spent it on my passion of traveling. It’s been a constant source of stress because at any point I could be broke. But why would I think that? It’s because I did not obtain the belief that I was infinitely talented and resourceful, but to constantly be worried that everything will go away. I’ve been hoarding my “stuff” believing that I wouldn’t be able to afford it if I needed it again. What a joy to finally feel money in a new light!

Money flows in and out (but can’t if you hold on so tightly there’s no flow), money is all around and it’s time for money to be in the hands of heart-centered, small business, pro-community humans. As I invest in my dream life that I now know is absolutely possible and definitely probable if I continue to practice a healed mindset of abundance, trust and flow, I offer that to all around me, they ripple it out and money becomes an exchange from love.

There’s a big awakening happening right now about money, who’s got it, how it’s used and what could happen with a better distribution of it. It’s an awakening of our true humanity and how far off course we’ve been steered for a very long time. Let’s take action. Be intentional, know that your money can make change. Where does it go? Who do you support? How does that feel? Stop habits, build your light! ✨

For me, the open road, the communing with Mother Earth and the freedom of spirit await.  There’s a whole lotta work ahead of that, though, loves.  I’ll bring you along every step of the way.  Manifestation is work, spiritually, emotionally, physically.  Here’s to staying the course, believing in myself and holding the truth of my soul’s calling!

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