Mondays With Eric: Step back and Recharge

To say the least, I’ve been super busy these last few days. It’s the very beginning of my last semester of University. In the past few days, I moved out of my Fraternity house into a small apartment in the mix of the first snow fall of the year. I’ve been catching up with old friends, meeting new ones, and getting closer with someone who’s quickly becoming someone important in my life. I also began planning out how this semester is panning out to look. So, I’ve been very much go go go the past couple of days.

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Mondays With Eric: Saying Yes

Today I want to share a travel story about a time when I was studying abroad in Costa Rica. One where I learned the power of a three lettered word, and by saying it can create endless of opportunities. It all began at a Thursday night out, where a student at my university, who soon became one of my closest friends in Costa Rica, pulled me aside from the rest of the party and asked me if I wanted to go to a place with him and a group of friends to spend the weekend over in a new area.

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Mondays With Eric: Hello 2021

Happy first Monday of 2021! Mondays have always been my favorite day of the week. Mondays represent the endless opportunities that could just come your way throughout the week, and the first Monday officially kicks that off. If you had a bad week last week, this week represents a turning of the page. A complete blank page waiting to be written on. I smile at the thought of what the week could bring me, let alone what the year will bring me. I hope for all of us to receive the new year with loving and open arms. This year will be an absolute gift for all. Full of lessons, manifestations, and another year on the journey that we call life.

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Mondays with Eric: Goodbye 2020

As 2020 comes to an end, I’ve been taking a lot of time to reflect on how much I’ve grown this year. To say the least, 2020 has been a wild year for everyone, with nothing but uncertainties. However, through all the challenges, we made it. It’s safe to say, most of us have completely transformed into an entirely new person. With myself, I don’t even recognize the person I was before March. I wrote a few journal entries about 2020 before 2020 became 2020 that I want to share with all of you.

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Mondays with Eric: Life Purpose

Something that has been on my mind recently is passion. My attempt to find my “one true passion”, my “dream job” has led me to a lot of soul searching. Recently the desperation of continuously looking has left me wondering if I ever will find it. I found myself looking back into my journal entries that I placed at the beginning of the year and found a journal entry that was strongly influenced by Sorelle Amore’s video called “The Danger of Seeking a Life Purpose”.

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Mondays with Eric: The Light from Within

This analogy of feeling stuck and continuously looking for towards the future is something that I resonated deeply with. My “tunnel”, my darkness, roots within the fears of change, the people I surrounded myself with, and me feeling that I must wait until I graduate to connect with my goals in life. Every step that I took towards the life of helping others, speaking my truth, traveling and being full and complete just kept getting farther and farther away.

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Mondays with Eric - Introduction

My name is Eric Woxman, I have been with the TTC since July of this year. I am 22 years old, going into my last semester of university. I can’t express enough on how I’m excited to graduate and enter the “real world” after this year. Safe to say, a lot of positive, life-changing opportunities keep aligning in my life.

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Debunking 5 Myths about 'Transformational Travel'

The term ‘transformational travel’ (or TT) has become more and more commonplace in the travel vernacular over the past several years. Thanks in large part to the tremendous work of organizations such as The Transformational Travel Council, more and more people are beginning to shift how they see, approach, and engage with a travel experience.

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11 Podcasts To Discover In 2020

The world of travel is truly a myriad of worlds within the world we know. When we take ourselves somewhere new or return to somewhere we don’t have a permanent relationship with, it’s always a journey regardless of how far we are from home…

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The Transformational Traveler

I've been trying to describe, define, and justify my belief in transformational travel for about 5 years now. My answers to inquiries have changed, evolved, and grown but the questions tend to stay the same. It always seems to boil down the question of what makes a trip, a destination, an itinerary different enough to label it "transformational?"…

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A Recovering Racist

In Glennon Doyle's "Untamed," she presents that if you're white in America, you are one of three kinds of racists, an outward, disgusting one, a blind racist, blissfully unaware of the poison that lives in the very air that you breathe, or a more self-aware, recovering racist, that has recognized that the poison lives within the air you breathe and you are actively trying to detox.

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Travel in the time of Covid-19 & Microadventures

In shock and sadness I watch along with the rest of the world as borders close, flights are canceled, cruises banned, and tourism sites including museums, ski resorts, concerts, restaurants, and bars shut their doors for the foreseeable future. In the time of Covid-19, the world holds its breath as everything spins madly out-of-control while also, seemingly, to be at a standstill…

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The Great Reset: Thoughts from TTC Co-Founder Jake Haupert

First and foremost, big heart-to-heart hug and warm wishes during these extraordinarily difficult times. This is truly unprecedented, a 100-year event, and I am blown away by how quickly things continue to slip and slide, unfortunately, not for the better. This pandemic is challenging us all on a very deep level, swelling up in our eyes and sweeping across the planet, wreaking havoc on our psyche, our lives, and our shared civilization, but it is also bonding us in a way that I really hope sticks around.

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An Inspired Story from Inspired Journey Consulting

As many people say, I stumbled into travel and never looked back. It was always a love affair of mine and became an easy fit for a career path. It’s because of working in travel that I moved across the country on my own to begin a new adventure. What I didn’t realize was that I needed that move to face the pain I’d been pushing down for decades.

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Superpower of Intention

Intention is, quite simply, the determination to act in a certain way. It’s resolve. When it comes to travel, your intentions are your superpowers. Intention is directly connected to action.  When we set an intention, we are making a determination that we will act in a way that fosters something we care about…

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How a Boat Named Skimpy Transformed my Life

I was made to explore, travel and have big adventures. I know this because a wanderlust feeling has always lived deep inside me. I know this because going to new places and having new experiences fills me with wonder and joy. I know this because when I got married and bought a house (despite the prior warning signs of chest pains and a head screaming "don't do it!") I felt stuck and trapped…

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How A Safari To Tanzania Changed My Life Forever

As long as I can think I have had a love for Africa. When I was a child and The Lion King was released in 1994 I was instantly obsessed with the movie and knew every line by heart.... When I grew up, whenever I would see documentaries about Africa, my heart would beat faster and I felt this incredibly strong yearning in every cell of my body. It felt as if Africa was reaching out to my soul and it only became stronger over time. 

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Yoga Retreat Pioneers

Reclaim Your Self was born in 2005. It was created by me, Jools Sampson! I changed careers in 2004, moving from international development into the wellness world. When I started, there weren’t many yoga retreats around so we were pioneers. These days there are thousands of retreats around but we are still pioneering here in the UK – with our focus on working in extraordinary…

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