Episode 22 - Julia McDonald Buchanan - A Story of Adventure, Resilience, and What Happens When It All Crashes Down

Born on a farm near the Ugandan border with no electricity and horses as her best friends, Julia McDonald Buchanan has lived more lives than most people could dream of. Sent to boarding school at five, shipped to England at thirteen with nothing but a suitcase and a sister, then uprooted again to rural Queensland, Julia learned early that home is wherever you plant yourself next.What followed was a life lived entirely on instinct: teaching kindergarten in Nairobi, running photographic safaris in Tanzania, sailing across the Pacific in a 54-foot steel sloop through Force 11 storms, running expeditions around Cape Horn, and somehow eventually landing on the Sunshine Coast with a macadamia farm and a question she'd spent decades avoiding.It took a horse throwing her off at 4am, a marriage ending, and her son leaving for England with his father before Julia finally stopped running. A yoga teacher training course cracked open something she'd been holding shut since she was five years old.This is a story about a woman who built her resilience so high she couldn't feel anything underneath it, and what happened when it all came down.