Your Adult Gap Year Doesn't Have to be a Year

We keep telling ourselves we'll take the trip we actually want once we've finally figured everything out. What if you have that backwards? You will not think your way to your next chapter from inside the old one, and the clarity you keep waiting for tends to arrive out in the doing, on the trip itself. This is the adult gap year, reimagined, and it does not have to be a year, or a leap, or anything as big as you are picturing. After all, this is not Eat, Pray, Love.In this episode:The season you didn't chooseThe trap of thinking harderThe habit discontinuity effectA quiet month in FlorenceInterrupting one autopilotThis episode is for you if:you're in a season that ended before you were ready, a role, a relationship, the shape of your household, and you keep waiting for clarity before you do anything about ityou've wanted a solo trip but told yourself you can't take the time, the job needs you, or you have to figure your whole life out firstyou've been calling this stretch a transition, or limbo, and some part of you is ready to do something with it instead of waiting it outyou're a woman over 40 in a midlife transition who wants to feel like yourself again, not just keep showing up for everyone elseyou already travel solo, or you want to, and you're ready for the how, and you've heard enough of the whyAbout Freedom Looks Like This:Freedom Looks Like This is a podcast for women over 40 who want to travel solo, or who already do, and want to go deeper. Host Damianne President explores self-trust, decision-making, and what it actually takes to stop waiting and start moving. New episodes every Tuesday. For solo female travelers, midlife women, and anyone who suspects that the real barrier isn't logistics.Support the showJoin the next Solo Trip Decision Workshop live on June 20. It's for women who've decided they want to take a solo trip and want help deciding the trip they actually want: https://freedomlookslikethis.com/trainingEmail: [email protected] Skool: https://freedomlookslikethis.com/community