Mar 16, 2020
I left this interview feeling more connected to the world and felt like I had traveled around the world as well. Mag is a magnificent storyteller and has made traveling a center piece to her life and marrying those two things is wonderful to experience. We chat about:
- How she got the travel bug at 11 years old when she lived in Italy for 3 years
- Why she started journaling as an outlet from her difficult upbringing
- Feeling at home in many places abroad
- What travel allowed her to find out about herself
- How connection is important for what she feels makes a place feel like home
- Innate traits that we all possess as humans that she discovered in travel
- The importance of journaling in her adventures
- Common themes that arose in her journaling showing what she values in experiences
- The impact that her grandmother had on her instilling compassion in her
- Translating her journals to the book that she wrote, “Bowing to Elephants”
- How a moving experience with Elephants led to the title of her book
- Getting into meditation later in life after a masseuse advised her to
- How to forgive deeply and how she forgave her mother
- Her favorite food and country around the world
- Loving Kindness meditation to conclude!