About this episode
Anna VanAgtmael is the founder of Wandering Roots. She hosts adventure retreats for women all over the world and helps entrepreneurs plan and host their own profitable retreats. Ummm that's more of what she does..... who she is though.... is what we talk about in this episode!! Anna is funny, intelligent and down to earth. She started her business in 2018 and worked it as a "side hustle" (I have to have a whole convo about that moniker though....) for two years before taking the leap into full time entrepreneurship..... and then! COVID!So she pivoted. She leveraged her passion and clarity with hosting women's retreats into HOW to host them (logistics to content to marketing etc). There are so many valuable lessons in this episode on making choices, on conviction, on seeing life higher than the routines of the day to day. Who Anna is today, to who she was circa 2017/2018 is vastly different, and yet just more of who she has always been. It's far too easy to get comfortable with the "book of life" approach to life (get a job, get married, grow up and be boring) and when we are called for more, it comes to get us. Often in the unfortunate yet break you free, shatter you to pieces way of a life changing event. While we don't wish that to be cause for WHY we evolve, in our conversation we explore whether or not we would evolve if not for such events....And so, whether or not YOU face such a life changing event, the truth is you are always capable and available to make a change, a new choice, a new way regardless.... So will you ANSWER the call anyway?Brevity, courage and really, just pure willingness, carefree childlike curiosity of.... what else is possible.... is "all it takes!"From molecular diagnostics to.... women's retreats. Who would have thought! This is a gorgeous and relatable story of an everyday woman, just like you and me, choosing more!Go follow her at www.yourwanderingroots.comwww.instagram.com/yourwanderingrootswww.facebook.com/yourwanderingroots
