Travel!  If you know me, you know I love doing it, and will get any chance I get to extoll the benefits.  (I’m even writing a TED talk about it…but that’s for another episode!)  But why should I extoll the benefits when I can get someone else to do it, so this week I welcome Elaine Rodriguez (www.elainerodriguez.com) to talk abouther experience with travel and how she made it into a career!   We talk aboutHer first travel experienceHow the discomfort of being laid off from her job prompted a massive positive life changeHow she became a traveling international tour guide!  (who knew that was a job!  I didn’t, otherwise I would have been one 25 years ago!)How she has turned it into her current career Want more from Elaine?  Coaching and speaking: www.elainerodriguez.com FB, IG, TT, LI @elainerodriguezcoaching Retreats: www.essentialretreatexperts.com FB, IG: @essentialretreatexpertsThe book she mentioned, The Gift of Job Loss  https://www.amazon.com/Gift-Job-Loss-Practical-Realizing/dp/0983119201  Elaine Rodriguez is a certified life coach, retreat planner, speaker, and change chaser. At the age of 30, Elaine got divorced, quit her job, and started a career as a tour director, leading travelers to some of the world’s most fascinating places. Now, as a life coach she guides her clients through multiple simultaneous life changes (she tells her clients if they’re ready to blow up their lives in order to live the life of their dreams, she has the dynamite). She’s also an entrepreneur, planning retreats for coaches, speakers, and facilitators looking to create major transformations in their clients and build their businesses through her company Essential Retreat Experts.