Life Worth Living with Wesley Tran Wesley Tran

We both met studying abroad in London! Her journey began from small southern town to the big city of New York! She's now working as the Studios Marketer for Spotify! She's my friend Bre Byrd! A lover of people and a big theology nerd! After graduating college, she had the opportunity to spend a year in Bogota, Colombia!

He is an Organizational Psychologist currently working in the realms of leadership assessment and diversity & inclusion at a consulting firm called Korn Ferry. He is a coffee enthusiast. He is also obsessed with Spikeball, cocktails, and film photography. And is a networking coach. He's my friend Viet Bui. He's from Los Gatos and did his undergrad at Westmont College in Santa Barbara. He had the opportunity to study in San Francisco as a chaplain and go on a choir tour in Latvia and Russia. He then relocated to New York City to do his masters. He also traveled to one of his favorite cities in London and got to explore his roots in Vietnam.

Yeah, so Brian and I really pushed each other to pursue our podcasts and we’ve become accountability partners! There’s this quote from the book The Defining Decade that talks about weak ties or acquaintance level relationships. “It is the people we know the least well who will be the most transformative.” I’ve only met Brian 3 times in person, and it was only because of an intentional happy birthday message that changed both of our paths! So I encourage you all to reach out to your weak ties too. You never know who can help you advance your career or your relationships! Be sure to follow Recovering Travel Junkie on Instagram, Tik Tok, Twitter, and Facebook and catch us next time wherever you get your podcasts!

We have my friend Jay Walker the Nazarite share his story about being a Nazarite Missionary and hear about how he's currently going through the Apocrypha.

We talked about Cape Breton and how it was growing up there. The sense of community is strong here because everyone knows each other. The Celtic Colours festival is a big 9 day music festival where the people of Cape Breton celebrate the trees changing color. She then volunteered in the mountains of Peru. She saw so much brokeness there working at an orphanage. She transitioned into the big city of London. She originally worked in Oxford and commuted to London. She also started a non-profit here called The Meraki Project. A non-profit focused on empowering South-Sudanese refugees to build traditional arts and crafts to fund their education. We also talked about the dangers of voluntourism and how that can be damaging to the people we serve. If your heart isn’t fully committed to serving others, then it can damage then, such as creating a White Savior complex. She recommends everyone to travel to experience and understand someone new.

Today we have a special friend of mine! She is a leader of a homeless ministry at PLNU, is obsessed with dogs, and is always down to get boba or a baja blast from Taco Bell, she is my friend Holly Aldridge.