Eps 09 Motherhood, Migration, and Making a Business: Bridgette's Journey

Bridgette Bolton shares her journey from South Africa to New Zealand and reflects on the challenges and rewards of building a new life abroad. She offers wisdom about motherhood at 40, business transitions, and the practice of mindfulness in daily life.

• Moving permanently from South Africa to New Zealand created both freedom and loneliness
• Embracing motherhood at 40 after initially not wanting children transformed her identity completely
• Working as field guides in Botswana's Okavango Delta taught intense presence amid wild animals
• The shift from fast-paced Johannesburg agency life to relaxed New Zealand required significant adjustment
• Starting Bolton Inc brought challenges of patience when "the vision in my head has not materialized yet"
• "Future pacing" decisions by considering their long-term implications provides valuable guidance
• Daily meditation and journaling practices help maintain perspective and tap into deeper awareness
• Critical thinking and questioning in teenagers suggests "the world is in very safe hands"
• Creative projects including writing a book on purpose and a children's book provide fulfillment
• Interviewing people and eliciting their stories remains a core passion in business ventures

Be kind to those around you and be kinder to yourself every day.

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