Episode 17

#17 From Corporate VP to Digital Nomad: Live a Life You Don't Need a Vacation From with Monique Giroux

In this episode, I speak with Monique Giroux, who left her 30-year career in financial services and the not-for-profit sector after a transformative experience in Bali in 2019. She now lives a minimalist, nomadic lifestyle and is dedicated to helping clients slow down, feel calm and grounded, and reconnect with nature and themselves.

Monique is a certified Forest Therapy Guide, Reiki Master, and meditation, yoga nidra, and restorative yoga teacher. She shares her expertise through The Flourishment Collective, where she is a distance reiki practitioner, mentor, and trainer for women's retreats and new forest therapy guides. Monique is also the founder of the global community of forest therapy guides, the Forest Guide Circle, and the climate impact startup, Homes to Zero. She is currently writing a book to inspire others to live a life they don't need a vacation from.

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Episode highlights:

06:10 About the Flourishment Collective

07:39 Monique's journey

11:46 Recognizing signs of anxiety

17:45 Learning to slow down again... and again

24:53 Learning how to practice new ways of being and embodied insights

28:39 Letting go of a need for control

33:09 How Monique came up with the idea for her book

38:04 About yoga nidra

42:54 What's next for Monique and sharing what she's learned

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