Ep. 113 - From Orphan to Global Entrepreneur: How She Built Her Dream Life

Picture this: A young girl from Mongolia grows into a powerhouse entrepreneur, world traveler, and creative force. Today, I sit down with Aisha Makara, who proves that your circumstances don't define your future - your choices do.

From sleeping on park benches to managing luxury real estate in Portugal, from being abandoned at age 2 to sending her art into space, Aisha's story will challenge everything you think you know about building a life on your own terms.

In this raw, unfiltered conversation, we dive into:

• Why chasing money kills dreams (and what to chase instead)
• How she turned $0 into thriving businesses across continents
• The real secret behind creating your "dream life" (it's not what you think)
• Why most people never break free (and how you can)

Look, if you're stuck wondering if there's more to life than the 9-5 grind, this episode is your wake-up call. Aisha shows you that with the right mindset, literally anything is possible - from becoming a skipper to building international businesses.

Want more from Aisha? Follow her incredible journey: 📸 Instagram: @bigbossbaby7777 🌐 Website: aisha.today

Drop into this episode and discover why "impossible" is just a word - and how you can start living your own version of an extraordinary life today.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 2:03 From orphan to global entrepreneur
• 15:45 The million-dollar mindset shift
• 23:18 Why most people stay stuck
• 31:02 Creating your dream life blueprint
• 36:45 The one thing holding you back

Transcript

Stoy Hall, CFP®: 0:01

Another one of these amazing episodes with another badass guest. This time though with Aisha she's everywhere. You want to talk about traveling and being an artist and being creative and being all over, this is it. Excuse me. This is the episode that you want to get to because she's going to give us insight above and beyond just, us lonely old Americans and what we can do, but what's out there in the world for us. And being able to live that way so you're not just stuck in a loan where you are without further ado Why don't you tell us what you got going on? Actually, where are you right now today? And talk to us about what you do every day.

Aisha Makara: 0:37

Right now i'm in lisbon portugal I do a lot of things today. I was writing i'm finishing my Second book called like a dream life and flow and was doing my art getting ready for my next solo art exhibition. And of course, working to where it's open my new company that would be connected, mostly working with creative thinking and, like deciding was who I want to work with on creative thinking. And I think it's going to be like a CEO and the founders and startups for my for this year. And that's my goal. Today goes. Today was I working a lot and we're like putting the next six months together and you caught me on this because I was like Oh my gosh, it is so much to do. Every day is so much to do actually when you like living your dream life And I'm sailing right now as well. So started get a course by the end of this January, by the end of this month So I'm going to be a skipper and started to do more hours towards my next dream that I want to leave. It's a travel around the world in a boat and it's not going to happen now. You get to prepare for your dream to get confidence in the area and practice.

Stoy Hall, CFP®: 1:45

Talk to us about like how you were raised, where you were raised at, how you grew up before you decided to live your dream.

Aisha Makara: 1:53

I grew up I was born in Mongolia. My mother abandoned me when I was two. So I grew up in Russia and very small village. It's like little town next to the borders with Mongolia. And as a kid, I was always like, to explore and I like to See what is there because I didn't grow up in this Environment where parents get to take care of you and always like scary of you or something like that. So I didn't have that Environment around me so I get to go and explore every time what I want to create How I want to live my life. So I've been like already I Free, or I would say curious to live my life the way I want and started to create different ideas of what I want to do. At first, of course, I would just go and explore what's around me. As a kid, you just want to go and explore and you don't know. Because you don't know, you just started to speak, right? Or like just a few words you understand. And of course, probably in the beginning of why I was doing it to look for my mom or like looking for the, people that, you know, and this is why you started to run away. And eventually, of course, in some point in my life, I just give up on this idea because I realized that it doesn't matter how far I will run away, they will bring you back and, banish me for that because I'm running away. And so it was not easy time of my life. I would say like this because you get to deal with so many different things in the same time like know how to adapt in this harsh environment even so you don't understand that it's harsh environment as a kid because you're living in this environment you don't have anything to compare with and I feel like even so you understand that it's not good because I always thinking like it's not something happiness about it's not something joy about like in my mind I already You know, I started to grow up. I was like, it's not like this. It's not like good, and I started to teach or communicate it with other kids and Yeah, and I become like this leader who is taking all these kids on an adventure and of course we get punished for that because it was too dangerous sometimes. It was like time, time passed by and I become a teenager, I was in a bad company, I was living in the street and because I was moved to the bigger city. Kind of like a city, and I've been in shelters, and it was like not, it was a tough time. And when I'm remembering it, it's I don't know, but for me, I had fun, it doesn't matter, it was tough, but I was this is tough cookie, because there's the environment around you, you're used to that environment. And when I was a teenager, we always was fighting, we like scheduled this fight, and been like, I've been this gangster, was a gangster. I don't know. I just feel like that's life. That you cannot change the things, right? It's just part of who you are today. And I would not say That was bad experience, because that was just experience, as any other experiences in my life. And I don't judge oh, this was good experience, this was, like, bad experience. All the experience, you're learning something from that. And what I learned from that experience, when I started to be older, or get to finish the school, was not easy either, because, I didn't care so much in the end. Teachers treat me very bad and in the end it was like just a whole mess. And eventually, of course, I finished the school. And I remember when I finished the school and I said to my my, my teachers that I want to be a journalist. I want to travel around the world. And and they They didn't give me this opportunity, they put very bad scores in my in my I don't know, diploma the book. So I couldn't get to the journalist, and actually because I'm a, I actually was orphan, I had a quote. I actually could get free to any university and they sold my quote, they didn't tell me I got, know about that year after that, when I was already in the university. So I was, I just Googled it and I said, who we need right now, because I couldn't get where I want and we need engineers. So I started to get into engineering school was easy because they accept, they don't have girls. So we've been, I've been just one of four girls in my class, only those guys and the mathematics and all this like study is always easy for me. So like for me, it was like, Okay, it's just like something that, easy to get a job when I finish that was like the idea when you're young You don't understand but the point is when I've been a teenager and I was not in this good companies I also face one of like very not pleasant experiences would say like the death, Many of my friends they didn't even that time I was hanging out with the gangster So they didn't even survive until 18. So they died in a different accident. So Overdose or whatever and I get the face, so that's reality, and going to funerals, and I was thinking like, would I survive until 18? Would I live actually longer than that? That, and and I said to myself, I get to, Dream. So that I, in age 15, I started to create these dreams. I want to travel around the world. I want to be businesswoman. I want to be mentor. I want to be volunteering for UNESCO and UN. And so I started to like, because I was reading a lot of books and I love to read as well. I'm like, I would call myself like nerd and I learned actually English on my own because I was probably like around eight, nine years. And I was in the library all the time, and I found this magazine with advertising about English school. So I wrote them a long letter explaining about my, what I'm, who I am, the way I am, who I am. So they sent, and so they don't have money to buy their courses or anything like that, so they started to send me packages for free. I started to, by writing this motivation letter they send it to me, decided to send me all these packages for free. So I remember there was a cassette, and so I was like doing my best in my own learning English because I was like, it's important. I don't know why I was very young kid. I feel like it was important for me to learn English. And I remember that many things, like in life, you just started when you're facing them, you just started to think why, you started to like understanding deeper why I'm doing what I'm doing, why I'm like creating what I'm creating, because as a kid, you don't understand, you're just there, you're just like moving around, you're doing something and adults tell you to go there, adults tell you to wake up at 7am, adults tell you to go to sleep at 11 or 10pm, and you started to ask why, why. But, This like this and even so I've been rebellious I go like rebellious and very like fighter as a kid I was very aggressive and didn't listen to anyone. I was fight with everyone all the time and I feel like Right now i'm, peaceful human being at that time I was not at all and when I started to study I realized I was studying a small town compare, you know to russia It was like a small town in the middle of russia and I said to myself I get to move to capital You I was already traveling a little bit hitchhiking with hitchhiking community there because I was like, I love to travel, but I traveled just around a little bit, maybe Siberia for a one week or two weeks. I started to organize the money, understand how the money works and how I want to organize, started to hassle already that time, before I turned 18. And I feel like for me, yeah. Money is always coming and go. I get to just organize amount that is good for me. Or I feel comfortable with feeling comfortable in the way that, oh, it's okay, I can still survive next two, three months, until I started to think something, and what happened is, one day, by traveling like this, hitchhiking, I end up in Moscow, and I was feeling like, oh my gosh, this is the place for me, if I want to travel around the world, I get to move to the capital. And I was thinking how I don't know anyone in capital for me in that moment of my life was so big and so overwhelming. And I was feeling so small and like feeling like, Oh my gosh, it's so many people. It's overwhelming me. And it took me like probably extra year or so, like almost two years to actually make that decision and move to the capital because I was very active in the community of the university. I was organizing many events all the time being like this leader. I didn't call myself like that. It just naturally happening because of my attitude, I think. And I have this idea of the confidence that I know, how to do that, who I have ideas, the way we can do it. Because since a kid, I always have this ideas by taking kids on this adventure. I was telling them, if you're going to cry, I will not take you next time with me. I was really telling them that because it's just and when the kids cry and they started to, because we kids like, they want to eat, they want to drink, and they want to They started to cry at some point, and you get to think what to do, because if we're going back it's maybe one hour back, and it's or we continue, and we, I will show them what they want to see, this river, or this amazing tree, or this little animals, or like these flowers, And if we're going to come back, so we cannot see anything. So sometimes we cannot see anything. So I get to take them back because it was too much drama and I couldn't deal with that drama. I get to really, in a very early age, view this adult deciding. How to manage all these kids around, because they always want to give go with me. The thing is, I decide do I want to go with them or not, because by myself, I always go and discover and I have a great time. And when I'm going with someone, it's always like something, it's I get to manage, I get to organize, I get to think who I want to take with me, who is not going to cry, I know, and who is going to cry, I already knew. And that's what I think in adult life, when you started to be student. It's the same, it's just different, a different kind of way. But it's the same who's complaining a lot, who is want to find solution. You listen and you understand, okay, I want to work with these people and I don't want to so much work with this. And I understand they're also important because they're my colleagues. We in one, And you get to accept everyone, even if they're complaining too much, or cry, like crybabies, I call them. And for me when I moved to Moscow eventually, because I was organizing a lot of forums, and I was very leader, and eventually they invited me, university invited me to the other university, and said to me, okay, you can move I got free, the budget what do you call it, seat in Moscow. So I moved to Moscow and less than, I think in nine months after that, I, like six months after Moscow, I applied for the exchange student in Norway and I applied Norway, Netherlands, and Germany. And with help of my friends, she was, like, cheating a little bit because I didn't speak English. And she was taking motivation letter for me. She was writing. I wrote everything with a Google translator at that time. And she was correcting everything. So we sent all this motivation letter. And eventually I've been accepted by Norway. And I remember my friends was telling me, Oh, it's thousand people applying. You will not get in. I said it doesn't matter. At least I try, I, at least I do something like maybe it will work out. Maybe not. You never know. And it worked out. So I moved after nine months to Norway as exchange student for one year program. And I stayed, I applied for the program, and I started to work as an engineer. I was just knocking on the door when I got my approval from Russia, and I started to knock on the door and asking for jobs. I eventually got a job at the government as an engineer. I was the youngest engineer at that time in my team. And I worked in a field, with road tunnels and bridges. And every six months I was promoted for the next position. Next position. Eventually, like I got burnt out. That's first time in my life by doing so much. It was volunteering. I've been leader of the Red Cross already of North Norway. That time I was doing, I've been an entrepreneurial woman, with a group of women who's part of the All of them was older than me. And after I was creating this international woman club that's, the community just asked me to create this non profit organization. So I was selecting, I was gathering all these women together to like, Organize this non profit and I was working the same time and I had the relationship and I travel eventually like I've run out doing so much having so much on me and That was my first ever burnout that I couldn't understand that I was burned out and I feel Actually when the second burnout happened, I already feel that it's happening, and my I, in that time, when my first burnout happened, I remember, I was starting to think, what I want, what I really want, because I'm always doing something different. I travel a lot. That's my dream. I accomplished everything. I went to New York for the new year's, 2008 was my 1920 and 19 and I'm feeling like I already achieved all these dreams. I was dreaming like going to New York that time. I was dreaming to go to Paris, dreaming to go to Geneva and I think Venus and Florence, I don't know, like few places. And that's what I think it's going to be all my life. I will spend to go there. And here I am like in less than 20 years old. I was like, just about to be like next year 20. And I was sitting there and staying in the New York times Square, seeing this 59, 58, and I was like, oh my gosh, I'm already living a dream, and that time of my life I couldn't even imagine. That is going to happen so fast in such a short time of my life that. Since 15, to the 20 where I accomplished so many things and being in Times Square, that moment of my life, going to all the cities, even before I finished the university that first year or that first year of university in Norway, I went all these places that I dream about. And I remember. When it happened, I was like, I achieved all my dreams. That's why I started to do all of that, serving for others and doing other things for others, because I was like, I'm already living my dream. I'm already like, accomplished all the things. I'm already traveling. I'm already doing all the things. And eventually when after three years or four years of this whole work, I am realizing that I'm living not for myself. I'm like, service is good. And I was sitting there. I was like, okay, I'm going to be 40 years of my life. And in some point of my life, I'm achieving the highest point of this, status or this position in engineering job that I cannot grow anymore. So I can just be there for until I'm retired. And I'm like, That's not what I wanted, actually. But what I want, and I didn't know. And I went to travel first. At first I traveled for like several months around Europe and went to like other countries. As I did Europe, I was in Brazil and like South America. Backpacking, solo. And I remember I said I want to be an actress because I remember at school for years I did the theater and I love it. It was so cool. I always enjoy it. And I said okay, I will be an actress. And my friends was like, yes, you can go and be like an actress here in Norway. And I said, no, I want to go to Los Angeles. I'm going to be actress in LA. Why did I get to study all these years? I'm going to LA, and eventually, of course, when I came to LA, I started to work in background jobs because my English skills was like very poor in that moment. I was working everywhere with a vocabulary, and it started to slowly pick up. I would say become like a member of like L. A. community or acting community and I would like subscribe, not subscribe, become a member, like paying I don't know, a thousand euros or something like that, I don't remember. So I started to learn more about what it is to be an actor. And eventually, I remembering after two months or three months in LA was so expensive, I was always driving around and all the time just driving in the car, living in the car most of the time because you don't have to, you get to move from one background job to another and it's every time like in the different neighborhoods and they're so far away from each other. So it was like one day I was like, Oh my gosh. I'm just living in the car. I'm not even living in, in the, no, because I don't have time. I get to always moving around all over places and to build my network because everyone you get to build a network, you get to go in all these parties, just network. And one day I was sitting like in one of these parties in the mansion and I'm like alone and I'm sitting and I'm looking around and I'm saying like, Which group of people I belong to, who I want to be with, and I was looking all this group of people who is like, partying then they getting in the groups, and I was, who I belong to, and I was sitting there and I went to this fire around the stoners who were smoking the weed, and I came to them and I'm like, guys, I don't know what's going on. At the same time, I'm sitting here with you. I feel like the most chill people here. And I feel comfortable to sit here just passing the joint, around. And, I feel so like comfortable, I understood like I'm this old soul who is even so I'm not even 20, like a 24, 25. I was like about that age and I'm feeling like sitting there with all these people and they were like giving this, we had this philosophical conversation about life, about I don't know, about universe, about how the thing works. We didn't even talk about like movies or like what it is to be famous and why to be famous. We just talk about like philosophy. Philosophy of life, philosophy of experience of life, And I was just like, you know what? I just, and we just started to talk about love. What is love? What is actually being in love, or being in love? Or, and I was just like, I want to experience love too! I want to really experience real love in my life. And I understood that I don't love my boyfriend that I've been with for several years already. And I said to him, I don't love you actually. I was thinking I do love you, but I don't. I realized that I think I love you. And I learned to love you because you're so amazing. I always look up to him. He's like super amazing, super like educated, he's the best doctor in Norway, he's like top, in many areas. And I'm like, nothing, from my perspective, I'm just come from nothing. I get to build myself and here I am with like a best human of the country somehow. And I feeling I'm not enough, and of course, in the beginning, I was feeling like I get to be good enough for him and be like him. That's why I was starting to build my career and decided to be better and better to be like enough. And eventually I said, I'm actually enough. I don't need to prove anything to be enough for anyone. I'm already enough. I feel already enough. I feel I'm already like I'm doing my best with that. I do and I always do what I can and I always communicate it when I can do something or I cannot do it. And in that moment I called him and said, I don't want to be with you anymore. I'm staying here in LA. And what happened, he came over. He cancelled his job. He came over and asked me to come back. He said, it's not for you. It's not something you want. You're just impulsive. You're always so suppletive. And I will treat you better. And you, probably I didn't treat you good enough. I will treat you better. And I was like, no, I just want to stay here. So he was willing enough to spend extra almost two months with me to convince me actually to say that this was not something for me. Because it's so stressful, it's so expensive, and it's so many things that you get to build and you, when you don't have, the not, like this foundation, the strong foundation around, around you, it's a, you get to be with the sugar daddy. Because you're a beautiful woman or with someone who really wants to mentor you that will, take care of you at least for three years until you build your career up. It's because it's so expensive for the normal human being who doesn't have any connection, who is not from their country, who is doesn't have any family connection nothing. So you get to like figuring out your own way. And I didn't want to do that. So I come back to Norway. I got my job back. And after nine months after that, I I said to my boss, I said, you know what, I probably will leave again because I don't feel happy. I want to go and feel happy. I don't know where it is, and I just want to be happy. And so I went to travel again, and in that time I did the Camino de Santiago. I don't know if it's Rimage spiritual rimage in Europe. So I did this Camina de Santiago for over the months to understand what true love is. And I did the solo, backpacking. Like sometimes I stay in the, like Alberta or like it's a hostels or like in the church. And you are walking all the way like towards Tiago de Canello. It's in the Spain, like a big church and everyone is like arriving there. And this is, you are understanding that you coming alone and you're going alone, actually, you're always surrounded by people. And that was a profound journey for me because I realized I'm the true love. I get to be that love for myself. And I learned that, okay. My next, where I'm going to live next. And I want to live somewhere in Europe. And I decided that to live somewhere like that moment of my life. I was thinking South Italy, South France, or South Spain. Because I traveled there, I like it, that area. So I give myself time to live a little bit in all those areas. And I realized when I was in Spain, I remember in Malaga, somebody told me about Portugal. Even Portugal was like just next neighborhood from Spain. I didn't know anything about Portugal. I didn't have any curiosity to go to Portugal. And here I am. I came backpacking. I went to travel like for two weeks around Portugal and when I arrived to Lisbon, I was like, wow, this is my city. I was just sick of staying there and Torres de Verde, like the big, this square, huge square with all this, 500 years ago, with all the ships was coming. I was like, wow, this is my city. I was like having this like profound attitude. So I moved to Lisbon and after Like I think like less than a month, I started to work in real estate, get my license in real estate, started to do luxury real estate, and after I opened the property management company, and had a, at first we had a 10 boutique hotel, it was a 10 rooms, where rented whole floor, and at that time it was very cheap. 10 years ago, it was something like that. And Airbnb just started to pick up in Lisbon. It was easy to build up. But the thing is, I realized again, I did it because of the money. Because it was like, I was like, OK, I got to go. This was it. In the early 20s, everyone was going for this million, whatever. Everyone was talking about, I want to get my first million of dollars, and So I realized it's different between a startup and business. When you're building the business, you're really building the relationship. Not just with your employees, you're also building the relationship with the community, government, a group. The more you're building your business, the more you're growing the business, the more you're evolving with everything that's happening in the community. And not just evolving, you're also creating the difference in the community. And I remember like after three years or so working for almost every single day for 20, like 24 seven all the time on the phones, like it was too, I get the game burnout and and I was feeling, I'm not doing, I was always, we've been like, I remember the first year we had the revenue of 500, 000. And I was like, extra year, two years, I knew that in five years I will, we'll get to the five of this million of euros of revenue, not but in revenue. And I said it's very different of building because you really, building, you're doing it, you like creating it. It's not like when you're doing the startup, you receive the, in the investment and you get to understand how to spend this your investment in more like correct way. Yeah. For me, that experience, after the burnout, what happened again, what I started to do. Of course, I went to travel. That's my kind of escape. I call it it's escape, because I realize that now, more and more, that this was just escape. This was my kind of way of, Getting out a little bit of the, out of this situation and just observe a little bit and understand what's going on, what's happening, why I'm doing it. And I realized that I was doing it because of money, because this idea, because everyone wants to do that. And I'm like, okay, I do it too. Because this idea of this 1 million was like too cool, and I understood that it's not my idea. It's not my dream. And I started to go deeper. What is my dream? What is, what I want to create. And, after a while I went to the Burning Man. I used to go when I was in Los Angeles and the Burning Man as well, but it was like, not so intentional because, I just go there for a few days with some people who I know, and they just take me there. And this year, 2010, I think it was 2010, 2017 I, 2018. I remember I said to all my friends, I'm going to the Burning Man. Solo. I said to my own, my burner, Francis said, I don't wanna stay in your camp. I don't wanna, I wanna do solo by my, I will manage my own tickets myself. I don't need your help. I will do everything. And then less than three weeks, I managed to get the tickets. I managed to get camp. I managed absolutely everything by myself. And just going to the different platforms, like Facebook, couch surfing. And I remember when I've been in the Burning Man, I connected with one of the youngest it was the first year of Global Village. It's like a camp with international people from around the world, who's connected to the Couchsurfing community. And I started to hang out with them, and I'm right now leader of the camp, because that year I was, like, breaking down the camp, staying extra, I think, three weeks with the Burning Man, volunteering for the Burning Man, because I want to understand why Burning Man is so popular, why it's people paying these tickets, and why they're doing so much for it, And volunteering their own time to build the city, Black Rock City for the, these nine days. And I want to understand what motivates people, what inspires people, what's like behind this idea of Burning Man. What's the behind this idea? So I realized being there afterwards, volunteering for the Burning Man for several weeks, I realized that because the way they treat everyone, Equally, it's not like different between like your woman or your man or your drug or you're homeless or it doesn't matter. We're all one. We all get to deal, we get to build, we get to create something beautiful for these nine days. For other people and for us to see the beauty that we create. And it's very interesting to see because Burning Man is beautiful. Involving or included absolutely everyone you have the space or like you have the room just by Wanting to be there. It's already enough And for me, it was very interesting to experience because I was like that, like normally when I'm with people, I don't care if you like from this environment or that environment, I'm treating everyone the same. It's it's normal in my mind or it's me. Like we're all equal. We came here, we're sharing the experience right now together. And we're here to create something beautiful together in the moment. When we're not here, like when we're not here, it doesn't matter anymore. Because while we're here, we always have a choice to do something beautiful in our life and create something beautiful out of our life by connecting with other people. Create the beauty. I believe I'm light. Everyone is light when we be understanding that we all light is going to be so much light in this world. And that's idea of me understanding that I'm already living my dream when I decided to leave my dream when I was 15 at that time. That's I'm still doing it. And every time when I'm creating the ideas, what I want to do next, I'm doing it. It's just but even the sending my art to the space for example, I was, 2020 was not easy year. Everyone like, that time they went through something, right? And so I was working with the kids that time, and kids give me all these cool ideas. So I came up with this idea to send my artwork to Elon Musk, to Jeff Bezos, and to Richard Branson. And I, I created artwork. I sent it to the offices and asking Elon Musk to send my art to the space. I asked Richard Branson to be the first artist astronaut to do art in the space and asked Richard Branson to paint his rocket. And, like the kids do, and I just send my art to them. And I feel like right now I accomplished one of those dreams. I send my art to the space. It's engraved in golden plates and it's flying somewhere in the space. So I believe somehow the other will be accomplished too. I don't know when, I just know it will at some point in my life. It's just you get to continue to live your life. You get to continue to be joyful, continue to be happy, continue to like, create things, in this One of my creations was like, I published a book called Joyful Living, a guidebook where I connect my art and, some suggestions of joyful living, and I feel like anything is possible, absolutely anything, whatever you want in this lifetime, it's there for you, absolutely anything is there for you to create it, to be there, to enjoy it, and we're here to live it, we're here to enjoy it, we're here to enjoy it. Be joyful and happy. Why not? It's a choice. It's a really choice.

Stoy Hall, CFP®: 30:25

It is. And your, how you were raised and grown up as a kid, you were forced into understanding that it's a choice, right? A lot of people aren't like that. They're just born and raised in the family that they do the same thing forever. You were forced into figuring out that life is a choice and you can make that choice. What? Today, now that you've been through all that, how do you tell people and help people understand that they can make a choice? You had mentioned, you mentioned money a little bit, but you mentioned it more Hey, it was someone else's goal and dream and everything. And everything you've done in your life takes money, obviously. And usually that is someone's first pick up, right? They're always going to be like I don't have enough in savings or what about retirement or you name it? How do you help people go from where they're at to say, you have a choice. You wanted to go to Burning Man. If you wanted to go to Portugal whatever their dream may be, how do you help them understand that it's their choice and it's theirs alone?

Aisha Makara: 31:25

I'm asking myself a little bit, I'm just one person right now. I don't have kids. I don't have husband, even I would, but I still like me, I get to like figuring out a little bit different way I would have kids and have husband now I'm just by myself. So I said to myself, okay. If I live right now in Vietnam, and taking care of me in Vietnam, so probably I need about 300 euros a month, having okay life. Maybe not like too expensive. Too expensive and I will have okay life. I will eat every day. Very nice I would you know have a nice place and I would be fine, and I understand for example If I live in portugal, so I mean I need a month maybe one thousand one thousand five hundred It depends how you know I want to live my life depends with neighborhood depends of different things the way I want to organize myself When i'm traveling actually you don't spend so much money because you're staying in the hostel You stay in the couchsurfing you always like like movie, especially when you're solo You'd like entrepreneur. Let's say you just Crashing on the couch and you like very creative. You don't, you don't have this attitude. Okay. Sometimes I'm staying in the bench, for example, when I'm traveling. So I sleep in the bench. Like I just said to myself, just one night, two nights, maybe. And it's not every day because like sometimes, you don't book anything and everything is full. I had this in Barcelona, for example, or like I had this the same in New York, a few times, a few days, and I'm just feeling like it's not about. Like being scary with it's about like just understanding that it's just tonight. It's not like it's it's world You're safe, you know understanding that i'm safe Nothing will happen if you started to be scary and be afraid and i'm not drinking for example, you know I don't You know, do any kind of like drugs or anything like that except like smoking weed sometimes, but They're like for me. I'm just understanding that i'm safe. Nothing will you know nothing will happen not like everyone is kind everyone always want to help you especially like in europe Like everyone is like what's happening? Okay, let's organize. Let's see what you know it's you're saying like it's everything is full Special, of course, when the season, it's no places to stay. It's like people will invite you in their houses and and they say this is my kid's room. It's like my husband, my kids is right now with my husband staying in the kids room. I have this experience like lady just ran. I was staying in the bar, went to the bar and I said to them like, oh, everything is full and I don't know, I don't know what to do. They feed me for free, and the lady was there and she just took me to her place and I was just staying there for a night. And I had many experiences where you could just be open, had this experience that where I stayed, there was no money, even so I had money, but I just decided to experience what it is if I say to the people I don't have money. I was begging in the street for a few hours and then few hours I make 200 euros. And I was like, Wow, if these people, how much these people who really like bagging, how much money they make. And sometimes I was telling to the people like, Oh, I don't have money. Can you buy me tickets? People say, yes, some people say yes. And and they do buy the ticket. So like you're learning how to, Just play and just having fun. So like for me, I understand I just get to take care of myself And I just ended by traveling so much. I will just know if I'm living somewhere in Asia So which place I want to live, why I want to live there because I like to live in Lisbon is very central. I can travel absolutely everywhere. The airport is just 15 minutes away from me And it's like it's so easy and it's cheap It's super cheap, like with Reneiro, I can get ticket for 10 euro, I can go to Paris for 10 euro, I can go to Barcelona for 10 euro, it depends when you're like this flexible with your time, you always can find the tickets that super cheap, and when you're like flexible in your mind, you understand that life, it's actually easy, and How much time you will be sick, of course, if you have some issue with your health from the beginning. Maybe you know better that I'm, in general, I'm very healthy. The maximum that I can get is a flu, one time in a year. In general, I'm very, I don't have allergies, I don't have anything. So I know that I don't need to take any medicine. I don't need to take care of anything. I'm healthy, I do acro, I'm, like, always active physically as well. So I know that to be sick, or if something happens, just because I'm just Crazy, if I do something crazy if I'm jumping from the bridge, of course, you will something can happen I'm, just feeling like people get to understand you if you're going to broke something in europe. Everything is free You know in america is expensive in europe. It's go to the emergency is free, and like It means that you get to understand that it's nothing to be scared of at all. In my mind, it's like people just operate from the scarcity mindset, then to operate from the abundance mindset, and I understand that.

Stoy Hall, CFP®: 35:51

As we wrap up this episode, what's one thing that you want everyone to take from you, from this episode, you name it. That can help them on their life journey, wherever they may be.

Aisha Makara: 36:05

I feel like everyone gets a choice no matter what, and even like how you want to feel about something, you have a choice and remember that it's an attitude. Always have a positive attitude and always be grateful for absolutely everything that's happening for you, because life is happening for us, not to us. And I believe like we're the creators of our reality and you. With our attitude and with our mind, we could get absolutely anything. So trust in your own journey, trust in yourself, believe in yourself. Always be positive no matter what you're going through. Always face all your fears because it's just illusion. And always be authentic, honest with yourself.

Stoy Hall, CFP®: 36:50

And I'll add on to that is ask. Ask people. That's what I've learned the most from just listening to your story and everything you do. It's You're just in there with good people and you ask and there's nothing wrong with asking Be a part of community humans are designed to love each other and be around each other and help each other And ultimately I don't think people ask enough. They just don't ask That's what we're going to leave today's episode with obviously you can reach out to me Isha as well. We are both on social media I believe people learn the most when they ask questions and communicate and so if you want to know more just reach out to us Here for you And we're here to help you on your journey. I appreciate you, everything you do, your books, because I want to be an author one day. So I'm gonna work on that. Your story is amazing. And I can't wait for others to hear more about you and your journey.

Aisha Makara: 37:43

Thank you. Joyful Living. Namaste.

Black Mammoth: 37:58

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