Bianca Caruana:

0:14 hello and welcome to another episode of live love by design TV
0:19 I’m Karen Chaston the show host and executive producer of this
0:24 groundbreaking TV show because it truly is a place where you will learn to live
0:29 and love each and every day to love who you are to love your life and to create
0:35 your dreams faster and today I feel so honoured to have the beautiful Bianca
0:43 Caruana in the studio with me today welcome Bianca. Thanks so much Karen I am really looking forward to being on the show I know she’s an amazing
0:53 lady and not only is she an amazing lady she’s actually a digital nomad
1:00 now come on Bianca what the hell is a digital nomad well a digital nomad
1:06 is basically somebody who can work from anywhere in the world
1:10 so we live in this world now everything is online and a few of us who work in
1:15 that industry can have the privilege of doing their work from anywhere in the
1:20 world hence nomad wow that sounds amazing like I think you’ve made that
1:26 name up or is it actually a name where people are actually called that now
1:31 people have actually called that now so it’s become a growing community of
1:35 people who have chosen to live a life that’s on the road and incorporate their
1:42 work while traveling isn’t that amazing you have to love the world we live in
1:46 like seriously when I was your age and you’re you’re
1:50 very young you want to tell you about how young you are. I’m
1:53 32 now how you young is that and how beautiful its a great age
1:58 actually your 30s are really great it’s a great stage where you can actually start
2:04 to design the life that you truly want in your 20s you’re still very much
2:10 finding who you are and you know trial and error and whereas come your 30s it’s
2:16 a perfect time to actually start to design your you live like way of life as
2:20 I love to say and you’re certainly doing that like the fact that your digital
2:25 nomad I think it’s so cool so exactly what do you do because obviously there’s
2:30 different sorts of digital nomads um so my background is in digital marketing
2:36 and web so I’m a virtual assistant where I basically help people to I make an
2:43 extension of their team basically so I provide them with the services like
2:49 digital marketing sometimes admin anything that they can do online I can
2:53 do for them but it’s just an extension of their team because we live in this
2:58 world where we just sometimes don’t have time to do these things and I think a
3:02 lot of people if you don’t have another employee in your business especially a
3:06 lot of small businesses they really struggle to move forward because there’s
3:10 these things that they just don’t have time to do and so as a virtual assistant
3:14 I am that person who can do those things so you track so traveling the world and
3:20 doing this is travel one of your key key things to do is it your passion yes so
3:29 travel is a huge passion of mine I’m very active or for the past three years
3:34 I’ve been very active in the responsible tourism space so basically sharing with
3:40 others how they can use travel to make a positive impact
3:44 on the lives of others in any country really is even developing countries and
3:49 also how they can use sustainable travel to make a positive impact on the places
3:56 that they visit so what is an example of sustainable travel for our viewers so an example of
4:02 sustainable travel would be for example if you are traveling to a region instead
4:06 of maybe spending all your time in a very popular 5-star hotel
4:11 maybe you could research some home stays in the areas stay with a local
4:16 family and that way the money that you’re spending in this place is really
4:20 directly going to the local community rather than being filtered through a
4:25 middleman and kind of helping these communities that may not have income
4:30 generation to be able to get that through tourism well what a great idea
4:35 because I’ve also found them when you travel and you hang out with the locals
4:40 you always get to go to different places that you would never have gone to and
4:44 you see a different side of the city or the place where you are through doing it yeah
4:49 it’s it’s so authentic I mean some of the experience that I’ve have had a just
4:54 so authentic you really get to interact with the locals eat the local food and
5:00 it’s just this whole other way of travelling that I think in one at one
5:05 time people were a bit scared of that but now you know the Internet’s came in
5:10 everyone’s just so open to connecting and being able it’s quite easy to have
5:15 these kind of experiences and safe as well wow that sounds amazing
5:20 and it’s so do you do a blog on that to help people to find like where to do
5:26 that because I’m sure some areas in the world you would recommend you don’t do
5:30 it there yes that’s right yeah so there’s definitely some things that you need to
5:36 consider but I do I have a blog so the blog is called the altruistic traveller
5:41 and it’s basically about incorporating travel and altruism
5:45 which is selflessness and this blog has always been so important to me and for
5:51 so long I was thinking how am I going to put all this effort into this blog but
5:56 also have my income stream you know and be able to be in these places and also
6:03 be able to have that income stream rather than having to be in Sydney
6:07 waiting for so long and then temporarily going to these places and coming back so
6:12 let’s talk about that what did you do before like you mentioned that you’re
6:16 always in digital marketing but what made you decide to actually say do you
6:24 know what I’m going to stop my 9-5 job which never was nine to five of course
6:30 and and I’m going to go and do and combine my passion with my purpose and
6:36 get it all together and travel the world doing what I love
6:40 well a few different incidents and so supposing one of them was working with
6:48 you Oh Thank you to really kind of map out how I’m going to do this and change my
6:55 mindset from I can’t do this toI can – yes turning the old impossible into
7:01 I’m possible exactly and and and it happened really quickly didn’t it because we only
7:08 really had a month of conversations and it was just questions yeah and and
7:14 that’s what I always say your life always comes down to the questions that
7:20 you’re asking yourself because when you start to ask questions the answers are
7:26 going to be revealed and through the answers you get the action steps and
7:31 through taking those action steps now that’s the most important part of it
7:34 you’ve got to actually do the action steps you will birth you’re new to live
7:38 my way of life and that’s exactly what you did you were a pleasure to work with
7:42 because you actually took all the action steps everything I asked you to do you
7:47 did and it was a lot of soul-searching wasn’t it it was
7:51 searching and it wasn’t really that difficult when you kind of sit with
7:55 yourself and have a conversation with yourself and really ask yourself these
8:00 broad questions and actually one of my favorite exercises was the automatic
8:06 writing one where you just kind of let yourself sit with yourself and really
8:11 get the answers to these questions that you have inside what do you really want
8:16 when do you want to achieve it by that was very important yes I think having a
8:21 tangible day to say by this date for me it was actually September 30 as I said I
8:27 want to be on the path to where I can have these both of these important
8:33 things in my life and by what date did it come it will actually left my last job I gave
8:40 my notice I think it would have been around the 15th September, so you came in early it is about connecting
8:49 to future you yes and saying will future me be happy if this is all I do for the
8:58 rest of my life and what did future you say to you
9:02 hmm well it was I knew future me I knew that this is where I wanted to be and
9:11 look it’s not going to be you know I’m not a hundred percent sure what the future
9:17 will hold but I’m not scared because I just know that I am absolutely a hundred
9:24 percent living my truth and you know it doesn’t go 100 percent according to plan
9:29 that’s fine but I know that I’m willing to take those chances and to actually
9:35 try and walk that path because if i sat in that job and I never did that then
9:40 how would I ever know exactly and that’s what I love and I can tell you right now
9:44 it is not going to go the way that you plan it because we don’t know what we
9:49 don’t know it’s going to be bigger and better it’s going to be amazing
9:54 because you’re going to learn so many lessons along the way that you can’t
10:00 possibly know where you’re going to be and and that’s the best thing about it
10:04 you’re a smart girl you will look after yourself and you actually even know how
10:10 to manifest things obviously she did it two weeks earlier than planned but it’s
10:14 believing in who you are and that’s what this really comes down to that’s what I
10:19 love about live love by design and you honestly are my ideal perfect person to
10:25 work with because you still are in that I’m willing to learn phase now a lot of
10:31 people the older they get they know everything and believe me they don’t I
10:36 wish I did no I know I actually like the fact that I don’t know everything
10:40 because I know that I’m going to learn to the day that I pass to the day I go
10:45 on to my next adventure and when we embrace that we actually are
10:50 so willing to change and to and to know that like the world is so amazing like
10:57 believe me what I was born I was born in the late 50s like there’s no way I
11:02 would’ve thought we’re here filming a TV show oh my camera on my phone like how
11:08 easy is that yeah it’s amazing and we can touch
11:13 people all over the world with these amazing ideas like you know digital
11:19 nomad, I know I’m gonna get over it pretty cool I just think it’s it is because
11:27 it describes you to a tee but not only that it lights you up every time you say
11:32 it or hear it you just get the biggest smile on your face and I have to say I
11:37 heard this saying the other day which I really do embrace it and I really would
11:41 like all women to embrace this the best makeup any woman can wear is a smile now isn’t that beautiful because how many women don’t smile
11:50 well I yeah I mean did you smile much when you were in your 9-5 job oh not
11:58 so much I think when I didn’t believe that I could do the things that I wanted
12:04 to do I probably didn’t smile as much anything but you know there’s this kind
12:09 of light that comes out when you actually start believing in yourself and
12:12 it’s interesting that we were talking about being in your 30s versus being in
12:16 your 20s I did not believe in myself at all in my 20s probably even up until I
12:21 was about 31 I didn’t believe in myself well you got a lot earlier than a lot of
12:26 people people in their fifties and sixties still don’t believe in
12:28 themselves yeah so you get this at a young age and
12:32 you know I said thirty is a great age for me to work with any younger is even
12:36 better you know I mean because I truly do wish that I had this wisdom is
12:40 understanding when I was a lot younger not that my life’s been bad it just
12:45 would have been different I would have been open to new concepts
12:49 I wouldn’t be so stuck in this is the way you live your life this is the way
12:53 you do it to understand you have to design your life not allow circumstances
13:01 just to take you into this job or this sort of position and stuff like that to
13:06 actually design it how quickly does it come when you take the time to design it
13:11 that’s true and also I just wanted to add a point of letting yourself be
13:16 influenced by people I think is one very important thing, not negatively, no positively
13:29 surround yourself with the positive people the people that sort of believe
13:33 in you and then you let yourself be influenced by them and people that you
13:38 look up to I think people that inspire you I think it’s what that has been a
13:44 very important part for me so who is someone in your life who has inspired
13:48 you um well yeah you, apart from me Kathy yeah how beautiful Kathy Wong I shout out to
14:00 Kathy we love you Kathy and she’s traveling the world doing amazing things
14:05 as well yeah she so we’re both involved in the social impact space and she’s
14:10 just such a go-getter and I think meeting her I really had that strong
14:16 female influence to look up to I think for a long time I sort of felt like I
14:21 was a bit alone in my space but when I met her being such a strong woman
14:26 also actively involved in our space also someone that’s really just such a
14:31 go-getter and really just sets these goals and and does what she can to
14:37 achieve them that inspired me because I knew that I could do that as well but I
14:41 just hadn’t had someone like that to look up to in a while yeah and she did
14:47 introduced us actually yeah that’s right which was amazing huh so and I love the
14:51 fact that I don’t want to say the word ordinary everyday people
14:57 who have inspired your which is great because it is those people that we do
15:03 have conversations with that we do spend time with and we do start to go I like
15:08 the way she does that I like the way he does that I think I’ll embrace that into
15:13 my design which is really important watch what other people do and take on
15:19 those sort of little concepts and then I like to say take a little bit from here
15:24 a little there and then you make your own cake and
15:27 that’s exactly how you can live your life I think so yeah for sure I think we
15:31 sometimes get confused that if somebody’s doing the same thing as you
15:35 they’re a competition or you’re copying them but that’s not it we all inspire
15:40 each other in so many ways the smallest of ways like for example
15:44 how it’s something that someone else is using maybe you could use that as well
15:49 or just the smallest things and I think it shouldn’t be the word competition
15:54 should be is but rather than inspiration yes it is a nice word yeah it is I
16:00 always say I’m only in competition with yesterday me oh yeah yes because
16:06 yesterday me inspires me to become future me yeah always learning from
16:11 things that you could have done better or things that you do exactly the same
16:14 next time as well Bianca I’ve so loved talking with you doing today
16:18 and you have I believe a free gift for all of our viewers a free gift I should
16:23 say for all of our viewers today so what is that well I want to all the viewers
16:28 today I’m going to be offering my two-day virtual assistant packages for
16:33 the price of one so basically that means you have made for two days to look after
16:38 your digital marketing if you don’t know how to do Facebook or your instagram is
16:43 looking a bit yuck I will be able to look after all that
16:47 for you two days worth of work for the price of one
16:50 I’m also very efficient so it’s probably three days I’m sure you are now you’ve got a good in
16:56 a good reason to be very efficient isn’t it so that you can go into the beautiful
17:00 playgrounds where you’re actually hanging out so why sit at your desk all
17:04 day when you’re travel in the world exactly yeah
17:08 thank you Bianca I so look forward to following you because I just know
17:09 that the
17:15 time you get to my age and let’s face it on double your age
17:18 at the moment by the time I get to your age and you get to my age I’m sure that
17:24 you are going to be the biggest inspiration to so many people and you
17:29 are going to be out there and people are going be I want to be her Oh thank you so much I hope so
17:37 I still have a lot to learn but yeah I mean that’s a bit of time so thank you
17:46 thank you for being here I just love hanging out with you so that’s it for
17:50 another episode over live love by design as you can see we have these amazing
17:55 guests here all the time inspiring us to actually design a life
18:01 that we truly want to live and love each and every day so we can love who we are
18:05 we can love our life and we create our dreams faster so hopefully I will see
18:11 you on another episode real soon and in the meantime please spend some time
18:17 looking after your best friend in your life and that’s you bye
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