I didn't plan any of this. I built it.
Pre-med, until it burned me out. So I quit. Not the smart move. The right one.
Volunteered in remote Thailand. No plan. Just showed up.
That became five years teaching Science in southern Thailand.
Then freelance writing. No safety net. I treated it like a career. It opened a door into a specialized legal field most freelancers never touch.
I started at the bottom of a firm. I got promoted. Twice.
A year living in Morocco. Then two years traveling, alone. Iceland to Turkey, over land, sea, and air, however I could get there.
Fez, Morocco, during my year there.
Tunisia. Kosovo. Myanmar. Bosnia.
The places people warn you about. I found some of the nicest people I've ever met.
Bagan, Myanmar. Still standing after a thousand years.
Here's why I built Nomareina. Most travel and remote-income content wasn't built for women like me.
So I built what was missing: real strategy, from someone who's lived it. For women of color, immigrants, first-gen professionals, neurodivergent women. Anyone traditional travel content forgot.
Chop wood. Carry water.
I learned that phrase from monks in Thailand. It took Morocco to understand it.