About

Hello and welcome to Live Work Travel, (which has gone offline and online and offline and online again many times over the years.)

But if you’re sitting here reading this today, I’m excited, because I feel the most me that I have ever been, and I finally feel feel prepared to write stories and adventures and information that you’ll find useful on this blog.

I’m Mashon by the way.

I started this blog back in 2019, but yet I never managed to make it feel like something that was mine. I had a whole boatload of bad advice on “how to do it.” I listened to people who were well-meaning, but caught up in the algorithms of the day, the marketing advice of the day.

I wasted a lot of time over the years trying to heed all the different advice, to be a personal brand and to be all that when it never felt like me.

(Imagine that, the girl who walks away from a conventional life can’t figure out why conventional marketing advice isn’t for her.)

At the end of the day, all I ever wanted to do was write, sharing my stories and experiences with other like-minded people. And I feel like I’m finally at a point where I can do that. So if you’re here now, welcome.

Live, work, and travel.

Live is everything that doesn’t fit into the other two categories, I suppose. Stories from my life, stories from things I’ve learned over the years, navigating day-to-day life and sharing it here in the hopes that it will help you as well.

Work, well, if you’d come here some years ago, there’d have been lots of stuff on freelancing, how to get clients, how to work for yourself, how to earn more money, and there’s still some stuff like that. You’ll find posts on this blog that are more advice and how-to. Older stuff, I’ve left it up because much of it is still useful.

But there’s new things I want to explore now. After eight years working online, burning out multiple times, I want to explore more around society and what we call work and how this charade of a nine-to-five is absolutely bullshit and unnecessary, in my opinion. I want to explore alternatives to traditional work and share more about my journey with you all as I am evaluating how to leave work as I’ve known it and do something that brings joy and creative spark to my life.

Travel, well, here we’ve got a little bit of everything, from stories about the places I’ve been to how-to guides for some of those same places to sharing more about this lifestyle, what it costs, lessons learned from it, things like that.

I want to share more about my story and how I grew up as well, take you a bit deeper into who I am, how I ended up here, and I would say where I’m going next, except who knows.

If you want the most personal stuff, check out my newsletter that goes out a few times a month.

Above all, reader, welcome.