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[00:00:00] and then I had that real bad accident and the moment I crashed ground, I felt and hurt my bones breaking and that noise. More awful than the pain I have to admit. And, and then I realized the first time in my life that life can be over within a second.
And I asked myself, would I be okay with it being over now? What’s the everything in it. I expect it. And my answer was no. No, no, no. Welcome to onward. Live a live stream, focused on encouraging you to create a life you love living. Now let’s go beyond success to significance in clear on our, why is crucial. It requires doing the inner work, finding ourselves, getting to know ourselves, [00:01:00] embracing our inner child. Shedding social conditioning and letting go of perfect.
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Thank you for listening to my show. This is Emily Harmon, your host. I wanted to start off this episode with saying thank you to all of the people who have been downloading this podcast. The number of downloads have gone up significantly, and I don’t know who you are, so I would love it. If you would reach out to me, if you check out the show notes, you can see my email address, but, and it’s Emily.
At Emily Harmon, H a R M a n.com. I’d love for you to reach out to me or go to my website [00:02:00] and , schedule a call with me. And just a heads up on this interview. I was in. Seattle Washington when I was conducting this interview and my guest Ramona was in Austria.
And I don’t know if it’s cause cause of the cloudy weather in Seattle. For some reason I had a, a little bit of a bad connection. And so I’ve cleaned this, episode up. You shouldn’t hear too many issues from that, but I just wanted to give you a heads up. If you hear a little glitch, that’s more than likely why I hope you enjoy this.
. Ramona. Thank you for joining me. You’re you’re in Germany or Austria. I can’t remember.
I’m in Austria salary and Austria. And thanks for having me. I’ve been there. That’s where the sound music was filmed. Oh, yes, I was there several years ago with my mom and my daughter and my son. And that was [00:03:00] such a lovely trip. I really enjoyed Salzburg. It’s just beautiful. So, and your last name? Has an Earl has an Earl.
Did I pronounce it? Right?
I appreciate you being here even though it’s so late where you are and I just love. Your introduction, your your, you know, what you submitted to me, you’re a happiness coach, which I love. I mean, I don’t know that many happiness coaches, so I’m looking forward to learning what that’s all about. And then you said also you’re a clown.
So that’s an awesome way to introduce yourself. I’d love for you to just tell us a little bit about you and then we can get into some of the things that you. Experienced in your life. I get a skydiving accident. You lost your dream job in 2012. And you know, this show is about creating a life that you love living.
And you can do [00:04:00] that even though you’ve been through hard times. So I’m looking forward to learning more about you and to having this conversation. Thank you for joining us. Yeah, thanks for having me. Yeah. So tell us a little bit about yourself. Like how did you become a happiness coach and in a clown?
Yeah. Yeah. That’s that happened. That’s where I lost my job. So I got asked so many times after that. Bad year in 2013. Why I, or how I managed not to fall apart because it was yeah, really tough. I almost got financially ruined. You might call it. So I lost everything. My partnership went down because.
Maybe you can imagine when you lose your job, you are in a psychic situation, specialty situation, and we didn’t make it. So many people started asking me, [00:05:00] how do you do that? Why, why, why do you still smile? And I thought about that and said, because I that’s the last thing they gonna to get. So if they take everything from me, not my smile, not my laughing.
And that brought up the idea. Why don’t I teach people how to cope with crisis, how to cope with bad situations. What is it about that happiness mindset? So I’ve been working a lot on that and as I’m not only a happiness coach, but also in Australia, Which wasn’t my main job in these days. I, of course took the astrological insight, took a close to look.
Why are there some people who are, who seem to be like natural, natural, happy people. And that was about. Four years ago. I, I realized, okay, now I’m with all the knowledge [00:06:00] I collected and the trainings I did, I now can go and tell people, come on and do a workshop with me. We can workshop and I teach you more about that happiness mindset.
So what’s it founded on? This magic happiness mindset. So that brought me to the happiness training. Well, what was your, what your, your job that you lost or the work that you were doing? I was working for the biggest broadcasting company in Austria for over 17 years. So I’m a director’s assistant and worked a lot for life TV.
I love that that was my dream job. So first of all, I studied at the university of Salzburg and when I finished, I got this job and I believe I will get old there. Like many people do, right. They think I stay here until I’m 65.
[00:07:00] I’m curious for the people that are watching, let me know if you’re seeing connectivity issues that I’m seeing, and maybe it’s just on my end. And if it is, I’ll just be patient. And I don’t know for Mon Ramona, you’re noticing connectivity issues where you are, but I’m just going to be patient. Sometimes you cut out.
Because of the weather. But I’m definitely connected to the to the internet. So I’m curious if people are watching, they’re having that. You completely reinvented yourself. What is it.
That people, just something naturally they have, as it is, decision they make, is it some people can do it. Some people can’t completely reinvent themselves. What have you discovered? I think that everybody can invent a hemo herself. The thing is. How big is the pain before you do it? Because I didn’t know that my pain was big because I loved to chop.
I really loved it, but I didn’t love the chop situation. It was very [00:08:00] stressful. Very low respect in that company. Very low paid. I just didn’t get that because it’s, it was always enough for me. But I didn’t get the big picture of how hurtful it was for myself after it was over. And I, you were thinking you loved it, but then afterwards that’s when you realize all these other things that you didn’t maybe love about it, years later, it took.
Really, it took me years. I, the first two years, I, I spent crying nights crying over the last job and people didn’t understand me. Of course my friends, they were like, come on, it’s over. I founded my own company after four months. I decided I was. Restart with astrology. I’ve been in the astrologer for awhile at this time, but just for like hobby and still I was crying for [00:09:00] that job.
But nowadays, I can’t imagine. Right. But that was normal. And after years when I, I got to my real self, what I call it I realized how painful the whole situation was. And what I realized is how it feels when you are on the right spot in Europe. And that was different to the situation before. So I, I did the right thing or life pushed me in the right direction.
Nowadays I’m very, very grateful for that. But the first years, of course not.
. What could you have done? You? You said you went for a few years, like feeling just frustrated and sad about it. What did you learn from that? And what could you, what would you have differently now to not have that last? So.[00:10:00]
Ah, if I have the chance to talk to my younger self, right? I would just tell myself, don’t be scared. You are on the right way. Trust yourself, trust yourself. Because I felt I want to go there. I told all my friends, I never want to go back into a working situation where someone tells me constantly what to do and.
Do it wrong anyways. So and they all said, oh, you, you are so snobbish. You sound snobbish. They didn’t understand me. And now of course I got a bit unsecure with all that. And that’s what, what I wish people and what I try to teach people. If you feel you are right, you’re on the right track. Stick there, trust yourself.
Don’t give up and don’t listen to those voices, [00:11:00] even though if, if there are good friends, right. But step back and. Just go your way. I mean, sometimes good friends have good advices. Yes. But if they constantly tell you, no, that’s not right. Why don’t you look for another job and get back into that? What I call red race nowadays then trust yourself, trust your instinct and during the child, because I think that our inner child.
Knows exactly where we belong to, which just forgot how to listen. Listen. Okay. How do you listen? How do you find that inner child voice? I feel, I feel it in absolute joy. The only births, which describe it. For example, I started long-term traveling in 2015, as I [00:12:00] realized I can work from everywhere on this.
So I I rebuilt an old folks’ bargain camper van and it’s over 35 years old and still driving.
And I traveled Europe for, for three months, four months. And whenever I, I am in that car and drive off, I have. Absolute inner joy inside myself. And I know I’m right, because when I’m on the road, I get the best ideas for new workshops for new programs. It’s like, it’s like a creative world Canto, which starts at the moment.
I’m on the road and I’ve been traveling every month, every year for three to four months. Because I know my soul needs it and now I can do it. That’s awesome. [00:13:00] That’s awesome. I love it so much. I mean, you had your skydiving accident was before you lost your job, right? Yes. That was in 2000. 3:00 AM.
That was the first time in my life. I realized that maybe life is not what it looks like. Right. Because in the media When you work for, for media, especially television you get the very extra point of view when it comes to life and spirituality, for example, because those people are all bam, bam, bam, bam.
And we are counting seconds and minutes. And It’s very special. And I was living in that pace. And in that style, I’m going out a lot. I’m talking unimportant stuff, just trying to earn enough [00:14:00] money to do all the fun stuff. You love, not thinking a lot about yourself. I have to admit that I I’ve been in self developments since I’ve been 20, so I wasn’t completely off the track, but I preferred not to think too much.
And I felt in my lifestyle and my living I’m. Yeah, I will live forever. That was, and then I had that real bad accident and the moment I crashed ground, I felt and hurt my bones breaking and that noise. More awful than the pain I have to admit. And, and then I realized the first time in my life that life can be over within a second.
And I asked myself, would I be okay with it being over now? [00:15:00] What’s the everything in it. I expect it. And my answer was no. No, no, no. There were too many false friends too many, not good connections too many times. I thought I have to say yes to something, just not to get in trouble or just to be everybody styling.
And I radical it changed. Which of course leads to the point where you’re losing friends. People don’t understand you anymore. They, they say things like, ah, you changed so much. Yes, of course
not open. I mean, what happened? Did you land wrong? No, that was we were we were a group of girls, highly [00:16:00] interested in winning a competition and we were like training, training, training all day and the way the situation changed dramatically and we just pushed and wanted to do another champ, another champ, and normally one would have.
Under normal circumstances leave it, but that was the first factor. And then. I had a quite big parachute and I didn’t make it back to the airfield. So I landed outside somewhere. There was some huge trees. You get some turbulences when the wind’s getting so strong and it just collapsed about 10 to 12 meters above ground.
I don’t know what that is in feet, but it’s it’s high enough to die that what’s the doctors. And I fully recovered. What did you break my spine? [00:17:00] Yeah, that was awful. Yeah, really awful. Because the first thought you get, when you realize it is does that mean I’m in the wheelchair now or what does it mean?
Then it was clear that. We are safe, but I had enormous pain for over a year. And that was the first time in my life that understood pain patients that they, at some point of their life, they are just so desperate. They don’t want to live anymore. So that brought me pretty close to that topic. How it can happen that you get so desperate, just because.
Your body doesn’t work anymore.
So we’ve got we’ve got people from all over the world listening, so, yeah. And I know Maria is in the United States in Maryland, and then we’ve got a Facebook user [00:18:00] saying that they love your attitude towards life, Ramona. You’re one of the most inspiring people I know. What does it mean to you? And we’ve got somebody watching from Sydney, Australia, too. That’s awesome. What does it mean to you to live life, to create a life that you. Love living. What is, what is it that you really love if that mean to you?
Some people it might mean I travel all the time. Other people might mean I’m in the moment. I mean, what does it mean to you? For me, traveling is one of the real big things and it always was I never could have dreamed of how it can be. How it is now with all that time I have. And that doesn’t mean I’m, I’m, I’m on holy days.
I work when I travel, but I love my work so much that it doesn’t matter. And just somewhere else, some add to see, or in the mountains in France or Spain or wherever or creation, [00:19:00] it, just sit there in front of my camper and work and. I love writing books. I never father of this, that just funny thing was it happened like a coincidence.
When I was in the first two years after I lost the job. I didn’t have enough clients and nothing booked out, really nothing. My aunt said to me why don’t you write a book? You’ve got time enough now
write a book.
So when she said that I thought I it’s, it’s kind of, it’s a crazy idea, but why. And I’m a passionate gardener. So I wrote a garden book for people who have no money at all, meaning how to plant and build your tiny, extra [00:20:00] home garden with almost no money. So. And I found the publisher within a few weeks, which is amazing over here, mazing.
I was so lucky. And yeah, so the whole thing started. And when I thought back after. Seventh book. I think I asked myself one day, the question, what did you want to become when you were 10? And I remember that I wanted to become a writer. So I had like, forgotten about that dream completely. I. We’re at a 10 year old dreams, the future in another way, bad.
It got so but I’m a writer. That’s amazing. I think somebody, so many of us forget what we dreamed about when we were children. And then [00:21:00] Facebook user says you have created a life that many people just dream of and never live. And as you’re very creative, Tell us about, so you wrote a book about gardening for people who don’t have very much money or very little money.
What other books have you read? The next one was S my aunt made open the door for the toll writing career. She’s a person who works with crafts arts, and then it’s the one in English I can share
the only English one. And so we wrote together this book, meaning I wrote it and she just Showed me how to do so she does all that stuff with just plants, the coloring, it’s all natural. Yeah. With all colors of the rainbow. And I took all pictures in the, in the book and yeah, the publisher was really happy with it and ask [00:22:00] after we finished it.
If I could do a, another crafts work book about printing. I did that with an artist as well. And the next one was a book with a mental trainer friend of mine. She wanted to write a book together about mental training. And I learned about, I learned a lot about techniques and mental training techniques with this book.
So yeah, it went on and on, and then I had one of those huge dreams. I always wanted to write an astrological cook. Because I think that you can see what people love to eat. And I’m very proud of this one because it’s A friend of mine, she’s a photographer. And she took all the pictures because food photography is special.
And so we cook during the first [00:23:00] lockdown in 2020, we cook for 12 signs, a. Menu with four dishes for each of them. And we did that in four months. So
did you achieve that in just four months? We’re all slackers, you know, and the title of this show. You know, no, what you really want, you know, go for what you really want. Do it, figure out what you really want to do it. And you’re showing that that’s what you’ve done. That’s amazing. That’s amazing. And so people can find your books just by searching on your, on your name and under Amazon in Amazon.
Right. The only thing is the only one in English is the arts craft one. We try to do a translation for the [00:24:00] cookbook at the moment. Let’s see when we can finish that one. Yeah. Cause it says, are there any plans to have any of the books converted to English? Yeah. So this one will, will come up. For sure.
It’s just a question when, okay. All right. Then we can ask many of you written, I think it’s eight, right? April it’s eight seven and the translation. So I count the translation as the eight one and yeah. The newest one before the S the cooking with the stars. My first novel. So they are all how to books, right.
But one level, and I’m pretty proud of that one.
It’s called traveling with the blues. You can see my car up with the. And it’s travel stories because I realized that people who are traveling let alone for [00:25:00] weeks and months, they sometimes get in, in kind of a very special mood. So first of all, you’re all happy. Oh my God, it’s a life dream. I’m on the road.
Yeah. And after five days you sit there in front of the campfire. And ask yourself what the hell I’m doing that for Sydney all alone. What for, so that’s what I call the traveling blues and the traveling blues personalizes. So he’s a pretty mean guy and he yeah, steps around the corner and criticizing being mean.
And. How to deal with him is a thing that many long-term travelers have troubles with. And they like the book. Yeah, I bet. Well, I think this is so when I have a guest, come on, my guests [00:26:00] can broadcast this show to their Facebook groups too. So this might be from your Facebook group. Someone is saying, I know a great bilingual pur bilingual person who could potentially help you translate,
and it looks like you have somebody else who’s written who has read your books. So let me just put up here, your Facebook group. Which is a happiness reloaded. That’s your thing. Yeah. Cool. Yeah. What is this about being a clown?
And another thing that. Pretty early in my early twenties, I got as a birthday present a clown workshop weekend workshop, and I joined it. I have to admit that I didn’t really get into it, so it was nice. Okay. But, but I never forgot about it. That was the funny thing. [00:27:00] And a few years ago I read about a weekend workshop for like find your in the clown.
And I remember that, ah, there was something before, so I. Yeah, signed in, went there and it was amazing because I had the picture of how my in the cloud would be. So this, this work was real hard work, five hot days where you work. Out you’re in the cloud. What is she or he liked how does he react? And the teacher was gorgeous because he teased us very much and try to get, you know, get the main part out of you and.
I loved working on that figure very much. So when the whole [00:28:00] lockdown situation came, they offered a few online workshops. So clown workshops, my assume, and I joined all of them. That was wonderful. And I. Yeah, I kept going with it. So I work on that clown and I did some circus shows with my tiny dog.
Where of course I am the clown then.
And yeah, it’s, it’s fun. I like kids liking with the personality. So tell us a little bit about your clown. She’s chaotic. That’s the only thing which brings us together because I sometimes am chaotic too. But what I realized is she’s her name is Federica and she’s mean sometimes. And she’s like bragging a lot, like [00:29:00] doing stuff, which isn’t true.
And I didn’t think I could do that because I am not that person. I’m a truth teller. That that Federica for ex for example, I do that, for example, language she’s like, yeah. Bragging with that. Her dog cam knows the name of 15 different things. And that’s not true. The dog does know all the names, so she knows ball and carrot, for example, and there, but not 15 things.
And Federica just says, oh,
and shit that’s. That was so weird for me at the beginning to realize that is something in. Which is like [00:30:00] that, of course, otherwise that clown wouldn’t show up. Right, right, right. So that’s, I’m curious, you know, when I think that too, you know, you had your dream job that you lost, right. It was your dream job and you lost it.
But then as time went by, you realized there were so many aspects of it that you didn’t like. W, why do you think you didn’t realize that when you were in the job or do you think you did, but you couldn’t admit it to yourself? Maybe a mixture of both of it first is that in these days I was an adrenaline junkie.
Otherwise I wouldn’t wouldn’t have been a skydiver. So that’s television work is always connected too much adrenaline. It’s like you starting a life show. Yeah. We go live in 3, 2, 1, and we have to be finished in 10, 9, 8. [00:31:00] And so, and you’re always on the whoa. Yeah. And delayed it again. And then after the show, you go home and it’s over this nothing.
And that’s what I love. Nowadays it’s when I finish work, it’s not finished and of course I’m happy. It’s not I’m self-employed you don’t want to finish. Right. You want to have so, but it took me years to get used to that, that it’s not finished at the end of the day. Drove me crazy. And I realized that this was one point I loved so much.
And of course the camera work and the work with the people, we have life shows where you have to like do that intro and make people laugh and show them how to clap and applause and everything. I loved it. So that was what I do nowadays, working with people [00:32:00] and motivating them. That was hidden there. And I didn’t know that there is much more I can do with people and give them I just didn’t know it it’s I thought it’s okay.
Make them laugh. Make them clap. Everything’s good. So by losing your job, you realized you, you had to leave your comfort zone and slowly figure out you have to reinvent yourself. And it sounds like, I mean, since then you’ve written eight books and you know, all the stuff that you’ve done, you travel in your van.
It sounds like losing that job. I gave you so much more. Yeah, did as I said, nowadays, I’m so grateful for it. And I have a very, very wise friend. He’s a carpenter. And he said to me a few weeks after all that it was a disaster. The end of my working, there was a [00:33:00] disaster and I was. Devastated.
And he told me, listen, I know you don’t want to hear it, but there will be one day when you want to send flowers to the person who fired you. I promise that. And I said never, ever. No, no. So we forgot about all of that. So after eight years I called him and said, you know what? Now I’m grateful. Still not sending flowers, but grateful.
And last year I told him I am at that point now, I I’d like to send some flowers to that explosive mind and, and say, thank you. Thank you so much for firing me and saving my life because otherwise, otherwise I would still sit there in a room without the window. What you need when you work for television, right.
It’s [00:34:00] always cold because those high. And machines, they need different temperatures and the, you was sick eight times a year because of that. That’s all that comes up now. Right. You have to ask someone, may I go on holiday? I don’t want that anymore.
That’s awesome. It’s just, you know, it is sometimes challenging to see the gift or the opportunity and to something. When something, quote, unquote bad happens to us. And one of the areas I coach in is, is mental fitness. And we all have a judge in our mind that judges, circumstances, and situations and other people and, and says it’s bad.
And if we can just stop for a minute and switch to the, say our Sage, you know, our inner child [00:35:00] and realize an ask, well, get curious. Is it really that. What could come of this. And sometimes we may not see it right away, but just have confidence there. I’ve interviewed almost 200 people on this show and people have had quote, unquote, bad things happen to them.
I have not had a guest yet. That hasn’t said that was one of the best things that ever happened to me, or I’m grateful for it. Now they’ve all been grateful for their experiences. Sometimes it’s just so hard to see it when you’re in the middle of it. It is hard. It’s so hard. And that’s what I tell people who are my clients or who come to my workshops.
Many of them are in a similar situation. I was, and I tell them, be kind to yourself, just be kind B, B. I [00:36:00] had the good, big heart when it comes to yourself, right? Not, not always all the other people be kind to yourself, take your time. You are allowed to be angry. You are allowed to cry, do it just be you.
And there will be a time. And I promised them because I know I’m allowed to promise that where it’s getting better. And I think that helps people so much that they are allowed to be in this situation. I think one of the most. Sorry. No, go ahead. One of the, one of the most dangerous things is when people come up with still in anger or grief and say, I know I have to be grateful.
No, take your time. That’s gratefulness with. When it’s time [00:37:00] for it. Yeah. Compassion for yourself is, is important. And then that gratefulness will come and a Facebook user says love listening to you both thank you for what you do to Emily. Yeah. I think the, the, you know, having guests that share their stories helps other people realize, oh, I can be like that too.
What lead me? I could write a book. Maybe I could become a clown, you know, an astrologer. Yeah. I mean, look at all that you’ve done. It’s it’s amazing. Yes. And someone else says, yeah, allowing it all in for sure. Now you have a podcast Ramona called the happiness reloaded podcast. Right. So tell us a little bit about.
Ah, that’s all started the happiness reloaded Facebook group also started during the first lockdown. So it wasn’t an amazing year because I then wanted to give people a [00:38:00] platform where they can come to and share stuff. Stay happy, stay in their energy. And I started doing interviews. Life in the Facebook group and then realized, oh, why don’t I put them into a podcast as well?
That’s perfect. Right? So I have in there, people from all over the world who shared their stories and share how they stay happy or share how they came up with a great idea to do something. But they, they, their heart once they’re in the child there. Yes. So once and there are so many amazing stories, hidden people who, who decided to leave everything behind and get artists.
For example, I had a. In my interviews, the car mechanic, who realized that he’s a painter and he started painting and [00:39:00] started selling pictures and he got self-employed with over 50. I think that’s so brave. That’s so wonderful. Doing what he was made for, right. And I collect all those stories in the hapless reloaded podcast.
I love that. That’s awesome. Yeah. I mean, when I retired from working for the Navy, everyone was telling me what I should do. And I think one way to figure out what you really want to do is notice your energy. Like people were saying you should become a government contractor, or you should help government contractors who want to do business with the government.
And thinking about that made me go, oh, And now, you know, being podcast host or a live shows like this and, and coaching people to create a life they love living makes me go. Yes. And so sometimes we think, well, when I couldn’t, I couldn’t make enough money doing that, or I don’t know if I should do [00:40:00] that.
There’s a lot of coaches, whatever. There’s only one me, there’s only one. Ramona. Right. And people are going to be attracted to work with you. People can be attracted to work with me and there’s a Bundance in the universe. Do what you love, figure out what you really want and then do it like you say. Yeah.
So true. Yeah. Yeah. Someone says, don’t you shit on the, yeah. That’s one of the things I do with my clients is have the list of all their sugars they can get rid of. Yes. So tell us a little bit Ramona, I’m going to put up here as we, we have you know, 10 more minutes or so you’ve got. This is how people can email you.
Right? Tell us a little bit about what it’s like to work with you and, and, and the kinds of things that you offer your clients. So most people come to me [00:41:00] because they want my astrology, they want astrological insights. So what I do, Dan, is I look at the birth chart and I always say, you don’t have to believe in Australia.
Because I don’t believe in my dentist as well. Most important thing is he does his job. I don’t have to believe it. And that’s the same thing with the astrology. It does its job. So I, I look at the birth chart and I can tell people, listen, I see here, what life made you feel? Did you consider to go in that direction?
If that’s the question? Yeah. If they come with a how’s my partnership, of course, I don’t talk about them, but normally you see very clearly where life wants, wants us and we can then work out together, which would be the [00:42:00] best way for this person. So, for example, when I looked at my birth chart years ago, the first time, and I was learning astrology I saw, okay, I should, I should speak in front of people.
What I couldn’t imagine. Right. Why should I, how should I speak in front of people? I, I D I couldn’t imagine it. Yeah, it, it got it’s formed by itself. So, but I can support people to find it clearer. And of course can help them with very special questions. For example, people are showing up and asking, listen, partnerships don’t work out for me.
Why, why do I meet the same? Main women all the time. It’s like a piece of puzzle and it never fits why. And that you can see very clearly [00:43:00] in the birth chart then of course knowing about that doesn’t help. It’s not enough, right. Then you have to stop working. And then I offer. Different programs beginning from the weekend workshops up to a four and the eight week programs where we can work on a special topic if people want.
So, and that’s what I can do online and offline. The weekends, of course, they are here in Salzburg and we, I have. Like one day workshops where we just work on one energy, for example, the next will be Venus being this in may. We talked about love and how we can see what love wants from us as in the, in the birth chart.
And how we get a deeper look on what are our wishes. And what [00:44:00] do we want when it comes to love? Most people don’t know, and then they wonder why they don’t get it.
Then you go for it clear on what you want. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I think if you don’t, if you don’t know what you want yet, still take your time. Take your time and try to feel a lot. Of course. So I have to admit when I started traveling, the thing was whenever I traveled before, when I still was working for a company, I had to go back after four to five weeks.
We have really much holidays here in Austria, but five weeks is most and I always. W what if, if I don’t go back after five weeks, right. I just keep on [00:45:00] traveling. So that was the feeling I had on my first trip and nothing else. It was just, and when five weeks are over, I keep traveling. I don’t go over that and I want to know how it feels and.
So, I didn’t know, first of all, what I want, but it got its form while traveling that’s one example. But of course, if you, if you’re looking for the right partner, you should know what you want. Yeah. You should know how, how it is to have breakfast with him or go on holiday. How do I want that to be. Most people just think of how should he look like that’s not important at all.
For sure. So what, [00:46:00] what, what do you find most enjoyable about going on your long trips?
Ah, that’s there are so many things first. This the surprises, because I never. I make, I make a direction. Okay. Do we go west or south or north? And that’s it. So where does it take me? Which people do I meet when I’m traveling? I’m always looking forward to the sea. Of course we don’t have our own see here in Austria.
And how will the weather be? How will, how will everything work out? Which places will I get to? And sometimes things just happen. I ended up somewhere. I didn’t plan to go meet people there. I’d never have met when. Would’ve made plans and some of them stay [00:47:00] friends then for years and years. So that’s what I enjoy most.
Awesome. Yeah. So how, how challenging was that for you? Or are you typically a planner or was it easy for you to not make plans and to just head west? Good question. I love making plans, but when traveling I don’t like it. So it’s it’s used to me doing it this way. And I have to admit as the car is that old the first years I had so many things to think about it.
Once in a while, it just didn’t work anymore. So yeah, there were so many thoughts about the car and what I have to know and what can I repair on my own? Where do we need, where do I need someone who can help me in which language we have so many languages over here. So my brain was so full with [00:48:00] that, that I didn’t make any real plan.
Okay. And now I have a wonderful young mechanic. Who’s real, he’s a magician and he fixed everything. So the last trip I was like, oh my God, everything’s working. So should I make plans now?
So yeah, then you have a dog. Yes, very, very tiny dog. H G Wawa.
I miss her. I miss her. I’m on the west coast now. I’m not at home, but I miss her. You know, I have to be wherever I go. Yeah. Yeah, mine’s over there. So I don’t wake her up, but yeah, she travels with me [00:49:00] since 2017. So she’s been to great Britain, Scotland, France, Portugal, Spain, Croatia, Italy. She’s been everywhere.
My dog, if she were here, she’d be asleep. Awesome guests. I really enjoy fucking, and I learned so much from you and I think that there’s so much we can all learn about. Going for it and, and, and really going for what we would love and don’t hold back because life is short and you re you’re fortunate. You realize that sometime, unfortunately you had to realize it with your accident, but I mean, you realized it.
Right. And yeah, I mean, a couple of years ago when my kid’s dad passed away that’s when I realize it, I was like 56 when I realized it it’s like, Wait for short. And I saw him die with regrets [00:50:00] and I thought, what is it that I want to do? And how do I want to die? Have I done everything I want to do?
And I hadn’t. And so it really does, has changed the way. I’ve been living my life to so. Well, thank you to everybody who watched the show and to come who commented and everything. I really appreciate you guys for showing up every week. And I’m glad that you guys enjoyed it. I go live every Wednesday at seven 30 and pretty much every Wednesday, I’m going to take a couple, I’m going to do something I really love.
And I’m going to take a couple of months off for this, or I think I deserve it after doing almost 200. I deserve to have a little bit of time off where I don’t have to think. Yeah, it’s Wednesday. I’m doing an interview. I’m doing these interviews time off is going to be fun. So buddy who joined in Justin commented and check out Ramona’s Facebook [00:51:00] group.
Let’s see, where is it? Right here? Yeah, happiness reloaded. And you can email Ramona and you can also go on. Amazon and check out her books and listen to her podcast. Happiness, reloaded podcast, Thank you. Thank you everybody for watching have a great week. Onward live is sponsored by Emily Harmon, coaching and consulting.
Visit my website, Emily harman.com to learn more about me and my coaching program. I’d love to help you create a life you love living. Remember every adversity is our own personal university. Sometimes the lessons are different. And we must learn from our experiences. Vulnerability is your super power.
You are lovable and worthy, and we discuss these topics [00:52:00] and more because professional is personal. Thank you for joining us and engaging with me and my guests. I look forward to seeing you.
Romana Hasenöhrl says find out what you really want and then do it! Romana is a “Happiness Coach”, a writer, astrologer, and not to forget, a clown. Furthermore, she talks about big mistakes on international podcasts and platforms like “F#$kup Nights” and she knows how it is to get big challenges in life.
In 2003 she had a bad accident while skydiving. And this was the first time in her life she realized that life can end within a moment. Then, Ramona lost her dream job in 2012, at the age of 44. And, after one year of struggling she lost everything else: her partner, friends, confidence, security.
Furthermore, by the end of 2013 she did not know how to pay her rent. But her humor stayed. And, she founded her own company as an astrological coach and got back on her feet. This gives her the experience to support people in similar situations.
Romana has published eight books and supports people to find out what they really, really want – and live a happy life. And, she’s a person who tries everything she wants. Skydiving, paragliding, motorcycle tours, pilgrimages.
Also, she walked from Salzburg to Innsbruck because she wanted to know how this feels. And, she worked in grape harvesting, in olive gardens, garages and at a joiners shop, for television and newspapers and book publishers. Finally, Romana believes in the power of staying interested and curious all your life.
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