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Currently solo traveling Africa

16/01/2025

What is your favourite thing about traveling? Slow traveling truly changed my life, it changed my view and perspective on time and how I should act within it. I went from somebody who used to think I needed t be productive to justify my existance, to just beeing instead.

Eventually I started producing again but this time from completely different space within myself. It wasn’t with a specific goal in mind, I wanted to explore my creativity! And what a beautiful thing it is, to reconect with your own creativity. Nothing has made me feel more human❤️

03/01/2025

New year, more me! I think that is what life ultimately asks of us, to be and embrace ourselves purposfully. If 2024 came with one message it was this🙌🏼

I am grateful to the year that has passed for providing me with so much grace, tranquility, love and guidance to truly ask myself the questions of why was I here on earth; how do I best create purpose; what does it mean to live a life from the heart and how do I do it??

It was a quiet year seen from the outside, I guess transformational processes usually are. It is hard to speak when you are a ball of goo...😂😅 The process is hardly done, I think 2024 was only the beginning (!!) but I am eager to start sharing the journey with you🙏🏼

On the 28th of February, we are relaunching season 2 of the blog and I could not be more excited😍😍 It will contain all of the good (and some of the gory) stuff that comes with following your heart, travling and creating your dreams✨️ and of course, all of the beautiful festivals🎪✨️💃🏽

I am grateful to all of you who made 2024 possible for me❤️ I will see you all shortly❤️✨️

25/12/2024

What is your favourite Christmas tradition you've adopted while traveling?✨️
Many of us associate the Christmas season with demanding norms and impossible standards, stress and even loneliness. A stark contrast to the expectations of comunity, family and joy we were raised to believe in. In Sweden, where I am from, there is always a spike in mental health issues during this season... and honestly I can relate! Not everything in life looks like a certain x-mas comercial and that may become painfully apparent during this time and season.

Thankfully, I grew up with both. Both very traditional Christmases and other very non traditional. Some of the highlights from the latter include:
❄️deciding to skip all gifts and instead catch a flight.
❄️taking walks and admiring nature.
❄️ snorkling and sailing on the Mozambican coast with mom.
❄️Playing board games.
❄️Having my first Christmas in Nicaragua where you only eat at midnight! I was invited to help in the kitchen during the day and a chicken was placed in my lap for me to pluck. My aunt and grandma laughed so they cried at my horrified expression. Luckily, I was excused.

Okay so the last one was pretty traumatizing at the time BUT it is a memory that makes me laugh today😂 Point being, I learnt that Christmas is whatever you make it and that is completely fine. If the pressure is too much, say 'f**k it'. Ask yourself what gives you peace? What brings you joy? Do that instead.

The phostos are from last year and this year, Mozambique and Sweden. I am greatful for it all❤️ I hope you are good and taking care of yourself. Be kind to each other out there❤️ and merry Christmas✨️

09/12/2024

Who else is busy planning their next adventure?🙋🏻‍♀️ This time last year, life was pretty hot🌡🔥

Swipe for the absolute contrast of today😂😅❄️

I love the jouney life is leading me on, I love it for bringing me all the way home, helping me solidify the dreams that where awoken during my two years of traveling. But after three months at home I am definitly starting to feel the travel nerve itch again. I can feel the world calling!✨️💃🏽

06/11/2024

Plotting my path and dreaming about festival season😍✨️

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11/08/2024

JOHANNESBURG! WE ARE LOOKING FOR A HOME!
Please share🥰🙏🏼

After a lot of solo traveling, wandering and wondering I have found, firstly, my business partner the amazing . Together we are building a socially sustainable media company but more on that laterrr.

Secondly, I feel the strong need to build a physical base for us. For those of you who have followed my journey here know that I started this journey with the intention of living from the heart. And now I have found it! Imagine, it was within me aaaall along😍😂✨️ But now that I know that, I need time and peace to physically materialize it. We need a home!

We are looking for a safe apartment/studio that we can work and live from. Budget is 4000-5000r/month. We love to work quietly and not make noise (we are great neighbours!!)😂💛 We bring great energy and can bake cookies!

When can we move in? Yesterday! The sooner the better, cuz we already here!😂😍😅

25/07/2024

Heart, vision and quiet a lot of delulu and work ethic is what is needed to create something amazing, something that impacts way beyond your own existance! Yesterday I had the grand honor and privillige to sit down with Jiggs Thorne, co founder and organizer of one of Africas biggest festivals: MTN Bushfire. We break down what a sustainable festival is and how important it is to have a strong WHY that connects to your heart when you are building something.

I think the image speaks for itself😂😂 But from one creative to another, it was so SO inspiering to talk to another social entrepreneur. Somebody who believes and implements sustainability as the way TO success and not a separate thing you do to greenwash your image. I can't wait to share the interview with yall and all the gold nuggets that Jiggs generously spread✨️✨️

The interview will be launched shortly as part of a mini series focusing on sustainable tourism and festivals. Follow along and subscribe to our Youtube chanel for continuos updates and access! Let me know if I should send ya a link!💃🏽

12/07/2024

It is a mystery of wonder, where the Universe will take you when you let it. Just the other day I caught myself wondering if any of my ancestors ever made similar journeys. Journeys of the heart. Jouneys of the spirit. Traversing land and ocean. Now I find myself in the beautiful kingdom of Eswatini, nuturing dreams and projects. A country I would have never known unless for chance. Or is it fate?

I don’t think I would call this place a home as much as a sanctuary. Twice now, I have found myself in this country almost by accident. A beautiful but involuntary time to decompress, breathe, intergrate and build structure. A time of silence so deep I sometimes wondered if I'd gone deaf.

Now my life is art and I get to paint it however I want😍 A festival map is in the works, covering the most beautiful festivals and events of southern Africa. Youtube, articles, packing lists, the whole shubang. The blog /podcast is right about ready to be shared and it will be a colorful blend of festival experiences, the turbulence of solo traveling and the wonders of learning to live through the heart.

If the first year was about unlearning and figuring out what my dreams feel and look like, the second year was the year of becoming! A process that is far from over but I can say for certain that my life is another now than when I first sat foot in the kingdom. Stay tuned good people, new posts and content are coming your way soon🔥🙌🏼

18/06/2024

Powerfully vulnerable and mightily soft. I don't know where I picked up the idea that the opposite of this would be more true but as I listened to Harry Bakers poem Wonderful this morning, his words went right in.

A few years ago, a dear friend of mine was moving cities and she told me that now, her soft era was finally beginning. I didn't understand what she ment. But I can see now, that I too, longed for that. To be soft. Trusting. Not hardened or bitter by experience or fear.

Perhaps that was also part of what drove me to move away from my home country? The longing to access a different part of myself. Because even if nobody tells you out right, most of us were taught to dance to the norms and expectations of society rather than learn to listen to our own rhythm. I needed something to help me access it.

In the persuit of my own dreams and everything that comes with it, dissapointments and miracles, failures and succeses, I can see how it is changing me. A process of unlearning intermixed with the process of becoming. Brené Brown once said something along the lines that if you want to live your best life, feel like your most authentic self, you have to show up in the arena. Meaning you have to be vulnerable. I read that five years ago when I was going through a stress burn out.

And I decided to start showing up. For myself. I started becoming aware of when my decisions were fear driven, also seeing how I in many ways hid from the world instead of allowing me to be seen as I am.

A lot has transpired since then but I realize today, just how much has completely changed in my life since I read Brené Browns words. Today, I too am mightily soft. Powerfully vulnerable. Access to that which feels like all of me.

It seemed very far fetched back then, that life would be this good now. But I truly believe that it all stems from the transformative power of vulnerability. It tastes like freedom and feels like abundance.

What does your dreams taste like? What do you need to access your vulnerability? What movement brings you JOY?💛

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03/06/2024

BUSHFIRE🔥🔥 Thank you to everyone we got to meet and talk to, you made this festival absolutely magical!

Comment with a 💛 if you want to know what African festival we are going to next! Would love to see you there😍

Now we are going to catch up on some much needed rest, stay tuned to read the full Bushfire experience!

20/05/2024

Spotted on a mountain in Eswatini✨️Taking a break from reccording, more podcast episodes are coming tomorrow😍

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01/05/2024

- Traveling with your heart as your guide -

The week of my first official media accredited festival was INTENSE. Usually life works like that, first nothing and then everything all at once. I was so excited as I sat on the bus to Eswatini!

This was supposed to be my first official festival as the blog The Global Entity. I was supposed to be joined by a friend who was going to be my camera man. I was supposed to get my winter clothes delivered directly from South Africa and I was supposed to spend the next three months there at my friends house.

Out of all of those expectations only the first one happened. I got to do the festival😍 but without a team, without gear, without a jacket and without a place to live after the festival.

Once again I have put all my eggs in somebody elses vision/dream and it all went SPLAT in my face. It's almost funny how quick it goes from me thinking I could mayyybe adjust my vision a liiiittle bit to accomodate somebody else, to everything falling apart. It is like the Universe doesn't want me to do anything but focus on me.

And I know, that is what I also want. To find what I am really here to do on earth. Build something meaningful. Be a part of something great. But how do I do that?

Traveling with my heart as my guide currently means I have paused all traveling. I am spending most of my days in a hostel in Eswatini contemplating life, considering if I should go back to Sweden or not, hiking and driving around in Tanya's car.

Eswatini's all encompassing beauty keeps me company when Tanya is too busy to go hiking with me. I keep to myself, tending to my ego and my dreams, staying very still as to not act out of fear or panic simply because my road right now is undefined. This is where I am supposed to be.

So show up for yourself, be present in the processes you are ment to be feeling and maybe if you listen carefully, you only need to hear this lesson once💛 🙏🏼

**kingsunshine

21/04/2024

How you doing😉😌🥂

28/03/2024

Happy Easter people!! 💛💛💛

The blog is taking a little break to write applications this holiday🙌🏼 will be back with an update next week😘

08/02/2024

A happy aquarious💛 thank you all for all the birthday wishes and celebrations🥰💛💛🙏🏼

23/01/2024

Ah friend, but if not now, when?
When will you ever be ready enough, pretty enough, whatever enough to feel deserving
Of the life you want, the space to dream, the love you crave
Change is hard, changing once mindset, image of self and all of that, is even harder
But I kept asking myself that, if not now, when?
I took all my savings that I was supposed to use for a home
Uprooted my life for a dream that I coul build a life I want to be 100% present in
Learning to live from the heart is the hardest thing I've tried to learn so far in my life
Also the strangest because it doesn’t have a clear end goal... or at least not one that I can picture
And yet, it is the most gratifying thing I've done for myself
I can literally see the changes happening
Feel the space I am creating within
Everything is shifting, there is no going back from this and for that I am eternally grateful 🙌🏼💛

19/01/2024

Always on the outside looking in or on the inside wanting out. It's always been like that. Conforming is a nightmare but also, to some extent, the premis of being part of most contexts.
Don't know if it is the dilemma of my aquarious sun, being born and raised with one foot in different cultures or simply my clandestino heart.
Perhaps the lifestyle of doesn’t help with feeling rooted in a place but it is the only thing that nourishes my soul.
Still looking for that perfect balance of belonging and freedom, community and independence.
Can you relate?

Photos from a day with .gente_tours

08/01/2024

Boa vida com boa gente✨️
Every time I go out to sea with Ruben and his people I learn something new. The spirit of Ubuntu. More than just a catch phrase, a way of living.

In academic terms I think we would call what they do implemented sustainability. Still having a thesis to write on this journey I tried discussing it with Ruben.

He laughed and said "But Julia, to us this is normal! This is just how we are, what is mine is yours and what is yours is mine." Or as he usually expresses it "Aqui não falta nada." which loosly translates into 'Here we miss nothing♡' An expression of abundence.

I ask him how it is to run a business with that mentality. With the biggest smile he says that he will show me when I come back. "Come stay with me and my family, you will see. You will miss for nothing. Everything we want the earth provides."

The way he speaks makes him the most abundent person I know. I want to learn that. Perhaps he is right when he says it has to be lived in order to be understood. Once again I am faced with a concept I can’t intellectualize my way into. It has to be felt.

With only a few more days left on my two month stay in Tofo I am starting to feel ready to wrap it up. I am missing Maputo and excited for everything that I have planned. But the connections I have made here makes it easy to feel that I want to come back. Who would have thought that in the beginning?😂😂😂

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On this beautiful day we celebrate who we are, with all that we are💛 Happy womens day! One year ago, this enchanting, magical being, changed my life by "simply" being herself and speaking her truth. The things we impact when we stand in our light is mindblowing! The interview is now also available on the podcast💛 listen to The Global Entity wherever you get your podcasts✨️ #zoemodiga #LivingThroughTheHeart #FestivalFever #womensday #sustainablemusic #MusicTourism #travelpodcast #sblujufestival2023

What does festivals have to do with sustainability? Possibly, everything! At least, if you choose it. An international festival usually doesn't happen more than once a year and yet, its impact often extends far beyond both borders and time frame. That is why I always argue that festivals are the perfect platform for actors to really act and impact for sustainability! But it is a choice we have to make: organizers, industry actors, vendors and participants alike. Luju has taken this to the next level by making sustainability their bottom line within basically everything. It runs through the very concept of the festival to the implementation like waste management, representation, access, opening up conversations and rooms to otherwise seemingly closed industries. The Indaba was a deeper level of this and personally I cannot wait to get back next year to see how it has developed🌍✨️ Thank you everyone that came together today to share your calling and knowledge and light with us at the at the Indaba💛 You inspire!💛 #FestivalFever #MusicTourism #SustainableTourism #EatSwayLove #SBLujuFestival2024 #LivingThroughTheHeart

Lujus second Indaba is happening today and the focus is FOOD! Listen to @chefmokgadi_itsweng and other panelists today when they share their knowledge. Come join the conversation🔥 and maybe get a bite or two😉 #FestivalFever #sustainabletourism #eatswaylove #fromfarmtotable #FestivalTourism #lujufestival2024

It is Luju tiiiime!!! My good people, I cannot wait to see what will be unveiled on this years catwalk😍😍 I'm especially curious to see what you all have done with the theme!!🔥 The blog and podcast is back and delivering experiences, highlights and interviews from last years Luju Festival✨️✨️ You can find it on your favorite podcast platform! Tomorrow is Luju's first Fashion Indaba, will you be there?😍 #lujufestival2024 #eatswaylove #sustainabletourism #FestivalFever #MusicTourism #Travelpodcast

Today my friends is a happy day because today we get to share one of the biggest dreams we've been weaving for a while now. Well at least the first part of it;) the best is yet to come! A huge thank you to the one and only Thobile Makhoyane! Without your creativity, vision and phenomenal laughter, this project would have been very different. Kanimambo and ngiyabonga mea irma<3 Glocal Gems is a collaborative project between a local artist, The Global Entity and A Disruptive Holistic Design. Together we aim to bring you as many vibrant and creative audio-visual portraits of the artists that we love and the music that we are yet to discover! Parallel to the creative collaborations, we support the artist in question with an authentic and functioning online profile and portfolio. This, in order to increase their visibility and sustainability. If YOU also want to take part and support this fantastic project, please contact us directly at [email protected] . #GlocalGems #ThobileMakhoyane #EswatiniArtist #MusicTourism #sustainablemusicindustry #makhoyane

New interview with beautiful Maleh is out today! Meeting her felt like a dream😍 I don’t know what moved me more, her performance or what she told us after? Check out the full interview on Youtube today! Link in bio✨️ #festivalfever #TheGlobalEntityInterviews #Maleh #bringyourfire #mtnbushfire2024 #LivingThroughTheHeart

What is your purpose here on earth? What is your gift? What does your heart say when it speaks? How can I live a life in alignment with who i am? How do I live with JOY? These are all questions that I dive into in this episode,or actually the whole season! The last podcast of season one was released yesterday and I am so excited to put a period to it. Discovering what your dreams are, what is actually in your heart, and gathering yourself up sufficiently to dare to go after it, is hard work!! I feel such relief being able to close this chapter😅 those of you who have read and know, you know😂 But don’t you worry! The next chapter is filled with even more dreams, hard decisions, festivals and lots and lots of DELULU✨️💫 I cant spill it all here simply because it hasn't been lived fully yet. But trust me, it's coming! Thank you for listening and reading and supporting! Please go into apple podcast and give it a good rating😍 #travelstories #travelpodcast #LivingThroughTheHeart #FestivalFever #SocialSustainableTourism #Liveyourbestlife #womenwhotravel

The final 40th podcast episode is out! Available now wherever you get you podcast fix😍 This episode is the final one, the end of what has become season 1 and it only exists as a podcast form. I make my case for why festivals are such a fascinating tool for social sustainability, reflect upon gender roles and dynamics and of course, I share a little little of the future that is to come! It feels crazy to put a dot to this chapter. But don’t you worry, this ending is only the begining!! We will be back in just a few with more episodes, concepts, travel stories and lots of new things😍😍 If you like what I do, please go and give this podcast a rating wherever you listen to it. It would help me launch season 2! Thank you for being here💛 ENJOY✨️ #dancingthroughafrica #socialsustainabletourism #travelstories #travelpodcast #festivalfever #travelsecurity #africanfestivals

The happiest of birthdays I wish to you my friend! You make such an impact🙌🏼✨️ Keep shining your light, thank you for bringing so much Joy into my life and the community💃🏽💃🏽🥳💫

Check out the full interview with amazing hiphop legend Jazz P on Youtube. Link in the comments! #JazzP #hiphopculture #MTNBUSHFIRE2024 #BringYourFire #festivalfever #WomenInHipHop

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