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Resilience Through Grief, Health Scares, and Healing: Megan’s Journey to Meridian Travel & Retreats

Host Ariana Reinhart welcomes guest Megan, a Milwaukee-based retreat host, published writer, and certified travel coach, for a conversation on resilience through grief, loss, and life challenges. 

Megan shares how her father’s stage-four cancer worsened while she studied abroad in Germany, prompting her to return home before he passed away a month later, and how the experience accelerated her maturity and altered her college life. 

She describes surviving a double pulmonary embolism after a misdiagnosis, enduring lengthy hospitalization and recovery, and later facing job instability and years of undiagnosed PCOS, leaving her premenopausal at 29. 

In her 30s, Megan pursued spirituality, energy work, and shadow work with extensive journaling, helping her release pain, improve health, and lose 70 pounds. She explains how meaningful, community-centered travel shaped her perspective and led her to build Meridian Travel and Retreats, aiming to host international retreats. She also encourages listeners to hold onto hope when facing adversity.

00:00 Introduction
02:51 Meet the Guest
04:12 Icebreaker Questions
10:28 Megan's Journey of Resilience
39:38 Shadow Work & Healing
46:09 Building a Travel Business
58:44 Looking Forward
01:05:33 Outro

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