"We had one year on our tickets. It was a backpacking, round-the-world trip that I’d always planned to do after I graduated from my Master’s program in London. Before that, I had spent 19 years in Dublin, where I was born. We went to South America, and to the Caribbean, and then to New Zealand. We spent way longer than we had planned in New Zealand: we got visas, lived in Queenstown, got ski passes, got a car, and stayed there for six months. I worked in a restaurant as a waitress and went snowboarding everyday – I had the best time ever. We lived in a share-house with about 18 people, just people from all over the world. One of my best friends came from Central America and it was just a big group of friends. Then we got here, to Sydney, with only a month or two left on our tickets. And we just never went home. There was really no set decision – we just arrived as backpackers and there was a huge Irish contingency here. Everyone was living their best life. I got a job at a bank and they ended up sponsoring me. Everything just fell into place, not one thing was planned. But I always wanted to have my own business and I eventually fell into startups. Again, no plan. I didn't make a conscious decision to leave from corporate to startups or anything like that, but the startup life has been great. I think my year of traveling the world taught me to always be flexible with your plan, because if we had structured a plan, we would have done our year of travel and been back in Dublin after 12 months. So, I suppose, have a loose plan but be very flexible. And that can apply to everything in life. Just enjoy yourself and don’t stress about anything because everything just works out fine. It's the best time of your life."
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