Memoir of a Multi-Passionate Entrepreneur, OR How Time Traveler Tours Came to Be

I just celebrated a milestone birthday. Which one isn’t important. I’ll let your imagination fill in that blank. Let’s just say it was sufficiently significant to cause me to stare in the mirror and ask, Well, how did I get here?

I never set out to be a professional writer. I never envisioned myself developing story-based apps. (Hell, there were no such things as apps when I was starting out in the world. There wasn’t even an Internet!) And I definitely never imagined in a million years that I would be founding my own business one day.

Truth be told, if I were a kid right now I’d probably be diagnosed ADHD with a touch of OCD thrown in. I was never particularly focused on any one thing for very long. I was instead drawn to the connections between things. As a student, I was here and there, exploring how this linked to that and how that influenced the other. As an adult, I moved seamlessly, to my mind anyway, from producing performing events to working as a linguist and language educator; from teaching English all points abroad to facilitating large groups in conflict due to intercultural misunderstanding; to modeling the teaching of conflict resolution skills to primary school teachers through great works of children’s literature.

It all made sense to me. But over the years some have accused me of being scattered, others dilettantish, still others visionary. My own daughter tells me on a regular basis, “Mom, you’re all over the place.” And while that may sometimes be true, she also knows that when I get sucked into something I feel truly passionate about, I get sucked in 100% for as long as it takes. There’s just no pulling me out.

With Time Traveler Tours, I have finally – after more years than I would like to admit – found a way to wed my many interests and passions: history, story, language, education, culture, travel, technology and fun.

More accurately, I have discovered a way to present the connections I see between things in a nicely wrapped package for others' enjoyment.

This is the story of how Time Traveler Tours came to be.

It is also the story of a multi-passionate entrepreneur: Me.

What are you multi-passionate about? Leave your comments below!

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Happy Birthday Image, by Hendrike 16:12, 21 December 2007, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.