Forty Forty Living is a beautifully designed coffee table book, bound in lined, sprinkled with watercolor artwork from Celine Nordenhed and a collection of stories, lived lessons, and unfiltered moments from forty countries — each one revealing something real about confidence, fear, belonging, and what it means to chase a big life goal without apology.
Forty Forty: A Journey To Forty Countries To Discover Forty New Things About Life, began the way most big things do, quietly, right after college, with no plan beyond a plane ticket and a question I couldn’t shake: what else is out there, and who will I become if I go find it?
What started as one trip turned into a lifelong pursuit to forty countries and counting, feeding my curiosity, sense of adventure, and a goal to shake things up when people said to me “…ohhh, I wish I had money and time to do that…” because when I started I didn’t have either, but I had a goal I wanted to accomplish over my life.
Every border crossing taught me something about resilience, belonging, and trust in myself that no job title or comfort zone ever could. This book is that journey: the unfiltered, sometimes messy, always honest story of how travel built my confidence, my sense of purpose, and my relationship with my own life.
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