Carolina and Fernando left Brazil to spend what was meant to be a one-year sabbatical in Canada. They stayed for thirteen.
During that time, they reinvented the way they worked, became more deeply involved in their children's education, learned to live at a different pace, and made virtual facilitation the focus of their professional lives.
Now, just as life finally seemed to have settled into a comfortable rhythm, they decided to change course once again.
They closed up their home, sold or donated most of what they owned, and moved into a motorhome. In July, they begin a six-month journey across the Americas, travelling from Canada to Brazil with their son Miguel and their two dogs.
More than a trip, this feels like a radical experiment in simplification: discovering what truly fits, what is actually worth carrying, and what kind of rhythm makes sense for the life they want to live.
Our conversation explores letting go, raising children, reinventing work, and a question that feels increasingly relevant: do we really need to be rushing all the time?
Fernando shares how he has replaced the idea of a “work–life balance” with the idea of rhythm. Carolina reflects on the lightness of realizing that everything they need now fits inside a small home on wheels.
Perhaps this is the question their journey leaves with all of us:
What are we still carrying that no longer needs to come with us?
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