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After graduating college feeling unfulfilled, Ysabel made a big bold move to launch her masterplan to build the Global Dream Team community, to travel the world, and to inspire others to launch their own dreams.
What started as feeling disatissfied by life, turned into a quest for clarity on how t live a life in alignment with her values. Ysabel birthed her Filipino vegan cooking platform and next a global storytelling brand that fuses her passions for travel, community, and creativity.
Now, she travels the world interviewing people, hosting intimate dinner parties, and sharing powerful, heart-led stories that spark inspiration and foster deep connection across cultures.
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· How solo travel helped Ysabel rediscover her need for grounded community
· The courage it took to create her own job and build her skillset in filming, editing, producing, and personal branding
· The magic of blending passion with purpose to create authentic impact
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
What's up, this is Sarah Mack, and welcome to
Creative Magic Club.
Together, we'll discoverinspirational stories of
creative entrepreneurs livingout their dreams, doing the work
they are most passionate about,and building wealth in magical
and fun ways, while building asix-figure income.
As a writer and coach, helpingother women to launch their
dream businesses, I've connectedwith so many incredible people
(00:34):
and seen it proven again andagain that you can thrive
financially doing whatever it isyou are passionate about.
I am here to sharelife-changing strategies for
mindset, making money andreaching more people with your
work in a business and lifefilled with creativity, freedom
and fun.
Hi, everyone, welcome.
(00:59):
I'm so excited to introduce myspecial guest today.
We have with us Isabel Chavez,who is the founder and creator
of Global Dream Team, a travelYouTube channel that shares
stories around the world toinspire and empower people to
pursue their own dreams andpassions, and she recently
launched a global community fordreamers and doers to come
together to turn their dreamsinto reality.
(01:20):
She's also a content creatorfor Vegan Izzy on TikTokiktok
and instagram, where she sharescontent around living a happy
and healthy life, and shecreates content strategy for
brands, founders and creators.
Hi, isabel, thank you so muchfor joining us hello, thanks so
much for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I'm so excited to be on the pod.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, so I met isabel locally.
She's a local friend now, whichis like super fun and exciting
and she's really inspiring andcreates amazing content.
So I'm so excited for you toget to know her.
So why don't you tell us, like,how did you end up as a content
creator?
What brought you here?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
yeah, oh gosh, it's a .
It's a great story, but, um,yeah, I'll start.
I have been creating contentnow for about four a little over
four years.
I started during COVID.
It was around September of 2020that I got on TikTok and
started my Veganizzy channel.
But before I did that, my firstjob out of college was I worked
(02:18):
at a startup.
It was like a mental healthstartup.
I was like the first employeehire.
It was kind of like a bumblefor therapy, like they match you
with therapists Amazingexperience.
I learned so much, especiallybeing like the first employee
hire and learning how to build abusiness from the ground up.
Definitely a little bitstressful, for sure.
And long story short, afterabout a year I was no longer
(02:42):
working there at the companybecause they're running out of
funding.
But, um, I decided to kind ofjust go all in on my own
projects.
It was kind of basically duringCOVID.
Um, around that time I went backhome up to NorCal in Sacramento
and, you know, with all thisextra free time on my hands and,
I'm sure, a lot of other people, I decided to kind of go to the
drawing board and figure outwhat are the things that I'm
(03:02):
really passionate about and thethings that I wanted to create
and put out there in the world,and it gave me a lot of time to
think and get that clarity.
But, long story short, it wasaround September when I decided
to launch my TikTok andInstagram page, vegan Izzy, and
I just said you know what?
I'm going to go on social andit was the first time really
kind of putting myself out thereand I did some veganized
Filipino recipes and I filmedsome with my mom and it kind of
(03:25):
started to take off.
I experienced like the firsttime, really, of getting some
traction on social and hadopportunities to work with
different brands, especially inthe food space.
I'm a foodie at heart, so thatwas really exciting to just to
get my start and get tractiongoing.
And then, also around that time, I was basically coming up with
(03:45):
this master plan for thisglobal dream team YouTube
channel, which where I wanted tocombine basically the different
elements of things that I waspassionate about, which I was
like reflecting on, which was,like I love traveling, I love
meeting people around the world,I love hearing stories and I
wanted to empower people topursue their own dreams and
passions as well, and I wantedto empower people to pursue
their own dreams and passions aswell, and I wanted to rebuild
(04:07):
kind of this feeling of like acommunity that I felt, like I
all of a sudden like disappearedfrom me after graduating
college, like that first year.
I graduated 2019, I went to UCLAand I was a part of an
entrepreneurship organization.
It was amazing.
It was around a lot of reallyinspiring individuals.
And then, basically that firstyear out of college, I was like
(04:27):
is this what adult life is Like?
I'm waking up, going to work.
It's just like a very weirdphase.
Like that first year, I think alot of people experience
getting slapped, like slapped inthe face of adult life, um.
So yeah, long story short is Iwanted to find a way to connect
with people again, um, that wereinspiring, that inspired me,
and have those conversationswith others, because I found
(04:48):
that that first year out ofcollege, a lot of my friends and
I it was just like complaining.
We were complaining about ourjobs.
We were like unhappy and forsome people, like we almost
accept it as like the reality oflike, okay, this is what
post-grad life is, but Ibasically didn't want to accept
that as my reality.
So I created my own job andlong story short.
(05:08):
I invested in courses, learnedcontent creation, how to film,
how to edit, how to produce, howto work with brands and build
my own business.
So it was officially likeNovember of 2020, where I kind
of started, or December is whenI really started working on it
or had my first videos in theworks that I was filming and
(05:29):
then officially launched thechannel in January of 2021.
That's basically how I got mystart and what I'm doing, and
it's been quite a journey and Icould I could dive deeper, but
yeah, feel free to ask any otherquestions yeah, no, I love that
you mentioned how that firstyear after graduating from
university is really challenging, because I was reflecting on
(05:50):
that.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I mean, you know, I just published my book and it
starts kind of like right afterI graduated.
Because it is such a hard year,because I feel like when you're
in school you have, like yousaid, this built in community.
It's also very structured, it'salso very clear on like how to
win.
You know, it's like if you showup here to all these classes,
if you submit these papers,you're going to get a grade and
(06:11):
you're going to like win at life.
And then suddenly, and you'rekind of you know, a lot of us
are like accumulating debt andwe're like adult later version
of me is going to have to dealwith that debt.
And then you get to graduationand suddenly that like adult
version of you that you've hadbeen kind of like delaying
responsibilities for is here andyou're like, oh damn, now I
(06:31):
have to figure out how to makeit in this very different world.
And because, yeah, my partnerwas in education for a really
long time because he's a doctor,so he literally like just
officially came into like hisfirst year of work like a year
ago.
I have another friend who's beendoing a PhD for a long time and
I just remember it being such ahard year, and I think
(06:53):
transitions in general can bereally challenging, right,
because we don't deal very wellwith not knowing, you know, of
like stepping into the void, nothaving a clear plan, not really
like knowing what we want oreven what's available.
And I think you and I obviouslyboth kind of dealt with that in
a similar way and we took thatas an opportunity to ask, like
(07:18):
well, what do I really want?
What do I really value?
And I think it's such animportant reminder, even if we
haven't just finished school,like whenever we feel like a
transition is coming up on us or, you know, we're kind of ending
a cycle or a season or we're ina completion moment, or we just
want something different, likewe've grown and we want to make
(07:41):
a change, but we maybe don'tnecessarily know exactly what
that is or what that might looklike yet.
And I think the most importanttakeaway from this conversation
that I always have to remindmyself is like step one of
something different is justspace.
It's like really carving outthe time and space to listen to
(08:01):
yourself and to check back in.
And I'm kind of doing that atthe moment, like just checking
back in, because, like you know,I've been doing this work for
years, so I'm like I know whatmy values are, but we
periodically have to check backin and be like are these still
my values, or maybe my valuesare the same, but the way I want
to express them or the way Iwant to prioritize my time and
energy might be a little bitdifferent.
(08:21):
So it's so important to youknow, always build in that time
to reflect and reconnect.
And I think, as you get olderand we have more
responsibilities and you knowwe're running businesses and we
have family and friends and weget busy right and we're trying
to take care of our bodies, itcan feel, you know, there can be
resistance around taking timeto really just get quiet and to
(08:44):
just be with ourselves.
So I love that reminder.
So tell me what happened next,because when did you start
traveling?
Because obviously I mean, didyou travel during the pandemic
or was that after?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah, good question.
Also fully agree with andresonate with the space.
Right, especially during COVIDwe had so much space to kind of
reflect and that's kind of howthis kind of was born, and then
also throughout my travels,which I can touch on it's it
gives me the opportunity to beaway from like LA and all the
hustle and bustle and all theresponsibilities and it gives me
so much space to unlock andreceive more clarity or like
(09:18):
downloads on like what's nextfor me, which spurred like this
new community.
But, yeah, so what happenednext?
So I started it was like 2021,right, I was getting getting in
the beginnings of things, doingsome of my first videos.
In the beginning I was likeinterviewing people as well,
kind of going on adventuresaround LA, doing something with
friends.
I joined like a foundercommunity so I like that really
(09:39):
kicked it off in January of 2021.
I like filmed like seven videosin this.
I was in a house with like 20founders.
And then I did smaller tripslike kind of during this time
frame, because it was COVID.
So I did one in Hawaii, maybelike in the springtime, where
things kind of settled a littlebit.
That was kind of like a bit ofa friend's trip, but then I was
(10:00):
able to film a couple of videosin Hawaii during that time as
well.
And then I did my first kind ofout of the country trip was in
like November of 2021.
I went to Brazil and Costa Ricaand for those trips, even just
like getting my start, I wasremember I was starting in LA
first, you know, because youknow, just getting started
(10:22):
getting things moving along,also like during COVID, right.
But then the first one was outof the country.
In November I started in Brazil.
I had a friend who was justworking remotely there and she
was like come, come over, and sothat was helpful.
I think, even just like gettingthe start.
You know, it's kind of likescary in the beginning, right
Like I.
I remember the beginning.
It's like so much of my brainwas just overwhelmed and just
(10:45):
like it's a lot to step intosomething new.
It's like I want to do thesebig things, like now I've
traveled to 40 countriesaltogether.
But in the beginning, getting mystart, you know, I was really
just like from studying abroadand I did like a post-grad trip.
So I did that trip becausethere was a friend there, and
then I went with my sister.
I convinced my sister to gowith me and then the I filmed a
couple of videos out thereusually like to stack my travels
(11:10):
and then also film multiple.
And then I did a trip to CostaRica and, um, it was my first
time really pitching to like atravel company, because I was
also like on a really tightbudget too Right, and just out
of college and finally just inthis freelance realms, it's like
I didn't have so much money tolike invest in these crazy
travels.
But I found my, I found ways todo it.
So I remember I pitched to likea company the creative idea
that I wanted to go and film forYouTube.
(11:31):
I was going to go and documentthe experience.
I was able to kind of gobasically for free of cost you
know only my time pretty much Um, and then I wanted to film a
video there.
Also, they have this reallycool like airplane hotel in
Costa Rica as well.
So I was like very resourcefulin the beginning with my travels
, but also like knowing this islike a business that I wanted to
(11:51):
start too.
Um, and then from there, thenext big trip that I did um was
in 2022.
I did like two months in Asiaand, um, I started that was like
the summertime, it was like endof like July.
It was like July, end of Juneand I did like a month in Bali.
And then I went over to, um,singapore, malaysia, vietnam and
(12:15):
Korea, so I went to fivedifferent Asian countries.
It was two, two months long.
That was like the big one.
That was, I was 24 years oldand it was super amazing and
transformative and and that waskind of the moment where I still
felt, yeah, young and free, butI was also still like filming
and kind of like hustling.
For sure, that time in Bali wasstill one of my favorites to
(12:36):
this day.
It was like a month there.
I met a lot of travelers and alot of people, digital nomads.
I went on some crazy adventures.
I hiked to like this blue flamevolcano in Indonesia.
That was epic, still one tothis day, one of the most epic
experiences.
And then I met with a friend inSingapore from college, but
(12:57):
this one I did a lot solo andfor some moments some friends
joined me, like for a few weeks,and then kind of had to go back
to work.
But then I just continued on myjourney, but it was also during
, like this seven week mark.
I was like in Vietnam and itwas kind of after traveling to a
lot of different places and Iwas like go, go, go mode.
I feel like I just had so muchenergy during this time,
(13:18):
probably also after COVID andthen just like ready to go and
explore the world, and I kind ofhit like actually a bit of a
breaking point and I was in myroom in like my hotel and I just
like broke down and startedcrying.
There's actually a video on myYouTube channel where it was
like the truth about solotraveling.
(13:39):
Um, but what I realized duringthat moment was how much that I
really valued or really missedlike was like deep connection
and community and I and how muchlike how fun it was to be out
and explore and see all thesebeautiful places and and make a
bunch of new friends all around,and how I felt in that moment
was like as fun as traveling canlook like on the outside, it
can sometimes just uncover, Ithink traveling or just any
(14:01):
moments where you're pushed toyour limits or you're pushed out
of your comfort zone, or evenjust hard moments in life.
That's where you lead to likevery profound breakthroughs.
So basically what it uncoveredfor me was like that, that very
thing, that core value, whichwas how much deep connection was
important to me.
Um, I'm very much a socialcreature.
(14:23):
Social is I'm a social.
I'm always out meeting people.
But what I love is like I wantto hear people's stories, the
hard parts, the the good parts.
I want to know, like yourquirks, and that's kind of what
I missed was that feeling wherethe friends that know me, the
silly Isabel, the little funnymoments, and I craved that, and
I think sometimes we take it forgranted if we're in like our
(14:44):
hometown and we have that allaround us.
So that was the big thing thatI realized.
And, yeah, community, howimportant it is and how much I
wanted to continue to likeactually nurture that or create
that for myself.
Um, but, yeah, continued on fromthere and and that gave me
clarity for, like, my nexttravel stint that I did after
(15:05):
that, which was, um, in 2023, Idid like seven weeks around
Europe.
I did, um, yeah, it was sevencountries.
Maybe it was like I started inGreece and then I went over to
like Belgium, netherlands,denmark, london, scotland,
ireland, and that one was when Ireally was like, okay, I've
done the solo travel thing.
(15:26):
I want to like, re, like,refocus why I started the
channel which, which is aroundpeople, and so all of the
stories and what's live on myYouTube channel right now is
around.
I really took the time duringthat pre-production phase to
find people I wanted to connectwith.
I reached out to them, hoppedon Zoom calls, figured out what
(15:47):
was the stories that I wanted totell, and then I went and I met
up with all sorts of people inEurope and filmed and now
they're live on my channel.
So that's that phase.
And then I did a trip to theNordics last year in September,
which was inspiration for thenew community that I'm starting.
But yeah, you can also I'll stopthere if you have any questions
(16:09):
.
But that's kind of like how thetraveling has gone up until
this point.
It's like a blend of now, um,travel stints, and then I come
back to LA and and I'm in likemy work mode, I'm editing, I'm,
um, you know, working on othersides of the business, but I
found that that's like whatworks best for me, cause I used
to actually think maybe I wantedto be a full-time traveler and
what I realized was actuallylike no, I don't, like I really
(16:32):
value coming back to LA.
Having my friends going toevents Like this is what I love.
This is Isabel, and maybefull-time works for other people
, but I think what's mostimportant, what I've learned is,
like understanding myself, whoI am personally, what I care
about, what are my values, andcreating a business and a life
that, like, isn't full alignmentwith that.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
So, yeah, I love that and it's just such an inspiring
story of how you've been likewhat do I love in life?
And I'm just going to build abusiness that fully allows me to
do exactly what I love.
And, yeah, I really resonatewith a lot of what you shared,
because I was the same.
I just wanted to travel andthat's kind of what drew me to
(17:11):
entrepreneurship and, um, yeah,and I traveled a lot and partly
that was also because I was likein the middle of emigrating and
you know, I'd been living inCanada on a visa and then my
visa ran out and then I, my, mypartner, was in the US, but I
didn't have a visa there, so Iwas literally just like bumbling
around, you know, and wasn'treally like living anywhere.
(17:34):
So there was definitely a lotof other factors that influenced
my, my movement choices, but Ihad a similar, you know,
realization.
I got to a point where I waslike you know what I'm actually
kind of exhausted of like,because I had my whole life's
possessions like with with meand I was like dragging around
the world with me.
I had like a, you know, astorage locker in Vancouver for
(17:56):
a while and I was like, oh, Ijust really want to have a home
that I can like have all of mythings and then like go on a
trip and then come back and and.
But I think it it's so valuable.
That's one of the, to me, themost valuable things about
traveling is it's literally atime portal into a different
time and space, and so it doesmake it really easy to redefine
(18:18):
your identity, like when youremove everybody and everything
that kind of has you know, knowsyou, and reflects back to you
who you've been up until thatpoint, back to you who you've
been up until that point.
When you take away all of that,I find it so much easier to
just reinvent yourself and tostep into a new version or like
build a new habit.
(18:38):
And that's definitely one of myfavorite things about traveling
and just meeting people who areso different from you that you
know it kind of.
I think that people pleaserytendency that we have when we're
around people who are like uswhere we don't want to, like
we're trying not to be theobvious black sheep, you know,
and we like mask to try and likenot upset people or to, you
(19:01):
know, not trigger people, andwhen you're just surrounded by
people who are completelydifferent from who you are.
You don't have those referencepoints, and so it kind of just
you're like, oh well, I'll,might as well just be who I am
because I don't have thosereference points, and so it kind
of just you're like, oh well,I'll, I might as well just be
who I am, because I don't reallyknow who else to be in this
moment.
So it is so liberating in thatsense and, yeah, I have so many
(19:22):
questions, but I love how you,you know you've been able to
reflect and adapt and be like,oh, I want a bit more of this
and I want a little bit less ofthis.
And really, you know, use yourcreativity in your business to
redefine your projects and theway that you do things so that
it is feeding you and nurturingyou and keeping you inspired and
(19:42):
and really feeding you because,yeah, I think, like it, it's
intense.
You know to suddenly make yourwhole life about traveling and
you know, even like filmproduction, like it's intense.
You know to suddenly make yourwhole life about traveling and
you know, even like filmproduction, like it's a lot of
work.
I'm curious if you would likeever want to make a movie or
like a documentary greatquestion.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Um, I felt this way when I was in Iceland.
Actually, so honestly maybe,and you know, like um, you just
get inspired when you're in newplaces and when I was out there
and I was like filming and I was, I was with a couple of friends
and I had my camera the wholetime.
Um, and in these really, reallycool locations like there's one
spot where it's like there orsomething like that I had my
(20:24):
drone, I was filming an overshotand it just felt like Mars and
I was like this is so cool, likeI could just see myself making
a movie.
My mom has told me same thingtoo.
She's like I could see you aslike a director or whatever and,
honestly, it could totallyhappen.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I it's very possible in my future that I would do
that, yeah right, I feel likeyou know you're like
interviewing all theseinteresting people, like a story
might just emerge that you'relike I have to tell this story.
Or I'm curious like what, whatreally stands out to you in
terms of, like the videos thatyou've made, the people that
you've interviewed, like whatare some of those like standout
stories that really stick inyour mind?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Yeah, um, I think some of the recent ones that
I've done in the Nordics werereally inspiring because it also
spurred the creation of thiscommunity that I wanted to build
, but those aren't out yet.
But basically, two of myfavorites so far was one I did,
like this dinner party in Sweden.
It was, like you know, throwinga Swedish dinner party in
(21:23):
Stockholm, and so I went around.
I wanted to really focus onpeople in connection for this
video.
Um, there are some other videosI do where it's like more
focused on like one person andtheir story, which is also
awesome.
I can touch on that one toothat I loved, um, but this one
specifically, like, I wentaround Stockholm and I was like
hey, do you want to join thisdinner party that I'm hosting?
Um, I was able to get 10 peopleor eight people together.
(21:45):
A few of them were some peoplethat I had already connected
with and they kind of brought afriend.
But it was very intimate and Ihad like a chef come and make
this beautiful meal and wegathered around the table and we
talked about dreams and thethings that held people back,
like those limiting beliefs, andwent around each person around
the table, like sharing, andthen everyone went around and
(22:07):
like broke down those beliefsfor each other and those limits
and it was so empowering and soinspiring and and people left
telling me like Isabel, what youdid was amazing.
I got like a voice memo fromone of the girls and she said,
yeah, basically was like Isabel,this was so incredible, the
space that you had created, andI had like goosebumps after that
(22:29):
that day, that evening, and itwas so special because you know,
we're very lucky.
I think even just living in LA,there's like so many you know
so many events, so many thingsthat we can connect and whatnot.
But even just seeing it in likea country or a city where maybe
it's not so often like theydon't get to experience it as
often, I really felt like howmuch of an impact that that
evening was.
(22:49):
It was just a two hour eveningand it was just.
It was so cool to see thattransformation.
So that was amazing.
It's not out yet, it'll bereleased soon.
Another one that I that I reallyloved was I did was also in
Sweden.
Sweden was just a really greatexperience.
I did a video where I was likeliving in the Swedish
countryside with this dreamerlady.
(23:10):
She's like an artist and Ispent like two to three days at
her.
They have these like red iconichouses in Sweden, basically.
So it's like I want to do avideo at a place in the
countryside.
So I found a lady and shehosted me for a couple of days.
Like I got to experience whatit was like and make dinner.
We went out, we went likeforaging, because in the Nordics
(23:31):
it's like a big thing you justgo out and like you forage and
then also got to sit down withher and ask her her story and I
did an interview with her.
It was such a like special,special moment to connect and I
feel like we really were able toconnect deeply about like the
highs and lows of just life too,and also just also being like a
dreamer on a completelydifferent side of the world, in
(23:52):
a different country and and thedifferences you know it's
there's always like um culturaldifferences too.
It's like they really love likeslow living and um in Sweden
and the Nordics and it was sobeautiful to like experience
that lifestyle versus like thehustle and bustle here in the U?
S and just like so to get thatthe, the, the polarity was cool
(24:14):
to experience and then to comeback and be able to reflect.
Yeah, I loved that one and thenthe other one that I would say
was probably pretty inspiringand impactful that also spurred
the creation of the communitywas I did like a road trip
across Norway with strangers, soI brought like it ended up
being like a group of like threeguys and then me and then who
(24:34):
ended up joining, but it wassuper fun.
And one of the guys he was fromDubai and he was going to stay
in Oslo.
He didn't realize, I think,that the rest of Norway was like
this beautiful nature,landscapes and incredible like
that.
He was just in the city and Iwas like, come on this road trip
, come.
And then he came and then, youknow, he's looking around at all
(24:56):
the beauty and we took a momentoutside of the car and we like
sat up on you know some rocks.
He was like about to cry tearsof joy.
Basically, he's like lookingaround and he was like, wow,
this is so beautiful, like inDubai it's all desert and like
I've never seen or experiencedeven like the rain like this,
like they have like fake or likewhatever, like clouds.
(25:17):
So yeah, those are some of thesome of the videos that I think
were really really awesome.
It was like very much in theconnecting with people and I
felt those were moments where Ireally connected with others and
their respective stories and itwas beautiful and really
exciting.
So, yeah, it was awesome soamazing.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Uh, have you looked much into astro cartography?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
no, I haven't.
Maybe a little bit, a littlebit, yeah, yeah, I'm curious.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Like I feel like people who travel a lot, you
know would be fun to like learnabout what specifically is
resonant for you in thesedifferent places.
I I interviewed two astrocartographers on the podcast.
So you should definitely go andcheck them out and like maybe
book a reading and, because youknow, with like um, with
transits too.
So I one of the um, one of theastro cartographers I
(26:08):
interviewed was saying how sheshe's a digital nomad, yeah, and
she was following her jupitertransit around the world.
Because she was just likemaking really good money and
like having loads of ease.
I'm like, if you have thefreedom and the lifestyle to
just be traveling wherever,whenever, like why not use the
(26:29):
stars to make sure you're gonnahave a good time when you go
there, you know?
Speaker 2 (26:33):
true?
Yeah, I want to look at thatmore.
Actually, I think there waslike there is some website where
it's like shows like where howyou'll be affected in each like
place.
I have looked in into that.
But yeah, I'd be curiousbecause when I was in the Nordic
, there was like so much nature,right, so I felt so grounded
and I just felt so good, so Ithink that's why I loved it.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Yeah yeah, and apparently it's worth looking
into parent lines, which issomething that not a lot of
people know.
That like will you know it doesinfluence a shift based off of
just the lines that I guess themost of the maths show.
So look into that.
It's my, I can feel it.
Astro cartography is going tobe my next obsession, and
(27:15):
astrology, but I have a fewother things to learn before I,
before I dive more into that one.
Um, okay, I had anotherquestion.
Oh, so talk to me a little bitabout your process as a content
creator.
So let's say, you're planning abig trip, do you try and batch
some content to go out whileyou're traveling, or are you
(27:37):
really like creating I'm talkingmainly about like social media
content and kind of like keepingup with your social presence or
is that something that you'rereally just like creating on the
fly, day to day, as you go?
Like, how do you manage that?
Because, obviously, theselonger videos they it's a lot
more production, a lot moreediting, a lot more you know
shooting.
(27:57):
So, yeah, talk to me about howyou navigate your flow with
keeping consistent with youronline brand and social media
presence.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Yeah, that's a great question.
It is definitely like a lot tomanage because I have the
YouTube videos, which are a lotto produce Anywhere from like 20
to 30 to 40 hours to edit onevideo.
And then there's also like thepre-production phase and then
also like keeping up with theVegan Izzy channel, like over
the past four years.
I would say for me, I think I'mnot like the super, super crazy
(28:32):
consistent where I'm like, yes,I'm posting, making sure.
I think I found I've tried thatin the past, like with my Vegan
Izzy, there were moments whereI like really grinded the first
couple of years and I was likeposting a lot and then I got a
little bit burnt out.
Yeah, it's not good to get burntout.
There's ways to do thingssustainably, but unfortunately I
did get burnt out and then itkind of like I needed to start
posting a lot less.
(28:52):
I just took a little bit of abreak and just like focus a
little bit more on myself.
So yeah, long story short, formy YouTube stuff I do kind of
have a process, though I like,before I go on a big trip now,
what I do is like say, I foundthat six weeks is like the
perfect sweet spot for me to go.
It's a little bit longer, I'mgetting a little tired because
I'm pretty much on filming andtravel mode.
So six weeks is my sweet spot,and when I'm in LA before a trip
(29:16):
, I'm preparing, I'm planning,I'm, I'm figuring out the exact
videos that I want to film.
Um, and like, I do some mindmapping.
I don't know if you do, youknow what my mapping is.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
um like is it with a specific software or is it just
kind of like on a notepad, juston a, not on a notepad?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
okay, it's like brainstorming creative, yeah,
creative brainstorming.
I learned this method from likeanother big travel youtuber, and
so it's kind of like likeNorway I put in the middle and
then I'll put like things that Ithink about Norway when I think
about it.
So it's like I think fjords, Ithink might think a road trip, I
might think you know theVikings, and then eventually
(29:54):
come up with creative videoideas that way.
And then that was my process.
I like wrote out a bunch.
I'm like researching a lotabout the countries too.
So then I like have the, thebackground, kind of like
absorbing just a lot ofinformation and knowledge, and
then from there it's like then Ican kind of like come up with
the ideas.
And then I pair those also withlike some YouTube research, so
(30:15):
like I see like what's workingon social media, just like
analyzing the space, and alsothere's like a whole world of
like you know, titling is superimportant for YouTube especially
, so it's like have to doresearch there and what I think
would actually hit or work orkind of work with the platform.
Yeah, and then I kind ofnarrowed down and then I choose,
(30:37):
I pick and choose.
So like for the Nordics one, itwas like eight videos.
I also created like decks formyself so I could see visually
like I wanted the story to golight storyboarding, but more so
what I would call.
It is like I just photos andthings that I get me like feel
more like what's to come andkind of get a vibe for what I'm
going to go and film.
(30:58):
And then I will create likeoutlines, even for the videos.
To some will be like a littlemore casual, but for now that
I'm like more like establishedand like been doing this for a
few years, um, like want to bemore organized, so like create
outlines and then, yeah, whenI'm it's a lot of pre-planning
and then, once I'm ready, I gofor six weeks.
I'm filming the entire time.
(31:19):
I'm really not thinking aboutmuch else.
I'm not really working on anyother things, like maybe it's
like responding to emails orhere and there, but I really try
to make it that like I'm notreally working on other stuff
because my mind is fully ontravel mode.
I'm like I'm thinking like Ihave to like film.
I'm charging my batteries, I'mlike having to like put my SD
cards in, like make sure thatfootage is getting transferred
(31:41):
over.
So, yeah, I go and film for sixweeks.
It's pretty like every singleday I'm like filming something,
maybe like here and there.
I tell them I now know to likegive myself like a day to chill
or like not do stuff, becauseit's pretty intensive.
And then, yeah, I come back andI have like eight plus videos to
come and like edit throughoutthe next however many months
(32:02):
that's going to last me.
There was one trip which islike way too much.
I did like the seven weeks inEurope and I filmed like 18
different YouTube videos andthat was like a lot and that's
why I still have so much.
But that's not necessary, Ithink.
Now I just want to be like moremindful of like exactly what
I'm going to film.
Yeah, sometimes I'm likepitching to brands to before.
(32:25):
If I want to like work withsome companies like in Iceland I
was able to work with a campervan company so I like pitch the
idea to them beforehand.
So, yeah, find ways to like beresourceful or cut costs as much
as possible, because it's likea lot to produce these videos,
yeah.
And then I come back and I I'mjust, yeah, editing and whatnot,
(32:46):
and when I have that time I canlike release a little bit more
consistently.
But yeah, I mean I will admitit's definitely a lot to balance
everything.
So I'm kind of taking a littlebit of a break.
It feels like I haven't postedin a while for YouTube but since
I launched like my new business, I'm like 90% of my time is
going towards that with any newthing.
(33:06):
But I've also just like I'm okaywith like accepting certain
seasons or like where I'm atwith things, where it's like I'd
love to post.
But in my brain it's like Ineed to prioritize like what's
important to like.
If my business is going to,this new launch will like bring
in some new income, theneventually what I'd like to do
is just like hire like a roughcut editor more consistently,
(33:28):
and so my time spent likeediting right now isn't the best
use of my time.
So I'm taking a little bit of abreak, but I want to get back
into it, hopefully in in Marchand get the next video out,
because I have a lot, a lot topost and whatnot.
But I think it's just like I'massessing what works best for me
and prioritizing yeah, and andknowing that I don't have to
(33:53):
push myself or do things or likepost when it, when it feels
right, yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Yeah, thank you so much for sharing your process
with us.
I I think it's so interestingand I love how you really allow
yourself to just like go superdeep into your whatever your
creative project is that you'reworking on at the moment um and
that you know you've been ableto launch so many really
interesting and different umprojects as a as an online
creator, so obviously I couldtalk to you about this all day.
(34:21):
I think you're so inspiring andall of your businesses are
super interesting and um.
Yeah, so why don't you telleveryone who's listening, who
wants to learn more about yourwork and get into your world,
like, what have you got going onand where can people find you?
Speaker 2 (34:36):
yeah, of course um, if you want to follow me on
instagram at isabel chav, I posta lot there.
I post a lot of behind thescenes, a lot of behind the
scenes, a lot of updates.
My YouTube channel is calledGlobal Dream Team three spaces
and then I launched my globalcommunity, which is like
(34:57):
wwwglobaldreamteamco not comco,and if you're interested in
being involved with that, that'slike a whole community space.
There's like an online platformwhere people around the world
can join people that arepursuing their dreams.
Um, I'm doing different travelexperiences, retreats, dinner
parties, co-living Um, it can bea part of that.
And there's also like areas forprofessional go out.
(35:19):
So I'm getting cool speakers tojoin different workshops.
Um, mastermind that I'm hosting, hosting accountability pods,
so it's really like the full.
You know if you're ready to goand have fun too along the way,
and these different experiences,and that's an amazing community
that you can join and be a partof.
So, yeah, I would say those arethe the three areas you can
kind of be up to date with mevegan Izzy on Instagram and
(35:41):
TikTok that's vegan.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
And then YZZY, I post healthy living and lifestyle
content there as well amazingand definitely, definitely, get
in her world if you have bigdreams and you want to turn them
into your reality and have somuch fun doing it.
So please share this episodewith anyone who you know who
would love it, and please leaveus a review and thank you so
(36:05):
much for being here and we'llsee you next week.
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What's up, this is Sarah Mack, and welcome to
Creative Magic Club.
Together, we'll discoverinspirational stories of
creative entrepreneurs livingout their dreams, doing the work
they are most passionate about,and building wealth in magical
and fun ways, while building asix-figure income.
As a writer and coach, helpingother women to launch their
dream businesses, I've connectedwith so many incredible people
(00:34):
and seen it proven again andagain that you can thrive
financially doing whatever it isyou are passionate about.
I am here to sharelife-changing strategies for
mindset, making money andreaching more people with your
work in a business and lifefilled with creativity, freedom
and fun.
Hi, everyone, welcome.
(00:59):
I'm so excited to introduce myspecial guest today.
We have with us Isabel Chavez,who is the founder and creator
of Global Dream Team, a travelYouTube channel that shares
stories around the world toinspire and empower people to
pursue their own dreams andpassions, and she recently
launched a global community fordreamers and doers to come
together to turn their dreamsinto reality.
(01:20):
She's also a content creatorfor Vegan Izzy on TikTokiktok
and instagram, where she sharescontent around living a happy
and healthy life, and shecreates content strategy for
brands, founders and creators.
Hi, isabel, thank you so muchfor joining us hello, thanks so
much for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I'm so excited to be on the pod.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, so I met isabel locally.
She's a local friend now, whichis like super fun and exciting
and she's really inspiring andcreates amazing content.
So I'm so excited for you toget to know her.
So why don't you tell us, like,how did you end up as a content
creator?
What brought you here?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
yeah, oh gosh, it's a .
It's a great story, but, um,yeah, I'll start.
I have been creating contentnow for about four a little over
four years.
I started during COVID.
It was around September of 2020that I got on TikTok and
started my Veganizzy channel.
But before I did that, my firstjob out of college was I worked
(02:18):
at a startup.
It was like a mental healthstartup.
I was like the first employeehire.
It was kind of like a bumblefor therapy, like they match you
with therapists Amazingexperience.
I learned so much, especiallybeing like the first employee
hire and learning how to build abusiness from the ground up.
Definitely a little bitstressful, for sure.
And long story short, afterabout a year I was no longer
(02:42):
working there at the companybecause they're running out of
funding.
But, um, I decided to kind ofjust go all in on my own
projects.
It was kind of basically duringCOVID.
Um, around that time I went backhome up to NorCal in Sacramento
and, you know, with all thisextra free time on my hands and,
I'm sure, a lot of other people, I decided to kind of go to the
drawing board and figure outwhat are the things that I'm
(03:02):
really passionate about and thethings that I wanted to create
and put out there in the world,and it gave me a lot of time to
think and get that clarity.
But, long story short, it wasaround September when I decided
to launch my TikTok andInstagram page, vegan Izzy, and
I just said you know what?
I'm going to go on social andit was the first time really
kind of putting myself out thereand I did some veganized
Filipino recipes and I filmedsome with my mom and it kind of
(03:25):
started to take off.
I experienced like the firsttime, really, of getting some
traction on social and hadopportunities to work with
different brands, especially inthe food space.
I'm a foodie at heart, so thatwas really exciting to just to
get my start and get tractiongoing.
And then, also around that time, I was basically coming up with
(03:45):
this master plan for thisglobal dream team YouTube
channel, which where I wanted tocombine basically the different
elements of things that I waspassionate about, which I was
like reflecting on, which was,like I love traveling, I love
meeting people around the world,I love hearing stories and I
wanted to empower people topursue their own dreams and
passions as well, and I wantedto empower people to pursue
their own dreams and passions aswell, and I wanted to rebuild
(04:07):
kind of this feeling of like acommunity that I felt, like I
all of a sudden like disappearedfrom me after graduating
college, like that first year.
I graduated 2019, I went to UCLAand I was a part of an
entrepreneurship organization.
It was amazing.
It was around a lot of reallyinspiring individuals.
And then, basically that firstyear out of college, I was like
(04:27):
is this what adult life is Like?
I'm waking up, going to work.
It's just like a very weirdphase.
Like that first year, I think alot of people experience
getting slapped, like slapped inthe face of adult life, um.
So yeah, long story short is Iwanted to find a way to connect
with people again, um, that wereinspiring, that inspired me,
and have those conversationswith others, because I found
(04:48):
that that first year out ofcollege, a lot of my friends and
I it was just like complaining.
We were complaining about ourjobs.
We were like unhappy and forsome people, like we almost
accept it as like the reality oflike, okay, this is what
post-grad life is, but Ibasically didn't want to accept
that as my reality.
So I created my own job andlong story short.
(05:08):
I invested in courses, learnedcontent creation, how to film,
how to edit, how to produce, howto work with brands and build
my own business.
So it was officially likeNovember of 2020, where I kind
of started, or December is whenI really started working on it
or had my first videos in theworks that I was filming and
(05:29):
then officially launched thechannel in January of 2021.
That's basically how I got mystart and what I'm doing, and
it's been quite a journey and Icould I could dive deeper, but
yeah, feel free to ask any otherquestions yeah, no, I love that
you mentioned how that firstyear after graduating from
university is really challenging, because I was reflecting on
(05:50):
that.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I mean, you know, I just published my book and it
starts kind of like right afterI graduated.
Because it is such a hard year,because I feel like when you're
in school you have, like yousaid, this built in community.
It's also very structured, it'salso very clear on like how to
win.
You know, it's like if you showup here to all these classes,
if you submit these papers,you're going to get a grade and
(06:11):
you're going to like win at life.
And then suddenly, and you'rekind of you know, a lot of us
are like accumulating debt andwe're like adult later version
of me is going to have to dealwith that debt.
And then you get to graduationand suddenly that like adult
version of you that you've hadbeen kind of like delaying
responsibilities for is here andyou're like, oh damn, now I
(06:31):
have to figure out how to makeit in this very different world.
And because, yeah, my partnerwas in education for a really
long time because he's a doctor,so he literally like just
officially came into like hisfirst year of work like a year
ago.
I have another friend who's beendoing a PhD for a long time and
I just remember it being such ahard year, and I think
(06:53):
transitions in general can bereally challenging, right,
because we don't deal very wellwith not knowing, you know, of
like stepping into the void, nothaving a clear plan, not really
like knowing what we want oreven what's available.
And I think you and I obviouslyboth kind of dealt with that in
a similar way and we took thatas an opportunity to ask, like
(07:18):
well, what do I really want?
What do I really value?
And I think it's such animportant reminder, even if we
haven't just finished school,like whenever we feel like a
transition is coming up on us or, you know, we're kind of ending
a cycle or a season or we're ina completion moment, or we just
want something different, likewe've grown and we want to make
(07:41):
a change, but we maybe don'tnecessarily know exactly what
that is or what that might looklike yet.
And I think the most importanttakeaway from this conversation
that I always have to remindmyself is like step one of
something different is justspace.
It's like really carving outthe time and space to listen to
(08:01):
yourself and to check back in.
And I'm kind of doing that atthe moment, like just checking
back in, because, like you know,I've been doing this work for
years, so I'm like I know whatmy values are, but we
periodically have to check backin and be like are these still
my values, or maybe my valuesare the same, but the way I want
to express them or the way Iwant to prioritize my time and
energy might be a little bitdifferent.
(08:21):
So it's so important to youknow, always build in that time
to reflect and reconnect.
And I think, as you get olderand we have more
responsibilities and you knowwe're running businesses and we
have family and friends and weget busy right and we're trying
to take care of our bodies, itcan feel, you know, there can be
resistance around taking timeto really just get quiet and to
(08:44):
just be with ourselves.
So I love that reminder.
So tell me what happened next,because when did you start
traveling?
Because obviously I mean, didyou travel during the pandemic
or was that after?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah, good question.
Also fully agree with andresonate with the space.
Right, especially during COVIDwe had so much space to kind of
reflect and that's kind of howthis kind of was born, and then
also throughout my travels,which I can touch on it's it
gives me the opportunity to beaway from like LA and all the
hustle and bustle and all theresponsibilities and it gives me
so much space to unlock andreceive more clarity or like
(09:18):
downloads on like what's nextfor me, which spurred like this
new community.
But, yeah, so what happenednext?
So I started it was like 2021,right, I was getting getting in
the beginnings of things, doingsome of my first videos.
In the beginning I was likeinterviewing people as well,
kind of going on adventuresaround LA, doing something with
friends.
I joined like a foundercommunity so I like that really
(09:39):
kicked it off in January of 2021.
I like filmed like seven videosin this.
I was in a house with like 20founders.
And then I did smaller tripslike kind of during this time
frame, because it was COVID.
So I did one in Hawaii, maybelike in the springtime, where
things kind of settled a littlebit.
That was kind of like a bit ofa friend's trip, but then I was
(10:00):
able to film a couple of videosin Hawaii during that time as
well.
And then I did my first kind ofout of the country trip was in
like November of 2021.
I went to Brazil and Costa Ricaand for those trips, even just
like getting my start, I wasremember I was starting in LA
first, you know, because youknow, just getting started
(10:22):
getting things moving along,also like during COVID, right.
But then the first one was outof the country.
In November I started in Brazil.
I had a friend who was justworking remotely there and she
was like come, come over, and sothat was helpful.
I think, even just like gettingthe start.
You know, it's kind of likescary in the beginning, right
Like I.
I remember the beginning.
It's like so much of my brainwas just overwhelmed and just
(10:45):
like it's a lot to step intosomething new.
It's like I want to do thesebig things, like now I've
traveled to 40 countriesaltogether.
But in the beginning, getting mystart, you know, I was really
just like from studying abroadand I did like a post-grad trip.
So I did that trip becausethere was a friend there, and
then I went with my sister.
I convinced my sister to gowith me and then the I filmed a
couple of videos out thereusually like to stack my travels
(11:10):
and then also film multiple.
And then I did a trip to CostaRica and, um, it was my first
time really pitching to like atravel company, because I was
also like on a really tightbudget too Right, and just out
of college and finally just inthis freelance realms, it's like
I didn't have so much money tolike invest in these crazy
travels.
But I found my, I found ways todo it.
So I remember I pitched to likea company the creative idea
that I wanted to go and film forYouTube.
(11:31):
I was going to go and documentthe experience.
I was able to kind of gobasically for free of cost you
know only my time pretty much Um, and then I wanted to film a
video there.
Also, they have this reallycool like airplane hotel in
Costa Rica as well.
So I was like very resourcefulin the beginning with my travels
, but also like knowing this islike a business that I wanted to
(11:51):
start too.
Um, and then from there, thenext big trip that I did um was
in 2022.
I did like two months in Asiaand, um, I started that was like
the summertime, it was like endof like July.
It was like July, end of Juneand I did like a month in Bali.
And then I went over to, um,singapore, malaysia, vietnam and
(12:15):
Korea, so I went to fivedifferent Asian countries.
It was two, two months long.
That was like the big one.
That was, I was 24 years oldand it was super amazing and
transformative and and that waskind of the moment where I still
felt, yeah, young and free, butI was also still like filming
and kind of like hustling.
For sure, that time in Bali wasstill one of my favorites to
(12:36):
this day.
It was like a month there.
I met a lot of travelers and alot of people, digital nomads.
I went on some crazy adventures.
I hiked to like this blue flamevolcano in Indonesia.
That was epic, still one tothis day, one of the most epic
experiences.
And then I met with a friend inSingapore from college, but
(12:57):
this one I did a lot solo andfor some moments some friends
joined me, like for a few weeks,and then kind of had to go back
to work.
But then I just continued on myjourney, but it was also during
, like this seven week mark.
I was like in Vietnam and itwas kind of after traveling to a
lot of different places and Iwas like go, go, go mode.
I feel like I just had so muchenergy during this time,
(13:18):
probably also after COVID andthen just like ready to go and
explore the world, and I kind ofhit like actually a bit of a
breaking point and I was in myroom in like my hotel and I just
like broke down and startedcrying.
There's actually a video on myYouTube channel where it was
like the truth about solotraveling.
(13:39):
Um, but what I realized duringthat moment was how much that I
really valued or really missedlike was like deep connection
and community and I and how muchlike how fun it was to be out
and explore and see all thesebeautiful places and and make a
bunch of new friends all around,and how I felt in that moment
was like as fun as traveling canlook like on the outside, it
can sometimes just uncover, Ithink traveling or just any
(14:01):
moments where you're pushed toyour limits or you're pushed out
of your comfort zone, or evenjust hard moments in life.
That's where you lead to likevery profound breakthroughs.
So basically what it uncoveredfor me was like that, that very
thing, that core value, whichwas how much deep connection was
important to me.
Um, I'm very much a socialcreature.
(14:23):
Social is I'm a social.
I'm always out meeting people.
But what I love is like I wantto hear people's stories, the
hard parts, the the good parts.
I want to know, like yourquirks, and that's kind of what
I missed was that feeling wherethe friends that know me, the
silly Isabel, the little funnymoments, and I craved that, and
I think sometimes we take it forgranted if we're in like our
(14:44):
hometown and we have that allaround us.
So that was the big thing thatI realized.
And, yeah, community, howimportant it is and how much I
wanted to continue to likeactually nurture that or create
that for myself.
Um, but, yeah, continued on fromthere and and that gave me
clarity for, like, my nexttravel stint that I did after
(15:05):
that, which was, um, in 2023, Idid like seven weeks around
Europe.
I did, um, yeah, it was sevencountries.
Maybe it was like I started inGreece and then I went over to
like Belgium, netherlands,denmark, london, scotland,
ireland, and that one was when Ireally was like, okay, I've
done the solo travel thing.
(15:26):
I want to like, re, like,refocus why I started the
channel which, which is aroundpeople, and so all of the
stories and what's live on myYouTube channel right now is
around.
I really took the time duringthat pre-production phase to
find people I wanted to connectwith.
I reached out to them, hoppedon Zoom calls, figured out what
(15:47):
was the stories that I wanted totell, and then I went and I met
up with all sorts of people inEurope and filmed and now
they're live on my channel.
So that's that phase.
And then I did a trip to theNordics last year in September,
which was inspiration for thenew community that I'm starting.
But yeah, you can also I'll stopthere if you have any questions
(16:09):
.
But that's kind of like how thetraveling has gone up until
this point.
It's like a blend of now, um,travel stints, and then I come
back to LA and and I'm in likemy work mode, I'm editing, I'm,
um, you know, working on othersides of the business, but I
found that that's like whatworks best for me, cause I used
to actually think maybe I wantedto be a full-time traveler and
what I realized was actuallylike no, I don't, like I really
(16:32):
value coming back to LA.
Having my friends going toevents Like this is what I love.
This is Isabel, and maybefull-time works for other people
, but I think what's mostimportant, what I've learned is,
like understanding myself, whoI am personally, what I care
about, what are my values, andcreating a business and a life
that, like, isn't full alignmentwith that.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
So, yeah, I love that and it's just such an inspiring
story of how you've been likewhat do I love in life?
And I'm just going to build abusiness that fully allows me to
do exactly what I love.
And, yeah, I really resonatewith a lot of what you shared,
because I was the same.
I just wanted to travel andthat's kind of what drew me to
(17:11):
entrepreneurship and, um, yeah,and I traveled a lot and partly
that was also because I was likein the middle of emigrating and
you know, I'd been living inCanada on a visa and then my
visa ran out and then I, my, mypartner, was in the US, but I
didn't have a visa there, so Iwas literally just like bumbling
around, you know, and wasn'treally like living anywhere.
(17:34):
So there was definitely a lotof other factors that influenced
my, my movement choices, but Ihad a similar, you know,
realization.
I got to a point where I waslike you know what I'm actually
kind of exhausted of like,because I had my whole life's
possessions like with with meand I was like dragging around
the world with me.
I had like a, you know, astorage locker in Vancouver for
(17:56):
a while and I was like, oh, Ijust really want to have a home
that I can like have all of mythings and then like go on a
trip and then come back and and.
But I think it it's so valuable.
That's one of the, to me, themost valuable things about
traveling is it's literally atime portal into a different
time and space, and so it doesmake it really easy to redefine
(18:18):
your identity, like when youremove everybody and everything
that kind of has you know, knowsyou, and reflects back to you
who you've been up until thatpoint, back to you who you've
been up until that point.
When you take away all of that,I find it so much easier to
just reinvent yourself and tostep into a new version or like
build a new habit.
(18:38):
And that's definitely one of myfavorite things about traveling
and just meeting people who areso different from you that you
know it kind of.
I think that people pleaserytendency that we have when we're
around people who are like uswhere we don't want to, like
we're trying not to be theobvious black sheep, you know,
and we like mask to try and likenot upset people or to, you
(19:01):
know, not trigger people, andwhen you're just surrounded by
people who are completelydifferent from who you are.
You don't have those referencepoints, and so it kind of just
you're like, oh well, I'll,might as well just be who I am
because I don't have thosereference points, and so it kind
of just you're like, oh well,I'll, I might as well just be
who I am, because I don't reallyknow who else to be in this
moment.
So it is so liberating in thatsense and, yeah, I have so many
(19:22):
questions, but I love how you,you know you've been able to
reflect and adapt and be like,oh, I want a bit more of this
and I want a little bit less ofthis.
And really, you know, use yourcreativity in your business to
redefine your projects and theway that you do things so that
it is feeding you and nurturingyou and keeping you inspired and
(19:42):
and really feeding you because,yeah, I think, like it, it's
intense.
You know to suddenly make yourwhole life about traveling and
you know, even like filmproduction, like it's intense.
You know to suddenly make yourwhole life about traveling and
you know, even like filmproduction, like it's a lot of
work.
I'm curious if you would likeever want to make a movie or
like a documentary greatquestion.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Um, I felt this way when I was in Iceland.
Actually, so honestly maybe,and you know, like um, you just
get inspired when you're in newplaces and when I was out there
and I was like filming and I was, I was with a couple of friends
and I had my camera the wholetime.
Um, and in these really, reallycool locations like there's one
spot where it's like there orsomething like that I had my
(20:24):
drone, I was filming an overshotand it just felt like Mars and
I was like this is so cool, likeI could just see myself making
a movie.
My mom has told me same thingtoo.
She's like I could see you aslike a director or whatever and,
honestly, it could totallyhappen.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I it's very possible in my future that I would do
that, yeah right, I feel likeyou know you're like
interviewing all theseinteresting people, like a story
might just emerge that you'relike I have to tell this story.
Or I'm curious like what, whatreally stands out to you in
terms of, like the videos thatyou've made, the people that
you've interviewed, like whatare some of those like standout
stories that really stick inyour mind?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Yeah, um, I think some of the recent ones that
I've done in the Nordics werereally inspiring because it also
spurred the creation of thiscommunity that I wanted to build
, but those aren't out yet.
But basically, two of myfavorites so far was one I did,
like this dinner party in Sweden.
It was, like you know, throwinga Swedish dinner party in
(21:23):
Stockholm, and so I went around.
I wanted to really focus onpeople in connection for this
video.
Um, there are some other videosI do where it's like more
focused on like one person andtheir story, which is also
awesome.
I can touch on that one toothat I loved, um, but this one
specifically, like, I wentaround Stockholm and I was like
hey, do you want to join thisdinner party that I'm hosting?
Um, I was able to get 10 peopleor eight people together.
(21:45):
A few of them were some peoplethat I had already connected
with and they kind of brought afriend.
But it was very intimate and Ihad like a chef come and make
this beautiful meal and wegathered around the table and we
talked about dreams and thethings that held people back,
like those limiting beliefs, andwent around each person around
the table, like sharing, andthen everyone went around and
(22:07):
like broke down those beliefsfor each other and those limits
and it was so empowering and soinspiring and and people left
telling me like Isabel, what youdid was amazing.
I got like a voice memo fromone of the girls and she said,
yeah, basically was like Isabel,this was so incredible, the
space that you had created, andI had like goosebumps after that
(22:29):
that day, that evening, and itwas so special because you know,
we're very lucky.
I think even just living in LA,there's like so many you know
so many events, so many thingsthat we can connect and whatnot.
But even just seeing it in likea country or a city where maybe
it's not so often like theydon't get to experience it as
often, I really felt like howmuch of an impact that that
evening was.
(22:49):
It was just a two hour eveningand it was just.
It was so cool to see thattransformation.
So that was amazing.
It's not out yet, it'll bereleased soon.
Another one that I that I reallyloved was I did was also in
Sweden.
Sweden was just a really greatexperience.
I did a video where I was likeliving in the Swedish
countryside with this dreamerlady.
(23:10):
She's like an artist and Ispent like two to three days at
her.
They have these like red iconichouses in Sweden, basically.
So it's like I want to do avideo at a place in the
countryside.
So I found a lady and shehosted me for a couple of days.
Like I got to experience whatit was like and make dinner.
We went out, we went likeforaging, because in the Nordics
(23:31):
it's like a big thing you justgo out and like you forage and
then also got to sit down withher and ask her her story and I
did an interview with her.
It was such a like special,special moment to connect and I
feel like we really were able toconnect deeply about like the
highs and lows of just life too,and also just also being like a
dreamer on a completelydifferent side of the world, in
(23:52):
a different country and and thedifferences you know it's
there's always like um culturaldifferences too.
It's like they really love likeslow living and um in Sweden
and the Nordics and it was sobeautiful to like experience
that lifestyle versus like thehustle and bustle here in the U?
S and just like so to get thatthe, the, the polarity was cool
(24:14):
to experience and then to comeback and be able to reflect.
Yeah, I loved that one and thenthe other one that I would say
was probably pretty inspiringand impactful that also spurred
the creation of the communitywas I did like a road trip
across Norway with strangers, soI brought like it ended up
being like a group of like threeguys and then me and then who
(24:34):
ended up joining, but it wassuper fun.
And one of the guys he was fromDubai and he was going to stay
in Oslo.
He didn't realize, I think,that the rest of Norway was like
this beautiful nature,landscapes and incredible like
that.
He was just in the city and Iwas like, come on this road trip
, come.
And then he came and then, youknow, he's looking around at all
(24:56):
the beauty and we took a momentoutside of the car and we like
sat up on you know some rocks.
He was like about to cry tearsof joy.
Basically, he's like lookingaround and he was like, wow,
this is so beautiful, like inDubai it's all desert and like
I've never seen or experiencedeven like the rain like this,
like they have like fake or likewhatever, like clouds.
(25:17):
So yeah, those are some of thesome of the videos that I think
were really really awesome.
It was like very much in theconnecting with people and I
felt those were moments where Ireally connected with others and
their respective stories and itwas beautiful and really
exciting.
So, yeah, it was awesome soamazing.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Uh, have you looked much into astro cartography?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
no, I haven't.
Maybe a little bit, a littlebit, yeah, yeah, I'm curious.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Like I feel like people who travel a lot, you
know would be fun to like learnabout what specifically is
resonant for you in thesedifferent places.
I I interviewed two astrocartographers on the podcast.
So you should definitely go andcheck them out and like maybe
book a reading and, because youknow, with like um, with
transits too.
So I one of the um, one of theastro cartographers I
(26:08):
interviewed was saying how sheshe's a digital nomad, yeah, and
she was following her jupitertransit around the world.
Because she was just likemaking really good money and
like having loads of ease.
I'm like, if you have thefreedom and the lifestyle to
just be traveling wherever,whenever, like why not use the
(26:29):
stars to make sure you're gonnahave a good time when you go
there, you know?
Speaker 2 (26:33):
true?
Yeah, I want to look at thatmore.
Actually, I think there waslike there is some website where
it's like shows like where howyou'll be affected in each like
place.
I have looked in into that.
But yeah, I'd be curiousbecause when I was in the Nordic
, there was like so much nature,right, so I felt so grounded
and I just felt so good, so Ithink that's why I loved it.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Yeah yeah, and apparently it's worth looking
into parent lines, which issomething that not a lot of
people know.
That like will you know it doesinfluence a shift based off of
just the lines that I guess themost of the maths show.
So look into that.
It's my, I can feel it.
Astro cartography is going tobe my next obsession, and
(27:15):
astrology, but I have a fewother things to learn before I,
before I dive more into that one.
Um, okay, I had anotherquestion.
Oh, so talk to me a little bitabout your process as a content
creator.
So let's say, you're planning abig trip, do you try and batch
some content to go out whileyou're traveling, or are you
(27:37):
really like creating I'm talkingmainly about like social media
content and kind of like keepingup with your social presence or
is that something that you'rereally just like creating on the
fly, day to day, as you go?
Like, how do you manage that?
Because, obviously, theselonger videos they it's a lot
more production, a lot moreediting, a lot more you know
shooting.
(27:57):
So, yeah, talk to me about howyou navigate your flow with
keeping consistent with youronline brand and social media
presence.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Yeah, that's a great question.
It is definitely like a lot tomanage because I have the
YouTube videos, which are a lotto produce Anywhere from like 20
to 30 to 40 hours to edit onevideo.
And then there's also like thepre-production phase and then
also like keeping up with theVegan Izzy channel, like over
the past four years.
I would say for me, I think I'mnot like the super, super crazy
(28:32):
consistent where I'm like, yes,I'm posting, making sure.
I think I found I've tried thatin the past, like with my Vegan
Izzy, there were moments whereI like really grinded the first
couple of years and I was likeposting a lot and then I got a
little bit burnt out.
Yeah, it's not good to get burntout.
There's ways to do thingssustainably, but unfortunately I
did get burnt out and then itkind of like I needed to start
posting a lot less.
(28:52):
I just took a little bit of abreak and just like focus a
little bit more on myself.
So yeah, long story short, formy YouTube stuff I do kind of
have a process, though I like,before I go on a big trip now,
what I do is like say, I foundthat six weeks is like the
perfect sweet spot for me to go.
It's a little bit longer, I'mgetting a little tired because
I'm pretty much on filming andtravel mode.
So six weeks is my sweet spot,and when I'm in LA before a trip
(29:16):
, I'm preparing, I'm planning,I'm, I'm figuring out the exact
videos that I want to film.
Um, and like, I do some mindmapping.
I don't know if you do, youknow what my mapping is.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
um like is it with a specific software or is it just
kind of like on a notepad, juston a, not on a notepad?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
okay, it's like brainstorming creative, yeah,
creative brainstorming.
I learned this method from likeanother big travel youtuber, and
so it's kind of like likeNorway I put in the middle and
then I'll put like things that Ithink about Norway when I think
about it.
So it's like I think fjords, Ithink might think a road trip, I
might think you know theVikings, and then eventually
(29:54):
come up with creative videoideas that way.
And then that was my process.
I like wrote out a bunch.
I'm like researching a lotabout the countries too.
So then I like have the, thebackground, kind of like
absorbing just a lot ofinformation and knowledge, and
then from there it's like then Ican kind of like come up with
the ideas.
And then I pair those also withlike some YouTube research, so
(30:15):
like I see like what's workingon social media, just like
analyzing the space, and alsothere's like a whole world of
like you know, titling is superimportant for YouTube especially
, so it's like have to doresearch there and what I think
would actually hit or work orkind of work with the platform.
Yeah, and then I kind ofnarrowed down and then I choose,
(30:37):
I pick and choose.
So like for the Nordics one, itwas like eight videos.
I also created like decks formyself so I could see visually
like I wanted the story to golight storyboarding, but more so
what I would call.
It is like I just photos andthings that I get me like feel
more like what's to come andkind of get a vibe for what I'm
going to go and film.
(30:58):
And then I will create likeoutlines, even for the videos.
To some will be like a littlemore casual, but for now that
I'm like more like establishedand like been doing this for a
few years, um, like want to bemore organized, so like create
outlines and then, yeah, whenI'm it's a lot of pre-planning
and then, once I'm ready, I gofor six weeks.
I'm filming the entire time.
(31:19):
I'm really not thinking aboutmuch else.
I'm not really working on anyother things, like maybe it's
like responding to emails orhere and there, but I really try
to make it that like I'm notreally working on other stuff
because my mind is fully ontravel mode.
I'm like I'm thinking like Ihave to like film.
I'm charging my batteries, I'mlike having to like put my SD
cards in, like make sure thatfootage is getting transferred
(31:41):
over.
So, yeah, I go and film for sixweeks.
It's pretty like every singleday I'm like filming something,
maybe like here and there.
I tell them I now know to likegive myself like a day to chill
or like not do stuff, becauseit's pretty intensive.
And then, yeah, I come back andI have like eight plus videos to
come and like edit throughoutthe next however many months
(32:02):
that's going to last me.
There was one trip which islike way too much.
I did like the seven weeks inEurope and I filmed like 18
different YouTube videos andthat was like a lot and that's
why I still have so much.
But that's not necessary, Ithink.
Now I just want to be like moremindful of like exactly what
I'm going to film.
Yeah, sometimes I'm likepitching to brands to before.
(32:25):
If I want to like work withsome companies like in Iceland I
was able to work with a campervan company so I like pitch the
idea to them beforehand.
So, yeah, find ways to like beresourceful or cut costs as much
as possible, because it's likea lot to produce these videos,
yeah.
And then I come back and I I'mjust, yeah, editing and whatnot,
(32:46):
and when I have that time I canlike release a little bit more
consistently.
But yeah, I mean I will admitit's definitely a lot to balance
everything.
So I'm kind of taking a littlebit of a break.
It feels like I haven't postedin a while for YouTube but since
I launched like my new business, I'm like 90% of my time is
going towards that with any newthing.
(33:06):
But I've also just like I'm okaywith like accepting certain
seasons or like where I'm atwith things, where it's like I'd
love to post.
But in my brain it's like Ineed to prioritize like what's
important to like.
If my business is going to,this new launch will like bring
in some new income, theneventually what I'd like to do
is just like hire like a roughcut editor more consistently,
(33:28):
and so my time spent likeediting right now isn't the best
use of my time.
So I'm taking a little bit of abreak, but I want to get back
into it, hopefully in in Marchand get the next video out,
because I have a lot, a lot topost and whatnot.
But I think it's just like I'massessing what works best for me
and prioritizing yeah, and andknowing that I don't have to
(33:53):
push myself or do things or likepost when it, when it feels
right, yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Yeah, thank you so much for sharing your process
with us.
I I think it's so interestingand I love how you really allow
yourself to just like go superdeep into your whatever your
creative project is that you'reworking on at the moment um and
that you know you've been ableto launch so many really
interesting and different umprojects as a as an online
creator, so obviously I couldtalk to you about this all day.
(34:21):
I think you're so inspiring andall of your businesses are
super interesting and um.
Yeah, so why don't you telleveryone who's listening, who
wants to learn more about yourwork and get into your world,
like, what have you got going onand where can people find you?
Speaker 2 (34:36):
yeah, of course um, if you want to follow me on
instagram at isabel chav, I posta lot there.
I post a lot of behind thescenes, a lot of behind the
scenes, a lot of updates.
My YouTube channel is calledGlobal Dream Team three spaces
and then I launched my globalcommunity, which is like
(34:57):
wwwglobaldreamteamco not comco,and if you're interested in
being involved with that, that'slike a whole community space.
There's like an online platformwhere people around the world
can join people that arepursuing their dreams.
Um, I'm doing different travelexperiences, retreats, dinner
parties, co-living Um, it can bea part of that.
And there's also like areas forprofessional go out.
(35:19):
So I'm getting cool speakers tojoin different workshops.
Um, mastermind that I'm hosting, hosting accountability pods,
so it's really like the full.
You know if you're ready to goand have fun too along the way,
and these different experiences,and that's an amazing community
that you can join and be a partof.
So, yeah, I would say those arethe the three areas you can
kind of be up to date with mevegan Izzy on Instagram and
(35:41):
TikTok that's vegan.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
And then YZZY, I post healthy living and lifestyle
content there as well amazingand definitely, definitely, get
in her world if you have bigdreams and you want to turn them
into your reality and have somuch fun doing it.
So please share this episodewith anyone who you know who
would love it, and please leaveus a review and thank you so
(36:05):
much for being here and we'llsee you next week.
Bye, bye, for moreinspirational content, head over
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