I remember the day I realized I could escape the rat race and create a life on my own terms as if it were yesterday. I’d just graduated college and was about to begin a Master’s degree in Business when I watched Marie Forleo’s B-School program promotion. In the video, Marie shared a simple day in her life: waking up slowly, making her coffee, walking to her favorite café down the street, and running her multi-million-dollar business from her laptop.

Something inside me cracked open.

Until that moment, I had fully bought into the rat race my parents, grandparents, and everyone around me had modeled. Be a good student. Get the degree. Find a steady job. Work hard. Wait. Dreams didn’t belong in that equation. Freedom wasn’t even on the menu. Dreams were hobbies. Freedom was indulgent. Security was king.

But as I watched that video, I felt something shift in my body. I didn’t just want that life — I recognized it. I knew, deep in my bones, that freedom was possible. And once you see that, you can’t unsee it.

Fifteen years later, the freedom that once felt like a distant dream is now my lived reality. I work for myself. I travel and work from anywhere in the world. I decide how I spend my time, who I work with, and what I say yes or no to. Not because I followed a perfect plan — but because I gave myself permission to imagine a different way of living and slowly built toward it.

That’s why I’m so excited about today’s episode of the Energy Work Podcast. I’m joined by Sofia Kakkava, author of The Freedom Office, to talk about escaping the rat race, stepping into digital nomad freedom, and redefining what freedom actually means. Not just externally — but internally.

In this conversation, we explore the mindset shifts that make freedom possible, the fears that keep people stuck in unfulfilling lives, and why freedom doesn’t begin with quitting your job or booking a flight — it begins with how you relate to yourself, your work, and your worth. If you’ve ever felt the quiet knowing that there has to be more than this, this episode will speak directly to that part of you.

Click here to listen to Escaping the Rat Race into Digital Nomad Freedom with Sofia Kakkava.

If freedom has been whispering to you lately, consider this your invitation to listen a little more closely.

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