The Truth We Haven’t Shared Until Now…

Lloyd & Mandy

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00:04where do we begin yeah all right I guess we haven't done one of these in a long time so

00:11this is a life update because so much has changed in the last 12 months and I think

00:19we've been battling with like how much to share and how much not to share right yeah there's like

00:25been a fine line between wanting to stay positive and also wanting to share what's actually happening

00:32in our personal lives and being authentic and also just needing time to process what we've been

00:38through the last year as well to really be able to know how to word it to actually know what's

00:47actually happened to us I guess we'll start from when we were back in Thailand that's probably

00:53the best place to start life was going really really great for us in Thailand we felt like we

01:00had found a a good home base life was very peaceful and quiet and it was a great place for

01:07us to start

01:08off as new parents and everything felt really easy and and life was just going along really great but

01:16there did feel like there was something missing which was community and family and we have touched

01:22on that a little bit as to one of the reasons why we had initially decided we wanted to move

01:27to

01:27Canada I think because we were there for nearly two years it was going over in my head like is

01:32this just

01:33where we're going to stay because yeah like Mandy said everything was easy but I found myself driving

01:38around sort of thinking like are we gonna actually like go through the steps of setting up a business

01:43here and trying to buy like a home and like putting Lila in like some kind of a daycare school

01:48system

01:49like yeah this is really what we want and it just didn't didn't really feel right because I think

01:57while Thailand's awesome and this is Thailand in general but especially Hua Hin it felt like we were

02:04just sort of in like this retirement village yeah like we had skipped the whole like middle part of our

02:11life and we had just gone straight to retirement which our lifestyle I guess can be that but also

02:17there was the thing about not being able to own property in Thailand that really we couldn't get

02:22past that and it it's hard to feel like something is ever yours if it if it never actually is

02:28yours

02:28and then yeah and just not all the things we envisioned like Lila having access to as a kid like

02:35simple things like going on hiking trails or going for like to parks and it's hard to explain but

02:41something just felt like this isn't going to be it for us so forever yeah so after two years of

02:47being

02:47in Thailand we'd had family come to visit us and we were sold on the idea of having like a

02:54community and

02:56moving back to Canada where I'm originally from I hadn't lived there in 10 years

03:01and Lloyd has family there we thought we were going to be coming into having support system

03:06for us as new parents and that wasn't the case unfortunately when we arrived there we had a lot of

03:12broken promises given to us some personal betrayals that we won't get into too much but

03:18there's a lot of heartbreak for us to be honest when we got back to Canada and our plan was

03:24go to

03:25Canada move our business over there and sort of get into property and live like a normal lifestyle

03:31while also having a YouTube channel and traveling out of Canada so Canada would be our home base

03:36we found ourselves in a really challenging position because we moved into a place that was brand new

03:43didn't have a postal address and for whatever reason we're in a rural town and like you just couldn't order

03:50anything online to this address which it was a totally unfurnished place at the same time Lila had

03:57been really easy with sleeping and everything and it just got extremely difficult as soon as we got

04:02there like a week after we got there yeah and on top of that we were also dealing with a

04:07couple of

04:07extortion attempts uh so it was a very high stress time for us yeah and we had had a vehicle

04:14set up

04:15to get when we got there but the finance just kept getting pushed back and pushed back so we found

04:20ourselves like in a new country with uh no vehicle a house that we couldn't really furnish because we

04:27couldn't get anything in there um and it was almost impossible to like work and do what we do and

04:34on top

04:34of that yeah like Mandy mentioned we had the stress of some extortion attempts coming after us which we

04:40did detail in a few videos that are now being removed and we don't really want to talk about

04:45it too much because it's just negativity we don't even want to like speak this person's name because

04:50it feels like it's giving them validation but i guess what we're trying to say is a lot of stuff

04:54just

04:54happened all at once not really how we planned it at all and it felt like after a while just

05:01we had to

05:02really sit down and think like is this even the right decision anymore because it doesn't feel like it

05:07it felt too forced and for me and in the past what i've understood is if something feels forced

05:12it's probably not for you and that was really sad because we thought we had finally reached like

05:18you know the purpose of this channel at the beginning was us documenting moving to bali but

05:23then it became us wanting to find our forever home and we have still been trying to grasp at that

05:29since

05:29the beginning and we thought we had finally like reached the pinnacle of of that and it was like

05:35everything came crumbling down at one time and it felt like we lost like everything we lost like

05:41close friendships and relationships and it was like yeah we lost everything at one time it felt like

05:47yeah and we'd started these side projects as well at the same time like we just i think in retrospect

05:52just tried doing way too much all at the same time with a young baby looking back on it like

05:58we probably

05:58i guess rushed into a few decisions yeah i mean we've always been very like just make a decision and

06:08and follow through with it we don't really like sit on things long enough and i think that's been a

06:13really big learning experience for us to not um make emotional decisions or quick decisions as much

06:19anymore definitely learned that this year we're also grappling with like these two different angles of

06:27wanting to have a home and a place to call ours but wanting the freedom to be able to move

06:33around

06:33and do what we want and unfortunately like you have to give up one to have the other at least

06:38at the

06:38stage of our lives we're in right now like and it felt like trying to set up roots in canada

06:44was

06:45actually going against everything we've been working towards for the last few years yeah because you do

06:51have to give up a lot of freedoms if you're going to set up a home base in somewhere like

06:56canada yeah

06:58like there's tax implications there's a lot of costs involved like the cost of living is very expensive

07:05and it's not that easy to just move around there it's a big country it's not that close to a

07:10lot of

07:10places so we thought being optimistic we could just figure it out and make it work and maybe we could

07:17have if we did a few things differently but um i think everything happened for a reason and

07:23we sort of learned the lesson that maybe that's not the right type of life for us right now yeah

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09:02down to mexico i'm not sure if we were going to go back to canada or not and while we

09:07were there we just

09:08sort of remembered why we had started this channel and what our original goal was of freedom and being

09:16able to see the world and that we didn't have to have a such a constructed life that everyone else

09:22does

09:22when we became parents i think we kind of out of just looking around us and not knowing many other

09:29parents kind of followed in suit of what other people do when they become parents uh what the right

09:34thing is to do some things we were doing different but other things like there was a bit of pressure

09:39maybe to become a certain way and to act a certain way as parents but now that we've kind of

09:45gotten

09:45over the hurdle and we're feeling more comfortable with ourselves as a mother and a father knowing that

09:50we are making the right decisions for our daughter and ourselves it became apparent to us as well when

09:56we got there that it was the best place for bear bear was getting is getting older he's about eight

10:02years

10:02old now and the flights and hot weather was really starting to wear on him as well so this is

10:09also

10:09something that was quite heavy for us while we were in thailand we loved having him there we made some

10:14incredible memories with him but also just seeing how the weather and the climate just wasn't the best

10:20for him kind of wore on our minds as well which ultimately left us with the decision that we knew

10:26bear had to stay in canada when it came down to it that canada wasn't where we wanted to

10:31base ourselves after three months of being there we decided that it wasn't the right place for us

10:37yes so many people have reached out asking about him he's not going to be traveling the world with

10:42us because it doesn't serve him at all so he's back in canada he's staying with people we know and

10:48trust

10:48i think that's best for him we really man we we managed to get him all the way around the

10:54world for

10:55nearly four years as great as it was and as good of memories as we have it was very self

10:59-serving

10:59at the end of the day like we just had to make a tough decision which was what's best for

11:05us and

11:05what's best for him and so it's definitely the best move for him like we can't travel

11:10freely with a dog like it's just impossible it like we have and we did we spent tens of thousands

11:17of dollars doing so but his health at the end of the day like that's what started to worry us

11:23especially with him getting older and um yeah at the end of the day he wants to be in one

11:29spot

11:29swimming in lakes and rivers and not on flights anymore so we're going to cherish the memories that

11:36we have with him all over the world but it was time for him to to hang up his his

11:42travel boots and we

11:44had to make so many travel decisions based on bear yeah like the half the reason we did the rv

11:49trip was

11:50because of bear and like going to mexico and and thailand and leaving bali like a lot of these

11:56decisions were partially based on bear yeah and then when you add up that it's not really what's

12:01best for him as well it's kind of like why are we making these decisions we need to sort of

12:05make a

12:06tough choice and like yeah pull our socks up and just really yeah so that was another really tough blow

12:12this year um just basically saying goodbye to him like we'll get to visit him and see him when we

12:17go

12:17back to canada but um yeah i guess just the end of an era a new way of looking at

12:22canada is somewhere

12:24where we want to visit and go like on holidays for now but um i don't think setting up a

12:30home there is

12:31what's right for us no anyway that's all in the past so let's talk about the future today's actually

12:37four years to the day where we left australia and started making content we've been looking back on the

12:44last four years just feeling like i don't know like i can't really believe how much has happened

12:51and how much we've been able to achieve in these four years we left australia on a one-way ticket

12:57to bali not knowing if we were going to be home in a couple of months because we're going to

13:01run out

13:01of money or if like i didn't even think the youtube channel was going to be anything let alone a

13:06full-time

13:07income and full-time job for the last four years yeah it happened so quickly and it was like we

13:12were learning how to fly a plane while it was up in the air trying to keep it going and

13:16so because

13:18it's been four years to the day i think we're kind of looking at this as like almost like a

13:22fresh start

13:23we have our daughter we feel like mandy said earlier like we've kind of figured out parenthood a little

13:29bit and feel more comfortable and we've got this amazing opportunity to travel around with her and

13:35experience the world i mean while she's still young and um while we don't have any obligations or ties

13:43to any one certain place like we can we can go and do we can enjoy the freedom that we've

13:49created and

13:49that's what we're going to do yeah for a while i think we focused so much on like the fact

13:54that we

13:54didn't have somewhere that it was like something's wrong with us that we can't have somewhere but there

14:00must be a reason like you know the universe or god or whatever must want us to keep going and

14:06keep

14:06traveling and it's what feels natural to us i think the most and we're just going to make the most

14:12of

14:12it and just see how far we can go so even though like we don't have a home per se

14:17bali i think really

14:19is our home base it just it's somewhere we keep coming back to it's like our third time we spent

14:23time

14:23here and every time we feel burnt out physically and mentally we come here and we feel like we can

14:28recuperate so i think from now on when we get that feeling of like homesick homesick we need a home

14:35instead of just like packing it all in and trying to move to thailand or canada or whatever like

14:41we're just going to come and spend an extended period of time here in bali because we do know

14:46people here we've got friends here the yoga is good the jujitsu gyms massages food like it's it

14:53definitely ticks all the boxes as far as yeah a home base for asia um so definitely when we're on

14:59this side of the world we'll keep coming back yeah it's i think we're looking at it like our default

15:04sort of home away from home yeah i mean we're building something that is worthwhile and meaningful

15:10it generates a good income as well it's a good way of life it's a good way of living

15:15and uh i think we were taking that for granted a little bit and just focusing on the fact that

15:20we

15:21thought we needed a home so now we're gonna go back to having fun and adventure and sharing that

15:27with lila she's got to the age where she's actually like noticing things and interacting and like she's

15:32almost talking she's joking now she understands jokes yeah and life got so serious for a while and

15:39i i think that even translated into our content as well like lloyd and i have always been like very

15:44jokey and non-serious with each other and um when life got serious we got serious and that

15:50translated into the content so like we want to get back to just being like you know lloyd and

15:56mandy as you know the people that have been following us for a long time remember us as

16:00not being so serious and like worried about life anymore there's so much noise about like what's

16:06wrong with the world at the moment and i think we want to focus on like the good parts yeah

16:11what's

16:11good about the world like even in the small amount of countries we've traveled over the last four

16:16years like we've seen the best in humanity and uh we want to share that with lila like rather than

16:22feeling like we're part of this system that's just like doom and gloom all the time yeah yeah yeah and

16:29go back to being happy and bringing on the positivity and i think that's why we struggled so much with

16:36being able to share this sort of negative side of what was actually going on behind the scenes with you

16:41guys but we hope you understand now and that we can start off on honest like being our authentic

16:47selves again and just on a yeah a fresh new start but like how we used to be less consuming

16:54more

16:54creating yes yeah that's right we've got some pretty big plans should we mention like where we're

17:00thinking about going i think we should keep it a surprise because it's still early but if you have

17:06suggestions on where you think you would like to see us go we'd love to hear it anything anything is

17:12open we want to bring as much value as we can to this channel we've been blessed with the opportunity

17:18to get to travel like this and just to kind of go anywhere so let us know what you guys

17:23would like to

17:24see we love you guys so much thank you for sticking with us these last four years we can't wait

17:28to see

17:29what the next four bring and we will see you guys in the next video bye

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