How to Turn Your Biggest Setback Into Your Greatest Adventure - Allison The Dream World Trotter - video Dailymotion

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Allison Coleman, MSW, is the founder of Dream Worldtrotter, a travel and personal growth platform that inspires people to turn life’s setbacks into meaningful new beginnings. After experiencing a career layoff, she made the decision to pursue a long-held dream of visiting all seven continents. Allison was inspired by her grandfather, who lived 106 years and was a WW2 veteran and world explorer. His influence shaped her journey and evolved into the “From Layoff to 7 Continents” series, where she shares lessons on resilience, reinvention, and purposeful travel. Allison is also the creator of the From Layoff to 7 Continents Journal, designed to help others navigate career transitions and rediscover purpose. As a social worker and explorer, she combines practical guidance with authentic storytelling to encourage people to embrace change with confidence.  Website https://dreamworldtrotter.blog   ⚡ VidChapter AI generated these chapters, try it out https://vidchapter.com/?affiliate=yayadiamond Recommended podcast platform get 10% off: https://podopshost.com/register/?ref=yaya   Tools and Services I use: Appsumo has the best lifetime deals ever!!! I love this site.  appsumo.8odi.net/yayadiamond The easiest way to make your graphics: https://buff.ly/2RTQLn0 Best website for musicians. Try it for free on me: https://buff.ly/2GMYugG Make money with Fiverr.com: https://buff.ly/2KjTVvV   Our Amazon store: https://buff.ly/34RYNlm DISCLAIMER: Links included in this description might be affiliate links. If you purchase a product or service with the links that I provide I may receive a small commission. My affiliate links usually provide either a free trial or discount so go try them out on me! Thank you for supporting DreamChasersRadio.com  so I can continue to provide you with free content each week! Privacy Policy: https://buff.ly/2XSrflS ™Yaya Diamond Red Hot Reality Ent. LLC

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00:10Hey, it's Allison Colbin, founder of Dream World Trotter. I'm here with the Dr. Yaya Diamond.

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00:49Be good. Be very good.

00:53Now, can we bargain about this be very good thing? Because I'm trying to really, really focus on being good.

01:04But I mean, we have to talk. We really have to talk because I don't know. But we can be

01:11very good on Dream Chasers Radio.

01:12Hi, guys. My name is Dr. Yaya Diamond. I am the host and founder of Dream Chasers Radio. And I'm

01:17so very excited to be here. And I really, truly am trying to be good. Am I good? You need

01:21to comment below to tell me if I'm good or not.

01:24And if you know me, don't say a word. Don't you dare say a word. I'm telling you. I'm coming

01:29after you. Anyway, so we have an amazing guest on the show today. She has been laid off, but she's

01:35still going.

01:36And I can relate to that. I can definitely relate and feel that right there. You don't stop. Who told

01:44you life stopped? Because if life doesn't stop, you don't stop. You just keep going. And so did she. And

01:49I want to welcome her to the show. Thank you so much for joining me, girlfriend. How you doing?

01:55It is so great to be here, Dr. Yaya. Thank you for having me.

01:59Allison, I'm telling you, you have just look at you on that camel. Did it spit on you? Is it

02:08true? Is it true? They spit?

02:11They are, you know, but they're really trying to conserve the camels in Egypt right now. So I really cherish

02:18that photo now. But that is a place you absolutely need to go to.

02:23I didn't know. I had no idea they're trying to conserve. You're going to have to tell us what's going

02:28on. You're going to have to let us know what's going on. Because, you know, us around the world, we

02:31don't get no, we don't get no, how would I say, viable news, if I should say it that way.

02:39You know what I mean? We get news, but it's mostly not viable. It's just, it's just stuff.

02:45You know, I'd like to know what's really going on around the world today. But first, let's talk about you.

02:52After being laid off, you set a goal to visit all seven continents in three years, right?

02:59That is a big goal. And to be laid off too. Okay. Tell me what was the plan? What was

03:06the plan? I need to know the plan.

03:09Well, first I had to hustle. When I got laid off at that time, I was a single parent. My

03:15mother just had surgery. There was just, there was a lot of shit going on. I just had to hustle

03:20and get stable in my life. And I was very blessed. I actually got a job offer one week after

03:28I was laid off. So it was like a little holiday. Yeah.

03:32Yeah. So after I got stable, I'm like, all right, you know, I've had three consecutive back-to-back dreams

03:39about going to Egypt. I'm like, okay, Egypt is number one. I got to go there. And in a couple

03:45of months, less than one year after I got laid off, I was on the plane going to Egypt, London,

03:51and Paris.

03:53Oh, I love London. Don't, don't tease me with London. I absolutely love London. Paris is like, did you eat

04:00in the Eiffel Tower while you were there? I just had to ask.

04:03I'm going to never forget going to the Eiffel Tower. I actually went to the summit. And when my mother

04:09texted me when I was on the Eiffel Tower, I said, mom, I got to FaceTime with you right now,

04:14immediately. I said, mom, I am on the summit of the Eiffel Tower. Just months ago, I was all the

04:22way on the lowest low of my life. And here I am on the summit of the Eiffel Tower.

04:27Wow. Wow. I've been there many times and it is beautiful. You got to eat in the restaurant next time

04:33you go. I'm not going to lie. Save a little bit extra money, money girl. Cause I'm telling you, it

04:39was wonderful. The food there was just awesome. So, okay. So your journey combines wellness travel with unique experiences, like

04:48exploring cafes around the world.

04:50How did you kind of integrate the wellness practices into your travel routine? And if you do happen to go

04:57to the Eiffel Tower, their stuff is pretty organic. I'm going to let you know.

05:04It was just an honor to be there. I wasn't originally planning to go to France, but my background is

05:10in social work. I received my, my bachelor's degree in psychology. And then I went on to get a master's

05:17in social work.

05:18And in my experience, I worked with people living with mental health and substance abuse. And that translated to working

05:26with, in the hospital, working with infectious diseases. I've worked in kidney dialysis health as well. So that's how I

05:34really, I'm a healer.

05:35That's why I feel like my purpose is, is to bring healing to people. So I'm just being true to

05:41who I am and really focused on wellness and really transformative experience. Because leaving the United States and just exploring

05:50the world has really transformed who I am in so many ways, amazing ways.

05:55Oh, oh, girl, you got to leave the United States in order to understand what's really going on around the

06:00world. And I absolutely love that what you're saying, because I'm more of a naturopath as well.

06:06I have my HHA, but I don't use it only because I just don't have the time to do HHA

06:11work. But I do have my HHA.

06:13And it was such a pleasure to work with the elderly that I worked with and the people I worked

06:19with. I had one paraplegic gentleman that I worked with.

06:24And one woman who I, you know, you can't really divulge, but there was some stuff going on. All I

06:30had to do was add vitamin C to her diet, and it took care of everything.

06:33And I was like, you know, they don't know this. They don't know the health behind like just adding vitamin

06:39C to a regimen and what it can do for you. You know, they don't, they don't understand.

06:45So it is a beautiful thing to help people, especially along those lines of health and wellness and just, and

06:52especially people who don't know, you know, oh my gosh. Wow.

06:57So you can, okay. Can you share a memorable moment that you had while you were out there, you know,

07:03in your travels? Yay. Tell me.

07:05Oh my goodness. I have to say Egypt of all the places I've been to Egypt is my favorite. I,

07:13I, I have actually the, before I went to Egypt, I had three back-to-back dreams about going to

07:20Egypt and I actually returned to Egypt a second time.

07:25I had several dreams after I went to Egypt and it was amazing. I'll never forget those dreams. An Egyptian

07:32god Shu and the Egyptian goddess Neftis actually appeared in my dreams four times.

07:39Oh my God.

07:40They were telling me in the dreams, you need to go to Egypt. I'm like, okay, I'm going to Egypt.

07:45So there's just something about Egypt that I, I just, I love Egypt. That place is just, when I'm there,

07:51I, I, I, I have deja vu when I'm there.

07:53There's just something like, I felt like I was there, like in a past life or something. I just, I

07:58love that place.

08:00You know, I have to say, and don't tell no one, don't tell no one. Listen, I always say this.

08:07And, and this is something that happened to me when my mother was passing away.

08:10Um, and she was not, um, responding anymore to any kind of, she wasn't holding your hand. She was just

08:20breathing. It was very shallow, but she was, you know, she was, her body was kind of shutting down.

08:26And I was in the garage and I remember I opened the door, the side door to the garage to

08:32go out the backyard on the side of the house.

08:34And I opened the door and all of a sudden I hear my name and I get pushed and it

08:42was my mother.

08:42And I'm looking like, and my husband comes down and he says, what's wrong? Now, obviously that's, it was not,

08:51it was not a dream.

08:52I wasn't like gone or anything or psychologically just having a nervous breakdown.

08:57I literally was at the door, open the door. And the next thing, you know, I'm four feet back and

09:04I'm like, mom.

09:08And I walked to the door and I'm like, that's impossible. I'm looking around. There's nobody there. There's no wind.

09:17There's nothing. It's just the backyard. And I'm going, okay. So I go and I get my phone. I go

09:26back out to the garage.

09:27So I have to go inside to get my phone, go back out to the garage. I'm looking for something,

09:30somebody, any evidence to prove that I am not going crazy.

09:35Right. I called the nurse on staff and you know what they told me? We can't really talk about this.

09:43And I'm not sure if you've been, or you've been around something like this, or if you've experienced this, but

09:47please let me know.

09:49He said, cause he's a hospice nurse. I can't, we can't really talk about it.

09:53We, we've signed waivers saying that unless we've been asked to explain certain things, we can't literally just divulge this

10:02information to you, but she's aeroplaning.

10:09She's aeroplaning. She's aeroplaning. She's outside of her body. And the one person that she wants to, to be with

10:18before she leaves this earth is you hurry up and get here.

10:24Now I was in my pajamas. I was in my house shoes. I hadn't eaten. It was seven o'clock

10:31in the morning.

10:33I looked at my husband and went, I got to go. I jumped in my car just the way I

10:41was and went straight there the next morning.

10:48She was not holding my hand, not even a little bit anymore.

10:54It was like, she, she left, left that body. It was like the body was shutting down.

11:01And I'm telling you that it freaked me out. So understanding the, it was a harder death

11:12for me because I knew she wasn't in that body no more. I started looking up, like, where'd you go?

11:21Where are you? Where'd you go? It was a harder death for me because I know, and I knew she

11:29wasn't in there.

11:29That's not my mom. That's a body. Where did mom go? Where did mom go?

11:33Where did mom go? So I truly believe that if you are sent back, there is nothing you can do.

11:42Your behind is coming back. There's nothing you can do.

11:48Yeah. And, and, you know, I truly believe, like you said, another lifetime, another, you are connected somehow,

11:58somehow, someway to something that's beyond our comprehension. And I truly believe that.

12:05And I didn't want to go too much into, you know, into that, but I did, I did want to

12:09say,

12:10and I wanted to kind of, you know, affirm you that this is true. And yeah, if your butt's supposed

12:17to be coming back, you coming back, who knows what you're coming back at. You're coming back.

12:22I'm coming back. Wow. Oh my goodness. Wow. Bless you. You, you, you, you are an incredible,

12:30I mean, Dr. Yaya, you, you, you just to be honored with the doctorate, with the artistry,

12:38the beauty that you create, that your mother created. Jesus has a plan for all of us. We all

12:45have a plan. We don't, we don't know when it is, but Jesus had a plan and she blessed

12:50the world. She blessed the world with. Yes, she did. Yes, she did. And you know what? I

12:57want to get back to you because you were laid off and you were like, well, I'm just going

13:02to go to Egypt. You were like, I ain't got nothing, no, I'm just going to go to Egypt. I

13:13see

13:14my F you to the car. Let me tell you, I'm like, homegirl was like, oh, okay. Y'all

13:21done left, y'all done left a good one because I'm out here. You even created a hundred page

13:27guide travel journal to help others dream and plan and reflect on their journeys. What inspired

13:33you besides the trip, of course, to do the journal and, and, and how do you recommend people

13:39use this journal? This was inspired by my layoff. This company I was at, I was in a managerial

13:47position and I actually met, it was a fairly qualified healthcare center. And I oversaw

13:52HIV, HIV prevention and care program and the LGBTQ program. And in that role, I brought in

14:00millions of dollars to this company. Everyone knew me, even the CEO of the company knew about

14:07him. He actually gave me access to his calendar. That's how much he was impressed by me. And

14:12you know, it was, it was fucked up. I, I, you know, I took time off of work. My mother

14:16was ill. This is my mother. I don't care what's going on. I'm going to make sure if my mother

14:21is dealing with stuff, I'm going to take care of her. And you know, I get notified before

14:26I'm supposed to return that I need to return to the HR office. I go to the HR office and

14:32they

14:32tell me I'm laid off. And I, I just, you know, I wasn't mad at the HR manager. I actually

14:38knew

14:38the HR manager. I actually gave her a hug. I, I, you know, I'm like, you don't shoot the

14:42messenger. I'm like, she's just telling the message. I knew she had nothing to do with

14:45it. I'm like, so you use me for all of this. And then I'm let go. And I just felt

14:51angels

14:52around me. I was like, you know, it's something good is going to come out of this. And that's

14:56what really inspired that I, to create this journal in the United States alone, millions

15:03of people get laid off. I mean, here, like I'm here in California and Santa Clara County,

15:09the tech capital. And I mean, I'm always hearing in the news about people getting laid off.

15:14And that's what inspired me to create the, from layoff to seven continents journal. And

15:20my blog is to inspire people, no matter what happens in life, your wise ups and downs, never

15:27give up, take action every day, every day. You know, I hustled. I, I'm like, okay, I need

15:33to get financially stable. I made sure I did that. Once I was stable, I'm like, all right,

15:37I'm going to save. And then you make your dreams happen. So whatever your, your dreams or whatever

15:42goals you have, whether you want to travel, if you want to start your own business, take action

15:48every day. That's right. Girl, you went to Florence, Italy, Paris, France, Bali, Indonesia,

15:57uh, Ibiza, Spain. Oh, India. And what is that? Oh girl. I can't even pronounce that. Malaysia.

16:08Oh my gosh. The Batu case is so amazing. Those steps, those rainbow colors sets 272 steps. It took

16:17me about 10 minutes to get up to the very top. And let me tell you, you get rewarded with

16:21the most

16:22amazing views of Malaysia. That place is amazing. I definitely want to go back to it.

16:27Wow. You know, when people think of traveling, I don't think people understand that it is a

16:33liberating experience. You know, you get to see different cultures, you get to see the other half

16:39and the way other people live. And it's so much, sometimes so much more contrary to what you're so

16:45used to and been told. Do you suggest that people travel? Absolutely. And this is why I'm so grateful

16:54for my grandfather. My grandfather actually just passed away on January 12th of this year. He lived

17:00in New York all his life. My, my grandfather, um, he actually, he's the adventure in our family.

17:06He served in the U S army jumped out of an airplane 13 times and fought in war two. He

17:14got shot in the

17:15neck and his knee. And he survived that after he received his purple heart, he explored the world.

17:22I remember when I was growing up, he would always nag me. You need adventure in your life. He would

17:27tell

17:27me, jump out of airplanes, see the world. He loved going to Seychelles to Thailand, to Calcutta, India.

17:35And he used to always tell me, you need to live life to the fullest. We don't know how much

17:41time we

17:42have left. And that's what I really live by. And he did that even at 106 years young,

17:49never considered himself to be old. Even at 106, he was still a fighter who lived life to the fullest.

17:56Well, I should now, if I live in this, if I live in this body to be 106 years old,

18:03my mind will always

18:04be young. I understand that. I truly understand that. And I, and I was talking to someone the

18:10other day about how the body ages, but the mind, the spirit inside, it stays young. It wants to do

18:18it. Just the body doesn't facilitate it. That's what it is. Wow.

18:22And that's a choice. Yeah. Yeah. My gosh. My gosh. Allison girl, you are inspiration within

18:30yourself. You got the website. I want to go ahead and show people that website and your grandfather.

18:35He's so cute. He was so cute. You know how you just see people. You're like, oh,

18:43oh, that's, that's how I feel. So lay off to seven continents, girlfriend. I'm telling you,

18:50I'm absolutely loving a guided journal for turning setbacks into adventures. You did it, girl. You

18:58did it. You got that journal and it's like, okay, setbacks can be chosen or

19:06forced. That's how I figure you can either, or you will be forced to do it eventually. And if you

19:14know, you're getting ready to get set back, get ready. It's about to come. You're going to get

19:18fired. You are you about to get fired because it's time to move on. What was it like when you

19:27did move

19:28on? Was it a better situation for you? Did you find yourself in a, in a, in a place where,

19:32wow,

19:33I should have done this a long time ago? Absolutely. Getting laid off is now the,

19:39what the best things that ever happened to me. You just never know. I, of course, when I first got

19:45laid off, I was angry. I was just like, I mean, how could they do this? But then I'm like,

19:49you know

19:50what? There's something better. Yeah. Heaven. Jesus has a plan for us. And there was something better for

19:56me. And my goodness. I mean, just three years ago I was laid off and now I'm about to visit

20:03every

20:04single continent on this planet. It's just incredible to me. And I I'm really excited to

20:09go to South America and go to Antarctica. It's just incredible that now I I've been to five different

20:16continents. And it's still surreal to me. It's just, wow. Wow. Have you been Hawaii? Oh yeah.

20:25What I like you. My mother loves Hawaii. That's her spot. Oh wow. Wow. My mom went to Hawaii without

20:36me.

20:43She went to Hawaii without me. I was not a happy camper. There were two places she went without me.

20:52She went to, um, what was it? Um, she went to Japan without me and Hawaii without me.

21:00I've been to almost every place around the world, even Australia, but I've never been to Hawaii and

21:06I've never been to Japan. Oh my goodness. I had to go to school. I had to take my tests

21:16for college.

21:17I hated it. I was like, mom, she was like, no, but you know, going around the world is beautiful.

21:28I'm so happy that you've had that chance. And also that you have your book out,

21:31that it is something that people can actually use a guided journal for turning setbacks into

21:36adventures. It's not just like if you want to travel the world, but it's, it's whatever you want to do

21:41in life. Uh, turning that setback into that adventure is an amazing. If you want to travel

21:47the United States and dag on it, then travel the United States, you can figure it out. It's not that

21:53hard. You know, literally speaking, what I'm saying is you did it. You did it. What does it feel like

22:00to go from zero to a hundred?

22:06It really is indescribable. It's just, I mean, I really never imagined when

22:11I got laid off that just three years later that I would be visiting every single continent.

22:17And I really am just grateful for my grandfather. He really taught me about resiliency and perseverance.

22:24That's what he always taught me is to have hope. And that really carried me through. And this is

22:29dedicated to him sweetness, sweetness. Well, I'm going to go ahead and give you guys the website. That's

22:35going to be dream world trotter with two T's trotter, T R O T T E R dot blog, B

22:44L O G. That's

22:46dream world trotter dot blog. Be inspired, be inspired, be inspired by this young lady right here,

22:56right there. There she is. There's Alison. And there she is right there as well.

23:01And she is amazing. Seven continents, girl. And you got two more to go. I'm very, very proud of you.

23:08Very, very happy that you're doing this. Very happy. You have your master's degree

23:11and that you're doing the things that you want to do in life. And, and then you're going forward.

23:16What kind of advice do you give to people who may be in that, that position that you were in

23:22that you're

23:22no longer? And what, what do you say to them? Hmm. Keep taking action every day. Don't ever give

23:29up. Yeah. It might be cliche. You take action every single day, no matter how small it is,

23:35you make your dreams reality. There you go. Alison, did we miss anything that you like to say today?

23:42I love Egypt.

23:47I think it begs to differ that you will be going back to Egypt soon.

23:52I think so. That'll be the seventh continent plus one.

23:57You'll have to do all the things you couldn't do the first time.

24:03Yeah. Like climb the pyramid and get arrested.

24:08Yeah. I, I, I, I, I know I might, you know, next time I do want to go with my

24:16son, my son

24:17absolutely wants to go to Egypt and I want him to experience it. I want him to go on the

24:22Nile

24:22river. I want him to visit the Valley of the Kings, the Valley of the Queens that Egypt just opened

24:28up

24:28their new museum, the grand Egyptian museum. They just opened it last year and not, not even a year

24:35ago. And this museum actually has a, I mean, it has the record for the largest collection of a single

24:43civilization, everything dedicated to ancient Egypt. I, I, I, that is a must. And I absolutely

24:51am going to be going back and will be bringing my son. Yes. Yes. You have to take the kids

24:56so that

24:56they can, you know, get a little rub off for, Hey, look at what's around the world. You know what

25:01I'm

25:01saying? Wow. That is wonderful. Well, Alison, thank you so much for joining us here on dream

25:06chasers radio. And again, that website is going to be right here. Look at that beautiful website

25:12right there. It is dream world trotter dot blog, dream world trotter dot blog. You guys have got to

25:19go check it out for yourselves and check out Alison and get that, get, get that journal. Okay. Get that

25:27journal because you just never know when things go awry. You'll have that journal in your hand and go

25:32Alison did it. I can do it too. That's right. You can. I want to thank you Alison again for

25:40being

25:40with us and thank you guys so much for joining us. Don't forget to put that, that website in your

25:45browser, click enter and go for it. We're going to pull, we're going to put it in the description box

25:49below or wherever you may be watching. So it'll be easy for you to find it. And also to get

25:54that journal

25:54journal and don't wait to get that journal. I'm going to, I'm not going to say if you need it,

25:58because it's just when it's just when it's not, if it's when, and I want to thank you guys again

26:04so much for being such an avid part of dream chasers radio and Alison, you go girl. You let me

26:09know when you go in your other two continents. Oh, thank you. Well, too. All right. Until next time, guys.

26:16Bye.

26:28Bye.

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