In this episode: Liz Rivas on choosing herself at the altar, solo traveling 12 countries in 12 months, and building RoamCircle, a global women-first community app, from airport-lounge idea to live product in 90 days.

If you've ever landed in a new city and realized the hardest part of solo travel isn't the logistics but the loneliness, this conversation is for you. Liz walked away from her engagement in November 2024, spent the next year digital nomading through 12 countries, and then, in a single half-hour at an airport lounge, had the quiet nudge that became RoamCircle. We get into the origin story, what it actually looks like to live a double life (corporate marketing job by day, founder by morning/night/weekend), why she books business class on purpose, and how to rest without guilt when you're building something you're obsessed with.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

- You don't need more time, you need more ownership. Your capacity grows with what you choose to build, not what you passively survive.

- Community while traveling can be hard to find and the infrastructure for authentic female friendship on the road has been missing until now.

- Self-sacrifice has an expiration date when you're building toward a life you love. Living a double life can only last so long.

- You can't ask for what you've never seen. Sometimes you need to enter different rooms, or airplane cabins, to see your options differently.

- Hormones, energy, and creativity aren't linear and neither is your timeline. Resting without guilt is a founder skill.

"One thing that you never hear millionaires say is that they're busy. As you start to make more decisions and build something, your capacity grows, it's not constricting. You actually find more time." — Liz Rivas

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Instagram: @roamcircleapp

Website: roamcircle.app

RoamCircle, live in 12 cities and growing

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Topics: solo female travel, digital nomad community, women entrepreneurs, building a startup while working full time, authentic female friendship, curiosity-led living, personal growth podcast for ambitious women, life design