I’ll bet most of us have a story about following our intuition. Maybe it’s that time you decided on a different route and met a wonderful person, or accepted a job you loved when another seemed like the more practical choice, or maybe (hopefully) when you took a chance on that lucky lottery ticket!

I’ll bet most of us have a story about following our intuition. Maybe it’s that time you decided on a different route and met a wonderful person, or accepted a job you loved when another seemed like the more practical choice, or maybe (hopefully) when you bought that lucky lottery ticket!

I can recount many of those stories, but the freshest in my mind is still the trip I took in late 2019 just before everything changed. I didn’t have the budget for it but I (uncharacteristically) threw caution to the wind and made it happen. Little did I know that everything would shut down within a few months and I wouldn’t travel internationally again for years. You just…