Living a Life of Optimism With Steve Ody

It is ok to be an optimist! John’s guest today is Steve Ody, creator of The Travelling Optimist podcast in which he meets incredible people from all walks of life from all over the world, offering stories and advice on how optimism can be the driving force towards your goals and happiness. With a background in the travel business and currently a Mortgage Advisor, Steve is no stranger to motivation and advising people on moving towards their dreams.   
John and Steve discuss his early influences, his career and family life, his COVID experience and his childhood's influence on his own parenting and life choices.
 
KEY TAKEAWAYS

Steve inherited his outlook from his paternal grandparents who showed optimism even in the face of disadvantage and serious illness.
Starting his own travel business freed him from long hours which allowed him to spend more time with his family.
When COVID destroyed the travel business Steve used his optimism to create new opportunities for himself as a Mortgage Advisor and to start The Travelling Optimist podcast.
Steve has found his childhood has influenced him to approach parenting in a different way to give his own children a different experience. 

 
BEST MOMENTS
‘She was just generally such a happy person. She realised that life is short and she was one person that I always used to go to whenever I had issues at school when I was younger for being bullied.’ - Steve
‘Basically, travel hit a brick wall. No one was going anywhere and it's been a complete nightmare for most of my friends in the industry.’ – Steve
‘It seems really interesting what you said about not sitting back because my question was going to be ‘how was your optimism when the travel industry just completely disappeared?’’ - John
‘I speak to people and try to go into a little bit of depth into their lives and their backgrounds and their backstory and add some context to what they’re doing now, talk about insight.’ – Steve
‘There are so many people out there with fabulous stories and incredible insight.’ – Steve
 
GUEST RESOURCES
Listen to The Travelling Optimist podcast 
https://www.deezer.com/en/show/1057392
Steve's LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/thetravellingoptimist
 
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ABOUT THE HOST
I am John Kenny, The Relationship Guy - Coaching people to experience healthy loving relationships. 
Having spent a life choosing unhealthy relationships and self sabotaging my own success, I now coach people to live a life they choose.
 
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