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This Woman Traveled To Every Country On Earth. Here’s How She Did It (And You Can, Too)

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How I Paid For It:

I am unusual in that I have no sponsorships or endorsements—I pay for all my travels out of my pocket. For the first decade or so, I would return to my home base in Hollywood, do various TV commercials, music videos, even background work, anything that would give me the flexibility to decide my own schedule. Meanwhile, I’d be planning my next trip on a shoestring budget.

Home was never a happy place for me due to a traumatic childhood I’d had with a lot of domestic fighting, police visits, my parents’ brutal divorce and custody battle leading to a restraining order, which led to me never being able to see my dad again, from age 6 until he passed away when I was 18. Throw into that mix a mental illness in my family, which led to more fighting, and you can see why I didn’t like being at home.

Embrace your heritage and everything about yourself. Funny enough, growing up I had an identity crisis because I was the only Indian girl in my entire class of all-American students in Middle America. I never felt that I fit in or belonged. Oh, how I wanted to fade away—literally and figuratively—into an anonymous, homogenous crowd of people and not stand out. Looking back, I can’t imagine why I felt that way and didn’t celebrate my differences and beautiful complexion.

 

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Who else has a goal to travel to every country?

Congratulations Melissa! That’s an awesome achievement.

travelling all countries is one thing; getting outa Turkey alive is another 🤣😂 congratz

By herself?

Thanks for sharing this story - MappedByMelissa is truly inspirational!

Was she also in Nigeria 🇳🇬?.

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I would love to be able to do this!

Women Great story and love her accomplishment. Including DaysForGirls if she wants to learn more to follow her next passion forward.

I forced myself outa home today, u all can do !

and *I* can too!!!!!!!

Nice

no thanks .. better stay at home and have a corona

How can I meet her?

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