The Dream I Always Postponed

Hey everyone,

Today I wanted to share a small personal victory with you.

And it's partly thanks to you, so I wanted to thank you and share this moment:

I just booked my flight to Thailand for a month in November.

I leave in a week.

And I'm incredibly excited about this trip because honestly, I've been in the online business world for 8 years now, but I've never traveled much.

I've never been to Asia like so many entrepreneurs do.

And there's a reason for that.

My Journey Before Noah's Ark

I haven't talked much about this on my YouTube channel or in my emails, but I want to share a bit of my journey before creating Noah's Ark.

When my SMMA agency business started taking off at around 18 years old, I moved to Estonia.

I stayed there for over 3 years before coming back to France.

And I've been back in France for 2 years now.

When I was in Estonia, I didn't travel much.

I went to Croatia once for 3 weeks with friends, but that was it.

Those were very difficult periods, both personally and business-wise.

I lost all drive and desire to do the businesses I was running.

The agency, the infoproducts, the SMMA coaching.

I stopped everything because it didn't fulfill me anymore.

I couldn't see myself continuing down that path.

I went through a massive existential crisis.

I ended up moving back to France, working as a freelancer for a year.

Then in 2024, I launched Noah's Ark.

And here we are.

So a year later, being able to say I'm going to Thailand thanks to this new business I created less than a year ago, being able to leave for a month thanks to the fruits of this new creator business I've developed with the systems I've built these past months...

It fills me with so much gratitude and excitement.

Reconnecting With The Original Dream

Honestly, I've also been in a period recently where I felt I was lacking a bit of drive, of excitement.

I felt I needed to reconnect with the original dream that pushed me to launch into online business in the first place.

Which was to travel to Asia.

The things that made me dream when I started at 16, 17 years old. The things that pushed me to quit school and launch my agency, to make money.

It was all to be a digital nomad and travel around the world, working on my laptop.

And I put that dream aside.

Because when I got into online business, that dream was what drove me to work.

But what happened is that by getting interested in online business, I started listening more and more to gurus and people on YouTube.

Monk mode. Full sacrifice. Work optimization.

To the point where I told myself

"No, I need to keep developing my business and scaling it before I travel. I'll travel later."

I always postponed it.

Aside from my move to Estonia, I always postponed a trip to Asia even though it was my original dream.

And I feel like that was a bit of a mistake.

I remember back then, with one of my best friends, Reynold, we told ourselves we'd stay in Tallinn even in winter to grind, develop our businesses, scale them, instead of going to Bali or Thailand like our friends did.

Because we thought there would be distractions. We wouldn't develop.

It was the smartest choice to stay in Tallinn and grind.

And look, I don't regret doing that.

Those experiences taught me things.

But ultimately, I realized something:

Staying in an environment that no longer stimulates you, in a routine that's lost its creativity, especially as a content creator...

Is counterproductive.

As Creators, we're at our best when we feel inspired, creative and stimulated.

The Identity Shift

The only way to have new ideas and become a new person is to think differently.

And the longer you stay in one environment, the more your thought patterns become automatic and identical.

So it becomes harder and harder to transform your identity when you always stay in the same place.

That's why it's super important to travel and move to different places.

For example, a lot of people say:

Leave the city where you grew up.

Because if you stay in the city where you grew up, you won't evolve as a person.

It's always after traveling to other places, meeting new people, being in a new dynamic that you can also create a new identity for yourself.

And that's clearly the goal for which I'm going to Thailand.

I'm staying a month in Bangkok with a goal to really work hard on my business, create content, develop new formats, revive my YouTube channel and give it new life.

Especially to create new video formats that will be more polished, higher quality.

I want to truly find that excitement again, that drive, that flame for Noah's Ark, which is still the number one project in my life.

And as a person, to develop myself by getting out of my comfort zone and immersing myself in a new environment.

That's why I made this decision.

As I said above, I leave in a week, normally.

And again, I wanted to thank you.

Because it's thanks to you who follow me, who watch my content, and to all the members who join my courses that I was able to have this opportunity to leave, thanks to my business, as a nomad, to take this trip.

So it's thanks to you that this dream I've had since I was a teenager is coming true.

Because again, this is the first time I'm going to Asia.

So thank you all.

I'm extremely grateful.

And that's also why I want to use this trip as an opportunity to deliver even more value, create even better content, find even more ways to grow Noah's Ark, to develop it, and be in contact with all of you.

So that was it for today's email, I just wanted to write this personal email to announce this to you.

I'll see you tomorrow for another email about Noah's Ark.

And welcome back to the Ark.

Noah.