Chase Your Dream 101 Online Class

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Alexis

Hi! This post has nothing to do with food or travel but here it goes…

The Dream Share Project (my film/workshop) is offering a 4 week online class – Chase Your Dream 101 – starting June 1!

So, what’s this online class all about, you may be asking?

The class will cover…

Week 1: How to discover and prioritize your passions.
Week 2: What’s holding you back? Tips on blasting through mental roadblocks, explaining your dream to loved ones and overcoming self-doubt.
Week 3: How to create a plan, fund your dream, and break your big goal into daily action.
Week 4: How to develop the habits of success, overcome unforeseen challenges, and monetize your dream.

What do you get?

4 weeks of inspirational reading, podcasts, & exercises designed to help you figure out what your dream is and get on the path to doing it
2 consultation calls with Chip & Alexis to discuss your progress
access to an online community of fellow dreamers who are looking for help, new ideas and collaboration
feedback on individual exercises and group discussion
a customized final project that will give you practical experience related to your dream job
a final report on your progress in the class with suggestions for your next steps

You can learn more about the class or sign up here. Help us spread the word or pass the link along to someone who needs help discovering and pursuing their dreams!

You guys are the best. xoxo Alexis

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How to Get Along while You Get Along

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Alexis

One of the questions people always ask at every screening we do is:

1.) What’s it like to go on a road trip/travel with your significant other, and how do you not kill each other?

2.) What are your tips for getting along on a long trip?

My response to Question # 1: Uh…

My response to Question # 2: Uh…

I am not totally qualified to answer these questions because I almost made Chip ride home in the trunk. Joke! After two three-month long trips with Chip, and living out of a car/tent together, I have collected some wisdom and insight into getting along with your significant other on travel.

How to Get Along while You Get Get Along:

1.) Compromise on things like music, podcasts and audio books. You can play whatever you want if the passenger is occupied with snoozing, but unless you want to incur sighs, pointed coughs and deliberate Ipod sabotage, you are going to have to find podcasts/music/audio books that you both enjoy. On this road trip Chip and I listened to Rob Lowe’s book, Be More Chill by Ned Vizzeni, two Hunger Games books, Bossypants by Tina Fey, and uh…one Sookie Stackhouse book. No judgement!

As for podcasts, some podcasts we both liked were: The Ricky Gervais Podcast (hilarrriousss), How Did This Get Made (discussion of HORRIBLE movies, my personal favorite was “I Know Who Killed Me”), This American Life and How Stuff Works.

Side note: It is important to not always compromise on things to listen to as well, because this can lead to comments like: “I’m sooooo sick of this!” But try it for…75% of your trip. Trust me, it makes life easier, and you’ll listen to things you wouldn’t otherwise. (image)

2..) As mentioned in my previous post, alone time is crucial if you want to make it on a long trip with your significant other. Give yourself some space with a few hours alone, or spend the day apart. You’ll return to one another with joy in your hearts, a smile on your face and maybe a few shopping bags (or maybe a panini press?). Fly solo, baby, and fly right to that frozen yogurt store during your alone time – it will never taste better.

3.) Bring enough blankets, headphones, laptop cords, gummi fruit snacks… Whatever it is you and your boo value – make sure you have enough. Nothing is worse, or begins to irritate more, when there’s only one pair of headphones, or the blanket is too small for two people to comfortably sit under, or somebody ate ALL of the pretzel rods in four days. Think about the little things you want and need and make sure there are enough for two people.

4.) Don’t pick a fight in the car. Seriously! There is no escape, and because you are stuck, the fight has the potential to drag on…well, forever. If you are truly irritated with something your significant other did, hash it out before you’re in the car, and don’t get in the vehicle until it’s settled. The car is a place for eating potato chips, drinking coffee, laughing to podcasts and enjoying scenery. Keep the car a happy place, and your journey will roll along much more smoothly.

5.) Plan fun things to do together! Whether it’s for work or fun, travel involves lots planning: what to do, where to eat, where to get a drink, where to crash. When one person gets stuck always figuring out how to get from Point A to Point B or when the museum opens, resentment builds. Phrase like this may emit from the “Planner” to the “Recipient of Planning.”

“I always figure out where everything is!”

“Stop making me in charge of everything! I just want YOU to find a $2 martini happy hour and local all-organic feng shui inspired place for dinner!”

“I’m so sick of planning the day and you complaining about it!”

Although one person is probably inclined to search out restaurant deals or find a great day trip, travel research takes lots of time and energy. This means it can wear a person out! Try and research your trip together, or swap off on who’s in charge for the day.

6.) Um..eat regularly. The importance of snacks and meals while traveling/sightseeing and walking around cannot be overstated! You know how your blood sugar starts to drop and you find yourself shouting at small children on the street and eyeing grocery stores? Don’t let that happen. Don’t subject your travel buddy to that. And don’t put up with a hungry travel buddy! Carry some dried fruit and nuts as an emergency stash, and make sure to eat breakfast.

Don’t be scared by naysayers. Traveling with a significant other is fun and will bring you closer together (closer then you have ever known, heh heh).

What are your tips for getting along with a travel buddy?

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Posted on April 24, 2012 by Alexis

Alone time is crucial on a trip with a friend or significant other. Although sharing the magical experience of travel with your partner is exciting and will bring you closer together, there are also moments when you need to be alone. Like, seriously alone. Ahhhh looo nnn onnneee. All aloney on your owney.

Traveling is fun and exhilarating but it can also be stressful, tiring and wear out the strongest of road warriors. Getting lost, eating gross food, spending more money then you thought you would…the occasional hangover…traveling can bring out the worst in anyone. Throughout this tour I have learned some great ways to get your alone time on, thus saving your sanity, and your partner’s.

How to Get Your Alone Time On While Traveling:

1.) While your road warrior buddy is sleeping, listen to a podcast or music of your choice. This feels so good! Take a look at my playlist below…this playlist says I don’t care! I am a lawless woman, hear me sing to Britney! This playlist is particularly special to me for it’s wide variety of songs I have listened to over and over and over again, to the annoyance of everyone who knows me.

Note the Something Corporate and Dashboard Confessional, to bring up pleasant high school nostalgia, the country music focused on cheatin’ men and vampires, the Lisa Loeb, the Gwen Stefani, the Ashlee Simpson. This playlist is all me, all the way, baby, and I do not apologize for it.

P.S. The Glee version of Don’t Rain On My Parade = Lawless to the 100,000th degree. Don’t question it, just download it, right now. You’ll thank me after you belt it out 52 times on your drive to work, with jazz hands.

2.) If you are staying somewhere with separate rooms, go into separate rooms. You will be amazed at how refreshing this experience is! When we stayed in Marathon, FL, in a house, one day Chip laid on the couch downstairs watching Van Wilder, while I ate my way through a bag of Buffalo Bleu Kettle Chips and killed brain cells watching Jerseylicious. It’s the little things in life. But seriously, sometimes the physical experience of being alone is all you need to return to your travel partner with a smile. However, if you are in a place where you must be together…

3.) Separate for the day, or part of the day. This is really refreshing because you can do whatever you want, however you want, as long as you want. Then, you get the comfort of going back to your buddy! It’s nice to explore the things you want to do, without feeling like you’re dragging someone along for the ride. Bonus – it’s awesome to eat whatever you want, without getting any comments about how frozen yogurt isn’t lunch.