We are a world traveling family (one adult and an almost 6 year old boy) who love to meet new people, and share our laughter, and playfulness with people! I am working while we travel, helping people create relationships of deep love, and passion through my JoyGasm program which I teach wherever people are interested, and also online. In the last year Alex (my son) and I have been to Bali, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Seattle, San Francisco and Western Canada/US, France, Spain and Morocco. I care deeply about people doing work that lets them be of service following their passions and living their dreams, and I used to work full time with small businesses as webdesigner. Now I only take on special projects, as I focus on my own JoyGasm School.

My passion is helping people transform from their mundane lives so they can live from their passions. As such I are dedicated to doing my part to create strong conscious relationships, and dream of helping in building eco-transformational-village-network all over the world. Big dreams need passionate people!

I have over 6 years experience in online business and have a wide skill set including graphics design, copywriting, social marketing, and personal development. Over the last 6 years I've launched over 80 online businesses.

Alex is 6 (sometimes 7 or 8) and loves Lego, "experiments" that involve baking soda and vinegar, being read to and drawing. His favorite food is Pizza, and he's incredibly excited about anything that involves cheese!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to get to know YOU! We love being more integrated into local communities and experience a sense of "home" that you don't get from staying in a hotel or hostel.

Interests

• seth godin

Music, Movies, and Books

The Dip - Seth Godin
The Witch of Portobello - Paulo Coelo,
Stranger in a Strange Land, Time Enough for Love - Heinlein

Youtube Stars: Matt Kahn, Marie Forleo, Danielle Laport, Seth Godin, Art of Charm, Brendan Bruchard

Movies: Inception, Interstellar, The Matrix, Fight Club, Fifth Element, Princess Bride, Never-ending Story, Dark Crystal,
and also (because Elena hasn't watched adult movies in AGES) Lego Movie, Frozen, Kung Fu Panda, Lion King, Ratatouille, and many many others...

Podcasts: The Art of Charm,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Elena - Travel the world for 5 years as a single mother, spending life and time in the beach while building a business.
Live the dream by going to Afest in Costa Rica 2016 and later get to spend 5 days on CoBoat in Thailand, balancing work, adventure and motherhood. Yikes but worth it!

What I Can Share with Hosts

After 20 years of gruelling 8 month winters in some of the coldest parts of Canada, in 2005 I decided that I would never experience winter again, and started traveling to Mexico for the winters. Since then I've been all over the world with my son Alex. While single parenting and starting my own webdesign business, I began working with energy healers and coaches, and quickly knew that I was meant to help these people make a bigger difference in the world. 

This has evolved over the years to my own practice JoyGasm. I teach workshops in person and online. I've been sharing this with our (Eco-friendly, granola, healer, coach, millennial who wants to return to nature and community's living) communities and found that we all want the same thing. Community, happiness, intimacy, touch, love, a place outside of the city to call home with our favourite people, and to live closer to the spirit of the earth and nature. 

I have big big plans that JoyGasm will spread through our community, and be the fuel that allows them to create the healthy bonding and relationships so strong that we are closer than family. This will call and activate the groups of leaders who together will be the founders of these 10000's of communities. 

I'm pretty sure you're one of them, and would love to meet, get to know you (and if it makes sense) to help activate YOUR space, while offering my skills as I can.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, Cambodia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Mexico, South Korea, United States