I’m
Sara
Embolden Adventures is a travel content site inspiring you to see the world! To get out there! To explore! To learn!
Be Emboldened!
I have encouraged others to join me on my epic adventures that were the wildest of their dreams and entirely out of their comfort zone. And that is when I created Embolden Adventures.
And who am I?
I am a world-traveling, scuba-diving, wanderlusting, spiritually transforming, International Public Speaker, Travel Storyteller, Author, and Embolden Adventurer.
Introducing…Me! Sara
I spent nearly a decade working crazy, intense hours on Wall Street. As you can imagine, I became burnt out. My spirit was unhappy. My soul was broken. And I craved something more fulfilling.
In 2009 – on the heels of the financial crisis, I became scuba certified. I went on one dive trip, fell in love with diving, and haven’t looked back. The motion of the ocean – its harmonious nature and healing powers brought me back to life. Since making my first dive trip, I have embarked on adventures worldwide, from the depths of the oceans to the heights of the mountains and the mysterious megalithic and beyond.
So far, I have visited approximately 42+ countries and more than half of the United States. More so, I have been learning, enhancing, understanding, and growing my gifts by tapping into the divine and the wild and trusting my heart rather than my engineering brain.
Over the last 15 years, I have been undergoing a broad, spiritual awakening; a seeking of sorts. I have worked with energy healers; channelers; shamans & medicine people; priestesses; monks; past life regression facilitators; authors; plant medicine spirits including Mama Ayahuasca, mushroom teachers, and sacred cannabis; and mother nature herself.
In late 2019, I received a call to embark on a profound two-week ayahuasca journey in the Amazon Rainforest with the Shipibo shamans.
Fast forward to the present time, my adventures have taken me to my first Embolden Adventures memoir coming soon. Go on the in-depth adventure through my eyes, and words from Morocco to the Amazon Rainforest, Southern Peru, and Bolivia. It is an exciting and mystical travel adventure memoir based on my Five-Week Adventure around the world: 5 weeks, 4 itineraries, 3 countries, 2 continents, and 1 epic adventure!
“The world is an amazing place if you just have the courage to see it.”
I am turning my 30+ travel journals – interspersed with my 20+ years’ of living in New York City – into some real memoirs.
From the rise and fall of the financial crisis in 2008 with my front-row seat to my budding love of travel around the world – summiting mountains, swimming with sharks, seeking the mystic and megalithic, and meeting such incredible people along the way.
I have journaled for years while riding the subway back and forth two+ hours a day from Brooklyn to my office on Park Avenue; while flying through the sky on international flights with no movies – just the flight map and my house music tunes blaring in my ear pods; while trying to make sense of the incredible, and at times unbelievable, world unfolding around me. My journals are my attempts to self-reflect and tread water with my perseverance in life.
Coming soon so stay tuned!
Sara’s travels in a “coconut” shell
- Scuba-dived with whale sharks, schools of hammerhead sharks, manta rays, sea lions, and other exotic sea creatures in remote parts of the ocean
- Summited Mount Kilimanjaro, the rooftop of Africa at over 19,000 feet and Mount Fuji in Japan at nearly 13,000 feet
- Taken a hot air balloon rides over the ancient pagodas of Bagan, Myanmar and the Irrawaddy River; lions in the Serengeti, the Black Hills of North Dakota, the Wadi Rum desert in Jordan, and the pyramids of Teotihuacan in Mexico
- Circled the mystifying Stonehenge
- Touched the stone moai of Easter Island
- Marveled at the enigmatic Machu Picchu from a bird’s eye view perch of Huayna Picchu
- Explored the remote Datong China region including the hanging monastery and 10,000 carved stone Buddhas
- Saw a volcano erupt in Costa Rica
- Walked through an underground tunnel in the DMZ between North and South Korea
- Watched the sunset and then saw the full blanket of the Milky Way over the Mauna Kea summit in Hawaii
- Received Native American drum and sweat lodge blessings at the energy vortices in Sedona, Arizona
- Ran across the Brooklyn Bridge
- Posed in front of the magnificent Taj Mahal
- Swam with great white sharks (with a cage of course!), tuna, and sea lions in Australia
- Sailed through the atolls in the Maldives
- Walked the Great Wall of China
- Straddled the equator in Ecuador
- Flew over the Nazca lines in Peru
- Grooved at the breathtaking Salt Flats of Uyuni in Bolivia
- Visited Sultan’s palaces in Muscat, Oman
- Rocked in Bogota, Colombia with the band Metallica (as a concert-goer ☺ )
- Meditated with Buddhist monks in upstate New York
- Slept in a teepee at the mysterious Devil’s Tower in Wyoming
- Encountered the rarest of white dolphins swimming in the ocean near Monterey, California
- Prayed with a shaman at the Temple of Quetzalcoatl on the pyramids of Teotihuacan
- Stood next to the stone face of Crazy Horse at the monument in South Dakota
- Adventured through the antique Rose City of Petra in Jordan
- Met my doppelgänger Aisha in Abu Dhabi who I once saw featured in the New York Times
- Danced the tango in Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Attended a Native American powwow at MHA Nation in North Dakota
- Ceremonied with shamans in the Amazon Rainforest
- Rode a horse through Navajo Nation and Monument Valley
- Drove over the vast sand dunes in the Sharjah desert in the United Arab Emirates
- Sandboarded in the oasis deserts of Ica Peru
- Stood atop the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa
- Skied on a ski slope inside the mall in Dubai
- White water rafted some of the most fearsome rivers in the world
- and so much more!
500K
miles flown around the world and counting
26+
years adventuring
43+
countries
6
continents
300+
scuba dives
2x
French kissing a wolf
If you are that person who imagines traveling to places near or far, let Embolden Adventures encourage you to take those steps to experience the world.
Be Emboldened!
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Sara’s New Book
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