64: Mariah MacInnes Returns — From Whipple’s Procedure to Life as a Digital Nomad

Are you feeling stuck in life with your health condition? 

Mariah MacInnes returns to Wellbeing Interrupted (first heard back in Episode 18 — my very first guest!). A year on, Mariah continues to embrace life as a digital nomad — a life worlds away from the hospital bed she found herself in after undergoing a Whipple’s procedure in her twenties. At that time, she felt completely lost and unsure how she could possibly move forward. 

In this episode, we catch up on how far she’s come, how her business Content Queen is thriving, and how her next chapter involves something a little unexpected: a bus turned mobile headquarters for life on the road in 2025. 

If you LOVED the episode, make sure you share this on your Instagram stories and tag us @contentqueenmariah and @hurdle2hope. 

KEY EPISODE TAKEAWAYS 

• Rebuilding after illness can lead to surprising freedom 
• Your business can support your health, not drain it 
• Pivoting your vision is powerful — even necessary 
• You are more resilient than you think 

SHOW RESOURCES

Content Queen – Mariah’s Business
Follow Mariah on TikTok: @atravellers.co
Instagram: @contentqueenmariah 

ABOUT THE GUEST
Mariah MacInnes is a content strategist, digital nomad, and founder of Content Queen. After a rare cancer diagnosis and major surgery in her twenties, she rebuilt her life with intention. Today, she helps creatives and business owners find sustainable ways to share their story — from wherever they are in the world. 

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Transcript Episode 64: Mariah MacInnes Returns – From Whipple’s Procedure to Life as a Digital Nomad

Teisha Rose: [00:00:00] Hey there, Teisha here, and welcome to episode 64 of Wellbeing Interrupted. As I promised last week, this week, I do have a guest on Mariah MacInnes. . Mariah was the first person I ever interviewed on Wellbeing Interrupted, so way back in episode 18. We touch on some of what Mariah shared during that episode, so no need to go back yet.

But if you want to find out more about Mariah's story, definitely have a listen afterwards, episode 18. I think revisiting guests is so important because in the Hurdle2Hope stories, we talk about really difficult times that people go through. Mariah absolutely went through a devastating. Diagnosis in her mid twenties.

She then went through a Whipple [00:01:00] procedure. I'd never heard of that, but major, major surgery very rarely done on someone her age and Mariah's life now is amazing. She still lives with a health condition in terms of having to go and have regular checkups like lots of you do, and scans and checking. Her cancer hasn't come back.

So please enjoy this episode. Take heart. You know that when life is interrupted, amazing things can still happen. Doesn't mean we're not living with challenges, doesn't mean we don't need to make changes because our lives are different. But as Mariah and I chat about having an open mind, being flexible can really lead to some incredible experiences.

, so enjoy this episode.   [00:02:00] 

Okay, so welcome Mariah. Thank you so much for coming back. Another return guest onto Wellbeing Interrupted.

Mariah MacInnes: Thank you, Tisha, having me. I was actually, it's probably been like a year, just over a year since we recorded, so that's very cool. I like that. It's a nice reflection. 

Teisha Rose: Yeah. Well you are my very first guest, so Yeah. I wanna [00:03:00] tell people to listen back to me, but then I think, oh my goodness, I wasn't as good at interviewing there, but you can, you can then see how far we've come.

 And I thought it was really important because you've had a very busy year. You've done some amazing things. And why I want to get people back is to say yes, these are, , really difficult times happen, but there's also these unexpected experiences that we have. So, and your absolute testament to that.

So yeah. Thank you for agreeing to come back on. Thank you. So just really briefly, if someone hasn't listened to your previous episode, and I'll definitely link that in the show notes quickly tell us how your life changed in your mid twenties. 

Mariah MacInnes: Mm. Yeah. It's funny, someone was talking about their twenties.

Um, they're gonna write a book on journal entries for their twenties. I'm like, Jesus, if I did mine, it would be very interesting. And I'm sure you could say the same thing, Teish. So basically at 26, um, I was [00:04:00] diagnosed with two tumors and needed like crazy emergency Whipples surgery. And I spent my 27th birthday in hospital recovering from this major surgery.

I had neuroendocrine cancer and it. It changed me in so many different ways. It changed the way I look at my health, my body. But I went from like building a business and go, go, go and hustle energy to like, oh my God, you're, you could die. Um, and I think it's pretty crazy to go through at a young age, but it definitely gave me perspective on life that I've never had before.

And it made some pretty drastic changes that now you look back and you think, oh, they just. Feel like they naturally just happened and you see, hear people that do all different things to change their health and some of them can be pretty wild. But um, yeah, it changed a lot. It changed the way I do business, the way I approach my life and goals as well.

And I think that's something you're really big on is having that vision. And I think it is, can be really hard to have that. When you think you've got your whole life ahead of you, but then you're not really sure 'cause you're going through this pretty [00:05:00] crazy time. So yeah, it was a month in hospital, heaps of recovery and identity loss.

I felt like I lost my whole identity and um, a lot of pain along the way. Second surgeries, little health things, you know. Oh, not another thing, not another thing that comes up. But, um, life changed dramatically at 26 for me. 

Teisha Rose: Yeah, it, it did. And I like the way you put it in terms of the life changes in the now and that disrupts the now.

But it is, it's that change of what you thought your life would be. And we spend so much time at school, you know, thinking, right, I'm gonna do this course, and I know you went to university, and then you think, right, I'm gonna be on this path. This is how my life's going to go. And then bang, it's just thrown in the air.

So you felt like that as well? 

Mariah MacInnes: Definitely. It's, it's, yeah, you, I had this, I mean, covid had happened, so I kind of, I guess we, we were used to being a bit interrupted, but something outside of [00:06:00] your own self. Right? But when you have it internally. , wellbeing is interrupted, , as the, the podcast suggests, but , yeah, you think you, I'm a very systematic, I know how my life is gonna go on paper.

I know exactly. I still am like that, but I think, yeah, when these things come about, you go, oh, why me? Why I was like on a good thing. But then you slowly start to realize that things are happening for you, not to you, and you can sort of redirect your life, but you don't see that while you're in it. You're just like, this is shit.

Teisha Rose: Yeah. Yeah. A hundred percent. So if we fast forward to today, life is very different for you. , you are a digital nomad. So for people who don't know what that means, tell us a little bit what about what life is for you today. 

Mariah MacInnes: Mm-hmm. Yeah.

It's, um, no day looks the same, that's for sure. At the mument, I'm, because of my health, I had to change what digital nomad looked like. I can't, . [00:07:00] You know, I would love to have. In 2022, you said, see your mum and dad and never to be seen again sort of vibes. Yeah, but obviously I had to come back, , every six months to kind of see my oncologist and get my scans.

I'm hoping he'll eventually up me to 12 months. But anyway, that's a conversation I have to have with him because this is for the next, like 10 years in total from, you know, 27 to 37 is going and seeing this oncologist and I'm only 31, so I'm still in the thick of it. , . So yeah, like. My partner and I, we travel around the world.

We live in Airbnbs or out inside of our car, or we've recently just bought a bus. I'm sure we'll talk about that so we do live in different places and then when I have to come back for health reasons or you know, different life events, we've got mum and dad to ground ourselves. . But life looks like adventure and fun.

And obviously it can be really tiring though, like travelling to different countries and navigating airports and visas and accommodation and what you wanna do on the weekend because you wanna make the [00:08:00] most of it and working as well. So there's a lot of different things happening, which, you know, you could look at my life and be like, oh wow, like you are way too busy.

But I think it's that intentional. Intentionally busy, like being aligned to what I'm doing. Not just doing things because you've gotta tick, tick off a list of, you know, career goals or family goals or life goals. It's like, this is what I wanna do. It's not, you know, I'm, I'm 31. , people have told me many a times, you know, your clock is ticking and all those things and whatever, and rah rah.

But, um, no, for me it's like I live my life to how I wanna be in it because I've. You know, I've, I think when you go through these experiences, you learn if I'm meant to have children or if this, if that, it will happen. You know, I don't have to go on a timeline of what everyone else wants me to go on because.

If I do that, I probably won't live the life I want to and I'm gonna die anyway. So I might as well do it in a way that's right for me. So I think like digital nomad life is basically having your laptop, [00:09:00] having your suitcase in your backpack and some money in your pocket and seeing where it takes you.

But there's been times we haven't had money in our pocket and you just make it work, you know, like we all have bills to pay. My bills are just airlines and, um, you know, Airbnb's not rent and. Electricity. 

Teisha Rose: Yeah, transport. It's true. But you've seen some amazing things. So yeah, a couple of things so people understand where you're coming from.

Like you've travelled to some incredible countries, so, we'll yeah, give us a, give us a, , a top couple, I'm sure South America's in, , the highlights. Mm-hmm. Um, and also what type of work you are doing to enable this to. 

Mariah MacInnes: Yeah. So yeah, been to South America, Europe, Morocco. We've traveled a lot of Australia, we've done Southeast Asia.

We just recently returned from the Philippines and Vietnam, so that's fresh in my, my mind, although now it feels like a lifetime ago, because this is what happens, like. These different travel adventures actually feel like different years. So this time last year I was in South America, but that feels [00:10:00] like three years ago.

Europe was only two years ago. That feels like ages ago. And Mitch and I are sitting on our next adventure, which is, we just bought a bus because Mitch, uh, my partner is South American. That's why we. Loved South America is definitely a highlight and he's going for his citizenship. So we we're, we're grounded here, but that's the importance of having that goal and vision.

It's not just for your health, but for when things derail a little bit. We didn't expect to be grounded here. We were gonna do six months in Southeast Asia, and I think your, um, roadmap helps in every different situation because when we found that news out was so excited, he got his pr, but then we're like.

Oh my God, we have to stay here. So we, we changed the vision and now we have this bus and we're very excited and that's sort of like our future and it's giving us something to. Work towards. But what we do on the road is we help with content marketing, social media, so basically taking my skillset in corporate and in my university degree, journalism, pr, marketing.

And built a business around it. I think everyone has the capability to do that if you ever wanted to do it. I think it's just having that [00:11:00] vision and you know, diving deep into your skill sets. People message me, how do you do this? And. I can't really explain it. Just one day I decided to create a PRI profile on a freelancing platform called fifa, and my life has never been the same.

. So those intentional steps that you take will get you there. It's just we're always looking at someone else's path and going, oh, I wanna be there, but you've gotta experience, it's like the same with health. If someone's in remission, you're like, I wanna be there. But you've gotta go through your own path to get, you've just gotta have that belief that you can get there.

And I think, um. Obviously with health, we know things can, can't, we can't always control. But if you do have that strong belief, I really do truly believe that you can get to where you wanna be. Yeah, I think it's just finding those things that light you up and turning 'em into a job, basically.

Teisha Rose: Yeah. And I think though, I like how you touched on how what we go through with our health then helps us to pivot in other areas of our life. So I know that you had all these plans of travelling. [00:12:00] Around the world this year, but something, you know, you mentioned with Mitch, with his citizenship, you couldn't just be back and forth overseas, so you had to ground yourself here, but straight away you've pivoted and so do.

Having that experience with, , the massive Whipples and all of that has helped you to straightaway pivot because it didn't take you long to go to switch gear and think, right, I'm going to travel, you know, Asia, or I think you're going Asia. Yeah. Or the year and then all of a sudden next on Instagram, there's a picture of a bus.

Mariah MacInnes: I know, I know. So the thing is like, I think that resilience that you build in the hospital bed really does, um, gear you up for anything that can happen in your life. . Because you just know like, okay, I can do this again. And, and yeah, it's not as dramatic like, oh, we just can't travel. But I think when you have.

You have those goals and you have those things that you wanna do. And I'm not very good at. No. And I'm not very good at telling me that I [00:13:00] can't, people telling me I can't do something. Um, so it was pretty like, oh, we'll bit gutted. But obviously it was great 'cause Mitch was a permanent resident of Australia and that's amazing news.

So we were just like, okay. We just, like, we sat in it, we sat in that yuckiness of feeling that and felt the emotions and, and all that. And then we just went, all right, what, what do we wanna do then? Because I'm not staying in Gippsland, which is where I'm currently based. Not that it's not amazing, but the winter here is cold and you know, I just.

It's not as if I was doing something like camping or some new adventure. I'd be like, sure, gippslands fine. But like, you know, we did it last year. I'm like, I'm not doing it again. Yeah. I don't wanna see another year go by because, , we know this when we've gone through these like challenging muments in our lives.

No year, no days is, is guaranteed. So you wanna live it to the full. So of course you can't live like every day is your last 'cause I'm sure we wouldn't be working and we wouldn't be. We'd spend all our money and whatever. We wouldn't be future proofing. But I don't wanna be stuck in somewhere that it's not a hundred percent aligned to me.

So like, okay, what is it? A bus? All [00:14:00] right, how are we gonna get the money? Dunno. It'll just work. Yeah. We know the universe works in magic ways and it did for us. We, , had awesome job opportunities come up that allowed us to put some money, more money away. , the first bus that we saw was exactly what we wanted in the 'cause.

Obviously you've got all these objections. Oh, but it needs to be auto because Mariah can't drive a manual and Mitch doesn't have his driver's license. Like he has a Colombian one, not Australian one. So we need to get Mitch's license. If you have a bus too heavy, you have to get a special license. If you have, we have to take all the seats out of the bus.

We have to renovate it, we have to do this, we have to do that before we can even leave. We found a bus, no seats automatic. Can drive on a normal license 'cause they took all the seats out so it's light up. So like all those objections just became one bus packaged up for us and delivered straight to us because we knew that's what we wanted to do and we knew it was gonna happen.

We weren't stressed about it. We weren't, yeah, we were doing a bit of research, but literally it was like we got home from the Philippines and Mitch's like, we have to do something towards bus. I'm like, yeah, yeah, we'll find time. And then one weekend we're doing a bit of Googling. It was like the long, the Labor [00:15:00] day, long weekend.

And um, I just found one and I just text him and I was like, we can come on Friday and. It was perfect. So, you know, I'm not saying that happens every time, but I think 'cause we just really trusted the process and I think it's really hard when you're going through challenges, when you gotta make shifts and pivots.

But I think trusting the process is, is kind of one of the biggest things you have to do. And it is very hard to sit here and say that to anyone going through a health challenge. Like trust the process. But if you do, um, you can kind of let yourself heal and let yourself, you know, surrender to that. 'cause I was fighting.

Health, I was fighting all these things all the time. Get better. I wanna get outta hospital, I wanna do this. And the more you fight, the more things come up that make you go sit down, relax. You know, just trust the process. So that was big for us. And I think all the stuff that I'd done, all the work from hospital, from post-surgery, from all the other health things that have come up in that process.

That I had to learn to surrender helped me so much in these like tiny little things that come up in life [00:16:00] that we have to pivot. That, that all that resilience and all those things that I learned, I think helped me. I. Incredibly. Like, I, I wouldn't, I would still be in a bad mood now, 

Teisha Rose: but That's so true. And for anyone listening who's thinking, oh, that's not fair.

I've got this fine. You know, sit with that emotion. But really think everything I've been through, like you said, it's, I've learned so much through that. I've evolved so much that. Just use that same mindset to think, okay, I'm stuck here. I'm not happy in my job. I'm not happy with how I feel. Pivot and change it.

You know, you sit and stay. If you sat there thinking it's not fair, I want to go to Southeast Asia, this is my plans. That would never happen. You would never have got to that bus because the momentum wasn't there. You would've still been sitting in that energy. So I just think it is up to us a lot of the time, and I think what is good is what's not good.

[00:17:00] We're both been through major stuff, but we can say that. We can say, you know, we both had a choice. We could have sat in the unfairness of it all, of having our twenties interrupted or like we've both done, said, no, I don't wanna miss out. I wanna get on the bus and go, , and do things. I love that you've done that as well.

Mariah MacInnes: Hmm. And I think all of the times we can let things get in the way. Oh, but this, yes. Like, oh, you know, I've got to go to Sydney in May. Oh, but I've gotta do go here and. I don't know. I think when you let those barriers down, and I do see it happen a lot on, I guess TikTok, there is like a chronic illness community, and I think it's beautiful to have, but there is these like always these objections or these excuses like, oh, I could never do that, or I could, and it's like, but, but why?

Yeah, of course there's are some limitations to certain things that we can do, but if it's something you really want to do. You'll make it work in whatever way that looks like. It might not exactly be [00:18:00] how you want it to be, but I think all of the times, you know, I'll like, oh, I could never go back to the gym and I, I can't do the weights I used to do.

It just doesn't happen. But maybe one day I could if I, if I wanted to, right. It doesn't seem like I do, right. But I could still go to the gym and do something, you know, or whatever that looks like. And I think finding those things that build that momentum is really important because without it, um. It is really hard to get the legs to, you know, keep that wheel turning because otherwise you just sit in that stagnant energy and I've been in it 2021 after the surgery.

I was so deep in it and I was just like, oh, I can't do this and I can't do that and life is never gonna be the same and this and this and that energy I was stuck in for like six months. I was so depressed. Is the stands out as one of the most miserable times? I think in hospital there was more like.

Goal. Oh, the goal is to get outta hospital the goal. But then once I was out of hospital, it was like, okay, now what? And I got so lost in that and so stuck in it. And I think, , even just having [00:19:00] something that you want to achieve in your life, even if you got to do it a little bit differently, , it's worth still going after.

And even that travel, like I met Mitch, I wanted to do solo travel, but then I met Mitch, and Mitch came on my journey and my parents were so thankful that I'd met Mitch. 'cause they didn't want me gallivanting around the world, even though. It's done. Teish you definitely did it, but my parents, obviously your parents were probably the same, like, oh God, um, stressed at home.

But you know, the people that, people come up in your life in that part of your journey and you go, okay, well this is how it's meant to go. These, this is the way it's meant to happen. So I think it, it's so easy to get lost in it, but it's harder to pull yourself out of it. But once you do, it's harder to get back in, if that makes sense.

Teisha Rose: Yeah, a hundred percent. Because you are teaching yourself and you, it is that positive reinforcement like, I made these changes and look what happened. And for those who haven't listened to the episode, Mariah, when she was in South America, was, you know, got engaged, um, to Mitch. And Mitch is, you know, a beautiful partner who [00:20:00] wasn't in Mariah's life as she was lying in that hospital bed.

And as she. Was in that six months of depression and all these things happen, but they won't happen if you sit in that energy. 

Mariah MacInnes: No. It's like, you know, if you think about the analogy of like finding Mitchell or finding a partner. Yeah. You know, they say like, oh, he's not gonna come knocking, or she or they are not gonna come knocking at your door, which is.

Is Right, right. You have to do something, even if it is going out to get a coffee or downloading a dating app, or even if you never meet them on the dating app, it's that intentionality of like, I want this to change, so what are the steps that I need to take? And they're not massive, I think to, to get the one thing that I did to get out of that depression state that I was in.

I booked, we come outta lockdown and I booked a holiday with my friend and I met Mitch on that holiday. So there was just like that all I had to do is book that holiday and take some time off work, have some space, and have that travel in my life, even if it was just five hours away. And that's all [00:21:00] I could do for that.

It was just one thing that I did. And then that my whole life changed after that. Yeah. Once I met Mitch, he, you know, he was so excited. So like it lift and it gave me something to focus on, a new relationship. And then after that, like our dreams just like flew and then now we just like, we're on this such, this high of momentum that it's just like, it's so hard to not do the things.

Like even when we got home, it was like, oh, it's gonna get easy for us to just stay at your mum and dad's and not get the bus. And I'm like, yeah, it will, but we won't because. We've never not done the thing we said we're gonna do. And then like literally two weeks later and now a month from then, we've already got it's done.

Tick. 

Teisha Rose: Yeah. And I love that. And I think for people listening, this is like, I, I like this too because we go on, not tangents, but I think this is the absolute take from this episode is that if you do start that. momentum. If you start making changes, amazing things do happen. And they do. Yeah. And that was exactly the same.

I bought a unit the next [00:22:00] day, Andrew did come knock him because the sewer was overflowing literally. And um, he unblocked that. And then we've been together ever since. And then that momentum happens, and now I'm sitting on a hundred acres of land and I would never, ever have done that living in South Bank, being devastated that MS

interrupted my corporate career. Yeah. Now I can think nothing worse. Nothing wrong with doing what people are doing in corporate, that's fine. But for me, yeah, this is where my healing has to be. And like you, no matter what happens, we, we both live with a massive uncertain futures. But we know that whatever happens, we can pivot and apply everything we've learnt to deal with that. Do you feel like that brings you comfort? 

Mariah MacInnes: Oh, a hundred percent. I like, you know, I know I've spoken to a lot of people that have had a Whipples that I could never go through that again. Like, and actually I think about it, obviously I don't want to go through that again. Yeah.

But if I had to, I think I could do it. I [00:23:00] think, I know I could do it a hundred percent. Like I had to have a second surgery after the Whipples. And some people said, oh my God, that would've been so traumatic. I'm like, nah, actually I was okay. 'cause I had done some work on myself in that time and I think it, that's why women, I think I've spoken about this before, that's why women go back.

To have children. I wouldn't know that experience, but you almost forget some of those traumas. You know, you don't forget everything, but, but that's what happens when you build that resilience or you have that end goal. Like if you have a child, you have the baby at the end and that's like worth it, you know?

It's the same like all of this stuff. And at the end of the day, like no matter what is gonna happen, it's gonna happen. I can't change that. Yeah. And at least if I look back and go, oh my God, I'm so glad though that I did what I wanted to do. So that I didn't like. 'cause at, at the end of the day, nothing is gonna change whether I sit in my bed and be upset or I go out and see the world.

It's none of that. So I might as well do the thing 'cause [00:24:00] it's not gonna impact whether the cancer comes back or not. If anything, I think it going out, living my life seems to be working. Like my oncologist is like, keep doing what you're doing. Like I've had a few hiccups, but it was from when I was in stagnant Energy.

Not completely fallen off that, but we have that stagnant energy and that's when we. Tend to not look after ourselves as much, and then little, little niggles come up and it's a little reminder of like, get back up. You've got this actually. The thyroid issue that I had happened when I was in between two visions.

So one vision had kind of ended and I hadn't really thought about the next vision, and I got this little health hiccup and then it pushed me forward to create that. So Mitch and I had this big bit of paper and we drew out our big. 10 year vision and then I, I, um, I come out of the clouds and then obviously like did some stuff to get better and now my thyroid's fine.

So, you know, it's sometimes those little niggles come up to get you on that. Okay. What's next? Like, move through sort of what you're in because, um, and stagnant energy is fine. I don't think it's a bad thing. I [00:25:00] think depressive episodes or feeling bad for yourself and I don't think is a bad thing. No, as long as you go, okay, that's enough.

Let's move through it. 'cause I think those muments come for like big transformation. I feel every time I've had those massive transformation has come off the back of it. Um, it's just, you gotta have that level of awareness and people around you to pull you through it. 'cause Yeah, it's very hard to do it alone.

Teisha Rose: A hundred percent. And you've gotta, as you said, you gotta be authentic to those feelings, but then you gotta. Rely on support or you know, your support network or new support network, you know, in terms of getting health professionals in to help you move through that. Just moving forward, like you're talking about, your bus trip and it's gonna be amazing.

So how can people connect with you so we can follow along and travel around Australia with you? And the other thing I'd like you to do is also with. It's your business. A lot of people I [00:26:00] know living with health conditions are making changes to their career because it is so much easier working from home.

Mm-hmm. And as we're more and more being the world's, you know, now forgotten that it's better with chronic illness to work from home and pushing everyone back into the workforce. So how can people connect with what you do professionally, um, to help with content creation? 

Mariah MacInnes: Amazing. Thank you. Well, hopefully I did see on the news that uh, hopefully that will change the whole pushing people back to work.

But anyway, that's fine. My parents watch. 24 7 news, so I know everything that's going on. Um, so to follow our travels, we have a TikTok called atravellers.co. I know not everyone's on TikTok. We did use to do the Instagram thing. We're sort of moving through whether we repurpose over to Instagram, but if you are on TikTok, we create stuff all the time.

We're still in Southeast Asia, to be fair. 'cause we're, we don't always create as consistent content for ourselves as we do for our clients. And it's more of a hobby. Right. Um, but we will be on Instagram, I think. We'll definitely. Push a lot of bus [00:27:00] stuff to there and Facebook. But, um, and then in terms of, you know, lots of people looking for work and thinking about, you know, what can they do?

What does their future look like? What's, you know, where, where are my skill sets? Lie obviously to get yourself out there. Create a personal brand, whether it's on LinkedIn, whether it's Instagram, sharing your services, obviously content. Strategy and content marketing is the way the future of, of how we promote ourselves.

So I help, um, a lot of business owners navigate what that looks like and how to create a plan that's very aligned to them. So you can find me on Instagram @contentqueenmariah Mariah Maria with a h for spelling. Um, and I also, you know, I do. Courses on helping, if you did wanna get into social media management or, um, being a VA and s and supporting business owners with social media management.

I, I'm helping, um, with my bootcamp course, VAs and social media managers have that strategy so it, they can do it really well for their clients, but , I help in a strategic way because if we do it strategically, it also saves us a lot of time.

And it allows us to do it [00:28:00] in, in the time, like I travel the world. How does she do that? And create content for now 13 clients. She has a content strategy for every one of them. So I know exactly what I need to do. So if you're like, oh, I love the idea of doing social media. I'm very creative, but I don't have that kind of strategic brain, I could definitely help with that.

So, um, you can find me and connect with me on Instagram and I can share how, what that looks like and how I could support you. 'cause I think there's a lot of people with a lot of skill sets. Um, especially in the creative space, and if they have a bit more strategy, they could really help in that kind of marketing.

We all need VAs and we all need social media managers, so there's, you know, it's definitely not going out. Even with ai, we still need a lot of them, so that's how you can find me. 

Teisha Rose: Excellent. Well, thank you so much for coming back on Wellbeing Interrupted. I'll put all of those links in the show notes, also the blog that, , I do for each episode.

Um, and yeah, let's, we'll talk again in 12 months and see how the Australian adventure has gone. 

Mariah MacInnes: I know I'll probably look a little bit more rugged. Um, in [00:29:00] 12 months I'm gonna get my hair chopped off, so hopefully all this yucky stuff can grow out. But we'll see what we, what I look like. 'cause I know after five months on the road last time I was interesting.

Like she needed, I don't know, I needed some buffing out or something. I was just very rugged. So, 

Teisha Rose: yeah. Well, welcome to Caravan Life on a hundred acres off the grid. 

Mariah MacInnes: Yeah, that's 

Teisha Rose: alright. 

Mariah MacInnes: It's so good though. It's just so carefree, isn't it? 

Teisha Rose: It is. It is. It is good. Until you go to the shops and think, oh no, I'm out in public until 

Mariah MacInnes: you go out.

Like I remember going out for dinner after like sleep and Noosa and like we'd be, and like trying to put your makeup on the caravan park and then going out for dinner. You're like, oh, this feels civilized. 

Teisha Rose: Yeah, I know. I know. But that's all right. That's all right. Cool. Well, thank you so much, Mariah, for your time, and as I said, look forward to chatting to you next time.

Thank you so much, Teish. You are welcome.  

Okay, so hopefully you got a lot out of that episode. I love chatting to Mariah. Full disclosure, at the end, we talk about if you [00:30:00] want help with content strategy starting your business. Mariah was there from day one for me. I met Mariah the week I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Yeah, I, I knew I wrote down her name and thought, okay, I'm dealing with a lot with breast cancer at the moment, but I know that I'll work with Mariah later on because she reminded me of me.

Mariah in her twenties like I was, her life was interrupted by massive, massive diagnosis. And like Mariah, although I didn't do the digital nomad thing, I certainly after a major relapse in 20, no, 2000 was, I'm so old. In 2001, I went off by myself and lived in Edinburgh, Scotland for the year and traveled around.

Then again, after a massive relapse I [00:31:00] in, oh, it's a long time now. Um, 2004, I worked over in Romania, volunteered over there an incredible experience. And then when we talk about meeting our partners, I then decided when I returned from Romania to actually move back to regional Victoria in Bendigo. I bought a unit the next morning, my incredible partner of 20 years came to unblock the drains.

So both Mariah and I, as we share things, it's sharing from a place of experience sharing in an excited way, I guess, because we know that how you can really have an impact on your experience despite our diagnosis. Um. Yeah, so I hope you enjoyed the episode. Mariah's original interview was in episode 18.

Go back [00:32:00] and have a listen to that as well. I also wanna put, and I'll quickly look up the number Episode 32, I talk about hope and it's a really, I love doing this episode because it. , accepting our diagnosis, but not giving up hope for the future. This is so important and I really encourage you if you haven't listened to this episode, to have a listen to it because. If we don't have hope, then living with our conditions becomes so much more difficult.

And again, I live with stage four breast cancer. For those who don't know my diagnosis and for many immediately, you think there is no hope for the future? . Have a listen to my perspective on that because hopefully it will help you shift your mindset a bit as well.

Have a good week and I really look forward [00:33:00] to chatting to you soon.