One on One with Mista Yu - Transformation Through Travel with Lucie McGuire

What if the life you’re chasing isn’t yours at all? Lucie Maguire hit pause on the script—school, work, settle down—after losing her dad at 22, then said yes to a month abroad that became four months across Europe. That choice didn’t just change her scenery; it changed her operating system. Today, we sit down with Lucie—founder of The Traveling Youth, social strategist behind Get Real Social, and co-founder of Moxie Adventure Partners—to unpack how travel, brand building, and community can give entrepreneurs the freedom they actually started for.

We dig into the unlikely career path from Papa John’s cashier to regional marketing lead by 21, and how grief sparked a pivot toward purpose. Lucie shares why she launched a volunteer-run nonprofit that funds month-long study abroad experiences for underserved students, partnering with CZU in Prague and measuring growth with the EQ-i assessment. The numbers are striking—students post gains in stress tolerance, self-awareness, and self-expression in just two months—proof that immersive travel builds real-world skills faster than most classrooms.

If safety fears or cost keep you grounded, this conversation rewrites the rules. Lucie breaks down practical strategies for traveling well on a budget—think well-rated hostels near transit at $20–$30 a night, cooking in shared kitchens, and choosing second cities for rich culture without the price tag. She also reframes risk with clear, informed steps that put awareness over anxiety. On the business side, we explore how Get Real Social uses organic content to capture attention without gimmicks, and how Moxie Adventure Partners blends travel, self-development, and entrepreneurship so founders take back their time. We also talk about the loneliness that often shadows big dreams and how masterminds and true community can change the trajectory of a brand and a life.

By the end, you’ll have a playbook for affordable travel, a smarter approach to organic social, and a nudge to share your voice even when the likes are low. If freedom is your why, here’s your how. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs a push, and leave a review with the trip you’re finally planning next.

Transcript

Meet Lucy Maguire And The Plan

SPEAKER_03 0:19

Welcome back to one-on-one with Mr. You. Of course, I am your host, Mr. U, in studio with us, the founder of Get Real Social, the co-founder of Moxie Adventure Partners, social media brand strategist, community leader, the voice for America's youth, humanitarian. She does it all, officially known as Lucy from Port St. Lucie. Lucy McGuire is in studio with us. Lucy, how are you today? Good to see you.

SPEAKER_00 0:44

I am wonderful. How are you, Mr. U?

SPEAKER_03 0:48

Ready to roll, girl. Ready to roll. Excited about this conversation. We had an awesome awesome chats. Uh we met through a mutual uh friend of ours, and I had to get you on this show so we could talk about some stuff because today we're gonna emphasize a lot of stuff about social media, entrepreneurship, but most of all, we even business branding, but most of all, travel. Yeah, there's a reason why it's a pain point. We're gonna get into it a little bit, but before we do all of that stuff, if you're watching and listen to our show for the very first time, upper right hand corner of your screen is a QR code. Grab that to allow you to get all of the shows one-on-one from the past. Four years, I think it is. It's all of our shows worldwide. We are a global show now. We're talking to people like Lucy, interesting folks from around the world, and their stories are impactful and incredible. They're entrepreneurs, they're uh products of miracles, they're uh faith-based community leaders, they're uh inventors. We're talking to everybody, so we're excited about Lucy being here with us. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for taking the time out to do this, so we're excited about this. You ready? Yeah, thanks.

SPEAKER_00 1:57

Thanks for having me. I'm definitely ready. Let's get into it.

SPEAKER_03 2:00

Let's do it, let's do it. So, just a little bit and kind of keep us as short as you can. I want to hear a little bit about your background, how you got from there as a young person to where you are right now. Is there a key factor, something that you think was uh instrumental and you getting to the place you are now from where you came from?

Show Overview And Global Reach

SPEAKER_00 2:17

Yeah, so that's a great question. And it's funny because whenever I share the story of how I got into what I'm doing today, I tell people it makes like no sense. If you like look at my journey from the beginning to end, I went from working as a cashier at Papa John's to moving up into management, and then yeah, Papa John's I still still best corporate pizza that you can get. I will say that.

SPEAKER_01 2:43

All right, all right.

SPEAKER_00 2:45

Corporate pizza, not we're not comparing it to Italy or anything.

SPEAKER_03 2:48

So please please don't don't don't even try.

From Papa John’s To Marketing Leader

SPEAKER_00 2:53

But I used to work um as a cashier in high school, right? And then I moved up into management and then I went into full um marketing for seven different locations in my local area. By age 21, I had that opportunity to become marketer or general manager of the local Papa John's that I was at. And that's really what kicked off everything in the marketing realm because I've been in the marketing uh industry now for a decade. Um, and that was my first experience with it in the Papa John's world, which was, yeah, definitely that more corporate side of things. Um, but then you go from pizza to um title insurance to opening a nonprofit about travel and study abroad to social media agency to launching Moxia Venture Partners to help entrepreneurs, you know, with their freedom. So it's like it, if you look at it, you're like, that don't make sense. But um essentially, I would say the biggest key, like pivotal point, all of it's built onto one another. Um, but the pivotal key point and moment in my life that I share the most about really what launched me into creating the life that I am living today is um in 2017. Um I was 22 years old, um taking care of my dad full-time, working full-time, going to school full-time, in a relationship for four years. Um, and for the channels of life, right? Where I was just like, okay, I need to do, you know, go to school, get the husband trying to, at least or whatever, and you know, get a house, all the things and go to school. Um, when that didn't really work out was when my dad ended up passing away. It was a huge, um, yeah, it was a huge moment. And it's crazy. Sometimes I could talk about it and it's like completely fine, and then sometimes they're like break down. It's just, you know, one of those moments. But it's a huge piece of my story because I realized in that moment that like life was short. And when I it wasn't even actually in that exact moment when it happened, right? Because you go through all these emotions. But then a few months later, I tried to go down that same path. And then I realized when everything wasn't really going my way, I was like, what am I doing? Like, and I kind of had this screw it moment where I was like, screw this path that everyone says I should be on. Um, and I literally decided to go and travel. And that's when I studied abroad for one month to Czech Republic in Hong Kong in the summer of 2018. And then I stayed in Europe and backpacked to 10 different countries. And after four months, the first four months of my life from age 14 that I hadn't worked, right? Because I was working since I was 14. And then this was the first four months of my life that I hadn't like been like this was me truly experiencing life. And I realized that I didn't realize how lost I was. And I know it sounds cliche, but I found myself when I didn't feel possible traveling. And that is what has made me into a proponent for travel, study abroad, traveling young, being doing the dang trip that you said you wanted to do, and really learning about yourself because I don't think there's enough emphasis on really doing self-development work as entrepreneurs, humans, anything, right? So that's really where it all pivoted from. And I'm sure we'll get deeper into it. But that's that's where it all started from.

SPEAKER_03 6:03

We most definitely are. All right, so David chiming in saying David, thank you for joining the show, sir. Appreciate you sticking with us and watching all the way through and subscribe if you'd like to. Okay, so I want to ask a question about the small town, which is kind of part of your bio. Now I have really uh fond memories of Port St. Lucia. I have some family that live there. Uh my cousin, he was a he's a very he's part of a very famous uh musical group, and he passed away uh several years ago. And that was where he that's where he was. And so when you say when you say small town groups, talk to me about this. First explain to me what that actually means for you, but also kind of tell me what you believe you avoided, like the bullet you dodged by being a part of a small town and fast forward to where you are now. Did that make sense?

Loss, Pivot, And First Big Trip

SPEAKER_00 7:00

Yeah, a little bit. Yeah, I I got you. Um so I am from Port, like I live in Port St. Lucie right now, but I'm actually from um this town just next to it called Jensen Beach, which is even smaller, which is kind of like a little spot on the map, like or you're just like you kind of you blink and it's gone, right? Um then you're in Stewart. But Jensen Beach was a very um small town, and it the small town vibe of in being in Florida, right, where everybody just assumes you're from Miami or Orlando or whatever it might be, um, it's a completely different um ecosystem. And there's there's a couple of different things that impacted my childhood being in my small town where I live. And that's one that it's a much older community in Florida, right? So, like Florida and everybody comes here to die, and we all know that, right? Retire and not die. You know, retire and eventually we all die at the end of the day. Yes, no, retire. They come here to retire. It's beautiful. I mean, but there's a lot of young family, younger families that are coming into the area now, but back when I was again, it was a lot of older people. My dad was older as well, so I had an elder parent. He had me when he was 50, so he would have been 83 this or 82 this year. Um so he was much older. Um, and my parents had about 18 years apart. My mom is also from Dominican Republic, so I grew up in that bicultural um piece. My dad's from Pennsylvania, as white as it gets, and um, my mom's from that Dominican side. But in the area that we're in, it is predominantly white. I would say back then it was probably about 80% white. So that also impacted things like kind of how I grew up in that area as well. Um, and still is, you know, predominantly in that capacity. But, you know, it was um that mentality of being in that, right, is like always trying to fit in, right? Trying to find where I fit in. And I never really was the you know popular one or anything like that. Me, I had my group of friends that I hung out with and I talked a lot. So people knew I was there. Just because people knew I was there didn't mean I was popular.

SPEAKER_03 9:08

I don't understand that.

SPEAKER_00 9:10

Yeah, you know, like I had someone tell me the other day, they're like, oh yeah, like you're popular. I'm like, um, I'm sorry, I was not popular. That was that was not a thing. But um, you know, the small town roots aspect of it, what really impacted me the most was I didn't even realize this until a couple of years ago, but I never went on vacations, like we never went somewhere to actually experience a new city or state or whatever. It was always visiting family. We would go to Jamaica Republic, we would go to Pennsylvania, that was it. Went to Dominican Republic, Pennsylvania, and it was just visiting family. And so I, the traveling I do now where I'm exploring and seeing all these different places, is completely new to me. But being that I didn't grow up with a lot of money and I grew up in an I wasn't the area I'm in has money, but I didn't wasn't part of that community that had a lot of money. I had a lot of friends with money, which also made me feel out of place into a degree as well. So it was like all these different layers. But um, you know, the small town vibe was it was good. I learned a lot. I feel like it gave me a lot of room to grow from, especially as this is a growing area. So I could never personally live in a place like New York or Miami. Like I just couldn't, like it's too much. I like the small town vibe, but I I think the people who grew up here always kind of want a little bit more, at least, because it's like it is really hard for young adults to connect um with the community because it's so much older. And that that's something that's kind of in my local area been something consistent that impacts our local community, if that makes sense. Hopefully, that kind of answered your question.

SPEAKER_03 10:42

It does make sense. You didn't let the small town mentality kind of limit your uh capacity to dream and to think bigger. So that's a good thing. A lot of folks can't do that, they can't stay in that area where they grew up, uh, especially people who knew them the way they used to be, and try to grow it beyond that. It's kind of like you're you're too big for your bridges. So I get that. So much I want to talk to you about. I hope you have the time to get through it all. Uh, but uh you went to 27 different countries, if I'm not if I'm not mistaken, uh and you are at 26 different states, so that means you traveled a lot. Uh uh. What would you say?

SPEAKER_00 11:16

Yeah, so it's actually 35 now. 35 states. Yeah.

Small Town Roots And Identity

SPEAKER_03 11:20

My bad. All right. 35. So tell me what do you what would you say is your big picture takeaway from those experiences? Because a lot, a lot a lot of folks do that kind of stuff like that. And they don't really grow from it. And I hear it in conversations or even on podcasts when they're coming on the show. But tell me how you believe you grew the most or your biggest or a big picture takeaway from being at 27 different countries and 35 different states across the nation. What do you think is a big picture takeaway for you?

SPEAKER_00 11:49

Um, I think the biggest takeaway, one, I think that if everyone in the world traveled, and this is I say this a lot, if everyone in the world traveled, I believe we would live in a more welcoming, empathetic, and welcoming um world. Um, I think that people need to experience different cultures, people, ways of living in order to understand why it might be different from their own. One of the other things is that we as individuals very much base all of our opinions off of our experience. And when we are exposing ourselves to different ideas and cultures, we realize that there's so much that we don't understand, but you have to have the curiosity to understand it. And I always say that unfortunately, people are judged based off of where they live and what what their background is and all of that. But that's the one thing in life we do not choose. The one thing in life we do not choose is where we are born, what skin tone we have, all of these different things. Yet that is what we are judged on for our entire lives in a lot of cases. And so when you travel, you realize that we're all not so different after all. And that's the biggest blessing and lesson that I have learned when traveling is I have conversations with people all over the world. We speak, you know, our bad, like my bad, trying to speak their English, their their language, or them trying to speak English, whatever we we communicate in every which way we can. And it's such a beautiful thing because you realize that we have the same views. Like we all just want to be happy, we just want to be fed, we just want to be loved. Like it's the basic core human aspect is is all there for everybody. And the more we can realize that, the more we can all be better as a as a country and a nation and a world.

SPEAKER_03 13:42

I love that. I love that. Uh, one of the things that if I understand correctly, it's been inspired by your life. You started a nonprofit called The Traveling Youth. I think it was probably in the same uh year that the whole nation, the whole world went back crazy. Yeah, you want to break down, break down why you decided to build this nonprofit. Who was it for, and how was it inspired by your life? Go for it.

SPEAKER_00 14:07

Yeah, absolutely. So, as I said, I did study abroad in 2018, changed my life. After the four months when I was there, I realized wow, you shouldn't have to have a lot of money to be able to experience the world. I had the idea for the nonprofit at the end of that study abroad trip, or at the end of that study, like overseas, because I studied abroad and then I backpacked for 10 different countries. So I was there for four months. At the end of that, I had the idea, the name, but when I came back, I was broke, obviously. I put my job of seven years. Um, and I that was the first time that I had had that time, right? So I had saved up all of my money and spent it. But I came back, went back to working, new doing what like hard working like I always do. And when 2020 came along, I had a little bit more time, like we all did, right? And so I realized that um I was this idea was in the back of my head, and I was like, I really like I need to like ask somebody about this. So I reached out to my professors um that I did my study abroad trip with, asked them if I could meet for coffee, told them about the idea, said, is this a good idea? And they were like, absolutely, yes, you should absolutely do that. And I was and then they gave me the steps of what to do next, implemented the capstone program at the local college, get some assistance and all of that. And then it was kind of off to the ground running. I didn't anticipate starting it like a few weeks after we had that conversation, but that's what happened. And then that's why I started it during the pandemic. Um, and then it kind of just blew up from there. And I was going based, so we so the traveling youth, we help underserved college and trade students take study abroad trips overseas through a scholarship. It's a month-long study abroad program. We're partnered with a university called CZU in Czech Republic that we're doing for three weeks, and then we do one additional week in another country. Now, this study abroad trip is educational and cultural. And the most important piece for people to know about it is that it's not just traveling and vacationing when they're going over here, is that we actually measure the growth of these young adults, 18 to 25, through an EQI assessment where they will go in and they will take an assessment before and after their trip. And we've seen upwards of 11% growth in areas like stress tolerance, self-awareness, self-expression within two months of them going over just from them in this experience going overseas, which is insane. Wow. Um, and so yeah, it's it's incredible results that we were able to attract. And we've sent 16 students overseas so far and want to send more. So we're just we've been fundraising. We've just hit five years in November, which is exciting. And um yeah, it's a hundred percent volunteer ran. And um, I'm very, very grateful for the people who are a part of that mission to make it happen and believe in it, and believed in it for three years before we even sent our first students because we were still going through pandemic land.

SPEAKER_03 16:58

Yeah, absolutely. If nothing else, man, you have to gain perspective from travel. You see things that's like, wow, I didn't know this was going on because it's not on a magazine till I see it. This is real life happening to people, and it changes your heart, it changes your mindset and it changes how you uh treat what you have, hopefully abroad or back home, which is what should happen, but you know, that's uh work in progress. But tell me real quick about Get Real Social and Moxie Adventure. I know that those are two things that you are very proud of. What kind of sparked these uh these two ventures? Why'd you do this?

Lessons From 27 Countries And 35 States

SPEAKER_00 17:33

If you were to bring it up, right? Um, yeah, it's funny how they all kind of weave into one another. Um, ironically, for Moxie Adventure Partners, I had always when before I had the the started the nonprofit, I actually the whole goal was to start a business around travel to some degree, make money with that, and then launch the nonprofit. Well, life had different plans. Um, so the nonprofit got launched first. And um the business kind of side of it, because the number of approach really is like running a business, I just don't get paid for it. So um that that got launched first. And so the the Moxie, I didn't have the name back then, but I I knew that I wanted to do something around that. I started a YouTube channel and all of that around travel, my travel, my perspective, my experience. Um, but that kind of got put in the backburn. Backburger. I started a nonprofit. Um, two years later, I ended up having an opportunity to be able to start get real social. During the pandemic, I actually went online a lot with a real estate title company that I used to work with. And they um my job from networking every day, all the time with people went from being in person with people to online overnight because of the pandemic. And so I really started to make um that company shine online, a boring company, a title company, not fun. Um, and people started to notice. So then people started asking me, can you help me? And I was like, conflict of interest. And then when things didn't end up working out with that title company, I said, you know what? I'm gonna start the business. And there was just like a flip of a switch in me where I was like, I'm gonna do this. And I did it. And it was the best decision I could have ever made because it led to me getting the freedom that I wanted to be able to travel and work remotely and do all the things I really wanted to with my business and my work and what I was doing, which feeds my travel and my lust for being able to see the rest of the world, right? So get real social has been my longest standing company. And then I just launched Moxie two years ago, but it's also kind of still sat on the back burner as I have an entire team with Get Real Social, but this year, Moxie is like my focus because Moxie is where my true heart is. If that's not very obvious, that I obviously care about travel.

SPEAKER_03 19:49

Yeah, no, absolutely, absolutely. Tell me if you can briefly on on both uh Moxie and Get Real. Who is your ideal partner and who's your ideal client? They could be watching and listening right now. So I want to give you the opportunity to kind of let both your businesses shine. So who's your ideal partner? Who's your ideal client for both?

SPEAKER_00 20:07

Yeah, so get real social. We help um, we focus on organic social media strategies. So for you to be able for businesses, marketers, those are our best clients, uh, business owners and marketers who are looking to take their content to the next level and really capture the attention of the people who are their target audience, right? So we do social media coaching and social media management for those businesses with those strategies. And we have um different resources. So that is really great. And then Moxia Adventure Partners, um, we focus on create helping entrepreneurs who said they started their business for freedom, we help them take back the freedom they said they wanted when they started that business. And we do that through travel, self-development, and entrepreneurship because it's kind of like all the things that Lucy is about. We talked about self-development, all the things that that impacted my life through travel, but also through learning. I feel like most entrepreneurs are self-development junkies to some degree. So, like taking all these concepts of being an entrepreneur, not being alone, but taking that freedom and the liberties that we said we wanted when we needed and started this business. Like we didn't start this work 24, 7 days a week, right? Like we started it because we wanted some more from life. And then like piecing in how do you weave travel into that if that's a priority and goal for you. I just launched a community, um, the Live with Moxie Society for people to join and be a part of for Moxie Venture Partners. And that is a group of entrepreneurs that want to do all of those things. Um, and I just launched it last week, so I'm excited.

SPEAKER_03 21:41

Congratulations. Free or pay community.

SPEAKER_00 21:44

So there's a couple different levels, but the first and foremost is the movement aspect. It's only one dollar a month. So any entrepreneur who wants to take that first step and just be a part of a community of like minded entrepreneurs, it's only one dollar a month. Live with moxiesociety.com.

SPEAKER_03 22:00

I love it. I love it. Okay. So here's my here's my here's one of my big picture questions. On every show, I ask two or three that kind of stop the show because not on purpose. It's just the way I think. You talk a lot about the transformative power of traveling. I get that because I'm somebody who really enjoys it. I don't get a chance to do a lot of it for some of the reasons that you started your business because of those same reasons. In light of world events such as war, mechanical issues with planes, pirates, piracy on the seas, all these things. How do you speak to people who are watching and listening in your spirit influence, whether it be on a webinar or in your community? How do you continue to encourage them about the uh the power of travel and and still continue to encourage it with these things being at play? How do you do that?

Building The Traveling Youth Nonprofit

SPEAKER_00 22:54

Absolutely. Um, and such a you know important topic and relevant topic to right now. Um I think the important thing to remember, um, and this is this is goes for it just along the board, not even just when we're right now in a very sensitive time with war. Um, I have friends, you know, that are in Israel right now and like working to get back and stuff like that. So I totally um understand the the impacts of all of that, that that does um bring a fear to it. There's always kind of been a fear around travel, though, especially with how it's like projected in the United States, with like the rest of the world being very dangerous. And so what I like to tell people is that it's actually not as dangerous as it seems. Sure, there's danger. There's danger everywhere. Honestly, there's danger in our backyard. But I always like to say, if like the danger, if I every single time I get in my car, I could be I could be killed. I like like something could happen, something bad could happen if I just walk outside my door. Does that mean I stay in my house to stay safe? Right? Does that mean I don't do the things that like I really want to do and pursue because of the danger and fear that's out there? Because then we would all just be stuck, right? And so I think that a lot of these places get a bad rep. And I've been to 35 countries. Um, and of all of those countries that I've been to, honestly, I have not been somewhere more dangerous than Miami or Chicago. And that speaks a lot. And I love, I love the I love different sections of my different sections of Miami and different sections of Chicago too. But like we actually live in one of the more dangerous countries as well. And that's factual. Like, we're like number 31 on the list of safest countries um in the world. Like we're not like number one or number two, and that's a perspective for that's really important, I think, for people to understand is that when you go to these other places, it's not as bad. There, you have to be aware of your surroundings no matter what. And there and there are certain aspects um of different places that you go to, you have to use a little bit of common sense. And I know like you have to be aware of your surroundings, understand what's going on, be up to date with what's going on with the news. I will say the one thing that we do have in the United States is that our our economy and and our political climate to a degree is usually more stable, right? And so when you go to some particular places, there are things like right now that's going on in Israel, right? Where that's typically a place where people go, right? And and sometimes there's strikes that are going on in certain countries, and those are things that you're never really gonna know in the in the moment, but just being aware of like understanding how to get access to the information that you need, um, being aware of going to the proper places and all of that. So, like, I there there are safe ways to do it. And at the end of the day, if it's your dream to go and experience this places, it's your dream to go and see new cultures and learn from their people. Like, don't let a little bit of fear stop you from doing that, especially if there's a war happening on the other side of the world, like there's so much of the world that you can go to beyond that, right? So it's just a matter of shifting, I think. Um, the perspective of like rather than being fear-based, being um opportunity-based, I would say.

SPEAKER_03 26:10

Got it, got it. I like this. Okay. So you talk, well, first off, some friends shouting you out over here. Hey today, brother, thanks for jumping on the show. Appreciate you so much. Thank you. All right, so how does somebody well I guess is the kind of two part question? We're getting close to the end of the show, but I want to get some more questions and I have so much I want to ask you about still. But how does somebody on a super strict budget enjoy travel what is you talking about? How do we see the world affordably, as you said?

SPEAKER_00 26:43

How do we absolutely I love it? It's my favorite question, honestly, because Americans tell me all the time, they're like, it's too expensive to travel. Um, and it doesn't have to be. There's a ton of uh I know we've got limited time, but like there's a ton of different strategies. The number one strategy one, take materialism out of your expectations. So when I say that, I mean you do not need to stay in the fanciest place in the world in order to go and wholesale, huh?

SPEAKER_03 27:17

I got it. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 27:18

Correct, but not even just that. And I'm gonna give you the the way that I travel, but like it's it's in America where our travel industry, unfortunately, is a lot more luxury focused. So it's all we see. All you see is luxury cruises, luxury hotels, luxury this, all inclusive this. So you just think expensive, expensive, like, right? Oh, this is where I need to go to be safe because of the fear, right? We talked about. I stay in hostels. I've stayed at over 80 hostels across the world. And hostels, a lot of times Americans either don't know about or they've seen the movie hostile. And that is incorrect and not real. Like that's just the word.

SPEAKER_03 28:06

Yeah, I don't think so. So go ahead. Correct.

Social Media Agency And Freedom

SPEAKER_00 28:11

I agree. Um, but um hostels are an incredible resource. I have stayed in them for as little as seven dollars a night. Yep. And on average, I spend about$20 to$30, and that's in Europe, um, a night when I'm staying at hostels. And they're centrally located, close to public transportation, have full kitchens that you can use at your disposal if you want to be affordable and go to local um uh rush uh grocery stores and purchase food and then cook at the that's one way to save money as well by not eating out every single time. Um, and it is an and it's also an incredible social atmosphere. You get to meet people from all over the world. And the next best thing to hostels is meeting people all over the world that then invite you into their homes, and then now you have a free place to stay. So there's the next affordable tip you can have. But um, yeah, that's truly the secret. And and it you don't have to be 20 years old to go to them. I've stayed up, there's all different levels of hostels, just like there are hotels. There's mom and pop hostels, there's corporate hostels, there's um smaller, you know, regular hostels that might have one or two locations. Um, and you can they have ratings just like hotels do. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:27

That's incredible. I wish we had more time.

unknown 29:31

All right.

SPEAKER_01 29:31

So I know he's like, I want to ask you. I know, I know.

SPEAKER_03 29:38

Yeah, I mean, I'm making time for you. Our friend Key Bird is reaching out to you saying, Hey, Miss Moxie, thank you for everybody. Thank you for doing it.

SPEAKER_00 29:47

Do you actually mind if I share what moxie means?

SPEAKER_03 29:50

Of course, go for it.

SPEAKER_00 29:51

Yeah, so Moxie, someone told me I had moxie a couple of years ago, and I was like, What does that mean? Blah blah blah. And then, like, they told me, and they were like, or actually, they didn't tell me, they told me to Google it. So I Googled it. There's a bunch of different definitions, but essentially it means grit, determination, and perseverance. And I was like, I was like, I love that, and I want other people to have that, and that's why I made my business after it, Moxie Adventure. That makes total sense.

SPEAKER_03 30:17

It's definitely uh an essential personality. That makes total sense. Yeah, so one of the things, one of the things that I I think about when I think about you, I get real deep with my guests, so this is just something that it's not I ain't trying to be gushy or weird, it's just just this what I just this what I do. Okay, where you are in the world, uh I take time before I get to this place where we're doing an interview. I'm thinking about you, praying for you. I'm working through things on what I'm gonna ask you. And I I feel like people that are like you, energetic, technically, extroverted without without question. You know what I'm saying? Big dreams, want to see the world change. They find themselves sometimes in lonely spaces sometimes that everybody doesn't get what they're trying to put out, they're not picking up what you're putting down a lot of the time. And I'd love for you to tell me or explain to our uh or to me and our audience what does it mean to find your tribe? Why is that important to you? What's that look like in your world? How is how is that going? How would that journey going? So I think I love to hear that. And somebody's somebody uh one of your friends here is uh jumping in on this, since very early.

SPEAKER_01 31:29

Hey, Joe, it is um being an entrepreneur.

SPEAKER_03 31:34

Me and her, we care, so we're here for your brother. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 31:39

Yeah, thanks. And um, you know, it's something I actually just had a conversation with someone the other day about, right? Like I have it more often than not, actually. Entrepreneurship in general is very lonely. Um, especially you could have all the people around you in the world, but if they're not the right people who understand what you're going through and the trials and tribulations and the heart that it takes. I mean, my friends, I my friends who aren't entrepreneurs all the time, like tell me, like, Lucy, stop working until 2 a.m. and all of those things. And it's like, but when your heart is on fire and you have the thing you want to make happen so badly, it's like to the core depths of who you are, like, and somebody doesn't understand that, it can be very lonely 100%. Um, and I uh, well, yeah, no, it's that's really great. He says he needs a mastermind. It's funny because I have recently just started to get the right people around me in that kind of closer proximity, one of which is actually starting a mastermind group called Inner Brand Mastermind. Yeah. So I partnered with two other incredible entrepreneurs. Um, and we have a mastermind group that is around that, but also helping entrepreneurs with their personal branding and like getting that out into the world and their message out into the world in a more effective way, but also being a resource for like, hey, we know this gets hard and it's lonely. So like let's all band together as entrepreneurs to be able to help one another to get to the next level of whatever that next level is for us because we can all help each other at our different levels. Um, and it that those I'm creating those spaces.

SPEAKER_03 33:12

Sound like you guys didn't know.

Who Moxie And Get Real Serve

SPEAKER_00 33:14

Message me, I'll send you the details in interbrandmastermind.com. You can go to it. Actually, we just launched the application a couple of weeks ago. We're starting in April, so please go check it out. Um, but yeah, it's that's we're creating the spaces.

SPEAKER_03 33:28

I love I love see this is what I love seeing happen on on our show. I love this. You help me directly. I love this. This is beautiful. Tell me, Lucy. Now, because I see what you're doing, a lot of what you got going on. Tell me how you want to be remembered at the end of the day. How do you want to be remembered?

SPEAKER_00 33:49

That's a great question. You know, it's funny, I was having a conversation with my friend a couple of years ago about this. Um I just want to be remembered as someone who cared and someone who anybody, oh, I'm like kind of getting emotional. Um as someone who cared. Because I think sometimes we go through life and we think other people don't care. And sometimes when you have everything going against you, um, it feels like the world doesn't care. I feel I see a lot of people go through that with social media. Um, they go through social media and they don't want to post about what they have to say, even though it is important. They're like, who wants to hear from me? Right. But like when we realize the more we do share our heart and our vulnerability and ourselves with other people, that opens us up to the opportunity to be able to connect with other people. And sometimes you just need that one person who's gonna listen and um and root you on. Like I made a video the other day that I haven't posted yet, but it was ironically me talking about how I'm like that friend. And if you need someone to pump you up and be like, yo, you got this, but I'll also challenge you. I'll be like, are you doing this for you? Are you doing this because the rest of the world told you you need to do this? Because we need to start being the healthy type of selfish. There's so much selfishness in the world that is not healthy, but there is a level of healthy selfishness that we all need to have and make sure that we're speaking to ourselves. And I just want to be the one to help open that door for people um to help them to really care about themselves and do what's best for them that can help impact the world in a positive way, but them first, right? Uh deep down to the heart. That's I just want to be someone who cared and gave that space for other people.

unknown 35:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 35:28

I think I can see that already. I think you do care.

Travel Amid Uncertainty And Risk

SPEAKER_00 35:31

Yeah, thank you. And um, yeah, creating those spaces is you know, sometimes people need those, and you never know. I I've had people reach out to about random posts that I've done and they're like, wow, thank you for posting this. And and I just had someone stop me today and said, like, thank you for sharing your opinion. I don't agree with every single thing that you say, but I I admire your perspective. And even those little moments, I know sometimes it feels like it's not a lot to like tell someone you appreciate them or when they post about something, but those little moments help that person because I know they matter a lot to me. When somebody reaches out and says, Thank you for posting that, it helps me to continue going on with what I'm doing, knowing that I'm not just speaking into the void, right? Um, but creating those spaces and making sure that we're all creating those spaces for each other. Um, I'm doing that with Moxie, I'm doing that with the inner brand mastermind. And um, I want to encourage everyone else to also create those spaces, whatever their community needs to be around them that they need. Um, just yeah, open open the opportunity for people to have the conversation with you.

SPEAKER_03 36:32

Well, thank you for your caring heart.

SPEAKER_00 36:34

Thanks, Mr. Thank you for this. This was so good. And just everything that you're doing too. I mean, I love meeting other entrepreneurs who are trying to make their mark on the world, their difference. I see the same grit in Moxie and you as well. No, it's a lot, it's a lot. Um, and so just you know, never stop showing up and doing what you're doing and giving giving other people the spotlight. Um, but you know, we're we're gonna have to get you onto my my call and you can you can share all about you, Mista. And you all have to, if you guys are listening, my audience, uh we're gonna do the same for Mista on the back.

SPEAKER_03 37:11

I would I would love that so much. I want you to I want you to close our show out, let everybody know where they can find you, and just give me the opportunity 120 seconds or so to kind of speak to the people, what you want to share from your heart for them. Maybe it's about travel, maybe it's about uh breaking through without limits, wherever you wherever you want to go with it. But before we do that, I want to just thank the guests that commented. I want more watching than that, but uh Joel and Janaid and and and David and Key. You guys are following uh Miss Moxie over here. Thank you for doing that. If you guys are so inclined and you enjoy this show and content like this, I invite you if you don't mind, but I'll be being a shill out of here. You know, if you don't mind, subscribe to the YouTube channel, subscribe to uh Show Hackle Podcast if you're a podcast listener. Just keep on putting out content like this. So we need your help with that. So thank you if you don't mind doing that for us. That'd be great. But the floor is yours, Lucy. You can uh let everybody know where they can find your work. You shared a lot of work, so I don't know how long it's gonna take, but before it's yours, you got you got you got seven minutes. You guys you gotta use seven minutes. I'm happy to give it to you. You're you're blessing, and I'm really really glad you came on our show, and you're part of my life now, so I'm excited about it. So take time to go ahead and share about uh how they can find you and whatever you want to share with the audience. Go for it.

SPEAKER_00 38:31

Yeah, thank you, Messa. You're so sweet. Um, yeah, I honestly, I actually have made it easy because I have really focused on my personal branding and all of that. I've made it extremely easy for people to find all the things that I do and they can choose what path they want to go down. Um, you can find me on all social media at I am Lucy Maguire. Lucy Maguire is with an IE, um, an M C D, right? Not Lizzie McGuire. Lucy Maguire. So I am Lucy Maguire on all social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, um, TikTok, all of them. My most frequent platforms are Facebook and Instagram. Always feel free. My DMs are always open. You can also go to LucyMaguire.com and you can see all of the ventures and everything that I'm a part of, see what they are and whatever it is that you feel you need to go like down the path of what has whatever resonated with you. Um and I'll, you know, just say too, like if there's any other people out there who, you know, just feel like sometimes the world is against you or that maybe the support system that you don't have is around you. Um and if anything that I've shared today has resonated with anyone, um, I'm happy to connect you into the communities. I'm a connector at heart. And so I just want to connect other people, whether that's through my community or other people's communities or you know, resources that I can provide, um, please reach out and I'm happy to get you connected the best way I can. Because I just think that at the end of the day, uh rising tides lift all boats. And so if we can all just do that for one another, we would just live in a better place. So I encourage you to do that for your community, but also I'm happy to do it for you as well. So that's that's all I have. I think I've poured my heart. Like I think it's very clear where I stand. I just be kind, be kind to everyone. You never know, you never know who's watching, especially on social media. Um, you know, sometimes I I'll okay, I'll leave it with this. Sometimes we post things out there and it feels like nobody's listening. You might get like two likes. There's a lot of vanity metrics around a lot of things on social media. Um, but even if two people liked it but a hundred people saw it, right? If you put a hundred people in a room, that's a lot of people. And so those are when you're speaking on social media, you're not talking to everyone, you're talking to the one person on the other side of that phone that's watching your piece of content. And so your P your content, whatever you're sharing, that piece of you should be talking to that person. And so just think about that when you're posting your content and thinking about if you are creating something that's adding to the world or adding, you know, more discomfort to the world in a degree as well. Like be the ones that are being the light in the world and not not the darkness. So that's why we're going to do that.

SPEAKER_03 41:18

I love that. Thank you so much. Thank you. And if you were joining your mastermind already, the show is helping a little bit. I'm I'm in it, I'm encouraged by that. I love it. That's what that's why I'm doing this. If I if I can get help with content and stuff, that's great. But this is why I do this. You can connect folks and get people uh where they need to be at. Joel needs to be in the mastermind. You helped make that happen. You did it.

SPEAKER_00 41:42

Yeah, you helped make that happen.

SPEAKER_03 41:44

It's good with you. I'm loving this humanitarian social media brand strategist, the founder of Get Real Social and the co-founder of Masi Adventure Partners. Lucy McGuire. Thank you for being here. This has been fantastic. You made our show better today. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 42:02

Awesome. Thank you. Thank you for having me.

SPEAKER_03 42:04

My pleasure. That's Lucy. I missed you. Right ahead. Thanks for watching and for listening.