• Have you built a life around your 9 to 5 lifestyle but feel like something is missing?
• Are you so busy with family and work obligations that you barely have enough time to breath?
• Do you feel burnt out, or bored with life?
• Are you looking for a real solution that will allow you to travel or live abroad for up to a year
• Do you wish you had more time to do something more fulfilling or to find your purpose?

I know how frustrating it is to want more out of life but between work, family and life, you just don’t have any time.

Meet Your Mentor & Coach

Hello and welcome. My name is Annie Andre,

My mission is to EMPOWER, INSPIRE, and TEACH you step by step how you can afford to take short breaks from your job and life so you can live your purpose, find adventure and even travel more.

Even if you have a family, even if you have kids and even if you’re not rich.

I’m a Mom, Cubicle Renegade, Chief Adventure-ologist and mentor behind www.AnnieAndre.com or what I like to call Practical Adventure-ology.

Over the past 20 years, i’ve successfully planned and taken more than five breaks in my life to accomplish some of my biggest goals in life including starting a home business to stay home with the kids. Travelling the world. Taking time off to learn new skills which resulted in my eventually finding my dream job and earning six figures.

In fact, right now i’m on another break.  This break was the toughest to plan and execute because we’re doing it as a family and we’re doing it while living a childhoood dream of living in France for a year.

And now i want to show you how you can do the same thing too. No matter what your circumstances and no matter what your obstacles.

What Makes This Site Different?

TRAVEL: There are thousands of sites and products out there related to “traveling long term” and “living abroad”.

PERSONAL DEVELOPEMENT: There are even more personal development sites and products about “finding your passion or purpose”, “living your dream”, “creating an extraordinary life.

BUSINESS & Money: And there are even more sites about making money online and starting an online business.

However AnnieAndre.com is different because it is a new kind of lifestyle design that combines ( converges) these three areas into one and I am here for YOU especially if you have a family and kids. Because lets face it, it’s just harder with kids isn’t it?

 My mission is to help hardworking and busy parents, couples and people learn step by step how to plan and take their own break from life whether it be for one month, 1 year or more.

I understand you have responsibilities, you’ve worked hard to build your life and i’ll show you how you can maintain that life and still afford to take time off.

 I also understand that if you are a couple or a family with kids that you need to achieve your goals together and find a solution that works for all of you.
The techniques and approach to creating your desired life while traveling and living abroad are geared to work with your crazy schedule, family life and limited finances in mind.
I’m committed to helping you achieve your goals faster and with less stress than if you were to do it alone.
I understand that you want real world advice not hyped up talk so the methods and techniques discussed and shared by me are taken from real life experiences from someone whose been there and done that. Someone who understands your challenges and inner struggles

My Story: The short version

A few years ago I was burnt out and bored with the routine of my busy and hectic work / life schedule. I began to question my life.

The problem wasn’t that my life was bad. We actually had a great life, good jobs, great salary and lived in an amazing neighborhood in the suburbs of Silicon Valley California.  It was just that my husband and I were getting burnt out.

For years we built a life around the idea that if we worked hard, really hard and saved, one day we would be able to enjoy our lives.  Maintaining that lifestyle kept us so busy that we never seemed to have enough time to do fun and fulfilling things let alone spend quality time with each other as a family or a couple. At least not as much as i wanted to.

I was slowly losing my sense of adventure

Then poof, it was gone. I was officially in a RUT.

That’s when I began to feel unhappy and it began to effect my moods, my relationship and my overall well being!

That’s when i knew it was time to do something but we couldn’t because we had created a life that required constant maintenance. Plus the fear of not having enough for retirement kept us on our hamster wheel of life and I knew that we needed a break.

Then the economy took a nose dive, we both lost our jobs on the same day and that was the catalyst that set us asail on our latest journey to build a sustainable, affordable and enriching life together as a family.

Ater a lot of deliberating and living like vagabonds for almost a year we decided to do something we didn’t think we could do.

We decided to act on a life long dream to move to France. We came to France to do one simple thing. Create an extraordinary life for our family but. But we also needed to make a living so we made a plan that while living in France we would not only work on our personal goals but work on creating a location independent business that we could run from anywhere in the world.

Taking a career break to live abroad in France for a year was our way of REBOOTING.

What makes me the expert & what can you accomplish by taking time off?

The Power Of Time Off:

You can accomplish a lot more in a shorter amount of time if you take time off because your focus is to accomplish that one thing instead of on working at a job for 8 to 1o hours a day. Things like start a business, write a book, raise your newborn, start a non profit, learn a language, learn a new skill. I could go on. If you tack on travel and living abroad than it becomes a double win win.

These aren’t just theories. These are facts. People have been doing it for years. People are doing it now. Not just young and free spirited people. People with families and mortgages and jobs like me and you. People with less money than you. People with more kids than you. But it takes work, planning and yes you need to save money too.

I’ll show you how you can do the same thing, share stories and inspire you to live your dreams.  Here’s a really condensed list of what i’ve been able to do by taking time off.

Here’s what i’ve personally been able to do by taking time off t various stages in my life.

• JAPAN Gap Year, World Travel: From  18 to 21 I lived and worked in japan and travelled to over 15 countries during that time. I did it with less than a year of planning and with $1,000 dollars in my pocket. It gave me the confidence to be a trail blazer in many of my future endeavors.
• CAREER CHANGE: At 29 I wanted to make a career change and work in web analytics but didn’t have the skils so I quit my job and taught myself everything i needed to know. I did it by starting my own web based business to tinker with which ended up being my social proof. A little over a year later, I was hired to work for a small internet start up called Auctiondrop. I did all this after a nasty divorce, with no child support or help raising my two young sons.
• Entrepreneurship after lay off: In 2007 the US economy took a nose dive and i was laid off. My husband was laid off too.  I used that opportunity to start my own e-commerce business selling handmade sleeping masks from my home. I had no experience sewing and no experience in ecommerce. I used my time off to teach myself quickly everyting i needed to know and ran that business for 3 years.
• Sabbatical in France Married with 3 kids:  It’s now 20 years after my first period of taking time off to live in Japan. Now I live in France with my husband and three kids. I built a successful career, started two internet businesses, made a career change and i owe it all to the “power of time off.
• Now i’m ready to move on to the next phase in my life. It’s taken me a long time to get to this point but i persist. I want to start another business that i can run from anywhere in the world with no inventory. The goal is to not be tied to one location and to have the option to spend time with my family while giving my kids the gift of becoming bilingual. Oh and My husband is finally working on that book he’s wanted to write. We hope it becomes a best seller one day.
• The Future, yet to be seen: I have no idea what we’ll do after France but whatever it is, i will always strive to live my life to the fullest..

Not interested in taking a career break or living abroad to create an extraordinary life?

You can still use many of the principals i talk about and apply them right now to your everyday life to create the life you want. You can take a mini career break, or a week off or just use the weekends. I’ll help you every step of the way.

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