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The One Thing Holding You Back From Location Freedom (And How to Break Free Today)

It's never a matter of money...

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Jo Barnes
Jun 27, 2025
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I got totally trolled on a Facebook post a while back.

It was a simple photo, one of those moody travel shots with a Paulo Coelho quote over the top: “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.”

Cue the angry comments.

  • “Easy for him to say.”

  • “What a load of privileged nonsense.”

  • “Try saying that to a single mum on minimum wage.”

And I get it. Life is complicated, and money is tight for a lot of people, especially right now.

But the energy on that thread wasn’t really about budgets or bank balances.

It was about fear. And frustration.

And maybe the uncomfortable realisation that the biggest thing standing between most people and the life they want… is the permission they haven’t yet given themselves.

I'll be honest, I didn’t fancy hosting a pile-on in my comments section that day, so I took the post down.

But I’m putting it back up. Because I believe it’s true.

And here’s why.

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