Catarina Mello describes herself as a “Professional Traveler” and she had to make many sacrifices to explore the world full-time. After feeling suffocated and uninspired by her corporate job at Google, she decided to leave everything behind and become a travel blogger.
Mello spent most of her life doing everything she was “supposed to do”, from finishing college with an engineering degree to finding a great corporate job at Google. Despite checking all the boxes, her life was only perfect on paper and she wasn’t happy, so something had to give.
After embarking on a ten-day trip to Bali, Mello’s outlook on life completely changed, and she wanted to relive that sense of feeling alive and inspired every day.
“This was the moment I knew it was time to change the course of my life so that I no longer wondered what I was doing with my life on a daily basis because I was actually living my life feeling aligned with my passions and my purpose,” she explains on her blog.
Mello used the power of social media to make her dreams come true, and her Instagram page @professionaltraveler is now followed by over 400,000 people. Her marketing background helped her quickly build a huge following and become a full-time traveler and social media influencer.
