Episode

Moving to Mexico for Six Months as a Pattern Interrupt with Brenda Florida

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The Art Of Imperfect Adulting
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Jun 16, 2026
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Summary

If you love the show and you'd like to support it directly you can tip the host here https://imperfect-adulting.captivate.fm/support In this episode of The Art of Imperfect Adulting, Amy Stone speaks with Brenda Florida about choosing radical change as a tool for personal transformation. Based in Southern California, Brenda shares her experience of putting her life in storage, temporarily moving to Playa del Carmen, Mexico, and intentionally disrupting her routine in search of growth. Listeners will hear how Brenda used a six-month international relocation. This was not an escape, but as a catalyst to break deep-seated patterns, confront internalized beliefs around work, money, and identity, and ultimately emerge with a renewed sense of purpose. About Brenda Florida: Brenda is a certified life coach with over eight years of experience helping hundreds of clients break patterns that no longer serve them — like people-pleasing, guilt, overgiving, and overfunctioning. Her work focuses on pattern interruption at the identity level, helping people recognize the subconscious dynamics driving their decisions and consciously choose a new response. This includes ambitious women navigating major life and career shifts — retirement, reinvention, stepping away from leadership — and redefining who they are in their next chapter. Brenda’s approach is practical, direct, and grounded in real-time change — not theory, but lived experience. Main Topics Covered: How intentional relocation can catalyze deep personal transformation The logistics and realities of being a digital nomad: minimalism, storage decisions, and Airbnbs Disrupting internalized patterns around work, money, and gender roles Navigating loneliness and self-reflection during a “cocooning” season abroad Overcoming expecta…