My Story

The heart of The Explorer's Lens: the messy, unfiltered, and human story of how it all began. Here, founder Meindert shares his first-person logbook of ‘The Great Escape’—his family’s ‘Transformative Leap’ from a ‘perfectly’ unfulfilling life in Canada to a wildly uncertain but meaningful new chapter in Ireland. These stories are our ultimate proof that escaping the gilded cage isn't just possible, it's the beginning of the greatest adventure of all.