This is the heart of The Explorer's Lens—the messy, unfiltered, and deeply human story of how this all began.

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In this collection, our founder, Meindert, shares his first-person logbook of ‘The Great Escape.’ It’s the story of his family’s ‘Transformative Leap’ from a ‘perfectly’ unfulfilling life in Canada to a wildly uncertain—but truly meaningful—new chapter in Ireland.

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Think of these stories as our ultimate proof: evidence that escaping the gilded cage isn't just possible, it's the beginning of the greatest adventure of all.