1 Year Living on Cruise Ships Changed Everything (I Didn't Expect This)
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I feel blessed every single day.
The physical transformation is the part you can see. It is not the biggest thing that changed.
I feel peace. Not the kind of peace you feel on a good day or after a vacation. I mean a baseline.
The friendships I have made on these ships are some of the deepest and most meaningful relationships of my adult life.
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One year of full-time cruise ship living — the honest version. What actually changed, what surprised me, what's still hard, and the red convertible in Mallorca that said everything. 🔑 In this video: 100+ lbs lost • 16 months sober • casino comps reality check • the loneliness nobody talks about • why I'm reconsidering booking so far ahead • and the question I keep asking myself every single day. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT & COMMUNITY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▶️ YouTube Membership — https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCezCmLQfm5m1a-8cefMAWhA/join 💌 Postcards from Ports — https://www.jotform.com/form/260955535571060 🛍️ Amazon Storefront — https://www.amazon.com/shop/livingoncruisecontrol ⓕ Facebook Page — https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572283514391 ⭐ Star Princess FB Group — https://www.facebook.com/groups/1164071521929221 ☀️ Sun Princess FB Group — https://www.facebook.com/groups/824496840358572 📷 Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/LivingOnCruiseControl Amazon Associate Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 The Mallorca Parking Lot 1:20 One Year Later — What I Never Said Publicly 2:29 I Was a Senior Vice President 3:32 Who Am I Without the Title? 4:52 100 Pounds. Sober. Changed. 5:30 The Thing That Surprised Me Most 6:32 The Ocean Does Something to You 7:04 The Honest Cost Update 7:39 Casino Comps — The Real Story 9:06 $13,000 in Hand Pays (Starting from Free Play) 10:07 The People. The Connections. 12:46 Let's Talk About Loneliness 13:46 Am I Booking Too Far Ahead? 14:41 Back to That Parking Lot 16:17 She Turns Out to Be Interesting 17:02 If Not Now, Then When? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎰 HOW I EARN FREE CRUISES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Want to understand the casino comp strategy I use to cover my cruise fare? Full breakdown here: 👉 https://youtu.be/ixETU4mDUGY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔍 SEARCH / KEYWORDS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ living on cruise ships full time, cruise ship life one year, full time cruiser honest review, princess cruise casino comps, how to earn free cruises, living on cruise ships cost, full time cruiser weight loss, sober travel, life redesign, early retirement cruise ship, cruise ship lifestyle, if not now then when, leaving corporate life, solo female cruiser, princess cruises full time