A2H #9 | Peace Corps, Scuba Diving, & Living Outside Your Comfort Zone with Kayla Noble

Art 2 Heart

Peace Corps. SCUBA Diving. Long distance relationship during COVID.

What do these three things have in common?

They’re all really damn hard.

But doing hard things is nothing new to today’s guest, Kayla Noble, who has always had a natural inclination go outside of her comfort zone. It hasn’t always been easy, but damn it if it hasn’t been rewarding and an adventure of a lifetime.

From taking a leap of faith and moving across the world, to following her passion of Scuba diving in one of the most remote corners of the globe, Kayla has no shortage of lessons and lifetimes of desire to go after what she wants.

Kayla Noble is a Dive Master and Dive Instructor in Timor-Leste, one of the smallest countries in South East Asia, and home to the richest marine biodiversity on the planet. She’s a lover of the ocean, a passport stamp collector, and has frequent flyer miles for the roads less travled. She grew up in Oklahoma, Texas, and then moved to North Carolina. She is a future resident of wherever the ocean and diving will lead her next.

Kayla and I met in the Peace Corps in Timor-Leste in 2015, and has been one of the few people I have kept in touch with regularly since returning back to the states in 2018. Her conviction and determination to follow her dreams has been inspiring since day one, and it’s very possible I wouldn’t be here on this podast had Kayla and I not given each other the space to have these conversations about what it truly means to be alive and have what little time we get on this planet.

Topics we cover in this episode include:

• how being a Peace Corps volunteer helped her decide to turn her passion of SCUBA diving into a career
• how different languages can influence the way you think about yourself
• how to reconcile a new identity with old places
• how can the lessons from one experience be used as momentum to carry you through a new, more difficult experience?
• grieving previous versions of ourselves
• what it feels like in the day-to-day of pursuing the unknown
• a unique take on empathy
• what a soul contract is and how it helped change my perspective to get over a messy end of a relationship

East Timor doesn’t have the most reliable internet service, so the audio quality is a little compromised.

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