Shayna Gladstone and Bryan Arturo dynamic entreprenuers- Shayna co-founded a global company NuMundo.org and they both co-founded a local company EarthJourneys.org. NuMundo is the Airbnb of ecovillages, featuring educational offerings and retreat worldwide at impact centers. Earth Journeys hosts an annual Sustainable Living Tour which takes 30 changemakers on a 12 day journey to learn from leading sustainable living centers in Southern California. The experience is rooted in deep personal transformation and also supports attendees in developing their own businesses. Earth Journeys hosts a support group for changemakers every month in both LA and San Diego.

The Full Story:
Our work in supporting service-oriented travel has allowed us to experience many cultures and beyond-sustainable land projects, and through these experiences, we have had the honor of learning from respected teachers, business owners, healers, artists, mentors and revolutionaries from all over the world. This journey has engendered within us a profound repatterning, especially when we separated ourselves from mainstream society for an extended period of time. As we fell in love – and not the Romeo and Juliet kind, but the raw messiness of real life – we mirrored each other’s shadows and tested each other’s wits and level of commitment.

More than five years later, we have supported the growth of two companies – NuMundo and Earth Journeys – while supporting the development of several eco-communities, including Emerald Village, PioPio, East End Eden and Laughing Oaks Village. We need to acknowledge that these achievements would not have been possible without the privileges we each benefit from, nor without significant sacrifices of comfort that we have chosen.

Emerging from being financially deficient and burnt out, we have finally found a balance. Seeking centeredness in literally all aspects of life, we have learned that the modern changemaker must be highly adaptable in the unique times that we are living in.

All proceeds go towards the operations of empowering more sustainable and holistic leaders.