Like a Snow Leopard’s Leap: From Safe to Sacred with TerraFauna
Last week, I stood at a crossroads I never expected to reach. After years of building a meaningful career in the travel industry — a space I know and love — I’m given a choice: continue in my secure role, or walk away to pursue the business I’ve been building quietly behind the scenes.
That business is TerraFauna Journeys.
On one side: a steady paycheck, a respected title, a clear path forward.
On the other: a vision, a spark, and a lot of unknowns.
But deep down, I already know. TerraFauna isn’t a side project — it’s the work I’m here to do.
So I leap.
Letting Go of the Safe Path
The moment I step into the unknown, everything shifts. I’ve spent years helping others explore the world — but now, I want more. I don’t just want to send people to beautiful places. I want to protect those places. I want to connect travelers to purpose. I want to use travel as a force for conservation, community, and deep transformation.
That’s the heart of TerraFauna.
This leap feels a lot like the snow leopard leaping across a rocky ledge — quiet, focused, instinctual. It’s not reckless. It’s right.
A New Kind of Journey
Leaving my job is scary. There are sleepless nights. Doubts creep in. But beneath all that is a quiet knowing — a flame I can’t put out. I’ve met conservationists on the ground who are rewriting the future of our planet. I’ve seen how community-based travel can uplift women, preserve cultures, and rewild entire ecosystems. I believe in this with everything I have.
Like the sea turtle returning across oceans to the beach where it was born, I feel something ancient and true pulling me forward. This is where I belong.
TerraFauna isn’t just a company — it’s a movement. One that brings people into relationship with the natural world and invites them to become stewards of it.
This Is Just the Beginning
Today, TerraFauna Journeys is my full-time mission. Every journey we offer is grounded in purpose and built with care. Every guide, partner, and conservationist we work with shares a commitment to protecting what matters.
And every traveler who joins us becomes part of something bigger than themselves.
If you’re standing on the edge of something new…
If you feel the stirrings of a deeper calling…
If you’re ready to leap — not just into new landscapes, but into a new way of being…
Think of the baby lemur gripping tightly as its mother leaps through the forest canopy.
Or the salmon pushing upstream.
Or the condor stepping off the cliff, trusting the current to carry it forward.
This is your moment.
This is ours.
Join us as we embark on this extraordinary journey — for the planet, for its wild places, and for the legacy we’ll leave behind.