The Unplanned Move to Miami That Changed My Life Forever

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"Your environment is your medicine. You are what your environment is. It can heal you or it's going to break you."

People keep asking Nina how she moved to Miami to "follow her dreams."

This solo episode is the honest version: five settled years in St. Louis with zero plans to leave, the sick years that took her spark for life, the COVID-era conference trip she could barely fathom flying for — and the three days in a winter Airbnb that ended with "you sell our house there, I'll buy our house here."

She also gives you the part nobody posts.

What a golden move quietly costs you a few years in: a husband away from his people for the first time, making friends as an adult (the serious clowns before the crew), and the one thing she'd plan for from day one — the summer heat.

This episode isn't really about Miami. It's for anyone quietly fading in a life they think they can't leave.

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