Nolene Kotze

Where a dream turned into a journey of self growth, I don’t know about you, but I was 19 before I got my first passport. Back then there was no social media to use to build a business and be a digital nomad and work remote like today.

I fell pregnant in 2012. Lehan took his first flight at age 9 months and Zoë at 11 months. At this point travelling was not part of our plans.

Then Covid hit!

It was during this time that I discovered Digital Marketing and got certified.

Here in my late 30s I started teaching myself social media through all the trail and errors and started posting our travels.

As a mom and a female entrepreneur, I wanted to turn my experience and travels into a lifestyle and my career.

I wanted to feel like I am worth something and can reach goals on my own. As someone close to me calls it – A TRAVELPRENEUR!

I started Chasing Gravel as our family-owned travel blog and content creation as my learning curve for Digital Marketing. This evolved into Collaborations, a travel business that I did not plan for but happened and changed my life and showed me world schooling, magazine features and many things beyond what I expected. Now turning 40 this year (2024) I am looking back reflecting to what I have achieved and wanting to leave a legacy for my children and to show them that you can achieve anything if you believe it.

This is my story, let’s write yours!