Celebrating the Creativity and Happiness Within with Berny Serrão
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Yuliana welcomes Berny Serrão, the c0-owner of Paraiso Escondido, an eco-friendly sanctuary in Portugal. Berny shares her courageous tale, one filled with the ups and downs of being a nomad her entire life, seemingly not belonging anywhere. She also recounts feeling like an outsider before searching within to create her happiness and how she extends that warmth and love to her guests and others.
Growing up amidst civil wars, Berny has always lived the nomad life. She talks about having to start a new life in Portugal with her husband after settling in Asia, as well as the challenges that came with this relocation despite her being of Portuguese descent. She goes on to discuss finding her creativity and happiness within and how her experiences created an extreme reality for her. To share her experiences with different people and different cultures which is something she has always loved, Berny turned her home into a guest house welcoming different people from across the world. The episode ends with Berny describing a song that resonates with her life, a song about always believing that something amazing is coming no matter how bad life gets.
Episode Highlights:
- The challenging event that redirected the course of Berny’s life
- The lifestyle changes Berny had to make following her relocation to Portugal
- Berny’s rough childhood
- Discovering the happiness and creativity within
- Creating a guesthouse in her home
- The one song that resonates with Berny’s life
Quotes:
“If I had all the time, all the money, what would I love to do?”
“I didn't become hard. I remain soft and gentle and caring, but you become so strong and things have got to be so hard for me to take notice that it's difficult when people complain or whine about certain things in their lives. And I find it difficult to relate because my reality was so extreme.”
“Nature allowed me to go within. And that is basically when we talk about everything is within us, happiness is within us. Our love is within us. So I went inside because everything outside wasn't pleasant. So by going inside, I created my imaginary world.”
“We as human beings are so simple, we just want to be noted and loved. So you feed them, and you give them love and warmth in your house. That's it, they don't need anything else. That's all they needed.”
“I didn't want our guest experience to feel like a hotel. I wanted to meet different people from different parts of the globe, and I wanted to share our journey with them.”
“Living in all those different countries with different cultures allowed me to be very understanding and respectful of cultures and being very open.”
“The Weeknd has this great song, ‘I Feel It Coming’. And for me, I always see something amazing coming. It always makes me smile, because that's exactly what I see. I always had something amazing coming… No matter how bad my life has been, I'll always see something amazing coming.”
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