Robyn Robledo's Blog

April 30th- April 1st came and went so fast, much like the eleven years that came before it. For ten of those years, I’ve held a quiet habit: I write a dedication piece on this day. Not out of nostalgia, but because this date marks something more profound than a memory. It was a transformational …

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11 years ago, we did something NOT that crazy, actually. We got rid of all our non-essentials— ugly sweaters, yearbooks, extra blankets, and toys. We put our furniture in storage and moved into our RV for what we thought was going to be just 5 months. But over those 5 months, something incredible happened— I discovered …

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What if the reason you don’t fit in isn’t that something is wrong with you — but because you were never meant to? This is lesson three in the things I learned growing up traveling full-time as a teenager — lessons most of us aren’t taught, but probably should be. When my family moved into …

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Most people think feeling lost in life is a bad thing. Like it means you’re behind.Like something is wrong.Like you should hurry up and “figure it out.” But what if feeling lost is actually the sign that you’re alive? When I was a teenager traveling full-time with my family, we didn’t try to avoid the …

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There was a summer when I came home from my bartending job, sat on my bed, and just stared at my life. I had been hustling to build my business with no financial progress.I didn’t really have friends.I was single and cynical about it.Even my family relationships were starting to feel heavy instead of joyful. …

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I remember laying in bed in our tiny RV — Momo — trying not to cry. I was 14, 15, 16 years old, and I felt deeply disliked by the world. Rejected. Invisible. Hurt. And like most of us are taught to do, I shoved it all down. I had learned somewhere along the way …

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Most people treat fear like a stop sign. They say, “I’m scared,” and that’s the end of the story. But fear isn’t an ending — it’s a decision point. And the way you treat fear determines whether it controls your life… or becomes the doorway to everything you want. This is lesson five of what …

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For most of my life, competition was the structure of my world. From the time I was little, I was immersed in competitive sports — club soccer, gymnastics, and eventually surfing. My parents owned a gymnastics facility, so I was tumbling before I could even walk. Sports came naturally to me, and at first, I …

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Rejection only hurts when you’ve outsourced your sense of worth to someone else. That was one of the biggest lessons I learned growing up traveling full-time as a teenager — and it’s something most of us were never taught. When people reject us, it feels personal. It feels like proof that we weren’t good enough. …

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When we sold almost everything we owned in 2015 and moved into an RV with five kids, we thought we were choosing freedom. And in many ways, we were. But what we didn’t realize was this: Travel doesn’t fix your problems. It amplifies them. When you remove routine, comfort, distractions, and stability, whatever is unresolved …

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