Today we’d like to introduce you to Stephanie Be.
Hi Stephanie, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
Stephanie Be is the founder of, the TRAVELBREAK blog — the journey of an American-Latina woman with a fervent passion for people, places, and entrepreneurship.
A UCLA Alum and the daughter of immigrants, Stephanie chased the American dream, always making her career a priority. Until one day, she bought a one-way ticket to bartend in Australia.
The more she traveled, the more she learned about the world, and the more she learned about herself.
Stephanie always found a way to work while traveling: studying abroad, living as an expat overseas, working remote as a digital nomad, founding a venture-backed tech company, and eventually, she became completely location independent. She just moved back to LA!
Aside from her travel tips on @StephBeTravel and TravelBreak.net; Stephanie is a brand builder for venture capitalists and VC-backed startups. She’s the founder of a traveling social group for investors and continues to push boundaries figuratively, and literally!
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
There are many pros and cons to entrepreneurship, traveling, and taking unconventional paths.
One of the struggles is having enough conviction to do what’s right for you and not what others expect of you. There are many fears and unknown variables — you do it anyways.
I recommend finding like-minded communities — other expats or travelers, other founders or etc.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
TravelBreak & @StephBeTravel: a blog and social media community guiding you in how to spend your very valuable free time!
Lead Catchers: a boutique marketing agency that incubates and/or grows your brand.
Adventure Capitalists: an invite-only group of investors (VCs, LPs, Angels)
How do you think about happiness?
Turning passion into purpose—and still dancing through it. Travel and entrepreneurship can be unsettling, but how cool is not settling?
I love the people, places, and moments that are powered by passion. Joy is my ROI.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.travel-break.net/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephbetravel/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-be-buelna-betancourt-15099a34/
- Twitter: https://x.com/stephbetravel
Image Credits
Taylor Burk for Croatia photo, the rest can just be attributed to Stephanie Be
