The Beginning of Something New

For years I have wanted to start my own website/blog where I can share my passions with the world and inspire people around the globe.

The magazine/website that sparked my love for inspiring people was Breathe Magazine Australia. ‘Breathe’ discusses wellbeing, living, creativity, mindfulness and escaping. I have had subscriptions for multiple years to both ‘Teen Breathe’ and ‘Breathe’ which really inspired me to do something creative and try to make a difference in the world. I decided I wanted to be a person that younger teens could look up to and be inspired by to live their best life. This was the very first time I had even thought of starting anything like this.

Breathe Magazine Australia - Image from their Instagram

I further developed the idea for a website/blog when I went on a volunteer trip to East Timor in December of 2018. I had been discussing with one of the other girls on the trip how amazing it would be to start a website. The idea I had was to use the website as a platform to discuss how to get involved in volunteer work and encourage and inspire young teens to get more involved in building their community and helping people and wildlife in need. I put off doing so as I felt like I needed to have a large audience to share this with and wouldn’t be able to get anywhere with it without having some sort of following.

In January 2019 I was signed with Busy Models and was quickly thrown into International travel for modelling. It was such an amazing experience and I had so many amazing adventures that I, once again, found myself wondering whether it would be a good idea to start my own blog. But just like last time, my self doubt kicked in and I started thinking that theres no point doing that if I have no audience.

So why start now you may ask?

Well, just like everyone else, this year has had its challenge and I found it was quite a test for me mentally. I love working hard and being busy but due to Covid 19 everything was put on hold. I had to slow right down which really made me question what I was really passionate about, what I wanted to do with my future and what really makes me happy. This reminded me of the things I am really passionate about: inspiring people, travelling and volunteer work. I had decided that I was going to start learning new skills and trying new things that are out of my comfort zone. Writing a blog is definitely one of those things. I had so many big ideas of what I wanted to do with this website. I spent months trying to work out what I really wanted to do and ended up overwhelming myself with the amount of ideas I had and the expectations I put on myself that were just unrealistic.

I finally decided to cut it back to the bare minimum to start and get this website going. I decided I would make a general page for blogs which will eventually be broken up into categories of “Wellbeing”, “Travel” and “Volunteer”, a section for my modelling portfolios and a section where you can get in contact with me and ask me as many questions as you’d like. So here we are.

I have big plans for where I’d like this website to end up but in the mean time, I will be working hard to provide some great content and just have fun doing it!

Thank you for all your support and being my inspiration.

I hope everyone has a great Christmas and New Year,

Madison Weik

The Beginning of Something New

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