Inspired Magazine vol 3

“... when your
life becomes
better, everyone’s
life around you
becomes better.”
Chelsea and Scott Dinsmore were in
their early 20s strolling down the
beach together in Santa Barbara,
California, hand in hand, dreaming of
their future together. As the sun set,
the young lovers tossed up visions of
their ideal futures. What does success
mean to us, they pondered? What do
we want from our lives? They realised
the traditional definition of success
– the corporate job, the white picket
fence and kids – didn’t excite them. They
dared to dream of a life of adventure, of
travel, of contribution. They wanted to make a
difference in the world, to grasp life with both
hands and experience all of its crazy, wild and
glorious riches.
Despite their dreams, it was another seven
years before they made such a life a reality.
The result is the online platform Live Your
Legend which inspires thousands of people
across the globe to change the world by
doing the work they love. The launch of
Live Your Legend and its consequent rise to
success set Chelsea and Scott on a whirlwind
adventure across the globe. They couldn’t
believe they were actually living the life they’d
once dreamed of – travelling to visit Live
Your Legend local groups from Panama to
Bulgaria, France to Kenya.
However, two years ago, just over halfway
into their 12-month globe-trotting adventure,
Scott was killed as the duo climbed Mount
Kilimanjaro together. A shattered Chelsea returned
home to America where she found solace in
continuing Scott’s dream of inspiring people to
live their calling through Live Your Legend. As
she’s battled with the grief of losing her husband,
Chelsea herself has turned to Live Your Legend’s
ideals to map out her vision for a future without
Scott, a new future based on discovering and
leading her true calling.
DREAMS OF ESCAPING RAT-RACE
Rewind to not long after that walk along the
Santa Barbara beach, and Scott and Chelsea
had returned to their corporate jobs, continued
their long-distance relationship and wondered
what they were doing climbing up their respective
corporate ladders to positions that didn’t
excite them.
It wasn’t until after they moved in together in
2009 and married a year later that Scott met
people who were making a living online doing
what they loved, and helping others. Scott met Leo
Babauta of the website Zen Habits and Corbett
Barr of Fizzle. Here were people living the life Scott
had dreamed of. Hell yes, Scott thought, this was
the life for him. He got serious. He rebranded a
website he’d started to Live Your Legend. And he
announced to Chelsea that we was going to quit his
job to work on Live Your Legend full-time.
A CRAZY VENTURE
“I thought he was totally crazy,” Chelsea says.
“I remember we’d just got married and were living
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CHELSEA DINSMORE