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Rosanna Irwin On How Being An Overachiever As A Child Led To Burnout

Season 2, Ep. 11

On Season 2 Episode 11 of Little Warriors, host Rebecca Horan talks to Rosanna Irwin. Rosanna is the Founder of Samsu Cabins, Rosanna's motto is helping the "always on" switch off. Rosanna promotes a slow living life in the outdoors, she came to Samsu after working in tech and advertising in her twenties and suffering severe burnout, after a few days spent on the Danish Island of Samsu, where she could not access the internet, she realised that living without tech and our phones gives us great freedom. She founded Samsu two years ago, these are cabins where the guests are invited to live tech free for 72 years and off grid in the most luxurious, special environments in nature.

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