Alyssa Hatchard shared their story and experiences with us recently and you can find our conversation below.
Alyssa, it’s always a pleasure to learn from you and your journey. Let’s start with a bit of a warmup: Are you walking a path—or wandering?
That is a brilliant question. For my brand, Healing with Wanderlyss, the answer is neither fixed, traditional path, nor aimless wandering.
I define what I do as Intuitive Navigation.
‘Wandering’ has been my foundational school. I spent a decade traveling, which taught me that the fixed ‘path’ is just a societal construct designed for safety, it’s the Fear Ditch. But true freedom isn’t chaos; it’s being intentional about your movement.
So, I don’t follow a fixed path. I follow a North Star of Radical Freedom. Every choice I make is a clear, immediate response to my internal truth, not an analysis of the external map.
If you look at my journey, it appears messy and unconventional, but every single step is an intentional choice. I’m not walking a path; I am creating the path by responding to my truth. And that makes all the difference.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
Hello, I’m Alyssa Hatchard, better known as Wanderlyss, and I am a guide for people ready to claim their radical freedom.
For the last decade, I chose the path of perpetual movement, traveling the world to dismantle the biggest lie we are sold: that stability comes from a fixed job and a fixed address. My brand, Healing with Wanderlyss, is dedicated to showing people how to escape that spiritual and financial inertia I call the ‘Fear Ditch.’
What makes my work unique is that I don’t teach planning; I teach Intuitive Navigation. I challenge the collective obsession with overthinking (which is just fear disguised as planning) and show my clients and listeners how to use their intuition, their ‘gut feeling’ as the only true career coach they need.
I’m currently launching a new series in the new year for my biweekly podcast, Soul Pathways Podcast now listened to in over 50 countries, with the ‘Year of Yes’ series. I’m bringing on powerful guests who have successfully ditched the fear, built non-traditional lives of mastery, and can prove that freedom is not a destination, it’s an internal system.
Okay, so here’s a deep one: Who saw you clearly before you could see yourself?
That person was a friend of mine, a beautiful artist living in Melbourne. She is one of those people who possesses a deep, undeniable gift of knowing, pure intuition.
Years ago, I was completely entrenched in the traditional path. You know the script: go to school, get the degree, get the ‘safe’ job. She saw me clearly before I ever stepped into any of this freedom work.
She looked at me and told me I would be a teacher, a speaker, and a leader, and that I would ultimately make a lot of money using my voice. My first reaction was that she was absolutely crazy. I honestly thought it was impossible.
But she knew it. She believed in that vision every single year until I finally caught up to the truth she had already seen. She opened my eyes to the life I was capable of living outside of the system, and that initial belief, that trust in the unseen potential, became the quiet signal that allowed me to eventually start trusting my own gut.
She is living proof that your intuition is the only career coach you truly need.
If you could say one kind thing to your younger self, what would it be?
If I could offer one kind thing to my younger self, especially the one who was just starting down that rigid, traditional path, it would be this: ‘You don’t have to earn your freedom. You already have permission to be exactly who you are, and that is more than enough.’
That younger version of me was desperately trying to fit into the ‘safe’ boxes chasing the degree, the title, the approval, believing that freedom was a reward you earned only after years of compliance and sacrifice. I spent so much time consumed by the fear of imperfection, of doing the wrong thing, or of simply not being smart or qualified enough. That overthinking—that analysis paralysis—is the silent killer of potential. It was the only thing truly keeping me trapped in the ‘Fear Ditch,’ and I would shake her and tell her that the only thing keeping her small was the belief that she had to wait for someone else’s sign-off.
Your truth is your only currency. I would tell her to stop waiting for external permission and to stop letting that fear dictate her silence. Just start talking, just start moving, and trust that the path will appear beneath your feet. Every single piece of wisdom you need is already inside your gut. Claiming your freedom is not about a five-year plan; it’s about the very next intentional response you make to your inner voice.
Sure, so let’s go deeper into your values and how you think. Is the public version of you the real you?
That’s a question I think anyone dedicated to deep, honest work has to ask themselves constantly. I would say that the public version of me is absolutely the real me, but it is not the whole me.
My public persona, s a commitment to my highest truth. It’s the version of me that communicates the core lessons I’ve learned about radical freedom, intuitive navigation, and dismantling the systemic lies that hold us back. That clarity and commitment is one hundred percent authentic.
However, to be a good teacher, you have to be the Gemini communicator, you have to translate the complex, deep, Aquarian concepts into language that inspires action. So, the public version is a curated translation of my deepest philosophical beliefs and my continuous, messy transformation.
In private, I am dealing with the same internal noise, the same moments of fear, and the same need for processing that everyone else is. The real difference is that the public me has made a radical promise to the private me: We will always use the fear as fuel for the message.
So, the public version is the purposeful, clearest expression of my core self, delivered with the intention of helping others see their own truth.
Before we go, we’d love to hear your thoughts on some longer-run, legacy type questions. What is the story you hope people tell about you when you’re gone?
The story I hope people tell about me when I’m gone isn’t about the things I accumulated, the number of businesses I started, or the fixed titles I held. In a world obsessed with those external metrics, I hope my legacy speaks to an entirely different currency: the quality of radical freedom and self-sovereignty I helped others claim.
I hope they remember that I was the voice that challenged the collective lie that kept them small, busy, and broke. I want them to tell the story of how I inspired them to burn their maps and silence the external critics. The ultimate praise would be hearing: ‘She was the one who showed me that my own gut feeling was the only career coach I needed, and that permission to be free was inside me all along.’
Ultimately, I hope I am remembered not just as a guide on the journey, but as the catalyst who facilitated a profound philosophical shift. I want my legacy to be measured by the number of people who successfully escaped their own ‘Fear Ditch’ and started living a life of true, self-determined freedom, a life they created by intentionally responding to their highest truth, rather than spending their energy analyzing their way out of fear. That is the only story that matters
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.healingwithwanderlyss.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alyssahatchard/
- Other: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/soul-pathways/id1715063093
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