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One journey to the far edges of the world and back home to herself - and a new reckoning with the systems we can no longer afford to trust.

Cover of Around the World: A Journey Inward by Corrie Adolph
Available now · Memoir

Around the World: A Journey Inward

Some journeys take you around the world. The hardest one takes you home to yourself.

What do you do when you've been an actress, a real estate disruptor, a government adviser, a Prime Minister wannabe - and still feel like you've never been enough?

For Corrie Adolph, the answer was to pack a carry-on bag, drag her reluctant 22-year-old son onto a plane, and spend four months circling the globe through Ghana, Kenya, India, Nepal, and Central America - volunteering, getting locked on out-of-service trains, nearly getting robbed at gunpoint in Nicaragua, and slowly, unexpectedly, beginning to crack open.

But the real journey didn't happen on the road. It happened years later, alone in lockdown during a global pandemic, when the noise of a lifetime of relentless doing finally stopped - and she had no choice but to listen.

Around the World: A Journey Inward is the story of a woman who had to travel to the edges of the earth before she could find her way home to herself. It is funny, raw, and deeply honest - about marriage, betrayal, childhood wounds, and the terrifying freedom of finally taking off the mask.

For anyone who has ever outrun their own life - this book is the permission slip to stop.

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✨ Coming Soon

A first look at the four systems the book takes on.

The new book · Narrative nonfiction · In progress

Dirty Hands, Clear Eyes

What We Need in a World That No Longer Makes Sense

If you've ever turned off the news and thought we're completely screwed - this book is for you. Because that feeling that there's nothing you can do about it except watch is exactly what the system wants you to feel. It's designed to make you powerless.

Part reckoning, part invitation, Dirty Hands, Clear Eyes is about how our systems - food, health, politics, and now AI - were never designed to serve us, and how we can take our power back across all of them. It sits where Michael Pollan, Naomi Klein, Johann Hari, and Oliver Burkeman meet - grounded in one woman's lived story, and in the dirt under her fingernails.

This isn't a book about saving the world. It's about listening to that feeling in your gut that says something is wrong - and understanding that until we save ourselves, we can't save anything else.

It's still being written. Follow along on Substack to read the ideas as they take shape - and to know the moment it lands.

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Corrie Adolph
About the Author

Corrie Adolph

Corrie has been called tenacious, spunky, cheeky, and irreverent - usually by people she has just proven wrong.

She has been an actress, a realtor who took on the old boys' club, a military advocate, a national policy adviser, and a Prime Minister wannabe. She went to university for the first time at 42, earned a master's degree in intercultural communication, and has since travelled to over 40 countries - often with a reluctant son in tow.

During the pandemic, when the world stopped and the noise finally did too, she did the hardest thing she had ever done: she sat still long enough to hear herself.

She now lives in Oliver, British Columbia, where she runs a permaculture demonstration garden and teaching homestead, and writes about resilience, community, and the radical act of growing your own food. She is the mother of three adult sons - and has brought out the pink towels.