About
I grew up in a small town in the Netherlands, where the script was already written for me: get the degree, get the job, buy the house, settle down somewhere within an hour of where you were born. It was a good script. Plenty of people are happy in it. I was not one of them.
I could not explain it well back then. I just knew that every time I came home from a trip, normal life felt like wearing shoes that did not fit. At some point I stopped waiting for the perfect moment, because it was never going to come. I booked the ticket, took my camera, and decided to find out what would happen if I built a life around the things that actually made me feel alive.
Gypsy in Sneakers began as a name for a girl who could never sit still. It grew into films, then into a community of more than a million people across YouTube and Instagram who follow the journey across Patagonia, Nepal, Uruguay, Indonesia and beyond.
Along the way the work deepened. I traded travel tips for storytelling. I traded bucket lists for long stays on working ranches, where I learned that the most beautiful places on earth are not destinations. They are ways of living.
Today I live between Bali, South America and Europe. I make cinematic films, host small-group horseback expeditions under Paso Libre, and I am writing my first book.
Horses run through every chapter of this story. They taught me presence before any meditation app did. They taught me that trust is built slowly and broken quickly, that strength and softness belong together, and that the best conversations need no words at all.
From the gauchos of Uruguay to the eagle hunters of Kyrgyzstan to the snow trails of Lapland, horse culture became my way into worlds that tourism never touches. That is the world I now bring people into through my films and expeditions.
Because I believe most people are not tired of life. They are tired of the version of life they were told to want. My work exists to remind you that there is another way, and that the door is not locked. It never was.
My days are now built around the things I once only dreamed about: making films that move people, riding through wild places, writing slowly, and creating experiences that change how people see their own lives.
If you are here because some part of you wants more freedom, more depth and more aliveness, then you are in the right place. Stay a while.