Hi! I’m Anita.

I’ve always had the feeling that there’s something we’re meant to be doing.

We’re here to contribute and create. I found my calling at a young age and it’s propelled me through this wild, wonderous life.

Why I Create

Born and raised in near Toronto, Canada, I found a purpose for my existence when I started to struggle with my body image in at age 12. At the time, I was convinced that mass media and advertising were the culprit so I decided I would work in media to spread positive messages when I grow up. I’m not sure where I got the tenacious idea that I could take on a $1.2 trillion industry, but it stuck. This was my cosmic act of defiance. I could not let my soul be broken.

I never forgot that decision.

This desire to work in media stuck with me throughout my years in school. I felt a deep purpose, clarity, and momentum from knowing what I wanted to do with my life, so much so that I often wished my friends could have this experience too. I enrolled a media program at university but soon realized that working in traditional radio, film, television or print meant that I’d be stuck promoting what the system wanted me to say. No bueno.

I felt that there were other messages I was here to tell, and I didn’t want to be censored. Then I discovered the Internet. And that I could publish anything I wanted through it.

I was in.

How I Started Traveling

However, I still had to finish school.

I enrolled in business school, still hoping that I could change the media industry from the inside out. It was there that I found great hope for humanity, as well as sorrow over the prospects for my generation. At that time I knew I didn’t want to spend my life in a suit so I figured, if I want a different kind of life, I’m going to have to do things differently.

I started traveling solo when I was 20. Disappointed and disillusioned with the options that the world seemed to be offering me, I dove headfirst and heartfirst into this new world. Always one to venture to the places that scare me, I backpacked through East Africa on my second solo trip.

This experience changed me forever. I tapped into a level of courage I never knew I had.

Through my travels, I found a global family: soul sisters and brothers strewn around the world who were creating a lives of purpose, freedom and meaning. They didn’t care about chasing job titles or income. They wanted to be alive and make a difference.

With these new ideas bubbling up inside me and no one at home to talk about them, I started my first blog in 2012 and continued finding new ways to travel. By the time I had finished school, I’d been to 23 countries and I knew there was a different way to live.

following the calling

Since then, I’ve travelled to, worked in and lived in 37 countries.

I started out funding my travels with whatever was available to me and soon shifted to offering my growing skillset to companies, non-profits and organizations around the world that inspired me.

I’ve traveled in dozens of ways: working in international development, working on a cruise ships, teaching English and running my online business from my laptop. I’ve had the opportunity to work at a retreat centre in Hawaii, build an eco-community in Portugal, live broadcast from in refugee camps in Greece and speak at technology summits about livestreaming and wellness.

I built an online platform by the time I was age 25 that allowed me to continue traveling and working from my laptop indefinitely. Yet the most precious things are the lessons I’ve learned, the friends I’ve made and the person I’ve become along the way.

I love the thrill of adventure, connecting with human beings from all walks of life and seeing the world with fresh eyes. I love taking messages that matter, bringing them to life and amplifying them.

In 2017, I published Home Is Oceans Here, part-memoir, part-travelogue and part-how-to guide from my years of travel.

a new chapter

In 2017, I had a supernatural encounter that shattered my travel dreams and led me to return to Toronto.

For the next five years, I had to figure out who I was and what I was supposed to do with the broken pieces of my life. (That chapter of my life is chronicled in the first season of the podcast, Heavenly Minded Earthly Good. There are 10 in-depth episodes and you can listen to it here.)

As I healed and grew, I discovered a newfound purpose and faith. I also discovered new ways to take this creative instinct in me and use it to help other companies and organizations produce good media in the world.

This website and my social media channels are where I share this ongoing adventure, honestly and transparently.

Through writing, photography, videos, and other expressions my heart is share the wonder, joy and sacredness of being alive.

I’ve always believed that there is something we came here to do. Now I believe it with every fiber of my being.

You are chosen. You are born for this each moment in history.

Thank you for being here!

Professional Bio

Anita Wing Lee is a media host, director, producer, social innovator, writer and speaker. Originally from Toronto, Canada, she has cultivated a global community through her multi-platform storytelling and her bold, yet relatable voice. Anita has been featured multiple times on Periscope, the popular live-streaming application, as one of the top female broadcasters to follow.

Anita founded Global Meditation Scope, a first-of-its-kind livestreaming event that brought together 400 broadcasters. Through her social good initiative, #ProjectSoulFam, she was one of the first to livestream the European refugee crisis from the ground — broadcasting raw stories and interviews from inside refugee camps.

With over a decade of creative strategy and media productionexperience, Anita has worked with numerous clients in the wellness, travel, faith, social good, and creative industries. She is the author of two books, Home Is Oceans Here: A Journey and The Soul Of Humanity.

A seasoned world traveler, Anita has been to 37 countries thus far. She has been featured in Mashable, CBC, Adweek, Faith Today, Joy Radio and numerous podcasts.