"I'm very aware that I'm jumping into something unclear ... but it didn't bother me"

Deany Jaghdour’s visit to Max’s Island was a long one … she stayed longer than most guests … But there is a good reason why… she has a story that has many parts.

So, it is split into 3 chapters … each will be released separately.

They are individual experiences in their own right … but all form part of a bigger story from a time in her life that has certainly opened her to exciting opportunities, personal and business challenges and confronting emotional highs and lows.

These interconnected stories begin with Chapter One, where she meets a man…and moves to Jakarta to be with him … on an impulsive hunch that seemed to be the right thing to do at that time. This all happened within a couple of days of meeting him.

Ultimately, they met, they married and started a family within a short space of time.

Convincing her friends, family and her current work colleagues at the time … that her decision to move to Jakarta to live with this new man in her life was difficult, but that didn’t stop Deany from believing her intuition.

As their new life was being shaped as a growing family … a new restaurant business opportunity in Bali materialised. But their dreams were immediately interrupted by Covid. Within weeks of launching the restaurant … borders were closed … travel became restricted … and as with many other customer and tourist related industries during those times … their business was ruined, almost instantly.

This is only part one of Deany’s rollercoaster world with her growing family … and on the next episode, we’ll hear how their lives were thrown into disruption from something totally unexpected.