Tell Them My Name
AVAILABLE NOW
Tell Them My Name is an inspiring true story that explores how even the most impossible dreams can come true when unlikely friendships are built across cultures. In this offbeat travel memoir, four strangers from three countries, with barely a common language between them, decide to adopt each other as family and take on the world.
Dar Kumari is an indigenous Gurung woman living in the Nepali Himalayas with her husband Nar Bahadur. Their mud-brick house is in a remote farming village that has no electricity and can only be reached on foot. Their lives are turned upside down when a local NGO sends the Australian author, Laura, and her French husband, David, to live with their family while they help build the mountain’s first library.
Dar Kumari is baffled the married couple show no interest in having a baby and can’t cook rice over a fire or clean a mud floor. Eventually, Laura and David invite their Nepali ‘parents’ to travel with them back to Europe—maybe if they experience the other side of their cultural differences, it might help them all understand each other better?
Tell Them My Name takes you on a journey through six countries, sharing often hilarious observations about ‘normal’ life in different cultures and shining a much needed light on why so many of us are feeling stressed, overwhelmed and exhausted all the time.
Available in Paperback at:
Available as an eBook at:
Book Shop
18 authors, 18 stories
This I Know Is True
Non-Fiction
This I Know Is True explores the highs and lows of liberation and life women have experienced—emotionally, spiritually, socially, and physically—as we discover what ‘true’ really means so we can access a fearlessness that will enable us to live our truest and bravest life.
Women, of all backgrounds are making way in the new world, illuminating kind, provocative, practical knowledge and wisdom into a deeply neglected and changing world that are profoundly relevant to all of us.
This I Know Is True is an offering to inspire women to remember that anything is possible when we reawaken our sacred dreams, tap into our power within that can recreate our world for the better. Women have the capacity to transform and forge a brighter path for community progress, for all, and to cultivate connection in our changing world.
This book is made possible by a partnership between Sian Yewdall and the kind press and Laura was invited to contribute Chapter 10 of this beautiful anthology.
Free Download
GPS for the Soul
Self-Coaching Program
Feeling lost?
Not sure which direction to take next in your life or career?
Maybe you’ve got lots of ideas for paths you could choose, but you don’t know which way to go? Or you’ve been doing the same thing for so long you can’t think of anything you might want to do instead?
Whatever it is you’re feeling right now, it’s perfect. You’re not lost at all, you’re in exactly the right place.
Just hit the Free Download button and GPS for the Soul will be delivered right to your inbox in a few clicks.
GPS for the Soul is a free self-coaching program — my little gift to you — which will help you:
– See what is and isn’t working in your life right now
– Brain dump all the things you want for yourself now and in the future
– Identify the 4 most important goals or areas you should focus on over the next year
– Map out a rough plan to help you move forward with confidence
– Tap into your own knowledge of how you’ve overcome adversity in the past so you can achieve tomorrow what might feel impossible today.
If you follow this self-coaching process from start to finish, it will give you clarity on where you are now and where you might want to go next, as well as mapping out a clear path to reach your destination.
Just like a GPS.
But for the soul…
Enjoy the journey!
Thank you for visiting the book shop
Happy Reading!
Upcoming Events
5th February 2022
Tell Them My Name Book Launch • Avoca Beach Theatre
Join me to help launch this book into the world! Afternoon event with a brief movie reel of the book’s story, Q&A, book signing, bubbles and hopefully lots of sunshine so we can kick back in the park afterwards and relax.
February-March 2022
Tell Them My Name Book Tour • Brought to you by Maurice the House Bus
We’ll be travelling from Victoria to Queensland in Maurice the House Bus, stopping in bookshops and libraries along the way. More updates to come! If you would like us to visit your area, please contact me.
Laura Maya is a writer, coach and culturally curious “digital nomad” who has spent over 20 years wandering slowly through almost 60 countries. She is the author of Tell Them My Name, an inspiring true story about two indigenous Nepalese farmers who travel to Paris on a quest to explore Western culture (2022, the kind press).