Michèle Bevoort

Tell Us a bit About Yourself?

Iam a multi-creative with too many passions for this lifetime. It’s my greatest strength and pitfall at the same time. I (modern) dance, play the cello and illustrate. I already did so many different beautiful things that my CV is like a big fat book. I feel the richness in all this experiencing, and it fits me as movement marks my life. I’m endlessly curious, but overwhelm is always there, luring at the flipside of the coin.

What Do You Do for Work?

I worked as an editor for several glossy magazines like Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire for more than 11 years after art-school. When I craved more freedom, I started freelancing. I wrote books, created a series of slow travel guides, worked as a freelance copywriter, content manager, and coordinating editor for several big brands, magazines, and online-oriented companies.

I finished a 5-year education as a holistic therapist on the side. Today all I did in the past came together within the lifestyle brand I’m building: The Barefoot Diaries, a community, and playground for freedom seekers and creatives. It is a space where you can connect and where you find inspiration on how to live. And also how to integrate a little more of that “free barefoot lifestyle,” no matter how you live your life at this moment.

What’s your fantasy version of your older self?

Living a more simple and rustic life at a place where we have lots of space to play outside and be a little more connected to nature. I see a large kitchen garden and an atelier with a small gallery for our art. A place where we can share our creativity with others. With a buzzing city within driving distance as I need that too every now and then. Hopefully, this is more of my future vision than my fantasy version but still… ;).

What are you Most Proud Of?

All the inner work I did in the past years to live more of the whole rainbow of my potential. That resulted in the courage to move with life more instead of fears holding me back, and so the last years, I lived in and worked from several places abroad like Bali and Spain. It was a fruitful time to create and get clear on my brand, The Barefoot Diaries.