{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"crowdspring Blog","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.crowdspring.com\/blog","author_name":"Audree Rowe","author_url":"https:\/\/www.crowdspring.com\/blog\/author\/audree\/","title":"12 Questions: Meet Debs and Johnny (Portugal) - crowdspring Blog","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"EzIdPtzfH1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdspring.com\/blog\/12-questions-meet-debs-and-johnny-portugal\/\">12 Questions: Meet Debs and Johnny (Portugal)<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crowdspring.com\/blog\/12-questions-meet-debs-and-johnny-portugal\/embed\/#?secret=EzIdPtzfH1\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;12 Questions: Meet Debs and Johnny (Portugal)&#8221; &#8212; crowdspring Blog\" data-secret=\"EzIdPtzfH1\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! 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For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community \u2013 in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly \u2013 activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build something very special, and we\u2019ll take notice. We\u2019re very proud to feature Debs &amp; Johnny (crowdSPRING username: UsBeingUs ) today. Debs &amp; Johnny live and work in the countryside of central Portugal. 1. Please tell us about yourselves. Well firstly what a lovely surprise to be asked to do this, we are touched and honoured \u2013 thank you \u2013 you will certainly get to see some of the diversity within your crowd \ud83d\ude42 Well here goes, our story\u2026\u2026I think it could be long, so I\u2019ll leave our previous professional background to our own website if anyone wants to know it. But UsBeingUs started really with us finding us &#8211; Johnny &amp; I had both previously been married and when we met we were literally start again teenagers in our mid thirties \u2013 we were living in England at the time and had very normal busy lives, however we were on an uphill climb as we were start again financially too \u2013 we were often \u2018stressed out\u2019 and to be honest not necessarily the nicest of people, we had become snappy, irritable, with little time to relax and enjoy what\u2019s real \u2013 thankfully we recognised who we were becoming and felt it was time to try things a different way to see if we could get a bit more balance in our lives &#8211; I have traveled quite a bit previously and whilst I love my homeland, I also love the warmth and slower, more relaxed lifestyle that some other countries manage to lead \u2013 to be honest we didn\u2019t really know what we were looking for we just knew that we wanted to experience something different, try life a different way \u2013 so we \u00a0took the plunge to experience a more rural lifestyle and moved to Brittany in France in 2003. We were lucky enough to find a beautiful former farm, which we renovated together. A busy time for us as we had a big mortgage and bills to pay \u2013 but being in the countryside with space around us did give us the opportunity to experience a different way of life \u2013 we chose not have a television, which was one of the best decisions we ever made, everyone always asks us what you do??? Well we got in touch with our surroundings to begin with and we talked, we read, we surfed the net &amp; we opened our minds to new ideas \u2013 we began finding out who we really were and discovering what felt right for us \u2013 we became vegans, our furry friends started to find us. We also took the time to teach ourselves new skills, the main ones for.."}