I Left a High-Paying NYC Fashion Job to Teach Ballet in Cambodia—My Family Thought I Was Mad!

Babes, how did you get here · Jul 10, 2026 · 48m · transcript

A corporate fashion designer boards a plane to Cambodia for a one month holiday.

She's not running from anything. She's not chasing a man.

She just Googled "best places for solo female travelers" and Cambodia was number three.

Eight years later, she's still here.

Teaching fashion to the next generation of Cambodian designers,

dancing, modeling, freelancing, and building a life she never could have built in New York.

Ray is a multidisciplinary creative who traded her New York cubicle

for a $70 tuk tuk ride with a driver who became family,

a kindergarten teaching gig she never wanted,

and a…