Shiftheads - He Walked 14,000 Kilometres to Learn Life’s Most Important Lesson

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · Jul 8, 2026 · 19m

Rocco Rossi has walked the Camino de Santiago 23 times since 2002, and what started as a way out of a corporate career he no longer believed in has become something he returns to every year. His new novel, Finding Grace, pulls two decades of that walking into fiction.

A mentor's sudden death during a business trip is what first put him on the trail, chasing clarity a promotion could never give him. Rossi explains how thirty days of walking, day after day with nowhere to hide from your own thoughts, became the tool he still relies on, and how the people he met along the way became the…