Borderless: A Story of Wanderlust and Resilience

Borderless is the wildly true, wickedly funny, and deeply heartfelt story of a woman who has lived a dozen lifetimes in one. Valerie Dost von Dostenberg takes readers on a breathtaking journey across continents, careers, heartbreaks, reinventions, and moments so absurd they could only be real.

Born in the serene beauty of Switzerland and shaped by a childhood filled with curiosity and contradiction, Valerie grows into a woman who refuses to sit still. Her life becomes a series of bold leaps: from navigating the polished world of billionaire estates and celebrity households to enlisting in the U.S. Navy at thirty-six, where she trades stilettos for steel-toed boots and discovers grit she never knew she had.

She travels to 76 countries, survives more than her share of shattering losses, and still finds a way to laugh at the absurdity of life—whether she’s chasing down missing remotes for a pop star, jetting across oceans in search of her next adventure, or finding herself in yet another unexpected corner of the world wondering how, exactly, she got there.

Yet the heart of Borderless isn’t just the chaos—it’s the courage to start over, the softness that remains after every hard chapter, and the quiet truth that home isn’t a place, but a feeling you carry inside you.

Funny, fearless, and profoundly human, Borderless is a celebration of resilience, reinvention, and the beautiful, unpredictable mess of a life lived without borders.

It’s a reminder that you can lose everything, travel far, love deeply, break spectacularly, and still rise - again and again - with humor, grit, and a suitcase ready for whatever adventure comes next.