Inspiring stories of people that pulled the ripcord on their 9-to-5 lives to reinvent as an entrepreneur, digital nomad and adventurer. From employees turned industry influencers or just people stuck in a life that wasn’t what they had dreamed of and made the seemingly impossible decision to reinv…
Digital Nomad Amy Scott figured out 14 years ago that her normal 9-to-5 job and normal life wasn’t for her. She was an Editor in San Francisco for a travel guide publishing company commuting into the city and squeezing out her own travel experiences around her vacation time. That wasn’t good enough for her so she started the process of planning her escape but it took her longer than expected to save up what she needed. 2 ½ years actually of planning, saving and most importantly keeping her dream secret from her employer until she was ready launch. The day finally came, she left her job and started traveling but her nest-egg that she felt was enough to get her going was just $12,000.
Pat Schulte, his wife Ali and 2 kids are officially the Bumfuzzle family adventuring the world for the last 15 years by land and by sea. They pulled the ripcord on their normal life 15 years ago. Back then, Pat was a stocks and commodities trader in Chicago working the trading pits and living the normal urban life in downtown Chicago but things started to change. Their friends started to move in the direction of buying a house in the suburbs and having kids but they weren't ready for that. So instead this Midwest couple came up with the idea to buy a sail boat and sail around the world. The problem was that neither one of them had ever step foot on a sail boat.
Caleb James was a TV news reporter in Albuquerque NM chasing down stories in front of the camera, had a very public career and it was the job that he had always dreamed of. But the reality of the job was that the stories he found himself exploring were really just him chasing down bad people demanding that they tell him why they were so bad. One day it occurred to him reliant on horrible things happening in his community for his own job security. So he decided to chase the good stories as a Documentary Film Maker but to do that everything in his life had to change. He had to quit his job, leave what was safe and the life that he had built behind and embark on a completely different path. He is now pulling an airstream trailer across the US in search of the good stories under his brand, The Greatest of US.
Todd and Allison Nevins with their bulldog Deuce left Texas to hunt down their ultimate laptop lifestyle of working from the road driving through Mexico. These Digital Nomads have everything they own in their SUV and 30 minutes after driving across the border they make a rookie mistake. After negotiating their way through the border town of Nueva Laredo, they continue on their quest to live in a new city every 6 weeks. So far they've hit San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato and Mexico City. "Everyday, living in Guanajuato felt like we were living in a movie." In this episode we discuss the most commonly asked questions... Are you looking for a place to settle? Is it really safe to drive through Mexico? How do people in Mexico treat you now that Trump is President? What is the healthcare like in Mexico? What is the co-working scene like? How do you make money living a laptop lifestyle? Do you need to speak Spanish?
3 years ago Robert Field was doing everything that society had told him would bring him happiness. He had earned a masters degree that enabled him to get a great job in finance making plenty of money and everything on paper was just fine when all of the sudden he had a really tragic 4 days. He was fired from the fishing rod startup where he was working in finance, he ended a serious relationship with his girlfriend which left him with nowhere to live and his uncle walked to a city park and committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. Everything in his life, his beliefs around happiness and his direction changed in those 4 days but he was left with the question, “What do I do now?” These experiences catapulted him into following his passion with a vengeance and that passion is kayak fishing and making YouTube videos about his adventures. His pursuit of following his dream and being a YouTube Star along the way had begun.
10 years ago Cissy Jones was living the Silicon Valley startup life of 100 hour work weeks, sleeping at the office and was smothered by the ‘what have you done for me lately’ mentality of that world when one day her aunt asked her, what would be your dream job. Her answer, "I want to be a voice on the Simpsons."
Heath Padgett convinced his fiancé Alyssa to quit their jobs after their wedding, buy an RV and set out on the road for an extended 1 year honeymoon to live the RV life. His idea was to travel to all 50 States in their first year of marriage and along the way, find and work an hourly job in each state. Heath's goal wasn’t to document the plight of hourly workers but to explore how people find meaning in their work. "It really set the stage for us to live a whole year in a constant state of discomfort." - Heath Padgett on working an hourly job in all 50 states in 1 year. Alyssa, without any videography experience grabbed a camera and began filming their adventures and it blew up and turned into the documentary, Hourly America. They were featured on CNN, Forbes, CBS and all of the others. But what they also discovered was that executing on their idea was more difficult than they anticipated and half way through their mission, they almost quit. We talk about what happened and what drove them to continue.
A few years ago, Anna and Derek Morris had everything that they ever wanted in Houston TX. Derek had a corporate job in the oil and gas industry and Anna was self-employed building a startup. They had a perfect house with a pool, a big yard and a mortgage so on paper they had the perfect, normal life. But their ripcord decision began to build and it peaked when they realized that their fear of doing nothing was greater than their fear of potentially screwing up their lives by quitting everything safe to travel the world. They made the daunting decision to live their motto, We Play Everywhere, and launched out into the unknown and chaotic world of constant travel. Their story includes.... The safe lives that they built in Houston. When they reached the point of their fear of doing nothing became greater than their fear of screwing up their lives. The process of getting rid of their stuff. What it was really like to travel and hit 30 countries with nothing but backpacks and carry-ons. What it was like coming back to the States after being gone for so long. Why they decided to road trip with their dog into Mexico. Their big house in Houston is now a distant memory after traveling through 30 countries and we catch up to them from a small little beach town in Mexico where they are regrouping on their next adventure which involves building a startup to solve their own travel problems that they encountered along the way. Thanks to Nifty Gosney for introducing me to Derek and Anna. If you know of a crazy story of letting go of everything safe to pursue a path less traveled, contact us at gohuntlife.com. ----Show Notes--- Weplayeverywhere.com Insta @annakmorris_ and @derekbmorris If you like this story of adventure travel, check out last week's episode with Will and Jessica Sueiro that hit the road with their 2 kids. Their interview took place in the middle of Morocco from their RV.
Will and Jessica Sueiro left their 9-to-5 jobs in Boston behind, pulled their kids from school and set out on an adventure wandering the world but the first 6 months of their new lives turned into a living hell. Their first stop was Costa Rica and what they quickly learned is that there was no amount of planning that could have prepared them for the transition from normal life in the States to their new lives full of unstructured chaos wandering the world. They kept pursuing their dream and didn't let the minor setbacks force them to go back on their decision to live a bolder and fuller life. Fast-Forward a few years and they've just relived that first 6 months of chaos and frustration after their kids convinced them to buy an RV and for them to wander across Morocco. "We do not learn from our mistakes but that has made all the difference in our journey." Jessica Sueiro In this episode the Sueiro's share... Pulling the kids from school without ever home-schooling them before. Telling their friends but deciding to avoid naysayers by telling them that it was just for a year. Battling the first 6 months of chaos in Costa Rica and why it was so difficult. The mistakes that they made in the transition. Balancing their new roles as Jessica's income was now supporting the family. Getting adjusted to home-schooling the kids. Creating WorldTowning.com to help others transition into pursuing the road less traveled. I would like to thank previous podcast guest Kim Dinan for introducing me to Will and Jessica. You can find Kim’s story of adventure travel re-shaped by an unexpected gift, a yellow envelope, on podcast episode #86. ----Show Notes--- Worldtowning.com Socials @worldtowning Youtube @worldtowning
Greg Caplan is the founder of Remote Year and their tag line is Keep your job. See the World. Leave the planning to us. He’s created a company that allows you to pull the ripcord and start traveling the world for 1 year but keep your real job and money coming in. What he's also built is a 1,500 person community of like-minded individuals from all over the world. This is how you can chase your dream life and if you have one, still keep your dream job.
The Digital Nomad Entrepreneurs, Todd and Allison Nevins are moving from Austin TX to Mexico to build their online businesses and explore the vibrant culture and entrepreneurial ecosystem of the land south of the US border. Todd is the Founder and Chief Marketer of CLICKPlacement, an AdWords marketing agency that he started over 10 years ago. Allison is the Founder of TexMex Fun Stuff, an e-commerce business she started in 2016 selling authentic handmade Mexican goods throughout the US. She has grown her business into an Amazon FBA store and the move to Mexico will allow her to explore the country, find new products and build relationships with more artists that wish to tap into the US market with their handmade goods made in Mexico. This move also sets the groundwork for global expansion into Europe and Australia.
Katie McKenna didn’t pull the ripcord to follow the life that she had always dreamed of living, she had the ripcord yanked on her and it transformed her way of living life. 10 years ago she was working in finance because her Dad and her brother told her it would be a very good job for her. She was living someone else’s expectation. She planned to work for 5 years, save a bunch of money and finally do what she was really meant to do when one morning she went out on a bike ride and at a stop light she signaled to a semi-truck driver that she was turning right. The driver didn’t see her. The light turned green, Katie started peddling turning right and unfortunately so did the truck. Like the Show? Leave a Review for Go Hunt Life on Apple Podcasts Katie was hit, knocked to the pavement run over by the front 4 wheels of the semi-truck’s trailer right across her midsection. She laid there in shock only to turn and look at the back set of wheels coming straight for her. All she could do was scream "noooooo" as the 2nd set of wheels rolled over her body. I catch up to Katie over 10 years after that tragic accident and we discuss her life since that October morning and how she is now a motivating force helping people get over trauma. In this episode we discuss... Her career in finance living someone else's expectation. That perfect bike ride on October 2nd. Signaling to the driver of the 18-wheeler The sound of the accident. Feeling the mud flaps slap her body. The surgeon telling her that she probably wouldn't survive the surgery. Waking up, alive and grappling with her way of living life had completely changed forever. Going back to work 6 months after the accident. Her 10 journey of recovery and inspiring others to conquer tragedy. Motivating others that are not living their own authentic life to pursue the life of their dreams. It starts by making one small incremental change at a time which is exactly how she got from laying on that street to training for her 3rd half marathon. Shout out to Kyle James, podcast guest #77 for introducing Katie to me. Listen to Kyle's journey from 9-to-5 to traveling the world and capturing his quest in 'Not Afraid of the Fall'. --Show Notes-- KatieCMcKenna.com Insta and Twitter @katiecmckenna
Mikah Meyer is 2 years into a 3 year journey to travel to all of the 417 US National Park Units, and if he completes this in the timeframe that he’s set he will break two world records. He will be the first person to visit all 417 parks in one continuous trip and the youngest to visit them all but this is only half of the story. Mikah is also a Christian and openly gay. His journey of visiting all of the US parks started as a way to honor his late father that loved the outdoors and passed away at 58. Over time, it’s transformed him into being a vocal ambassador for LGBT inclusion in the Outdoor community. [caption id="attachment_3053" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Photo credit The Huffington Post[/caption] But the publicity that he is garnering is coming at a price, literally. One of his sponsors recently dropped him because they felt like his voice had become too loud and that he was doing too much outreach to the LGBT community. In this episode we discuss... The original 'why' for his trip to honor his father that passed away. Planning the trip and buying his moving home, a decked out van. When his trip transformed into him being a global voice for LGBT inclusion in the outdoor community. One of his sponsors cancelling the sponsorship because he was doing too much for the LGBT community. How he is continuing to pay for the trip to all 417 US National Park Units. How will he end the trip and when he successfully breaks two world records. Shout out to Bill Sycalik, also a National Park fanatic and a previous guest on the podcast. Check out Bill's story of running a marathon in all of the US National Parks after reaching a breaking point, "my lifestyle wasn't feeding me, it was feeding ON me." ---Show Notes--- Mikah Meyer Mikah Meyer's $50 for 50 fundraiser to get to all of the US National Park Units in Alaska. Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @MikahMey
Ryan Huett is all about pursuing his passion and owning his own time. His story takes us from a small town in Texas to the mountains of Costa Rica, to him going back to school in his 40s and him taking an unpaid internship in his 40s and him founding and running his own winery, Huett Cellars. Ryan is also a husband of 23 years and a Dad to 2 boys. I’m always amazed at the guests that I have on the show that are parents and the reason they pulled the ripcord for a different life was because of their kids. They weren’t held back from making a massive life change for fear of messing up the kids lives. They pulled the ripcord to show their kids a bigger, better and bolder life and Ryan’s story is just that. Their decisions never revolved around money but on pursuing a passion and owning their time. In this episode we discuss... Ryan wanting to show his kids a better life. Leaving that small Texas town for good. Building his first real estate business in Costa Rica. Battling through the 2009 recession by going small, moving to the mountains of Costa Rica and living off the grid. His epiphany sitting on a mountain top in Costa Rica that inspired him to go back to school to learn how to make wine. Taking an unpaid internship in his 40s. How he started a wine business without owning any land or grapes. Thank you to Arie and Rebecca Litovsky for telling me about Ryan's story. ---Show Notes--- Huettcellars.com FB @ryan.onwine
Steph Jagger had her ripcord moment at the top of a ski lift. She was living in Vancouver where she had built a great life for herself. She was a management consultant for a PR firm and had always chased success in every aspect of her life when one day she went skiing with some friends and at the top of the chairlift she saw a sign that read, ‘raise restraining device.’ Raise Restraining Device That line turned into a mantra that would catapult her into her mission of chasing snow for 1 full year skiing around the world. She took out a second mortgage on her house, sold everything she owned except for her ski equipment and set out to crack open her life, and along the way she set a world record for skiing 4 million vertical feet in under 12 months. In this episode we discuss... The financial, physical and emotional planning Steph took to prepare for her trip. Taking out a second mortgage on her home and selling everything she owned. Buying a bundle of plane tickets and leaving with her ski equipment and laptop. The breakdown in New Zealand and when she felt her life cracking open. What kept her going when she was emotionally and physically spent. Breaking the world record by skiing 4 million vertical feet in 12 months. Writing her book, Unbound: A Story of Snow and Self-Discovery ---Show Notes--- Stephjagger.com FB @stephanie.jagger.92 Insta @stephjagger Steph Jagger's book Unbound: A Story of Snow and Self-Discovery Shout-out to friend, previous guest and TED Talker Kimberly Rich for introducing me to Steph. Check out Kimberly's story of balancing Boldness and Patience on podcast episode #72. Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife
Elizabeth and Gary Sherman from Austin TX just 1 year ago had a 5 bedroom house, 3 cars and a big life in Austin TX but reached the breaking point where they felt like their lives were running them as opposed to them running their lives. Gary was a Chief Technology Officer for a Software company and Elizabeth was a Director of Fitness at a Country Club. They now live full-time in a beach town in Mexico but Gary is still the CTO for that software company and Elizabeth has built her own business as a Health Coach. "We felt like our lives were running us instead of us running our lives." - Elizabeth Sherman - They spent over a year redesigning their lives that enabled them to sell the house, the cars and everything they owned down to a Jeep Wrangler and a trailer. They road tripped through Mexico and have lived in and worked from Puerto Morelos Mexico for a year. In this episode we discuss... Their lives in Austin TX owning a 5 bedroom home with 3 cars. Selling and giving away their stuff down to 1 mattress the morning they left. Road tripping through Mexico. Dodging a herd of goats in Puebla Mexico. Arriving in Puerto Morelos without a signed lease. Losing power and internet in the first 24 hours. Continuing to work as a Chief Technology Officer. Building a Health Coach business. Their lives now after a year of living in and working from Mexico. ----Show Notes--- texmexexpats.com elizabethsherman.com Facebook texmexexpats.com Appear.in for super easy video conferencing, free up to 4 people. Zoom video conferencing for one-on-one and group coaching Thank you to Wes and Lola Prince for sending this story. Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife
Cole Zucker started his entrepreneurial journey buying a one-way plane ticket to Shanghai China just after he was fired from a job that he hated in New York. Everything he owned was shoved into 2 duffel bags, he had $3,000 to his name and he knew no one in the city and didn't speak the language. After landing a job at a lightbulb manufacturing company, he recognized a market that was primed for disruption. That market was the LED lightbulb market. This conversation takes us through the early development days and of Cole being homeless in San Francisco chasing down lighting trucks for leads with nothing but a box of lightbulbs and a big idea. 7 years after hitting the streets of San Francisco, Cole is the C0-CEO of Green Creative that he founded with his partner Guillaume Vidal, a $60 million LED lightbulb manufacturing company with 80 employees across the U.S. and China. [caption id="attachment_2937" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Guillaume Vidal and Cole Zucker, photo credit Timothy Archibald for Forbes.[/caption] In this episode we discuss... Being the worst in his training class at the first job he ever had. Getting fired from his first job within a first year for poor performance. Buying a one-way ticket to Shanghai China. Landing in China with 2 duffel bags, $3,000 and not knowing anyone or the language. How he landed a job at a lightbulb manufacturing company. Recognizing the pending disruption in the lightbulb industry with LED lightbulbs that started his entrepreneurial journey. How him and his partner developed their first Minimum Viable Product...that looked terrible but worked. Living out of his car and on people's couches to save money while cold-calling business selling his new product. Show Notes Green Creative website: gc-lighting.com Twitter @GCLightingLED Facebook @GreenCreativeLED Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife
Kim Dinan and her husband Brian had a great life in Portland Oregon with good jobs, a cool house and everything was going just fine when one day she thought, "there’s got to be more to life than paychecks and mortgages." That thought propelled them to quit their jobs and sell everything they owned to travel around the world and at their going away party, one of their friends handed them a gift. A yellow envelope. And in it was $1,000 dollars and instructions to give the money away to those that they encounter on their journey. “Fear is not an indication that we should stop.” Kim Dinan Now 6 years later, Kim has just published a book that details the peaks and valleys of their life changing journey. And the title of her book is, The Yellow Envelope. In this episode we discuss... Day dreaming in her cubicle about quitting her job to travel around the world. How she had to convince her husband to go along with her plan. The unexpected gift of a Yellow Envelope containing $1,000 with simple instructions. The difficulty of giving away money. How their traveling together shed light on problems in their marriage. How she wrote her book, The Yellow Envelope, and eventually got it in Target. What her life is now as a new mom. ---Show Notes--- so-many-places.com The Yellow Envelope: One Gift, Three Rules, and A Life-Changing Journey Around the World Facebook So Many Places Travel Blog Twitter @KimDinan The Rickshaw Run Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife
Sebastian Marshall is an entrepreneur, world traveler and founder of ultraworking, a company that he's headquartered in Kuala Lumpur Malysia. Sebastian lived and traveled all over the world and he’s an author that writes 6000 words a week. To reach this level of output he has completely dissected his daily life to get unbelievably efficient. His company now works with entrepreneurs, executives and military officers to increase their efficiency by focusing on what he calls impact areas. I asked him to be on the show and I challenged him with a very real scenario of how he would help someone that wants to make a massive life-changing and life altering decision and he breaks it down simply to 10 minutes a day. If you are someone that wants to start a company, write a book, run a marathon or just get started on something that you’ve been putting off for too long, this is your episode. In this episode we discuss... What 3 questions he asks himself everyday. Eliminating the RUNI work from your day. - Recurring. Urgent. Un-Important work. His advice for that person wanting to get started on a daunting task that they've been putting off. How he continues to write 6,000 words a week. His advice on writing a book versus hiring a company to write it. We discuss the company Book in a Box and the CEO JT McCormick. To learn more about JT's journey from poverty to being CEO, check out podcast episode #50 - One Man's Unstoppable Pursuit of the American Dream ----Show Notes--- Ultraworking.com/GHL for tips on knocking out your daunting task. SebastianMarshall.com Twitter and Facebook @sebastmarsh Extreme Productivity by Bob Poson Zach Obront and JT McCormick at Book in a Box Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife
Dan McKernan left the startup world and tech job in Austin Texas to rescue farm animals by founding the Barn Sanctuary on his family's farm in Chelsea Michigan. It all started with a phone call from his Dad. They discussed what they should do with their farm that had been in the family for 140 years. That conversation completely changed Dan’s path and mission in life and he is now the founder of Barn Sanctuary. A non-profit animal sanctuary that rescues farm animals that have been abused, abandoned or have been victims of natural disasters. “Don’t be afraid, just be fully committed.” Dan’s job title and responsibilities have completely changed but he’s still an awesome marketing guy and is lighting up social media with videos of his furry little farm animals to educate the public and raise awareness and money for his mission. In this episode... Dan's life as a Web Developer and marketing expert in the startup world in Austin, TX. The phone call with his Dad that would change his life. Starting his non-profit, the Barn Sanctuary, over a weekend. Going all in just 1 month after trying to keep his day job and build Barn Sanctuary. How he learns of animals needing rescued. The viral Facebook Live video he shared about the local sheriffs hunting down a cow in the woods. What his biggest needs are on the 70 acre farm. How Patron has enabled him to sustain the animal rescue farm. Show Notes BarnSanctuary.org Facebook @thebarnsanctuary Instagram and Twitter @barnsanctuary The viral video on Facebook of Dan searching for a lost cow in the woods. Twitter for Dan @danmckernan Support Barn Sanctuary at Patreion @Barnsanctuary Mentioned Jon Stewart’s Farm Sanctuary Watkins Glen, NY at the Farm Sanctuary Skylands Farm Animal Sanctuary in NJ If you like this episode, be sure to check out the story behind Kim Paciotti of Training Canines quitting her job as a Professional Chef to change the world by changing puppy's lives on podcast episode #78. Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife
Paul Kortman and his family of 6 are digital nomads and living a life on the road RVing through Mexico all while running a digital marketing agency. Paul actually has two ripcord moments and we go deep into both of them. "How can we lower our cost of living dramatically while improving our quality of living?" The first is when he quit "the best job he ever had" to start his own marketing agency. The second is when him and his wife with 4 kids sold everything in Grand Rapids Michigan to go location independent and travel the world while still running the agency. Things didn’t initially go as planned. Within 3 months of them being digital nomads, Paul lost 3 clients that equated to 90% of his revenue and things quickly imploded. We discuss... How they planned to leave Grand Rapids for good and travel the world as digital nomads. When things quickly fell apart just 3 months into their journey. Returning to Grand Rapids to re-group and re-build their digital marketing agency. Buying a 300 square foot RV for the family to continue their nomadic lives. Living and working in Mexico. The digital tools that he relies on to run his business and thrive as a location independent entrepreneur. The ups and downs of living a life on the road with a family of 6. "Yes, I could make more money but I would have to work more and what's the fun in that?" This is a story of a resilient family that refused to give up on their dreams of living and working from anywhere and a motto that they’ve adopted when their traveling lifestyle hits a roadblock is, “if we are going to laugh about it later, why not laugh about it now.” Show Notes HomeAlongtheWay.com PaulKortman.com Connexdigitalmarketing.com The Nomad Together podcast Mentioned: The Tropical MBA, The Family Adventure Podcast Tools that Paul depends on to run his business from anywhere: Slack, Trello, Google Hangouts, Zapier, Skype, Google Voice, T-mobile Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife
Bob and Fara Grim quit the 9-to-5 grind to Travel the World on a $100 a day budget. To do this they needed to make a plan. Bob was working as a Software Developer and Fara was in the Telecom industry so they used their two incomes to save every penny to prepare for their launch. This conversation is a continuation from one 6 months ago when they emailed into the show detailing their pending ripcord and how the podcast encouraged them to go nomadic. We added a ‘pulling the ripcord’ segment with them at the end of episode #56 and you can check it out here. They carefully planned everything and most importantly how they were going to pay for it. They estimated that they were going to spend $100/day while traveling so they developed a mantra that gave them a gut check every time they were thinking about spending money. That mantra set them up to be temporarily retired in their early 40s and have enough money to travel on while they discover and create their next income streams. We catch up to Bob and Fara in Ireland, 6 months into their travels, to get the lowdown on what they’ve discovered so far and what happened to their $100 a day travel budget. In this episode we discuss... Their lives as a Software Developer and working in the Telecom industry in Portland, OR. How they saved up enough money to retire in their early 40s. Why they decided to keep their house and rent it out while traveling. How they underestimated how much they were going to spend while traveling. The apps and travel tools that they use to make traveling easier and cheaper. Show Notes Travel the world with Bob and Fara at Candolatitude.com or on Facebook @CanDoLatitude. Podcasts that inspired Bob and Fara are Go Hunt Life (duh), Really Truly Living, Nomadtopia and Living Unconventionally. Job websites they use to make money while traveling: HelpX to volunteer work in exchange for free accommodations and WorkAway for volunteering, working and cultural exchange. House sitting resources they use are Trusted House Sitters, House Sit Match and Nomador. Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife
Jonathan Levy graduated from college and took the job that he thought he was supposed to take. Soon after he found himself working in corporate America in a 2 million square foot retail distribution center full of cheap products designed to wear out and be thrown away. His felt that his life was spiraling out of control. Imagine for a second if you did not throw away anything? You created no garbage? His work life was becoming completely out of balance with his personal life where he was embracing a zero waste way of living and he got to the point where he had no choice, so he quit. Since that moment he’s turned his idea and purpose into a career that previously didn’t exist. He is now a Zero Waste Project Manager working with companies and municipalities to reduce their garbage by actually reusing it. We discuss... The mindset of taking the job that he was SUPPOSED to take. His role as a Supply Chain Manager. The realization that his professional life and personal life were completely out of alignment. How he followed his personal passion and focus into a completely new career and professional movement. Him quitting his job without a plan. His research in European countries to design the next phase of his career around a city's sustainability. How he created the brand, Zero Waste Guy, and created a career that previously didn't exist. Working with municipalities to help them use less and re-use their garbage. How he goes out to dinner with friends with his own napkins and utensils. Introducing a plant based diet into his life. Show Notes Zerowasteguy.com FB and Instagram @zerowasteguy Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife
Greg Nance has run 155 miles across the Gobi Desert in China and Mongolia, scaled some of the tallest mountains in the world by himself and is a startup founder of global non-profits and companies that he is growing from Shanghai China. Be thankful he wasn’t at your 10 year high school reunion because he graduated from high school just a decade ago. Stranded in a snowstorm on a mountain in his sleeping bag for 14 hours doing sit-ups to keep the blood moving. [caption id="attachment_2543" align="aligncenter" width="601"] Greg finishing the 155 mile race across the Gobi Desert.[/caption] His ripcord moment really happened just after high school when he started college, became a keynote speaker across 9 different countries and founded his first company all by the time he was 19 years old. To add to all of this, he’s also a 12 Ambassador to the Seattle Seahawks after the team learned of his commitment to watching the games from China. Spoiler, it involved him running 30 miles round trip to a sports bar at 4am to watch the games. In this episode we discuss... The lightbulb that went off when someone called him an entrepreneur. How his thirst for adventure starting as a young boy hiking with his family in the mountains of Washington. Summiting Mount St. Helens Volcano at 12 years old. Starting non-profits to help make college more affordable and attainable for more people. Choosing to build his startup in Shanghai China. Running 155 miles across the Gobi Desert. Getting caught in a snow storm and stranded in his sleeping bag for 14 hours on a mountain peak. The world record that he has his sights set on. [caption id="attachment_2544" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Greg Nance running 30 miles round trip to watch the Seahawks game Shanghai, China.[/caption] Show Notes GregNance.org Dyad.com and MoneyThink.org Twitter @GregNance Brooks Running 7 Summits Challenge Seattle Seahawks '12 Ambassador' If you like this episode of endurance and perseverance, check out episode 39 with Andrew Townsend. He went from arthritic and obese to a running across the Spanish Pyrenees Mountains at the age of 60. Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife
Mark Vlaskamp walked from his Marketing Director job in pursuit of being 100% happy and embarked on a road trip chasing down his passion of fishing and documented his journey at CanoeVibes. He covered 15,482 miles through 37 states in his jeep with his canoe on the top and everything he needed to live inside. But even with all of the planning, he still faced immediate self-doubt on mile #2 when he thought to himself, have I just screwed up my life. But he didn’t and he’s used his experience to propel him into the next phase of his life and new career. We caught up with Mark outside of Austin Beer Garden Brewing in south Austin.
Kim Paciotti is training puppies to save people's lives. This once Chef left the corporate world after the brutal economy in 2009 resulted in her being laid off. In a strange twist of fate the best thing that could have happened to here was getting laid off and at the same time her life path took a major turn when a dog trainer told her that she should put down her own dog at just 10 months old because he was "untrainable and dangerous." Kim proved that dog trainer wrong by researching the puppy’s mind and has turned that research into a science and is now saving the world one puppy at a time. She's the Founder of Training Canines in Statesville, NC and has built her business around her love of dogs and the science behind how puppies learn. "Don't ever give up, its there and you will find it. We're only here one time and we all have a God given gift and talent. You have to find what yours is and once you do you have to go with it because if you don't you're not doing yourself or the world any justice."
Kyle James is an Amazon Best Selling Author, Traveler and Food Truck Entrepreneur but a few years ago he took his dream job in the sports department of a major university in Colorado and two weeks into the position, he came home and told his girlfriend that he’d made a terrible mistake taking this job. “It was the first time in my life that I actually thought I was going to die, or at least have to fight for my life.” That drove them to quit everything and travel to 15 different countries in 114 days and along the way Kyle did something that he never thought he’d do. He wrote a book detailing their travel adventures from first landing in Paris thinking THAT was a treacherous travel day to almost capsizing on a ferry in Thailand.
Todd and Allison Nevins pull the ripcord again and are moving back to Mexico. 7 years ago they were living the normal life in Carrollton, TX when they sold everything they owned down to a few suitcases and stepped on a plane with their bulldog Deuce to move to Merida Mexico. After 5 years in Merida they decided to pull the ripcord again and move to Austin TX to build a Google Adwords consulting business and an Amazon FBA store and along the way, Todd has built the Go Hunt Life podcast exploring stories of people that had seemingly normal lives and careers going but they too blew up their comfort bubbles to hunt down a life that they had always dreamed of living.
Kristie and Elijah Whites are the EntrepRoadshow that quit their jobs 3 years ago and have never looked back. Kristie was a Sr Accounts Manager at a marketing agency and Elijah was a sales manager for a moving company. Kristie loved marketing and Elijah loved photography and videography and the rest they say is history but with a twist at the end. They both quit their jobs in 2014 to combine their passions to form their marketing agency Serving Social and the twist is that after growing the company they’ve decided to take their business on the road, literally, in an RV. Listen on Apple Podcasts They are working and living in their mobile command center and they are traveling through America helping small towns with their own marketing strategies. These are the towns with the main squares and buildings without any businesses open and they are struggling so Kristie and Elijah are providing their expertise in marketing to help these towns rebrand, rebuild and thrive, and along the way they have found their happiness. In this episode we discuss... What their lives looked like working 2 jobs and owning a 6 bedroom home full of stuff. How they transitioned from 2 full-time incomes to founding Serving Social. Combining their loves of marketing, photography and videography. Selling their possessions on Facebook and their house to buy an RV to live and work out of. The formation of the Traveling Marketers and the Entrepreneurs Roadshow. Helping small towns in rural America rebrand, rebuild and thrive. Show Notes ServingSocial.com Twitter @servingsociallc FB @ServingSocialLLC Instagram @Serving_Social Enterpreneurs RoadShow @EntrepRoadshow Online tools that Kristie & Elija rely on to run their business. Hubspot Pro MavenLink: Online Project Management Software Zapier: The Best Apps. Better Together. Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife
Benjamin Garcia is an entrepreneur that started his journey into tech startups by dropping out of college at the age of 19 and joined other high school and college dropouts in the exploding tech scene in London There he co-founded 5 tech companies and has since built his life around being location independent yet still working with one of those startups as a Business Intelligence Officer. This startup has grown to over 100 employees but that’s only part of Benjamin’s story. The other part is that he’s now back in the US and has built a Tiny House Community in Spur, TX trying to attract young tech professionals to move to west Texas by blending technology with a do-it-yourself mentality and in the process saving a small town from further decline. Listen on Apple Podcasts And we discuss his latest endeavor of converting a short school bus into his work space, living quarters and traveling home. Living Intentionally, Traveling Indefinitely & Building Sustainable Communities from His Converted School Bus. In this episode we discuss... Dropping out of college to join other like minded tech entrepreneurs in the London tech startup scene. Being location independent while being a Business Intelligence Officer for one of his startups, Verve Software. Being drawn to Spur, TX to build a Tiny House Community attracting technology do-it-yourselfers. Being a $4,000 short school bus to convert into a fully function work station, living quarters and traveling home. His goal of driving his traveling home to South America next July to watch the eclipse. Show Notes Lifeonthe.Cloud If you are interested in another Van Life story from Go Hunt Life, check out Emily, Corey and Penny Rose with WheresMyOfficeNow on episode #28. Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife
Mac Bishop founded Wool & Prince to solve a problem of his own and the problem of minimalists around the world. He wanted comfortable wool clothing that was odor and wrinkle resistant, and looked good even if weeks went by between laundry day. It all started with him proving to his coworkers at his corporate job that he could go 100 straights days wearing the same wool shirt without washing it. His entrepreneurial pursuit kicked in and motivated him to quit the corporate job and launch his wool clothing company with an incredible Kickstarter campaign that went viral and raised over $300,000 in just 10 days. Listen on Apple Podcasts Even though he’s now a founder of a successful company he hasn’t lost his minimalist mentality and we talk about how it has actually helped him build his company. He’s also not done proving his point about minimal living and wool clothing because he just recently went 1 full year wearing just 26 core items. In this episode we discuss... The 100 day challenge of wearing the same shirt without washing it for 100 days to prove a point to his coworkers. Quitting his corporate job to launch Wool & Prince. Launching a Kickstarter campaign that immediately went viral. Shutting down the Kickstarter campaign after 10 days and $300,000. His 1 year challenge of only wearing 26 core articles of clothing. How he is building a community of global minimalists. Want another Kickstarter success story? Check out episode #32 with the CEO of Priority Bicycles Show Notes Woolandprince.com Mac is building a community of minimalists at OnlyWhatMatters.com Twitter, Insta and Facebook: @WOOLandPRINCE Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife
Kimberly Rich is a certified High Performance coach for executives and entrepreneurs and the host The Bold Life Movement podcast but she was once chained to a desk at a corporate job doing all of the right things that she SHOULD have been doing and felt trapped when one day she finally decided to ‘challenge the shoulds’ and hunt down the life that she was called to live. Listen on Apple Podcasts We go through the steps that she took and we talk about the mentors and communities that she looked to for direction that helped her re-design her life around freedom and location flexibility and how her bold path just recently led her to walking up on stage and delivering her first TEDx Talk. "I started to challenge the SHOULDS" - Kimberly Rich In this episode we discusss... When Kimberly started “Challenging the Shoulds” and channeling her boldness. How should went from being chained to a desk to being location independent. How taking the coaching program with Brendon Burchard aligned with The Bold Life Movement One of the moments that Kimberly highlights on her podcast with Mark Manson - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Taking Kendra Wright's challenge that led her to setting her sights on delivering her first TEDx Talk. Jumping in with the tribe at the Tropical MBA and the Dynamite Circle with Dan Andrews and Ian Schoen. Show Notes Theboldlifemovement.com 54% of people regret the things that they DIDN'T do in life. The solution? Kimberly's incredible TEDx Talk: The Antidote to Regret Facebook and Instagram @theboldlifemovement Twitter @kimbos_slice How to Prepare for a TEDx Talk by Kimberly Rich Emilie Wapnick TEDx Talk titled Why Some of Us Don’t Have One True Calling Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife
Michael Klepacz served in the US Air Force, is a disabled American veteran and is now a Global Hemp Entrepreneur building a hemp startup and manufacturing company in Warsaw Poland. He actually used the GI bill to get a masters degree and as seed capital to fund his hemp startup with just $10,000. His entrepreneurial journey involves patent infringement, failure and ultimately to his current path of manufacturing and selling hemp dog collars, guitar straps and soon to be yoga mats into the US. Listen on Apple Podcasts We also talk about the startup ecosystem in Warsaw. Michael is the first podcast guest that is living in Poland and he definitely provides some insight into what its like to live there, to start a business there as a foreigner and why large multinational companies are now opening up offices there. In this episode we discuss... His military life in the US Air Force. How his injuries in the military allowed him to reinvent first as an English Teacher. Using the GI bill to get a masters degree Using the seed capital to fund his hemp startup with $10,000 and ultimately earned the title of Hemp Entrepreneur The legal challenges getting hemp into the US. Selling hemp products on Amazon Amazon FBA versus having a warehouse and merchant fulfilling his e-commerce store on Amazon The Warsaw Poland startup ecosystem. Fortune 500 companies are opening massive offices in Warsaw...but why? We cover that too. The main uses of hemp and how he manufactures dog collars, guitar straps and yoga mats. Show Notes Naturalmaterials.pl LinkedIn @mikeklepacz Facebook @mikeklepacz Email: mikeklepacz@gmail.com Mentioned in this episode... JohnnyFD motivating him to manufacture hemp products for other companies. Check out podcast episode #45 with JohnnyFD $325K Online Entrepreneur Shares His Strategies and Travels the World 4 Hour Work Week Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife Check out all of the podcast episodes: Go Hunt Life on iTunes
Chief Inspiration Officer and co-founder at Live Your Legend, Chelsea Dinsmore is inspiring a legendary community that spans across 75 countries. Live Your Legend was founded by her late husband Scott Dinsmore who in 2015 was killed in a rock slide near the summit on Mt Kilimanjaro. Chelsea was by his side and instantly had to come to the realization that her life had changed forever. Listen on Apple Podcasts Her mission and her company’s vision is this, inspire people to change the world by doing work that they love. A lot of overlap between their mission and the Go Hunt Life tribe. "For several months I did feel like I was watching myself walk through the motions." - Chelsea Dinsmore In this episode with Chelsea Dinsmore we discuss... The early days of Live Your Legend that started as a personal blog. Building an inspired community. Setting off on a 1 year around-the-world trip to visit LYLers. On day 6 of the climb up Mt. Kilimanjaro when the rockslide hit. The chaos after Chelsea realized Scott was gone. Hiking back down that mountain alone. The struggle for months after returning to San Francisco. The tipping point in Chelsea's recovery. Her reliance on mentors and other people that had overcome similar hardships. How she has evolved her role within Live Your Legend. Her travel hacking record of 7 years without paying for a single international plane ticket. Her new book and the inspiring process of writing it. Show Notes Liveyourlegend.net Twitter @_liveyourlegend Facebook @LiveYourLegend Instagram @Live_Your_Legend Mentor Jadah Sellner of Simple Green Smoothies Travis Sherry, Extra Pack of Peanuts Elizabeth Gilbert’s book Big Magic If you like this episode with Chelsea, check out episode #29 with Mike Lewis of When to Jump where he discusses his jump from venture capital to playing on the Professional Squash Tour. Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife Equipment used in this episode: Mic: Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone Check out all of the podcast episodes: Go Hunt Life on iTunes
The Divergent Travelers on episode 69 of the go hunt life podcast are Dave and Lina Stock from a little town in northern Wisconsin. 4 years ago they had a 40 acre horse farm and typical 9-to-5 jobs workin’ for the man. Lina was working for a bank in the IT department and Dave was the sales director for a large manufacturer. Their lightning strike moment happened on their honeymoon in 2010 when they were backpacking across Thailand, Malaysia and Cambodia and they met people that were professional travel bloggers and making a living while seeing the world. They returned from their honeymoon to their normal lives but Lina wouldn’t let that dream go. As they talked more about it, they kept coming back to the question, “do real people do that.” "Do real people really do that." By Christmas 2013, they sold the horses, the farm, the house and everything they owned down to two backpacks and embarked on their journey to see if in fact, real people could do it. 4 years later, they are now Professional Travel bloggers and have been consistently recognized in publications from the Huffington Post to most recently National Geographic as one of the top traveling blogging couples to follow. In this episode we discuss... The fateful moment in 2010 on their honeymoon when the seed of Divergent Travelers was planted. The steps they took to prepare for their exit from their lives in northern Wisconsin. The final hour during the Christmas holiday of 2013 when their 40-acre horse farm finally sold. Stepping on the plane to New Zealand into their new lives officially as Divergent Travelers backpacking full-time. Getting "travel burnout" 4 months into their journey. It taking 3 years before they really started to monetize Divergent Travelers. How they would better structure their travel and building their global travel business. Their quest to knock off 100 epic adventures and which ones they are most worried about. Show Notes divergenttravelers.com Twitter: @divergenttravel FB, YouTube and Instagram: @DivergentTravelers Ultimate travel hacking tool for cheap plane tickets: SkyScanner.com Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife Equipment used in this episode: Mic: Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone Check out all of the podcast episodes: Go Hunt Life on iTunes
Frugal Dude Sean Merron and his wife found themselves over $80,000 in debt, caught in a cycle of spending the money they were making as quickly as they could on things and smothered by the overwhelming complexity of their lives. They went from that point a few years ago to adopting a frugal lifestyle and now being just 5 years away from retiring early. Listen on Apple Podcasts Sean is 30 years old, he’s married has two kids and is on track to retire by the time he is 35. They have transformed their lives into being frugal and setting up the rest of their lives so they do not miss anymore unforgettable experiences with their kids and they are doing this while moving from city to city every 2 years. He provides his frugal lifestyle strategies down to the simple things. Cell phone plans, cutting cable out of your house, retirement accounts and even making tacos. “Credit gives the opportunity for people to make mistakes.” They now save 65% of their monthly income, it goes straight into savings. Here is how a normal middle class family has combined location independence and living frugally to be able to retire in their 30s. “Know where you want to be and accept where you are at.” In this episode we discuss... Sean making $40,000 by the time he was 17 years old. His excessive decisions like buying a $50,000 BMW with an $800 monthly payment. Having a wife, 2 kids and a house with a pool in his 20s. Digging his way out of $80,000 in debt. Being forced with the reality that they were missing the unforgettable experiences with their kids. His top 3 steps to take when adopting a frugal lifestyle to early retirement. The tools that he's created and implemented into his own life. His evolution to being a frugal dude. Show Notes Sean's book The Early Retirement Roadmap 2FrugalDudes podcast with host Kevin Griffin Dave Ramsey at Financial Peace University Google Project Fi for cell phones. Mint.com budgeting tool FireAgeCalc.com HD TV Antenna,Skyfind Indoor HDTV Antennas 50 Mile Range with Detachable Signal Booster and 10FT High Performance Coax Cable - Black Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife Equipment used in this episode: Mic: Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone Check out all of the podcast episodes: Go Hunt Life on iTunes
Troy Hendershott has been traveling the world for over 2,000 straight days, that’s over 5 years. He has perfected the art of traveling slow and because of that, he has found creative ways to earn money along the way from managing hostels and teaching English down to editing menus for grammar mistakes in exchange for a free meal. Troy grew up in Denver and left a 12 year career in TV production working for one of Mark Cuban’s companies to pursue his dream of indefinite Global Budget Traveling. We also touch on the fact that he was born in South Korea, was adopted by his family in Denver and how he’s woven his travel into a search for his birth mother. I actually speak to Troy, ironically, while he was passing through Seoul South Korea and we talk about how that city deals with being less than 50 miles from the border of North Korea. "If you travel slow and don’t have a time limitation you are going to find ways and extremely creative ways to save money and possibly earn money to really enjoy these places to their fullest." Something else you will learn is that early on in his travels, he decided to ditch the travel books and rely completely on recommendations from people that he meets along the way. In this episode we discuss... His early career working for HDNet, the company founded by Mark Cuban. His experience working at over 500 live sporting events. What is his definition of Global Budget Traveling. How he planned on leaving his 12 year career in TV broadcast and production. Living out of a backpack for 5 years running. The creative ways he's earned money from managing hostels to teaching english. Why he decided to ditch the guide books for personal recommendations from fellow travelers. Paying less than $500/month rent in Seoul, South Korea. The tone of Seoul being only 50 miles from North Korea. The travel tools that he relies on for hotels, couch surfing, hostels and airplane tickets. The work and volunteer resources that he relies on to find his next gigs. Show Notes RTWexperience.com Troy on Twitter Troy Hendershott Troy on Instagram Troy Hendershott Thank you to Michelle Mesenbrink for introducing Troy to the podcast. HDNet, now AXS TV, founded by Mark Cuban. Rachel Weaver, Dan Rather Troy's travel hacking tools: Skyscanner.com, US Travel department website, Airbnb, couchsurfing.com, booking.com, helpx.net, workaway.com. Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife Equipment used in this episode: Mic: Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone Check out all of the podcast episodes: Go Hunt Life on iTunes
Bas Lansdorp wants to colonize Mars and he’s looking for volunteers to ripcord out of their lives on Earth and go. He is building his company, Mars One, that will send the first 4 people to Mars in 14 years to build a new society but it’s a one-way ticket. The biggest challenge of the Mars One mission will be psychological. If you want to go to Mars, no problem you’re just never coming back. You’re going to live there for the rest of your life. So he’s been looking for future Mars settlers to date over 200,000 people have volunteered. In this episode we discuss... What drove Bas Lansdorp to found Mars One taking people on a one-way mission to Mars. How he has built non-profit and for-profit companies to provide revenue and a return back to investors. How much money does it take to get a spaceship to Mars? Receiving over 200,000 volunteers to go on the first mission. Why each mission will consist of a 4 person team? What are the top 3 challenges? Oxygen, food, gravity or something else. The physiological challenges that each individual team member will need to overcome. How much 'sense of humor' plays into determining the best crew. What if the crew has sex and one of them gets pregnant? When will the second manned mission for Mars One will get to Mars? This is the biggest 'ripcord' stories that has ever been told on the Go Hunt Life podcast. Bas is asking people to leave everything they've ever known, family, friends and Earth, to build a new society on Mars. Show Notes Website: Mars One Twitter @Mars-One Facebook @MarsOneProject Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife Equipment used in this episode: Mic: Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone Check out all of the podcast episodes: Go Hunt Life on iTunes
Katie Ford is all in but it took her reaching a defining moment in her life where she could no longer wear two uniforms. One uniform was her 20 year career as a Writer, Editor and Reporter for numerous high level magazines and newspapers and the 2nd uniform kept her awake at night. It gnawed at her night and day until she knew that this was to be her life’s mission. How does someone’s life mission turn, just like that? Everything changed for Katie in 2010 when she stepped into a woman’s prison in Lockhart Texas, and she started listening to the stories of these women. Up to this point she had been mentoring children of incarcerated inmates and had built up a lot of blame towards these people. These inmates were the ones that had made the mistakes which meant that they had abandoned their kids in the world outside of prison…right? Katie’s anger and blame melted away one traumatic story at a time. From that moment on, she knew what she wanted to do. It became her life’s mission to help these women break a lifetime of trauma by sharing their stories but Katie didn’t know the how. How she was going to do it. How was she going to pay for it and turn this into her new livelihood and career. She held the panic at bay, took the biggest chance of her life and left that first uniform behind. In this episode we discuss... Listening to these incarcerated women's stories about a lifetime of trauma including physical and sexual abuse. Realizing that these women were 'largely invisible'. Leaving a 20 year career as a Writer, Reporter and Editorial Director with multiple magazines and newspapers. What event led up to her ending her entire livelihood in the summer of 2016. Why not telling anyone gave her the courage to stick with her decision to resign. Holding her initial panic at bay and embracing the freedom, relief and opportunity. Developing the Healing Trauma program that heals through storytelling. Partnering up with American Youth Works to cut through the red tape of starting a nonprofit. Becoming the Executive Director of Truth Be Told. "I realized that one of the uniforms that I was wearing didn't fit anymore so I had to leave it behind." Show Notes iamKatieFord.com Truth-be-Told.org Facebook: @iamkatiefordatx Thank you to Jessica Cox for bringing Katie's story to the Go Hunt Life podcast. Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife Equipment used in this episode: Mic: Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone Check out all of the podcast episodes: Go Hunt Life on iTunes
Brian Carraway is the Founder of Flying Squirrel Outfitters and has built his hammock company with a social conscience to empower women in the small villages in Northern Thailand but he once had a normal, ideal job in Seattle. He was living downtown right by Pike Place Market and had a dream job with a great company but upon returning from a long vacation and staring at the 100s of emails in his inbox, he knew he was done. He was dreaming of pursuing something different but he really didn’t know what that was so on the day that the Seattle Seahawks won the Super Bowl in 2013 and the city was at the pinnacle of excitement, he was on a plane leaving it behind. Where was he going, to Chang Mai Thailand. “I came to Thailand with the mentality that I was not on vacation.” Since that moment, he’s re-established himself and is building a Hammock Company with a social conscience. He uses all local products and then his employees the seamstresses are women in the small villages of Thailand that didn’t even have a way to make money until Brian came along. He is empowering these women through ethical job creation. In this episode we discuss... Moving his life to minimalism by selling his car and biking to work. Meditating to come to the conclusion that he was done with his job that he loved. Taking what he learned from Red Fin and the entrepreneurial environment with him to apply in his next business move. Leaving Seattle on Super Bowl Sunday at the height of the city’s excitement. Landing in Thailand and getting out of vacation mode by starting to teach English for income. Building a company to empower women in the small villages of Thailand. The steps to build a company outside of the US and import into the US. And the hammocks, they are beautiful, they are hand-sewn and completely adjustable like no other camping hammock you’ve ever seen. Through his first step into his entrepreneurial life of living abroad, he's built a company to empower women providing them a way of life that didn't previously exist. Show Notes FlyingSquirrelOutfitters.com Amazon Store for Flying Squirrel Outfitters Facebook, YouTube and Instagram @FlyingSquirrelOutfitters Help Brian and back the IndieGoGo fundraising campaign for Base Camp, the largest hammock on the market. Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife Equipment used in this episode: Mic: Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone Check out all of the podcast episodes: Go Hunt Life on iTunes
Joe Hendricks is living the wandering lifestyle living out of an airstream and building his portfolio as a landscape photographer. Him and his wife and five year old son have been traveling the U.S. in an Airstream for the last year and a half. Prior to this, they had a successful wedding photography business in Nashville a house and all the normal stuff when they went on a vacation visiting the National Parks out west. The switch flipped and hit Joe in his wandering heart. He wanted to see the joy that he saw in his wife and son during that trip ALL of the time so within six months after returning to Nashville they had bought that Airstream, sold their house and everything in it, and they started their journey literally driving away from the closing on their house sale into their wandering lifestyle. "If you are considering this lifestyle, do it. It will change you forever." But it hasn't gone quite as planned. It's been a lot more difficult making a living as a photographer while on the road. Joe is completely transparent and shares exactly what they've been through, what they've done right what he would have done differently in the last year and a half. We discuss... What his family discovered during their vacation through the U.S. National Parks. What they were leaving behind in Nashville. How Joe still planned on being a wedding photographer back in Nashville. The mistakes that they made in the planning phase of exiting Nashville. How they were planning on paying for their travels. How they ended up in Texas. They are still living out of that Airstream trailer but it's not exactly where he had planned but Joe sticks to his goal of changing their lives forever by jumping in the Airstream to live out their wandering lifestyle. Show Notes joehendricks.com Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife Equipment used in this episode: Mic: Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone Check out all of the podcast episodes: Go Hunt Life on iTunes
Colin Wright is an author, podcaster, speaker and full-time traveler that set out to explore the world 4 months at a time but to do this he had to exile himself from his lifestyle in California. For the last 8 years he’s traveled to 60 different countries and all of the lower 48 states and he’s done this in 4 month increments. He truly enjoys the uncomfortable situations that his chosen lifestyle puts him in. Another interesting point to this is that the places that he moves to are chosen by his readers. They vote on his next destination and that’s where he goes to explore the world. But back in 2009 he was running his own branding studio in LA, working a crazy amount of hours and making a ton of cash when he took a hard look at his mentors. His life path was following theirs and realized they were miserable so inside 4 months he completely transformed his world and got on a plane leaving the US for the first time in his life. Where did he go? His readers said Argentina so that’s where he began. In this episode we discuss... Building a branding agency in his early 20s. Massively changing his life and lifestyle in 4 months. Starting his international travel without previously leaving the US. How that 4 month increment of time went on to define his way of living abroad. Allowing his readers to determine where he goes next. Balancing his extremes with his lifestyle of constant motion. Transitioning from client work to writing books for a living. The uncomfortable first 2 weeks in a new city. What he has learned from starting his podcast, Let's Know Things, 1 year ago. How he spends his time now balancing his writing, speaking and podcasting. Why he's chosen to spend time back in the US. Show Notes Find Colin at colin.io and ExileLifestyle.com LetsKnowThings.com Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife Equipment used in this episode: Mic: Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone Check out all of the podcast episodes: Go Hunt Life on iTunes
Karen King and her husband and two kids left their traditional lives in Australia 19 months ago and have since hit 23 countries house sitting, airbnbing and World Schooling. In this episode we dig into two specific areas: How have the kids adapted to a new way of learning and how are they paying for their adventures? What are the steps that she’s taken to transition their kids from a traditional school to learning on the road. An interesting point that she brings up is that for every 1 year a child is in a traditional school it will take them 1 month to get acclimated to a new way of learning and that timeframe also applies to the parents. What is World Schooling vs. traditional schooling? That second area that we get into is of course the money. 2-3 years ago they knew very little about making money online but it took a 7 week vacation and for Karen to read the 4 hour work week for the switch to flip and pointed her to an entirely new way to live. "Life on the road has been incredible and I wish I would have known about this 10 years earlier." In this episode we discuss... Health insurance and travel insurance. What are their monthly expenses? Cell service on the road in different countries. What company they use to have a permanent mailing address? What websites they choose to house sit in different countries? How they make money while traveling? How the kids have adapted and changed since traveling? What does "school" now entail for the kids? Show Notes WorldSchoolingCentral.com and on Facebook WorldSchoolingCentral WorldSchoolingCentral Facebook Group WorldSchoolingCentralCommunitySummit.com NicheSitesBootCamp.com and on FaceboNicheSitesBootCamp TrustedHouseSitters.com Thanks to Cree Koria for introducing Karen to the show. Listen to Cree and her family story of life on the road in central Mexico. Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife Equipment used in this episode: Mic: Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone Check out all of the podcast episodes: Go Hunt Life on iTunes
Greg Denning and his family of 9 are living deliberately. He is a world traveler, mentor and a father of 7 kids. Him and his wife Rachel left their normal lives in Utah in 2007, packed up the then family of 6 in the car and drove south into Mexico and central America to embark on a journey that has taken them to 30 countries and 5 continents around the world. Their attempt at living deliberately hasn’t been easy and we get in to that too because 2 years after their launch, the housing crisis hit the US forcing them to come back and start over with nothing in bank and they really questioned if their vision of living deliberately around the globe was even possible. What they’ve found is yes, living deliberately is possible but it takes work. Greg is also a teacher. He teaches people how to transform their own lives but it’s not just talk. at one point in our conversation we go tactical on how he helps people in 3 very specific steps on how to change their situation and live a massive, extraordinary life. We dig into everything. How the kids have adjusted as the family has grown from 4 kids when they started to now 7 and what it means when his kids go to World School and the money, we hit that multiple times in our conversation. In this episode we discuss... What lead up to them packing up their car and moving to Mexico in 2007. How the Global Recession impacted them in 2009. Why they moved to the Dominican Republic in 2009 to live on the beach for a few hundred dollars a month. Why they decided to go international. How they initially paid for their travels. How Greg's profession has evolved into him mentoring, teaching and counseling parents and homeschooled children...all online. My conversation with Greg Denning on living life deliberately will eliminate the excuse of, "I have kids, I could never travel like that?" Show Notes Gregdenning.com Discovershareinspire.com Worldschoolfamily.org Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife Equipment used in this episode: Mic: Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone Check out all of the podcast episodes: Go Hunt Life on iTunes
Lisa Binns is a Brooklyn girl born and raised and she was a teacher for 20 years in the New York public school system but she just reached a point in her teaching career where she wanted to do something different, she just wasn’t sure what she was going to do next so she put it out there into the universe and it conspired to help her find her new path. “It is a complete 180 because 360 just lands you right back where you were.” 7 years later, she’s is now a Chef and Founder of Stush in the Bush, where rustic meets gourmet in the hills of Jamaica. Her and her husband Chris started and have built an organic farm and a curated experience for their guests but at the base of it all is a love story. Their story built around the love of their land, of each other and the beauty of the experience. “Think about, what are the things that move you? What are the things inspire you?” In this episode we discuss... What took her to the point of ending her 20 year teaching career in the New York public school system. The steps that she took to transition from teacher in the States to Jamaica. What new skills she had to acquire during the transition. What should guests expect when visiting Stush in the Bush. How the business model has evolved in the last 7 years. What does a typical week look like now. Her current view from the hills of Jamaica. The entrepreneurial mindset of Jamaicans. Show Notes StushintheBush.com Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @StushintheBush Royal Caribbean video on Lisa and Chris Mentioned in this episode: Tanayia and Andre Woolery at andrewooleryart.com and WooleryKitchen.com Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife Equipment used in this episode: Mic: Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone Check out all of the podcast episodes: Go Hunt Life on iTunes
Bobby White had an 18 year career going as a pilot flying corporate jets all over the world. He was livin’ the dream when one day he woke up with a horrible headache. That headache was actually a brain hemorrhage which forced him to surrender his pilot’s license. His career and way of life ended just like that. Instead of feeling sorry for himself he sold everything he owned and bought a sailboat to embark on another one of his dreams of sailing the oceans. "You will never be ready. Just set a date and make it happen." Just one year ago, him and his friend Megan and their two Labradoodles jumped on that boat, sailed out of Galveston and started filming their journey and they’ve gone from zero to over 40,000 YouTube subscribers and now racking up over a million and a half views per month and along the way they are inspiring others to pursue dreams of their own. In this episode we discuss... Life as a corporate pilot. What lead up to the brain hemorrhage. What were his plans after surrendering his pilot's license. How he convinced Megan to jump on board. How he felt sailing out of Galveston on their own. How they built their YouTube channel to over 40,000 subscribers and 1.5 million monthly views in less than 1 year. What have been the most difficult parts of keeping the sailboat going. Maintenance Monday and all of the things that break on the sailboat. Bobby, Megan, Goose and Maverick will have you asking yourself. Are you ready? The answer will always be no and if you keep using that as an excuse, you will never take the leap. Show Notes sailingdoodles.com Check out their videos on YouTube Inspired by: Sailing La Vagabonde, MJ Sailing and ByWayoftheSea Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife Equipment used in this episode: Mic: Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone Check out all of the podcast episodes: Go Hunt Life on iTunes
Jeff Chrisman is a Serial Entrepreneur and he’s the founder of Print Dirt Cheap, a printing company built on technology, startup hustle and grind. Jeff also has a really interesting story that takes us from Bakersfield California to the beaches of Belize and a colonial city in Mexico. This episode details how a well structured business can be run from anywhere in the world, it just takes systems that work and a great team. "There were so many rules in corporate America. I just thought different and I didn't fit." He’s ripcorded and reinvented multiple times and he’s done it by not following the corporate world rule book. He’s designed his business that now enables him to live part of the time in Bakersfield CA where they are headquartered and part of the time outside of the US and his business is thriving along with his lifestyle. In this episode we discuss.. Going from a huge corporate job to bootstrapping a startup. His serial entrepreneur drive to move to Belize and start a business with the largest DVD collection in the country. Watching his previously sold printing business deteriorate. Re-building the business with the help of a trusted mentor and coach. Designed systems and implementing them to develop and smoothly running company. Hiring the right people based on their abilities and trust. The systems that he implemented to run his company from Mexico even though it's headquartered in Bakersfield. Outsourcing certain tasks that allow him to be more profitable and lower the cost to the customer. If you are a business owner and think that you could never travel extensively because of your business or you could never live in another part of the world while still running it, this is your episode. Show Notes printdirtcheap.com Facebook and Twitter @printdirtcheap Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife Equipment used in this episode: Mic: Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone Check out all of the podcast episodes: Go Hunt Life on iTunes
Cree Koria and her family were living the American Dream in the suburbs of Atlanta. Cree and her husband both working, 2 boys in school, house full of stuff and a jam packed normal schedule. They had always talked about leaving the so called American Dream and moving to Mexico but every time they started to move forward with that path, life got the way. "It didn't feel like we were living our own authentic life." Until one day Cree had a headache and not just any kind of headache one that was excruciating for month and on a visit to an urgent care clinic, she sat up from the examination table and said, “I can’t see.” Everything had gone black, she was blind and at that moment life got real. "Get the Doctor, I can't see." A lot has transpired in their lives since then and I talked to Cree while her and her family are living in Ajijic Mexico living their authentic life. In this episode we discuss... What it's like to come to the realization that you felt like you were living someone else's life. How do you handle the trauma of instantly loosing your vision? How they unraveled their American Dream life in Atlanta and headed to Mexico. What they've discovered since crossing the border and traveling through Mexico. Hey stick around for a quick segment at the end called, Pulling the Ripcord. I caught up with Fara and Bob Grim that are right at the moment of pulling the ripcord on their cubicle corporate world in Portland and headed to Scandinavia and while they’ve been preparing for their launch, they came up with a genius mindset to save money. You don’t want to miss it. Show Notes Cree and Alpesh Koria and their family at nomad-ish.com and on Facebook @nomadish4. Poco a Poco charity in Ajijic, Mexico Pulling the Ripcord segment Follow Bob and Fara Grim on Facebook at @CanDoLatitude and this conversation was inspired by episode 55 with Andrea Jordan and episode 49 with Nat and Jodie. Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife Equipment used in this episode: Mic: Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone Check out all of the podcast episodes: Go Hunt Life on iTunes
Andrea Jordan is a location independent Business Strategist with a global list of clients and her area of expertise is helping people that feel stuck. She’s built her business around the pain that she went through because she was once, right there but she's now living the digital nomad lifestyle. "I looked at my boss and thought, do I really want to be him when I grow up." She was a corporate attorney for 17 years working long hours and making big money, 6 figures, when one day she looked at one of the partners in the firm and thought, do I really want to be him when I grow up. She saw how much that job took away from the rest of his life and she actually go queazy and sick to her stomach. That’s what she needed to make the change. In this episode we discuss... The grind of a 17 year law career. The defining moment that finally pushed her to start building a new life. The transition phase of planning for her exit and launching a digital nomad lifestyle. The tools that she developed when she began building her strategist and coaching business. How she now travels the world house and pet sitting. Her strategy to find wifi in a new city. How she runs her business while traveling and seeing the world. Learn. Discover. Be Free. We spend a lot of time in this interview talking about her transition phase. The, "I know I’m going to do this but I need to follow a plan to make this change logically." If you've ever looked at your boss and thought, "I don't want to be them when I grow up." You're going to either love this episode or it's going to scare you into pulling the ripcord. Show Notes Learndiscoverbefree.com Instagram: @travellingjordan Facebook: @andreajordanbusinessstrategist Thank you to Nat and Jodie, guests on episode #49, for the introduction. Check out their ultimate guide to house sitting and traveling the world at natnjodie.com. Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife Equipment used in this episode: Mic: Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone Check out all of the podcast episodes: Go Hunt Life on iTunes
Gary Collins is a former Special Agent and he built a career in the military going to places around the globe where everyone hated him. The stress of the job, the bureaucracy of the government and the physical toll it was all taking on his body forced him to simply walk from his only career that he had ever known to save his own life and go off the grid. "They created the 40 hour work week because they realized that's about as much as they can get out of you before you snap." In the conversation we cover government corruption, pharmaceutical drug addiction, cashing out his retirement, and his pursuit of living a simpler and happier life. We also discuss his latest book Going Off The Grid which is his personal account of buying a small plot of land in the state of Washington and building a self-sustaining house that is in fact, off the grid. In this episode we cover... What its like being a career military guy and the pressure that he was under to perform. The tipping point in his health that forced him to make a drastic lifestyle change before it was too late. Cashing out his retirement to pay for surgeries on his back. What it really means to 'go off the grid'. What most people don't know when they want to live a simpler life in rural America. This conversation will get you thinking, "could I really go off the grid?" Show Notes PrimalPowerMethod.com Twitter @primalpower Youtube @PrimalPowerMethod Amazon: Going Off The Grid: The How To Book of Simple Living and Happiness Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife Equipment used in this episode: Mic: Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone Check out all of the podcast episodes: Go Hunt Life on iTunes
Dave Cornthwaite is a Yes Man. He is also an Ultra Endurance Adventure Traveler, a Film Maker, an Author, a world record holder and a Global Public speaker. He’s built his life around sharing his stories of self-propelled travel but Dave started his life after college as a Graphic Designer. Unfortunately, he was terrible at graphic design and reached a point where he was miserable with his choices, but he didn’t know how to start the daunting task of building a new life. He started the daunting task of changing his life by doing two things: He made the simple decision to say yes more. He bought a skateboard. "Don't Be Afraid of the Unusual. The world is a good place and it always works out if you give it a chance to." He quit his job and literally skateboarded out of the office and continued for 3,618 miles breaking the Guinness world record and that was just the beginning… Since then he’s continued to travel for 10s of thousands of miles completely self-propelled. Kayaks, bikes, swimming, anything that keeps him moving forward. In this episode we discuss... His routine life of working, playing video games and repeating the process over and over. How his life changed when he bought a skateboard. Quitting his job by skateboarding out of the office. Setting his sites on breaking the Guinness World Record by skateboarding across Australia. The challenges of his first expedition and the similarities of building a startup. Accidentally starting a cult. Buying a bus. The evolution of the Yes Tribe. How he funds his lifestyle as an Adventure Traveler. 25 expeditions of at least 1000 miles by human power only, NO ENGINES! How would your life be different if you made the decision to Say Yes More? Show Notes: DaveCornthwaite.com Facebook @DaveCornthwaite Instagram and Twitter @DaveCorn A big thanks to Derek Loudermilk for introducing Dave to the show. Check out Derek's podcast The Art of Adventure for crazy stories of inspiring adventurers. Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife Editing and production by: FriedoNation.com Equipment used in this episode: Mic: Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone Check out all of the podcast episodes: Go Hunt Life on iTunes