On this episode, I’m sitting down with a Canadian outdoors adventurer, explorer of remote places, online entrepreneur and consultant, writer and photographer, snowboarding enthusiast, and digital jack of all trades -- whose skills have, I discover, led him to live different lives in multiple places he calls home.
Matt Gibson lived and taught english in Taiwan for 6 years, where he learned to speak Mandarin and founded his own travel magazine. His website has been featured on Afar, the Atlantic, TSN and more, and he's interviewed a lot of people on this show to get insights from their experiences in travel.
Today we explore the unique path he's taken by pursuing a love of travel that's guided his decisions and professional skills. Matt demonstrates how it's okay to not go after that one thing, and instead explore a world and the many opportunities for experience - in work and life - that are out there to be found along the way.

What we cover:

How Matt found an opportunity to teach English in Taiwan.
Why teaching English is a wonderful way to learn a culture while earning money.
Why Matt started his own magazine before eventually selling it to write for other publications, and how he found opportunities to do so.
Where he found the inspiration to earn a living as a professional travel blogger.
The many things a jack-of-all-trades like Matt can do now to earn a living in a variety of ways that allows him the freedom to travel when he wants.
How Matt approaches the travel industry with his skills.
His experience at Angkor Wat, his favorite ski mountains, and what it is about Taiwan that he loves.
Matt's travel style, and why he doesn't like to research the places he visits.
Getting trapped in a monsoon while riding a motorbike and seeing pigmy elephants.

Explore further:

Matt-Gibson.org
@xpatmatt on Twitter
Matt's interview series on Transitions Abroad 
Agoda, for rooms in Asia
Skyscanner, for International flights
Yapta.com, sets price alert on a particular flight
Matt's recommended bag, the EAGLE CREEK MORPHUS 22 CARRY ON/TRAVEL BAG (STONE GREY)

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How do you feel when I say, “Staying in your current job?”

How do you feel when I say, “Taking a new job?”

How do you feel when I say, “Starting your own business?”

This last option was the one that this episode's guest knew she had to pursue, and one she eventually discovered she could do from a life of full-time travel. She also knew that she needed to see the world.
Gigi Griffis has been to over 30 countries across 6 continents and living and working on the road for the past 2 years, running her business from inspiring locations with her dog, Luna. Without letting the belief that you need to be rich or famous, she gave herself permission to live her dreams. Traveling. Writing. Running a business and challenging herself regularly.

What we cover:

How Gigi got started as a writer by sneaking her way into the role through her job at the time.
How she came to the realize was able to step out to try full time travel and supported herself.
Where Gigi found her first clients by asking friends and attending conferences as a copywriter.
How Gigi made her own luck by asking for what she wanted.
The one question Gigi answers in order to write a successful pitch as a travel writer.
"Life isn't pass/fail... At any time I can quit, go backward, get another client, find a job for 6 months. I can do other things. I don't need to commit to this. And that gives me the confidence to move forward... because this is the life I want for myself."
Why Gigi feels compelled to help others find their own location independence.

Explore further:

The Ramble, Gigi's website, portfolio and blog
@gigigriffis on Twitter

Credits

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Photo of Gigi by Daniel Wang.

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"I don't buy a lot of things. I buy pins on the map."

Mandy France is the founder and contributing editor of The Responsible Traveler. She is a freelance travel writer and editor, a published children’s author and an illustrator.
She is an ethical adventurer at heart. From trekking the Inca Trail in Peru to climbing the highest mountain in Africa, she’s made adventure a priority in life. She’s also a vegan which gives her further insight into what ethical travel is and how to be compassionate in the things you do abroad.
In this episode we get into how the passing of her mother sparked a curiosity and burning desire to stop playing life safely and instead experience as much as the world has to offer. We also explore specifically how Mandy now lives her lives and the takeaways you can apply to make the decision to travel more.

What we cover:

How the passing of her mother sparked Mandy's decision to leave a career at Disney to see the world, something she previously wasn't curious to do.
Her first trip, a 4-day trek from Cusco to Macchu Picchu, was the first time she'd ever done anything like it.
We break down how Mandy is able to create a sense of urgency in her life.
What is responsible, ethical tourism or travel, and how to make responsible considerations in your trips (for example, don't ride elephants in Thailand - we get into why that's unethical).
How responsible travel provides an opportunity for you to take a story home that you can be proud to share.
Travel as a vegan: Her biggest challenges.

3 Steps to Create a Sense of Urgency in Your Life:

Have a clock. Create a countdown and a finite window of time to plan that next experience.
Embrace the reminders of your own mortality.
Identify the legacy you want to leave behind.

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Mountain Madness
The Responsible Traveler
@ResponsTraveler

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Anne Lowrey is a small town girl who discovered the rest of the world.

Those are her words — and she’s been to nearly 40 countries while still holding a full time job. She’s done this by prioritizing travel in her life, which is what I want this show to encourage you to do — at the very least.
She’s a writer, editor, and content creator for hire - as well as a lover of good food, books and good hearts — spoken like a true explorer. You can find her work on her website, Part Time Traveler, where she champions the idea that “You don’t have to give up the life you’re already living to see the world.”
Let’s find out how.
Anne was recently named one of the Top 15 Travel Instagram accounts to follow by Buzzfeed. Check her out!

What we cover:

How Anne got started traveling
How travel can help you step outside your comfort zone to grow as a confident person.
What is a part time traveler?
The things you can do to hold on to that traveler self of yours when you’re back home.
Anne's best travel advice

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PartTimeTraveler.com, Anne's blog
PartTimeTravel on Facebook
@anne_elizabeth on Twitter
@anne_elizabeth on Instagram, one of Buzzfeeds top 15 travel Instagram accounts to follow!

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Saving money is tricky.

There are people listening who want to know how to save more at home, spend less on the road, or save more on the road so they can perpetuate their travels.

So often, we ask travelers about travel saving strategies — and while I think the more well-traveled are particularly good at saving money on the road, saving money at home is equally - if not more important. And when I want to know more about money, then I want to spend time talking to the people who spend all of their time thinking about money, and not travel.

Today I get to sit down with two financially-minded gentlemen — Andrew Fiebert and Matt Giovanisci from the award winning, fun, at times hilarious blog and daily podcast, Listen Money Matters, to have a casual, upbeat conversation about money saving strategies.

What We Cover:

Craft beer, and products, as a great way to explore a particular location.
3 tools to create automated systems to save money for (and on!) your travels.
A system for saving money if you don't have steady income.
A simple way to break up your income: Andrew says your rent should never be more than 1/3 of your take home, and 1/3 of your money should be a saving. That leaves 1/3 for day to day expenses, and you can determine how much of that you want to save for your travels.

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Listen Money Matters blog and podcast
Mint
Acorns
Betterment

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Rebecca Burg is the author of the book Sail With Me, which chronicles her experienced as a home-owning, career-focused lady who gave up the security for an uncommon lifestyle — living aboard a small boat, earning a living with low-paying odd jobs instead of that steady career she once had. She wrote this book on her solar powered laptop while anchored at sea.
I’m excited to get into what inspired this decision, and her story — as well as where this unconventional life has taken her, and the stories she’s found along the way.

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Rebecca's Youtube Channel
RebeccaBurg.com

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Today's guest is the author of The Footloose American (get it on Amazon), a travelogue following the footsteps of famed-writer Hunter S. Thompson across South America. This was a journey I wasn't aware he'd ever taken that Brian recreated, studied, pulled out the stories from and became an expert on. I'm curious about the trip, how that changed him, and what sorts of stories he found along the way.

Brian Kevin has written about travel, adventure, and culture for Travel and Leisure, Outside magazine, Sierra, Men's Journal and currently lives in Maine where he calls in from. In this episode, we dive right into his adventure and how a book comes out of a trip like that, as well as the transformative power travel can have on you, if you let it.

And be sure to stay tuned for the lightning round!

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BrianKevin.com

The Footloose American website

The Footloose American on Amazon

Check out a gallery of images from Brian's trip!

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Kelly Lewis is an avid traveler with a love of writing. She’s also the founder of Go Girl Guides, a series of travel guides written by women specifically for women.
And by the way, if you’re a guy, then give it a listen because Kelly’s got travel advice for all of us. I learned a lot about solo female travel through this conversation, a subject that I think is important for everyone to understand how to approach as something more nuanced than just an issue of fear.
So, after growing up in Hawaii, Kelly spent time in New Zealand, the South Pacific, and South America — and has since been to 6 of the 7 continents, writing about her travels on her blog, TravelBugJuice.com
Kelly and I ran into each other in Mexico and i’m excited to bring to the show what is that she’s doing — which is encouraging and empowering women to experience the whole wide world.

What We Cover:

Why Kelly chose Thailand as her first independent destination.
How the idea for the guides actually came to Kelly in a dream.
Her most challenging personal experiences in South America as a solo-female traveler.
How to trust within boundaries. The world is good and people are good and will help you. But Kelly still covers the real fears and concerns so you're prepared to negotiate your travels on your own. Good advice for anyone.
What you can expect to find in Go Girl Guides.
Kelly's best travel advice!

Explore further:

Kelly's blog, TravelBugJuice.com
Go Girl Guides
@gogirlguides on Twitter
Go Girl Guides on Facebook

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On this episode, Robert Holmes shares his stories from his career as a travel photographer, covering an expedition to Mount Everest and meeting Ansel Adams, and more.

Robert Holmes career as one of the world’s most successful and prolific travel photographers has extended over 35 years.  He was the first photographer to be twice honored by the Society of American Travel Writers with their Travel Photographer of the Year Award and he is the only photographer to be given the award 4 times, most recently for 2015.

He has worked for National Geographic, Geo, Saveur, Wine Spectator, Life, Time and hundreds of other major magazines and international companies.  His stock catalog of over half-a-million images is represented for licensing by National Geographic Image Collection, Corbis and Getty.

His assignments have taken him from coverage of the 1975 British Everest Expedition for the London Daily Mail and Paris Match to searching for snow leopards in the remote valleys of western Nepal for National Geographic Magazine, trekking into the rain forests of Borneo with Penan tribesmen for Islands Magazine and crossing the Great Indian Desert on camel for Departures.

What we cover:

How Robert Holmes found his career in travel photography.
Photography, Robert's thoughts and opinions on the state of the craft, industry, and career.
How boldly going after what he wants has led Robert to create opportunities for himself, including gigs with National Geographic.
Robert's experience getting to know Ansel Adams.

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Robert Holmes Photography
@travelpix on Twitter

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Mickela Mallozzi is a dance instructor turned television host of the travel show called Bare Feet, which has aired on Travel and Escape and NYC Life, a PBS affiliate in New York. Starting in the Fall of 2015, Bare Feet will be nationally distributed on PBS in the US and Canada.
Each episode, she travels to a new place and embeds herself into the people there through the traditions of dance. Occasionally, I speak with painters and photographers on this show, but I’ve never discussed dance — which, like food, is easily one of the most elemental and original expressions running through the blood of any culture.
Through the lens of both the camera and dance, Mickela has explored Buenos Aires, Uzbekistan, Puerto Rico, Curacao, Italy, Germany, Ireland, all 50 states, and her home, New York City - and more places.
She’s also the organizer of the Women’s Travel Fest, which is held annually around the end of February, this year in San Francisco.

Explore further:

Barefeet with Mickela Mallozzi
Watch Barefeet on Youtube!
@travelbarefeet on Twitter

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“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from.”

Today we’re talking to Shivya Nath, who at the age of 23 quit her job in the tourism industry to build for herself a life of travel as a social media consultant and entrepreneur.
She’s a travel blogger at The Shooting Star, as well as the co-founder of India Untraveled, a company on a quest to help travelers gain greater visibility and exposure to the lesser known parts of India, and encouraging others to make travel not just a break from life, but life itself.
At the heart of things, Shivya’s just a girl who loves to travel and I’m excited to let her take us through her life and explore India.

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@shivya on Twitter
The Shooting Star, Shivya's travel blog
India Untraveled

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Today's guest got started traveling around the US as a young kid - visiting all the National Parks in a Volkswagen Van, right out of a postcard.
Jesse Krieger has spent living as a musician in Vienna, touring Europe from there, and musicianship -= along with a strong desire to maintain a life of travel - led him to entrepreneurship, And that is as far as my intro can go because his story winds down a twisting path of careers, from the unexpected to the bizarre.
However, Jesse helps others build careers that support the lifestyle they envision for themselves - which includes a life of travel.

What we cover:

How Jesse found himself on the road, alone, by choosing to stay on the road at the end of a trip with his friends.
After dreaming of seeing it for his life, what it felt like for Jesse to see his name in lights at one of the biggest rock clubs in Los Angeles.
How Jesse got fascinated by business and entrepreneurship through managing his passion for being in a rock band.
How Jesse recommends you can start a location independent business.

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JesseKrieger.com

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Matthew Karsten has been an Expert Vagabond for the past four years, and if you want to know what that means, then you’re in the right place because we are going to get to that.
Matthew champions the belief that travel doesn’t have to be expensive, getting out of your comfort zone is healthy, and the world is a safe place — and so adventure is both attainable and good for you, no matter how old you are.
In 2010, despite the bewilderment of his family, Matthew quit his job, sold it all and bought a ticket to Guatemala where he found clarity in his life, in following his dreams, for the first time. Today he supports his experiences through travel blogging — and so often I hear it’s not a sustainable model for supporting your travels, and I’m curious to hear how Matthew does it and where it’s taken him, including skydiving in Fiji, camping on an erupting volcano, hitchhiking across the States, shark diving without a cage, and seducing an ostrich, in his new life of travel.

What we cover:

How hard it was for Matt to leave his life, job, and girlfriend back home to seek more adventure in foreign places in 2010.
Matt’s riskiest adventures, including hiking an erupting volcano and visiting a village controlled by a Mexican drug cartel.
How travel has helped Matt live his dream of finding more adventure in his life.
How Matt makes an income from his travel blogging and you can too.
Matt's best travel advice.

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Matt's blog, Expert Vagabond
Hearos, Matt's ear plug recommendation

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Juno Kim is the founder or Runaway Media, a career breaker, having escaped the confines of her cubicle and embracing the realistic life of full time travel.
She covers her work at her blog, Runaway Juno, where she writes on her experiences and why she did what she did. She and I both believe in travel as a healing method of sorts — travel as therapy, even if you don’t believe you need it. It simply is, to us, "the best tool to make life better" — and those are her words.
On this episode we get into her life, what she's up to, and the things she's doing to empower Asian women to see the complexities of the world.

What we cover:

How Juno discovered a love for travel and found her path as a travel blogger
Juno's transformative experience with a person she met and the ways in which that person helped her experience the world, in New Zealand speaking
Her career break experience road-tripping in the United States.
How she's making a new career from her travels.
The ways in which she's empowering Asian women to explore the world by planning meet ups and events.

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Juno's blog, Runaway Juno
@runawayjuno on Twitter
The Asian Women Empowerment conference (AWE)

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JR Johnson is the CEO and founder of Trippy, a really fantastic Q&A website for anyone who has travel questions and wants answers from real people, or feels compelled to share their own travel stories and information.
Formerly, JR founded Virtual Tourist, which became one of the largest travel communities in the world — and he's also started other companies which have since been acquired by Expedia.
Having grown up in Southern California, I’m curious where in his life and why travel has played such a prominent role for JR and how it has led him to launch my favorite of his endeavors to date Trippy.

What we cover:

How JR got into the travel game with Virtual Tourists in 1999 through a burning desire to create great content about travel.
How listening to the advice of a stranger led JR to uncover a simple, life-changing travel experience that would go on to inspire the course of his career in tech.
JR’s fondest travel memory (Read it on Trippy) that he never experienced had he not ventured into the unknown on a whim.
And a lot more the value and effects of exploration.

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@jrjohnson on Twitter
Trippy

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In yesterday's session, Everything Everywhere's Gary Arndt shared with us how he went from software entrepreneur to world traveler, earning six-figures from his blog and traveling to over 160 countries in 7 years. If you want to create for yourself a life of travel, there are few people more accomplished than Gary in travel blogging entrepreneurship. Have a listen to part 1, if you haven't already or sit back and enjoy part 2 of my conversation with Gary Arndt.
Today’s guest is known as one of the most prolific and trafficked travel bloggers in the world.
Gary Arndt has been traveling around the world nonstop since 2007, across all 7 continents and over 160 different countries and territories, and writing and photographing his experiences on one of the biggest travel blogs out there, Everything Everywhere. He also podcasts at This Week in Travel with our mutual friend and podcasting legend, Chris Christensen.
Because Gary got started at the right time, lived his message of travel, and delivered quality content across the board, he's become one of a few bloggers who makes six figures from his travel blog, which alone seems to captivate a lot of people, particularly those attempting to follow in his footsteps.
As a result, I’ve had the pleasure of running into Gary a couple times and always enjoy my interactions with a person so widely knowledgeable about the world and travel industry. But I’m excited today to get to know Gary the person, where he’s from, and where he’s going.

What we cover:

Why now is a great time to go to Egypt, because of the perceived fear about the destination.
Where Gary would not go right now.
Gary's travel goals with over 160 countries behind him.
How he came to the decision to persist travel blogging despite nobody paying attention at a time when nobody else was travel blogging as a business.
Gary's indispensable travel blogging advice.
How travel blogging is exactly like pornography. Why are people buying travel magazines that discuss 30-40 countries in every issue when that's more countries than most people visit in one lifetime?
And more!

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Everything-Everywhere.com
@everywheretrip on Twitter

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Today’s guest is known as one of the most prolific and trafficked travel bloggers in the world.
Gary Arndt has been traveling around the world nonstop since 2007, across all 7 continents and over 160 different countries and territories, and writing and photographing his experiences on one of the biggest travel blogs out there, Everything Everywhere. He also podcasts at This Week in Travel with our mutual friend and podcasting legend, Chris Christensen.
Because Gary got started at the right time, lived his message of travel, and delivered quality content across the board, he's become one of a few bloggers who makes six figures from his travel blog, which alone seems to captivate a lot of people, particularly those attempting to follow in his footsteps.
As a result, I’ve had the pleasure of running into Gary a couple times and always enjoy my interactions with a person so widely knowledgeable about the world and travel industry. But I’m excited today to get to know Gary the person, where he’s from, and where he’s going.

What we cover:

How selling his software company in 1998 led him to being sent on his first travel experience, an around the world trip to speak about the software for his its ownership, and why he quit as soon as he returned.
What sent him back on the road in 2007.
What happened to Gary’s excitement for travel and new experience after 7 years of nonstop travel and what excites him now.
Why hasn’t Gary been to many of the larger countries, like Russia, Brazil, China.
The world is safer than you anticipate it to be.

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Everything-Everywhere.com
@everywheretrip on Twitter

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Get $25 off your next Airbnb rental!
This is part 2 of my conversation with Jasper Ribbers. Listen to part 1.
If you’re interested in knowing everything there is to know about Airbnb, then today’s episode is for you.
Today’s guest is the co-author of the book Get Paid for Your Pad, easily the most comprehensive resource I’ve seen on the subject of maximizing your profit from your Airbnb listing. He also runs the brand new podcast by the same name, Get Paid for Pad, which anyone interested in earning form Airbnb should check out.
Jasper Ribbers has a place in Amsterdam that he rents to fund his life of travel. And as a result, he’s able to go where he wants, when he wants - while automating the process of renting his place back home.
On this episode, we explore the realities of his lifestyle and business and how he’s able to get it going while also diving deep into Airbnb, what it is, how to use it and get the most from an amazing platform.

What We Covere

How Jasper automates his rental
The best things you can do to make your place stand out on Airbnb
How Jasper uses Airbnb to fund his travel lifestyle, on the road 10 out of 12 months, including his financial breakdown of income and expenses.
Jasper's best travel advice in the lightning round

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Get Paid for Your Pad, podcast and book
The Traveling Dutchman
@TravelingDutch on Twitter
Airbnb.com

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Get $25 off your next Airbnb rental!
If you’re interested in knowing everything there is to know about Airbnb, then today’s episode is for you.
Today’s guest is the co-author of the book Get Paid for Your Pad, easily the most comprehensive resource I’ve seen on the subject of maximizing your profit from your Airbnb listing. He also runs the brand new podcast by the same name, Get Paid for Pad, which anyone interested in earning form Airbnb should check out.
Jasper Ribbers has a place in Amsterdam that he rents to fund his life of travel. And as a result, he’s able to go where he wants, when he wants - while automating the process of renting his place back home.
On this episode, we explore the realities of his lifestyle and business and how he’s able to get it going while also diving deep into Airbnb, what it is, how to use it and get the most from an amazing platform.

What We Cover

Why Jasper left his job for a life of travel, looking for more fulfillment than salary afforded him.
An experience Jasper had from meeting a tricycle driver in the Philippines that sparked his curiosity and kicked off his desire to have experiences rather than things.
What is Airbnb and how Jasper found it to be perfect for his renting needs.
How you know that the person that’s staying in your home won’t be a bad guest.
How to negotiate with your hosts to get 20-30% off your Airbnb rentals.
How to make sure you’re going to get a good host.

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Get Paid for Your Pad, podcast and book
@TravelingDutch on Twitter

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Today's guest is an Indian-born writer, photographer and media professional having worked at one of India's most read newspapers. Her work has been published by dozens of media outlets.

In 2007, Lakshmi Sharath left her 15-year career to take a creative sabbatical to travel the world. Since then she's been to 25 countries across 5 continents and continues covering her journeys in her work, which is published internationally.

I'm excited to get Lakshmi on the show to discuss why she travels and her perspective on her home country of India.

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LakshmiSharath.com
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"I don't think of myself as a traveler. I'm more of a curious person and I just have to go places to find my answers."

Auður Olafsdottir runs the travel blog and tour company I Heart Reykjavik where she blogs about her home city and her amazing country waiting for her in her own backyard.
Iceland, to me, is this lunar-like landscape with fjords, geysers, hot springs and mountains. I'm hoping today's guest can take us there and explain her love for Iceland, shine a light on a few lesser known areas, and inspire you to look at Iceland for your next trip.

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I Heart Reykjavik
Auður's walking tours of Reykjavik
@Iheartreykjavik on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook

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Juergen and Mike are self-proclaimed born-wanderers and life-long learners of new cultures, on the road to explore as much of the world as they can. How they're going about doing this is smart, and a route that I would recommend anyone who writes or blogs about their travels considers as a model for earning money on the road.

Every 3 months, Juergen and mike travel to a new destination, immerse themselves in the culture, and write about their experience at For 91 Days. When they're done, they compile all of their articles and information into a book, which they sell as a part of their series of travel guides called For 91 Days: Sri Lanka, or For 91 Days: Busan, For 91 Days: Oviedo, and so on. And we'll explore why 3 months, how the idea is working, where it all started, and where they're headed next.

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For 91 Days, Mike and Juergen's website
@For91Days on Twitter
For 91 Days Travel Books

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"I don't think sitting in a car for an hour, just to get yelled at by same guy... Just to do something that you don't enjoy. To have all that stress for no reason only to get back in the car, to go back home to try to alleviate the stress for the day? I just don't think that's what life should be about."

Today’s guest has been to around 80 countries in in the past 5 years, having visited all 7 contintents and living in 12 different countries in 5 different continents. That’s awesome to be able to say, and I know he doesn’t take that for granted, which is exactly why he’s here today.
When Marcello Arrambidé was 25, he needed to break away from dull nagging ache of routine and took an unusual direction, one that’s led him to a life of travel centered around a single skill that he’s cultivated over the years.
That skill is day-trading on the stock market and helping others do the same through his website — The Wandering Trader.

What We Cover

How Marcello was determined to make travel a bigger part of his lifestyle.
The one reason day trading on the stock market appealed more than entrepreneurship to Marcello as a way to find freedom of location.
How Marcello lost $25,000 in student loans that he used to trade with and why he took out more loans.
Marcello's views on what matters the most in life.
What is day trading? And why Marcello gravitated towards and now recommends day trading to fund a life of travel and freedom.
The biggest challenges of day-trading, and how Marcello overcame them.
How Marcello balances the emotional toll of regular losses, and how he manages the markets successfully.
Traveling and day trading have both helped Marcello develop patience and similar lessons in life.
The lives Marcello has changed by teaching others to day trade.

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The Wandering Trader, Marcello's website
@wanderingtradr on Twitter
The Wandering Trader podcast. Be sure to leave him a review on iTunes!

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"As a little kid, I shuttled back forth between Ohio and Kathmandu, Nepal. Which I realize might make me sound worldly, except for the fact that my worldview was so limited that I thought the whole world was no bigger than Ohio and Nepal." 

In 2008, today’s guest quit her job and sold it all to backpack across the Middle east, Asia and Europe for two years. This set in motion the desire for a lifestyle that incorporated travel as a regular part of the no longer boring routine.
In this episode, we explore in depth how Paula could afford to this, continues to travel today and how you can do the same.
Paula Pant is the mind behind Afford Anything where she helps others master their money, buy back your life, ditch the cubicle and embark on an epic adventure. I had the fortune of meeting Paula in Las Vegas back in January, and thought her enthusiasm for what she believes, and how she lives her message, to be infectious.
I’m excited to riff with her about her location independence, why she does what she does, and her advice for you — if what you want is to set your sights on freedom, travel and adventure.
But what I like most about Paula is that she has a realistic, and intelligent approach towards reconfiguring your personal finances with the intention of building freedom.

What We Cover

Paula spent her years shuttling between Ohio and Nepal, which surprisingly did not give her a love of travel. It wasn't until later that she
How she saved up to quit her job to take a two year trip to the Middle East, Asia and Europe that she knew travel needed to be a bigger part of her life.
Where the idea for her business, Afford Anything, came from.
How you can afford anything, according to Paula, by ruthlessly taking control of your budget and cutting out the things that society says are "normal."
Nobody ever questions spending money on graduate school, weddings, or home buying by saying, "Wow! You must be rich!" But when you travel extensively, people openly question it.
Paula's strategy on saving for a travel life, including her real estate investments which pay her $40,000 per year net passive income.
What are index funds and how can they give you a passive source of cash flow?

How to Save Confidently for a Travel Life

Rather than spend money and stash what's left over at the end of the month, pick what percentage of your income you'd like to save. Paula recommends 20-50%. "Skim it off the top, and then spend the rest." Automate this process.
Focus on paying off your high interest debt first (7-8% interest or higher). Even if you have credit card debt, pay that off before you cure your wanderlust.
Focus on building an emergency fund. If you're paying off credit card debt, then have $500-1000 in reserve. If you don't have debt, then keep about 3-6 months of your expenses in reserve.
Invest at least 10% of your income towards retirement. Think of it like a worst case scenario fund for when you're old. Start this as early as you can.
Buy investments that give you a stream of passive income, such as real estate and broad market index funds that specialize in high dividend payouts.

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Afford Anything
@affordanything on Twitter

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