How We Afford a Life of Travel

Our Story

We Quit. We Traveled. We Figured It Out.

In 2018, we both walked away from stable TV careers — good salaries, respectability, two weeks of vacation a year — and decided to trade all of it for a life on our own terms. No inheritance. No trust fund. No plan B.

We started from scratch: seasonal resort work to fund travel, then slowly building content creation from zero. First brand deal was a barter. We restarted our account with under 1,000 followers while traveling with a one-year-old. We learned every piece of it — Instagram, brand deals, guides, affiliate revenue — by doing it, failing at it, and doing it again.

Now 90+ countries in, living in Spain with two girls, we have a real location-independent income. And we teach others how to build theirs too.

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