This was the most exciting and most difficult time of our lives, and there was a time when we thought we might break up over it.
A lot of Instagrammers, Bloggers and YouTubers (including us) are always talking about how great it is to live a freedom life.
One where you can work from anywhere in the world, hardly work any hours per week and have money rolling in thanks to passive income streams like digital product sales, sponsors, ads, and affiliates.
But one part they always seem to miss out on is the act of actually making that change.
Quitting a job isn’t easy. When we were leading up to this enormous shift in our lives, we had tons of questions running through our minds:
“What if this is the stupidest decision we ever made?”
“What if we can’t figure out a way to sustain this life on the road?”
“What if we can’t sell this house?”
“What do we do with all of our stuff?”
We were actually terrified leading up to the moment we quit our jobs.
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Having run this blog now for over a decade, with millions of people visiting it every year, we figured it was finally time to talk about the story of our life transformation.
How we went from $12,000 in debt working and 60-80 hours per week at jobs we didn’t enjoy, to traveling the world, working from the road, loving our jobs, and working a fraction of the hours that we did in Canada.
In this article, I’m going to share the timeline of our journey from our old lives, to this new one.
I’m also going to share some tips that I hope will help you if you’ve ever considered this type of transition, and I’ll share some resources that weren’t available to us 16 years ago, but are available now and can make the transition a lot easier.
A Backstory
For those of you who are new here, we didn’t always run remote businesses while traveling the world and living abroad full time.
So here’s a bit of backstory…
Up until 2008, we both had good jobs in Canada.
Not “good jobs” in that they were jobs that we actually enjoyed… but good jobs in that they paid well (I worked on the Oil Rigs and later as a heavy machine operator, and Dariece was a Real Estate Legal Assistant).
We were pretty young. At 24 we had everything set out in front of us.
We already owned a condominium right in downtown Calgary….
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