Turn Travel Into A Lifestyle With Goats On The Road
About this episode
Nick Wharton and Dariece Swift discuss how to turn travel into a lifestyle and the challenges they faced along the way.
What would it take for you to actually turn travel into a lifestyle, not just a vacation? Nick Wharton and Dariece Swift are the Canadian couple behind Goats On The Road, one of the longest-running travel and lifestyle blogs online. Since leaving Canada in 2008, they have lived and traveled full-time across Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the Caribbean, funding their adventures through teaching English abroad, house sitting, freelance writing, and eventually building a successful travel blog and suite of online courses. In this episode, Nick and Dariece share the real, unfiltered story of how two regular people from a small town in Canada traded their office jobs and oil rig shifts for a decade of long-term travel, and how they've figured out how to keep it going. This episode covers what it really takes to make travel a long-term lifestyle, from the mindset shifts that keep you going to the practical ways people actually fund life on the road. Nick and Dariece have been doing this for over a decade and speak honestly about the challenges of traveling as a couple, building an online business from scratch, and knowing when to step back from work and just…
People in this episode
Host: Jason Moore
Guests: Nick Wharton, Dariece Swift
Topics covered
- long-term travel
- travel lifestyle
- online business
- travel funding
- couple travel
- mindset shifts
Keywords
- travel lifestyle
- Goats On The Road
- long-term travel
- funding travel
- travel blog
- couple travel
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Goats On The Road
Places: Canada, Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, the Caribbean
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