Go Hunt Life

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

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 Ir

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

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

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 happi

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

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

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 On

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

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.

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 a

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 norm

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 th

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 chall

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 lifet

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