062- How Allison & Matt Left Their Jobs Behind To Travel the USA in a Van
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Financial Freedom takes on several different forms and for today’s guests, Matt and Alli Owen, it means taking a mini-retirement and traveling the US in their red Sprinter Van, Clifford. Burnt out and struggling with depression and anxiety from living the traditional 9 to 5 lifestyle, the Owens decided to walk away from their 6-figure jobs and live life on their own terms.
After saving 70% of their income over the course of 4 years, Matt and Alli were able to create the lifestyle that they truly enjoy. Today, Matt and Alli share their experiences on their journey to FI on Owen Your Future, their finance and personal development blog.
In this episode we discuss:
- Life before the van life
- Matt and Alli’s careers
- Walking away from 6 figure incomes
- How living the 9-5 life left them feeling stuck and led to anxiety and depression
- How the Owens prepared financially
- How they saved 70% of income over 4 years
- Finding the courage to make such a big life change
- Why they chose Sprinter Van over a Camper or Tiny House or RV and the cost to buy the van and fix it up
- Resources for people that may want to fix a van to live a similar lifestyle
- Their monthly expenses
- The Owens’ future lifestyle plans
- Valuing experiences over things
At the end of the podcast, I also talk about the waitlist to the soft launch of my monthly membership program. Get monthly tips, tools, and classes to help you launch to Financial Freedom. Click here to sign up and be the first to be notified when the doors open in Summer/Fall 2018.
Also, Journey To Launch was nominated at the 9th Annual Plutus Awards for Podcast of the Year & the Community Builder Award!
Other related blog posts/links mentioned in this episode:
- Freecampsites.com
- Medishare.com
- The Owen's YouTube Channel
- Van Tour: Two Engineers build a Pinterest Inspired Custom Sprinter Van in 6 Weeks
- 3 Step Process to Financially Preparing for Van Life
- Get the Owen’s 10 Minute Money Checklist
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to episode 62 of the Journey to Launch Podcast, how Allison and Matt left their jobs |
| 0:08.0 | behind to travel the USA in a van. |
| 0:12.0 | T-minous 10 seconds. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast with your host Janila Sufrant, as a money expert who walks her talk. |
| 0:21.4 | She helps brave journeyers like you get out of debt, save, invest, and build real well. |
| 0:27.6 | Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in five four three two one |
| 0:38.6 | hey hey journeys welcome back to another episode of the Journey to Launch Podcast. This is episode |
| 0:47.1 | 62 and I think this episode would be a good follow-up to my last episode, |
| 0:53.3 | episode 61, where I talked about quitting my corporate job. |
| 0:58.0 | And so on today's episode, we have on Allison |
| 1:00.9 | and Matt Owen from the blog and great YouTube channel Owen your |
| 1:05.9 | future.com and they also took a leap. They left their nice nine to five comfortable well paying jobs as engineers to travel across the country basically in a bright red sprinter van that they call Clifford and they are just traveling the US and I was intrigued by |
| 1:26.4 | their story and it's interesting so just a little backstory on how I actually met |
| 1:30.8 | Allison so we're all in the FinCon community, the FinCon group that I'm in, and I remember |
| 1:37.2 | someone posted something about leaving their job or wanting to quit their job, and this might have been a few months ago and |
| 1:45.0 | Allison among a couple other people kind of responded to that post and I |
| 1:49.6 | responded to one and said you know I'm thinking about leaving my job too we should |
| 1:52.4 | start a leave your job support group. |
| 1:55.0 | And at that time, Allison still had her job, I still had my job, and there were a couple other women in the group and we had one call so we were |
| 2:03.7 | supposed to have multiple calls but we had one call we were like let's just all |
| 2:06.9 | get together let's talk about this goal of wanting to quit and how we can make |
| 2:10.5 | that happen and I specifically remember talking to Allison and her being very afraid of leaving |
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