Welcome to the Normal to Nomad podcast where we share stories, thoughts, ideas, and conversations

on our journey to find balance with nature in a technologically advanced world. My name is Barron.

And I'm Elsa. We live together in a 13-foot scamp trailer with our dog camp in the American wilderness.

Greetings. Today we're doing a Q&A video because we've been hard at work on the SCAMP doing some major maintenance and repairs. We're getting all ready for winter camping. We're here at my parents' house where we've been working on the SCAMP. Thanks, Mom and Dad.

The SCAMP is almost done.

It's pretty exciting. First question. If someone wanted to live like you, what would be the first steps for them to get started? Cutting expenses, learning how to stop spending money. That's the biggest

one. So just stop the outflow of cash and cut down your monthly expenses as much as you can.

And figure out once you are on the road, how will you build your momentum to make some sort of money?

Because I think it's a lot better long-term strategy to do that than just to save up a bunch of money and then run out and then you got to go back and then

I don't know that's just a lot of yo-yoing so you think figure out a plan or strategy for making

money once you get on the road yeah and don't act like it's people kind of treat it like they do

with solar power where they're like in their house.

I use X amount of kilowatts a month, so now I need that much solar power.

Instead of doing that, like rain in your power usage and then accommodate that versus

trying to accommodate your like gluttonous power usage.

I think the same goes for money.

So as you are, as you're figuring out how much money you need and like figuring out how to make passive income,

any, if you're making $10 a month, relatively passively or on a recurring clip, then that's excellent.

Don't be sad if you're not making $1,000 every month out of the gate.

I think it's easy to be discouraged when you're making just a little bit,

but every little bit stacks up over time.

Well, and you need so much less when you're living like this.

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