Ep. 518: Ways to Pay for Your Adventure - Mason Gravley
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Whenever I was starting to plan my first big adventures, one of my biggest questions was, how do people pay for these experiences? What I've learned is that there's no real secret out there. It's a lot of grinding, budgeting, side gigs, sacrifice, asking, etc. The process of funding your adventure is honestly an entirely separate and equally difficult adventure. For me, the preparation and planning was half the excitement and joy of adventures, and often was a much longer experience than the trip itself.
This won't be a super organized or hugely insightful episode, just more of my thoughts and experiences on the subject.
I hope you enjoy and I hope you share your adventure-funding tips and tricks with us!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the adventure sports podcast where we talk to athletes, adventurers, and business owners from around the world of adventure sports. |
| 0:27.8 | Whether you're climbing Mount Everest, starting a bike shop, or getting up off your couch to take your kids hiking for the first time, |
| 0:34.5 | we want you to have the motivation and inspiration you need to chase that |
| 0:38.5 | next adventure. |
| 0:40.0 | The Adventure Sports podcast is brought to you by Camp Crate, the leaders in fully planned |
| 0:45.2 | self-guided backpacking adventures, as well as backpacking gear rental. |
| 0:49.9 | You can check them out at campcrate.net. |
| 0:53.3 | Thank you. you can check them out at camp crate.net. |
| 1:05.1 | Hey, everybody, happy Monday. |
| 1:06.5 | If you're hearing this, |
| 1:12.2 | it's probably because my wife is in labor and I needed a filler episode. |
| 1:22.8 | It shows take a lot of planning and producing, so I tried to stay a week or two or so ahead, |
| 1:25.5 | especially around this time when the baby's born. But I just wanted to do an episode that's probably |
| 1:28.0 | relevant to a lot of people, and that's around the idea of saving money and spending |
| 1:34.2 | and basically financially planning for your adventure. |
| 1:37.5 | And I'm going to show with you some of the tips that I've learned and things that I've done |
| 1:41.2 | specifically and I've done firsthand that have helped me save |
| 1:45.2 | for some of my trips. |
| 1:48.8 | And before we do that, I just want to tell us, tell you about the sponsors, because this is |
| 1:52.4 | going to be the intro slash interview altogether. |
| 1:55.5 | We have athletic brewing, which are non-alcoholic craft brewers. Yes, I said that correctly, non-alcoholic, |
| 2:05.1 | and that's because, you know, sometimes you just don't want the effect of alcohol. I know as a dad, |
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