Welcome to No One Told Us, the podcast that tells the truth about parenting and talks about the stuff you wish you knew before having kids.

I'm your host, Rachel, and I am so excited to speak with Ben Lutz, dad of Fun Employed Family.

In 2018, after more than a decade of rat racing and corporate ladder climbing, he and his wife realized that

they were firmly on the hamster wheel of life and feared that they would regret not spending more

time with their young daughter. They quit their jobs, sold their house, and most of their possessions

and set off on a gap year around the world with their toddler. They were looking for a life and career reset, and boy, did they find it.

For the past six years, Ben and his family have been on a digital nomad journey traveling

full-time to 35 countries with their now two children while working remotely and world-schooling

the kids along the way.

Ben, welcome to the podcast. I'm so excited for this

episode. Thanks for joining us. Yeah, thank you so much, Rachel. I'm happy to be here. Thank you.

So can you tell us a little bit more about your background? What were you actually doing prior to

deciding to travel the world? What was your line of work? I was in finance and my wife and I

actually met. We were both in finance and accounting. We actually met the very first day of

new hire training at a CPA firm right out of college. So yeah, we did that for I guess 13 years

before we finally had this epiphany that there's more to life and we just wanted to

kind of make sure we enjoyed it before we got older and had kids that we were, you know,

that were already 30 years old and we were kind of wondering what happened. So we, yeah,

so we were in finance and accounting and based in the San Francisco Bay Area. I'm in San Francisco as well. I don't think I knew that you were from the Bay Area. I really want to get into all of the tips that you've gathered on traveling with kids because every time I love traveling with my kids, my husband's a little more like nervous and anxious about it, but I really push us to do it because I think it's so important and so good for them. But I do always get questions like, how are you making this work? How are you affording this? Before we kind of get into all of the tips and things that you've learned, I would love to just hear how you planned for this financially. I mean, you're in finance, so you probably did a pretty good job. But I think that's a really big sticking point for people is they think that these trips and

doing something like this has to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars or take years and years

of planning. So how did you kind of go about that?

Yeah, it's a very common question we get as well. So I think the big misconception on cost

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