Life on the Road with Noami Grevemberg

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Noami Grevemberg has been living out of her 1985 Volkwagen Van since 2016. Noami has created a platform to make van life more diverse and accessible.

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0:00.0	Before Van Life, I was just so, you know, I held on so tight to things, you know, I wouldn't
0:08.4	relax.
0:09.4	But being in that vulnerable space of not knowing how I'm going to make money, how I'm going
0:16.2	to put, you know, gas in the tank or anything like that or where my career is going, you
0:22.1	know, it created space for me to learn how to release, let go and allow.
0:28.2	And when I started doing that, the world started opening up for me.
0:31.7	And I know it sounds super flowery, but it's the truth.
0:38.7	Naomi Grebenberg is an activist, podcaster, and entrepreneur.
0:42.5	In 2016, she and her husband Dustin left their home in New Orleans and moved into a 1985
0:49.5	Volkswagen van.
0:51.0	They originally planned to live in their van for a year, driving around the United States.
0:55.8	But one year turned into two years, which turned into three years, and they've now been
1:00.5	at it for six years, and they aren't planning on stopping anytime soon.
1:05.2	Naomi and Dustin are committed to making van life sustainable in multiple ways.
1:10.2	They figured out how to make a living as digital nomads.
1:13.0	They try to practice a zero waste lifestyle, and Naomi has created a community of BIPOC
1:18.5	and LGBTQ van lifers with their platform diversify van life.
1:23.8	I'm Shelby Stenger, and this is wild ideas worth living.
1:32.1	Naomi grew up on the island of Trinidad and the Caribbean.
1:35.1	When she was a kid, she learned about Alaska and the Aurora Borealis, also known as the
1:40.6	Northern Lights.
1:42.4	Ever since then, it's been her dream to get out there and see it for herself.
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