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The RV Entrepreneur

RVE 003: How to Launch a Successful Business on the Road (After Failing Miserably)

The RV Entrepreneur

RV LIFE

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.8 • 544 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

What do you do when you have a plan for making money on the road, but once you hit the road that plan 100% falls to pieces and doesn’t work? That’s exactly what happened to Nick Peterson from LivinLightly when he and his wife Shae hit the road a couple years ago.

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Heath Padgett and welcome to the RV Entrepreneur podcast. This is episode number three.

0:20.8

Something about selling everything and moving your entire life into a tiny space is absolutely terrifying.

0:28.0

Just think about giving away things that you've had your entire life that have, you know, real sentimental value.

0:33.5

And if you're still working on top of that fear, you have this fear or risk of losing your job or in the case of this episode, your business.

0:42.4

It's a very legitimate fear and one that you have to face if you're going to hit the road before retirement.

0:48.4

In this episode, I sit down to talk with Nick Peterson from Live Enlightly.com to talk about the journey he's been on for the past

0:55.0

couple of years. Nick is an entrepreneur who makes almost this entire income from selling

1:00.5

teacher supplies on a website called Teachers Payteachers.com. But starting this business was basically

1:07.2

an accident. Nick and I talk about how his original business idea for how he and his

1:11.4

wife would make money on the road essentially bombed. And he had to quickly come up with something

1:16.3

else in order to make ends meet. This is an awesome episode. And thank you guys so much for being

1:20.7

here. Thank you for listening. Let's get to this episode. Thanks Nick for being here, man.

1:28.7

Thanks for having me.

1:29.9

Excited.

1:30.6

What's your backstory?

1:31.7

What was the inciting incident for you guys to get up and hit the road?

1:34.8

So it was probably about five years ago.

1:36.9

My wife was a full-time teacher.

1:38.9

She taught first and second grade, a little private Christian school up here in North Idaho.

1:43.1

And I had several different

1:44.6

internet things that I was doing in conjunction with teaching an outdoor education program

1:49.3

in a summer camp. And we both liked what we were doing. Teachers kind of have a nice gig. They get

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