Should I drop everything and move into a van?
Out There
Willow Belden
4.6 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On this installment of our advice segment, we address a question about making a huge life change. A listener named Where Am I Going writes of his disillusionment with his corporate job, and shares his dreams to live a nomadic lifestyle. But taking the leap feels reckless to him — and would almost certainly mean ending his long-term relationship.
"How can I identify with confidence what is going to make me the most happy in the long term?" he asks.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Willow Belden. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm Becky Jensen. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Angus Chen. |
| 0:16.5 | You're listening to Out There, the podcast that explores big questions through intimate stories in the outdoors. |
| 0:23.0 | This is our advice segment where we use wisdom from nature to help sort out your most |
| 0:27.4 | pressing personal questions. |
| 0:39.5 | So how are you guys doing today? |
| 0:41.0 | I'm okay. |
| 0:41.5 | Good. |
| 0:43.8 | How are you doing, Willow? |
| 0:44.7 | I'm doing well. |
| 0:52.4 | I just recently got back from a climbing trip in Idaho, which was a bit of an impromptu trip. |
| 0:59.9 | And some of the people that I went with showed up in their camper with a cat that they take camping and climbing with them, which I thought was pretty entertaining. |
| 1:03.4 | That's awesome. |
| 1:04.5 | Henry the Craig Cat was definitely the star. |
| 1:06.5 | Craig Cat. |
| 1:07.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.0 | Henry the Craig Cat. |
| 1:09.2 | He was the star. |
| 1:10.7 | So what are you guys up to? Oh Oh my gosh. I'm so excited. I am going on a road trip with my sons. They're going to be seniors in high school. And so we are driving up through Wyoming, going up to Bozeman to go check out the Montana State campus. |
| 1:30.2 | Dan's thinking about an Earth Sciences paleontology degree up there, which is really cool. |
| 1:37.3 | And then we're going to go up to Glacier National Park for a couple of days, and then we're going to go down to Yellowstone. |
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