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💣Todays episode featuring Staci and Garrett from Bronderlust is full of value bombs

Staci and Garrett share how they went from living a life where they weren't completely fulfilled, and took the leap to chase something more.

In this episode, you'll hear all about:

🤝How to structure your mindset, take a step back, and work as a team when doing a van build.

⛽Some apps to save you money at the pump.

❓They share a few things they both CAN and CAN'T live without on the road.

And more!

YouTube Channels:

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https://www.youtube.com/@EXPLORISTlife

https://www.youtube.com/@Linneaandakela

https://www.youtube.com/@MoserMakes

https://www.youtube.com/@AnkeneyVanBuilds

https://faroutride.com

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📖Books:

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"Rich Dad, Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyosaki: https://amzn.to/3N4wwiX

🧼Hygiene:

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💵Money Savers:

Gas Buddy: https://www.gasbuddy.com/app

Upside: https://upside.app.link/PZHWN

📶Wi-Fi

AT&T Unlimited Data Plan

RVIT: https://www.thervitguy.com/

Starlink: https://www.starlink.com/

All right Stacy and Garrett welcome to the show thanks for having us thank you for having us so we know you guys are on Instagram as Bronderlust you guys have been living in your van driving around the country for the past just about a year why don't we start by sharing a little bit about yourselves and then letting our audience know what your travel lifestyle looks like oh man sure um I love that question well where do I even start so we've been together since high school and we've spent our whole lives together almost we had dated from high school through college and we got married and we had worked our jobs for a good couple years and after maybe a couple years of working our jobs we just kind of were like we could do more um like seven it just didn't feel very fulfilling when we started thinking about van life it was just a good opportunity to kind of like Get outside of our comfort zones and kind of just figure out you know uh maybe more or less like you know what we were made of and what we could do so this was a really fun way for us to kind of live our best life but also get out and do some fun stuff we've always loved traveling and just like going to new places and vacations just like you know anybody else would probably say they love doing but it was getting to a point where like I remember coming home and just being like Garrett there's just like there has to be something more to life like there has to be something else out there and so you know that's when I guess the the gears started turning more and then um he was the one to actually bring it up to me and I thought it was insane because I was like there's no way like how do you even do that you know it was like an immediate know and cuz I immediately thought of like you know our house and everything in it because we did have a house and everything for like four years we had our house before we uh Swit transitioned over and so I just remember trying to think of how to like put all of that stuff in a small space and I was like how is that even possible anyways that's kind of like a intro I guess of how we got there that's awesome yeah it's definitely quite the adjustment going from a house legitimate single family home to now living on you know four wheels and driving on on the road you can totally relate to that I know what you're talking about Stacy when I would come home from work just not satisfied kind of had an itch for to get more out of life and yet you know here we are kind of doing the same thing so that's great now now that you're on the road you guys are you're working as well what does your work lifestyle look like and about how many hours a week do you think you're working it's kind of changed since we've started in the beginning I had a very like I think it was like eight to fiveish like remote job so I work I am a dental hygienist and so I was clinical so I was in the office every day cleaning people's teeth all of that and I knew we were going to be doing this and so during the build process um I was looking for remote positions in the dental field just to kind of start that uh ball um and get it rolling and so I found something and uh it was like a good 40h hour a week job and it was okay in the beginning like it was fine it was doing all the things it needed to do for us cuz it was remote and it was letting us live our life but ended up switching positions um and I actually got something way more flexible um it's still in the dental field again it's like a training position and so um now I would say my hours are probably like at least 25 to 40 hours a week it really just depends on the the week and my schedule so it's very flexible I do like the fact that that my new job is letting me kind of like adjust my schedule as necessary so it's very flexible in that aspect so kind of rare um but I was very blessed to land that that's really interesting though you bring that up because when most people think remote work they think online they have to you know they can physically be you know in their car in a hotel room and be working online but so you decided you looked were like there's certain websites or how are you able to find a remote or I guess a remote position but as a dental hygienist or in the dental field I take it you were probably staying in places longer you probably weren't moving every other day what did that look like for both of my remote positions we were moving often like we were still remote so we have um we kind of focused everything around like those points if we knew there was going to be times when her job she was going to be working then we knew we would be stationary long enough so she could get settled and do whatnot and then if we had multiple things we would stay there for longer periods of time versus just being like on the go constantly right yes sorry yes and so like after my day was done then we would be like all right if we want to move we'll go move somewhere or if I had a break like we would move somewhere in that break so it was very like not chaotic but you know it was we made it work it was a lot trial and error like we had to we kind of had to figure out the best way to do it which didn't feel like too aggressively stressful yeah and now we've kind of got like a good flow on how to do it yeah now my schedule's a lot more flexible to where like I have longer like breaks and stuff and gaps you know it's more easy to move during the week I guess during that time I primarily searched on LinkedIn I don't remember what sparked that but I remember seeing something and linkedin's big for you know the job world uh you know re redid my page and everything redid my resume they have a little job section on LinkedIn and I literally just searched keywords filters and just kind of kept searching um over and over again Facebook groups and things like that as well we're big um but that's how I found it really cool how about you Garrett um so when we first started I was doing um remote sales for a company that was doing custom van builds the it just kind of didn't work out and then from there I pretty much put all of my energy into our social media page so organizing kind of like a lot of stuff we were going to do where we were going to be um to shoot certain things together um Stacy's really good at this but just kind of reaching out to a lot of the different like companies to do Partnerships with and um just kind of basically start laying the groundwork for you know like a social media marketing platform in a sense yeah he does a lot of of the um stuff that I don't want to do and all the behind the scenes Logistics of just van life in general so perfect team yeah it's been good thanks good for you guys and you guys put out some great content and those of you listening they're Broner list on Instagram they have all sorts of Van tips and all sorts of things they do when they're camping so check them out so during that time frame between when you wanted to get on the road what was one of the biggest challenges you fac to get there and how were you able to overcome that I would say like right off the bat we identified all of the things that kind of anchored us down so we're like okay if we're going to do this based on how we want to do it do we want to you know go for Spurs of travel or do we want to commit to this full-time we kind of made the decision that we wanted to do it full-time so the first thing was sell our house minimize our stuff get our very basic things find like our little luxuries and kind of identify um what we wanted in the van so and I think we decided to do all this in April and we had the house sold by may it was a very quick turn around we were like At first we wanted thought we maybe would just want to go live somewhere else in a different house and so we at first were looking into houses somewhere else and it just didn't feel right and nothing was looking good so after we made that decision then we were like all right let's do this how fast can we do this and so we ended up yeah in a month turnaround time we sold all our stuff basically downsized and sold our house which was insane now looking at it back I was like how did we do that that was I was going to say was it was it two of a turn around I know that the housing market it has been around that time frame it was on fire and things were selling like very quickly yes it had just started blow started blowing up so we were like we got to hop on this now like we don't know when we're GNA have this opportunity again so I think that's why also we kind of did it kind and it also worked out too where um I have some really close friends and we were just super fortunate that he had just bought a new house and originally our plan was to move to um a place in Georgia where we had a lot of close friends and family and what ended up happening was he had moved into a new house he's like well I have this other house for the next 30 days or so if you guys want to come here you can stay in this house for a month give or take and we ended up staying in that house for like two months so once we had sold our house we were like all right cool we beelined it you know to our friend's place and from there we pretty much started doing the research on finding the van as well as we started learning like the projects I mean after we had sold our house and got rid of all our stuffs and got settled and our like kind of temporary home we pretty much spent about two months researching the build projects and how we would go about them trying to find a van all that so it was really just basically figuring out all the things that would stop us from being able to do it kind of figuring out what the workr was and then kind of you know pulling the trigger on that sure were there any big YouTube channels or other other influencers that you guys watched tirelessly while you were trying to figure out how to build your van oh my goodness yes um sometimes it was random but y someone that I think inspired our kind of layout and just idea behind like just knowing that like anyone can do van life and you can kind of do it however you want I would say is the fine print um he's a van lifee gamer that's his big uh his big thing but he's we've always watched his videos W followed him and he's kind of been like a big inspiration for us more so on him like I don't think that he really puts out a lot of like instructional videos on like the projects but what we really kind of or really inspired us about his videos was that it was like this is what um van life meant to him like it was his particular flavor and at first when we were looking into it we're like okay it's got to be like this or it's got to be like this and then we kind of were like oh you know actually it can be however we want it to be we just got to figure out you know what that means so like if we wanted to have a gaming you know setup in our van then we needed to have the power to support it so that meant you know a big electrical system and then that kind of took us into other ideas but I would say as far as like our tutorials and like you know learning how to build stuff um Moser makes was a really big Channel we he had a lot of really valuable information we used a lot of his like Plumbing his diagrams really good um the explorist was fantastic he had a really good electrical um tutorial and that was really helpful and explor life is his and then I try to remember the one that we used for our framing oh man an cany build yes an cany build I don't know if I pronounced that right I feel like I've heard of that channel before yeah and we'll put a link in the show notes for all those channels you guys just mention so people can check them out so that YouTube University that's like 101 we do the same thing with our real estate property too did you guys have any experience before you started doing your van with like tools probably had less than no experience yeah yeah no well I remember when we first started we would use um an impact drill and every time it would make the impact noise Stacy would yell at me and she'd be like you're gonna break it like no it's supposed to do that's not sound isn't good like there's no way that sound could be good we that's a great sound all guys love that sound well by the end of our build she was she was going for it I was loving that sound at the end I was like this is great I would say we went from um should not attempt to semi competent we knew that you know you can literally learn anything if you put your mind into it and so that was our I guess driving Factor was like we know we can learn it we can learn anything we just have to like do it do the research put the time in and we'll figure it out and I can tell you behind your head there Stacy those cabinets look pretty Square to me so you guys did a good job clearly

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