Project Today

Sorry we missed last weeks episode! But we are back and better than ever with a functioning electrical system in our BOX TRUCK! Dylan who has taken the lead role on this project, after months and months of anticipation finally got to put it all together!

If you are an avid listener of the podcast you know that this is where we give you a behind the scenes listen into the everyday things and decisions we go through while building out this box truck! In this episode we have an open and honest conversation about how to proceed with some big mistakes we have made throughout the build and how we're potentially going to fix them!

Today on the podcast we discuss one of the most important questions of our van build. Is Home Depot or Lowe's better for getting materials to build a van? This question has challenged philosophers for decades. We are thrilled to add our opinion into the conversation and hopefully answer this question.

Thank you for tuning into the podcast! We are moving our upload date to Thursdays so stick around to see a new podcast episode every Thursday!

Today's episode of the Project Today Podcast is an incredibly special one... for many reasons! For one, we are recording outside of Colorado for the first time in MONTHS, as we are now doing the conversion in the great (and hot) state of Arizona! We road-tripped down here a little over a week ago, and have now spent the last three days working towards finishing the kitchen frame of our Uhaul (it's almost done!)

Also, this coming Sunday we will be posting a Youtube video once again! We took a little break from creating content last week after the road trip, but this Sunday our normal two-videos-per-week schedule will resume. Also, we've back on TikTok as well, posting videos there on a near-daily basis.

Speaking of TikTok, at the end of today's podcast we have a special and completely unplanned surprise... a TikTok live Q&A!!! You'll get to hear us answering questions from our TikTok audience live here today, about everything from the box truck conversion to our favorite songs for road trips. We hope you enjoy!

The box truck is really starting to take shape, we are not quite move in ready but it is time for us to take our first real trip with it so we can finish the build at Oliver's home in Arizona!

This week we talk about our plans for the next few weeks as we get ready to depart the next day and our excitement to get on the road and have a bit of a change of pace!

After almost two months working on the box truck, it's finally time for...

A ROAD TRIP!

That's right, Project Today is going on the road! The box truck conversion has been going really well, and within two weeks from the time of writing this description we will be ready to start traveling around the U.S. There are only a few big projects left to do before the Uhaul will be "livable", and immediately when we hit that threshold it will be time to hit the road! Our first stop: Phoenix, Arizona.

Not only do we talk about this upcoming road trip in today's podcast, but we also go over some of the more interesting projects we've done so far in the entire build, including our couch-to-bed conversion and our tongue-in-groove ceiling. Both of these projects have take a lot longer than we had anticipated, and they've each presented us with numerous problems along the way. Yet, in true Project Today spirit, we're getting closer and closer to completing both of them with each passing day.

We hope you all enjoy today's podcast! And if you haven't already, make sure you check us out on Youtube (just search ProjectToday), TikTok (@Projecttoday) and Instagram (@projecttoday_)!

We'll see you all again next week!

Snow in September, while we're converting our retired Uhaul box truck into a full-time tiny house?

We promise you'll never see anything like this every again...

Welcome back to the Project Today podcast, where today we will be going over our last week of work on the box truck conversion. Rather than having a tie day (take-it-easy day) we've given ourselves a bit of a tie week. We are hitting a little bit of that burnout we felt a few weeks ago, and because of that our progress on the van build has been halted.

On top of this, we also haven't gone over our New Years Resolutions from this past January! It's been nine months since we set up our resolutions here on this podcast, so we thought today would be a great day to analyze our progress towards those goals. 2020 has been a crazy year, not just for us but for the entire world, and our resolutions have (of course) been drastically changed by the circumstances of the world.

But that isn't necessarily a bad thing. In times like these, when we might be struggling to find the motivation to keep building the truck and editing videos and recording podcasts, it's important to remember where we were just a few months ago. None of us thought that our "Crazy Van Plan" would even start until 2021, and yet here we are just a few weeks away from being able to travel around the country in a fully renovated box truck! Our TikTok and Youtube accounts are fully monetized, our brand is growing, and the three of us are closer than we've ever been in our lives. While difficult, 2020 has absolutely been a year of taking steps towards accomplishing some of our lifelong dreams, and that's something we can't forget.

So, did the snow ruin our box truck? Have ANY of the guys accomplished their New Years Resolutions? WILL THE CONVERSION EVER BE FINISHED?????

Find out today in the latest episode of the Project Today Podcast!

As we continue making progress on our box truck conversion, we're finding out just how much fun it is to learn new things and apply them immediately into our lives! This week, the three of us started to really get into woodworking... something none of us had ever done before in our lives. And for three rookies, we think our latest project (a couch-bed frame that will sleep two of us in the box truck) came out really well!!!

And with that, welcome everyone to the Project Today podcast! It's been a super exciting week of van build progress, with a Youtube video and 4 TikToks going up since we last posted a pod. We finished a menagerie of smaller projects last week, and this week we dug into one of the biggest projects of the entire conversion - the beds. Two people will be sleeping on a queen bed down in the box truck itself, and during the day the bed will convert into a big U-shaped couch with a table in the middle! It's absolutely a project that we've been looking forward to for weeks... and now that it's done, we could possibly start sleeping in the van one of these days!

As if this project wasn't exciting enough, we have some more crazy news for you all... we're getting monetized! Our TikTok account is now officially making money every day through the TikTok creator program, and our Youtube channel will be monetized the day after this podcast goes live. We're incredibly excited about this, but probably not for the reasons you'd think... listen to the entire podcast to find out why!

As always, thank you all so much for the support both here on the podcast and on our other social media channels! Your support has truly been a blessing, and we can't thank you enough.

Remember, anyone who comments on our latest Youtube video saying they came here from the podcast will get a shoutout in the video! Last week, Veronica Kim commented on our Sunday video, and we couldn't be more thankful!

We hope you all are having an amazing day, and we'll see you all again on another Project Today podcast next Wednesday!!!

In the last week, we've installed:

Amazing vinyl floors, insulation for the walls, insulation for the ceiling, spray insulation in every corner, sealant for the windows, and a full gym/squat rack on the outside of the truck!

So yes, in short we are going through a period of incredible momentum in the box truck conversion. We're getting work done on the van every single day AND have been sticking to the schedule we gave ourselves a couple weeks ago, which has allowed us to post almost a TikTok every day and two new Youtube videos. And as if that isn't enough, we've also been finding plenty of ways to take some time "off" and clear our heads, which has also kept us feeling invigorated and excited for whatever comes next.

In today's episode we go over everything we've worked on in the past week, while also remembering some of the projects we'd struggled with the most before this week began. It's feeling more and more real with every single project that we finish (this is becoming a cliche that we discuss in the pod as well) and soon we'll even be ready to start traveling in our fully-converted box truck.

With that, we just have to say thank you to everyone that listens to these podcasts, week-in week-out. Each episode is a more candid look into our lives, where we talk about things that nobody can see on our TikTok/Youtube channels, and we hope that's something you all can enjoy!

If you are listening to this podcast, comment below our latest Youtube video and we will give you a shout out in the very next video! We promise to respond to every single one of you, and in all honesty, we would be very interested to see how many of you follow us on both accounts.

But with that, we hope you all enjoyed today's podcast! The last couple weeks have been SOOOOO much fun, and we hope that translates in the pod!!

We'll see you all again next week in the next episode of the Project Today podcast!

Today we talk about camera gear, rebuilding momentum, motivation from tiktok, and aspirations for the Project Today brand. We have been following our schedule for the past three days, so this is officially the first podcast that goes out on this schedule! We are really excited to stick to this schedule and put out content in a more professional way on a real schedule! Thank you so much for listening to the Project Today Podcast! We appreciate each and every one of the listeners on this podcast!