in this video I want to break down how I managed to travel the world with my
girlfriend I'll share our monthly budget how much we actually spend but most importantly
I'll explain how exactly I managed to pay for all these adventures while basically having
no real job anymore I'll be sharing our investments our passive and not so and not
so passive income streams including YouTube and how much they pay me to make videos but
before I get to that why did we decide to go traveling well it all started back home
2019 when we said let's travel the world for a full year in 2022 that's it that's the
flashback we just wanted to travel the world go on adventures and experience true freedom before
we settle down and start a family just travel while we're young and flexible we picked the
destinations we wanted to visit Thailand Bali Japan Sydney Hawaii Los Angeles New York we did
have to change our plans a couple of times during the trip but more on that later now that we knew
where we wanted to go we had to come up with a budget so let me show you our monthly budget
so this is what we came up with on average per month we wanted to spend 5
000 Euros which today is equal to five thousand dollars yay Euro
how did we come up with this amount? just a rough estimate on how much we needed to
cover all our costs it may sound like a lot but this is a budget both for my girlfriend
and myself so for two persons plus it covers absolutely everything flights
accommodation trips food drinks fun but also our costs back home including our mortgage
our health insurance taxes property taxes municipality municipality tax you get the
point we had a lot of costs back home that we also needed to pay for so did we actually
manage to keep our costs at 5 000 Euros a month let's take a look at our costs
so after almost nine months of traveling I can break down the average cost per month in the
following categories flights in total we spend 4487 Euros which is roughly 500 euro per month
considering that's for two persons and that we've been on 13 flights so far that's not
that bad next up accommodation we've spent a total of 12 297 Euros meaning 1 366 Euros
per month looking at all the places we stayed from a luxurious condo in Bangkok
to a three-bedroom Villa with a pool in Bali it looks pretty damn awesome man to a small
studio in Sydney and this could have been a bit lower if it wasn't for Hawaii and Los Angeles
really expensive and the next category is costs back home and roughly it adds up to 1550 Euros
per month and the next category is fun zero we do not have the fun on the travels no I'm just
too lazy to categorize all the hundreds of transactions we've had plus it's impossible
we've paid a lot of stuff in cash so there's no way to find out what we've actually spent it on
so let's just group it together as other but mostly it will consist of food drinks trips
excursions scooter rentals car rentals so the way I find out how much we've spent per month
is by exporting all of my bank transactions from both my personal bank account and my business
bank account into that CVS files and putting them into Excel to filter out any fully data boom 9669
Euros per month what that's way too much wait let me call someone who can help me figure this out
hi Stephanie yo Elon what's up yo I know you're busy with getting us to
Mars and [ __ ] but I really need your help I just calculated our monthly cost
while traveling but it just seems too high did I forget something in
our calculation have you taken into account the Quantum Wave Paradox?
I totally forgot thanks so much Elon you're very welcome Stefan
I really love your Youtube Channel btw
well yeah okay okay bye bye Elon thank you so adding up everything and now taking into account
the quantum wave Paradox it still makes around 8 000 Euros per month around 3 000 Euros above our
budget here's the thing the first half of the year we lived in Thailand Bali Malaysia mostly
cheap countries I mean this meal in Bangkok two dollars the best ramen noodles I've had in my
entire life in a former Michelin star restaurant five bucks oh by the way if you want to see all
the delicious food we ate and all the hot spots we've visited while traveling then make sure
to follow my girlfriend on tiktok anyways after spending six months in mostly cheap countries we
now arrived in Sydney Australia no more eating out you see this meal 50 [ __ ] bucks might we have to
start living a bit more frugal so we went back to cooking at home which was actually to be honest
really nice for a change plus you get to eat a lot healthier this way but we still overspend
our budget how come inflation no but seriously I mapped out our spending per month and saw that we
really overspent mostly in the US and especially Hawaii LA and Las Vegas were so expensive plus we
had friends visiting while we were in La meaning we would go out for dinner we would have fun go on
trips excursions meaning we would spend over our budget and this also explains the spike you can
see in May when other friends were visiting us in Bali Plus on top of all that while my
girlfriend and I were visiting the us we visited the craziest place in the world and if you follow
me on Instagram you probably know what I'm talking about and if not I'm talking about Burning Man
probably the the most crazy thing I've experienced for a whole week but super expensive and wasn't
really planned as we didn't think we would get the tickets for Burning Man but we did anyways
I guess for the remaining months we just have to be a little bit more mindful about our spending
to compensate for the overspending we've did so far but okay how am I able to overspend in
the first place where does the money come from so far we've discussed the budget and our costs
but now it's time for the most juicy part of the video I'm talking about my income streams
foreign what are you doing here I'm in the middle of a video yeah I know but I just wanted to show
you something what look at this wallet I just got you interrupted my video to show me your wallet
yeah but it's not just any wallet it's an Ekster wallet the James Bond of wallets yeah I know I've
got one myself ah so you already know it can do this yeah I know they have quick card access
okay but I bet you don't know you can never lose your wallet ever again yeah
I do man I know about the tracker card in the wallet that if I ever lose my wallet
I can just open up an app on my phone and see exactly where I left my wallet
I can even ring my wallet and the best thing about it is it's solar powered oh
I didn't know you know what man did you know it has built-in RFID block and protecting you from
Wireless theft and did you know it's made of only environmentally friendly and high quality
materials like recycled Italian leather and carbon fibre and did you know that Ekster wallet wanted
to sponsor this video and are giving up to a 25% discount if you use the code "Stefan" at checkout
or just click the link in the description trust me it will be the last wallet you will ever buy I've
been using them for more than five years already anyways where was I how do I actually fill up that
wallet I'm going to talk about my income streams that make all the traveling possible foreign
the first income stream is rental income I'm renting out my own house back in Amsterdam for
around 1500 Euros a month and I know that's peanuts compared to LA but that's the rental
price in Amsterdam and the next income stream is affiliate links meaning if you go in the
description and decide to use the same gear as I do I get a very small fee and if I add up all
the income I've earned from all my affiliate links this year and then calculate the average
per month it comes down to 2.90 let's go no but in all seriousness if you ever want to buy the
same gear as I do use the links in the description that way you help me out and it costs you nothing
extra and up next is sponsorships and brand deals and before I give you a number I just
want you to know that I haven't collaborated with a lot of Brands this year and it's not
because Brands and it's it's not because brands or companies don't want to work with me in fact I
have probably around 50 not replied emails in my inbox because to be blunt most of the proposals
and offers I get are shitty products shitty low quality companies that I don't want to promote to
my audience oh my God this is amazing I choose to work with brands that have products that I think
will actually benefit myself and therefore my audience that's the reason that I chose to work
together with Ekster wallet it has been a product that I've been using for five years already long
before they asked me to promote this video so of course they I said yes when they asked
me click the link in the description to buy the last wallet you will ever buy anyways with that
being said I've chosen to only work together with a handful of Brands this year looking at
the income I've received it adds up to around two thousand dollars meaning around 222 dollars per
month and at last but definitely not least how much does YouTube pay me to create videos you
see this old trip started as just a trip around the world but it's grown to something much larger
I don't look at this as just having fun and going on adventures and traveling the world even though
we're doing that I also see this year as the year that I go all in on content creation and my goal
for this year is to make it possible to sustain the same lifestyle that we're having right now
purely based of income based on my brand which my videos are part of so let's see if I'm on the
right track to reach that goal how much does YouTube pay me per month since the start of
this year as you can see when I filtered down to this year YouTube has paid me just over 10
000 Euros so that comes down to just over 1200 Euros per month of YouTube AdSense so when we
put all monthly costs and monthly income next to each other that leaves a gap of 5
000 Euros per month where does the money come from to fill up this Gap savings savings that have been
able to gather in the two years I've worked as a freelancer savings that I was supposed to put
into a retirement fund into other Investments for the future savings that I chose to invest
in myself and my business investments in my personal life so I get to experience
the world to the fullest and investments in my professional life so I can grow and create my
own creative business was this a stupid and risky move or was this best decision of my life there's
only one way to find out by sticking around on my channel see you in the next video cheers