- Whenever anyone asked me what
I wanted to be when I grew up,
my answer was a bum that travels
around the world making enough money
to live and to buy the next plane ticket.
(airplane engine roar)
Hey guys, my name is Shayla
and I make these videos every Wednesday.
This Wednesday, I want to start
with the videos that you guys have been sending.
I asked you to make videos to put at the beginning
and ending and you did and I love them so here they are.
- What is up, guys?
Zack Attack coming at you from Nova Scotia, Canada
and you are watching Shayla on Living on a One Way.
- What's up guys, this is Barry.
You're watching Living on a One Way.
Like, subscribe, climb some mountains.
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- So stoked that you guys are excited to make videos
and I can include them in mine.
What I wanted to talk to you about this week,
the channel's been growing and I wanted to introduce myself,
or re-introduce myself if you've been here since
the Appalachian Days or the Booga Shay Days.
I'm in my van, in California,
where I'll be probably for the rest of the year.
Whenever anyone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up,
my answer was a bum that travels around the world,
making enough money to live
and to buy the next plane ticket.
So maybe that's not your dream.
Figure out what it is that will make you truly happy
and then figure out how to make that happen.
A lot of people ask how I got started,
"How did you start in this?"
It kind of fell into my hands.
I'm from Minnesota, I worked at this restaurant
since I was 15, 16 years old,
then I went off to college, got my college degree
in San Diego, and then I moved to North Carolina,
I was a nanny in Spain, I moved to Hawaii,
and then I moved back home.
And I did what any person who just got their degree does,
and then moves back home.
I went back to my high school job that I had before college
that I didn't need a degree for.
But this time I was equipped with a psychology degree.
I knew how to up-sale better
I knew how to ask questions like,
what do you feel like you would like to eat today?
So (tongue clicks).
But, seriously, working in a restaurant
is a really good way for travelers.
Two weeks to Peru and then two weeks to Thailand
and go travel all over and so I thought
it would be no problem if I was like,
hey, I'm going to leave for three months.
I'll be back.
They were like, no, we can't just hold
a job for three months.
Okay, well since they're not holding my job for me,
I guess I should go find another one.
That's literally how it started.
And then the more you travel, the more people you meet
and I was in Italy and I told my friend,
we were in Venice, and then we were on the vaporetto,
the water taxis, and I was like, watch this.
I'm going to talk to this cute boy.
So the windows were open or the door is open or something,
and I was like, excuse me, could you just,
could you shut the doors?
And he looked up and me, he shut the door,
and then he looked back down.
And I was like, excuse me, what can we do here tonight?
Can we go out, could we?
And we ended up going out with him that night.
They showed us all the local drinks
and they invited us to their house.
There's 15 people at their house from all over the place.
They were college kids, we were college kids,
it was so much fun.
But one of the people at their house was from Ecuador,
so then the next year I went to Ecuador,
contacted her, her and her brother came
and picked me and my friend up in Quito, Ecuador
from the hotel and took us out.
These things, they don't happen
when you're sitting on the couch.
You have to get out there and go do it.
So, okay, cool, you started, good for you,
now how do you maintain it?
I was just listening to a podcast with Nomadic Matt,
nomadicmatt.com, he writes travel blogs.
He says you need about $1,500 a month to travel full-time.
And I agree with him.
You can live cheaper a lot of other places.
I've worked in a surf camp in Costa Rica,
I was the yoga instructor.
I worked in Alaska for actual money.
Now I have an online job where
I can log into anywhere in the world.
I'm super, super frugal, so even when I have money,
and have money to blow, I still am--
When we where in Whistler,
there was a sweatshirt that I tried on.
Oh yeah, this is a nice,
I like (smacks) I like this sweatshirt.
It took me, I'm not exaggerating,
30 to 40 minutes to make this decision
of if I should buy this sweatshirt.
Do I need this sweatshirt?
$50, ummmm.
Do I love this sweatshirt?
How long have I had this sweatshirt that I'm wearing now?
Probably five years.
Money is ebb and flow, so in five years,
that $50 is going to seem like nothing.
$50 is five nights in a hostel or half a night in a hotel
or it's a lot of things.
The Sheriff is looking at me which is weird.
These are the benefits of not having a home.
You get to do your videos in parking lots
and people look at you.
We're good.
You also need to be resourceful.
So, when I was in Hawaii, I broke up with my boyfriend,
it was his car, we were staying with his friends,
and I worked 45 minutes away.
So I decided,
I'm just going to pack a sleepover bag.
And I'm going to go to work, my new job,
my brand new job, and I'm just going to see
if I can like stay at someone's house.
And at work, I was like, do you live nearby?
Like to the friends that I was making at work?
They're like, "Kind of."
I was like, like walkable?
"Uh, yeah, well you could walk."
Well, I just broke up with my boyfriend
and I live 45 minutes away and I'm kind of just trying
to find somewhere because I work tomorrow
and the next day, too.
I made fast friends that week,
I was like best friends with all the people.
Still friends with some of those people today.
If you're watching this channel, yes, I travel full-time,
but I'm not always traveling.
Sometimes I'm at home in Minnesota
and me and my sister make some really good vlogs,
so you need to check those out.
There's a breast pumping one,
it gets a little crazy.
Now that you kind of know how things have been going,
I want to tell you the future plan.
(humming)
Future plans change all the time,
so I hesitate to even tell you.
And you can see how they change, maybe that might be fun.
But for now, for now, I'm in the van
until the end of the year.
I'm going home for Thanksgiving,
I'm going home for Christmas.
So you'll get to see Amber, in bed,
I'll sprinkle it in there a little bit.
And then, Seth and I are headed to New Zealand
at the end of January, beginning of February,
for two to three months.
And then we're going to go to Hawaii,
come back to the van and cruise around
and that's as far as I got planned.
But we're also looking to do content creation.
So, if you're an apparel company,
or you know somebody who is an apparel company,
outdoor gear, something that would work
in New Zealand, in the van.
I'm going to take pictures of your really cool water bottle
in epic places in New Zealand
and you get to use it for your social media.
That's what content creation is.
Let me know, send me an email,
contact at Living on a One Way.
But I just wanted to say,
hi to everybody that's new to the channel.
If you're new to the channel,
I want you to comment below with what
your favorite video has been so far.
I would like to know what you guys like to watch.
I make these videos for you.
If you're not new to the channel,
been here since Yoga Shay Days,
or the Appalachian Trail Days,
thank you so much for continuing to watch.
Share it with anybody that you think might like it.
Share it with a friend, share it with
a company that you like, share it with your mom,
your husband, your kids.
I'm going to close with more videos that you've sent
and I will see you guys all next week.
- Hi everybody, I'm John from Illinois
and Shayla makes these videos for us every Wednesday.
- Hi, I'm Brie from Denver, Colorado,
and Shayla makes these videos every Wednesday.
- Mmm (smacks) bye.
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