what's up guys
good morning welcome back to another video
and today we woke up it's monday, very productive
i love mondays because they're super productive
we had our team meeting with the our team of our company mokai
and it was great super productive and now today we are going to work out
and after working out we're gonna jump in the water and clean the boat
no we're not gonna clean the boat
we're gonna jump in the water and then we have to record some videos for mokai
so we're gonna take you guys along and then we're going to sail to the next island
because we're trying to find places where we can provision
and it seems like there might be good provisioning there
and then after that we'll go to bequia to provision the rest for our trip to los roques
so join us guys join us for this beautiful beautiful time here in the grenadines
i'm sure you're wondering how we started how we got here what it takes
to be traveling full time and be working
it's valentine's day
how was your workout
it was pretty good very very sunny and now we are thinking of going for a little kite session
before we leave
we rarely share with you guys about us working but we actually work every day that's what we do the most
we just record the little parts that are fun because you know what's fun about sitting in the computer
nothing
but today we're going to share a little bit of the behind the scenes
behind of what we do working from our computers as we travel full-time
and as we sail and live on our sailboat
you can see the scenario two computers open with the notepads
very very very very interesting people
so we have our business so
if you guys don't know it or if you're new to our channel um
we run an online business where we inspire healthier pets through real and sustainable ingredients
so we basically do that through health supplements for dogs and through grooming supplies
after living on a boat and seeing what the ocean and what our planet really looked like
we realized that we couldn't continue to be part of the problem
so our products were like everyone else's
just standard basic formulas packed in plastic
and when we moved on our boat and we started
seeing how the coral reefs were dead
how the marine species were declining
endangered species were pretty much you know almost at risk of extinction
and we realized that a lot of dog products and just like in humans
a lot of dog and human products contain those species that are so vulnerable
we don't really even know about it
i didn't even know about it and we were the ones selling those products and we didn't even know
so we started doing a lot of research we took out a loan in order to be able to make the push
and change all our products to plan based formulas and plastic free formulas
so now all our products are made from shark free ingredients
i actually found that sharks can actually be found in dog food which was super you know
it like blew my mind
you can find ingredients derived from shark even in your makeup even in your so many human products
that we're not even aware of and so now i'm super proud of our products
because now our omega-3 for dogs actually save 60 tons of fish for every ton of oil of omega-3
from our oil because it is sourced from algae so it's completely plant-based
and it still has a high concentration of omega-3 fatty acids for dogs which is still super healthy
anyway that's what we've been working on the past couple days
what are you doing
taking out the gear from our messy room
because we need to fix it again
so to be able to ride the kite you need a pump
to pump the kite
and you need the harness to strap on the bar which the bar attaches to oh
ready
well this wind is so depressing
i just changed as i was changing the wind dropped to 10 knots
we don't want to be struggling out there
just rowing and rolling yeah
we wanna kite to have fun
jesus
this is sparta
oh now i'm injured
i touched the floor
aren't we like super close because i literally touched the floor
so now that you guys know that we are not what the comments that we get sometimes say
which is that we're rich kids and that our parents pay for this boat and this lifestyle but you know
that we work and we actually pay for everything ourselves
now i'm sure you're wondering how we started
how we got here um you know
what it takes to be traveling full-time and be working
and so let's start with the basics
we started our business five years ago um we started because i was working in insurance
alejo was working in retail in t-mobile
we were just tired we had just gotten married bought our house
and we had just remodeled it so we had zero money
and we were just really really tired of working like every person that
lives in the corporate world does but we barely got to see each other and
it just felt like we were working just to pay for our house and our cars in in south florida
so it just wasn't the life that i pictured for myself
and i was really frustrated
i shared my feelings with alejo and alejo told me to quit
i wanted both of us to quit our jobs and that's when we started looking into starting a business
so i started really researching and i found that selling on amazon was a huge huge opportunity
at the same time we have our dogs which at that time ozzy was diagnosed with osteoarthritis
and echo, we had just adopted her and being she was already like two years old when we adopted her
and she had serious serious serious anxiety and stress problems
we found this course from amazing
they specialize on everything that it means to sell on amazon
we really learned everything that we needed in order to get started on selling our products on amazon
we even started with a product that is not related to what we do now
it was actually a pet seat cover for our car
so we started with that and then it got extremely competitive because
a lot of chinese people started coming into the market
and then we decided to just move forward with the pet supplements
we started doing working with a company that would allow us to
buy their products, put our brand on them and be able to sell them on our website and on amazon
and then after that we just started working and working on growing our business
our business is what has allowed us to just first go and live in dominican republic
then be able to build a travel trailer and travel through the entire coast of the united states and
mexico and baja
then to be able to travel from airbnb to airbnb and find the most amazing kite spots in the world
and now live on a sailboat
is it easy?
no
do we just sit here and like we kite all day and jump in the water all day and do fun things all day?
no
we are always always always on the computer
we're always connected
we're always in contact with our team
we have four people in our team
they all work from home
and we are always just connected
and we can't get disconnected because that's how we live that's how we make a living
and you know now that we have changed all our products now that we have really found the reason why we really do this
and why we want to make a huge impact
now we want our products to just completely be different
and we want, you know, not only to have a huge impact on the quality of life of pets
and give people an opportunity to find an alternative and sustainable option to pet products
maybe i'm saying the numbers wrong and i'll put it here if i'm saying it wrong
but i believe only three percent of plastic is actually recycled
and the u.s is the number one producer of plastic so
i don't know it just felt like what we were doing wasn't actually aligning with our true beliefs and our true values
and i wish we would have done this a long time ago but we just didn't have the money
we didn't have
um the resources we didn't have the knowledge and the skills
exactly
this kind of lifestyle
it's not easy to begin or to maintain
it takes a lot of hard work and dedication
it's hard because
you need like put your time into it and you need to build skills you need to build knowledge
i do recommend like looking at courses and looking at videos of other entrepreneurs
and just trying to absorb as much as you can
it's so hard to show you guys what we have been through to get to where we are right now
but believe me it has been a lot of tears as well because when we first started we had nothing
and we started just buying inventory on our credit cards
and putting it on uh using balance transfers to to be able to buy the inventory because
we had spent all our money buying the house and remodeling it
i remember when we were living in the travel trailer i was crying because
we couldn't pay our cards because it's not you know it's not as easy as it looks like
oh yeah
let's start a business and i'll be making money in like three months i'll be just a millionaire like
and that could happen to some people yeah
but that wasn't our case for sure
at the beginning i couldn't delegate anything i thought i was the only one that could do everything in the in the company like
everything from designing to building the website to be able to do sales to be able to like manage pay-per-click and advertising
um everything and i learned that i need to be able to rely on people like
everything believe me logistics warehouse everything and now we're able to you know manage a team and lead
and now we're trying to learn how to become better leaders
learn how to be better at marketing like all these things that when we first started we had no idea
i mean like i said i was working in insurance
completely unrelated to being an entrepreneur
i think being an entrepreneur has always been like in my soul because i really have never been so passionate about something
the good thing about being a digital nomad or an entrepreneur where you're able to manage your time manage your business
is that you're able to work at any time you want from the best and most beautiful places
like this one
and yeah sometimes you know right now
we are
it's monday it is like 1pm
and we're recording this video and we were working today at like 9 00 a.m right
like we had a web developer leave us halfway through our website
we had to just make the website ourselves from scratch
alejo doing all the research
me doing it as he was doing the research
an entire week just like at 3am working and for an entire week like almost working non-stop like 15 hour days
just trying to bring the website back up live
that was hard because you barely sleep barely have any food but it's all on you right
the responsibility is yours
the risk is yours
the loss of money is here the loss of investment
the time, the effort, everything is on you
but it's worth it because we get to be here right
we get to do what we love
we get to spend time doing the things that we enjoy
and we get to spend time together because that is the reason why we decided to leave our jobs in the first place
because we weren't seeing each other we barely had time to be together
so we just finished recording, now we are heading to the other island
a little choppy
we are heading to those islands over there oh that island over there
uh we can't raise our sails because the wind's coming straight to us so we can't raise our sails
we should be there it's only a short one-hour motor and we should be there shortly
we made it to the anchorage
yes
and we just realized it's valentine's day oh
and we want to go for dinner
oh we don't have any food to eat
baby do you have to say something to people that don't know if you love me or not for valentine's day
nope you don't know me people you don't know me
happy valentine's day
hello chef
hello people
what are you going to cook
so for me i got chicken and rice we got some
chickpeas with rice onions garlic and mushrooms
and i just showered because we have to record some videos for mokai
so we're gonna go to the beach and record them
one of the things that
i wanted to say is that nowadays it's easier than ever to be a digital nomad
because there's so many ways that you can actually make money remotely
and do remote work whether you're already working for a company because of covid they have really pushed remote work
and you can actually you know either ask your company to if you can travel remotely
i know a lot of people are doing that
another way so you can make money you know is whether like if you have a blog or you know uh youtube you can do affiliate marketing
you can sell your own product there's multiple websites either amazon ebay etsy multiple websites
that you can actually sell your products
i think the most important thing is just figuring out what your skills are
and just what you're passionate about
something that really really changed for us was the fact that we understood what we were good at
and we tried to work with our strengths
and i'm always thinking about like ideas on things that we can do for the business
how we can grow alejo is actually really good at anything that's logistics research
so he focuses on everything that's inventory warehouse management shipping
orders all that stuff
i'm more of the marketing side of things and kind of like overlooking and thinking you know okay what we want to do what like what the future is
and just you know if we're thinking of things that we want to do in the future
we all of us have so many different strengths that we have to just focus on them and focus what we're passionate on
and just learn how to monetize it
that's the thing
so we moved the anchorages like five minutes away
30 minutes away
andrea is gonna make some noodles
quick food today's valentine's we're gonna go to
we were gonna go to that restaurant right there
we were going to that restaurant but then we went online google reviews
it's always the best, the plates were almost fifty dollars
and this is what they serve you
i go to a restaurant and this is what you get
and we're really hungry
we don't
that's not my type of restaurant
so we're just gonna cook whatever's left
we're already super out of groceries but hopefully tomorrow we'll find something good at the grocery store there