- My dad told me today that he gets asked
if he funds my travel.
And that just kind of makes me angry.
Hi guys, my name is Shayla and I make these
videos every Wednesday.
I've been traveling full time since 2015
and this Wednesday I want to talk to you about
the number one question that I get asked.
How do you travel full time.
I get asked it all, all the time.
All the time, all the time.
My dad told me today that he gets asked
if he funds my travel.
And that kind of makes me angry.
If that is your case,
do not feel bad about it,
that's what you were born into, kudos,
that is not my case.
I have worked since I was 15 and have made
this entire thing possible.
So there's three main things that I want to tell you
about how to travel full-time.
Before any of that,
I think people think I'm just going to say
oh, you just need to hop on this website
and apply for this job and then you can do it full time.
And the number one thing that I want to tell you,
there is not one way to do this.
I started this video brainstorming and looking
up how other people travel full time.
I've seen everything from trading stocks online,
rent their house out on AirBNB and sleep in their
care on the weekend.
They rent their house out for the year
while they go travel.
I can only speak about my experience.
So in my case, these are my three tips
for how I've done it and for how you
can maybe implement it and these things
are good for anything, not just full time travel,
they're good if you want to accomplish anything.
So thing number one is, what's think number one.
You need to have an entrepreneurial mind.
You're taking a lot of risks, uncertainty.
Uncertainty of the next paycheck.
Uncertainty of where I'm going to be in a couple of months,
uncertainty of where I'm going to be next week
or doing or what uncertainty, but just the belief
in yourself that you're going to just do it,
like it just is going to happen.
And I know that sounds crazy,
but that's just what it is.
Hustling, I'm always hustling.
I'm going to make this happen no matter what
and I'm just going to think of a million different ways
and I'm going to network and continue
to learn on how I can do this.
Working jobs that I don't necessarily enjoy,
but I'm doing them just to make what I want
to happen happen.
Persistence and commitment.
I committed to doing this every single Wednesday.
I didn't say for how many years, but I've been
doing it for two years already since 2015.
For me if someone was like yeah,
you should do this every Wednesday for two years,
I'd be like (scratching throat) for two years.
That seems like forever.
Once it's past it's like oh, yeah,
I've been doing it for two years.
I am notorious for being interested in something
and then two months later being like unh.
Well, you're not going to get good at anything
if you do that.
Just start and just be consistent with it
and just pick something and just go with it
because you're going to learn and you're going
to meet more people that do it.
Number two is what is the money going out?
So for me, instead of thinking of how bad
to you want this, what are you willing to do,
I think of how bad to you want this,
what are you willing to give up.
I gave up having a home so I have no rent.
I gave up coming home to see my family a lot
because I want to travel.
I gave up having a steady income.
What are you paying for car insurance.
What are you paying for your car payment.
What are you paying for your mortgage or your rent
or what are you paying for Netflix.
My expenses I've eliminated to car insurance,
health insurance, phone bill, Spotify,
because I need Spot, oh, and then like
some website domain things.
But total, my total expenses every month
is probably $200 that has to go out.
So you got to start thinking about money going out
and things that you can eliminate,
not buying new shoes all the time,
not going out to eat all the time.
We meal prep, so that actually saves a lot of money
and time because I don't have to make a meal
every single day.
Nomadic Matt said to live abroad costs
about $1500 a month and I would have to agree with that.
Get a credit card where you get some sort of benefit,
money back or you get travel points.
That's how I buy a lot of my flights.
I get discounts using some of my points.
I just spend all my money on my credit card
and then I pay it off at the end of the month
and that all turns into points.
The other thing is I fly a lot
and that is probably the number one expense
which people can't understand.
But I have the flexibility to buy flights
whenever I want.
So let's say I was planning on buying a flight
mid-February, but it's $500 cheaper a week before,
I'm going to go the week before or I'm going to
go on a Wednesday instead of a Saturday
so that is nothing that everybody could do,
but that's something that I can do,
be able to travel based on the price.
I always say you either have time or you have money
and if you're trying to save money,
it's usually going to cost you more time.
So the third thing is obviously income,
money coming in and that's what everyone wants to know,
how do you have money coming in.
I have worked the most random jobs.
I worked in Alaska as a server.
I worked on the Appalachian trail just managing,
helping in a hostel.
I worked in Costa Rica as a yoga instructor.
In Puerto Rico at a hotel.
I've been an au pair in Spain,
military base in North Carolina.
I've done all the jobs, okay.
There's a couple things on how to find those jobs.
First thing, just get out there,
just go out there.
The jobs that I've had I could have never
even dreamed of.
I've created videos for people and got paid for it.
I've been the host of videos and gotten paid for it.
I've done things that I could have never been like
this is what I want to do.
They've just come as I've continued to travel
and meet people and network and people know
what I do, so when you get out there,
you're going to start to find things,
find these opportunities you didn't
even know existed.
The other thing is there's a few websites.
There's workaway.info.
I think it's $30 for the year or something
and you go to hostels and I know people
that have traveled Brazil for seven months
working in hostels, so they maybe make some
money at the bar but they get to live there
and eat there for free in exchange
for work during the day.
The jobs that I've done like working in Alaska
and working in Costa Rica, those are on Workaway.
I've never gon on Workaway to do it,
but those are on there.
Those are really good ways to be able to travel
and see a place and live there for longer.
If you want to travel full time,
you go live in a place for a month
and then go live somewhere else for a month
and then go live somewhere else for a month,
but you're working while you're doing it.
Or you're going and traveling and then you're
going back home to work and you're going traveling
but then you're paying for the flights.
So it's kind of, you just kind of have to figure out
what works for you.
If you're a freelancer that can write, edit,
make videos or have some sort of skill like that,
get on Upwork and check out the things.
And consistency is huge because at first
it might not be easy but like you're new
to the site, what can you do.
You have to get those jobs and do them for cheaper
just to start building a resume within the website.
There's greataupair.com and that is how I was
a nanny in Spain for three months.
Then there's Woofing and that is doing farm work
in different countries.
You can teach English abroad, work on a yacht.
You should look into that, that's pretty cool.
You can be like a hostess I think is
what they call them, I don't remember.
I can't do it because I get seasick
but you could go be a hostess for yachts on
yacht week or just yachts through the Caribbean.
That is a real job where people get trained in
on how to be a hostess and they get to go
on yachts for the week.
There are just so many ways and the more you get out there,
the more you figure out what you're interested
in and what you want to do and you're going to find
the things that you want.
And I have an online job now.
I got that probably a year ago the end of 2016,
so that was a year into my travels.
So if you can get in the social media realm,
it's easier to get an online job.
Now that's helping me a lot and now I'm
able to to YouTube and get a little bit from YouTube
and work with sponsors and different things like that,
so it's going to change a little bit.
But for two years, I was able to go from job
to job to job while traveling and I just believed
that I could do it and I kept networking
with the right people and you just have to start.
I have a whole playlist of videos of travel tips.
I'll put that in the description below.
So I hope this video is helpful for you.
I hope that you were able to get some information,
get a little confidence to get out there.
If it was, please share it with somebody else
that you think would love it.
I look forward to connecting with you guys
and I will see you all next week.
Also on Friday, I have a bonus video coming out.
It might be a giveaway, so stay tuned for that.
This is Shayla signing off from Minnesota.
Muah.