'Ello, Loves! ♥
I don't know if you know yet that I have been leveraging our vanpacking adventures to find a way to empower families to live more self-directed lives, by growing a business that revolves around helping families live road bliss more - be that full-time, part-time, road trips, day trips, whatever. If folks want to live on the road, I want to help them spend more time on it :)
I have started making
videos as both "how to"s and "how we"s + I am now offering
road trip bliss mentorship. Also, I am working on some sort of self-paced e-book/e-course type product! Wahoo!!
It is incredibly exciting to be sharing more of our life with interested folks, and inspiring the next waves of families who want to live on the road, or even helping folks already on the road live more bliss (through helping them through the learning curves), which I have done for several mamas :))
I am still new at making videos, and I hope they will always feel cozy and easy - a reflection of our life on the road -, but I also look forward to learning more about how to make the videos and maybe invest in some video editing apps or software to make them more informative + professional-like :) Wahoo!!!!!! for new learning opportunities :)
I have been on quite a journey with our gypsy status so far this year, from preparing to launch my gypsy caravan subscription on New Year's to a couple days later having CPS telling us we HAD to live in a house due to my daughter's new-onset diabetes, and everything in-between since.
We have lived on
my mom's farm with goats and dreamed big homestead dreams, and we have celebrated our
3-year Nomadiversary back in our van.
I had the suspicion that we could live very safely on the road with her new diagnosis, and I am so grateful to have found a diabetic specialist (an endocrinologist WITH type 1 diabetes) who affirmed that completely. People with type 1 diabetes do
AMAZING +
INCREDIBLE things everyday - this is not a life sentence to misery, but an opportunity to get more creative + care for our family in new and exciting ways.
My littlest LOVES our road life, and THAT is our barometer - not an outside source who doesn't know what they are talking about.
Having said that, we are excited about the gyspy-homestead hybrid lifestyle we are leaning heavily toward right now. This was another reason I was questioning my gypsy status. Until I had an awakening that resonated YESSSSSS so deeply:
I will always be a gypsy, regardless of whether we have a hOMebase.
Because we will always be planning our next road life experience. We will always be free to move in the ways we feel called. Being a gypsy is about way more than whether we are in a house sometimes or not - we embody the depth + wholeness of the lifestyle and way of being. We are always open to change.
Not to mention, historically + globally, nomads/gypsies hunker down for the colder months and whenever their needs call them to. That doesn't make any of us less a gypsy.
As soon as I had that realization, the business ideas just started flowing through me.
So, this week, I shared videos about how we have made our van our hOMe - we shared videos about picking the right vehicle, our bed, privacy, storage, and personalization.
Next week I will be sharing videos about "stuff" - what we take with us, what's in our storage, what we got rid of, how that process worked for us, and how we keep it down to simplicity (aka organization + constant simplifying).
I have at least 7 more weeks full of ideas, and I welcome ideas for more videos/themes.
If you want to follow these videos, you can either subscribe to my
YouTube channel, or if you are on Facebook, you can "like" + follow my
Gypsy-Om page, where I post the videos each day, along with other gypsy-esque stuff :)
And it doesn't stop there.
Seeing how crystal-clear it is to grow a successful business from this Vanpacking stuff helps me see more clearly how I can finally grow a successful business from my other Life Design stuff that I want to offer. I realized (again) that that is what it all basically boils down to for me... Life Design. I am all about it. I am fierce about living it, and I am thrilled to help others do it.
The world needs more blissful people in this world. It creates the kind of magic that I want to live + live around.
Wow, I could seriously talk about that ALL DAY.
Anywaysies. SO.
I hope you enjoy the informational videos + ones like this:
All my love,
