The RV Entrepreneur

Today we have the pleasure of talking with Michael Boyink.  Michael Boyink is an award-winning writer and photographer who works as Managing Editor for a global software consulting and implementation company. He’s been on the podcast several times before discussing various topics. 

 Michael, his wife Crissa and their two children spent eight years traveling the US in an RV while continuing to work and homeschool. While on the road, Michael and Crissa ran DitchingSuburbia.com, a popular website that provided resources, guides, and community for traveling families. Their story was covered by the Huffington Post, the Seattle Times, the Las Vegas Guardian, the Art of Noncomformity, Tiny House Magazine, and many other travel-related blogs and podcasts.  The Boyinks are now homeowners in rural Missouri where they continue to look for new ways to scratch the incurable condition known as hitch-itch.

Michael has just published his latest book - Driven To Wonder - about their travels as a Fulltime family and the struggles of content creation - including the burnout that he experienced and his way back to creating. 

Michael has a full circle picture to share - from getting on the road, being on the road, to getting off the road he has tons of insights to share for those of us currently on the journey with our families. I hope you enjoy the interview! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 Connect with Michael:

 Book Website: http://www.driventowonder.com 
 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boyink/ 
 Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-boyink/  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Today we have the pleasure of talking with Penny Rose. Penny is a CPA and has been working as a Forensic CPA for the past 20 years. As she retires from that career on her path to financial independence she is looking forward to taking on more clients in her side business as a CPA and financial consultant for content creators.  So if you’re an RVer that is creating content - this episode and Penny’s services are directly applicable to you. I think you will definitely enjoy and learn from what Penny has to say. Enjoy the interview!

Joshua


~~~~~~~~~~ Connect with Penny Rose:

Website: https://fefifofumservices.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fefifofumpersonalcfo/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pennycrispellrose 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fedFIfrugaloptionforgetumoney/ 
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Today we have the pleasure of talking with Marianne Eaves. Marianne is a bourbon master distiller that has taken her love of science and art and blended them, literally, in various ways throughout the spirits industry. She is currently full-time RVing with her family as they go from venue to venue with their other business, the Vernardo’s Circus. Marianne found a way to stay involved with the bourbon industry while traveling full time and her endeavors are pretty fantastic. 

 Enjoy the episode! Connect with Marianne: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mariannebmd/ Website: https://www.marianneeaves.com/  Email: Info@marianneeaves.com  Eaves Blind: https://www.eavesblind.com  Eaves Blind Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eavesblind/  Email: marianne@eavesblind.com  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Connect with RVE on your favorite socials: therventrepreneur.com/connect  Have a question? We’d love to hear from you - send us a voicemail by clicking here:  therventrepreneur.com/voicemail Want to be a guest on the show? Fill out this guest form: https://therventrepreneur.com/guestform  ~~~~~~~~~~~~ The RV Entrepreneur: www.therventrepreneur.com   The RV Entrepreneur is presented by RV LIFE - Tools that Make Camping Simple www.rvlife.com

Today we have the pleasure of talking with Duran Anderson. Duran is an entrepreneur, craftsman and lifelong RVer who took a pain point with his RV - bugs sneaking in through the screen door slider - and devised a solution that he took to market in his late 70s.  I really enjoyed chatting with Duran and I think ya’ll will enjoy hearing his story and how long RVing has been apart of his life. Let’s dive into the interview. In this episode Duran and I talk about:
 What problem the RV Bug Stop was designed to solve How the manufacturing process worked What Duran’s opinions are regarding selling on Amazon vs direct to consumer via his personal website Enjoy the episode! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 Connect with Duran & RV Bug Stop: 
Video: https://youtu.be/bTFNH-Od9Uk  Website: www.rvbugstop.com Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0784YBJND?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_N0W3MZ9K4DZKKN3X7PB4  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Connect with RVE on your favorite socials: therventrepreneur.com/connect  Have a question? We’d love to hear from you - send us a voicemail by clicking here:  therventrepreneur.com/voicemail Want to be a guest on the show? Fill out this guest form: https://therventrepreneur.com/guestform  ~~~~~~~~~~~~ The RV Entrepreneur: www.therventrepreneur.com   The RV Entrepreneur is presented by RV LIFE - Tools that Make Camping Simple www.rvlife.com

Today we have the pleasure of talking with Taylor Cluster. Taylor is the author of a social media meets van life murder mystery novel called #Vanlife Murders. She and her Fiancé Scott have spent that last three years living the nomad life while traveling all around North America. After hitting the road Taylor found that she had a bit more time to pursue her passion for writing and decided to sit down to write a novel in one of her favorite genres - murder mystery.  In this episode Taylor and I talk about:
 What it’s like writing a fiction book based on real life events that she and Scott experienced on the road
The challenges of writing, editing, and publishing your first book Some of the eerie experiences they had on the road that made it into the storyline What the feeling of being a published author is like and if it is everything thing Taylor envisioned And finally we wrap up with a brief discussion about Taylor and Scott’s new endeavor - building a campground in Montrose Colorado. This is the location that we will host the 2022 RV Entrepreneur Summit! Enjoy the show!

 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Connect with Taylor:
 #Vanlife Murders Website: https://vanlifemurders.com/

 Purchase the Book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Vanlife-Murders-Taylor-Cluster/dp/1735259403  
 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorTaylorCluster/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/taylorcluster/  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Today we have the pleasure of talking with Alyssa Padgett. Alyssa is a co founder of the RV Entrepreneur community and  has just published her second book: RVing Across America: A Quest to Visit All 50 States. Back in 2014 when she and Heath got married Alyssa convinced Heath to take her to all 50 states for their honeymoon. Somehow he go her into doing it all in an RV.  While traveling, Alyssa directed and produced Hourly America, their documentary film about their 50-state honeymoon, and Heath’s working an hourly job in each state that was featured on CBS, CNN, Fox, People, Yahoo, Huffington Post, and more. After visiting all 50 states in  that year, Alyssa fell even more in love with travel and spent the following years RVing all over the world. Today Alyssa and her family still travel as much as they can and will actually be enjoying Italy when the book and this podcast release. In this episode Alyssa and I talk about: How this book is the memoir version of the documentary and why she felt the desire to share that year’s experiences with the world How it feels to be the pioneers with a lifestyle that has now gained so much traction and popularity Why Alyssa took this year of experiences and decided to write a book instead of publishing blog posts The process of writing a book that was actually written twice and overall took almost 8 years to complete Connect with Alyssa:

Website: www.heathandalyssa.com/book  Book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B1ZPB3B9/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= 

 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heathandalyssa/ 
 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heathandalyssa  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Today we have the pleasure of talking with Brooks Smothers.

Brooks is a marketing consultant by day and a podcast host for a show called RV Out West by night. Born & raised in the Pacific Northwest he grew up camping; from backpacking, car camping, van life (before it was a thing), to a tent trailer and now with a travel trailer. In this episode Brooks and I talk about:
 Some of the pros and cons to a geographically focused podcast - his is focused on the Pacific Northwest How as a content creator you need to create and play within your own sandbox, not worry about the castles everyone else is building in theirs How you can bridge the search engine gap between storytelling and information about a specific location How Brooks identified his target audience and then took one specific metric unique to them - average one way commute - and  has tailored his podcast to fit that time span I hope you enjoy the episode! Connect with Brooks:

 Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1716271 
 Website: https://www.rvoutwest.com/  
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rv_out_west/ 
 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rv.out.west  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Today we have the pleasure of talking with Sharee Collier.
 Sharee is a 9 year RV life vet, who combines running a remote RV lifestyle business with seasonal jobs and project management. She the bestselling author of Live Camp Work: A Beginner’s Guide to Workamping- book 1 in a series that details how to grab seasonal jobs so you can travel now for super cheap! Sharee is known for her creativity and willingness to step out-side-the-box as you’ll see in this episode, and enjoys planning digital and in-person events. She hosts multiple Virtual Summits throughout the year, including Rethinking Remote, The RV Family Summit, Ready to Renovate | RV renovation Summit, #VanLife Virtual Summit just to name a few.  In this episode we talk about:  How the Colliers started off in the RV lifestyle and Sharee’s experience with the Amazon Camper Force How that experience led them to clearly define the types of work they wanted to do and ultimately carve out positions for themselves at RV resorts for 3 to 5 months at a time How Sharee originally blogged about their family’s experiences until she realized folks outside the family were actually paying attention and that freaked her out - so she started to blog about the adventures and the experiences of their work camping jobs. Then along with over 500 volunteer editors from the RV community she wrote a book in less than five months detailing seasonal jobs for RVers And finally we get into how the book launched her into virtual summits and how her latest summit, the second RV Family Summit, co-hosted with Fulltime Families, is a hybrid virtual and in person event  - with THREE locations! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ How to connect with Sharee: Website: https://www.livecampwork.com  Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/sharee.collier  Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sharee.collier  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/livecampwork  
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/LiveCampWork/ 
 Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharee-collier/  
 CHECK OUT THE RV FAMILY VIRTUAL SUMMIT: https://rv-family.heysummit.com/  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Today we have the pleasure of talking with Kristi and Spencer Stevens  
Kristi and Spencer quit their corporate jobs in 2020 and hit the road with their son Kade. After spending six weeks of a paid sabbatical traveling in New Zealand and Australia they knew they wanted to rearrange their lives to spend more time together as a family. They leveraged their past experiences in  product marketing, brand marketing, digital marketing strategies, and brand influencer management to start up a boutique marketing business. Along with their commercial clients they also work with brands on the adventure brand - Adventuretunity. In this episode we talk about how: - They focus on small businesses and how relationships often start with an audit - small brands pay them to find holes in their current marketing and to come up with ways to make a bridge to where they ultimately want to be. -  Working together as a team allows Spencer and Krisit to offer a full package to their clients and not have to contract out venues, models, camera crews, copywriters and the rest of the items needed for digital marketing - between the two of them they cover it all. - They have incorporated products they use daily into long term clients and how they grew those relationships so that they are mutually beneficial to both parties - The biggest piece of advice in getting a conversation started working with a brand - And Kristi’s biggest pet peeve as a prior Influencer Manager and how to start off on the right foot when contacting brands you’d like to work wit Connect with Kristi & Spencer:
 Adventurtunity Family
 Website: https://www.adventurtunityfamily.com/ 
 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDMRTZM7aqsAl6Q9ZU9Odlw Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adventurtunityfamily/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/adventurtunityfamily/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Today we have the pleasure of talking with Kimberly Crossland who is the founder of Roadpreneur and Cruisin' + Campfires, two companies designed to keep families together and living in freedom through travel and entrepreneurship.  In this episode we dive into how Kimberly built a physical product based business, called Cruising + Campfires, stemming off an awesome experience on a family roadtrip. How that business has adapted and morphed into a subscription based model and  why that leads to to easier scheduling, less stress, and more satisfied customers than an on demand one. Kimberly also has created an online community call Roadpreneur where she is gathering and coaching other entrepreneurs  through digital content and virtual community building. We discuss the differences, pros and cons to both product based business and digital based business and how some-timing rv travel is a real sweet spot between weekenders and full timers. We also cover how failing forward can grow your credibility within the community and a few tech tools that allow Kimberly to scale and automate her solopreneur businesses to function at a much higher level. If you enjoy RV Entrepreneur then I highly suggest you check out Kimberly’s Roadpreneur for a different flavor of the same topics:
 Roadpreneur:
 Roadpreneur.com  instagram.com/Roadpreneur Cruising + Campfires:
 cruisinandcampfires.com
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