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What is A Career Break And Why Should You Care?

You know the drill. You’re supposed to work your entire life so that you can stash away enough money to retire and FINALLY enjoy your life and do all of the things you’ve been putting off. RIGHT? WROOOOOOOOOONG!! I’m sorry but If you’ve worked for any length of time than you know that working like a [...]

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Want To Travel The World, Live Abroad? 100+ Inspirational Families Who Did It! PT

Part 3 of a 3 part series about a location independent lifestyle: This article is a showcase of 100 + families and individuals and their amazing stories who despite their own set of challenges, left their conventional lives behind to live a life of travel and exploration. In part 1 I shared the secret to [...]

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Location Independent: free to work and live anywhere

The Secret To Long Term Travel and a Location Independent Lifestyle pt#1

Part 1 of 3 part series: I share the secret to long term travel and a location independent lifestyle. Part 2: I share a little transparency with my new (Monthly progress report) where I show you what I’m doing to create my own sustainable location independent lifestyle and my other top goals while living in France. Part 3: Is a showcase [...]

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How To handle energy-vampires naysayers

Are You Afraid To Tell Your Friends and Family You Want To Live Abroad For A Year?

  If your dream is to move abroad for a few months,  a year or more, I need to warn you. You’re friends, relatives and co-workers could be the first in line to tell you that you that you are making a BIG MISTAKE.  Today I want give you 10 tactful ways that I have [...]

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WANT TO MOVE ABROAD? 10 Myths About Living Abroad Debunked Or Explained.

The only thing stopping you from moving or living abroad is you. Here are 10 popular myths and stumbling blocks debunked and explained. So no more excuses!

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adventurous dreams 1 year sabbatical

Adventurous Dream Come True: UPDATE-We Moved To The South Of France For A Year Sabbatical

We finally did it. I’ll share how we did it and how you can do it too. Be more adventurous and live your dreams no matter what they are

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adult gap year: take a career break from your job

Adult Gap Year: Take A Career Break To Do Important Stuff

What if you could could take a break and quit your job for a few months even a year? Would you do it? I would and I did! more on that later Some people call taking a break from your job a “CAREER GAP” or “CAREER BREAK” but these terms seem to be used interchangeably [...]

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How to pay for a one year sabbatical. 20 creative ways

1 year sabbatical: 20 creative ways to pay for your family trip

Before I had kids, I took a sabbatical to travel throughout Asia and Europe for 3 1/2 years. I worked on and off in Japan to fund my travelling. It was exciting, fun and I attribute my “joie de vivre” and much of who I am today to those years I spent travelling abroad. 3 [...]

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