What does FREEDOM mean to us?
Freedom from Normal
We live an alternative lifestyle. We live zero waste, minimal, and just overall differently than other people. Some people call us crunchy! Which we think is really funny because we would classify ourselves as bougier than crunchy. So the Whole Foods version!
That 9-5 life, big house, big family life that everyone talks about is just not us. That’s not to say that isn’t great way to live because it is! We just seek a life that’s different.
Freedom to Move
This is why we live in a van. We understand wanting to set up roots. But from our perspective, when you plant a tree, the tree finds a home for life. We want the freedom to move around, explore, become people of the whole earth, not just one spot. LIKE A BIRD!
By traveling, we can see what other lifestyles are out there other than ours and explore different cultures.
The goal of freedom to move is to never feel stuck.
Freedom from Money
We never want money to be the reason we don’t pursue a dream. Our first step to achieving freedom from money was becoming debt free! We paid off $99k worth of student loans and consumer debt between the 2 of us.
Our next mission is being free from employment. We want to build income streams on our own so that we don’t need to work for anyone else. We will also gain more time to travel! We believe, if we hustle now, we can relax and enjoy later on in our lives when these systems are in place.
As of January 2022, we’ve been able to fully sustain ourselves on our social media business and now we’re working to build additional income streams!
Van life plays a huge role in keeping our expenses low!
Freedom to Choose
We want the inherent ability to choose what we want for ourselves and make decisions that are best for us and our family. There are a lot of people out there telling us what we should be doing, how we should be making money, what we should eat and so on.
At the end of the day, we want to choose what is best for us, our bodies, our minds and choose the life we want to live. Period.
Freedom to Learn
There’s a lot of noise in this world.
We want to see, do and learn everything we can! Matt built our van with absolutely no experience and while it was challenging, it taught us both a lot. We want to learn and do things for ourselves, become self sufficient, if you will.
We also want to escape what we think we know - Flush our brains from corporate marketing and start getting to the bottom of our health, wellness and mobility.