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97- Mia Moran from Plan Simple Meals

Mia and her family are living in Boston, in a fast-paced world. So much of work and life is staring at a computer screen- a never ending cycle making it hard to step back for a bit. Making is hard to take a break. Sound familiar?

The idea of “taking a break” has been slowly evolving in their house and Mia wanted it to work out to be their reality. They talked it though. Slowly got the whole family on board. Made it feel like a team effort. Only then it started feeling more real. The more they shared they’re idea of taking time off, they realized it was possible! It’s not a crazy as it seems.

A couple years before all this,  Mia reached a tipping point and began a journey of discovering the importance of healthy eating. The  significance of what you are putting in your body is HUGE! It’s especially important when you’re traveling and on the move. She talks about the “classic” food coma that comes from eating a big heavy meal, how taxing it is on your body to eat the way we do. She’s since then began eating a Raw Vegan Diet and has never felt better!!

After hours of her time researching and learning, She’s created an awesome website and community on Facebook to make healthy meal planning much more doable for everyday living. And just came out with her first book!!

So combining the book tour and wanting to get out and travel with the Family. Their embarking on their own kind of adventure. Part-Book-Tour. Part-Family-Travel. How amazing to see 2 things work together to perfectly! Mia said when budgeting for the trip she was realizing that once you’re out there and traveling, you stop doing so many of the commitments you’re involved in now that cost money.

We’re excited to do a follow up interview a few months from now and hear how life is from the road!

Show Notes:

Mia says you can connect to everything from their site:  www.plansimplemeals.com
Buy the book, follow along and even connect on Social Media :)

Family Travel Reminder:

There is no right or wrong way to do family travel. If you are passionate about taking a trip with your family, the best thing is to DO IT! Listen to that little voice inside your head telling you this is the right thing. Make it happen! Listen to this podcast and start building your plan today!

Thanks!

If you like the show, or are inspired, there are a couple of ways we’d LOVE to have your help!! It’s virtually painless!

1. Tell your friends! It will make you seem less crazy since there are TONS of families who are ‘out there’ living and traveling in amazing ways. See? You’re normal!!
2. Leave us a rating or review on iTunes! It’s super easy, takes a second, and helps this show in huge ways! Our goal is to inspire as many families as possible, and your help gets the show in front of a larger audience.

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South Asia Adventure-

This episode if very exciting for us….We had our first guest doing a SECOND interview! Trina Shultz, who took a trip with her kids to Costa Rica back in Episode 36, just got back from a huge trip for 3 months over to SouthEast Asia!

Trina shares so much about their travels throughout Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. Traveling with only their backpacks full of gear, they rode lots of local transportation to get around which made for some exciting experiences! Between long train rides, border crossings and an elephant sanctuary, this trip turned out to have plenty of adventure along the way.

3/4 of them are vegetarians, so finding food without meat was a must but proved to be pretty challenging! I guess it added to the whole adventure. Though they had many ups and downs, the lessons they learned while traveling, she says, only got them more prepared for the next trip!

Can’t wait to see where they visit next and hear about it on their next podcast episode :)

Family Travel Reminder:

There is no right or wrong way to do family travel. If you are passionate about taking a trip with your family, the best thing is to DO IT! Listen to that little voice inside your head telling you this is the right thing. Make it happen! Listen to this podcast and start building your plan today!

Thanks!

If you like the show, or are inspired, there are a couple of ways we’d LOVE to have your help!! It’s virtually painless!

1. Tell your friends! It will make you seem less crazy since there are TONS of families who are ‘out there’ living and traveling in amazing ways. See? You’re normal!!
2. Leave us a rating or review on iTunes! It’s super easy, takes a second, and helps this show in huge ways! Our goal is to inspire as many families as possible, and your help gets the show in front of a larger audience.

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The Life Enhancers –

The Manuel Family are on a mission to embrace living life differently and enhance lives along the way. 

Realizing that time is something they couldn’t get more of, they took a hard look at their finances and decided to work with what income was constant. And travel how they could with those finances!  So they traded in the “traditional” life, left their jobs, gave away most of their stuff  and decided to pack up the SUV and head out on a roadtrip!

They said the key to getting the kids on board with the idea of travel was this: Dreaming together over the years, talking about it, finding out what the kids wanted to do and see. This made the kids feel like they were a huge part of it.

How awesome would it be to just Roadtrip  and see where it takes you!? Dai will have speaking engagements events that they attend but other than that it’s simply stopping here and there and seeing the best of the States and Canada with plans of heading onto Asia in the near future!

Show Notes:

Website Here. Check it out to see where they’ve been and where they’re headed next! They have an awesome video about them on their welcome page!

Dai’s site for The Whole Life Manifesto HERE
Get the book here: BOOK from AMAZON
Follow them on Social Media too:

Dai: @daimanuel – Instagram, facebook, twitter, blog, etc and SNAPCHAT
Christie: @mom_ontherun – facebook, instagram, twitter, blog and SNAPCHAT & YOUTUBE

Family Travel Reminder:

There is no right or wrong way to do family travel. If you are passionate about taking a trip with your family, the best thing is to DO IT! Listen to that little voice inside your head telling you this is the right thing. Make it happen! Listen to this podcast and start building your plan today!

Thanks!

If you like the show, or are inspired, there are a couple of ways we’d LOVE to have your help!! It’s virtually painless!

1. Tell your friends! It will make you seem less crazy since there are TONS of families who are ‘out there’ living and traveling in amazing ways. See? You’re normal!!
2. Leave us a rating or review on iTunes! It’s super easy, takes a second, and helps this show in huge ways! Our goal is to inspire as many families as possible, and your help gets the show in front of a larger audience.

Thanks for your support!

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An Epic Education!

This week we are joined by Jason Jenkins from ‘Epic Education Radio’ who is currently living with his family in Spain after lots of travel throughout SE Asia. He shares about some of the adventures he’s taken in the last 15 years with his family. From living full-time in Tokyo to a year off while living in Spain, Jason shares about his desire for wanting to get out of the “rat-race” and move to a place where you could be pushed out of your comfort zone!

Coming from a background of teaching, he talks about how they use combo of  travel and technology as teachers. They’ve tried it all, from “traditional” homeschooling to UnSchooling to having the kids put in a local school in Spain. Through it all their main goal is for the kids to become resourceful. Not necessarily know all the answers but know how to find them. What a great concept! :)
Something tells me after the year is up in Spain this family will be onto to another equally epic adventure!

Show Notes:

You can follow along their Website here  & Facebook here.

Also be sure to follow ‘Epic Education Radio’ where Jason interviews other traveling families that share their experiences! You can find it linked to their Website as well.

Family Travel Reminder:

There is no right or wrong way to do family travel. If you are passionate about taking a trip with your family, the best thing is to DO IT! Listen to that little voice inside your head telling you this is the right thing. Make it happen! Listen to this podcast and start building your plan today!

Thanks!

If you like the show, or are inspired, there are a couple of ways we’d LOVE to have your help!! It’s virtually painless!

1. Tell your friends! It will make you seem less crazy since there are TONS of families who are ‘out there’ living and traveling in amazing ways. See? You’re normal!!
2. Leave us a rating or review on iTunes! It’s super easy, takes a second, and helps this show in huge ways! Our goal is to inspire as many families as possible, and your help gets the show in front of a larger audience.

Thanks for your support!