Ryan and Sophie are a couple in their mid-thirties that quit their start-up jobs in 2017 after nearly 10 years of a career that left them dissatisfied. They departed from their home port of Stockholm Sweden in 2018 to pursue a life of adventures at sea, sailing around the world in a 40 foot sailboat. They have sailed 13000 nautical miles from Sweden to the Mediterranean sea and twice across the Atlantic.
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Welcome to the Success Inspired Podcast, a business and personal development
Speaker:podcast to help you accomplish more in life and realize your true potential.
Speaker:And now here is your host Vit Muller
Speaker:Welcome to another episode of the Success Inspired Podcast.
Speaker:Today my guest is a traveling enthusiast in her mid thirties that quit her startup
Speaker:job in 2017, after nearly 10 years of a career that left her and her partner
Speaker:dissatisfied, they departed from their home port of Stockholm, Sweden in 2018,
Speaker:to pursue a life of adventures at sea sailing around the world in a 40 foot
Speaker:sailboat, they have sailed 13,000 nautical miles since from Sweden to
Speaker:the Mediterranean sea and twice across the Atlantic, they are now getting
Speaker:ready for third Atlantic crossing that will take them from the Canary islands
Speaker:to the south of the Caribbean sea.
Speaker:What am I talking about this?
Speaker:Why is this important?
Speaker:Well, we are all stuck at home and it's bloody COVID.
Speaker:So it's just really nice to hear from somebody that is able to travel.
Speaker:They present a true example that living a traveling lifestyle of
Speaker:your dreams is possible even during global COVID pandemic.
Speaker:So please welcome to the show Sophie from Ryan and Sophie Sailing.
Speaker:If I want to have like a little background of, applause, like,
Speaker:it sounds like I'm on there.
Speaker:Woo that's awesome.
Speaker:Thanks.
Speaker:Thanks for having me.
Speaker:It's been a, it's been a long time coming.
Speaker:It was in the right.
Speaker:We tried twice.
Speaker:Didn't work out.
Speaker:I know you guys were selling at a time and try to find a little,
Speaker:little a stopover to do this.
Speaker:And then, you know, I stopped off my time and then you stuffed up
Speaker:your time and then there we go.
Speaker:Third time.
Speaker:Lucky we made it spread to heat.
Speaker:So Sophie, tell me how this whole thing started for you and Ryan.
Speaker:Like, tell us, take us to the beginning because you know, there's so many
Speaker:people that might be listening to this.
Speaker:They are living their regular, let's call them regular lifestyle.
Speaker:Like may like, you know, having a day jobs and living, you
Speaker:know, in our home, in our town.
Speaker:but we all kind of have that, you know, thought every now and then,
Speaker:like what would be like to go and have that freedom, like lifestyle,
Speaker:a freedom of lifestyle to be able to travel, but not everybody does it.
Speaker:So, how did you, how did you do it?
Speaker:I think it's a, it's a really good way to start because when we first get the
Speaker:idea, we were, that we had that life.
Speaker:We went to work from nine to five, both Ryan and I were working
Speaker:in the startups at that point.
Speaker:And I think that we would not be here today talking to you
Speaker:about our sailing adventure.
Speaker:If we did not dislike our jobs, there was a point it was back in 2015.
Speaker:And when we first got started, when, we just w camo, we, we would just
Speaker:come home and wonder what it is that we were doing with our lives.
Speaker:And so sometimes, you know, a fate pushes you and give you a little push to put
Speaker:you in the right direction that push for Ryan came in the form of a, of a goose,
Speaker:Oh, yeah, we're, we're getting there.
Speaker:so we were both pretty supportive.
Speaker:We're both people.
Speaker:And at that time were, training for us.
Speaker:So comes marathons.
Speaker:We were both running a lot and we were big into, and you're in sports
Speaker:and runways into mountain climbing.
Speaker:So he was training for big mountain summit, somewhere into.
Speaker:I think he was too high you, that he was going to climb.
Speaker:And Ryan was on the run in Iowa where he's from, training for
Speaker:SoCal marathon and at kilometer 30.
Speaker:So he was like way far in the wrong.
Speaker:he passed by a group of geese.
Speaker:One of them had babies and thought that Ryan posed a threat, proceeded to
Speaker:attack Ryan fly to his eyes and Ryan in an attempt to escape the gurus run
Speaker:in the other direction, slipped in a puddle of mud and fell on his arm.
Speaker:And he dislocated his shoulder, broke the socket bone, had to have major
Speaker:reconstructive surgery and pretty quickly he realized that, everything that he
Speaker:was training for and everything that was fun in his life, you know, aside
Speaker:from the job that he didn't really like, well, I was gone for a while.
Speaker:and on my side, I was on the very same path being at a job.
Speaker:I had been at my company for four years at that point, and I was really questioning
Speaker:why I was saying, you know, start at jobs.
Speaker:You're generally not being paid very well.
Speaker:It's very political, lots of things happening that you question anyways.
Speaker:So one day I was at work and Ryan sends me a text and he's bored and he
Speaker:was bored, Panda, fantastic websites.
Speaker:And he had read about the story of a couple, our age, who had
Speaker:sold everything to buy a sailboat.
Speaker:And me born at work was like, yes, this sounds like a great idea.
Speaker:and it's funny because you know, every time that we tell this story,
Speaker:we look back at who we were and where we were sitting in 2015.
Speaker:And we're like, yeah, well, we made it
Speaker:so like, Something had to happen that, that, like that moment, that important,
Speaker:like, something that, how do you say it?
Speaker:Like, let me say it, like put a wedge wedge in, into kind of a rate,
Speaker:like, because of that juice, right?
Speaker:Like if that gives didn't happen, do you reckon that you
Speaker:would eventually do this or.
Speaker:No, absolutely not.
Speaker:maybe we would have done something else.
Speaker:I think that would happen is that we were just at a point in our lives,
Speaker:you know, where we were heating early thirties end of your twenties.
Speaker:And you've been working for a while and you start looking at your life and ask
Speaker:yourself, what is it that I want to do?
Speaker:And it ended up being sailing, but I think it could have been, you know,
Speaker:other things like starting a farm, moving to another country or change career.
Speaker:But I think that at this point, what was really happening is that we just didn't
Speaker:like the career path that we were on and we needed something new, to focus on.
Speaker:And it happened to be sailing and sailing worked for us.
Speaker:But yeah, so without that event, we would, we would probably not be sailing,
Speaker:maybe something else would've happened that would've pushed us in another
Speaker:direction, but that goose attack really?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Kick started everything.
Speaker:Now, so you had a career, that's an interesting one.
Speaker:So why people have certain carers that they feel dissatisfied in your case?
Speaker:That's that's you got to that point, but initially obviously you did
Speaker:you, did you choose that carrier?
Speaker:Did you wanted to pursue
Speaker:that career initially?
Speaker:Well,
Speaker:it's a bit interesting, you know, because I'm French.
Speaker:If you count here, Ryan, my partner is American and we both met in
Speaker:Sweden where we were working.
Speaker:And the reason why I'm moved to Sweden is because in terms of
Speaker:your professional life, you know, you, you work to have a good life.
Speaker:You do not leave for your job, which is what I experienced
Speaker:starting my career in France.
Speaker:And so I moved to Sweden so that I would have a better, it's a bit cliche
Speaker:to say that, but work-life balance.
Speaker:The problem is that at that time I was working in marketing and advertising and
Speaker:in Sweden, I didn't speak the language.
Speaker:So I had to find a way to make an income.
Speaker:And my career took a path that I didn't really initially anticipate.
Speaker:I was like open to it and I just ended up doing something that
Speaker:was completely unrelated to what I enjoyed doing professionally.
Speaker:and that left me really, you know, questioning the choices that I made.
Speaker:I'm still really happy that I moved to Sweden.
Speaker:I was great move, amazing country.
Speaker:love it became a civic citizen, but what I ended up doing professionally
Speaker:was just nuts, the right thing for me,
Speaker:circumstance of being in that country and not speaking the language,
Speaker:you kind of had to do what you had to do at that at that time.
Speaker:yeah.
Speaker:Cool.
Speaker:Awesome.
Speaker:So, I mean, yeah, so fast forward.
Speaker:So now you guys living on the boat.
Speaker:So tell me about this lifestyle.
Speaker:What is it like?
Speaker:So, okay.
Speaker:I think maybe we should like backtrack a little bit.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:You know, there is, there is this thing that most people, that dream
Speaker:of, you know, living this lifestyle have to do, which is to learn how
Speaker:to deal with the boats and ran.
Speaker:And I had never lived on a boat before and that we've never, we'd
Speaker:never been on a sailboat before.
Speaker:We didn't know how to sail.
Speaker:And that is the case for a lot of people who want to leave this lifestyle and
Speaker:our learning curve really impacted a lot of this experience that we have living
Speaker:on the boats because we're permanently learning something new because we were
Speaker:complete newbies when we get started.
Speaker:So I would say that for somebody who's a routine sailor and very experienced,
Speaker:you know, living on a boat may come a lot more naturally, but when
Speaker:you're a complete newbie, it is so much that you have to learn at once.
Speaker:It's not only how to handle your boat and maneuver rates through whatever
Speaker:kind of weather or eating out of Harbor.
Speaker:it's also learning to repair that boat.
Speaker:It's learning all of the systems in the boat.
Speaker:So that's the electric system.
Speaker:How do you produce and consume power?
Speaker:It's a, the toilet system, because now you're in charge of that as well.
Speaker:You know?
Speaker:You have to be self-sufficient and learn everything.
Speaker:And you know, the boats is not going to wait for you to learn something.
Speaker:The boot is going to break and then you're going to have to fix it.
Speaker:And you're going to have to fix a system that is probably new to you.
Speaker:And that's why, you know, when you ask me the question, how
Speaker:is it like to live on the boat?
Speaker:Well, it really depends where you are in your level of knowledge of boats.
Speaker:And when we get started, we started at zero.
Speaker:So it's, it's very, it's very challenging.
Speaker:Like imagine you living a life and all of a sudden you're going to make a change
Speaker:that involves, you're going to change the way that you, you house yourself because
Speaker:now your house is moving all the time.
Speaker:You're going to change the way that you feed yourself.
Speaker:Because you know, going to the grocery store is not as convenient.
Speaker:And because you're traveling the world.
Speaker:You're going to you, whatever you find, and the story's going to change
Speaker:based on where you are, you're going to change the way that you earn money,
Speaker:because you're transitioned from having a full-time job and a monthly
Speaker:salary to maybe being a remote worker.
Speaker:You're going to change the way that you spend the money that you
Speaker:earn, because all of a sudden, you're not paying rent anymore.
Speaker:You're not paying for a lot of things that would go into maintaining your lifestyle.
Speaker:They were paying for completely different things.
Speaker:And those expenses vary a lot from one month to the other.
Speaker:Maybe in April, your boat breaks a lot or it's maintenance month, and you have
Speaker:to spend a lot of money on the boat, but in July you spend all of your, all
Speaker:of your days sailing or being on anchor and you barely get the credit card out.
Speaker:And so.
Speaker:Everything in your life changes the moment that you move onboard a boat
Speaker:and start moving the boat around.
Speaker:so it's, it's a very interesting experience.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I was going to say that in itself, just, just getting your head around
Speaker:the boat, like living on the boat lifestyle that you just said.
Speaker:But the other thing that, that I want to point out is also the fact that
Speaker:you did it, you know, in, in like in your thirties, you didn't do it
Speaker:like when you were in your twenties.
Speaker:So by the time you already had an established way of lifestyle.
Speaker:So that in itself also that transition must've been hard.wasn't it?
Speaker:It's it's really hard in the sense that, it's very tiring.
Speaker:Like you don't realize the amount of energy that goes into
Speaker:adjusting to new circumstances.
Speaker:And so for the first three months that Ryan and I were traveling on our cell
Speaker:boats, and at that time we were sailing between Stoker and the north sea.
Speaker:We were exhausted.
Speaker:We were physically tired all the time because everything was so new.
Speaker:What kept you going, obviously?
Speaker:So like I said, it was very hard, but obviously you kept pursuing it.
Speaker:So what was the main motivation behind your do?
Speaker:What was, what was the ideal outcome for you at that time like
Speaker:that you were looking forward to?
Speaker:It's funny that you say that because yesterday night I was watching old videos,
Speaker:neck from very early days and, And it was the idea that runs a, we would be
Speaker:living in the sun in a tropical paradise with cocktails in our hands every night.
Speaker:And, and you know, that happens, obviously it happened at a price, right?
Speaker:It is a lifestyle that is very challenging, but, but the rewards
Speaker:of this lifestyle is high.
Speaker:You do get to see much more of the world and 99% of people, you do get
Speaker:to experience countries and cultures in a way that you would never do as a
Speaker:regular tourist living on a Saturday, staying, staying a week in the country,
Speaker:trying to visit everything that's syndicated books, and then go on.
Speaker:To your normal life, right?
Speaker:With our boats, we get to exist.
Speaker:Places that nobody ever goes.
Speaker:We get to meet locals.
Speaker:We live like locals.
Speaker:We go to the same supermarkets.
Speaker:We get to the same bars, the same restaurants, we do the same things.
Speaker:And this way of traveling is so rewarding.
Speaker:And that is why, you know, that is why we're okay.
Speaker:Living a lifestyle that is very challenging
Speaker:the way you just said it, all that, that makes me like
Speaker:it, it sounds super exciting.
Speaker:I love that.
Speaker:And obviously this podcast is all about inspiring success.
Speaker:So this, this be considered as a success of a lifestyle of your
Speaker:dreams that you've achieved.
Speaker:Well down to that, that's bloody amazing.
Speaker:And I did it yet.
Speaker:I know, like we kind of went into like the, the hard times and how hard
Speaker:it was the beginning, but, you know, anything good, worth doing is, is, it
Speaker:doesn't comes without a sacrifice.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:So,
Speaker:yeah, absolutely.
Speaker:Now you mentioned videos, so you guys have a YouTube channel or what, and
Speaker:we do.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:It's called Ryan & Sophie Sailing.
Speaker:And, and as I, as I mentioned, I thought about this name a lot before I
Speaker:started it, when, when we get started.
Speaker:so that's backtracking the band again, but I quit my job a year before we
Speaker:actually left Stockholm and so I spent a year establishing a little
Speaker:bit of a freelance business, and I want it to go back to what I love
Speaker:the most, which is digital marketing.
Speaker:And so I was freelancing and making.
Speaker:websites and social media marketing for my clients.
Speaker:And I make a point to always try to become better at what I do
Speaker:and the year that we departed,
Speaker:I decided that I was going to try YouTube because I really want it to know and
Speaker:understand the platform, and what makes a good YouTube channel, spoiler alert.
Speaker:The first times of me doing YouTube were not amazing.
Speaker:I was not great at it.
Speaker:but I, I just had this idea that I would make my friends
Speaker:laugh with a couple of videos.
Speaker:and so I started making them and I had a good laugh and I really enjoyed
Speaker:editing and cracking jokes on the camera.
Speaker:and eventually, you know, other people started to laugh at my, questionable
Speaker:humor and a and a year later I was like, man, this, this has potential.
Speaker:I could actually.
Speaker:You know, do it as a job.
Speaker:and you have this image of YouTubers being really big and really
Speaker:famous and making a lot of money.
Speaker:But, when you get started, I mean, I'm not at this point, okay.
Speaker:I can make a living with YouTube, but it's not like woo.
Speaker:and the two first year is of working full-time on YouTube.
Speaker:I made absolutely nothing.
Speaker:Ryan was paying for all of the expenses.
Speaker:But you can see your little baby grow and you make those connections
Speaker:with, the people at which our video, and it's such a wonderful thing.
Speaker:And it is the job, the one job that I've had in my life that has had
Speaker:the most impact on other people.
Speaker:And, and to me, that is the success.
Speaker:It's not, yeah, it is not, you know, how much money I can make.
Speaker:Cause I really do not make a lot.
Speaker:And a lot of what we make, we, we put back in channel, it's not the amount of videos
Speaker:that I'm able to produce or how good they are, how good the production quality is.
Speaker:It is that impact that you make on people's lives.
Speaker:It's the emails that I receive every week telling me.
Speaker:I watched your video and now I bought a boat and this is amazing.
Speaker:Thank you.
Speaker:And you were like, wow, damn.
Speaker:That's that's incredible.
Speaker:That's why I want to work.
Speaker:That's to me, that makes sense.
Speaker:It has purpose.
Speaker:That has meaning.
Speaker:I love that.
Speaker:I love that, but what's the general.
Speaker:So Sophie and Ryan sailing, is that how it's, how people can find it on YouTube.
Speaker:Yeah, you should.
Speaker:You should use Google.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:And Sophie, he it's the same thing, you know?
Speaker:so he and Ryan, Ryan, and Sophie, you will find us, cause
Speaker:that's, that's our internet name.
Speaker:So you talk about, you know, income, like this is like your income generating,
Speaker:a way, and it's not, you know, you're not going to become a millionaire,
Speaker:but it covers your expenses and isn't allowing, and it's allowing
Speaker:you, to make an impact for others.
Speaker:A and then B is helping you cover some of the expenses.
Speaker:So at the end of the day, I mean, like you could either make a lot
Speaker:of money, but be unhappy or have a lifestyle of your dreams, right?
Speaker:Like at the end of like the whole, the whole thing that like,
Speaker:sometimes I hear it in a movie.
Speaker:So, you know, when you're on your death bed, like, what's the, what's
Speaker:like, are you gonna think about how much money you've got in bank account?
Speaker:Or are you going to think about the experiences, the life
Speaker:experiences that you've had and the impact on the people you've had?
Speaker:So I think this is the right way.
Speaker:This is the, I mean, yeah.
Speaker:And, and that's, and that's, perfectly aligned with what I
Speaker:believe a true success is as well.
Speaker:I go into having some financial freedom is great as well, because
Speaker:it allows you to buy stuff.
Speaker:But ultimately you want to, you want to be able to have those
Speaker:experiences go and explore the world.
Speaker:I think that ultimately when I.
Speaker:I viewed success as making more money, being promoted, having
Speaker:the ability to buy a beautiful apartment in the center of the city.
Speaker:not having to count my money in terms of being able to go out, going out to
Speaker:dinner, buying clothes, go shopping.
Speaker:That was my vision of success.
Speaker:And, but that vision of success did not make me happy.
Speaker:It, it felt very empty.
Speaker:And since we've changed our lives to do something that we have chosen and that
Speaker:we love, we don't love it every day.
Speaker:Granted, no life is perfect, but, but I make no, no less like nowhere close to
Speaker:the money that I made when I was employed.
Speaker:But I feel so fulfilled.
Speaker:And content with both life and work that it doesn't matter that, you know,
Speaker:I feel that I can't buy clothes or that I should be careful how much I go up.
Speaker:It doesn't matter because at the end of the day, I get to go to my
Speaker:boats and count the amount of amazing places that I will get to visit
Speaker:in the coming two or three months.
Speaker:And that is, yeah, that is worse.
Speaker:So much more than the difference between my current salary and my old salary.
Speaker:Hm.
Speaker:Now I want to talk about some realities behind the curtain kind of thing.
Speaker:You know, like, I mean, this all sounds pretty cool.
Speaker:this, this whole lifestyle, but the way you picturing it and, and, yeah, it sounds
Speaker:amazing, but like you said, there's some, some that sometimes it's not perfect.
Speaker:So what would that be like?
Speaker:What would be like a bad day, living on the boat.
Speaker:Oh, wow.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:how much time do you have
Speaker:a bad day often starts with sleep deprivation because that is a
Speaker:reality of the life that relieve our boats is like our baby.
Speaker:She is very much alive and he very much talks to us.
Speaker:We call her sheet, her name is polar seal.
Speaker:and he's a character in our lives.
Speaker:He breaks he needs to be secured.
Speaker:So when we are at the marina, she needs to be properly secured.
Speaker:If she is not properly secured, the lines will Creek, or hall is
Speaker:going to chase against a dock.
Speaker:the fenders that are those little inflatable things that
Speaker:protect us from the dock.
Speaker:they can, They can squeak.
Speaker:They can not be placed at the right place.
Speaker:And for us, that means that the boat breaks and when the boat
Speaker:breaks, it's very expensive.
Speaker:and it takes a lot of
Speaker:time crux in the.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:That's happened to us several times.
Speaker:And so you have to take the time and the money to do the repair and that's,
Speaker:that would be a pretty minor break.
Speaker:But one day we were arriving in Antiga beautiful island in the Caribbean.
Speaker:we were about to drop the anchor and all of a sudden, Ryan hears a pop coming
Speaker:from the windlass, which is this part of the boat that controls the anchor chain.
Speaker:So it takes it in and out of the water and the chain isn't budging it.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And we realized that the windlass is completely corroded and it's a big part,
Speaker:you know, like imagine a big winch that's, has a chain wraps around it and it's
Speaker:disintegrating because of corrosion.
Speaker:And here we are in Antiga in the Caribbean and we have no way
Speaker:to take the anchor up or down.
Speaker:We had to do it manually and it's very heavy.
Speaker:so the boat talks to us and sometimes she doesn't happy.
Speaker:Sometimes he breaks.
Speaker:And if you have first Sydney probation, because the wind was really bad
Speaker:denied before, so you didn't get a good night of sleep cause you were
Speaker:rolling, you know, at Anchorage.
Speaker:And the wind was really, really loud on top of that.
Speaker:You have breakage, so something breaks and it's not only very inconvenient
Speaker:at the time that it breaks.
Speaker:It's also very expensive to fix.
Speaker:I imagining that you're in a place or you can not find replacement
Speaker:for the part that breaks.
Speaker:It means that you have to go somewhere else.
Speaker:So all the things that you want it to do, where you are you're, you're not
Speaker:going to be able to do them because now the priority is to repair the boats.
Speaker:So you were missing all those places.
Speaker:That's happened to us many times, and now we mentioned that by the weather is
Speaker:coming and I can make the list very, very long, but essentially a bad day is a day
Speaker:that problems accumulates and, and you're just, and you just don't have the energy
Speaker:to, you know, deal with it with calm.
Speaker:And then, and those days happen, you know, the, those days happen
Speaker:more often than you'd imagine.
Speaker:And you need to develop a lot of emotional flexibility in order
Speaker:to, to deal with those days.
Speaker:I love resilience.
Speaker:Yeah, because I was going to ask them what keeps you going right.
Speaker:Well, you need to be really kind to yourself and your partner, but you
Speaker:realize that, okay, this time I went very far in my reaction to those events.
Speaker:Tomorrow's another day we will do better.
Speaker:We're not always perfect.
Speaker:We will miss deadlines.
Speaker:We will miss our objectives.
Speaker:We will miss things that we really want to do, but we need to be okay with that.
Speaker:This is part of the life that we've chosen.
Speaker:And so if we feel like giving up every time that something bad
Speaker:happens, then you know, the negative aspects of the lifestyle disappear,
Speaker:but the rewards disappear as well.
Speaker:And there are two good.
Speaker:If everything was just picture perfect all the time, you wouldn't have, you
Speaker:wouldn't have, what to compare it against.
Speaker:So it wouldn't feel as though.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And you know, sailing has taught me something that I think is
Speaker:very valuable and I think it's valuable for everyone in life.
Speaker:You know, I hate sailing in heavy weather, you know, like
Speaker:big waves, really strong winds.
Speaker:It's very, very stressful.
Speaker:And I really do not like it.
Speaker:I don't think anybody really does, but in sailing, everything is temporary.
Speaker:The weather changes, you know, a storm that's coming is not going to look
Speaker:the same in six hours or in 12 hours.
Speaker:And so you have to wait and you have to just make it through
Speaker:those hours that are bad.
Speaker:and on the other side, You'll be okay.
Speaker:You will arrive on land and everything will be fine in disbelief.
Speaker:You just become a good story.
Speaker:And I think that this applies to everything in life, like
Speaker:everything is temporary.
Speaker:So when you have a bad day, when everything breaks and you have to
Speaker:spend a lot of money to fix the problem and you miss a beautiful
Speaker:place, at the same time, you have to remember that this is temporary.
Speaker:It's gonna end.
Speaker:And on the other side it will, it will be better.
Speaker:Absolutely.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:That's that resilience and yeah, you're right.
Speaker:You just got to persist and it'll get better.
Speaker:Now.
Speaker:What does a good day look like?
Speaker:Just like let us in, because I'm really curious.
Speaker:Like what, like, if I was to wake up on a boat, what w what could
Speaker:I expect from like a good day?
Speaker:And also, when I got struggling, that's the other question you can answer later,
Speaker:but, when, when you guys are sailing, how, how often would you change places?
Speaker:How long would you normally stay in a, in a place and that sort of.
Speaker:That's a million dollar question, but here is a good day.
Speaker:We just arrived in a pitiful place.
Speaker:Let's say easily.
Speaker:We love Italy.
Speaker:Italy is wonderful.
Speaker:If you are to pick one travel destination in your life, go to
Speaker:Italy and Portugal and Cape Verde.
Speaker:We have, we have a long list of beautiful places in the
Speaker:world, but, so you just arrived.
Speaker:You need to leave.
Speaker:The sail was good and you felt rested and relaxed.
Speaker:Now you're going to drop the anchor.
Speaker:Everything's going to go well, can, blow up the dinghy, which is the little boat
Speaker:that we take from our big boats to shore to go to this beautiful little Harbor
Speaker:where there is a coffee shop waiting for you with a magnificent breakfast.
Speaker:And here you are sitting at the dock in the little Harbor.
Speaker:wonderful local breakfast with not tourists around you.
Speaker:And you can just sit there and contemplate how amazing life is.
Speaker:That is a good day.
Speaker:Nice.
Speaker:And knowing that freedom that at any point, you can just go back to your
Speaker:main boat and we've moved locations.
Speaker:Exactly.
Speaker:I think that another, very not underrated, but maybe not very talked about aspect
Speaker:of our lives is that we get to meet incredible people everywhere we go.
Speaker:And because we are this tight knit little community of sailors that
Speaker:we rely on each other, because as I said, boot breaks problems happen.
Speaker:And the community, the sailing community is always here to help
Speaker:each other and to meet each other.
Speaker:And so everywhere we go, there is a boats where we can invite
Speaker:the people to have drinks and.
Speaker:Since we left the dock in coming in 2018 and have been
Speaker:traveling the world on our salvo.
Speaker:I have never met such, a variety of different people because it doesn't matter
Speaker:what socioeconomic background we have, what kind of jobs we have, where in the
Speaker:world we come from, or, or even a how old we are, we all end up becoming friends
Speaker:and they are at, you know, people that are less nice than others, like everywhere,
Speaker:but generally sailors are really kind and generous people and super, super fun.
Speaker:So we have met amazing friends.
Speaker:So yeah.
Speaker:Good day also ends with that.
Speaker:Having drinks with your friends on their boat, watching the sunset.
Speaker:That's cool thing.
Speaker:That sounds really nice.
Speaker:Yeah, that sounds right.
Speaker:And
Speaker:what about, some of the things that you need to look out for some places that
Speaker:you might want to go and explore him?
Speaker:I'd have to be a bit more cautious that maybe there's the thing about Somalia.
Speaker:I know like it's pirates and little things like.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:So, every, I would say every region of the world has its
Speaker:own risks, risks, and rewards.
Speaker:So for example, we started in the north sea and the Baltic and
Speaker:there, you know, weather patterns can be very, very different.
Speaker:you know, you can have strong winds and storm.
Speaker:It can be really cold in the north sea.
Speaker:You also have a lot of, shallows, so you can be really far off
Speaker:shore and steel hit send back.
Speaker:And as a matter of fact, the day before we sailed through that place, a boat
Speaker:that we followed on Instagram had, not rights, but they gets trended and
Speaker:had to be evacuated from the boats.
Speaker:And they had to spend a month at the yard, repairing the boat that had been well, not
Speaker:wrecked, but it's trended and damaged on a sandbank far off shore in the north sea.
Speaker:But that is not a problem that you're going to encounter in the middle of
Speaker:the Atlantic or even the Mediterranean.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:So every region of the world come with its risks.
Speaker:And the thing with our life is that we're not going to visit, several
Speaker:region of the world at the same time.
Speaker:So we generally choose one region.
Speaker:So that would be either the Mediterranean or the Caribbean, the east coast of the
Speaker:United States, or maybe the Pacific.
Speaker:And before we go there, we study the risks.
Speaker:and, and it, it's very, very different.
Speaker:And I know that this is a very vague answer to your question, but for every
Speaker:place that we choose to visit, we need to assess what are the different
Speaker:risks associated, with this reaching.
Speaker:Absolutely.
Speaker:And do you have to have a, what about self defense?
Speaker:Do you have to consider that too?
Speaker:No, not yet.
Speaker:So self-defense against, yeah.
Speaker:We know friends that have crossed the red sea and they hired mercenaries to
Speaker:protect the boats in case of problems, because this region is known for piracy.
Speaker:I heard that it's getting better now, but we're not interested in going there.
Speaker:So we haven't really thought about it ourselves.
Speaker:Other friends of ours, sail to an island called . Does that ring a bell?
Speaker:No.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:So this fall Bard is a big island north of Norway.
Speaker:So it's referring to some TV show here or something.
Speaker:No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker:It's just friend of ours sailing.
Speaker:And when you go to , what you need to defend yourself against are polar bears.
Speaker:So when you go to small bar, you need to have a rifle
Speaker:because you need to defend yourself against polar bear.
Speaker:And again, you know, it goes back to, where in the world are you going
Speaker:to sail and travel and explore?
Speaker:And what are the risks associated with that?
Speaker:But typically, you know, in the regions that we sail we're safe.
Speaker:So we never really had to think about it.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:What about food?
Speaker:How do you handle food?
Speaker:Like, like I said, you don't always have, you don't always have access to shopping.
Speaker:What are some considerations there?
Speaker:Do you fish a lot or,
Speaker:we do fish though.
Speaker:It also depends, you know?
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Talking about risks again, but in the Caribbean, there is a
Speaker:toxin in fish in reef fish.
Speaker:That's called a cigarette Tara and the cigarette.
Speaker:Tara is not a disease that you want to get.
Speaker:It attacks your, your immune system and the symptoms can be really, terrible and
Speaker:also lifelong it's like, you can get, see whatever I want and be impacted for life.
Speaker:And because there are fewer resources in the Caribbean to
Speaker:study the toxin and the disease.
Speaker:it's very difficult to know what fish are safe or not.
Speaker:It's in the Caribbean Ryan and I decided that we were not going to
Speaker:eat fish because we just don't know.
Speaker:And we want to eliminate that risk.
Speaker:Now when we cross the Atlantic and we go, like anywhere else, where you
Speaker:spent a lot of time fishing and we love eating our own fish, it's really fun.
Speaker:it's both entertaining and very tasty.
Speaker:but what we do on the boats in terms of, of the food is, well, first off, we
Speaker:had to learn to provision and to always keep a stock of food that we can have.
Speaker:So when COVID hits people, rated supermarkets, to buy canned food
Speaker:and toilet paper, well, we were already really well-stocked.
Speaker:and the other thing that happens is that we get to learn about
Speaker:local foods and local cultures.
Speaker:So we go to the local markets, the farmer's markets and the supermarkets,
Speaker:and we look at what's vulnerable and what we can do with that.
Speaker:And it's such a fun part of our lifestyle.
Speaker:so I've, in Italy, I learned to make really good pizza and you
Speaker:know, what makes with pizza?
Speaker:in Spain, we were doing a lot of different hams and a lot of tapas, you know,
Speaker:in the Caribbean, it was a little bit different because food supply, there is
Speaker:not as abundant as it is in, in Europe, but generally where we go, we, we tried
Speaker:the local food and it's really fun.
Speaker:That's amazing.
Speaker:That's amazing.
Speaker:So you not only get to explore locations, but also the food,
Speaker:it's like a gastro tourism.
Speaker:That's awesome.
Speaker:Oh,
Speaker:oh, absolutely.
Speaker:And, right now we are in the A's doors.
Speaker:I mean, the boat is in the source, which is a part of Portugal.
Speaker:Our next destination is Madeira.
Speaker:And if you want a food and wine destination, Portugal is fantastic.
Speaker:Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker:Madeira Madeira wine, pour twine, you know, really being in Portugal.
Speaker:Fantastic.
Speaker:and the food and the seafood in Portugal is really diverse
Speaker:and surprising and incredible.
Speaker:I love it.
Speaker:so yeah, you want to eat and drink Portugal?
Speaker:Is there a place?
Speaker:I love it.
Speaker:So Sophie, you know, I'm sold, I'm like, I'm ready.
Speaker:Where do I sign?
Speaker:Tell me how do I get started?
Speaker:Just, just wait until I tell you how you have to flush the toilet
Speaker:on the boat and we'll see if you're still excited about it.
Speaker:And I don't want to hear about that.
Speaker:That's so cool.
Speaker:I'll learn about it later now, but seriously, like, I mean, this is
Speaker:so exciting, like hearing, hearing about this lifestyle that you and
Speaker:Ryan leaf, and I'm sure there's a bunch of people listening right now.
Speaker:They're kind of thinking the same, like me right now.
Speaker:I'm like, this is actually something I w I wouldn't mind
Speaker:to do, you know, even if it was.
Speaker:And we've got, you know, me and my wife, we've got a nine months old sounds.
Speaker:So it would be, I guess, a bit more tricky with a kid, but, maybe, maybe not.
Speaker:maybe you can tell me that
Speaker:you would be surprised how many people sail with babies and toddlers and kids.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Well, okay.
Speaker:There you go.
Speaker:So yeah, I could definitely see myself, like, you know, talk my wife up to it
Speaker:and maybe in a couple of years to do it.
Speaker:So, and on the same token, there probably a bunch of other people listening.
Speaker:So what would be, I don't say a blueprint because everyone's circumstances are
Speaker:different, but obviously the biggest thing is the, is, is the investment.
Speaker:Like you need to buy a boat.
Speaker:So what are some of the consideration?
Speaker:Will that be the first thing to start with?
Speaker:I would say before you even buy a boat, because there are so many different
Speaker:types of boats that you can buy, right.
Speaker:It'd be like buying a house.
Speaker:Where do you buy the house?
Speaker:How big is it going to be?
Speaker:How comfortable is it going to be?
Speaker:Is it going to be a house that you have to completely overhaul?
Speaker:Or is it a house that's, you know, turnkey?
Speaker:So you have to consider all those things.
Speaker:So my biggest step for somebody who wants to do what we did and it starting
Speaker:from scratch is first learn how to sail, go on different boats, you know, go on
Speaker:boats that you are interested in, you know, the type of boats that you would
Speaker:want to buy and try to try as many different boats as you possibly can.
Speaker:And build up a little bit of experience sailing because changing.
Speaker:Lifestyle from going from land-based to sailing full time.
Speaker:Is it so much more difficult when you have no idea how to sail?
Speaker:We've known people who've done it.
Speaker:Absolutely.
Speaker:You know, it exists, but that is personally not what I would choose to do.
Speaker:Because it would be so difficult.
Speaker:So, so yeah, if you want to buy a boat before buying a boat, I would
Speaker:recommend trying different boats, like actually go out and sail with them.
Speaker:go to boat shows, find your crowd, find people like me and Ryan, you know,
Speaker:we're, we're not unique or so many different people leaving on boats.
Speaker:So, so find those people and ask questions.
Speaker:the sailing community is super open and, you know, always very helpful.
Speaker:so yeah.
Speaker:And then once you figure out what is it you like about those different boats
Speaker:and what type of budgets you have to buy your boats and what you expect out of
Speaker:the boat that you are going to buy then?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Go for it.
Speaker:And also, what about, what about the planning?
Speaker:Like how would somebody decide, you know, how long, how long am I going for?
Speaker:How long am I going to do this lifestyle for it?
Speaker:Is that, is there something that you can like plan for
Speaker:it or how did you guys do it?
Speaker:Did you say to yourself we're going to do it for five years?
Speaker:We'll get, we'll get back to
Speaker:and though there are two ways of doing it three ways.
Speaker:I mean, it's very flexible.
Speaker:it sounds like we have our shit figured out and it's just not the case, but a lot
Speaker:of people will save for many years so that they can do this for one or two years.
Speaker:And when Ryan and I get started, we initially thought that we were
Speaker:going to get ourselves remote jobs.
Speaker:And then we were going to try it, try the lifestyle for 60.
Speaker:Oh, that was three years ago.
Speaker:So that worked well for us.
Speaker:So, no today our, she loves it.
Speaker:She is, we're going to do it for as long as we think that it's fun.
Speaker:And as long as we can afford it, but we know that a lot of other people are more,
Speaker:okay, we're going to do this for one year.
Speaker:And those are the places that we will be visiting over the course of the
Speaker:one year, where a lot more now we'll go over where the wind takes us.
Speaker:If this is fun, that we'll stay.
Speaker:If this is not fun, that will leave.
Speaker:And the day that we feel that we are two tights money-wise or,
Speaker:which is not enjoyed any more than we'll just constantly stopping.
Speaker:But we're far
Speaker:from that, I did get to that point.
Speaker:What is the resell value typically on boats?
Speaker:Is that that's another thing to consider, right?
Speaker:As well.
Speaker:Like if you're going to do these, if you, if you, you know, that you have.
Speaker:And then an end date to it.
Speaker:Like if you only going to do it for a year or two, I'm not sure
Speaker:about bullets, but I'm like, it's not like a real estate houses.
Speaker:The goes up, I would assume the boats, the values going down, isn't it?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:You have to think of it more like a car, you know, it also boats break.
Speaker:So the value of your boat can dramatically decrease if you've
Speaker:had, you know, a grounding with it.
Speaker:but it can also increase if you add equipment to it.
Speaker:So the boat is a terrible investment.
Speaker:You know, you buy a boat.
Speaker:you're not going to make money.
Speaker:You have, you buy a boat because you were getting something out of it, right.
Speaker:And maybe, hopefully you can get your capital back.
Speaker:I will say something interesting that it's happening in a boat market
Speaker:these days, that everybody wants to buy boats, COVID-19 has made
Speaker:the book market absolutely explode.
Speaker:And it's actually really hard and difficult to find sell boats these days.
Speaker:and when I look at the prices, I'm like, are you serious?
Speaker:Like that much money for that kind of boat?
Speaker:so yeah, absolutely unbeknownst to us and due to circumstances, the value of our
Speaker:boat is actually increased in the last year and a half, but it's, it's, it starts
Speaker:to physical and absolutely temporary.
Speaker:Yeah, that's what I was going to say.
Speaker:It's just a short window.
Speaker:And if you didn't want it to, you'd have to do it now.
Speaker:It goes, that demand's going to drop again.
Speaker:So, what about COVID how did you guys do of that?
Speaker:Did you have to, was it, was it something, you know, regulate, like,
Speaker:was there something by government for, for, for the, for the boat people?
Speaker:Or was it kind of like, just like, where were you parking?
Speaker:I mean, docking, and then you had to kind of ally over those local rules and,
Speaker:oh man, that's a, that's another Pandora box, but, so how well you fared during
Speaker:COVID 19 during the pandemic and the lockdowns, really, depending on where you
Speaker:were, what country you were in and down to the city that you were at, and right.
Speaker:And I did not win the lottery on that one.
Speaker:because you know, both people are an afterthoughts, right?
Speaker:Like we were tourists technically, but during confinements and
Speaker:lockdowns, there were not supposed to be any tourists anywhere.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:and on top of that.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker:so we were not locals, but also, you know, we had certain needs
Speaker:because of the nature of what we do and needs that the local government
Speaker:sometimes had a hard time addressing.
Speaker:So, for example, in a 2020, you know, dependent make started in March, that's
Speaker:when we started seeing all this big lock downs and travel restrictions everywhere.
Speaker:We were in St.
Speaker:Martin in the Caribbean, which sounds absolutely lovely and gorgeous.
Speaker:but the reality of the experience was very, very different.
Speaker:We were stuck in an inland lagoon, which sounds lovely, but that's where
Speaker:all the sewage of the island went.
Speaker:So it was everything, but crystal clear blue.
Speaker:and we couldn't go out because to get in that inland lagoon, you had to go
Speaker:through bridges and because of the lockdown, those bridges were not operated.
Speaker:So we were effectively stuck.
Speaker:Now, St.
Speaker:Martin was hit by hurricane Irma in 2017.
Speaker:So they were wrecks all around us on top of, you know, sewage.
Speaker:so it was not a Preti landscape.
Speaker:It's not the coconut trees and the white Sandy beach.
Speaker:also for us, it was a 45 minutes Deany ride to go to shore to
Speaker:the grocery store because it was forbidden for us to put the dinghy
Speaker:anywhere else, but designated, docks.
Speaker:So for us going to shore was extremely difficult.
Speaker:so we stayed most of the time on board.
Speaker:And then on top of that, we were also surveilled by the police.
Speaker:You know, the first time that we saw the police coming on anchor,
Speaker:we thought that they were here to protect us because during Irma,
Speaker:there was a lot of looting in St.
Speaker:Martin and we were getting, we were a bit afraid, you know, that's with everything
Speaker:locked down and the boat being effectively locked in the lagoon, they would
Speaker:start to be some robberies happening.
Speaker:But the police was not here to, to make sure that we were okay.
Speaker:They were here to make sure that we were not going on other people's boats.
Speaker:They were counting dinghy is at the back of each book.
Speaker:And so the entire atmosphere was just completely surreal.
Speaker:also very quickly there were, COVID death on boats in the Anchorage, when
Speaker:one man and his wife, get infected and he had to be repatriated to the
Speaker:United States and, subsequently died.
Speaker:And so, you know, the atmosphere in the Anchorage, in the boat community,
Speaker:which are the only people that we talked to because we're completely
Speaker:disconnected from the locals.
Speaker:It was very tense.
Speaker:It was very anxious.
Speaker:and on top of that, it's because, you know, no problem happens alone.
Speaker:we had hurricane season coming and hurricane season came very early in 2020.
Speaker:So, and, and we had nowhere to go because borders were closed.
Speaker:There was no where
Speaker:first.
Speaker:So you could not just like undock and go to somewhere else.
Speaker:No, not allowed.
Speaker:So, so later leisure, cruising pleasure.
Speaker:Cruising was forbidden during the lockdown in San Martin.
Speaker:And so we couldn't even move our boats.
Speaker:We couldn't change.
Speaker:I encourage that changed thankfully, back in may, April or
Speaker:may I believe so we could escape.
Speaker:We, we were eventually able to leave the lagoon and feel a little more free,
Speaker:but, but apart from that, no, we had, we had nowhere to go because borders were
Speaker:shots and hurricane season was coming.
Speaker:So it was a bit nerve wracking for a moment.
Speaker:So you say in April, so April last year, not this year, you
Speaker:were in there for holiday?
Speaker:no, Becky in April, we were unlocked down again, but this time in Bonaire,
Speaker:which was a very different experience.
Speaker:but yeah, we we've been confined on board two times now.
Speaker:Hmm.
Speaker:How about that?
Speaker:Just you and your partner on a boat, always, you know, just that same person.
Speaker:Do you ever get, you know, like that submarine, they call it submarine
Speaker:disease, like, you know, just, you don't get to see anybody else you,
Speaker:do you ever go mad from, from,
Speaker:I think that we live in a permanent state of submarine disease.
Speaker:No, of course.
Speaker:You know, it's, it's very, it's very difficult to live with
Speaker:your partner, 24 7 all the time.
Speaker:And it's only the two of you, you know, there is no, I'm going to
Speaker:go have a beer with my friends.
Speaker:And I'll see you later, or I'm going to go to work and I'll talk to my
Speaker:colleagues all day and I'll see you later.
Speaker:You know, there is none of that.
Speaker:We spend all of our time together, which creates tensions, obviously,
Speaker:because we're not always the best versions of ourselves, let's face it.
Speaker:and also in our lives, we have to feel all the roles for each other.
Speaker:You know, like when you look at your life, you have, your friends that are
Speaker:your confidence, and then maybe you have a therapist or you have a friend
Speaker:that ex therapists, you have a problem with, you know, like a health problem.
Speaker:You go to the doctor or a nurse, you know, we are everything for each other.
Speaker:We are coworkers, doctor.
Speaker:That's when we actually need medical attention.
Speaker:We, we go to a professional healthcare provider, right.
Speaker:But I'm, I'm the first line nurse.
Speaker:we are therapists, psychologists.
Speaker:We are confidence.
Speaker:We are also, coworkers, you know, on the boat.
Speaker:When we take the boat from point a to point B, we are effectively
Speaker:working together sometimes with the YouTube channel.
Speaker:We also work together.
Speaker:and, and we do all that in 15 square meters of very small space, a
Speaker:space that moves, so that we're not always, we're not always friends.
Speaker:Let's put it this way.
Speaker:All in all.
Speaker:Would you say that your relationship is even stronger as a result of doing
Speaker:this experience than it would be?
Speaker:Absolutely.
Speaker:this lifestyle really tests the resilience of your relations.
Speaker:It is very, very, very difficult.
Speaker:There are days that I want to leave the boat.
Speaker:There are days right.
Speaker:And wants to leave the boat.
Speaker:but we have learned that for stuff we need to be kind to our
Speaker:relationship in terms of accepting that sometimes it's going to go south.
Speaker:and we have learned to take a step back and, and deal with our conflicts.
Speaker:And so when you survive, I'm going to quote unquote survive.
Speaker:But when you go through all of these things together, at the end of the
Speaker:day, you go to land and you're like, I could not do life with somebody else
Speaker:because we can go through so much.
Speaker:And at the same time, knowing that we have each other's back, you know, and how
Speaker:many people on earth are there, that you are going to be able to travel the world
Speaker:on the tiny little cell, but with, for multiple years, probably not that many.
Speaker:And if you can do that can probably do a lot.
Speaker:So, yeah,
Speaker:that's amazing.
Speaker:Sometimes he drives me nuts, but I still love him very, very deeply.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:That's awesome.
Speaker:That's awesome.
Speaker:I think you're totally right.
Speaker:Like, I mean, in any relationship, if, if you, if you've gone through some
Speaker:tough time together, whether it be on a bottle, w w whatever circumstances
Speaker:by overcoming those challenges together, truly belief, that's what
Speaker:makes your relationship stronger.
Speaker:And, and if you've got something that you, you, you can relate, you can
Speaker:come back to those memories together.
Speaker:And, and I think your whole relationship becomes, more enriched and deep, not
Speaker:just, some kind of a shallow, you know, dating thing that somebody that
Speaker:you see once a week and whatever.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So this is great.
Speaker:I have to say that I make it sound like we're making it work and it's easy,
Speaker:but, one thing that we have in our lives that has been absolutely instrumental.
Speaker:To Ryan and I, working together is our couples counselor.
Speaker:we started seeing a couple counselor before we moved on to vote for something
Speaker:completely unrelated because you know, Ryan is American, I'm French.
Speaker:We live in Sweden and we don't have family in Sweden.
Speaker:And we felt that we needed to talk to somebody who could
Speaker:help us work out something.
Speaker:And we ended up, we've been working with her for five years now.
Speaker:So she's been in our lives for a very long time and moving on the boat, you
Speaker:know, having that card that we can play when we feel that we're stuck,
Speaker:no, we're stuck in a discussion in a conflict or disagreement.
Speaker:And we're like, all right, well, let's bring it up in, in therapy.
Speaker:Let's call Veronica.
Speaker:Our therapist's name is Veronica.
Speaker:and knowing that you're going to be working it out, working the
Speaker:problem out that there is an outlet.
Speaker:It really is, is the pressure at a level that is incredible.
Speaker:And you know, it's not Dawn yet.
Speaker:Like you still have to actually work it.
Speaker:But knowing that there is a willingness on both sides to work it out is just, wow.
Speaker:And that's the first step that willingness, because you might have a
Speaker:conflict, you might have a different point of view to your partner.
Speaker:And yet at the end of the day, you just need to sometimes bring, bring in that
Speaker:mediator that, that, that somebody in the middle who can listen to both sides
Speaker:and help you kind of both meet, meet halfway and then, and then happy days.
Speaker:And while, and while you talk through the problem, you cannot sound like an asshole.
Speaker:If you have to be civilized
Speaker:and there's a third person you have to be at and respectful and all that.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:That's.
Speaker:Awesome.
Speaker:Well, Sophie, that was, well, thank you so much for sharing all this
Speaker:and sharing with our listeners.
Speaker:you know, I was, I was really excited to have you on the show
Speaker:today and, and, you know, share this whole lifestyle of the bus.
Speaker:And, yeah.
Speaker:So thank you for that.
Speaker:now on the parting of this episode today, what would be top three key
Speaker:takeaways that you'd like our listeners to walk away with after listening?
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Three takeaway, first off, if you are listening to this podcast and you're
Speaker:thinking about lifestyle change, you know, it can be moving on a sailboat, or as I
Speaker:said, moving on to far or moving abroad, starting to travel, quitting your job
Speaker:to start your own business, you know, whatever it is that you have in mind at
Speaker:the time that you were listening to this, explore it, take the time to explore it.
Speaker:And then the second thing would be acting on.
Speaker:And it doesn't mean that you need to go from one to the other and, and do that
Speaker:thing that you're thinking about, but it's taking small commitments towards
Speaker:that vision that you have, and it doesn't need to be, I'm going to quit my job
Speaker:tomorrow, but it can be, I'm going to, I'm going to commit to meeting other
Speaker:people that are doing what I do and, and take their opinions, you know,
Speaker:small commitments towards your vision.
Speaker:And then the third thing is really ask yourself, you know, when you're
Speaker:old, what is the story that you want to tell about your life?
Speaker:You know, do you want to tell the story of how you continue to do something?
Speaker:Or do you want to tell the story of how you tried this thing that you had, you
Speaker:know, a vision off and maybe it works, maybe it didn't, but you've tried it.
Speaker:so yeah, those would be, if you're listening to this, this,
Speaker:those are my three takeaways.
Speaker:Thank you so much.
Speaker:Absolutely.
Speaker:You don't want to live a life of regrets at the end.
Speaker:I mean, I mean, you don't want to have regrets at the end when, when
Speaker:you, when you, when you reflect back on your life, absolutely
Speaker:Real stories, not regrets,
Speaker:Real stories, not regrets
Speaker:I love it.
Speaker:Awesome.
Speaker:So, Sophie amazing.
Speaker:Thank you so much for being on the show for those guys listening.
Speaker:makes you go check out Ryan and Sophie's, YouTube channels.
Speaker:That's Ryan Sophie.
Speaker:That's actually youtube.com forward slash there's a C there.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Let's just go.
Speaker:Connie YouTube and look up Ryan, Sophie sailing.
Speaker:there's also a website you can go to, which is ryanandsophie.com in one word.
Speaker:we can find out more about their, their, latest adventures and, yeah.
Speaker:And that's it guys.
Speaker:So thank you.
Speaker:and once again, thank you, Sophie.
Speaker:I appreciate you jumping on and, I know you had to sort of get into
Speaker:a co-working space to jump on this zoom with me so we can record it.
Speaker:So appreciate that.
Speaker:And for those guys listening, thank you for listening for today's episode
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