Wander Worldschool: Helping Families Plan & Fund Slow & Long Term Travel
Here we share inspiring travel, educational and worldschooling journeys of lots of different families! Looking for actionable tips? Practical advice? You're in the right place! We explore the stories of: - slow and long term traveling families (including van life, gap years, summer camps abroad and more!) - worldschool leaders and hub creators (like self-directed learning, cultural immersion, play-based and more!) - unique ideas to travel and educate on the road (think international schools, online options, unschooling, homeschooling, language learning!) - financial planning and money-saving travel tips (remote work, lifestyle design, financial freedom, digital nomad life and more!) I'm Suzy and our family lives between Colorado and Spain. I support families to fund & plan long term travel! - Email pod@suzymay.com! - Follow and support the show at https://beacons.ai/suzymaywander
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🏝️ Nadeem Arshad, co-founder of Bliss Hubs, shares how his family of seven traded the UK rat race for slow island life in Thailand and created a thriving, parent-led worldschooling community in Koh Lanta!
👍 We break down the real monthly costs of living in paradise, the power of slowing down to prioritize connection, navigating education on the road and how to build an organic village where parents an...
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📈 Demystify investing and discover how to build a financial foundation that funds your family's biggest travel dreams!
✈️ I break down Investing 101 without the confusing jargon and show youhow productive assets protect your wealth against inflation.
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- Discover why keeping long-term savings in cash guarantees a loss
- Unpack core investing terms: stocks, bonds, ETFs, diversification, ...
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🌴 Meet Joanne Paul, founder of Ileo, who shares how her family found a second home in Curaçao, the secrets to raising multilingual kids, and how she built a thriving worldschooling ecosystem partnering directly with the Curaçao Children's Museum!
👍 We dive into the beauty of slow family travel, meeting each child's unique learning style, language acquisition, and the logistical frameworks of joining s...
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🌍 Dr. Sarah Gebauer, author of the Go Anyway book, shares how her family of six explored 54 countries in four years, created a custom sabbatical policy as a practicing physician, and traveled with a child with a chronic disease!
👍 We cover the realities of balancing a demanding medical career with family sabbaticals, language learning on the road and practical frameworks for making extended travel pos...
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🌍 Michelle Rødgaard-Jessen from Traveling Village shares the reality of traveling long-term with kids, navigating worldschooling, and building mobile family communities!
👍 We cover the evolution of Traveling Village, unschooling and language learning strategies, balancing remote business management with slow travel, and the vision behind the ReVillage project!
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- Learn how TV creates co-...
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🌍 Suzy recaps the month and breaks down the behind-the-scenes reality of getting a remote job, managing remote work while traveling with kids, and avoiding the major traps of working on the road!
👍 We cover the financial perks like geo-arbitrage, practical job search strategies, managing time zones, setting up an efficient mobile office, and how to balance full-time work with slow family travel!
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🌍 Chad and Brittany Slater, founders of Nomadic Pathway, share what led them to sell everything, leave the nine-to-five grind in New York, and launch a worldschooling journey across Europe with their two young kids!
👍 We break down the reality of full-time family travel, including budget hacks like housesitting, transitioning to remote work on the road, managing decision fatigue, and finding worldscho...
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🌍 Founder and mom, Kelly Thornhill, shares what led her to buy a one-way ticket to South America, spend 15 years building businesses in Argentina, worldschool her daughters and create Adventures in Spanish!
👍 We break down the reality of raising multilingual kids on the road, including funding a nomadic lifestyle, building a business from the back of a camper van, and navigating regional Spanish diale...
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🌍 Full time traveling dad Joe O’Connor, co-founder of Global Family Home Rentals (GFHR), shares what led his family to pack up their lives and embark on a four-year full-time worldschooling journey.
👍 We break down the real finances and logistics of full-time nomadic life including their $5,000 monthly budget on the Greek island of Syros and the next phase of travel as a family of four!
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🌍 Stacy Wedding, a mom of three and founder of Resilience with Stacey, shares how waking up from a 'normal life' in Germany led her family to sell most of their belongings, and embark on a full-time worldschooling journey across Europe.
👍 We break down the realities of full-time nomadic life, offering firsthand advice on utilizing budget-saving Workaway and WWOOF farm stays and balancing global explor...
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We are launching the Wander Weekly Newsletter!
Your one-stop weekly resource designed to help families master the finances, remote work logistics, and worldschooling opportunities needed to confidently sustain a life of global travel.
If you love the deep dives on the podcast but want actionable tools, resources, and community news delivered straight to your inbox (with zero fluff), this newsletter...
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🌍 I recap life in Spain and this month's episodes then breaks down the fundamentals of travel hacking for this month's Deep Dive!
👍 We discuss the strategic use of welcome bonuses and how slow-traveling families can maximize points without carrying debt!
💳 Listen to the end for the latest June 2026 transfer bonuses!
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- Learn the number one rule of travel hacking and credit scores
- Di...
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🌍 Filippo Bozotti, Italian world traveler and founder of Earthbound, shares how a lifetime of global exploration led his family to full-time travel and inspired a brand-new model for nature-based worldschooling.
👍 We break down the logistics, finances, and emotional realities of full-time nomadic life, offering firsthand advice on transitioning from managed travel cohorts, navigating the Schengen 90-d...
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🌍 Christy Brouker, founder of Wanderworks, shares how her lifelong passion for travel, sparked by an unusual birth story in Saudi Arabia and a five-year residency in London, led her to help families discover the world through international summer camps.
👍 We break down the logistics, surprising affordability, and deep personal growth that come with sending kids to camps abroad, offering firsthand advi...
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🌍 Marissa Lipovsky from Amani Light Wellness in Tanzania explores how her family escaped the corporate rat race to build an immersive, slow-travel lifestyle in the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania.
👍 We break down the logistics, cultural adjustments, and mindset shifts of moving abroad, offering a firsthand look at homeschooling on the road, navigating the costs of international living, and creati...
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🌎 On this solo end of the month episode, we discuss how you can tackle debt and embracing a slow-travel lifestyle!
👍 We break down the math and psychology of getting out of debt, offering actionable strategies like radical expense audits and structural optimization!
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1. Learn how to conquer financial anxiety and shame and replace debt avoidance with clear, empowering data.
2. Ge...
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🌎 Carolyn founded the Field School of Hvar on the sunniest island in Europe after her job offer was rescinded during the pandemic and she fell in love in a place with a more authentic, community-focused way of life.
👍 The Field School offers families a pedagogy of belonging, blending child enrichment with a consistent home base for worldschoolers looking for a deeper connection to Mediterranean cultur...
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🌎 Sol Velasquez and Camilo Campuzano share how their family of four traded their high-powered legal and restoration firms in Miami for a life of slow travel and international immersion. From pandemic homeschooling to living in Colombia and Europe they give us all the details!
👍 They share why building a global classroom through roadschooling and worldschooling makes the shift into a local school...
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🌎 Astrid Vinje and Clint Bush join the show to deconstruct their four-year journey as a full-time traveling family. From a travel conference in Canada to navigating the pandemic in Southeast Asia, they share how they transitioned from a stable life in Seattle to a four-year worldschooling odyssey.
👍 From riding scooters through the rice paddies of Bali to navigating the social famine and feast of worl...
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🌎 My mom Marcia joins the show for the 50th episode to share the origin story of our family's travel legacy. She takes us back to a pre-digital era of exploration, from her 1969 study abroad in Germany to an around-the-world gap year in 1975.
👍 From crossing Checkpoint Charlie during the Cold War to navigating a Kenyan safari in a VW Bug with German students, she discusses why traveling was worth it.
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