The most popular question we get is “how do you afford to live on a sailboat and travel the world” For 20 years we lived like no one so that today we could live like no one. Steve and I got pregnant when I was 18, married by 20. He got a job as a firefighter for Boise, but we were still not making ends meet. Instead of making excuses, I said what can I do as a stay at home mom with a high school diploma? I started a dance studio in my garage. I spent the entire summer walking the streets of our town, putting flyers on door knobs and that first season we had 50 students! When Steve was off shift, he picked up a second job doing real estate. I grew my dance studio where we needed to open up a second studio, so we moved to Meridian. By this point we discovered our dream to someday sail the world. (It started off as our retirement plan) Steve grew his real estate and started a team naming it “Full Sail Real Estate” to remind him why we do what we do. We moved the dance studio to a facility as we had over 250 students. Steve picked up a 3rd job doing loans, sometimes working until midnight. By this point we had 3 kids and I was pregnant with Karver, we decided it was time to sell the dance studio. But, at 36 weeks pregnant I decided to start an airbrush tanning business. Steve bought and sold his first flip house, and we created the plan to start acquiring rental properties. We moved to another house and turned our previous home into our first rental. After 15 years as a firefighter Steve made the hardest decision to quit the fire department to go all in in real estate. Steve then moved to new construction sells in real estate and after 6 years of doing tans I got certified to be a life coach. Our goal was the focus of every decision, every purchase we made. We drove old cars, wore used clothes, never purchased hardly anything new, and lived well below our means. By this point our daughter was a sophomore in high school, gone all the time and our family was going in all different directions. Steve and I looked at eachother and thought “what the hell is all this for?”

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What we do on our #outremer #catamaran during a #thunderstorm. ============== 🔔Subscribe now and join us on a life-changing adventure. Don't wait - hit subscribe now! https://www.youtube.com/@SailingAWEN/?sub_confirmation=1 🔗 Stay Connected With Us. 👉Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/SailingAwen?_rdc=1&_rdr 👉Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sailingawen/ 👉Website: https://www.sailingawen.com/ ✅ For Inquiries: Sailingawen@gmail.com 🛒 YOU CAN SHOP FOR THINGS WE USE AND RECOMMEND HERE: https://www.amazon.com/shop/sailingawen We do earn a tiny commission on purchases if you use these links :-) which helps us to get new camera equipment (we need a new drone), and more storage devices (these files are huge!) 🎧COVERTCASTAWAY PODCAST anywhere you listen or stream directly at https://sailingawen.com/podcast 🌎TRACK US (because it's not creepy) at: https://forecast.predictwind.com/tracking/display/SV_AWEN/ 🎶 MUSIC by Epidemic Sound We have made the transition from full-time software professionals from the SF Bay Area to liveaboard sailing explorers who always keep one eye on the weather and our hearts in a song. Our goal is to complete a circumnavigation and we recently transitioned to a performance catamaran and are madly in love with our Outremer 52. We are working with Outremer in France (with the help of Google Translate) to launch our boat project and start our journey as sailing vagabonds. While it’s not a race or speed test, we are doing our first Bluewater crossing this year and we are excited to see AWEN stretch her legs and dance on the water. Join us as we share what we’re learning living without Amazon, (but with Starlink), and attempt this new life of travel and adventure on the ocean. Please be patient with us as we continue to improve our YouTube vlogging skills. Our goal isn’t to make our life a movie, it’s to give back to what others have shared with us. More about us here: https://sailingawen.com/about-us ============================= ✅ Recommended Playlists 👉 FULL PASSAGE SERIES: All Together Maiden Voyage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCR2uNbN4MQ&list=PLlCuYqC6mdr-Tr76hJxp4SmguTTGR_S31&pp=iAQB 👉 Our Outremer Experience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEM4vYKFyWA&list=PLlCuYqC6mdr9vxmC9FByg6y1TDooOM6q4&pp=iAQB ✅ Other Videos You Might Be Interested In Watching: 👉 Rural Exumas (EP 65) #sailing #Bahamas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MImleQKKrQY 👉 Back at It! (EP 64) #sailing #outremer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST1pEsY0whM 👉 Nick of Time (EP 63) Leg 3 Day 10 #outremer52 #miami https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDK_7eVxg3U 👉 Galloping to the End (EP 62) Leg 3 Day 9 #atlanticcrossing #sailingpassion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g8uZlEC71Q 👉 We Need to Leave! (EP 59) Leg 3 Day 6 #adventureawaits #boatlife https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAUY4dz5-28 ============================= ✅ About Sailing AWEN. Holly and Stephane are formerly from the San Francisco Bay Area but have a home in Tahoe. Our 'someday' plan was to sell our belongings, buy a boat, and, with reckless abandon, sail away to visit distant lands, which we did starting in 2020. You can follow our transition and journey in our candid podcast, Covert Castaway, wherever you listen. You can also follow every stop we’ve made with pictures and blogs and stream our podcast directly on our website. ================================= #sailing #bahamassailing #catamaranlife #oceanadventure #outremer #sailing #catamaran #outremer #boatlife #catamaran #travelvlog #digitalnomad #lifestyle #sailboats #stayhealthy #learning #vlog #podcast #live #motivation #travel #nomad #boattour #sailingadventure #bucketlist #adventure #nomad #retirement #adventureawaits #ocean #learning #youtubecommunity #youtubelife #vlog #youtubechannel #performance #weather #SwN&x% © Sailing AWEN

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