Hi, I'm Chaunna

I built a million dollar business while raising a family & traveling the world. Now, I'm putting my money to work for my future. As a subscriber, you'll learn money habits I created to pay off 100k+ in debt, repaired my credit from 400 to 800, & plan for a secure future.  Subscribe if you want a healthy bank account and financial independence.

IT ALL STARTED WHEN...

My husband, Justin and I found ourselves working 14 hour days, exhausted, frustrated, and wondering WHY?

We were making some of the best money of our lives, but were still unhappy.  We had the big house in a nice neighborhood, we travelled here and there (mostly for business), and we did a family vacation every summer. Yeah... we "appreciated" what we had built and the lifestyle it afforded us, but as much as we had we were still searching for "happiness."

So we got REAL with ourselves. What did we really want?

We started outlining places we wanted to go, things we wanted to experience, and then asked ourselves what would it take to make that happen?

In the summer of 2015, we started selling off everything in our 6 bedroom home. Furniture, appliances, go carts, fish tanks... you name it, we sold it. By October, we had mapped out road trip from Florida to California and drove off into the unknown.

A TRIP AROUND THE WORLD

We spent 9 months traveling from October 2015 - May 2016. In that time we fished in Georgia, dined in Louisiana, toured caves in Texas, sledded sand dunes in New Mexico, took pics in front of prickly cacti in Arizona, and then basked in the sun in California. Then we shipped our truck home and headed over seas meeting ninjas in Japan, kayaking a volcano caldera in Bali, and getting surf lessons in Australia.

A typical schedule involved waking up with the sun, breakfast with the kids, 2-4 hours at a local library so that everyone can knock out their todo list (for school and work), then lunch at a park or on a trail, ending with a camp fire dinner. Our family of 4 was together at last. We were experiencing the world's beauty, learning to overcome obstacles (in life and in business) and growing beyond them with the flexibility and freedom we dreamed of.

While doing all of this adventuring we spent time reorganizing and figuring what our business looks like with the lifestyle balance we wanted. Then rebuilt it from the ground up; No more 14 hour days, working Friday nights, and feeling so drained every day. The travel forced us to learn to build systems and hire so that we could work only a few hours each morning and then spend the rest of the day exploring with our kids.

This new focus on rebuilding a business to meet the desires of our family, empowered me to refocus on our financial goals. We had gotten so off track racking up debt and spending wildly. During this trip, I spent time reigning in our finances. Reading, learning, consuming everything I could on becoming financially independent and retiring early so we could continue to travel.

It wasn't a pretty process, nor will I tell you this whimsical story of how we miraculously maintained our 6 figure income through it... but it was all WORTH IT.  It's this journey that taught us how to balance business and family. The greatest lesson learned was that you don't have to give up one for the other.

WHERE AM I NOW?

After our 9 month trip around the world, we headed back to Florida (our home base and where most of our family lives) and realized that we definitely wanted to continue traveling. We spent a few months systemizing our business so that we could prepare for our next adventure in the US. You see, the first trip we drove our F150 around the US staying in vacation homes in each state... but that left us still missing our "home."

In March 2018, we picked up our 5th wheel RV and hit the road again. This time we covered the remaining states we missed the first time through. We travelled the US full time for 2 more years until we parked our RV on a little homestead in the mountains of east Tennessee.

Our son went on to college, our daughter rides horses with dreams of a becomming a barrel racer, and my husband and I exited the business we built while traveling. Now we receive what we call "mail box money." While we are no longer in the day to day "work" of the business, we receive a profit share each quarter for the labor of love we put into building that business.

WHAT AM I DOING NOW?

I'm spending time building up entrepreneurs in our local community. I'm raising chickens and growing my own food on our Sunshine Mountain Farm. I'm supporting my children as they become more independent and set their life goals. And I'm sharing everything I've learned the last 18 years on business building and financial lessons on Youtube. This blog is my journey of living debt free, building new businesses to fulfill my entrepreneurial spirit, and adventuring through life financially free.