Wander Worldschool: Helping Families Plan & Fund Slow & Long Term Travel
Sharing inspiring travel, educational and worldschooling family journeys!
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 (think self-directed learning, cultural immersion, play-based!)
- unique ideas to travel and educate on the road (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 May and our family lives between Colorado and Spain. I support families to fund & plan long term travel!
- Email pod@suzymay.com!
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Episodes
81 episodes
77. Pivoting during Full Time Travels: Finding Community and Comedy with Leah Renee
🌍 What happens when you sell everything for a multi-year global adventure, only to discover six months in that your family is craving roots? Comedian, writer, and mom of three Leah Renee unpacks the unfiltered realities of he...
76. Combining World Travel with a Traveling Teacher with Johanna Karp from Together Explorers
🌍 Johanna Karp founded Together Explorers, a traveling school community that bridges core academic standards with immersive place-based learning across the globe.👍 Johanna shares her family’s transition from expat life in A...
BONUS. Support the Show & Submit A Holiday Episode Voicemail!
Help us reach our annual fundraising goal of $600! Support The Show: https://www.suzymaywander.com/supportSubmit your Favorite Family Holiday Memor...
75. Worldschooling and Money Q&A
🌍 I'm your host Suzy and I break down the realities of worldschooling finances in this end-of-month solo deep dive and reflects on October's adventures and listener location trivia!🎒 We tackle listener questions on all things worldschool...
74. The Freedom Family Framework: Moving to Lisbon and Building Mobile Income with Meghana Kamdar
🌍 Itching to settle for a while? Dreaming of pastel de nata and coastal waves? Meghana Kamdar, founder of Families Go Abroad Portugal, shares what prompted her family of five to slow down in Lisbon, Portugal seven years ago.&...
73. Worldschooling Across 3 Home Bases: Dubai, Goa & UK with Amanda Ashworth from Worldschool Hub Goa
🌍 Amanda Ashworth shares how her family of five designed a unique lifestyle split between Dubai, India, and the UK and transformed a raw 3-acre former yoga ashram into a thriving worldschooling hub in Goa, India.🎒 We break down th...
72. How Wild Roots Reimagined Camps and Pop Ups in Mexico with Dasha Emelianova
🌊 How swapping the Denver work grind for beach living created a haven of child-led learning and nervous system regulation in Mexico for Dasha Emelianova!🌍 We dive into the real logistics and finances of single-parent worldschoolin...
A Pause And A Reminder
In the meantime, I recommend some of my favorite early episodes:- why mom's need a haven with Claudia Bellante (episode 7) - self-regulation skills for...
71. Start Today: The Worldschool Traveling Family’s Holiday Planning Guide
🎄 How to get ahead of the end-of-the-year scramble with around 100 days to go until the holiday season (while still enjoying fall)!🌎 We discuss mapping out both financial clarity and low stress logistics whether you are traveling the wor...
70. Two Unicycles, Traveling Villages and Early Retirement: The Worldschooling Space with Irene Genelin
🌍 Irene Genelin shares how her family traded their farm in Minnesota for full-time world travel, while packing two unicycles in their luggage! They journeyed across 39 countries while building community through cohorts, h...
69. Worldschooling High School: Accredited Diplomas, Transoceanic Cruises and Saving $50k Housesitting with Kristen Thatcher of Learn With Every Avenue
🌍 Kristen Thatcher shares how her family of four sold their home in Canada to take on five years of full-time travel around the globe, turning hands-on life experiences into accredited high school diplomas and building community through ...
68. Worldschooling in Thailand: Koh Lanta Budgets & Building Community with Nadeem Arshad
🏝️ 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...
67. Investing 101 for Traveling Families: Create Options, Beat Inflation and Fund Long Term Travel
📈 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 yo...
66. Island Life, Multilingual Kids and Place-Based Learning in Curaçao with Joanne Paul from Ileo
🌴 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 Curaç...
65. Go Anyway: Sabbaticals, Chronic Disease and Family of 6 Travel with Dr. Sarah Gebauer
🌍 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 wi...
64. Creating a Community of Traveling Families with Michelle Rødgaard-Jessen from Traveling Village
🌍 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, unschoo...
63. How to Find (and Keep!) a Remote Job While Traveling
🌍 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
62. Selling It All, Full-Time Travel and Creating Nomadic Pathways with The Traveling Slaters
🌍 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!
61. How to Raise Multilingual Kids While Worldschooling with Kelly Thornhill from Adventures in Spanish
🌍 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 t...
60. Solving the Travel Housing Dilemma for Slow Travelers with Joe O’Connor from Global Family Home Rentals
🌍 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 rea...
59. Worldschool on A Budget Using Workaway and WWOOF (While Staying Resilient) with Stacy Wedding
🌍 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 ac...
BONUS: Wander Weekly Newsletter Launch! Giveaway!
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 li...
58. *Newsletter Launch* & Travel Hacking 101
🌍 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...
57. Nature-Based Worldschooling in Italy: Slow Travel & Outdoor Education with Filippo Bozotti from Earthbound
🌍 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.👍...
56. How to Swap Expensive Summer Camps for Global Adventures with Christy Brouker from WanderWorks!
🌍 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 interna...
