The RV Entrepreneur

Today we have the pleasure of talking with Jared and Sammi Creach! Jared and Sammi are full time RVers who launched into full time travel after building a life that would allow them to work from home. They travel with two of their kids, the third is currently serving in the US military, and have two very different businesses that they successfully run from the road. Sammi is a former RN, MSN, MBA...

Todays guest is Jonathan Schloo from CarGenerator. Jonathan is an inventor and serial entrepreneur, ran a tech company for 20 years and sold it, then bought an Airstream travel trailer and invented a brilliant way to create full AC power for an RV trailer using his car as a generator for freedom off grid. He then landed a $100,000 deal on national TV on Dragons Den with dual investors. CarGenerato...

Today we have the pleasure of talking with Joel & Deb Brettingen from Chasing RV Sunshine. Joel, Deb and their spoiled dog, Maya are a full-time RV couple with 53 years of combined Law Enforcement experience. They are 100 % debt free and recently retired, sold everything and hit the road in their RV. They take finances very seriously and enjoy sharing their insights on financial freedom with t...

Today we have the pleasure of talking with Heidi Dusek Heidi is an adventurous working mom and entrepreneur. She helps families connect through simple and authentic adventures on her podcast, Ordinary Sherpa, Instagram feed, website, book and through speaking and community-building events. The Dusek's are an adventure loving family, with 3 kids under 12 who leverage their skills and assets to desi...

The 2022 RV Entrepreneur Summit is now the RV Entrepreneur Roundtable! The RV Life team and I want it to be an AWESOME experience - however with the state of the world, the compressed timeframe due to the major changes within the RVE brand this past year, and several other factors - our ticket sales were below what we needed them to be for the event to launch as planned. HOWEVER, as entrepreneurs...

Today we’re talking with Gabe and Rocio Rivero from Our Mixed Journey.

Gabe and Rocio are avid travelers who used to live in Puerto Rico. After Hurricane Maria ravaged the island, life was truly put in perspective for them both. They realized how quickly things can turn, and the decided that enjoying life needed to be a now thing and bit a soon thing. So, they sold everything they owned, bought a...

Today’s Guest Aaron Ammar, Roamly’s Chief Insurance Officer Aaron is a former co-founder of Y-Risk, an underwriting company providing insurance solutions for companies in the on-demand and sharing economy, and started his role as Chief Insurance Officer of Roamly in August 2021.  As Chief Insurance Officer, Aaron harnesses his expertise in the insurance space to lead and build out the Roamly...

Today we have the pleasure of talking with Chris Reed from the YouTube channel Why Not RV? 
Chris is a Marine Veteran who took a huge leap one year to change careers and can now live a life of freedom and adventure. His only professional schooling after high school was HVAC school - everything else has been self taught and Chris loves to share his knowledge through education in hopes of helping ot...

The 2022 RVE Summit tickets are now on sale!
 To register for the summit or get even more details please visit https://therventrepreneur.com/rv-entrepreneur-summit/ If you have any questions please feel free to email me at rve@rvlife.com I’m totally stoked for this event and can’t wait to see ya’ll in Montrose!

~Joshua ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Today we have the pleasure of talking with Kirk Duncan.

Kirk is the President and Founder of 3 Key Elements and member of The National Speakers Association. He has taken his company from a card table in the garage into a multi-million dollar, award-winning company. 3 Key Elements has been recognized 4 consecutive years by Inc. 5000 as one of The fastest-growing companies in America. They have als...

Today we have the pleasure of talking with Michael Boyink.  Michael Boyink is an award-winning writer and photographer who works as Managing Editor for a global software consulting and implementation company. He’s been on the podcast several times before discussing various topics. 

 Michael, his wife Crissa and their two children spent eight years traveling the US in an RV while continuing t...

Today we have the pleasure of talking with Penny Rose. Penny is a CPA and has been working as a Forensic CPA for the past 20 years. As she retires from that career on her path to financial independence she is looking forward to taking on more clients in her side business as a CPA and financial consultant for content creators.  So if you’re an RVer that is creating content - this episode and P...

Today we have the pleasure of talking with Marianne Eaves. Marianne is a bourbon master distiller that has taken her love of science and art and blended them, literally, in various ways throughout the spirits industry. She is currently full-time RVing with her family as they go from venue to venue with their other business, the Vernardo’s Circus. Marianne found a way to stay involved with the bour...

Today we have the pleasure of talking with Duran Anderson. Duran is an entrepreneur, craftsman and lifelong RVer who took a pain point with his RV - bugs sneaking in through the screen door slider - and devised a solution that he took to market in his late 70s.  I really enjoyed chatting with Duran and I think ya’ll will enjoy hearing his story and how long RVing has been apart of his life. L...

Today we have the pleasure of talking with Taylor Cluster. Taylor is the author of a social media meets van life murder mystery novel called #Vanlife Murders. She and her Fiancé Scott have spent that last three years living the nomad life while traveling all around North America. After hitting the road Taylor found that she had a bit more time to pursue her passion for writing and decided to sit d...

Today we have the pleasure of talking with Alyssa Padgett. Alyssa is a co founder of the RV Entrepreneur community and  has just published her second book: RVing Across America: A Quest to Visit All 50 States. Back in 2014 when she and Heath got married Alyssa convinced Heath to take her to all 50 states for their honeymoon. Somehow he go her into doing it all in an RV.  While traveling, Alyssa di...

Today we have the pleasure of talking with Brooks Smothers.

Brooks is a marketing consultant by day and a podcast host for a show called RV Out West by night. Born & raised in the Pacific Northwest he grew up camping; from backpacking, car camping, van life (before it was a thing), to a tent trailer and now with a travel trailer. In this episode Brooks and I talk about:
 Some of the pros and...

Today we have the pleasure of talking with Sharee Collier.
 Sharee is a 9 year RV life vet, who combines running a remote RV lifestyle business with seasonal jobs and project management. She the bestselling author of Live Camp Work: A Beginner’s Guide to Workamping- book 1 in a series that details how to grab seasonal jobs so you can travel now for super cheap! Sharee is known for her creativity a...

Today we have the pleasure of talking with Kristi and Spencer Stevens  
Kristi and Spencer quit their corporate jobs in 2020 and hit the road with their son Kade. After spending six weeks of a paid sabbatical traveling in New Zealand and Australia they knew they wanted to rearrange their lives to spend more time together as a family. They leveraged their past experiences in  product mark...

Today we have the pleasure of talking with Kimberly Crossland who is the founder of Roadpreneur and Cruisin' + Campfires, two companies designed to keep families together and living in freedom through travel and entrepreneurship.  In this episode we dive into how Kimberly built a physical product based business, called Cruising + Campfires, stemming off an awesome experience on a family roadt...

This weeks episode we have a super awesome interview. This is the first time I've done a live interview and it's also the first time I've co-hosted an interview. We've got Heath Padgett back on the podcast and we're interviewing Andy Robinowitz from RV Life.  If you didn't see the blog post the RV Entrepreneur podcast has been sold to Andy and the RV Life team.  All three of us were in t...

Today we have the pleasure of talking with Kristen Sargent from Legit Trips, a travel company that runs international group trips.  Kristen says she is living her wildest dreams. She owns an international travel company with her best friend and also travels domestically every day with the love of her life in their RV. She's on a mission to help people feel curious, alive, and free to try or d...

Today we have the pleasure of talking with Edzui Szumowski who is currently traveling the country performing with The Vernardos Circus! Edzui (Edge-U) is a performer and ran away with the circus- TWICE. Once on a train in 1993 and this time in an RV in 2021. He’s lived on circus trains, mega cruise ships, flown over 1000 times in a decade chasing ships around the planet and is now living full-time...

Today we have the pleasure of talking with Nate Ritter from RoomSteals.com Nate has travel hacked with his family of 5, around the US and Western Europe for 10 years without paying for a flight or hotel. Now he’s found another hack having to do with wholesale hotel prices, and he’s sharing it with the world while they travel North America full time in an RV.  In this episode we talk about how...

I’m excited for todays episode with  Aaron and Chris Willers. They are a married couple who have lived full time on the road since January 2019.  They left their high paying corporate careers in their mid-thirties to live life to its fullest through travel and experiences.  In preparation for working on the road they launched their new business, Irene Iron Fitness, where Chris coach...