Sell Everything And Travel Across Europe, Untrapped Life
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Kirsty, of Untrapped Life, always loved traveling but stopped once her kids came
along. She overcame this fear to travel all over Europe with her kids!
Kirsty is originally from Scotland, but resides in England with her husband and
2 children which she home schools. She reignited her love of travel over 7 years
ago when she took her kids to the Disney Pixar’s Cars.
Kirsty started doing a lot of writing, to get her thoughts straight. Figuring
out things like what they would do, how they would afford it. Her family didn’t
have a lot of money so she had to come up with ways around money being a
limiting factor. So, originally she convinced herself that instead of traveling
the world, they could travel around England and that would be enough. After
talking to some friends, she decided she could conquer her fears of traveling
with her kids and buy a camper van.
Dealing with a lot of fear of failure, Kirsty, dug in deep and told lots of
people of her plans to travel around Europe. This helped her by pushing herself
to do something that she didn’t think she would be able to do.
In 2012, her and her husband saved up as much money as they could and began
selling all of their possessions. Kirsty’s husband had to quit his job of
driving a truck to make this dream of driving a van across Europe a reality. For
the last two months before they departed on their trip, they lived in the van in
Kirsty’s parents’ driveway.
Kirsty, of Untrapped Life, loves learning about different cultures, and is
looking forward to going to Podcast Movement in Dallas, Texas, August 16 and
17th to be a panelist!
I recommend everyone go and check out Podcast Movement even if you are only a
little bit interested in Podcasting! I also recommend checking out Kirstie’s
Untrapped Life to help get yourself in a better state of mind for traveling with
kids.
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Episode 38
Transcription
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this is the dreamers podcast where
dreamers shared their stories to inspire
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you
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now join host Joe Pardo as he interviews
a dreamer who’s living their dreams
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yeah
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welcome to the dreamers podcast I’m your
host Joe Pardo and today I’m
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interviewing Kirsty Bartholomew who is
living her dream through traveling
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welcome to show Kirsty back
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Kirsty Kirsty yeah I piano
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let’s get all right yeah you got it
right thanks for having me on the show
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not a problem thank you for coming on
little we get started with some
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background about yourself as you can
probably tell from my accent I’m from
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the UK grew up in Scotland’s have 2k
that i live in england and like you said
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I I love to travel
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I’ve always loved to travel and and last
year that the big thing that happened in
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our life was we set off on an adventure
meet my failed my husband and my two
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kids and gave up work gave up house give
up all sorts of stuff and traveled for
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six months with them around Europe so
yeah my kids are home-schooled so it was
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kind of really easy for us to decide to
go off and do a big trip and we thought
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it would be a really great idea to have
a bit of an extension into their
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education that we really really fun and
