The Rv Entrepreneur With Heath Padgett

Bryanna Royal travels with her husband, 4 kids, and 2 dogs in a 23 ft. Winnebago View while running their business, Virtual Powerhouse, and their travel blog Crazy Family Adventure.  This episode features Bryanna's talk from the RVE Summit 2017.  She shares her family's experience with transitioning work on the road, how to lower your burn rate, and why you should push your comfort zone.

In the Facebook group, we get a lot of questions on how to find new clients while traveling.  For today's episode, I talk about how Alyssa and I have grown our service-based business, what you can do to build your network, and the best way to reach out to potential clients.  Also today, we introduce a new format for Friday shows call Test Drives. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rve/message

Health insurance can be a huge obstacle for those who want to live the RV lifestyle.  Kyle Henson noticed this problem early in his RV adventures.  With a background in insurance, Kyle started the RVer Insurance Exchange, now in partnership with Escapees.  In this episode, we talk about navigating healthcare, but also about how Kyle started, built, and sold this business.

When building your business, you're going to experience some growing pains.  In this episode, David Blackmon from Aspen Grove Studios is back on the show to talk about how to scale your business.  He includes some great advice for entrepreneurs on hiring, outsourcing, and selling.  He also talks about the great advantage of being an RV entrepreneur when it comes to having the freedom to pivot in life and in your business. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rve/message

Alyssa and I started our RV life by filming our documentary "Hourly America", which is the story of us traveling around the country in Franklin, our 1994 motorhome, while Alyssa filmed me working a job in all 50 states.  In this episode, we talk about the story behind this idea, how we brought the idea to life, and how we found a sponsor for our project. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rve/message

Jake Newell is the opposite of most people. At night his artwork (hand engraving) pays the bills so during the day he can volunteer full-time for Habitat for Humanity. In this episode he shares how, since 2011, he's traveled full-time, built houses, and a business that enables to volunteer and explore America. We talk about the ongoing dilemma he faces between being the best hand engraver in the world or doing the most fulfilling work possible (building homes for Habitat).

Alyssa takes over the podcast!  Our podcast editor, Kelsey, interviews me about business, current projects, and the full-time RV life - Is it really all s'mores and campfires? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rve/message

Do you know the value of your time?  Charles Gupton of The Creator’s Journey interviews me about determining your value through differentiation, outsourcing, and automation. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rve/message

Financial runway is crucial for any new business. Focusing on extending our runway has enabled us to keep traveling the past few years. In this episode I talk about the importance of financial runway, how we've been able to extend ours, and how you can calculate your own runway.

Today on the podcast, I am interviewing Marc and Julie from RV Love, which is their Youtube channel and blog.  They are also the founders of RV Success School, an online educational platform to help you start RVing.  They have been traveling around the country for the past three years and visited 49 states. Marc recently transitioned from his full-time job into their new educational business. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rve/message

Everyone loves to talk about building a profitable blog, but rarely do we talk about the less sexy side of blogging. We don't talk about how it takes years and years of practice or why most people fail at it. In this episode I talk about why I think blogging is a terrible business. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rve/message

Today on the podcast, I am interviewing the co-founder of Outdoorsy, Ryan Quinn. Outdoorsy is a peer-to-peer RV sharing marketplace, where Alyssa and I have rented our RV out in the past year.  Since launching outdoorsy, Ryan has been traveling around in his van and recently upgraded to a large class A.  Outdoorsy has been one of the fastest-growing startups in the RV space. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rve/message

Today on the podcast, I am interviewing Mandy Holesh, a wedding photographer, fashion blogger, and as of recently-- a jewelry designer.  Mandy travels in a 5th wheel with her husband Kevin, who I interviewed back on episode 10, as well as Grizzly, Nimbus, Luna, and Foxey, the furry friends of the Holesh family.

A brief episode where I talk about all the fears I had before we started traveling the country in an RV and living on the road. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rve/message

Today on the podcast, I am interviewing Erin and Dan, who are the owners of the Inn Town Campground in Nevada City, California.  You may have heard me talk about them on the show before because I love what they are doing in the online space (and obviously their campground is really cool too).

When we bought our first RV, a 1994 Coachmen Leprechaun, we had no idea what the heck we were doing. We did very little planning before diving into this lifestyle headfirst. In this short episode, Alyssa and I talk about some of the things we'd do differently during those first six months on the road and other lessons from the road. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rve/message

Today on the podcast, I am interviewing Tim Paige.  Tim is a voice actor who has done work for companies like The Travel Channel, Jimmy Kimmel, UFC, and NBC.  Also, for the past three years he has been the producer and host of a podcast called ConversionCast, a podcast documenting an Inc. 500 company called Leadpages, which has built one of the largest and fastest-growing start-ups in the country.  Tim is currently in the planning stages of transitioning into RV life. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rve/message

This question has been the biggest struggle for me since we started traveling in an RV. Should I spend my days working or exploring? We initially started traveling in an RV because it was a way for us to explore the country, travel cheap, and spend longer periods of time in places. But once we fell in love with the lifestyle, we had to mix a bit more practicality into the equation and pay our bills alongside the travel. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rve/message

Today on the podcast, I am interviewing Jim and Heather, who have been traveling around the US for the past 341 days in their 1995 Ford Tioga named Bertha.  They have competed in triathlons and trained other athletes all while exploring the country. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rve/message

When thinking of monetizing a travel blog, most people think of Amazon affiliates, advertising, and other "passive income" strategies. But these aren't the most efficient if you're trying to build up revenue early on from a travel blog. Those strategies are fine, but they take way more time, knowledge, and skill than most people have or are willing to learn. Sorry, but true.