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Here we share inspiring travel, educational and worldschooling journeys of lots of different families!
*Looking for 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 (like self-directed learning, cultural immersion, play-based and more!)
- unique ideas to travel and educate on the road (think 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 and our family lives between Denver, CO and Spain and we love the diverse worldschooling community!
- Inspiring story? Email pod@suzymay.com!
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Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 All about language learning! I share about Mark and my language backgrounds and what has worked for raising trilingual kids. 🌎 After highlighting the best of this months episodes and our Listener Location trivia, the deep dive includes a comprehensive guide for family language learning. 👍 Tune in to the reasons why you should still learn another language even if English is a major world language, five considerations for multilingual families and to...
Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 Cassidy Crowell tunes in from Colorado to inspire you to travel with purpose while maintaining a home base. Their family of 5 spends 3-4 months a year exploring new areas for 4-6 weeks, the 'sweet spot' for their family. This balanced approach allows for slow travel and deep immersion without the potential for burn out from full time travel. 🌎 They fund life and travel with rental properties and they prioritize worldschooling hubs in Peru, Dominican Republic a...
Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 Lauren and Tiago join us from Costa Rica as they explore their remarkable transition from a whirlwind international romance to a life of perpetual travel with two young children. Tiago traces his origin story to rural Africa while Lauren had a traditional US upbringing. 🌎 They discuss how the pandemic lead to three different wedding ceremonies and how they leaned on community in Portugal and Spain during their early parenting days and the isolation they felt w...
Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 Christina Cann and Brett Wiewiora join us from Italy as they share their family’s journey from selling their bakery business in Florida to worldschooling with their two daughters ages 12 and 8 and their sourdough starter, Gandalf! 🌎 They incorporate local flavors into their baking and have adapted to kitchens without ovens to bake. They prioritize second-tier cities to reduce costs and immerse themselves in local cultures while blending worldschooling for thei...
Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 Maxwell Lee joins up from Taipei, Taiwan to share his family’s journey from Florida to Taipei, where he successfully overcame his fears of moving abroad. He shares the worldschooling journey they took before moving to Taipei and how the kids have adapted to new languages and school in Taiwan. 🌎 Maxwell moved on the Gold Card visa to Taiwan due to his musical background which he shares more about in the episode (including the opening and closing songs which are...
Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 In this special bonus episode, I invite my husband Mark to reflect on our favorite parts and best of´s of 2025 and we share a bit about our 2026 plans! 🌎 What was our most memorable view to wake up to? Favorite meal? Most difficult destination to reach? Tune in to find out! 👍 Don´t miss Flow with Connie into 2026, a gentle and welcoming way to ease into the new year! Sign up here! Resources: Thank you for sharing this journey with me this year! So many amazing...
Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and your worldschooling family! 🌎 Our special episode today brings Listener Location trivia, our family adventures this month and my favorite parts of this month’s episodes with Stephanie Tolk, Maggie Tucker and Courtney Orgias. 👍 The Deep Dive is all things worldschooling holiday memories and plans from so many wonderful contributors to this worldschool community! I am thrilled to share these with you! ✨ ACTIONA...
Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 Courtney Orgis, mama of the O.Family.Adventures family, details her family’s 3+ year full time travel journey while working remotely and raising kids who are now 3 and 6! 🌎 She details how they sustain themselves financially, their education priorities of language and cultural adaptation and how they overcome the challenges of being far from family. 👍 Don’t miss what they have and have not yet done from their 2021 Ever-Growing Bucket List! And where thei...
Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 Maggie Tucker, an early retiree and co-host of the Inside Out Money podcast, shares her blended family's approach to traveling with three teenage daughters! 🌎 A major theme is balancing the privilege of family travel with teaching financial responsibility and gratitude to her kids, particularly when managing budgets and setting expectations on trips. 👍 Don’t miss Maggie’s recent trip location that had cheap flights yet unexpectedly expensive food costs (can yo...
Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 Meet Stephanie Tolk, founder of Deliberate Detour hubs, who discusses her family’s two-and-a-half-year worldschooling journey, how they navigated learning on the go and re-entry to public school. 🌎 She shares how those travels, and love for immersive cultural experiences, led her to start Deliberate Detour in Oaxaca, Mexico and Cusco, Peru. 👍 Don’t miss Stephanie’s favorite part about running these two hubs in these amazing locations (and where the third...
Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 In this episode, we celebrate gratitude and giving back, starting with a recap of what we are most thankful for, explore our Listener's Locations and share the top tips from this month’s episodes with Lizz, Kathy and the RoamBase kids! 🌎 For our Deep Dive on Generosity, we speak with Rebecca Herbst from Yield and Spread all about getting started on worldschooling as well as the importance of making intentional giving a habit, especially within the Financ...
Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 Erin Riska from RoamBase (and episode 18!) had the idea to bring the voices of the worldschooling kids to the show and I am so grateful for these 3 lively kids for sharing their perspectives (and their families for letting them!) Meet Micah (15), Sammy (12) and Zuri (12)! 🌎 They overwhelmingly favor "slow travel," preferring to spend several months in one location to maximize cultural immersion, language learning and historical exploration. 👍 They...
Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 Kathryne Imabayashi, a retired international educator and parenting coach, discusses her extensive experience living and working in diverse locations like Japan, Lebanon, Bangkok, and Georgia, and raising and educating her son around the world. 🌎 She shares her passion for the Reggio Emilia philosophy, which emphasizes children's competence, the environment as the third teacher, and interest-led learning. She focuses on the unique needs of boys: the impo...
Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 Lizz Quain, a solo mother of 16-year-old twin girls, shares her family’s extensive world schooling journey that began in 2016. She transitioned into long-term slow travel, using a variety of different educational methods—unschooling, local schools, and online tutoring—to adapt to her kid's needs. 🌎 Lizz emphasizes that this lifestyle fostered independence and global citizenship, with both her girls now thriving academically and possessing crucial skills ...
Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 October’s recap includes the best highlights of episodes 20-23! Don’t miss these insightful episodes with Susie, Melissa, Kate and Benef and Trecia! 🌎 We then share Taiwain worldschooling tips and Deep Dive into finding the most affordable flights! Points and miles is always the way to go if you can but these tips can help you save when you need to purchase flights. 👍 Would you please consider sending me a voice memo with your favorite holida...
Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 Benef and Trecia from the Rhythm and Roam Podcast discuss how their backgrounds, including military assignments abroad for Benef's family and Trecia's multicultural upbringing, shaped their approach to travel. 🌎 They've since raised travel-loving adults and share the value of exposing children to diverse cultures, both through living abroad and dedicated travel, which fosters adaptability and a global perspective. 👍 They introduce their book'...
Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 Kate McAllister shares her extraordinary journey from a traditional educator in the United Kingdom to the founder of a worldschooling education center, The Hive, in the Dominican Republic. She sold everything to travel with her daughter, only to find herself "stuck" in the Dominican Republic at the start of the pandemic. They’ve now built their home rooted in community and nature! 🌎 Her educator background inspired her to create The Hive. The program's c...
Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 Melissa Levi, a first-generation Canadian with Turkish roots, shares her family's unique journey to Cambodia. After meeting her husband in Cambodia and having twins in Canada, they moved around Southeast Asia and North America for two years before settling in Kampot, Cambodia. 🌎 Melissa discusses the community in Kampot, which is made up of welcoming locals and expats, as well as the unique, child-led, play-based education her twins receive at a local pl...
Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 Susie Chau, founder of Carpe Diem Traveler, shares her personal journey from a corporate career to helping families achieve their travel dreams. She reflects on her early travels, including a life-changing year-long sabbatical with her husband across seven continents. This experience was surprisingly less expensive than their normal life in Chicago and inspired her to pivot her career and help others realize that long-term travel is financially attainable by "...
Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 Suzy highlights the actionable tips from this month’s guests, personal travel updates, favorite Substacks and a warm welcome to the new listeners from around the world! 🌎 This month’s Deep Dive is the Wander Financial Framework, a six-step blueprint to plan and fund travel. This will take time and dedication! As a Certified Financial Educator, I can help! ✨ THE WANDER FINANCIAL FRAMEWORK: 💭 Step 1: Dream and define your ‘why’. 💰 Step 2: Create...
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