What it’s like to quit your job and travel with family - Cooking the Books podcast

They decided to quit the nine-to-five when the kids were teenagers and take off on a year-long trip around the world. Photo / Getty Images

Each week, BusinessDesk and the NZ Herald’s Cooking the Books podcast tackle a different money problem. Today, it’s how one family managed to travel the world on a shoestring budget. Hosted by Frances Cook.

Many of us will have thought of chucking in the day job and travelling the world, but it’s not always so easy to turn into reality.

Particularly if you have children. You have to consider their schooling, costs from extra people, and also whether they’ll be able to handle it.

Well, this family did it and managed to make it work permanently.

They decided to quit the nine-to-five when the kids were teenagers and take off on a year-long trip around the world.

It went so well, they decided it was time to become nomads, setting up their own business to allow them to earn money while they travelled.

For the latest podcast, I talked to Liz Deacle, host of the NZ Ahead podcast.

For the interview, listen to the podcast here.

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