“...I didn't want to quit working. I love what I do. I just didn't want to be tied to my work."

For years, I dreamed about packing up, hitting the road, and exploring all the hidden beauty the U.S. has to offer — not for a week or two, but full time.

I wanted to see the red cliffs of Utah, sip coffee in sleepy mountain towns, and fall asleep under a different sky each night.

But I didn’t want to quit working. Hopefully you can relate. As a finance coach for female entrepreneurs, I love what I do. I just didn’t want to be tied to my work.

Turns out, that dream wasn’t as far off as it felt.

In this post, I’m going to walk you through exactly how I made it happen. How I used my online business and a handful of well-chosen investments to fund full time RV living and a summer-long road trip that’s still going.

The Dream That Wouldn’t Let Go

Back in 2016, I wrote a poem about my dream life... a digital nomad life. At the time, I was broke, overwhelmed, and stuck. But I had a vision of freedom that wouldn’t let me go.

I knew I didn’t just want the occasional vacation road trip. I wanted a location-flexible lifestyle. I wanted to work on my terms, make great money, and still have time to chase sunsets from the driver’s seat of a camper or van.

But I had no idea how to get there. So I started with what I knew: business.

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Step #1: Shifting To A Recurring Revenue Model

In the beginning of my coaching career, I sold large 1:1 coaching packages for $35k/each and worked only with high-income earners who wanted financial freedom.

But that left me the burden of not only delivering an extremely high-touch program (with guaranteed results), in addition to creating content and juggling sales calls in between coaching calls.

It didn't take long for me to realize this wasn't "it".

Two years into my full time coaching business, I knew if I ever wanted to live my dream of full time travel, I needed a new business model!

An ad on Facebook changed everything.

I learned about sales funnels, and how to package my expertise into a digital product (such as online courses, group coaching, planners, books, etc) that I now sell 24/7 on autopilot rather than being stuck with a full schedule of sales calls and 1:1 coaching.

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Once I had dependable streams of business income coming in every month, I stopped reinvesting all of it back into the business and started building a second safety net: investments.

Step #2: Buying Investments That Would Pay My Monthly Bills

I had learned the hard way that relying only on business income — no matter how consistent — still left me vulnerable.

What if I had a slow month? Or something happened outside my control (hello 2020) that impacted my business?

That’s when I made the decision to start investing my profits into income-producing assets. The goal? To build a portfolio that would cover my monthly living expenses, so my bills were paid whether I was actively working or not.

To do this, I applied the principle I teach in my book From Hustler to InvestHER:

"Who has what I need, and needs what I have?"

I had, among other things, some savings from the sale of my wedding business and 15+ years of wedding/event experience.

We started by purchasing a 16-acre farm in Kansas and slowly turned it into multiple streams of passive income. I won’t repeat the full story here (you can read the whole journey in this post), but the short version is:
→ We rent our field to a local hay farmer,
→ Turned an old smokehouse into a She Shed we now rent for weddings and events,
→ And renovated the farmhouse to be a short-term rental on Airbnb.

Most people who buy a farm end up working the farm themselves. By building strategic partnerships with local vendors, farmers, ranchers, gardeners, etc., we have been able to form collaborations that generate passive income by creating a win-win scenario for both parties.

The result?

We own the farm and other people work it. We don't employ them. They earn a profit share of what they produce using our land, and we earn rental fees or profit share, too. This is a strategy I call being a Deal Savvy Diva and I teach it inside my new book From Hustler To InvestHER now available here.

Together, those income streams bring in roughly a thousand dollars per month.

Step #3: Compounding Our Profits With More Investments

Once the farm was cash flowing (modestly) and with my online business continuing to generate consistent monthly recurring revenue, Ben and I made a critical decision:

We didn’t spend the profits. We reinvested them.

Every time a wedding booked at the Pemberley Farm, every time a student enrolled in one of my online programs, and every time we got paid from Airbnb… we funneled that income into assets that would either grow in value or pay us monthly.

That’s when we started buying dividend-paying stocks.

Dividend stocks are one of the simplest forms of passive income. You buy shares in companies that distribute part of their profits back to shareholders (that’s you and me) in the form of quarterly or monthly payments.

(It's been real fun watching those dividends hit my bank account this week while on the road!)

And the best part?

Unlike real estate, there’s no maintenance, no calls from guests, no plumbing to fix. Just regular, steady income, and long-term appreciation, if you buy smart.

Our strategy was simple:
→ Use business income to cover day-to-day expenses
→ Use profit from the business and farm to build long-term wealth through investments

This gave us not just one income stream, but layers of income...so even if one took a dip, the others kept us afloat.

And then came a new opportunity… not for me, but for Ben.

Step #4: Supporting Ben's Dream Venture

When my husband Ben and I left Los Angeles in 2018, we didn’t have much of a plan — just a truck, a dream, and each other.

For two weeks, we lived in that truck while we figured out what was next. Then, my dad stepped in and offered Ben a job in the family business. Ben took it and, for the past seven years, he gradually worked his way up the ranks into a c-suite position.

When my dad announced his retirement last year, it marked a pivotal moment for all of us.

I had helped my dad with his business exit plan, which included selling his multi $7-figure business to fund his retirement with owner financing (one of five exit strategies I teach inside Confident InvestHER Academy).

But...

Ben had a different idea.

He pitched the idea to my dad to sell the original company location in Oregon… but give him the rights to open a second location based out of our farm in Kansas.

My dad agreed to a 10% revenue share in the new company and we got to work.

We used the profits from our investments, plus a few aligned investors, to officially launch Ben’s restoration company in June 2024.

Because of the highly leveraged business model I had built, I was able to take two full months off to support the launch—and within six months, Ben had collected over $100,000 in revenue.

Now, his company is a fully operational, income-producing part of our portfolio.

This is what the last piece of our financial strategy looks like in real life:
→ Leveraging one asset to build another
→ Investing in each other’s visions
→ Creating layered income streams that fund freedom

Taking a step back from my dream to help Ben launch his was a dream come true, and gave me a chance to show him the kind of emotional support he has always provided for me.

It also helped us fund an all-expenses paid trip for his extended family in Hawaii over Thanksgiving last year, which was another dream for him.

Step #5: Manifesting the Truck and Trailer

In early 2024, I told Ben I wanted to buy a camper van and travel the US.

He was excited for the adventure and fully supportive... but we were also on the brink of launching his restoration business, and that brought some tough conversations. Would this new venture be a detour from my dream? Would we have to put travel on hold again?

Ultimately, we said yes to his business. But I made a powerful decision:

This was still happening.

I didn’t know how, or when, or what it would look like...but I decided. I claimed it. I put it on my vision board and in my daily affirmations.

I cast it out into the universe with the quiet certainty that somehow, the pieces would fall into place.

And they did.

Ben’s co-founder—a former restoration technician from the Oregon location—came to stay with us on the farm for a few months while they got the new company up and running. When it came time for him to move his family out to Kansas permanently, we priced out the options for his cross-country relocation.

And here’s where the universe got cheeky.

We discovered that renting a U-Haul would cost nearly the same as buying a used camper and a diesel truck to tow it—with the added bonus of having a cozy place for his family to sleep along the way.

He bought the camper. He made the move. And once his family was settled into their new home…

Ben and I split the cost of buying the truck and trailer from him, essentially paying in full for his moving costs as well as landing myself the final piece I needed for my dream.

The exact setup I needed for full-time road life—showed up right there, in my driveway.

You might think that was very clever financial strategy... and it was.

But it's also a reminder that when you do the inner work… life tends to show up with the answer.

In Summary

This lifestyle wasn’t handed to me.

It was built. One decision, one income stream, one aligned opportunity at a time.

But it also wasn’t just built.

It was manifested, with intention, and with the unshakeable belief that freedom, abundance, and joy were not only possible for me… they were inevitable.

If you’ve been holding onto a dream—whether it’s full-time travel, financial freedom, or simply not working so damn hard for every dollar—I want you to know this:

You don’t have to choose between strategy and surrender.

You can have both.

You can build the plan and call in the miracle.

And if you’ve been trying to reach your next level… but the pieces just aren’t clicking into place?

Let’s talk.

Join Confident InvestHER Academy today and let’s uncover the missing link between where you are and the life you know you’re meant to live.

Your dream isn’t crazy.

It’s meant for you.