Melissa Neacato of www.travelingwallet.com is the guest on today's show to talk about her journey to paying off over $100,000 in debt while also partaking in mini-retirments. She is a member of the Financailly Independent, Retire Early community more widely known as the F.I.R.E Community. She also enjoys the practice of minimalism to find out what really matters to her.

Patrick Scanlan is the Program Director of the Backcountry Program at Carrabassett Valley Academy (CVA) in the western mountains of Maine. The Backcountry program is a unique program that exposes kids to incredible places while teaching them how to not just be active in the backcountry, but to do it safely. They take incredible trips all over the world to rugged wildernesses to test themselves in environments that most people would shy away from. Kids learn a blend of mountaineeri...

Finley Robinson is coach who helps entrepreneurial couples navigate the challenges of working together as well as serve as the Brand Manager for BTribalFit , his wife Brooke's online community centered around fitness. Finley recently left his job serving as a pastor in his church to commit fully to both his and Brooke's dream of having a successful online business that allows for them to have the freedom to live life on their terms. He shares his journey of leaving something he cared d...

Boris Kievsky runs dotorgstrategy.com which has a mission of making the world a better place by helping nonprofits harness the power of storytelling and technology to find and activate more heroes for their cause. Boris immigrated to the US as a young boy from the Ukraine. Through his journey of assimilating to the US he learned how important the concept of identity was. This helped him fall in love with 2 areas that still play a role in his life today: story telling and us...

Quick note saying the show is going to return Oct 19th! Lots of great interviews scheduled so be sure to stay subscribed!

Join Brent and Dan Mendat on a replay from one of the first episodes. Dan was literally cruising through life in Northeast Ohio as a truck driver and sailing with his wife on the weekends. When health challenges from driving truck and a family tragedy struck he knew something had to change. During a vacation to Southwest Florida he and his wife took a 4 hour sailing cruise. A chance comment by the skipper of the boat planted the seed of a different life. Dan and his wife Dianne decide...

Ryan Goloversic, aka Rygo, and Brent discuss his jobs in social media video production and kite boarding. From a young age Ryan new that he had to have a sense of purpose otherwise he would be miserable. Ryan started off his career as a punk rocker in the Michigan area. He left music after a few years and taking a few missteps found an interest in creating social media videos about kiteboarding. He currently works for MacKite in Michigan as Creative Director and a team rider. His ...

Patrick Gallagher talks with Brent about building community and leadership and why it is important. Patrick talks about how he got started in this business of developing community and leadership. He has a business The Engineering Leadership Community which specializes in building leaders in the software engineering community. They also talk about the importance of developing meaningful personal relationships.This business was very different from studying physical therapy and kinesiology in co...

Jennilee Morris speaks with Brent about her journey to becoming a coffee expert and successful business person. Jenni Morris, an entrepreneur and chef. She owns a coffee roasting company, 2 coffee shops and a catering business on Long Island. Brent and Jenni talk about: Her first experience on an extended road trip in a camper. They discuss the type RV she and her partner, Emma Ballou, used and why and how they were able to find the time to travel. They had challenges ...

Reid Garcia of McKinney Texas speaks with Brent. Reid is an electrical engineer, entrepreneur and RVer. Brent and Reid talk about: Growing up in Texas and attending Texas A&M University, his involvement with Engineers Without Borders and the discovery of how important it is to volunteer.Working at Boeing as an electrical engineer. How he found his center amid very different cultural influences from all over the country and the world. Discovering what made him feel valued and the wor...

Chris Riley and Brent discuss Chris’ entrepreneurship, his interest in sailing and mountain biking. Entrepreneur After graduating from college Chris, while working at a school for outdoor education, he forms his first business with his brother, photographing weddings and other eventsWhile doing that he and his brother worked on developing programming to improve the photo editing process and it became an important part of the digital photography explosion.He also saw an area of need supplyin...

Brent interviews Wesley Henderson, an attorney in the Charleston, South Carolina area. He has taken a different road to creating a successful law firm and they talk about why and how he did it. Quite often people become attorneys because of mentors or family influence but for Wesley and his brother there were no lawyers in their family. He discovered he had an affinity toward law classes in college. He decided to pursue it because of the many practice areas that are available to those t...

Join Sarah and Brent as they share some of the moments, lessons and takeaways from the first 25 episodes that have affected them. We've gotten a lot of great feedback since the show has started and we appreciate each and every listener. We are busy lining up more great guests for the next 25 shows! Be sure to subscribe so that you don't miss an episode! Each episode can be found at The Herd of Turtles. If you'd like to support the show please rate and review the show or visit ...

In today’s interview Brent talks to Brad Herder who’s mantra is “let’s see what happens” as he truly follows his passions and curiosity. Brad met his wife when she was a canoe racer and they have followed their passion for an outdoor life ever since. Brad refers to himself as an “accidental person” and it all started while he was delivering papers as a young kid. He found that he could run his delivery route faster than he could ride his bike and his passion for running was born. This p...

Garrett Morrow is a long distance hiker who has hiked some of the most challenging long distance trails in the country. What would drive someone to give up the luxuries of modern life and voluntarily face both physical and mental challenges out in the wilderness? Garrett gives us the skinny on what drives him to push himself during his long distance hikes. He specifically shares his experiences from hiking the majority of the Appalachian Trail, or what is commonly referred ...

In this episode Brent speaks with intrepid traveler and entrepreneur Nate Ritter, co-founder of Room Steals. Room Steals is an online company that helps save time and frustration by being sure that you have found the absolute best prices on hotel rooms. Room Steals is able to offer wholesale pricing on rooms, even if you are only booking 1 room for one night. The business model of the service it to give the best prices of the rooms available, and if you can save money using Room Steals prices...

This episode's guest is the award winning, multi-talented artist Tom Ferrero. Tom has twice won the prestigious Saul Bell Design Award for his works of art. Tom shares his educational journey as an artist. His love of art was nurtured early on in high school where he took every art class he could take. One of the last courses he took was in jewelry making where it married his favorite aspects of art into a cohesive idea. After Tom's undergraduate studies at Rochester Institute of Techn...

We flip the script a little in this episode. Sarah interviews Brent on the big news for the Herd of Turtles family! Brent recently retired after 26 1/2 yeas in the airline industry. This is a big change for our family and we talk about how the decision to retire at a young age was arrived at and what we are planning for the next stage. This podcast is about aligning your life so that you can follow a passion. This big change in Brent's life is allowing h...

In this episode Brent with Deke Andrews about his unusual choice of living in a van full time, his nomadic life for mountain biking but also his relatively stable stationary van life while he is snowboarding and what his ultimate experience is in van life. They discuss the advantages and the challenges of van life including minimalism which Deke is still defining what that means and how to accomplish it. One of the defining traits of Deke is that he is an unconventional thinker and definitely...

This episode’s guest is Logan Messina. Logan is a newly minted Registered Maine Guide. Maine Guides are widely recognized in the guiding profession as one of the most respected titles one can acquire. Logan has a passion for fishing that is infectious. But it wasn’t always the case. Like most, he tried a number of other professions before he found his true calling. We learn about his previous work experiences and how it lead him to living in Maine and becoming co...