RV, Van, & 5 Properties: My Multi-Asset Lifestyle Strategy

Lifestyle & Living

Stop thinking about “Home” as a single zip code.

In this session, I’m breaking down the whiteboard of my life. Most people think being a “Digital Nomad” means a backpack and a hostel. For me, it means managing a 12-blog empire while navigating a lifestyle that includes a city condo, a rental property, an RV travel trailer, and a custom van.

I used to call this being “technically homeless,” but the truth is much bigger: I am Location Independent by Design. In this breakdown, I’m showing you:

  • The Property Portfolio: How I manage 5+ living situations across the city and country.
  • The Logistics of Freedom: Why I have 3 sets of everything (shampoo, clothes, tech) to stay mobile.
  • The “Barnaminium” Vision: Why I realized I needed a central “Vault” (The High Caliber Hacienda) to house my assets.
  • Digital Real Estate vs. Physical Stress: How my 12 niche blogs fund this unconventional life.

The Assets that Fuel the Lifestyle: As mentioned in the “Blogging Tour,” these are the pillars of my digital estate: RVersity | Birdie’s Doghouse | Fancy Financials | Maps and Miles | Drops of B | Born to Blog Club (plus more…)

This isn’t about “starting over” in a crisis; it’s about Lifestyle Engineering. I’m moving from the chaos of being scattered to the clarity of the High Caliber Hacienda.

TL;DR (Executive Summary)

  • The Portfolio: Why I manage 5+ living situations across the city and country simultaneously.
  • Location Independence by Design: Moving from the “homeless” label to a “Post-Geographic” lifestyle.
  • The High-Caliber Logistic: Why I keep 3 sets of essentials (shampoo, clothes, tech) to stay mobile and productive.
  • The Barnaminium Vision: Why I realized I needed a central “Vault” (The High Caliber Hacienda) to house my scattered assets.

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The Asset Map: 6 Homes, 12 Blogs, and 0 Permission Slips

In this video, I take you to my whiteboard to show you the “clutter” behind the curtain. When I say I’m technically homeless, it’s not for lack of options—it’s because my assets are spread across an entire region.

1. The Living Ecosystem

I currently navigate between:

  • The City Condo: My urban base for high-speed work and city logistics.
  • The RV Travel Trailer: My stationary “Lake House” for deep-focus blogging sessions.
  • The Custom RV Van: My mobile office and “PAW Patrol” transport for the 5 dogs and cat.
  • The Rental Asset: A 3.5-bath property that serves as a long-term wealth generator.
  • Family Bases: Two country properties that provide a safety net and “babysitting” for the dogs when I’m in high-gear mode.

2. The Logistics of a “Mobile-First” Life

Living this way isn’t an accident; it’s Lifestyle Engineering. To make this work, I’ve had to master:

  • Triple Redundancy: I don’t pack a bag. I have clothes, toiletries, and work gear pre-staged at every location. I can get in my car and go at any second.
  • Privacy & Security: Why I keep my specific locations offline while staying 100% transparent about the strategy.
  • The Minimalist Mindset: Even with 6 “homes,” all I truly need to run my empire is my laptop, my phone, and my dogs.

3. Why the Hacienda is the Next Step

This video is the “Requirement List” for what is now the High Caliber Hacienda. managing 6 locations and multiple storage units is a high-level flex, but it’s also high-friction. I realized I needed a “Central Hub”—a Barnaminium to pull the RV into and house the 12-blog engine under one roof.

The “Blogging Tour” Directory

My life is a blog. Literally. I don’t choose these niches; they choose me. Here is the directory of the assets that fund this lifestyle:

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Have you ever felt “scattered” while trying to build your dream? I’d love to hear how you manage your assets in the comments below.

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The Reality: 6 Animals, 5 Locations, and the Truth about ‘Navy Showers’.”

Here’s the transcript from the video…

Why I’m Explaining My Living Situation Now

After my last post + video, I feel like I need to explain myself and my living situation because most people don’t realize what homelessness really looks like.

I’m going to break it down visually without sharing private locations so you can understand how I live. I’m going to explain my living situation to you from memory, the best that I can, between RV life, condo life, and family living arrangements.

What I Mean When I Say I’m “Technically Homeless”

If you’re wondering, “Where does Blogging Brandi sleep, eat, shower, poop, pee, all the above, get her work done?” Here’s how it goes down…

  • Sometimes you’ll find me in the city because we have a condo in the city.
  • Then we have an RV, a travel trailer that stays stationary at an RV Park / Trailer Park on a lake out in the country — that you could pull behind you, but it doesn’t go anywhere.
  • And we also have the RV van (aka van life)

The Reality of Living Between Multiple Homes

So, we have the RV van and we have the RV travel trailer. And then Nanny and Mimi’s house. And this is also in the country. Our RV van stays in a storage unit in the country, but not here. I forgot one other place. Also, Nanny and Mimi have a lakehouse, but it’s really a trailer, but it doesn’t go anywhere cuz they took the wheels off. is a real trailer, like a mobile home, and it’s also on the same lake, but the lake where the RV van is in storage in Nanny and Mimi’s house is the same place. So, these are connected kind of same area. You could walk to them, drive to them. Sameish property, different owners, different management, everything else. And also Nanny and Mimi’s house for sale.

So, our RV travel trailer is on the other side of the lake from our RV van, 20 minutes away from each other.

Nanny and Mimi have a house in the country (same area), but it’s 20 minutes away from their lake house / mobile home trailer. So they will leave their house and go to their “lake house” to hang out.

The Logistics No One Sees

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We will leave our condo in the city and go to our travel trailer or go get in our van. You can already see there’s a lot going on here.

One other thing, I’m not going to go into detail. I can’t tell you everything about my life. But, here are a few other deets…

In the city, we also have multiple cars. My drawings are not good. These triangles are cars. And we have like work vehicles and my van. And if you don’t know, I have a smart car for my old RV. Still have it broken down, not working. Don’t ask questions right now.

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And we have storage units with stuff in them. Just imagine a bunch of boxes with stuff in them. Bunch of storage units. City condo cars storage units. If you didn’t already figure this out, the RV van can’t park at the condo because you would have to park it on the street and you probably get robbed or something bad would happen. So, we try never to take it to the city.

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The city and the RV van and the RV trailer, they’re about that’s an hour and a half to two hours from each other. So to leave the city and come to the RV, no matter which RV we want to use, we would have to get in the car and drive about 2 hours away. And that’s with traffic. Now, one other thing that is a side piece of my life, and I can’t give you all the dates yet. We have a rental property in the city, but instead of being two bedrooms and two baths, it’s actually three bedrooms and three and a half baths. There’s plenty of room in this nice big place, but it’s technically rented out.

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Two Humans, Six Animals, and Constant Movement

One other thing is that we have two humans and six animals (Five dogs and one cat) that all live in THIS situation…

Plus, when we’re visiting, we have Nanny and Mimi. So, we have the van to be able to travel with the dogs and the cat. And we have this living arrangement, but it doesn’t matter because we can’t park the van in the city. Then, we have all these storage units, and then we have somebody in this rental property.

It’s just a really weird situation.

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So, if you’re ever like, “Where is Brandi?” when she’s working, traveling, sleeping, peeing, pooing, or whatever, I could be at one of these places. THIS is usually my setup. Or I could be in a foreign destination, in a hotel, Airbnb, or somewhere else.

We have the condo in the city and two RVs — One never goes anywhere. The other one is made to travel in. And then this RV van is parked over at Nanny and Mimi’s Lakehouse — in storage.

And then Nanny and Mimi have a house, which is where I’m at now, if that makes sense. I’m trying to think if there’s anything I forgot.

Speaking of forgetting things…

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Why This Still Feels Like Being Homeless

Just imagine all your stuff being between all these places. 🤦‍♀️

And…

I already know what you’re thinking:

“Brandi. Why would you say that you’re technically homeless when you have two condos in the city, one rental property-ish, all these storage units and cars, a travel trailer, an RV van, two RVs, one doesn’t go anywhere, one moves anywhere you want on a lake, and then Nanny and Mimi’s mobile home/lake house. — One, two, three, four, five, sixish homes to live in.”

There are a lot of reasons that I say that. Let me count the ways…

If you don’t know my story and you haven’t checked it out yet — I’ll tell you all about how I quit my job, how I ended up becoming a digital nomad, how I started my business and my blogs, and everything else that transpired.

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What My Life Actually Looks Like Behind the Scenes

When I say homeless, I just want you to imagine you have all these houses, but all your stuff is spread out between them — EVERYWHERE!

This is my room here. I’m not joking. This is my mom’s house. I’ve been cleaning up, decluttering. If you don’t know, I just wrote a book about decluttering, and I have resale inventory here. I’ve talked about reselling the dog houses. This was from Christmas and whatnot, but this is really where I’m not up right now and trying to get all this. I have another video coming out about what I’m doing with all this stuff.

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I don’t want to say a nightmare because a lot of people think that I’m rich or a celebrity or a blogger or a vlogger and they never see behind the scenes of my life, because sometimes things look really, really pretty ONLINE — in front of the camera and on social media, etc…

Which is why I wanted to share this with you. Let me back up. I feel like I’m rambling now. But when I say homeless, I don’t know why it would seem exciting to be traveling between all these places and having your stuff all over the place and not having just a central home that you can go to.

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When I buy things, I buy one, two, three shampoos so that I can have one in the van, one in the travel trailer, one in the city, and then I always have backups in Annie and Mimi’s. I can go to any of these places and I have clothes, toiletries, pretty much anything that I need. I can eat, sleep, shower, whatever at these places, minus Nanny and Mimi’s mobile home right now because it’s for sale, but I still have shower and stuff there.

The RV Shower Reality (It’s Not Glamorous)

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And then when I say shower, you’re probably like, “Well, you have all these RVs and all these places. That’s so great.” But if you’ve never had a shower in the RV, just so you know, we have to heat the water and I have to take what’s called a navy shower. I gave a little preview of this and explained this on my RV channel. I ended up having 100,000 people take a shower with me. So, too long. Didn’t read. It’s a shower that’s not fun. Okay. You have to turn the water on and off. You only have so much hot water. It’s a little big tank.

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We don’t have unlimited hot water. And then at the trailer park, the water be off all the time. They cut the water off on us. Long story. There are pros and cons to my stationary RV life, which I made another video about. If you want to learn all about my RV life, go over to rverity.com and follow me at rverity. You can learn all about that. I share everything over there. I’ve given you tours of these RVs and the condos and everything else.

Why I Live as a Minimalist

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So, if you want to go behind the scenes of my life, behind the scenes of my life is in the description below this video and on my website, blog.com. You can buy all those seats because I gave you a tour of all my blogs as well. When I say homeless, it may sound fun to have this. It may sound fun to have all these clothes and all these things, but I’m just telling you, when you’re moving and shaking, you forget things. Things get left at different places. When people give you gifts, where do you put them? And then I call myself a minimalist. And I really will say my life is very, very

Why I Don’t Have a Traditional “Home”

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minimal because as long as I have my computer and my dogs, sometimes a cat, then I’m good. I only need a few things to operate my business. And really, having my computer and my phone, which what I’m recording on, is essential. The other reason that I say I’m homeless, if you haven’t watched my story, is because me and my boyfriend, we’ve been together for going on 11 years, over a decade. That’s like 10 years. 10 years. And in 10 years, there’s no ring on this finger. It sounds fun for all this, but

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there’s something you might be missing. I moved in and sold my condo. Then I got an RV, an RV travel trailer. And then I had two RV vans and then I had a motor home. And then I sold my RV, had sold my condo in the city and said, “Okay, I’m getting rid of the RVs. I want to get out of the trailer park.” And then we didn’t have the van at the time. I was getting rid of my RV. And I was hoping to just do the city thing, have Nanny and Mimi’s. We could go to her lake house if we need something. And then my

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boyfriend said he wanted to buy an RV. And then we ended up with two RVs in the same trailer park and we haven’t left seven years. Same trailer park. I like to take showers, full long hot showers at the house or the condo in the city, which we don’t even have a full hot water tank there because it’s been there for the 10 years that that condo’s been there 20 years actually. I think that one needs hot water, too. I get a little bit of a hot water shower there. I don’t even know if that makes sense. I’ve

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shared a lot about this and why I say I’m technically homeless is because I I live in other people’s situations. I don’t want to say none of these are mine. These things I moved into, if that makes sense. So, I didn’t decorate them even though I’ve put my little touch on them here and there, but I didn’t get to pick out the pictures on the wall. I didn’t get to pick out all the decor that goes in them. And I don’t really have a house or anything that I’ve really decorated minus probably the

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travel trailer because what little decor is in there, it really just came from like all my other RVs and it just got passed down to the next RV and the next RV. Yeah, that’s why I say I’m technically homeless is because I don’t really have a home. And what would be really nice is if we had property, a barnaminium, and somewhere we could pull the RV in and we could put all of our stuff, not have it all sitting in storage everywhere. boxes, storage, and everything else.

Why Privacy and Safety Matter to Me

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Now, what I want to point out to you, as I mentioned in my last video, I’m almost 40, calling myself homeless because a lot of people think that I’m rich and I’m blessed and I have all these things, especially people that see me in real life. But what they don’t realize is that I don’t have security and safety and privacy in my life, even given tours of these RVs, but I don’t even tell people where I live because I don’t want people to know. And I live in a town here of 5,000 people. And probably five people know

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who I am or that I even exist there. And I would like to keep it that way until I leave here, which is hopefully this year. I’m working on it. Also, in this city, we live in such a little confined space and then we have neighbors and then our parking is right beside people and it’s like we’re always moving and shaking our parking spots and we just don’t have something that’s our own that you’re not comingling with other people all the time and you have rules and you have associations and you have people

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that tell you what to do. Same thing kind of with the RV. I’ll say at the trailer park, it’s not nobody really tells us what to do. which is the fact that nobody does anything there and we’re the only ones to do anything. It just feels like the inmates are running the asylum. So, the people that own the place, whole another story, whole ball game. I want to leave there. My privacy matters to me. I don’t really share the place that I’m at. I don’t share even the city, like the condo. And I really

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try not to share where we live because we’re in such a close proximity, but it’s kind of funny. It’s like in one place there’s only like 5,000 people, but in the other place there’s like 5 million in such a small space and it can have the opposite effects of people finding out who I am or what I talk about. And so when I share about my life, I really don’t want my neighbors to know who I am or that I’m potentially talking about them. Landlords and all the other things that go on. And also

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when I mentioned in my other video, I don’t have privacy like I would like. I can go anywhere. I can do anything. I can leave at any point in time. I can work from anywhere. Right now, I could pack up and leave and just go get on a plane and nobody’s going to say anything. Although my boyfriend might be a little bit jealous, but I would not do that. I would probably go get the van maybe and and take off. But we travel a lot together. I’ve been taking a lot of time getting things together at the

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beginning of the year, the end of the year, the holidays. And I just wanted to catch you up on why I feel the way that I feel. I try to keep things private. I try to keep things safe, secure, because I live so much of my life online. And I’m so public with everyone, but I do feel called. I feel that it’s my calling to do that, to blog and blog and teach. I just try to keep some kind of boundaries between that. That’s between you and me. But then in my own living situations, like here I’m at Nanny and

Family, Gratitude, and the Need for Space

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Mimi’s and you know I have to worry about they have the heat and the AC and then my grandma gets hot and cold and then my mom be texting me and then the dogs are running in and out of the room and then they hear them come and go and they’re cooking and they’re living their life. I have to remember that I’m in their space and so while they do make a lot of arrangements for me and I’m super thankful for all the things they do like we have to do laundry here cuz we don’t have laundry in our RVs and we’d have to

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take our stuff all the way to the city 2 hours away. We do laundry at nanny and mimies and they let me take showers and they’re super helpful. I love them and we we do a lot for them too, but I don’t have privacy like I would like. Yeah, I’m here, but even if I go out in the car and they know that I’m here, they’ll be texting like, “Oh, where you at?” Or they’ll give me play by place their day. And while that’s great and I appreciate that and I know a lot of people will say

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like, you know, one day you’ll miss those things. And I don’t take that for granted. It’s just the fact that when you’re trying to run your business and stuff, sometimes I feel like they just think I’m hanging out here. Just they don’t really do anything. My grandma plays casino games on her computer and she puts puzzles together and then my mom does everything around the house and then I’m just here and thankfully she helps me take care of the dogs when I’m here. So it’s like having a babysitter,

Why I Don’t Live in One Place Full-Time

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but I don’t have privacy where no one’s checking up on me all the time like what are you doing? What do you want for dinner? Like I just got a text message, hey what time do you think you want to eat dinner? At my house we want to eat dinner till 9 or 10:00. Our life is very different. So, I know you’re like, Brady, why don’t you just live full-time in one place instead of traveling around? It’s like you’re doing it to yourself. That’s not necessarily true because I’m a blogger and vlogger and I

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do live a life on the road and my life is not always in one place. You have to come and check on these things and I have left the travel trailer at times and the RV van and I’ll leave here and I might be gone for a month. I might be gone for two weeks. I might be gone for a day. It just depends on what’s going on when I show up at every place. I just went to the travel trailer. Things got really chaotic there. Don’t get me started. Had to leave there, run back to Nanny and Mimi’s. I was having a

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peaceful time over there at my house, the travel trailer at the RV park/tra park, and then all hell broke loose. Had to run to Nanny and Mimi’s house. And then in the city right now, it’s just things are really crazy. And I did go back there over the holidays, literally for like less than 24 hours. And I was like, this ain’t going to work for me. I cannot do this right now. I got in my car and I took off. I literally like ran away to come back to have some peace and quiet and privacy to myself. I do travel

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for fun, travel for work. If you haven’t seen the setup of the travel trailer in Vington has a garage outside, we have a fence out there and so we have to cut our grass in the summertime and then if it’s windy or rainy, I can’t tell you how many times our garage is blown away and there’s just so many things that we do have to come check on. These things are plugged up. The RV van is plugged up, so we have to go check on it. The battery dies. We have a boat, a golf cart, and go-karts and other random

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things. And that’s why I said we have all these fun toys, but they’re all just packed away, and we can’t even get them out and play with them because we don’t have a space or a place to do that. And it’s not that we haven’t looked at places. It’s not that we haven’t tried to put offers in on places. It’s just things haven’t fallen into place that would work out for our situation, everything that we have going on. Invent likes to collect things, random things.

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I’m a minimalist. I told him he can have all the cars he wants. I just want to save animals and puppies. I just want to rescue animals. He wants to collect things. Two opposite ends of the spectrum. But he lets me collect my animals and we’re up to six now. I need more space. We’re already breaking rules as we are at all the places that we live for having that many animals and the living situations that we’re in and trying to maneuver them all. So, it’s it’s just gotten to be a lot. I don’t

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live in one place full time. I could for a period of time and I do and so that’s why I’ll go stay somewhere for a week or two but then sometimes things just get crazy and I have to leave. So if things get crazy at the RV park and it’s loud which typically it is and I never go there I have to leave and then the RV van I really I took it on a trip but it’s not I would have to move around or go find a place to go park it. And then the city I told you things are crazy. And then Nanny and Mimi is like living with your parents sometimes. And then the mobile home is like for sale. So I’ve I’ve lived there at times. I even tried to buy the trailer next to it and then that was a whole another nightmare that I can’t even get into yet until nanny sells your lake house. Then I’ll tell you all the dirty deets.

How This Lifestyle Supports My Life and Business: Sobriety, Purpose, and Choosing What Works

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I know you’re wondering, Brandi, how does this work for you to support your work and your peace and sobriety if you don’t know that and sanity in my life?

If you don’t know, I’m a blogger, and I have multiple blogs. If you haven’t been on my blogging tour, I actually give a tour of that. But you’re like, how does this living situation work for this? Well, why do you think that I blog about my life so much now?

First, it all starts with Blogging Brandi THIS Blog and my personal website.

RVersity is where I talk about all my RV life.

Birdie’s Doghouse is where I talk about all the dogs, and then we Johnny his own cat blog.

Fancy Financials is my money blog.

ICYMI… I quit my job in finance to do THIS. I used to have a job at Bank of America, Merrill Lynch. I told my whole story about it and how I quit in another post.

And then maps and miles is my travel blog. I talk all about traveling, not necessarily RV-related. Think air, water, and land. Some RV, not really.

Redirected Energy. You want your daily devotionals and a little bit of that Jesus juice, that’s where you’re going to go.

RVing for bosses. It’s really just a spin-off of RVersity and it has to do with digital nomads and people who want to travel, RV, and work remotely.

BLABoss has been there for years. It’s a blog all about business branding and entrepreneurship. I also wrote a book to go along with it called “Brand Like A Boss” — I’ve actually written a few BOOKS!

Ambay Exchange is all about reselling – which is how I quit my job = reselling!

I was flipping items that I had around the house, turning trash into cash, clutter into cash really. Again, wrote a book about that, all that.

There’s a link in the description below this video where you can find all these deets and take a tour of my blogs.

Born to Blog Club. You might not know about that. If you want to learn how to blog and do all this, I actually have a website all about that. It’s called borntoblog club.com. You can head over there, join that, read all about that, learn everything you want ever wanted to know about blogging.

unish me. Look it up.

And the drops of bee. The drops of bee is my non-alcoholic sober living vlog. And I talk all about that cuz if you didn’t know that I’ve been two years sober. I wasn’t an alcoholic. I did it for someone else.

I told all about my story and my healthy habits, and like why I quit drinking and all of that on my website, my blogs.

How does this support this? Do you see? I talk about my RV life. I talk about my dogs. My everything. My life is a blog. So, talk about all these things that go on in my life on my blogs.

And I used to have just one blog. And then I figured out that I needed separate blogs, separate niches, which I talk about over at the Born to Blog Club.

I didn’t choose this or this. I didn’t choose these things. They chose me. So, I’ve just decided to lean into them and God’s gift that he gave me, which is the gift of writing and the gift of creating and teaching. I’ve been trying to just accept it that these are the gifts that God gave me, and this works for me right now, and that’s enough.

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PS: This is part of The High Caliber Hacienda: Building a $10k/Mo Digital Estate series 👉 WATCH THE FULL SERIES HERE

This was the moment I realized that “stuff” isn’t the problem—it’s the lack of a system. I was managing 6 homes and 12 blogs from a whiteboard. If you want to see the specific “Anti-Guru” system I used to keep the money flowing while living this scattered life, watch Video 3 next: The Anti-Guru Blueprint: My $10k/mo Digital Asset Ecosystem

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