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Episode 9: Mike & Rebecca – A life of adventure, frugality and planned uncertainty.

June 29, 2018/in Podcast/by Christian Graugart
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Mike and Rebecca Sweeney were full time BJJ and MMA instructors, when they decided to stop training, sell their academy and everything else they owned, to buy a boat and sail from Canada to the Caribbean and live there. After several years on the water, they sold the boat and set off on a bicycle ride from California to the southern tip of Argentina. They did all this with a true belief that everything, including money, can be figured out along the way. “How difficult can it be?”

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