Episodes

Today I will be speaking with a representative from a company that offers one of the best-paying professional jobs for Workampers in the country. Matt Nelson works for a Jackson Hewitt, a company that prepares income tax returns for people and businesses across America. Matt’s franchise has locations in several states. He is based in the Dallas area and his co-worker, Finn Delima, who is also a former Workamper, works in Albuquerque. Their franchise also operates locations in New Mexico, Califo...

Today I will be speaking with an Army veteran who has been Workamping for four years. John Swinford has had a multi-faceted career. A 20-year veteran of the U.S. Army, when he retired from that job, he tried his hand at facility management. When he no longer wanted the responsibility of managing teams of people, he attained his commercial driver’s license and hit the road as a trucker. For 12 years, he drove thousands of miles past some very interesting places he always wanted to visit, but di...

Today I will be speaking with a gentleman who owns multiple RV parks and manufactured housing communities in the Midwest and southeast parts of the country. He’s looking for Workampers for several positions. Ryan Groene is one of the principal owners of Treeside Capital. It’s a company that invests in RV and manufactured housing parks in several states. Those parks form what are called Treeside Communities. When the interview was recorded a few weeks ago, Ryan said the firm owned and managed f...

This week’s show will be short and sweet. I’ll be interviewing the director of a large privately-owned park in beautiful Santa Barbara, Calif., where Workampers help with various special events and by assisting park guests. Dean Noble is the executive director of Elings Park in Santa Barbara, Calif. It is the largest privately-funded, non-profit park in the United States, according to Wikipedia. About 90,000 people live in Santa Barbara, which is located along the Pacific Ocean about 100 miles ...

Today I will be talking with an RVer who makes a living as a public speaker and describes himself as a freedom lifestyle entrepreneur as well as a philanthropic adventure traveler. Clinton Young is a public speaker who addresses people around the country on the topic of having courage to live their dream life by overcoming doubt and fear to do some really big things. He is also a certified pickleball coach. Best of all, he operates his business from a 36-foot Holiday Rambler motorhome. His wif...

This week I will speak with a mother of two who supports her family by helping companies with their Facebook and Instagram advertising. Tricia Prues grew up on the same street all of her life in a Kentucky town across the river from Cincinnati, Ohio. The idea of traveling never really appealed to her. However, it was a different story for her husband. He had the travel bug and really wanted the adventure of RVing. So, their family launched into full-time RVing at the start of this year. Becaus...

Today I am speaking with two people from a company in the Pacific northwest which will hire a bunch of Workampers to help with its sugar beet harvest this fall. Aaron Firth is a district manager for Amalgamated Sugar, which has locations primarily in southern Idaho, but also in Washington State and Oregon. He oversees growing the beets, their harvest and delivering beets to factories. He is joined by Taren Hutchinson, a human resources specialist, who is responsible for hiring people to fill a...

This week I will be speaking with a man who is involved in the Habitat For Humanity RV Care-A-Vanners group. Their members travel in nearly every state helping to build lower-cost homes which people later buy. Daniel Banks and his wife started building homes for Habitat For Humanity on weekends in 1993. They have been doing it as full-time RVers since they retired from their day jobs in 2008. They usually participate in two dozen home builds every year. He said that one of the most popular mis...

Today I am speaking with a woman who operates a business from her RV to help other people capture and preserve their photographs and memories in a way they can’t be lost. Brenda Esdohr is the owner of PreseRVing Memory Lane. She and her husband started RVing fulltime earlier this year. It is something they have been planning for a while, and it was the process of downsizing that opened Brenda’s eyes to a new business idea. She had boxes of photos, albums and videos they would not easily be abl...

Today I am interviewing a man who owns several bed and breakfast inns in Arkansas. He hires Workampers to help serve guests and maintain the properties. Chris Smith has owned the Wildflower Bed and Breakfast in Mountain View, Ark., for seven years. He recently purchased another property, the Ozark Country Inn, which is a few blocks away from the Wildflower. Chris also operates a small music venue on one of his properties where he hosts shows and concerts. Mountain View is two hours south of Br...

This week I am interviewing a woman who gets to travel around the country interviewing RV industry professionals and working up feature stories about them for a major RV industry news publication. Niki Benedict was an event planner until the COVID debacle put an end to all in-person meetings. After her job was eliminated, she found work for a company that performed data analytics for the automotive industry. That required working entirely on a computer from home, and since people weren’t suppos...

Today, I am going to speak with a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ranger about Workamping opportunities in south-central Massachusetts. Angela Erskine works at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project at Buffumville Lake and Hodges Village Dam, which is located in south-central Massachusetts, just a few miles from the Connecticut border. The 483-acre Buffumville recreation area includes a day-use park with a boat ramp and 300 feet of shoreline used as a warm water beach. There are also five fishin...

Today I will be speaking with a full-time RVer who is a certified RV technician, but opted to specialize in a very unique niche – cleaning RV waste tanks – and she makes a very good living doing that. Sue Rasmussen has been living full-time in her Airstream travel trailer for more than six years. She started as a personal coach helping clients to unclutter and simplify their lives. In fact, for about 24 years, she helped women and business owners who were feeling overwhelmed to help them stream...

Today I’ll be speaking with a man who developed a way for Workampers to make a pretty good income by helping them sell RVs and referring people to his service. Deryle Jensen is the founder of RVWheelator, which is a play on the term realtor. His company specializes in connecting buyers to sellers in a rather unique way. RVs of all types are sold in a manner similar to how homes are sold in a private transaction between buyers and sellers. He developed the program after watching too many people...

Today, I am interviewing a man who has become a full-time online content creator producing do-it-yourself videos and hosting a podcast to help other entrepreneurs finance their travel dreams. Joshua Sheehan, his wife and twin 8-year-old boys started RVing in November 2021 after Kolie completed a 20-year career in the U.S. Air Force. The military family moved frequently during her career, yet they did not really know where they wanted to settle down. So, they hopped into a 30-foot bunkhouse trav...

This week, I will be speaking with an RVer who started an online marketing agency to help business owners, especially other mobile-based businesses, to navigate the often-complicated world of digital marketing. Yet, the real reason they bought an RV was to serve others. Joe Meyers is the chief creative officer for Share Marketing, which provides digital marketing and consulting services to small businesses owners. Originally from the twin cities area of Minnesota, Joe and his wife travel the co...

Today I will be speaking with an employer from South Dakota who is looking for help this spring at a campground near Rapid City. Justin Gonzales is the manager of Black Hawk Creek RV Park, which is located just a few miles north of Rapid City, right on the edge of beautiful Black Hills National Forest and all the popular tourist attractions, like Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse Memorial, Sturgis, and Custer State Park. The campground has been in existence for a while and was previously known as Li...

Today I will be interviewing two women who tow a 28-foot Airstream while operating a personal coaching business to help people break through the fear that holds their ambitions hostage. Jennie and Meredyth Mustafa-Julock started full-time RVing about a year ago. Jennie has worked as a personal life coach since 2006 and Meredyth serves as the CEO to manage and promote the business. As a coach, Jennie applies her natural curiosity to helping people identify their purpose and then planning a path...

Today I am interviewing a gentleman who finances his travel dreams by automating websites from his RV wherever he wants to go. All he needs is a good internet connection, and he explains how he does that. Michael Short is originally from southern California. He has been RVing by himself since November 2020. He started because he realized that with everyone working from home due to COVID, his home could literally be wherever he wanted to visit. He founded a company called Pipeline Sales Optimiz...

Today I will be speaking with a Workamper who actually hires other Workampers to help detect natural gas leaks for utility companies throughout America. Christina Joyner and her husband have been Workampers for Southern Cross for several years conducting surveys of underground natural gas lines in communities across the country. The company just celebrated its 75th anniversary. Utility companies hire Southern Cross to help monitor the condition of underground pipes by using sensitive sniffer eq...

Today I’m interviewing a woman who travels around the country in an RV with her husband while preparing curriculum and other educational resources for teachers. Michelle and Scott McDonald are originally from Washington state. They started RVing three years ago and today own an Airstream travel trailer large enough for the couple, two dogs and a business. The McDonalds have always enjoyed the outdoors. In the past, Scott worked in the outdoor recreation industry helping others to enjoy explora...

Today, I’m talking with an employer from South Dakota who has a really unique Workamping opportunity for people who have construction experience – and they’re looking for dozens of Workampers this summer. The Vivos Project is a community being developed near Edgemont, S.D. It was once an old U.S. Army base where ammunition was stored in underground bunkers. Those 575 bunkers are being converted into private homes that people can use as emergency shelters, vacation homes, permanent residences an...

I closed last week’s show by saying I’d be interviewing a Workamper this week who produces curriculum from her RV, but I’ll need to change that up because there is an immediate need for 300 Workampers to work on a moving project in Minnesota. Trish Parker works for Express Professionals in Grand Forks, N.D. One of their clients, Digi-Key, is moving into a new location in Thief River Falls, Minn., which is about an hour east of Grand Forks. The company is a world-class electronics distribution c...

Today I am doing a follow-up interview with a certified mobile RV technician I talked to last year. At the time, he was just getting started and we’ll see whether life unfolded for him the way he hoped. Anthony Montelongo owns Certified RV Solutions. He works as a certified mobile RV technician in north Georgia fixing problems from Atlanta to nearly Knoxville, Tenn. He has carved out a rather large market area. He started the business about a year ago after taking classes at the National RV Tr...