Welcome Back to Breakfast with Lisa & Josh!

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Whew, it’s been a while.Here’s what we’ve been up to.

Ok, let’s get the big announcements out of the way first - I’ve never been a big fan of keeping the important stuff till the end.

There’s two big things to talk about today.

1 - We started a study abroad scholarship!

Yep - $5k to help a student travel the world

Our channel has always had one simple mission - help people travel the world on a budget.

It’s long past time for us to put our money where our mouths are.

That’s exactly what this is. We thought for a long time about how to most effectively help where it could have the most impact, and we landed on helping college students from modest financial backgrounds study abroad.

So, we created the “Lisa and Josh World Scholarship” - a $5,000 scholarship aimed directly at helping a college student make their study abroad dreams come true.

We’ve fully funded this first one entirely out of our pockets, and honestly we couldn’t be more excited about it!

This is a direct representation of everything we’ve been trying to do since we started this thing, and it’s beyond exciting for us to finally be able to turn that idea into something tangible.

YES

Neither Lisa or I could afford to study abroad, or really travel at all while we were in college, and when we actually were able to go on our first trips it changed EVERYTHING for us in such an all-encompassing and beautiful way.

It opened us up to the world, gave us the chance to explore new places, cultures, ways of thinking, and we learned so much… we could go on and on, but to cut right to it, we have the incredible good fortune to be able to travel full time now, and we just want to pass that good fortune on to as many people as we possibly can.

This scholarship is just the beginning - our intention is to give away a LOT more travel to a LOT more people - and this is just the start.

This is the fund page - the money flows from this fund, in $5k chunks, to the scholarship.

We’re intending to give away 1 scholarship this year, 2 next year, 4 the year after - you get the idea.

As many as we can, as often as we can.

We’re working with the Bold.org team to make this happen, and we can’t say enough nice things about them - they’ve really helped us get this thing off the ground.

If you want to check out the scholarship (or, college students out there - apply!), all the details are here - https://lisaandjosh.com/scholarship

And if you would like to donate to this scholarship and help a college student make their study abroad dreams come true, head over to the scholarship fund at https://lisaandjosh.com/scholarshipfund

2 - We’ve got a Patreon!

Link here: https://patreon.com/lisaandjosh

Here’s what we’ve got over there:

In-depth City Guides.

Maps for every “3 Days in X” video we’ve made, including every single place we visited along the way.Directors Commentaries for our videos. Q&A Livestreams.Deleted Scenes.Behind the Scenes and Bloopers.AND, Our ENTIRE Travel Hacking 101 and Credit Card Course!10% of everything we make from our Patreon will go directly into the study abroad scholarship fund, and we’re going to match that amount every month. 

Click that link to see what we’re on about

This thing came about mostly as a way to ensure that the scholarship continued to get funding so that we could give away even more scholarships to college students.This also, obviously, helps support us to make even more awesome videos for you.

This is our travel hacking course. There’s a lot, lot, lot more.

We just want to say, especially to those of you reading this newsletter, a massive THANK YOU for coming along on this ride with us.

None of this would be possible without you.

It truly means the world to us. Thank you so, so, so much.

If you do want to check out the patreon, just head over to https://patreon.com/lisaandjosh

3 - What else you up to?

We’ve got a few really exciting videos coming up!

3 MORE Days in Tokyo on a Budget - releases today!

Tokyo is infinitely fascinating.

The Other Side of the Camino de Santiago - coming out in a few weeks

We’ve wanted to make this for so long now - can’t wait for you to see it

2 Weeks in the Philippines on a Budget - we’re heading out to film that tomorrow.

Big adventures planned in this criminally overlooked travel destination

3 Days in Dubai on a Budget - Filming that right after the Philippines

Bright lights, fancy everything, on a budget?

Today

Scholarships, patreons, and packing for the Philippines

The (Near) Future

Philippines, Dubai, ???

Our Latest Videos

This one always brings a smile to our faces.

Flying around Bangkok for 3 days

Delicious and very, very affordable.

See you next week…ish :)

- josh (and lisa)

Oh, and if you want to learn how we afford to take all these trips after quitting our jobs 3 years ago, you’ll likely be interested in our Skillshare course on Travel Hacking and Frequent Flier Miles.

Check it out here: https://skl.sh/3UzMqUx

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