Welcome back to Breakfast with Lisa & Josh!

I’M SORRY THAT WE MISSED A WEEK—ITS ALL MY FAULT

My little brother got married and we were so caught up in all the family and wedding proceedings that we didn’t get a chance to get out our weekly email. It was a SUPER busy week to say the least, and 2 weeks at home went by in a BLUR. We saw as much of our family as we could, and had a beautiful, wonderful, amazing time.

I hate dressing up so much.

But, that’s not what I want to talk about today. The thing that I want to say today—

THANK YOU!!! (ALSO, WE WANT TO GIVE YOU FREE STUFF)

We hit 5,000 subscribers recently and wow…never did we think this was in the realm of possibility. There are 5,000 of us all on this journey together and that is incredible. THANK YOU to all of you out there for following along, supporting us, and encouraging us every step of the way.

As a thank you, we are doing our very first giveaway. Each of you have a chance to win one of our 3 prizes, including the grand prize, which is a $250 American Airlines gift certificate. Pretty sweet, right? I hope one of y’all on this email newsletter wins it - you are our VIPs for sure.

The link to the video with all the information about how to enter to win the grand prize and the other prizes is down below. Then, there’s the other thing…

THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT

You’ll also find out about this in the video linked below, but I wanted to give you all a preview here.

The whole point of this channel from the beginning was to have two goals:

1. To be able to help as many people travel as possible

2. To not go entirely broke as we do so

So we're going to do something a little bit wild. Ok, a lot of bit wild.

Now, if you’re like us, going onto most travel Instagram pages leave you with a feeling roughly equating to "their life is amazing. I can't do that, now I feel bad…” and honestly, a burning feeling of insecurity and like what you have isn't enough. We want to try to be as far from that as possible - we've always wanted the things we make to make people feel better and feel inspired. But more than that, to also provide the tools, tips, tricks, honest feelings, good and bad - the whole picture of exactly how we do this, so that if you want to add more travel to your life, you'll know how to. And not to just leave you feeling jealous and bad and sad like those IG pictures make me feel.

That brings us to the announcement:

When we hit 100,000 subscribers, we're going to give away a trip around the world to one of you. Yep. We're literally going to send one of you on a trip around the world once we hit 100,000 subscribers here on YouTube.

One of the biggest reasons we started this channel was to inspire and show others that they CAN travel. On top of that, we wanted to help people actually do it and show people it is possible. Because before we did it, we didn’t think it was either. We decided the ultimate way to make this happen is to also just give people the means to actually travel.

While it still seems so far away, we have never felt more excited about a goal. As we get closer to our goal, we will smooth out the details aaaand we'll definitely need to work with an accountant to figure out how to do this - anyone know a good one? 🙂

We know, more than most, that the biggest hurdle to taking a trip is the finance part of it. Sometimes it is hard to know where to even start. We know that we're incredibly lucky to be able to do this, and we think that this experience, and all that travel we've done, has been life changing for us in the best possible way, and we want to make it our purpose to give away the gift of travel as often as we can, as our channel grows.

So, all of the money that we make from this channel above how much it costs for us to keep eating (all those kebabs), traveling, and making these videos, will go towards sending one of you on this trip around the world.

So, stick around. More info to come as we get closer to this goal - we can’t wait :)

Videos this week

We’re super nervous about this—it’s a big commitment, but we also can’t wait.

After our whirlwind of a trip home and a 30 hour travel day(s), we’re in Singapore now. Can’t wait to show you all of it, including the hilariously complex series of hoops you have to jump through to get there :)

So, that’s it for this week. More great videos coming soon!

See you next Sunday…ish :)

- josh (and lisa)

Oh, and if you want to learn how we afford to take all these trips after quitting our jobs last year, you’ll likely be interested in our Skillshare course on Travel Hacking and Frequent Flier Miles. It’s been really taking off lately, but we still have a few uses of this link left for those of you who want to see the class for free. It comes with a free month of Skillshare, which is more than enough to watch our class and any of the other great courses on there!

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

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