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You landed here because you’re interested in changing your life. We get that, because we used to feel the same way. We spent our 20s focusing on the wrong things, our 30s rediscovering what’s important, and now in our 40s to living in an unconventional way that makes perfect sense for us.

We write for people just like you: frustrated dreamers, people who feel like life is passing them by, and those who want to spend the next half of their lives doing creative or meaningful work. We know what it feels like and what it takes to turn it around. Knowing you want something more is the first step.

Hi. We’re Betsy and Warren Talbot, and we’re masters of the life hack. What is a hack, you ask? It’s a shortcut or workaround to a problem, an insider’s tip that makes life easier or better.

 

We didn’t realize we were in training to become masters until well after we started turning our unfulfilling life around. Over the years, as we systematically changed our marriage, work, and our entire lifestyle, our friends and family noticed.

Friends of friends started following our updates. People we didn’t know asked us how we became such strong partners. How we achieved so many of our goals. How got over the fear of trying new things. How we dared to change jobs, move cross country, sell half our stuff, and more.

How we ultimately followed our dream of world travel by selling everything we owned, quitting our jobs, and taking off on a one-way ticket to South America in 2010.

Today, we’re still seeing the world, though we also have a home base in a little village in Spain. We run our publishing business together, hosting the weekly Married with Luggage podcast as well as authoring a series of nonfiction books together on making big life changes. Betsy also writes a contemporary romance series for women over forty called The Late Bloomers.

 

What’s interesting about us (besides Warren’s rockstar hair or Betsy’s infectious laugh), is not that we travel the world or even that we now live part-time in Spain. What makes us worth following is that we share all the hacks, workarounds, and shortcuts we’ve learned since 2006 in creating a life, relationship, and career that we love.

It hasn’t been easy, of course. Nothing worthwhile ever is. But that’s where the bonus comes in for you.

Because of the way we live, we’re exposed to change and new experiences more than most people. We’ve learned to deal with the stress and work together as a team. We’ve learned how to take risks and recover from setbacks. We’ve supported each other individually as we chase our own goals. We’ve learned how to dust ourselves off when we fall and learn from our mistakes.

These lessons, insights, and stories from around the world are yours for the taking, either on our blog, our podcast, our courses, or our books.

You don’t have to travel the world to benefit from what we share. But you will have to step off the path of conventional thinking. And if you’ve read this far, we’re pretty sure you’re good with that.

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