Nomading with a Family of 5 and Traveling to Over 100 Countries with Chantal Patton (Ep 141)

Learn how world schooling and stability anchors can make long-term family travel sustainable, enriching, and affordable. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE Chantal Patton talks about growing up in Canada, starting to travel internationally, generating location-independent income, meeting her digital nomad husband, and choosing to travel the world together with their 3 daughters. She explains about how she structures her family’s lifestyle, travel cadence, and why she chooses to maintain a home base. Chantal then shares her home-schooling curriculum and gives tips and resources on how she world-schools her 3 kids at all different grade levels. She talks about the value of learning through travel, and how the kids have now developed a series of classes for other kids called “Geography Made Fun”. Chantal then reflects on some of her family’s travel highlights, including the time they spent in Cambodia, Nicaragua, Romania, and a memorable trip through 8 African countries. She then gives tips on designing travel itineraries with kids, creating stability anchors, and designing a healthy work-life-education-travel balance. Chantal also explains how she handles healthcare for her family while traveling and shares her #1 affordability hack that enables her family to have inexpensive accommodations all around the world. She then reflects on the impact long- term world travel has had on her family and her kids, both in terms of their social lives and in terms of the way they see the world. And, finally, Chantel explains how her family collaborates to document their travel journey, create their online content, and how you can follow their adventure on their YouTube channel. → Full show notes with direct links to everything discussed are available here. ============================ FIND YOUR NEXT EPISODE Explore The Maverick Show Starter Packs — some of my favorite conversations curated by theme so you can easily find the episodes that match your interests. ============================ FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU See my Top 10 Travel Apps See my Top 10 Books that Shaped the Way I Travel See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ============================ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram and DM Matt to continue the conversation Please leave a rating and review — it really helps the show and I read each one personally Support the show by buying me a coffee — espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes!