Wander Worldschool: Slow & Long-Term Family Travel

Suzy May Worldschool Money Coach

Here we share inspiring travel, educational and worldschooling journeys of lots of different families! *Looking for actionable tips? Practical advice? You're in the right place!  We explore the stories of: - slow and long term traveling families (including van life, gap years, summer camps abroad and more!) - worldschool leaders and hub creators (like self-directed learning, cultural immersion, play-based and more!) - unique ideas to travel and educate on the road (think international schools, online options, unschooling, homeschooling, language learning!) - financial planning and money-saving travel tips (remote work, lifestyle design, financial freedom, digital nomad life and more!) I'm Suzy and our family lives between Denver, CO and Spain and we love the diverse worldschooling community! - Inspiring story? Email pod@suzymay.com! - Follow on IG, FB and Substack! Support the show at https://beacons.ai/suzymaywander

  1. 37. How to Raise Multilingual Kids: A Worldschooler’s Guide to Language Learning

    6D AGO

    37. How to Raise Multilingual Kids: A Worldschooler’s Guide to Language Learning

    Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 All about language learning! I share about Mark and my language backgrounds and what has worked for raising trilingual kids.  🌎 After highlighting the best of this months episodes and our Listener Location trivia, the deep dive includes a comprehensive guide for family language learning.  👍 Tune in to the reasons why you should still learn another language even if English is a major world language, five considerations for multilingual families and tons of resources! ✨ WHY LISTEN: Hear our candid ‘lesson learned’ about a medical emergency before a flightGet a curated list of the best tools for language learning including Preply, tailored for kids and adults.Discover how monolingual parents can effectively raise multilingual kids.Understand the four pillars of language learning (future-proofing your kid’s careers?!)Enjoy fascinating facts about our Listener Location!Resources:  Tutors: Preply (use this link!), italki, Verbling, Lingoda, Outschool (use this link!) Apps: Babbel (use this link!), Lingopie, Dreaming Spanish 1-5+: Little Pim, Studycat, Minis, Simple Espanol, Eat Spanish, Maus 5-10+:  Seis Minutos, FabuLingua, Culture Kids, Ninos&Nature Older kids +: Easy Languages, Pod101, LearnCraft Spanish Exchanges: Tandem, Mixxer, Preply connects you directly with tutors from around the world at all times + prices! Get speaking TODAY in your target language! 70% off your trial lesson! Go to Preply now! Support the show Host: I'm Suzy May and my family lives between Spain and Colorado. 🌞 🌎 We feature traveling families + worldschool creators taking learning global. 🚀 The information provided is for general informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended as financial, investment, legal, or tax advice ✔️ ❤️ Follow + review! 📧 pod@suzymay.com 📲 All the links!

    33 min
  2. 36. Stop Traveling Like a Tourist: Adding Purpose and Intentional Trip Planning While Keeping a Home Base with Cassidy

    JAN 22

    36. Stop Traveling Like a Tourist: Adding Purpose and Intentional Trip Planning While Keeping a Home Base with Cassidy

    Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 Cassidy Crowell tunes in from Colorado to inspire you to travel with purpose while maintaining a home base. Their family of 5 spends 3-4 months a year exploring new areas for 4-6 weeks, the 'sweet spot' for their family. This balanced approach allows for slow travel and deep immersion without the potential for burn out from full time travel. 🌎 They fund life and travel with rental properties and they prioritize worldschooling hubs in Peru, Dominican Republic and Montenegro, while also finding ways to connect educational offerings between locations. 👍 Cassidy helps parents navigate the worldschooling landscape with the Worldschool Hub Map featuring over 200 locations and sharing their travels online, inspiring others to live unconventionally.  ✨ ACTIONABLE TIPS: Take test trips, such as a 3 week experimental trip, to see what speed and length of travel works best for your family. Define a family mission, quest or goal for a trip to give purpose to avoid feeling listless on the road.Prioritize support, such as strong customer service, when using travel booking portals.Hybrid schoooling and understanding enrollment policies in your school district allow families to navigate longer trips away.AND MORE! LISTEN NOW!Resources: Find Cassidy on Instagram (@livingunconventionally) and Living Unconventionally.com and YouTube (@LivingUnconventionally). Worldschooling Hub Map and more! Preply connects you directly with tutors from around the world at all times + prices! Get speaking TODAY in your target language! 70% off your trial lesson! Go to Preply now! Support the show Host: I'm Suzy May and my family lives between Spain and Colorado. 🌞 🌎 We feature traveling families + worldschool creators taking learning global. 🚀 The information provided is for general informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended as financial, investment, legal, or tax advice ✔️ ❤️ Follow + review! 📧 pod@suzymay.com 📲 All the links!

    37 min
  3. 35. How Co-Living Cohorts Combine Worldschooling and Community with Cohli

    JAN 15

    35. How Co-Living Cohorts Combine Worldschooling and Community with Cohli

    Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 Lauren and Tiago join us from Costa Rica as they explore their remarkable transition from a whirlwind international romance to a life of perpetual travel with two young children. Tiago traces his origin story to rural Africa while Lauren had a traditional US upbringing. 🌎 They discuss how the pandemic lead to three different wedding ceremonies and how they leaned on community in Portugal and Spain during their early parenting days and the isolation they felt when they ventured on their own. 👍 This community-driven co-living experience of Cohli is designed to create 1-3 months retreats for families to live, eat, learn and share together, all combined with local cultural immersion and authenticity.  ✨ ACTIONABLE TIPS: Perpetual travelers will want to be aware of what constitutes tax residency in a new country, often by staying less than 182 days per year.Even with slow travel, there is benefits of purging items on moving days to increase mobility.Unconventional learning opportunities abound (listen in to how they 'paid' for their children's attendance at a rural public school in Colombia.Co-living cohorts and long-term hubs help share the mental load of traveling families and avoids travel burnout. AND MORE! LISTEN NOW!Resources: Join Lauren, Tiago and other families at an upcoming Cohli co-living retreat at https://cohli.com!  Community at https://community.cohli.com/ and Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/heycohli/! Sacred Valley, Peru (Apr-Jun 26) Sumapaz, Colombia (Jun-Aug 2026)  Costa Vicentina, Portugal (July 2026) Preply connects you directly with tutors from around the world at all times + prices! Get speaking TODAY in your target language! 70% off your trial lesson! Go to Preply now! Support the show Host: I'm Suzy May and my family lives between Spain and Colorado. 🌞 🌎 We feature traveling families + worldschool creators taking learning global. 🚀 The information provided is for general informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended as financial, investment, legal, or tax advice ✔️ ❤️ Follow + review! 📧 pod@suzymay.com 📲 All the links!

    44 min
  4. 34. Sourdough Lifestyle: Slow Travel, Second-Tier Cities, and Saffron Bread with Brett and Christina

    JAN 8

    34. Sourdough Lifestyle: Slow Travel, Second-Tier Cities, and Saffron Bread with Brett and Christina

    Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 Christina Cann and Brett Wiewiora join us from Italy as they share their family’s journey from selling their bakery business in Florida to worldschooling with their two daughters ages 12 and 8 and their sourdough starter, Gandalf! 🌎 They incorporate local flavors into their baking and have adapted to kitchens without ovens to bake. They prioritize second-tier cities to reduce costs and immerse themselves in local cultures while blending worldschooling for their daughters. 👍 By blending their professional passion for baking with global exploration, they demonstrate how families can trade traditional routines for a flavor-filled life on the road.  ✨ ACTIONABLE TIPS: Taking test trips with your kids while they’re younger can get them ready to take on longer worldschooling later on!Spend less time in major cities and more time in smaller, lesser-known cities like Lille, France instead of Paris, in order to find walkability and affordability. Packing even a few comforts, like earplugs, blankets and a Dutch oven, can make long term travel more sustainable!You can bring your hobbies with you! Learn how they travel with their sourdough starter!AND MORE! LISTEN NOW!Resources: Take a sourdough class from Brett and Christina at www. sourdoughlifestyle.com! Follow on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/sourdoughlifestyle/) and Substack (https://sourdoughlifestyle.substack.com/) 01:03 – Travel Origins and Meeting in College 05:00 – Trading the Bakery for the World 12:00 – The Reality of Worldschooling 17:17 – Sourdough on the Road 24:43 – The Finances of Slow Travel 28:26 – Challenges: From Rural Barns to Mooing Cows 35:32 – Lightning Round & Wrap Up Preply connects you directly with tutors from around the world at all times + prices! Get speaking TODAY in your target language! 70% off your trial lesson! Go to Preply now! Support the show Host: I'm Suzy May and my family lives between Spain and Colorado. 🌞 🌎 We feature traveling families + worldschool creators taking learning global. 🚀 The information provided is for general informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended as financial, investment, legal, or tax advice ✔️ ❤️ Follow + review! 📧 pod@suzymay.com 📲 All the links!

    45 min
  5. 33. Moving to Taiwan: Fitness Franchising and the Gold Card Visa with Maxwell Lee

    JAN 2

    33. Moving to Taiwan: Fitness Franchising and the Gold Card Visa with Maxwell Lee

    Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 Maxwell Lee joins up from Taipei, Taiwan to share his family’s journey from Florida to Taipei, where he successfully overcame his fears of moving abroad. He shares the worldschooling journey they took before moving to Taipei and how the kids have adapted to new languages and school in Taiwan. 🌎 Maxwell moved on the Gold Card visa to Taiwan due to his musical background which he shares more about in the episode (including the opening and closing songs which are original songs by Maxwell!)  👍 He shares their business endeavors and what lead them to expand on the Anytime Fitness franchise brand in Taiwan and Malaysia.  ✨ ACTIONABLE TIPS: If you know you’re moving somewhere, use time in between to take slow and long term travels to family, friends and new places before you move.If there is a brand you love in your home country and you are living somewhere new to you, the opportunity to franchise that brand could be an option to starting a business!Early exposure to language is a great basis but sometimes kids need extra help to learn languages even before they arrive in a new country.There is always time to go back to your favorite hobbies!AND MORE! LISTEN NOW!Resources: Maxwell Lee website, Instagram and Facebook https://projectmaximusmusic.com/ Original songs by Maxwell Lee! Opening song: Because of You Closing song: Someday You'll See Preply connects you directly with tutors from around the world at all times + prices! Get speaking TODAY in your target language! 70% off your trial lesson! Go to Preply now! Support the show Host: I'm Suzy May and my family lives between Spain and Colorado. 🌞 🌎 We feature traveling families + worldschool creators taking learning global. 🚀 The information provided is for general informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended as financial, investment, legal, or tax advice ✔️ ❤️ Follow + review! 📧 pod@suzymay.com 📲 All the links!

    41 min
  6. Bonus! 2025 Reflections and Best Of with Mark!

    12/31/2025 · BONUS

    Bonus! 2025 Reflections and Best Of with Mark!

    Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 In this special bonus episode, I invite my husband Mark to reflect on our favorite parts and best of´s of 2025 and we share a bit about our 2026 plans! 🌎 What was our most memorable view to wake up to? Favorite meal? Most difficult destination to reach? Tune in to find out! 👍 Don´t miss Flow with Connie into 2026, a gentle and welcoming way to ease into the new year! Sign up here! Resources: Thank you for sharing this journey with me this year! So many amazing stories to come in 2026!  Click 'All The Links' below to support this show and book a free 30 minute Discovery Call! Support the show Host: I'm Suzy May and my family lives between Spain and Colorado. 🌞 🌎 We feature traveling families + worldschool creators taking learning global. 🚀 The information provided is for general informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended as financial, investment, legal, or tax advice ✔️ ❤️ Follow + review! 📧 pod@suzymay.com 📲 All the links!

    21 min
  7. 32. Wander Roundup: Top Holiday Memories from the Worldschooling Community!

    12/25/2025

    32. Wander Roundup: Top Holiday Memories from the Worldschooling Community!

    Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and your worldschooling family! 🌎 Our special episode today brings Listener Location trivia, our family adventures this month and my favorite parts of this month’s episodes with Stephanie Tolk, Maggie Tucker and Courtney Orgias.  👍 The Deep Dive is all things worldschooling holiday memories and plans from so many wonderful contributors to this worldschool community! I am thrilled to share these with you! ✨ ACTIONABLE TIPS: Capture your holiday memories! Photos, videos, write it down! You won’t want to forget these moments together!AND MORE! LISTEN NOW! Resources: Anna from Wanderlust Haaks episode 9 and Instagram RoamBase Kids episode 27 and Facebook group Bryanna (@bryayoga) Instagram Nabila (@slowparentingrabat) Instagram Connie Flow Journey Substack and Flow With Connie Into 2026 signup Rachel Carlson episode 14 and website Trecia (Rhythm and Roam) website Stephanie Tolk episode 29 and website Courtney Orgias episode 31 and Instagram Tiago from Cohli Maxwell Lee Instagram Brett and Christina (@sourdoughlifestyle) Preply connects you directly with tutors from around the world at all times + prices! Get speaking TODAY in your target language! 70% off your trial lesson! Go to Preply now! Support the show Host: I'm Suzy May and my family lives between Spain and Colorado. 🌞 🌎 We feature traveling families + worldschool creators taking learning global. 🚀 The information provided is for general informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended as financial, investment, legal, or tax advice ✔️ ❤️ Follow + review! 📧 pod@suzymay.com 📲 All the links!

    27 min
  8. 31. Worldschooling with Courtney Orgias: Full-time Travel, Language Learning and Creating Community

    12/18/2025

    31. Worldschooling with Courtney Orgias: Full-time Travel, Language Learning and Creating Community

    Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 Courtney Orgis, mama of the O.Family.Adventures family, details her family’s 3+ year full time travel journey while working remotely and raising kids who are now 3 and 6! 🌎 She details how they sustain themselves financially, their education priorities of language and cultural adaptation and how they overcome the challenges of being far from family.  👍 Don’t miss what they have and have not yet done from their 2021 Ever-Growing Bucket List! And where their 2026 summer family retreat will take them! ✨ ACTIONABLE TIPS: Selling your home and cars before leaving provides a financial cushion while working remotely can fund your current travels.Mix longer travels in less expensive countries with shorter trips in expensive must-visit locations.Integrate kids into the local culture and language by enrolling them in international schools or hiring local nannies.Don’t be afraid to put yourself out there and inspire others, especially marginalized groups, that family travel is possible!AND MORE! LISTEN NOW!Resources: O.Family.Adventures YouTube, Instagram, LinkInBio, email (hello@orgiasfamilyadventures.com) Summer 2026 Family Retreat in Grenada info CNN article, The Ever-Growing Bucket List blog Preply connects you directly with tutors from around the world at all times + prices! Get speaking TODAY in your target language! 70% off your trial lesson! Go to Preply now! Support the show Host: I'm Suzy May and my family lives between Spain and Colorado. 🌞 🌎 We feature traveling families + worldschool creators taking learning global. 🚀 The information provided is for general informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended as financial, investment, legal, or tax advice ✔️ ❤️ Follow + review! 📧 pod@suzymay.com 📲 All the links!

    39 min
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Here we share inspiring travel, educational and worldschooling journeys of lots of different families! *Looking for actionable tips? Practical advice? You're in the right place!  We explore the stories of: - slow and long term traveling families (including van life, gap years, summer camps abroad and more!) - worldschool leaders and hub creators (like self-directed learning, cultural immersion, play-based and more!) - unique ideas to travel and educate on the road (think international schools, online options, unschooling, homeschooling, language learning!) - financial planning and money-saving travel tips (remote work, lifestyle design, financial freedom, digital nomad life and more!) I'm Suzy and our family lives between Denver, CO and Spain and we love the diverse worldschooling community! - Inspiring story? Email pod@suzymay.com! - Follow on IG, FB and Substack! Support the show at https://beacons.ai/suzymaywander

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