Mothership Adrift Podcast

Woody and Irenka
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We're Woody and Irenka and we have spend the last 8 years circumnavigating the world on a sailboat with our three 3 kids. Now back on dry land, we have developed this Podcast Guide to escaping the rat race and living a life of freedom, travel and adventure at sea with your kids. ▷FULL PRESS: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/about ▷BOOK: 'If you want to do it. DO IT!': https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook ⒸⓄⓃⓃⒺⒸⓉ Mothership Adrift, Family Travel and Sailing Adventures Search: "Mothership Adrift" for all social media channels

  1. Sep 3

    Learn to Sail in 16 Hours

    Irenka can get an eight-year-old sailing in 16 hours. She taught for years before we left, and she's blunt about it: the sailing was never the thing standing in anyone's way. So we spend this one on what actually is. Where to start with no boat and no money, why a flotilla beats a course, the honeymoon couple who stopped speaking on day one, and what skippers really look for when they take on crew. Cockpit Sessions serialises our book, one section at a time, with both of us arguing about it. ▷ The book: https://www.alanwoodywood.com/books/doit▷ https://www.mothershipadrift.com

    Learn to Sail in 16 Hours

  2. Aug 20

    The China Dog and Letting Go of Your Stuff

    Getting rid of almost everything weowned was one of the most freeing things we ever did. Irenka and I talk through what you really do with all your stuff when you sail off: selling, storing, digitising and letting go, and the china dog she made me sell. Cockpit Sessions is our sailing book,serialised one section at a time. Free book sample:https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook Website:https://www.mothershipadrift.com Getting rid of almost everything weowned was one of the most freeing things we ever did. Irenka and I talk throughwhat you really do with all your stuff when you sail off: selling, storing,digitising and letting go, and the china dog she made me sell. Cockpit Sessions is our sailing book,serialised one section at a time. Free book sample:https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook Website:https://www.mothershipadrift.com Getting rid of almost everything weowned was one of the most freeing things we ever did. Irenka and I talk throughwhat you really do with all your stuff when you sail off: selling, storing,digitising and letting go, and the china dog she made me sell. Cockpit Sessions is our sailing book,serialised one section at a time. Free book sample:https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook Website:https://www.mothershipadrift.com

    The China Dog and Letting Go of Your Stuff

  3. Aug 6

    Will a Career Break Actually Ruin You?

    SPOTIFY DESCRIPTION: Walking away from a career feels like career suicide, but the wage is usually the least of it. What you’re really giving up is the identity and status that come with the job. Irenka and I get into what actually happens to your work when you go, whether you can take it with you, and why a break is more survivable than it looks. Plus the ten year gap that knocked Irenka’s confidence, and why we skipped the tennis lessons and gave the kids the Galapagos instead. Cockpit Sessions is me and Irenka working through our book, Mothership Adrift, one section at a time. ▷ BOOK & FREE SAMPLE: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook▷ WEBSITE: https://www.mothershipadrift.com

    Will a Career Break Actually Ruin You?

  4. Jul 23

    But Money…? How Ordinary Families Afford to Travel the World

    Money stops more families going than anything else, so this episode is the honest budget. What a boat really costs, the bargain boat trap, how five of us lived on about £2,000 a month, the £200 wedding, and why Irenka would do the whole thing again in a smaller boat. Cockpit Sessions serialises our book one section at a time, as a conversation between the two of us. Free book sample: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook Website: https://www.mothershipadrift.com

    But Money…? How Ordinary Families Afford to Travel the World

  5. Jul 9

    Reluctant Partner? Why Convincing Never Works

    You can't convince a reluctant partner to sail round the world, and trying is how these plans fall apart before they start. Irenka and I on the difference between fear and simply not wanting to go, why convincing is the wrong goal, and how we found out years in that we'd wanted the same trip for different reasons. Cockpit Sessions serialises our book one chapter at a time, a two-hander on escaping the rat race by sea. Book and free sample: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook Website: https://www.mothershipadrift.com

  6. Jul 2

    What Actually Happens to Your Friendships When You Sail Away | Cockpit Sessions Ep.08

    Everyone warns that the hardest part of sailing away is losing your people. Friends, family, the whole sense of belonging. Eight years and a full circumnavigation later, it went the other way. The friends that mattered got closer, and we found a second family at sea on top. Before you even leave, some people start pulling away, which feels a lot like grief. Irenka's mum kept our spirits up with a steady supply of newspaper clippings about boats sinking. Then you get out there and find a community that forms so fast you can knock on a stranger's hull and be best mates by sundown. Irenka will talk to anyone. I get peopled out the moment a crowd forms. We never did settle which of us is right. Cockpit Sessions is the podcast where we work through the book behind our eight-year family circumnavigation, one conversation at a time. 📖 Book (working title) and free sample: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook 🎬 More from us: https://www.mothershipadrift.com

    What Actually Happens to Your Friendships When You Sail Away | Cockpit Sessions Ep.08

  7. Jun 25

    Will Taking Your Kids Out of School Ruin Their Future?

    Taking the kids out of school was the most frightening part of going. It felt like hitting a big red eject button on their future. Eight years and a full circumnavigation later, both boys are back on land and reintegrated, and the honest answer is: they were fine. Better than fine. Just not in the ways a report card measures. This is the answer to the question more Telegraph readers asked than any other. Their academic side held up. What threw them was the slow grind of the institutional school day on the way back in. Yewan can't understand why school takes a whole day to teach what the boat taught in two hours. Darry was refused GCSE biology, and now gives talks on entomology. We also disagree, properly, about whether an AI tutor could ever beat a real teacher. We didn't reach a verdict. Cockpit Sessions is the podcast where we work through the book behind our eight-year family circumnavigation, one conversation at a time. 📖 Book (working title) and free sample: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook 🎬 More from us: https://www.mothershipadrift.com

    Will Taking Your Kids Out of School Ruin Their Future?

  8. Jun 18

    Did We Ever Doubt It? The Truth About Nearly Stopping

    The problem was never inspiration. It was hesitation. Procrastination. That fatal gap between deciding and actually doing. This is the episode where we admit how close we came to stopping. The maintenance disasters in Colombia, Malaysia and Australia. The canal crossings where turning back was still an option. The businesses we folded, the friends we didn't expect to miss, and the identity each of us had to give up to leave. We also disagree about whether Starlink and remote work have made the modern version of this too easy. Next episode we start taking apart the real reasons people don't go, beginning with the kids' education.Cockpit Sessions is the podcast where we work through the book behind our eight-year family circumnavigation, one conversation at a time. Cockpit Sessions Ep.06 — out now on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. — We're the Wood family — Woody, Irenka, Rowan, Darroch & Yewan. 8 years circumnavigating on a sailboat with 3 kids • ~40,000 miles • ~40 countries & territories • BOOK RELEASE July 2026 (working title): "Mothership Adrift: A Dad's Guide to Escaping the Rat Race" ▷ FREE SAMPLE: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook

    Did We Ever Doubt It? The Truth About Nearly Stopping
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We're Woody and Irenka and we have spend the last 8 years circumnavigating the world on a sailboat with our three 3 kids. Now back on dry land, we have developed this Podcast Guide to escaping the rat race and living a life of freedom, travel and adventure at sea with your kids. ▷FULL PRESS: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/about ▷BOOK: 'If you want to do it. DO IT!': https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook ⒸⓄⓃⓃⒺⒸⓉ Mothership Adrift, Family Travel and Sailing Adventures Search: "Mothership Adrift" for all social media channels

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  • Creator
    Woody and Irenka
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    31
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Woody and Irenka
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    Mothership Adrift Podcast

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