Footloose

Siung travelled with us on Matilda last year. He's had a fascinating journey - growing up in the jungles of Borneo, Malaysia to a PhD in "Space Physics" which has brought him to Sweden and the artic circle. We chat about his life's journey and his love of meeting people as a way to discover new cultures and experiences.

Dave, known to his friends as "Tomato" Dave, is passionate about eating and growing tomatoes. But in Montana, the growing season is too short, so he had to to become the master of building eco sustainable greenhouses. He spends the building season on site in his AirStream Van building greenhouses, the winters travelling and chasing the 400+ original heirloom varieties of tomatoes to be found around the world.

Maya is an Israeli who has been living in Greece for the last five years, building her real estate business. We talk about her love for Paros, her philosophy on life, travel and real estate and her longer term plan to build a meditation centre on an island.

The pursuit of the next big wave has taken Matt all over the globe. We talk about his earliest independent travels, exploring a side of Paris few tourists see - the graffiti culture, to his love of surfing and exploring surf spots on "Chicken busses" in Central America. Born and bred in Northern California, his hearts in San Francisco, but the rest of him is out there chasing the next big wave.

Kirsten & Peter share what it takes to navigate a new relationship and the world as nomads. We talk about their love of quests and keeping travel fun; the challenges of downsizing two households; how to survive and thrive travelling together and where they see themselves in the future as they explore the world.

Aapeli moved from Finland to Australia, abandoned childhood dreams of a career as a button accordion player, couch surfed the world then started building couchers.org all while pursuing his PhD in Mathematics. It's a wide reaching discussion on the joys of travelling the world, the generosity of others and the challenges of building a world wide platform while coordinating 90+ volunteers during a pandemic.

Hannah is a young German woman we met in Athens during lockdown last year. We chat about what it's like to travel as a single female, her experiences as a traveller to Central America, India and Greece and how she manages working and travelling at the same time.

Chris FIRE'd (Financially Independent, Retire Early) from her job and now travels full time, currently slomad'ing through Mexico with her husband. We talk about how travelling full time challenges your relationships, but also enriches them. We invent the (negative) term "INSTATravel" and touch on how travel impacts local communities, both good and bad. Chris shares her tips on how to live and explore the world, but also do it in a way that leaves a positive impact where ever you go. #fire #nomad #slomad #travel #retired #mexico #ireland

Erik runs a digital PR agency based in Lithuania and spends up to 6 months of the year as a digital nomad. In this episode we talk about his time in Greece, the challenges of travelling and working at the same time and how living and working as a digital nomad brings a different set of challenges from just travelling to a destination for a holiday. It's not for everyone, but it's incredibly rewarding when it goes well.

A chat with Barry (my Dad!) about his time travelling and working in Syria and the middle-east in the late 1970's. A look back at how much has changed and also some things that haven't. Full of tales of interesting people and places, it's also a reflection on some of the things that are now lost forever due to the Syrian Civil War. A fascinating tale of travelling to a very unconventional place.

In this first episode, I chat with Karina (my wife!) about the decision to quit work, sell our belongings and move from the US to Greece to buy and then live aboard our boat. We talk about what prompted the decision to retire, the process of finding a boat during COVID and lockdown and some of the realities of downsizing and making a major change in your life. #boatlife #trawlerlife #fire #nomad #retiring #travel #adventure

In this short introductory episode we set up the Footloose podcast, talk about the goals and structure and a bit about what we're hoping to achieve by interviewing travellers and nomads living unconventional lifestyles. A good place to start for some background on what it's all about.

(UPDATE) This episode was draft 0.1 - I've left it here as it may still be of interest, but S01.E00 is the intro to the new direction and focus. We renamed from Shipfaced to Footloose, upgraded production values and now focus more on travellers tales and less specifically on boats although if you like boats, there will still be plenty of mentions.

In our very first episode of Ship Faced, let’s get to know each other and what it takes to go from someone who knows nothing about boats to a full time liveaboard. Cruising the Mediterranean as a full time liveaboard on our trawler Matilda, an Adagio Sundeck 44.