It All Begins Here: How We Sold Everything & Now Earn $100k/Year From Our Investments
We reached financial independence at 33 and are travelling the world part time.
One click. That’s all it took to completely change the direction of our lives.
I was scrolling YouTube and saw a video where this guy was explaining how he made $5200/month in passive income with the promise to unveil his entire portfolio.
One click to watch this video set everything in motion.
My husband Flynn and I fell headfirst into the world of investing for cash flow, watching hours of videos and learning as much as we could, as fast as we could.
This idea that our money could pay us a monthly salary felt foreign, new, unreal.
March of 2021, we started testing this new style of investing.
May 2021 we sold our town house.
November 2021 we sold our rental apartment.
We went all in on investing for monthly income and on the birthday of our second baby, exactly two years ago today, Flynn quit his full time job as a mechanic for Lexus and came home to be a hands on dad and grow his videography business.
We were financially free - our monthly income from our investments covered our bills in full every month. Work became optional.
We both still chose to work, him on his business, me in mine as a health consultant working with 6&7 figure entrepreneurs on their energy, health and focus.
With a massive accomplishment behind us, we looked to the future. What did we want to do now? What felt fun? A bit unreal? So exciting?
This is where the second piece of magic happened - we met a local couple through a YouTube interview we did on the previously mentioned investing channel.
We had them over to our house with their kids and they opened our eyes to world schooling, to unschooling, to part time travel.
It lit a fire of possibility. We decided that we wanted to travel part time with our girls, showing them the world, raising them with their feet in the sand and respect for other cultures and appreciation for other languages and ways of living.
We were hooked, and in January 2024 we left for our first trip - 2 months in Panama.
Living on the beach, learning another language and truly embodying slow living became the drum beat to our lives and our vision forward is so clear.
We’re just getting started.
We want to travel 4 months each year to adventure spots around the world, broken into 2 trips that take us out of our comfort zone and away from the snowy, wet winters of Vancouver.
Our next trip takes us to Vancouver island for a month in September and tentatively, Dominican Republic in the winter.
All funded by our investment portfolio.
Currently, our portfolio gives us an average of $7,086.98 each and every month. Add to that the estimated $1467 per month we are earning from our government bonus benefits, we are projected to earn over $100,000 this year without working.
And we’re just getting started.
Two years after we achieved financial independence, our future feels open.
Where do we want to go? How much do we want to work? What do we want to do with our spare time? What feels purposeful, fun and fulfilling?
That’s what this diary will share along with so many of the lessons, strategies and decisions that we made along the way.
We’re finding freedom and want to document it all.
One diary at a time. These are my freedom diaries.
Let’s go.
Tanessa
What was the YouTube video?