There were some critical about her side. Hustle school, thank you for joining me as the wheat comes to a conclusion got a great story today. It actually reminds me of an experience. I had many years ago, my personal record for the longest bus ride of ever been on waste from Kampala, Uganda, all the way through much of Kenya, Nairobi, continuing onto Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, the Russia, Tanzania and a couple of other stopped and actually took thirty five hours, and you are scheduled to take something like eighteen to twenty four hours, which of course, is not short either by nineteen to twenty four stretch into thirty five hours. It was quite the experience I made. Some friends had a good time overall, but no desire to repeat a thirty five hour bus ride. I thought about the experience to day because back then, if I had known about today's speech her case,

Edie I might save myself some trouble, or am I just know more about what to be prepared going into that experience today, stories about a kenyan engineer, guy from Kenya gross up, it's an engineering degree ends up a career that well and gas industry, but falls in love with travel more by destroying a moment. But the point is you start to travel blog that are more than five years a month when he gets back home in and begin to, new career sets basically a backpacking trip that comes from his career, that turns into a side hustle all kinds of ways to make money out there so stay tuned. For these seismic explore, who shakes at backpacking in Kenya support for this. Podcast comes from progressive saving. Money on your car insurance is easy, with progressive. It's an average savings of seven hundred ninety six dollars for customers. Who switch and save. In fact, customers can qualify for an average of six discounts on their auto policy with progressive included

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But it will get you if you discovered. Sometimes it's the journeys off the beaten path that are the most rewarding after graduating, from college in Kenya, out with a degree in electrical engineering LEO found the opportunity to begin a career in seismic exploration for an oil and gas company is their job, gave him the chance to spend two years visiting countries across Asia, Europe in the Middle EAST? If you work in the oil rigs around the world at large blocks of time needed to spend at work seven days a week, but it also left him with long weeks of free time, basically like a paid vacation.

Opportunity to discover new areas and dive into different cultures. Travelling outside of Africa is new for LEO, but it opened his mind, a new perspectives and sparked a passion for exploration still in the oil industry with ops. There must be downs when the price of oil began to plummet. Leo was laid off from his job, his skills in seismic exploration, weren't applicable in Kenya, job market, and he had no practical experience. As an electrical engineer, the one thing he did know what he was still passionate about. Travelling took out a map of Africa. Looked at the vast expanse decided to set up on a three month trip he'd worry about the details ass. He went along. It was during this three month trip of discovering both his home country and the whole continent. The he decided to blog about the journey, in the hope that other people might be inspired to export to.

He began to write post so he'd. Remember all the details me save those posts it. He could set up a website and publish them when he got home. Leo's return home also meant the start of a new job as a business development manager for music school in Kenya, Baden, let that pushes blog to the back burner used evenings at weekends to scour Youtube tutorials in pre online resources for advice on how to set up a website and publishes first post so that he could begin a new site. Hustle called Kenyan Backpacker Canyon. Backpacker, initially began as a space to share stories about his travels, but it quickly grew into a source of information for budget travellers looking for tips on accommodation activities and transportation throughout the country. After a year of running the site publishing posts each week, they have noticed a consistent search pattern for train tickets and gear recommendations here in a post about train travelling Kenya after a new train service was introduced, and at that point his post was the only one out there. Hisself taught S. Yo tricks helped him optimize the posts that he was ranked first in Google for any search that related to that new train rout, the many big

fielding emails that ask him directly for help on planting a trap. The new business development manager saw an opportunity to turn his project into a business released aside us all the I that back packers arriving in Kenya were always searching for good quality gear. Like sleeping bags, mats, hiking, pools and travel backs but they didn't usually know where to look as a traveller himself LEO started to visit local markets to find a gear and enlisted on a newly created gear shop. Section of his block that way more people would find him for both Kenya, travel advice and travel gear which helped to optimize his ESA ranking even more but gear. Wasn't the only thing: international travellers to Kenya, Looking for, as we have started, to get more and more increase for train tickets between Nairobi and Mombasa Kenya's two largest cities. He realized how hard it was for people to get tickets themselves. Do it easily because he lives in Nairobi, but online booking was impossible, which hindered travellers a noose, I cite hustle was born as LEO began to offer advanced train tickets on his website for a small market fee. One lesson

was too never underestimate the power of referral when he began to how travellers get train tickets. Canada, woman from the? U S who buy tickets for a family. She Can you every year she now directs her friends and acquaintances to him. Word of mouth can do wonders for aside hustle start up costs for kenyan backpacker were minimal. I've spent about forty dollars to cover his domain name in hosting in annex at least five energizing mind from those ticket markups gear sales in advertising on the site, traffic, seasonal, with more people looking in the spring ass, they began to plan their We're travel Leah remains motivated by the simple idea of earning additional income to talk about something he loves and to help the travelers using his website inside hustles to connect with people from different countries, while giving invaluable advice is something he doesn't take for granted at some point, he hopes to turn kenyan backpacker into his full time job to see where the adventure takes him. Whatever happens, it sounds like a future worth exploring

was, I said, I have no desire to repeat my thirty five hour bus journey from Kampala, Uganda to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, it's right away. I also back and experience with the sense of nostalgia. I want to go and do it again, but I'm glad I did it maybe have things like that in your lifetime. Look back on something like wild. I was gonna hard and at the time I was like, when is it going to end, but then I finish it and I was glad I did. I don't it's a perfect analogy, but I think a lot of people that I talk to you feel that way about their sight. Hustles place not the same arduous ordeal as a thirty five hour bus ride. But the point is: when you start a project, it might take more work than you expect. You might have setbacks, your first project. Might not work and have to try something different, but then later when you look back on it again, it might not be universal. But from what I hear talking to lots of people, you do feel a sense of pride and accomplishment. You are like yeah, I'm so glad I did that and that experience and knowledge I came through that time.

Process is still with me now, even as I go on to other things. So that's my challenge, for you may think back and ask yourself what fits into that category. For me, Can't think anything like em, I really living the life that I once. If your answer is yes, absolutely than that's great. But if your answer is, you know what there might be something else out there. Throw me the stream I had that I haven't pursued. Maybe it doesn't even have to do a starting a business. That's what I'm talking about every day on the show, but could be something totally different. How are you embracing life? How you and challenge is: how are you working for the future? Just like LEO is doing here in the story, just like pretty much all the stories are doing,

So I will leave you with that. Along with the reminder, inspiration is guide, but inspiration with action is so much better. We ve got the weekly recap come up to Morrow. Until then, you can find today shut out at though school dotcom slashed for a three thank you for being out there you're rockstar. This is preschool about foresight, us all school.