HeyJaredMothership Adrift Podcast
We're Woody and Irenka and we have spend the last 8 years circumnavigating the world on a sailboat with our three 3 kids.
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Not Practical Is Just an Excuse (opens the original)
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I don't think anybody is born practical. Irenka and I talk about learning to fix our own boat: the pub conversation I couldn't follow, the dead outboard I bought for 25 quid, the mechanic who rang me from a bar at nine at night to argue, and the time I asked ChatGPT how to wire a switch and fried the unit. Irenka also tells me why she was really in tears in Malaysia. Cockpit Sessions serialises the book, one section at a time, as a conversation between the two of us. The book: https://www.alanwo
Learn to Sail in 16 Hours (opens the original)
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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. ▷ T
The China Dog and Letting Go of Your Stuff (opens the original)
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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 fr
Will a Career Break Actually Ruin You? (opens the original)
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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 Session
But Money…? How Ordinary Families Afford to Travel the World (opens the original)
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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
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