WHY I Live Full Time in an RV (MY STORY)
Why I live full time in an RV (my story)… Thinking about Living in an RV Full Time? This is Why I became a digital nomad and solo Female RV Entrepreneur. If you’ve ever had questions about RVing full time like: Why choose rv life? Why choose van life? Why choose nomad life? Then this video is for you! I’m sharing all of the ups and downs I’ve experienced Full Time RV Living. In this video I’m sharing why I live full time in an RV by myself and travel (long story).
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00:00:04 okay so i want to film this video i’ve thought about it for a really long time it is near and dear to my heart i hope i can get through it without crying and without editing it so i really want to give you the raw unedited stuff that you want to know so one of the things that i feel like i don’t really put into my videos as much is me blogging brandy and i kind of want to tell you i guess why that is so part of it is probably me being scared and not sure how much i can share with you there’s been so many of you that have
00:00:53 reached out to me on the phone and in emails and on my social media and when i really get to talk to you and hear your stories it makes me think wow i wish i could tell you mine so i thought today we would do just that so in this video i really wanted to tell you my story about how i got started rving and why rv and i guess how my rv life came to be so if you don’t have something to sip on this would be the time to get it you might not want coffee you might want wine or something a little bit harder
00:01:41 so first off thank you for being here thank you for all my fans followers people that watch me and i never get to talk to you or maybe i have talked to you so i started out as a little kid um i remember that i was driving with my dad and we would be driving past these trailer parks when i was really really young and we’d always be going to visit our family so my family’s from alabama and i grew up in georgia and we’ve always had to come back to alabama to visit the family for all the family gatherings and whatnot
00:02:24 so when i was a little kid i just remember coming out to these family events and we would pass by these trailer parks and my dad would say oh brandi i met a cosmetologist lives there and so at the time my cousin was starting to be a cosmetologist and training for that and she was so pretty and i really wanted to be like her so i was getting ready to go to school to be a cosmetologist or i was doing it in school let me say that so they had a vocational program in the school that i was at and so when i
00:02:58 was young and watching my cousin i wanted to grow up and do that so my dad always put this thing in my head that if you lived in a trailer park that i guess you weren’t good and i don’t know i don’t want anyone to think that my dad is bad like my dad has the nicest heart in the whole world but growing up at a young age and hearing someone say that to me i guess it put in my mind that living in a trailer park was bad and not having money was bad and so my dad was always about you really need to make money and so my dad grew up really
00:03:33 poor and always taught us that we really needed to strive that success was money so i went to school to be a cosmetologist um when i was 16 i started doing it in high school and then when i was 18 i actually started into cosmetology college i guess or master cosmetology college beauty college and so i actually had my license literally like the year i came out of school from high school because i had all my hours built up so while i was in high school i was a straight a student i made really good grades i graduated in
00:04:17 the top five in my class um every year i was in the top five in my class i just really felt like i needed to make ace and honestly like my parents never cared that i made a’s or anything like that and part of that comes from maybe wanting to be perfect to please my dad and what’s crazy is that when i was in fourth grade so let me back up a little bit when i was in fourth grade my dad um and my mom separated so they got a divorce and i’ve pretty much lived two separate lives my entire life and that’s not even like the craziest
00:05:03 part of my life so it gets better but this is real this is me i’m such a cry baby so i never really realized like how much that affected me probably until now like in my life and i’m 35 now so i just celebrated my birthday last month and i still have these things from like childhood that i guess haunt me and probably why i’m living in this rv so let me further explain so uh when i was in fourth grade my parents got a divorce and i remember just living two separate lives so i had two separate christmases two
00:05:55 separate birthdays two separate everything this was really crazy and i don’t know you might have came from a divorce family so you might be able to relate so growing up it was my family i had like my mom we had i lived with my mom my dad lived in a separate place and so that was in georgia and then our whole family both my moms and my dads lived in alabama in two separate places so it was just so crazy and so i didn’t really get to see my family as much growing up so we kind of grew up on our own or by ourselves out there in
00:06:33 atlanta so my dad like moved us away to georgia and i love my dad please don’t think that my dad is like bad my dad has learned that what he did was wrong and you know ask for forgiveness and whatnot so fast forward um so i grew up my dad talking about the trailer park my parents got a divorce i ended up yes going to cosmetology school so i do have my cosmetology license and if you don’t know what that is that is when you cut hair and you do makeup and nails and skin so it’s just to make people look pretty
00:07:20 um so i went through my teenage years and there was this very significant event in my life that changed the course of my life which i thought was in my teenage years which actually wasn’t until i was probably about five years ago so when i was 16. my mom had remarried at the time and my step-dad who i thought was a really good person at the time and i know people go through things ended up being not such a good person and i didn’t really realize that he wasn’t a good person until after he was out of my life
00:08:31 so here i am this perfect straight a student never missing days of school for a while i think i probably started missing days of school but i was just so intent on doing good and making everything look perfect from the outside that i was making straight a’s and i was this perfect student and trying to show that i was successful but in the back of everything i had this secret and so one of my stepdad’s friends who became a really good friend of the family uh it was a fourth of july weekend and i had wanted to go spend the
00:09:31 night they had a pool him and his wife and they just had a baby and i just you know i was 16. i just got my car i could drive i probably have a license for about april may june july so four months i just got my freedom and this person um decided to take that from me and that night i woke up to someone doing things to me that no one should be doing and so when i was in high school nobody knows this so after that happened i went into a deep depression and at the time this is going to sound crazy i had also
00:10:39 lost my stepbrother so my stepbrother was involved in a really bad car accident and passed away and my stepdad was grieving from that and he started drinking and my parents were separating at the time or my stepdad and mom were separating at the time so um i called him to tell him what happened and his response was and this was his best friend his response to me was well what do you want me to do about it and you know this was the man that was raising me during a lot of my developmental years and
00:11:34 he just he didn’t encourage me to be like the best female as a dad should he encouraged me to be more of a sexy and [Music] provocative female and that it was okay to be with men and not value my body so after that event i went into like a deep depression i was on so many antidepressants and i got fat i gained like 30 or 40 pounds i had horrible acne in school and i was teased all throughout high school i remember this one girl calling me crater face and all of these drugs that i was on was messing with my hormones and my face
00:12:48 and you know i know that my mom was trying to do the best that she could and take me and get me the help that i needed but she was a single parent at that time and as much as i love my dad he’s not the always the most loving he doesn’t show his love in the most caring way and it was just such a hard time in my life and yes we went to the police department and they did not protect me so this person still walks around here on this earth and it’s it’s crazy it’s crazy to think about i always think about if i saw him
00:13:46 out somewhere so i went through my high school years making straight a’s and needless to say on all of these medications am i at some point you know i didn’t want to live anymore i wanted to escape this life this horror because all i could think about in my head is what this person did to me and then i was trying to find love by using my body and letting men use me and not valuing myself as a woman so i was in and out of i think i went to two mental institutions my mom checked me in once and i think the police checked me in once
00:14:54 because i was just these medications i swear were making me crazy so here i am 14 was 16 so probably between 16 17 18 i was in two mental institutions in and out um on and off of medication seeing psychologists and psychiatrists and i just feel like all of that stuff made me crazy so um fast forward all i thought about really up until i was 30 was that moment in my life so you know in the back of my mind when i turned 21 you know i partied i did that thing i dated i have dated so many guys that
00:15:52 literally used me i’ve helped people build businesses that have taken so much money from me and here i am the girl that i ended up so i went to cosmetology school and then when i got when i was in cosmonaut well i got out of cosmetology school i started doing my hair thing and i went into finance so i got my finance degree and i ended up working for a very well-known firm and um i’ve done accounting i’ve done finance so i’ve done a lot my licenses would surprise you of what i actually have under my belt but that’s what’s crazy is
00:16:34 underneath all of this here i am getting all of these degrees and looking like this perfect person to everyone outside i had the fancy cars i had the nice condo but little did anyone know that here i am being used and abused by men all my life men have stolen money from me they’ve stolen my value as a woman they have and i’ve allowed it you know but there was this changing moment in my 20s when i dated this one guy so i had this one guy that abused me when i was in my 21 when i was like 21 and i didn’t even know what abuse was
00:17:26 but this person literally would tell me the color of my hair what the color should be and what time i needed to be home and he would call the place that i worked at and if i didn’t answer the phone he would say oh my god you must be sleeping with the boss or sleeping with this person like it was psychotic stuff that i didn’t know was abuse at the time i had no idea i was 21 years old later in my 20s so actually let me inform you my stepdad passed away so he’s no longer on this earth which i’m not upset about this other guy
00:18:05 that i dated that was horrible and abusive to me horrible and abusive um passed away which sadly enough i’m not really that sad about so there’s these people that were in my life that i didn’t realize we’re not good people who are not here anymore so i actually don’t have to fear them so um i went into my 20s i’m sorry if i’m not looking at the camera i’m like trying to think and trying to gather my thoughts and trying to tell the story in the easiest way possible so i went into my 20s and i’m sure there’s things i’m leaving
00:19:02 out but i did not want to script this i really wanted to tell you the raw true footage and this has been weighing on my heart for a while so later in my 20s i met someone else who first it was kind of crazy because i never dated outside of my race so i was dating a black african-american whatever you want to call it i don’t even know what’s politically correct i really don’t care but i went through that i introduced that to my family and that was the hardest thing ever but it taught me that the color of skin doesn’t matter
00:19:47 and not that that part matters but that probably leads up to like where i’m at now so i let this person who showed me a lot of things in my life he taught me that it was okay to not wear my makeup and then i was still beautiful and that there were other things to cherish in life so this was the first person in my life that i ever went through like really i guess financial hardships i wasn’t even it wasn’t even my financial hardship it was his financial hardship i was supporting at the time i was in my early 20s so i
00:20:27 was probably like 24 or 25 i was supporting this guy that was literally using me to pay his child support and his mortgages i was the one with a job he got fired from his job and he blames that on me because i sent him a sexy photo to his phone and he opened it in his i don’t know if he opened it in his work email or whatever i don’t know so i was being a great girlfriend i sent like a really nice picture that i thought was a great thing sent that to him and he got fired from his job he blamed that on me for the longest
00:21:01 time so i felt the need to help him start this business and do this thing so i used all of my funds i was working i was out of college at the time i had an amazing job i was making really good money and he literally was costing me my job i was getting called into the office because i was always dealing with some every time he called my phone it was always hey i need to talk to you when you get off oh my god something’s happening and i never even knew what it was like to pull money out on a credit card i had always been
00:21:34 taught to save and my credit parents always taught me about putting money away and so i was i had a really nice life i even though i had all these horrible things going on my parents really always tried to give me an amazing life and i let these people use me but i really didn’t know that these people were using me i was in my 20s so this was in my later 20s i was in this relationship with him or i guess my mid to late 20s i was going we were dating there was just something i i remember seeing that
00:22:15 he lied to me about some checks that were going out or some money that was being spent here i am thinking i’m this woman and we’re gonna get married one day and i’m building the house for us and i like looking back i was so not even stupid but this person literally stole so much money from me he always had something going on his brother had a gambling problem i needed to rescue him from that and for some reason i was always the rescuer so i didn’t realize this at the time and i finally went to this psychologist or
00:22:48 psychiatrist at the time and i was telling him my boyfriend this my boyfriend that and he finally stopped me and he was like hey you know there’s this pattern in your life that you keep talking about and you just keep saying everything’s happening because of other people and he asked me have you ever heard of this word codependency and i was like i don’t know i’ve never heard of that word before so that night literally like was a light bulb for me and i started looking at this word codependency and what it means is that
00:23:22 you find your happiness through other people and so if if you’re not saving them and rescuing them and helping them through life get over things then you’re not doing your job or you can’t be happy and so i was always happy being second place you know in high school i had friends but i was always the person that people would call if their other plans fell through even the girl i was always the girl that the guy would call if the other girl didn’t want him i was a tomboy in high school like i told you i had acne and i got fat
00:24:06 and then you know i guess i felt this need to go into beauty and if i was pretty then the world would change and i guess it did in a way but honestly if you notice like i have no makeup on i really don’t wear makeup anymore because i mean i used to have to have my makeup on to go let my dogs out my dogs would have to suffer for me to have my makeup on to be able to go out in the world so that they could see me with my makeup on so that’s really sad and pathetic okay and now when i see girls just so worried about their makeup i
00:24:47 mean i just went out on my birthday and had no makeup on and went to a fine dining restaurant and i had an amazing time and i don’t care and i actually had my nails done and they started chipping and i said this is why i don’t get my nails done and they had been stepped on and whatever so i know that you can pay for way better manicures but my boyfriend did an amazing thing for my birthday and so i don’t care but i’m trying not to get off course i’m trying to tell you this whole story without editing it and
00:25:16 really give you the raw raw okay so all of y’all asked me about my rv life and how i got into it and this is really probably how i ended up in an rv so i’ve had these men probably do all of these horrible things to me and i don’t want to sit here and say like oh my pity party i have been very blessed in my life my parent my parents grew up without a lot and strive to work to have a lot my mom is super loving and caring and she is my rock and i love my mom so much i love my dad as well and i have step parents
00:25:51 um so i do have a very loving family um but these events have pulled me away from those relationships and really forced me to go into my own hole and you know i went through this thing helping someone build their business and they were literally robbing me blind and i actually saw them the other day at goodwill and i did everything i could not to look at them because i wanted to punch them in the face so you might think i’m a really nice person and usually i am but needless to say um that was something all on its own
00:26:35 so fast forward to now i just want to make sure this is recording so let me get this yes this is recording i know that sounds crazy but i had to put my phone i’m recording this with my phone so that’s how raw this is i was trying to get my camera and whatnot but yeah so i’m trying not to get off topic i’m trying to just get to the real real so there’s more coming up um dated this guy dated horrible guys this guy used me abused me emo i would say he abused me financially and made me feel like i was responsible for
00:27:16 pulling him out of the ground that he created and no one gets fired for just one picture that comes through so he also told me that he was really not liked and then you know i’m thinking back about how naive i was that this person wouldn’t sell their cars and had two houses and here i am i even offered to move into one of the homes and rent it instead of me paying for an apartment and his words to me well i don’t want your dogs in my house so you cared more about your house than you cared about
00:27:46 me and so much more so anyways thank god that relationship ended and i moved on to something way better so here i am now i was with that person i had this amazing job i still had this amazing job when we finally broke up so there came a time where we finally just said our goodbyes and it was just super stressful i saw he was using me but i just couldn’t put all the pieces together so anyways he took a lot of money from me like a lot of money so at that point in time i started learning what codependency was
00:28:33 and that i needed to stop letting people run over me and my mom had always been this loving person and told me that you always just give give give to other people but she failed to inform me that at some point you have to tell people no so you can’t just always be a yes person so i um got to this next relationship and i didn’t know what it was to love someone i really didn’t so here i am with this amazing job and i met my boyfriend that was an entrepreneur and he really started helping me see something else so i was
00:29:26 honestly working this job it’s nine to f actually like seven not nine to five seven to five seven to six seven to whatever i don’t know i was working at this job and there’s so much i can tell you about like my job life and other things that happen but i’m trying to tell you like the most significant events so i did do some job transitioning during this i moved positions within the company because i had this guy had really put a strain on a position that i was in with this one group so i ended up moving
00:30:00 to this other position which ended up working out for me because then my income like i don’t want to say doubled but i was making six figures okay so then i started making six figures in this other position and it’s kind of like a blessing in disguise so this guy kind of cost me my job i was crying all the time i couldn’t really operate i had this amazing job and here i am i can’t even do my duties i was still doing my duties but you know i’m crying and things are just going crazy so and i like moved every year so i
00:30:34 lived in the same house for about 20 years and then when i came to i was in atlanta doing different jobs and driving all over moving every year so that’s how i kind of like learned to get rid of stuff was moving every year so i would sign a different lease and different things would happen and whatever so i had this amazing job this guy literally kind of cost me my job because at some point i was just my welcome was worn out with this group and i was doing his an amazing job but they figured out that i had trained
00:31:07 everybody so well that they didn’t need me anymore so kind of used them to get my second position within the same company but like i said i got a really ball and raise i got paid different i got to walk to work i sold my car i bought a condo i was living the dream i had i was driving a lexus and then i had like a nissan 350z and then i think i got a kia soul so i’ve had all kinds of things and volkswagen jettas i’ve had lots of cars um so i felt you know at the time that i needed this condo and i needed this job
00:31:46 and i needed these fancy things and i was i wasn’t like a person that needed stuff it was just that i was living this really nice lifestyle i really wanted to live in buckhead atlanta if you don’t know that place it’s very uppity think like louis vuittons and jimmy choose and just really fancy stuff not to say that i’m not like a fancy kind of girl but um i’m from the country so i’m very simple or i have become very simple so i was living this life this fancy life and you know my dad always hated it that i lived there and i don’t
00:32:26 really care because it brought me to where i’m at now so dating this guy that was an entrepreneur and he really made me think i was seeing him sitting at home playing video games with his friends and he was had this nice condo and driving this well at the time he didn’t have the fancy car got the fancy car years after we had been together but you know live this really nice life i was working my butt off to live a nice life and i was just watching him and i was thinking man if he can do it i can do it
00:33:04 so i started googling things reading books there’s some books that literally like changed my life so if you’ve never heard of the four hour work week by tim ferriss will literally change your life i started reading a codependency book um called codependency no more by i think her name’s melanie beedle or battle and like i said things started to change so i started to value myself more i got with this person i was watching all the things that he was doing and let me remind you that we are we were both in our 20s late 20s
00:33:44 so i decided that i wanted to start my own company and it’s not that i didn’t do these things when i was growing up like i tried to do my own um self-tanning business or i had my own self-dating business and i did my own hair thing so there’s other things in between which this life story could go on forever if i told you all that but he wanted to be an entrepreneur and i wanted to be an entrepreneur so i was like okay well i didn’t know that i wanted to be an entrepreneur i knew i had that inside
00:34:11 of me and i was watching him and i was thinking he’s starting to make so much money or he makes either as much money or me or more than me i’m making six figures but i’m working my butt off so there was something that just kind of sparked inside of me and i started just scouring the internet and wanting to start a business but i really didn’t know what i wanted to start and i came across i think he told me at the time that i should do this vaping business so at the time these like e-liquid droppers that you
00:34:44 smoke and those vape pens were like a big thing and i didn’t smoke so it wasn’t a thing for me so i don’t know why i started this business this business ended up being a horrible fail and it wasn’t necessarily a horrible fail it was more of a failure that i decided to pull out of so i morally was like i don’t want to sell this thing i don’t smoke i don’t want people to die from the thing that i’m selling i couldn’t run ads on my product needless to say my first business was not excusing success
00:35:15 so i started a then i started dabbling online so i started learning about selling online and what i couldn’t sell online and what i could sell online so instead of spending i spent all this money and made my own product and whatnot and so then i decided to start a another business and i was watching this webinar that i saw online and it was about how to resell items that you found maybe from like china or overseas and sell them on amazon and ebay so i started flipping these items and i was starting to make
00:35:54 so much money buying these items that i was finding either at the stores like i was going to like goodwills and targets and walmarts and then i was starting to figure out how to get i was literally getting like pallets delivered to my luxury condo so i had this 250 000 condo that i was getting trucks of random merchandise delivered into the bay downstairs and i was having to unpack it and put it on my carts and drag it all upstairs and my condo was like literally lined to the walls with stuff to sell and
00:36:31 i just got so excited i just kept ordering more stuff and it became overwhelming at some point but it allowed me to quit my job so i got this bright idea that i would quit my job and i was like well i’m making so much money and i have this bonus coming up and i have some money saved in my 401k and so if something really goes bad maybe i could use that money so i literally had about six months worth of income to live on and i really wanted to quit my job i was putting a smile on my face i was reading this book
00:37:04 i was going through uh the motions essentially and my boss called me in one day and said something about the security team found something that i had went to on my computer and really all it was was a third party service that helped change your prices automatically i think on amazon or ebay i don’t know so it wasn’t really anything bad it wasn’t like a naughty website or anything like that but i assume in corporate america things are still blocked like youtube and social media i don’t know i haven’t been
00:37:43 in corporate america for so long but i also wasn’t on social media or anything like that when i was in corporate america so it wasn’t a thing for me so this was i guess six years ago when i quit my job and i’ll probably have to make like another video about how i really quit my job and how this came to be but quit my job was watching my boyfriend um who was an entrepreneur and i was like if he could do it i can do it and so i got that bug inside of me i started a couple businesses i ended up developing an app eventually
00:38:23 and um writing a book and what else i did like custom t-shirts and mugs and merchandise and some other things so needless to say he led me down my entrepreneurial journey but i had quit my job i want to say it was probably like six months after i quit my job and i was starting this business and things were going great and hopefully i’m not like getting ahead of myself or going too far behind but i got like the shock of my life so things are going amazing i’ve quit my job i got my business started at the time i
00:39:09 even opened the office and so i was making all this money online and right before i quit my job i had just bought a car so i had a car to get around because i told you i didn’t have a car when i was at my job um eventually i sold my fancy cars and walked to work and so don’t ask me where i was headed at this point in my life i don’t really know but i got pregnant i found out that i was going to be a mom and my whole life changed i don’t even know all the emotions that were going through me at the time
00:40:01 but i went through my pregnancy and i remember telling my boyfriend at the time that i really wanted well i remember telling him and he was just like oh my god my parents can’t find out what are we gonna do you can’t have this baby and it was probably like i don’t know a month to almost two months of pure like terror of my body was going through all these changes i didn’t drink i didn’t do anything i didn’t take pills i didn’t do anything i was literally like trying to prepare to become a mom and
00:41:05 i was so scared and my boyfriend took me to psychiatrists and counselors and churches and clinics and said you know let’s go and you know talk about this let’s just make sure that this is going to be the right decision and i remember us going to talk to my stepdad at the time and i have i’ve had several stepdads so my stepdad told us like hey you know and he was such a churchy person and i’ve grown up knowing god and going to church and i didn’t even tell you that i think i got a dui when i was i don’t know maybe 24 when my
00:42:04 wild years and dating all these guys and that to me is like a bloop on the radar i didn’t even get a dui i got reduced down to something else so you know i’ve even been in handcuffs guys for something stupid like that but i those were like things i don’t even think about because this one event has haunted me for the rest of my life so we went around to all these clinics and churches and all these people giving me opinions and i remember sitting in this clinic and looking around at these people and i
00:42:42 was like i don’t belong here i don’t belong here but i felt all this pressure on me to make a decision and my stepdad said you know hey you know if you don’t feel that right now it’s the right time then you don’t have to have this kid and i never in my wildest dreams thought that i would i like to say murder my child because that’s what i feel like i did but i had an abortion and it haunted me for the longest time here i was this perfect kid this girl that made all these a’s and had all these dark
00:43:44 secrets that nobody knew about all they saw was these fancy cars and my lifestyle and my money and my beauty men looked at me because of the makeup that i had on and the clothes that i wore and the things that i had and the career and they always say you know i want that girl but a lot of them aren’t willing to do what it takes to have that girl okay and all of those things have brought me to where i am now so i truly didn’t know what it was like to love someone until that event and i remember telling this pastor i was like you know
00:44:35 sitting in there looking at those people i was like i don’t belong here and he said you don’t and here i am i know right from wrong and i made the best decision at the time that i could that i thought was the right decision and i felt so much pressure but let me tell you when you go through something you can either sit there and you can keep crying and dealing with it in sorrow by yourself which is what i did i went through this crazy moment and i said you know what i need to heal i don’t know how to do
00:45:31 this i bled for two or three months well three four months i bled for months my body changed my boobs are not the same my my body is not the same it doesn’t feel the same you know i’m still a skinny person but i just don’t feel the same so you you go through this dark moment and i feel like i want to take responsibility and say we made this decision but i did feel pressured in the decision that i made and it was my body and i did make the decision but i’m not happy about the decision that i made i’m not
00:46:26 i feel convicted and it took me a really long time to ask forgiveness and feel forgiven and i still have my days okay but i started to just go through this moment in my life and i said well i want to sell my condo i want to sell everything i have i want to get rid of my business i want to just go heal so i literally started like a year-long process of selling my car and selling my house and selling everything i own my boyfriend said that i was selling a lifestyle so it’s like lifestyle for sale
00:47:09 and i really was i sold everything i quit wearing makeup because when i got pregnant there was all these things that they were like you can’t do this to your body or use this on your body so i was thinking so i started learning like all these things that were like bad from your body but bad for your body so we i went through this dark moment and when i sold everything like i said i have no idea where this rv thing came from but at some point i feel like god laid it on my heart they’re like go get an rv so i got this bright idea
00:47:43 that i would buy this rv and i bought this travel trailer and i drove down to jekyll island georgia and i sat on this island and i was trying to figure this trailer out and i wanted to just heal and i wan i’ve always loved to write so i came up with this great idea that i was going to start a blog and heal and help other women and here i am not healed trying to do that so then i wanted to talk about my rv and so i started talking about my rv and i was learning about my rv so i wanted to teach people and i’ve always
00:48:16 been a teacher so i just have always loved to teach people so if you ever look at my videos a lot of them say how to how to how to because i really love to teach um and that has to do with like seo and rank in my videos but i really don’t share this stuff and i’ve never shared anything like this and so i feel trapped i feel like i can’t move forward maybe unless i confess or unless you know this about me and why i’ve somehow ended up in this rv so i bought this rv that that rv ended up you know trying to heal and
00:48:55 going through trying to start a business and figured out like trying to blog and how i actually ended up on youtube is when i was down there i was trying to get this guy to help me my website and i was telling him about all this chaos going on in my life and he was like i’ve never met him still to this day we’ve only talked on the phone and i had found him online and so he was like oh my gosh have you ever thought about doing youtube videos and i was like me youtube videos i’d probably be really good at youtube
00:49:25 videos but i had never been on camera never done anything like that in my life so i think i started recording about my rv and then i did like a vegas vlog and some other stuff so for those of you that don’t know i actually have like another channel that i started way before i started diversity in this channel so um and my boyfriend had started teasing me saying what are you going to be a blogger blogging brand new blogging brandy so if you ever wonder where the name blog brandi came from it’s because someone was hating on me
00:49:57 making fun of me and i was like oh it kind of has a ring to it so then i said oh i’ll just be blogging raining and so nobody had the name at the time and so i’d started that so sold everything was doing this rv thing wanted to heal decided i was going to be a blogger started a youtube channel didn’t have any idea what i was doing and so um really rving and youtube and the internet and starting a business and going through all of this has really changed my life seriously because people find me on
00:50:28 youtube probably like how you found me or why you’re watching me they find me online and they say hey you know i really like what you’re doing when you show me how to do that or how did you get there and so you know i’ve coached and consulted people i’ve helped people do all kinds of stuff so when i didn’t know what i wanted to do i was helping people build websites and seo and start their own youtube channels and everything under the sun i read a book i developed an app like i mentioned um i sold merchandise
00:50:58 i was doing online sales from amazon and ebay i had fallen back on that here and there i sold my services i had sold other people’s products and services it was crazy so i felt like people were telling me oh you should do this you’d be good at this and so i was doing all of these businesses but what i didn’t realize is when you try to do all of these businesses you’re really not doing anything so i was trying to start a business i had this rv then i was involved in this horrible accident which is kind of how it led me
00:51:32 into that so i was involved probably about four months after i got my travel trailer i someone clipped my rv and or clipped the front of my truck that i was towing with at the time and my rv rolled on the interstate and i was literally like in a year of insurance claims and recovery and i’m very thankful to be alive so i was trying to heal i went through this horrible rv accident so then i’m going through that and then i spent about a year dealing with insurance and recovering and just getting back to myself while i’m still
00:52:17 healing from losing my child which is what i tell people all the time i say i lost my child but i did lose my child but it was my decision and it brought me to where i am and i’m so much stronger now i’m in a different place in my life but quit my job like i said about six years ago went through this entrepreneurship thing and i had started my business before quitting my job i was making that money then bought my travel trailer so i did not quit my job and buy an rv and start a business like a lot of people maybe think or
00:52:56 think you should do and some people say oh you have a trust fund no i had a college degree i had a cosmetology license i had several other licenses like insurance and series 77 7 and 66 and some other weird licenses for finance and securities so i used to trade stocks on like the new york stock exchange and help people plan their retirement and their lifestyles and figure out their budgets and so that’s probably why i talk about money and finance in a different way i guess on my channel or like i had this finance video that
00:53:28 went really well and i was like oh maybe i shouldn’t make another video on that but that’s a side subject so um started this business uh went through lots of transitions ended up deciding to buy this winnebago van that i found because i was like okay well you know i really wanted to get married and then i kind of had like baby fever after i lost my child then i thought well i’m never i want to have a child and you know i went through all those emotions and i worried about was i’m not going to be
00:54:06 able to have a child again and how was i going to be able to pick up these pieces and maybe i was gonna have to go back and live with my mom and you know i sold my house i kind of i stayed with my boyfriend for a while in his home and i just felt like we were being forced into this i don’t want to say marriage or i wanted him to love me and be with me for me not because of this thing that we went through and so i tried to still have my own life so i was doing this rv thing and he still had this
00:54:44 condo and he’s not like trying to do this rv thing or he was learning about it so he embraced it a lot he went through this process with me and he has been an amazing rock and i don’t want to say that he hasn’t had his faults he has had his faults it has been very challenging but like i mentioned i truly never knew how to love someone and love my life and love where i’m at and the things that i’ve gone through until i went through all of this looking back so when i had my van i bought it from a really really well known probably the
00:55:28 largest rv dealership that you can think of in usa and it was horrible i had so many issues with this fan there was recalls it was crazy for the first year i dealt with so many recalls on this van and i cried and i bitched and complained and finally got them to trade it out for a so i went from a 2016 to a 2018 so it was like literally about then when i got to 2018 i literally had like all the same problems it caught on fire i had electrical issues and water problems and things never worked okay so that is why
00:56:09 i quit van life is because van life was not for me trailer life and towing was not for me i even tried to tow my smart car behind my van at the time and someone ended up stealing my trailer so i don’t tow so that’s what fast forward me to this rv so during all of this you know i had my dogs at the time i’ve lost both my dogs that were on this journey with me and probably due to stress one of them died she was only seven or eight years old a little dutchy and we had to put pretty down um i guess it would be
00:56:52 two years now so i wanted to share all of this that i was going through but when i mentioned that i bought this van from this company i was forced to well i don’t say i they tried to force me but depending on whose names were on paperwork and some other things they required in order for us to switch the van out that we signed an nda which is a non-disclosure agreement that i was not allowed to talk about the events or the circumstances that surrounded my van or my rv and all the issues that went along with it so
00:57:35 i have felt trapped that i wasn’t allowed to tell you about my life or what happened and that’s kind of like where i’m at so once i had the van issue gone actually when my dog was dying we went to las vegas and i had my smart car and this guy saw it and we were just peeking at other rvs and he was like you know what i actually have the perfect rv for you so that’s actually how i ended up in this rv so now i’m in my motor home if you haven’t seen my smart car goes inside my motor home like actually in
00:58:08 this garage that we’re in i have a video about that on my channel and they this guy was like hey you should get this rv and so we started doing a lot of research about like what weight it can handle and the different year models and whatnot and i couldn’t really find one so all my rvs up into this point i had three my trailer and the two vans were all new i had so many issues out of them between my wreck i also had issues before the wreck and then my van and so many issues i just was trying to find something to be
00:58:45 i guess a home and not have to deal with towing since someone installed my trailer as well so i just was done you know i’m trying to heal start a business and learn how to rv at the same time while my life is not in one place so i’m literally being forced to travel i couldn’t find an rv park or a place to park my rv that was close to you know i wanted to be close to my boyfriend because he still had his condo um in atlanta and i’m just i guess trying to please everyone i want to be with him i’m hoping you know he’s
00:59:18 going to put a ring on my finger so i’m getting these rvs and traveling and trying to heal and thinking you know either one day he’s going to join me or one day he’s going to put a ring on my finger and the rv will be maybe a part-time thing and i’ll be in the house with him so somehow you know i’ve ended up here and probably more primarily once i bought this rv we traveled for literally like six months to find this rv to find a used one that someone didn’t tamper with or do weird things to and at a good price so found it in tampa
00:59:50 my dog had passed away during that time and had the rv did a lot of traveling in florida honestly a lot by myself um my boyfriend would come back and forth and he would stay with me for a couple weeks i had this camping pass and you know it started to get expensive so the rv life just i was trying to learn it i had this new rv i was scared i was intimidated i had this big motor home and i talked with my hands a lot so i’m sorry but it ended up being i mean a blessing in disguise so someone stole my trailer so
01:00:24 it was a blessing that i ended up getting this rv because it led me here and then traveling decided to finally take a trip to las vegas in this rv we’re sitting there in covet hits you know and ended up back here in i’m in alabama now so at this time i just really wanted peace in my life and i decided to chill i had been traveling for like four or five years i didn’t have a stable life and i ended up deciding to just take the rv get back to alabama my family’s in alabama my mom lives in alabama my dad lives
01:01:07 the opposite direction over towards atlanta so i’m like literally on the stretcher road and then my boyfriend still has this condo in atlanta so um yeah i live in an rv park i when co-vet hit i decided to settle down here and so the last year i’ve really just worked on my business and really tried to dial into what i was passionate about and what i wanted and really embrace this rv thing and it has been a roller coaster but you know this whole rv life has strengthened my relationship has made me a better person i’ve been
01:01:50 through amazing personal growth and i can’t say that i’m completely healed i don’t know if you ever are but i’m forgiven i feel i’ve asked god for forgiveness i have come through this thing i’ve met some amazing people and the more that i share my story and the more that i meet people i’m starting to hear their stories and it just makes me feel like i couldn’t go forward without telling you mine and i’m sure there’s things i left out and they’ll probably be a part too but i wanted you to know my story and
01:02:26 where i came from and how i ended up in this rv and you know there’s other blessings that came out of co bed like this beautiful girl who’s this cutie pie so i started fostering doggies and i learned really what it is to love animals and love other people and yeah so that’s where i’m at now so i live in an rv park in my rv and this is i make it work i make it work so i have time with my mom i have time with my dad i have birdie my dog that’s her name birdie come here birdie are you crawling on stuff come
01:03:12 here so birdie is a cutie pie she needs a haircut she just got a bath but it rained outside so yeah that’s where i’m at you know so i guess i’m sure that there’s people that have hateful comments to say or positive comments to say and maybe you’ve been through a similar experience but that’s what i guess i should tell you kind of like what i do now so a lot of people say like how do you make money or what do you do now or what brought you to where you’re at like now you know what brought me to where i’m at
01:03:45 but this last year instead of having all of these businesses and all of these other things going on which i do have multiple streams of income but i really tried to dial down on what i wanted so now i teach people who want to embrace this rv life and rv living and you know going and meeting all these different people on the road and seeing how other people live in other parts of the country and that it’s not always glamorous and you get to go out there and dump your poo and remember that water is
01:04:20 not unlimited all the time when you’re traveling and that everything doesn’t always go great and breakdowns happen and so it’s a huge personal growth journey especially like when you’re bis by yourself and these things are happening you know i love it when my boyfriend is with me because he’ll usually fix things but like i said we’ve both through been through some amazing personal growth i wanted to share this story and try to protect as many people as i could and yeah i know that i’m not ashamed of
01:04:55 my story anymore and i want people to know who i am and where i come from so this is me this is the raw unedited this is the stuff that you really wanted to know and i want to share more of that with you so i guess i’ll see you in the comments and if you haven’t subscribed please subscribe the next video won’t be like this as much but i do want to know i guess maybe what else you want to know what do you want to know about rv life and my business and maybe what have you gone through um so i’ll see you in the comments please
01:05:37 subscribe if you want to reach me you can reach me at rversity.com um my contact info is there i figured this video might be a little personal so i wasn’t sure that i wanted to tell you to like book a call with me or send me an email i wasn’t really sure where i wanted to go with that so this was more for my fans and followers and people that don’t know me and raw and unedited so so so so this is it this is me this is blogging brandy and this is why i live in rv and how my rv life came to be and how i became an entrepreneur really
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