Lessons Learned RV Living as a Female Digital Nomad and Entrepreneur
In this post, I’m sharing all the Lessons Learned RV LIVING as a FEMALE DIGITAL NOMAD and ENTREPRENEUR. I knew when I quit my job 6 years ago that I wanted to be a Female Entrepreneur, but I had no idea I’d become an RV Entrepreneur or that the Solo Female RV Van Life thing would turn into what is now RVersity. When I started Full Time RV living, all I cared about was growing my business while being on the road as a Female Digital Entrepreneur. It wasn’t until I decided to try out Stationary RV Living that I found my true calling. Keep on reading to learn what I wish I had known before beginning my RVing Entrepreneurial journey!…
PS I made you a Video to go along with this post (below)
The Lessons I Learned RV Living as a Digital Nomad + Entrepreneur
Hey friends — we need to talk.
And I mean that in two ways:
- I need to talk to you because there are some things I think you need to hear.
- We need to talk for real — as in, you and I connecting.
So before I dive in, I want to make sure you know this: you can reach out to me or JOIN RVersity (my university for RVers). If you need someone to talk to or you want help planning your RV or digital nomad journey, let’s make it happen.
Why I Haven’t Posted in a While
I haven’t put out content in a minute because I’ve spent the last year of my life living stationary in my RV while focusing on my business and figuring out where I want to put my time.
If you don’t know me or you’ve never heard my story, I shared it in another post; you can check it out [here]. But the short version? I started RV life after losing my child, quitting my “dream” job in finance, and transitioning into entrepreneurship. — NOT in that order!
The Truth About My “Dream Job”
I had what most people would call an amazing job:
- Great pay
- Paid vacation
- A beautiful office life
- Fancy Titles
But the truth? I wasn’t free. — If I left the office or checked emails off the clock, I wasn’t compensated. I was giving up my time, my energy — my life — to maintain an image and a career.
I worked in finance for a huge company (yep, the bank). I was a financial planner — the one who sat down with people like you, looked over your money, and said:
“If you invest wisely and save for the next 30–50 years, you’ll finally be able to retire and do the things you want… like buy that RV and travel.”
But here’s the irony: I was telling other people how to live their future dreams while I was miserable living my present reality.
Why I Left — and How RV Life Started
I never dreamed about living in an RV. That wasn’t even on my radar.
But I quit my job. I met my boyfriend (an entrepreneur who seemed to have all the freedom I wanted). And I thought:
“If he can do it, I can do it.”
Meanwhile, I was killing myself for a 7–5 job to pay for:
- A $250,000 condo
- A Lexus (because my boss had one and I felt I needed to keep up)
- Fancy electronics, gadgets, furniture, all the “nice things”
I wasn’t even a big spender, but I was stuck in this keeping up with the Jones’s cycle.
Losing My Child… I LOST Myself
This part is hard to share. — I lost my child. And it felt like my whole world ended. This loss happened after I quit my job to become an entrepreneur, and it knocked me completely off course. I spiraled into grief. I felt like my life was over. That’s when RV life came in — I bought an RV to heal. My boyfriend used to joke that I was “selling a lifestyle,” but really, I was trying to find myself again.
Healing, Faith, Letting Go = Lifestyle For Sale!
I remember reading a Bible story about a man who came to God asking for deliverance, and God told him to sell all his possessions. I was at that point. I needed to let go of everything.
So I sold what I could, left my old life behind, and started blogging about my RV journey. That’s actually where the name Blogging Brandi came from — people teased me about “blogging,” but it became my outlet for healing, learning, and growing.
Building a Business While Healing
I went through a lot of businesses:
- Reselling other people’s products (until I got tired of the complaints and returns)
- Creating my own products — developing an app, writing a book, and more
- Sharing RV how-to videos like “How to Hook Up Water in Your RV”
But I realized something: I was great at selling other people and their products… but not myself. — So I dug deeper. I worked on personal development. I figured out who I really wanted to help and how.
Trauma + Entrepreneurship + RV Life = A Lot
This wasn’t just about living in an RV. It was about:
- Healing from child loss
- Learning to be an entrepreneur
- Figuring out how to make money on the road
- Building a brand
- Adjusting to RV life
Oh, and did I mention? I lost my first RV in an accident, only 4 months in. This journey wasn’t easy — it was painful, messy, and transformational.
Codependency, Growth, and Taking My Power Back
One of the biggest breakthroughs for me was learning about codependency.
I realized I was:
- Basing my happiness on other people’s happiness
- Trying to shape my life around others instead of putting myself first
I wasn’t giving myself the time or space to heal. I was jumping from thing to thing, trying to “fix” my pain. — So I stopped. I slowed down. I learned to put myself first.
Stationary RV Life — and Loving It
I’ve spent over a year now stationary at an RV park. Some people joke, “Your RV never moves,” but they don’t understand:
A tragic event happened, and this season of staying put has been one of the best things for my healing and my business.
I’ve created a routine:
- Wake up naturally at 5 AM
- Drink coffee
- Do some fitness
- Read the Bible
- Stop working by 5 PM
- No work on weekends — those are for family, fun, and rest
It’s been grounding and life-changing.
My Business and My Calling
This past year has been my best business year yet. I figured out:
- My real value
- Who I want to serve
- How to teach others what I’ve learned
And that’s why I created RVersity — a space where I share my tools, resources, and strategies for RVers + RVing For Bosses for digital nomads, and entrepreneurs who want this kind of freedom.
Want to Talk? Let’s Connect
If my story resonates with you — whether you’re:
- Trying to plan your RV life
- Balancing work and travel
- Starting a business on the road
- Or just trying to figure out your next step
Let’s talk. If you haven’t already be sure to JOIN RVersity, be part of the COMMUNITY on Facebook and if you have more questions 👉 Contact me here so we can plan your RVing and digital nomad journey together!
Final Thoughts
I made this video/blog because I wanted you to know:
- I’m still here.
- I read your comments and messages.
- I cry with you, laugh with you, and want to help you.
I don’t just make videos for YouTube. I make content to change lives — yours included.
If this resonated with you:
- Subscribe to my channel for more
- Hit the like button
- Drop a comment
And most importantly, JOIN RVersity! Let’s plan your RV life, your business, and your freedom. Thanks for being here. I’ll see you in the next video. — XO Blogging Brandi
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Here is the video transcript:
00:00:00 we’re warming up here we’re warming up here okay so i feel like we need to talk and i mean that in two ways one i need to talk to you and i think there’s some things you need to hear and two i feel like we need to talk like for real and i want to make sure you know that you can book a call with me below this video so i want to dive into what i want to talk about but i wanted you to know that we can really talk that brings me to the point of this video so i haven’t put out a video in a minute and i’ve spent really the last
00:00:43 year of my life stationary in my rv but dialing into what i really wanted to focus my time on and that’s in my business so if you don’t know me if you’ve never seen my story i shared that in another video that you can watch here but i shared about my rv life and why i started rving and then i get it i got all of these people reaching out to me i lost my child and it felt like the world had ended i didn’t quit my job and start this rv life and start a business it was kind of the opposite way i had this really
00:01:28 amazing dream job that most people would want paid really good money i had paid vacation i could pretty much do anything i wanted except leave the office or if i was not at the office i didn’t have freedom so i remember if i checked my emails i didn’t i wasn’t supposed to get paid for that or i wasn’t supposed to book my time for that it’s like i was putting all my time into this life and if you don’t know i was in finance so i worked for a really really big company i worked for the bank and i went from
00:02:03 planning people’s lives so i would sit down with someone like you and i would say hey you know show me your finances let’s see what you’re invested in or you know what are you saving each month how much money are you bringing in i was your financial planner but i would go through like your expenses and then we would pretty much just tell you hey this is what you should invest in for the next like 50 years of your life and then eventually you’ll be able to retire and buy an rv and do that thing that you
00:02:30 want to do but you need to work like the next 30 years of your life before you can do that and it’s crazy because i never would have thought that i would be in an rv i never dreamed about being in an rv this was never something that that i thought about doing it wasn’t until i quit my job and then i met my boyfriend but he was an entrepreneur he was like super lazy and he was just money was rolling in for him and i was like if he can do it i can do it and i’m slaving over this nine to five which is really like seven
00:03:02 to five i’m getting up and i’m giving up so much for this job and really i’m giving up everything just so that i can pay for this 250 000 condo this lexus that i felt like i needed to fit in with everyone else and because my boss had one and they made me feel like i needed these things and i had a fancy car all the things all the gadgets all the fun stuff all the newest and greatest like the nice iphones and i had a nice computer and i had you know surround sound and flat screen tvs and i wasn’t like a big spender but i
00:03:39 decided that i needed like this furniture for my condo and so i spent all this money and i always remember this conversation that i have with my girlfriend one time i was talking to her and she’s like oh i really want to do that rv thing that you do that sounds really fun and i asked her i said well what are you spending your money on right now like if you know you want to travel and she’s really good at budgeting so that was ironic but i remember her telling me she said oh you know i bought like all this
00:04:04 furniture and stuff i’m pretty sure that conversation came up before i don’t remember but this was the only furniture i had ever bought so well the story she told me she bought the furniture and said well why did you buy that furniture and she was like oh you know just keeping up with the joneses and i was like well who really jones is it was more of like she was keeping up with what everybody else thought she should do she was feeling like she needed to buy these things and do all these things to fit in
00:04:33 i guess with her current situation so i suffered my child loss during this journey to entrepreneurship so i went through a lot of different businesses but the really big thing that i’ve always told everybody that really did it for me was reselling other people’s products and services until i would get complaints and returns and it wasn’t anything that i was doing it was these other people’s products and services so then i started developing my own so you know i created an app and i wrote a book and one thing i
00:05:06 really never did and i’ve learned about myself is that i was really good about selling other people but i wasn’t really good about selling myself i had all of these passions i wanted to do all of these things and so i went through this child loss and honestly kind of felt like i needed to give all that up and that wasn’t really the case but looking back now i thought that like my life was over and i had been crawling out of this hole for like the last three or four years since that had happened and i never shared
00:05:47 all of that with my fans and followers until i made the video about my story maybe a month ago but it was like four videos ago and then when i got this outpouring of everyone i thought wow you know i’ve never really shared my story like this deep so my child loss came after i quit my job so i quit my job because i wanted to be an entrepreneur and then when i became an entrepreneur i had this tragic thing happen in my life that was like i was trying to heal from it so i started my rv life to heal from my child loss and
00:06:22 it was like selling a lifestyle and it’s always something that my boyfriend joked about and he said you’re you’re literally like selling a lifestyle and i really was i was trying to heal and i had read about this this guy in the bible and i do not remember the story it was something like he had came to um god and he was asking you know about will you please deliver me or um you know answer my prayers or whatever and god told him like we’ll sell all your possessions i think i was at that moment where i was reading the bible and i was
00:06:56 just trying to heal and ask for forgiveness and feel back to where i was because i felt on top of the world when i became an entrepreneur and then i lost this passion because of this thing that happened in my life and i let that thing define me and also while i was trying to heal it’s like my boyfriend my partner who also went through this thing with me who’s also an entrepreneur was getting to grow his business and his business was going in places where i’m over here trying to heal and it wasn’t like he didn’t go through
00:07:31 a lot of it with me but he didn’t get to feel it like i felt it this was something that went in my body and something that i was connected to and he didn’t have the same connection to plus it was more of we came from two different cultures he is from he was born in india uh india india he’s indian yeah he was born in india a different country and i was born in america so i came from like christian values and he came from like arranged marriages and i was quitting a job i was starting an entrepreneur life
00:08:07 trying to figure out how to make money on the road or really how to transition my business to make money on the road and then i was going through this child law so then i just wanted to sell everything and i wanted to blog about my life and then i started getting teased about blogging brandie what are you gonna do blog and bring a new bubble and that’s how the name came up so i was trying to heal trying to become an entrepreneur and also trying to learn this rv thing and so i was on a call the other
00:08:31 day and someone mentioned to me that you know one of the things that they do when you’re trying to heal from something or you’re going through something as you try to teach other people so i started making these videos about how do you hook up your water in your rv and how do you set up your trailer and this wasn’t really transformational stuff this wasn’t things that was like changing people’s lives it was literally like people fly by they learn at one time and they never need to watch the video again they don’t
00:08:58 really need to see me again and they didn’t really need to connect with me so i also had to hit pause on that because i lost my rv so i bought my rv i lost it like four months and i got in this horrible rv accident so then i was like healing for a year and um you know i went into my story about like this whole thing but i was trying to be an entrepreneur and i had all these ideas and projects and i was trying to start this rv life and i was trying to heal so i’m like going through i was literally like
00:09:29 changing one lifestyle for another in like two lifestyles rv life and entrepreneurship so i was like building this business and i kind of learned how to brand myself so that was the one thing that i didn’t really realize what i was doing by going through this process was i had tried to create all these products and services to sell but i never really tried to sell them so i spent all this time wasted honestly i don’t want to say wasted it wasn’t wasted but i’ve spent all this time going through all of these
00:10:05 different businesses and all these different ideas and all of these different rvs because i had a travel trailer and then i had two vans and then i had this rv which is my motor home one thing that one of my family members my cousin pointed out to me was like don’t you feel like maybe you were running from something like instead of healing and kind of thought you know maybe i was running from something but i guess like one of the reasons i wanted to make this video was to connect with you so like i said i
00:10:36 do want to talk to you so over this last year i really and actually of my rv life i’ve spent a lot of time on personal growth and development and figuring out who i really am and what i want to offer this world and it took a lot to do that i want to share more about myself but it is scary putting it out there into the world and not knowing what you’re gonna get back i mean let’s be real people do write ugly things and people write really amazing things and you can relate to some people and then some people like they watch one
00:11:11 video from like years ago and they make a comment and i’m like did you see any of the other videos i’ve been since then but you have to remember that people aren’t willing to invest the time in themselves that you’re willing to invest in yourself and i kind of learned that when i talked about this in my story but the word codependency came into my life so i figured out that i was letting like all these other people and all these other things i was looking at other people in their life and trying to be i guess like them or
00:11:39 trying to shape my life around them and their happiness and if they were going to be happy then i’d be happy but instead i realized that i was putting myself second in life i wasn’t you know giving myself space to heal or time to heal i was like just jumping into the next thing and i felt like i was being pushed into the next thing i wasn’t ready to go into the next rv my boyfriend kind of was like hey you know you’ve been living here in the house and i’m like well i figured you put a ring on it by now you know we’ve
00:12:04 been in that for like seven years so you know i’ve admired the year and he is usually here with me but he still has this condo and so you know i have these two two separate lives that i still have to live and we traveled for a real long time and then when co-vet hit in 2020 we had to literally like just hit pause and figure out what the next move was because things were shutting down and i was living in las vegas at the time in rv we were living in las vegas in the rv but we had been traveling and so came all the way back to alabama
00:12:39 so i’ve been in alabama stationary at an rv park for really over a year now so i’ve created like a stationary life and i really want to get back out there like i really want to travel and some people say like you’re already never moves i’m like you didn’t understand that like a tragic event happened right but i spent the last year instead of you know complaining it’s been one of the best years for my business i figured out you know my value in life and that i wasn’t just trying to sell like a little five dollar app or a little
00:13:12 thirty dollar book i really figured out who i was trying to target and talk to and the people that have reached out to me you know i’m a digital nomad i’m an rver i love fancy things but i don’t spend a lot of money on them and i do look like i have a really nice life but i also save a lot of money and i budget for it and i’ve planned for it and that probably comes from my financial backing i do have a degree in finance and i’ve worked in an accounting office and you know ironically i also have a license to cut hair and
00:13:48 do makeup and speaking of which i was on the phone with someone the other day and they were talking to me and they said you know what i really love by the way if you want to hop on a call with me you can i mentioned there’s a link below you can book a call with me below this video and we could chat but i was on the phone with someone the other day and they said you know you just show up and that’s what i love about you is you show up you know without your makeup and which is ironic because i came from
00:14:13 this life that you should just always have makeup on and be beautiful until i figured out that i was beautiful without all the makeup okay and it took a really long time to get there but i figured that out and i didn’t need those things and i was wearing this shirt which is my boyfriend shirt but it says just do it and so this morning i was like oh you know i need to take a shower and i need to do my coffee and do all these things and then i’ll make that video and then i need to come up with like a title and a
00:14:43 description and tags and then i was like no i need to talk to you like we need to talk so if we haven’t talked yet make sure that you reach out to me and book a call with me because i do want to talk to you i’ve been working on this project i call it adversity but you know i created this space where i could share how i got to where i’m at and take away all of those barriers from you being able to get there and i brought these people into my space and it was super scary and i shared like all my tools and resources
00:15:19 and i’ve been on calls with these people every week for at least a year i have been super vulnerable about sharing the details of the behind the scenes of my business and how i make money and you know my relationship and what i go through and you know i don’t just make videos to make videos for youtube and facebook and social media i truly have actually made probably like 30 videos in this last month but it was for my clients i’m teaching them how to live a different life i’m teaching this transition and it is a emotional and
00:16:00 physical and mental transition you know it’s not like you just jump into this life that’s how you end up with a train wreck and in a wreck like i did and don’t have all the things that you need before jumping into this especially if you’re trying to like start a business and do this entrepreneurship thing so either way i wanted to make this video because i wanted you to know one that i’m still alive two that i read your comments and i love that you reach out to me and when i talk to you on the phone like
00:16:28 you know sometimes you’ll find me in tears because your stories just really resonate with me and i know what it feels like to be in your shoes and i was in your shoes years ago or it could have been last week and those things all of those things have brought me to where i am now i still cry i still get upset i still have those bad days but you know i have things that i do to keep myself sane and people that i have in my life and there’s a lot of things that i’ve removed from my life so i don’t just have a huge to-do list i
00:17:00 literally have two things that i’ll try to do every day and if i get those two things done then i’m happy but i have my budget figured out i have i don’t have my plans figured out but i kind of have a schedule and i have a routine and i have i don’t just wake up and float through life okay i’ve always been really i get up at 5am my body just naturally wakes me up i drink my coffee i try to do some fitness i read the bible and i try to stop life at five o’clock i don’t work on weekends i try to spend
00:17:35 after hours with my boyfriend i try to spend the weekends with my family or doing stuff that i really love and even during the day i take breaks and do things that i really love so i want you to experience this same freedom and life freedom life rv life digital no mad life i want you to experience these same blessings that i’ve been dealt but i want you to understand that it does take a lot of work and giving up certain things and maybe people to get here so being secluded in my rv is probably like how a lot of
00:18:10 people have felt during coven and it just taught me a lot so when people hunkered down during covet and they were like oh my god i’m losing my mind i was like wow this is like pretty normal for me i mean it almost felt like nothing was going on because when coveted happened i was living in las vegas i booked it back to alabama which is where i’m from i just remember thinking my life is still is super normal i knew all these things were happening and things were shutting down but i had been living the secluded life
00:18:41 in my rv for so long that i didn’t feel abnormal it felt super normal i everybody was freaking out and having to go inside and saying i can’t be with my friends and family and i’m like i have been without my friends and family for a really long time it was kind of ironic that i settled down near my friends and family and i thought coved was a blessing to me and my business and i had more clarity than ever in who i wanted to work with and what i wanted to do with my time and my relationship got even better i would
00:19:20 say i’m sure we had our moments but our relationship was probably better when we were traveling or we learned a lot about each other when we were traveling but we’ve both been entrepreneurs so that’s another thing that a lot of people don’t understand is that i’ve been an entrepreneur with my boyfriend for a while so we spent a lot of time together and then the rv thing was just kind of super normal and then when we got stationary it was pretty normal too so i’m gonna make another video about spouses and rv life because i’ve been
00:19:54 asked about that a lot but um that’s a good reason to subscribe so if you haven’t subscribed already make sure to subscribe to my channel i’m blogging randy this is diversity and on that note um you know i went through a lot in my rv life and i really just wanted to make this video to talk to you about where i am now and if the camera’s shaking it’s because my other camera died so i got to hold this but um i want to start sharing more about my rv life but i just wanted you to know that i don’t like to share
00:20:29 things that are i don’t want you to just watch me live my rv life i want to share things with you that change your life that get you into the same life that have you live in this life so i kind of learned a while back that i don’t just make videos to make videos i make videos and i want to make videos and i want to make content to change your life change your perception and get you in the same mindset get you here the fastest way possible which is again why i kind of like spent all of this time creating
00:21:01 adversity and working on my latest project behind the scenes and the fastest way to get here is to pick a call with me and chat about your rv live tell me what’s going on and let me help you help yourself get there so if we haven’t chatted i’m dropping the link below this video so that we can chat and talk about planning your rv life your entrepreneur life your rv boss status so you can be here whether you’re in your current job or you want to quit your job or you have an rv and you’re just trying to
00:21:43 figure it out whatever it is if you’re a digital nomad you’re an rver and you’re like this thing ain’t working for me or i need your tools and resources because i just started this thing or i want to start this thing let’s talk let’s let’s plan this thing and let me share that with you i’m excited to share this video with you if you like this video make sure to hit the like button drop a comment below and of course if you haven’t booked a call book a call with me subscribe and i’ll see you in the next video thanks for watching bye!
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