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Wendy Corr:

Well, hey there folks, welcome to the Roundup. We are a Cowboy State Daily podcast, and our focus is on interesting people in the Cowboy State. Wow. Interesting doesn't even begin to describe my guest today, and I'm so excited to introduce people who have not heard of this young woman to the really interesting life that she's living.

First, I want to tell people about our podcast partner. We have a great other podcast in Wyoming here, if you're a business person, if you are thinking about going into business in Wyoming, the Wyoming Business Alliance, Business from the Basement podcast is the place to go. The resources, the interviews, the people that they're talking to, are the people that you need to know to help your Wyoming business.

So tune into the Business from the Basement podcast put on by the Wyoming Business Alliance. But don't go there yet, because first we have another podcaster that we want to talk to. Megan Anderson is a young woman from Cody. Grew up in Cody, but has created an amazing life for herself. But folks, she's doing it from her van.

It is a crazy story that I am ridiculously jealous of, so I'm going to go ahead and introduce Megan Anderson, Hello, Megan, Hello, how are you? Where are you? Where in the world are you today?

Megan Anderson:

I am currently in Portland, Oregon, and loving every minute of it.

Wendy Corr:

Now, what has brought you to Portland? Just the pure joy of, let's go to Portland?

Megan Anderson:

It's an interesting story. When you travel slow and you live full time in a van, sometimes I just let my intuition guide me, and Portland kept popping up in these weird synchronies. And I was just like, Alright, I'm going to Portland.

And then, thanks to my job and working remote, I know people all over the US, so it was kind of a dream of mine to begin hosting these little fireside chats, meetups. And yesterday I had my first little Meetup group. So that also brought me here.

Wendy Corr:

Tell us about your fireside chats - fireside chats, literally by the Fireside in front of your van?

Megan Anderson:

Well, this was at a restaurant that had a little fire outside. It was like 90 degrees yesterday, though, so everyone was laughing at my idea of fireside chats. But it's really just to bring people together and bring community together.

One thing that I was kind of missing in the first aspect of Van life. So I'm on day 270 of Van life, and I would say the first 150 days or so were very isolating and lonely, kind of getting used to it. And so now I've really shifted on by traveling slow. It allows me to be closer to my community, and I have the ability to bring them together, and it's such a beautiful gift.

Wendy Corr:

Now, how do you reach out to people in the places that you're at? How do you know that there's a community waiting for you when you arrive?

Megan Anderson:

Well, social media is a huge thing that definitely helps with all of it. Also the company that I work for, MBS Highway. We have, I started a Facebook group a couple years ago for our subscribers, and they're all over the US, loan originators all over the US.

And so I just post in that group, hey, who's in Washington? And then the next thing you know, you put out a few invites, and you have a little meetup.

Wendy Corr:

And so tell us, though we've got, there's so much to explore here and so much to unpack. How did a girl from Cody, graduated Cody High School, how did a girl from Cody find herself in the financial world, living in a van wit