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Sail Loot Podcast 004: Turf to Surf Tasha Teaching English for Some Sailing Money

By on November 13, 2014

Tasha Hacker is one of the busiest people that I know. She and her husband, Ryan, founded and run their business/school, Teaching House. Tasha also runs her travel/adventure blog, Turf To Surf, all while taking any and every opportunity to run marathons, join rowing races from Seattle to Alaska, travel across Australia in a camper van, help win clipper round the world sailing races, traveling Southeast Asia with a home base in Thailand for a while, and take time to do a podcast interview while on a business trip in Berlin. Oh, and Tasha and Ryan just left New York City to get on their sailboat, Hideaway, in the Dominican Republic for a while. If you ever thought that you were too busy to run a business, just ask Tasha how she’s able to do it.

Tasha started teaching English as a second language for the Peace Corps in Russia. She met Ryan in Qatar and they got married in Spain. That’s where Ryan told Tasha that he wanted to sail around the world, and she thought he was crazy. Eventually the were back in NY. Tasha got her masters degree, they opened a school together, and they started learning to sail. The school, Teaching House, ended up providing the sailing money that they needed to cruise the world.

From New York, they sailed their boat, Hideaway, to the Dominican Republic. They left the Dominican Republic a little over a year ago to join the Clipper Round the World race for two legs of the 2013-2014 race, drove across Australia, spent some time in Thailand, went back to New York for a few months to work on Teaching House, and just got back to the Dominican Republic a few days ago.

I’d love to tell you all about it, but instead, you should just listen to Tasha!

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A Few Things You’ll Learn About In This Episode:

  • Tasha’s experience in Russia with the Peace Corps.
  • How Tasha ended up teaching English as a second language and falling in love with it.
  • Tasha earning her Certification in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (Cert TESL)
  • The travel opportunities that can be achieved while teaching English as a second language.
  • Tasha and Ryan’s decision to move to Spain and get certified to train English teachers.
  • Moving back to the states so that Tasha could get her Masters degree.
  • How Tasha and Ryan stubbled upon the opportunity to start their teacher training school, Teaching House.
  • How they built Teaching House with hard work, a new computer, and by building a website.
  • Turning Teaching House into a business that earned some sailing money.
  • How Ryan talked Tasha into his dream of sailing around the world.
  • Buying Hideaway and learning to sail her from Connecticut to New Jersey, and the Hudson river.
  • Sailing Hideaway from New Jersey, down the US East Coast and the ICW, to the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic
  • Tasha and Ryan’s experiences in the 2013-2014 Clipper Round The World sailing race.
  • How they find internet access in order to do some work while traveling in remote places of the world
  • And much more!

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About Teddy

I am a 37 year old that just wants to find a way to make a remote income, gather some Sail Loot and cruise the world! I have been sailing for a couple of years now, but mostly on 10 day trips as vacationing crew. I just recently took sailing to the next level by completing my Basic Keelboat, Basic Cruising, and Bareboat Cruising Certifications! I am also Vice President of a Medical Consulting Company, have a Mechanical Engineering degree from Georgia Tech, and have taken several Coding, Computing, and Online Business courses. It's time to share what I have learned!