Mothership Adrift Podcast

Did We Ever Doubt It? The Truth About Nearly Stopping

The problem was never inspiration. It was hesitation. Procrastination. That fatal gap between deciding and actually doing. This is the episode where we admit how close we came to stopping. The maintenance disasters in Colombia, Malaysia and Australia. The canal crossings where turning back was still an option. The businesses we folded, the friends we didn't expect to miss, and the identity each of us had to give up to leave. We also disagree about whether Starlink and remote work have made the modern version of this too easy. Next episode we start taking apart the real reasons people don't go, beginning with the kids' education.Cockpit Sessions is the podcast where we work through the book behind our eight-year family circumnavigation, one conversation at a time. Cockpit Sessions Ep.06 — out now on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. — We're the Wood family — Woody, Irenka, Rowan, Darroch & Yewan. 8 years circumnavigating on a sailboat with 3 kids • ~40,000 miles • ~40 countries & territories • BOOK RELEASE July 2026 (working title): "Mothership Adrift: A Dad's Guide to Escaping the Rat Race" ▷ FREE SAMPLE: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook

Ready, Aim, Fire vs Fire, Aim, Ready. Which Approach Actually Works? | From Cockpit Sessions Ep.05

We're the Wood family - Woody, Irenka, Rowan, Darroch & Yewan. 8 years circumnavigating on a sailboat with 3 kids  • ~40,000 miles  • ~40 countries & territories • BOOK RELEASE July 2026: "Mothership Adrift: A Dad's Guide to Escaping the Rat Race and Living a Life of Freedom, Travel and Adventure on the Sea with Your Kids" ▷FREE SAMPLE: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook -- 🎬 AS FEATURED IN: ▷Amazon Prime's "Adventure in Wonder"   - Sizzle Reel: https://youtu.be/0YJSjKO4js8  - Trailer: https://youtu.be/7OfAmECKj7E ▷The Telegraph: We quit rat race for eight-year sailing adventure - Read Through: https://youtu.be/5NnprymsWC0  - Article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/activity-and-adventure/eight-year-sailing-adventure/ ▷The Telegraph: We spent 8-year sailing around the world. This was the scariest part - Read Through: https://youtu.be/w7tgipworFE - Article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/trips-of-a-lifetime/red-sea-around-the-world-sailing/ ▷BBC News: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ep8w192yno ▷BBC South East Today: https://youtu.be/BuJe4VtLLmQ ▷GB News: https://youtu.be/KN5yhpD1csA ▷Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/we-are-raising-kids-sea-during-covid19-1530315 ▷Yachting Monthly Award Winner: https://youtu.be/Y1icRewwML8 ▷Lonely Planet: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/families-living-on-the-sea ▷Full press: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/about -- MORE MOTHERSHIP CONTENT: ▷BOOK: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook ▷PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/mothershipadrift  ▷YOUTUBE MOTHERSHIP MAINTENANCE: https://www.youtube.com/c/mothershipmaintenance  ▷YOUTUBE MOTHERSHIP ADRIFT: https://www.youtube.com/c/mothershipadrift  ▷YOUTUBE PODCASTS: https://www.youtube.com/@MothershipAdriftPodcast ▷SPOTIFY PODCASTS: https://open.spotify.com/show/7uv5MGLkCP1xsr9Thc0MYi?si=8a4326c9bef34c86 ▷INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mothershipadrift ▷FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/mothershipadrift ▷WEBSITE: https://www.mothershipadrift.com  --- There are 2 ways to start. Woody's spreadsheet method or Irenka one-way ticket method. Both ended up sailing around the world for eight years. This episode covers what the first step looked like for 2 completely different people, the families they met out there who started with even less, and why the question is never where to start or how to start. It's just.. start. Along the way: a Russian family from Siberia who bought a concrete boat and are still sailing. An Israeli family who bought a boat during COVID and learned as they went. An American who binge-watched YouTube for a year and is now completing his circumnavigation. Why interpersonal skills and a good pot of stew will get you further than a Yachtmaster certificate. Why your boat will never be ready. And why secondary port calculations are the nautical equivalent of learning to ride a horse in case your car breaks down. --- 💙 SUPPORT OUR CHANNELS: A big THANK-YOU to our MOTHERSHIP PATREON family who make these videos possible. What is a Patreon? A Patreon is a regular person like you, who helps content creators like us, to make entertaining and useful stuff like this!  If you'd like to help towards the filming, editing and data costs of our Mothership Adrift channels, please:  ▷ Click the SUPER THANKS button below the video  ▷ Follow the Paypal link: https://paypal.me/Mothershipadrift  ▷ Follow the Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/mothershipadrift --- KEYWORDS:  Cockpit Sessions, Mothership Adrift, go chase whales, adversity and resilience, sailing circumnavigation, family sailing, liveaboard sailing, blue water sailing, sailing podcast, escape the rat race, sailing with kids, sperm whale research, whale darting, Indian Ocean sailing, confirmation bias, safe spaces, conformity and independence, sailing lifestyle, adventure lifestyle, how to live differently, sailing couple --- #EscapeTheRatRace #FinancialFreedom #AlternativeLifestyle #LifeDesign #FamilyAdventure

How to Stop Playing It Safe and Actually Live Your Life | Cockpit Sessions Ep.04

We're the Wood family - Woody, Irenka, Rowan, Darroch & Yewan. 8 years circumnavigating on a sailboat with 3 kids  • ~40,000 miles  • ~40 countries & territories • BOOK RELEASE July 2026: "Mothership Adrift: A Dad's Guide to Escaping the Rat Race and Living a Life of Freedom, Travel and Adventure on the Sea with Your Kids" ▷FREE SAMPLE: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook -- 🎬 AS FEATURED IN: ▷Amazon Prime's "Adventure in Wonder"   - Sizzle Reel: https://youtu.be/0YJSjKO4js8  - Trailer: https://youtu.be/7OfAmECKj7E ▷The Telegraph: We quit rat race for eight-year sailing adventure - Read Through: https://youtu.be/5NnprymsWC0  - Article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/activity-and-adventure/eight-year-sailing-adventure/ ▷The Telegraph: We spent 8-year sailing around the world. This was the scariest part - Read Through: https://youtu.be/w7tgipworFE - Article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/trips-of-a-lifetime/red-sea-around-the-world-sailing/ ▷BBC News: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ep8w192yno ▷BBC South East Today: https://youtu.be/BuJe4VtLLmQ ▷GB News: https://youtu.be/KN5yhpD1csA ▷Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/we-are-raising-kids-sea-during-covid19-1530315 ▷Yachting Monthly Award Winner: https://youtu.be/Y1icRewwML8 ▷Lonely Planet: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/families-living-on-the-sea ▷Full press: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/about -- MORE MOTHERSHIP CONTENT: ▷BOOK: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook ▷PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/mothershipadrift  ▷YOUTUBE MOTHERSHIP MAINTENANCE: https://www.youtube.com/c/mothershipmaintenance  ▷YOUTUBE MOTHERSHIP ADRIFT: https://www.youtube.com/c/mothershipadrift  ▷YOUTUBE PODCASTS: https://www.youtube.com/@MothershipAdriftPodcast ▷SPOTIFY PODCASTS: https://open.spotify.com/show/7uv5MGLkCP1xsr9Thc0MYi?si=8a4326c9bef34c86 ▷INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mothershipadrift ▷FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/mothershipadrift ▷WEBSITE: https://www.mothershipadrift.com  --- Life is a book and it's shorter than you think. This episode is about the people who write a better one.Woody grew up in a mining village in northern England where you got in the trades. Irenka was a latchkey kid in a blended Czech-English family, They both ended up sailing around the world by refusing to follow the preset path. This is how that happens.Why adversity builds resilience rather than damage. What happens to your brain when everything is made safe and why it's the same thing that happens to an astronaut's legs! The moment Irenka encountered the concept of safe spaces and was entirely unconvinced. Why people born into a religion or a culture tend to stay there, and what it takes to break out. And why Woody once jumped into the Indian Ocean with a blood-tipped dart, an angry sperm whale below him and sharks in the water, waiting ten minutes for the boat to come back. --- 💙 SUPPORT OUR CHANNELS: A big THANK-YOU to our MOTHERSHIP PATREON family who make these videos possible. What is a Patreon? A Patreon is a regular person like you, who helps content creators like us, to make entertaining and useful stuff like this!  If you'd like to help towards the filming, editing and data costs of our Mothership Adrift channels, please:  ▷ Click the SUPER THANKS button below the video  ▷ Follow the Paypal link: https://paypal.me/Mothershipadrift  ▷ Follow the Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/mothershipadrift --- KEYWORDS:  Cockpit Sessions, Mothership Adrift, go chase whales, adversity and resilience, sailing circumnavigation, family sailing, liveaboard sailing, blue water sailing, sailing podcast, escape the rat race, sailing with kids, sperm whale research, whale darting, Indian Ocean sailing, confirmation bias, safe spaces, conformity and independence, sailing lifestyle, adventure lifestyle, how to live differently, sailing couple --- #EscapeTheRatRace #FinancialFreedom #AlternativeLifestyle #LifeDesign #FamilyAdventure

Why Some People Escape the Rat Race and Normal Life for Adventure Travel and Others Never Do | Cockpit Sessions Ep.03

We're the Wood family - Woody, Irenka, Rowan, Darroch & Yewan. 8 years circumnavigating on a sailboat with 3 kids  • ~40,000 miles  • ~40 countries & territories • BOOK RELEASE July 2026: "Mothership Adrift: A Dad's Guide to Escaping the Rat Race and Living a Life of Freedom, Travel and Adventure on the Sea with Your Kids" ▷FREE SAMPLE: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook -- 🎬 AS FEATURED IN: ▷Amazon Prime's "Adventure in Wonder"   - Sizzle Reel: https://youtu.be/0YJSjKO4js8  - Trailer: https://youtu.be/7OfAmECKj7E ▷The Telegraph: We quit rat race for eight-year sailing adventure - Read Through: https://youtu.be/5NnprymsWC0  - Article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/activity-and-adventure/eight-year-sailing-adventure/ ▷The Telegraph: We spent 8-year sailing around the world. This was the scariest part - Read Through: https://youtu.be/w7tgipworFE - Article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/trips-of-a-lifetime/red-sea-around-the-world-sailing/ ▷BBC News: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ep8w192yno ▷BBC South East Today: https://youtu.be/BuJe4VtLLmQ ▷GB News: https://youtu.be/KN5yhpD1csA ▷Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/we-are-raising-kids-sea-during-covid19-1530315 ▷Yachting Monthly Award Winner: https://youtu.be/Y1icRewwML8 ▷Lonely Planet: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/families-living-on-the-sea ▷Full press: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/about -- MORE MOTHERSHIP CONTENT: ▷BOOK: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook ▷PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/mothershipadrift  ▷YOUTUBE MOTHERSHIP MAINTENANCE: https://www.youtube.com/c/mothershipmaintenance  ▷YOUTUBE MOTHERSHIP ADRIFT: https://www.youtube.com/c/mothershipadrift  ▷YOUTUBE PODCASTS: https://www.youtube.com/@MothershipAdriftPodcast ▷SPOTIFY PODCASTS: https://open.spotify.com/show/7uv5MGLkCP1xsr9Thc0MYi?si=8a4326c9bef34c86 ▷INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mothershipadrift ▷FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/mothershipadrift ▷WEBSITE: https://www.mothershipadrift.com  --- The difference between people who dream about a life of adventure and people who actually go and live one comes down to a single thing. Mindset. This episode - two people with completely different approaches to risk, planning and uncertainty talk through what actually separates the ones who go from the ones who don't.  Irenka left home at seventeen with a borrowed one-way ticket to Southeast Asia and no plan. Woody bought a round-the-world itinerary and trained for four months before stepping on a boat. They both ended up sailing around the world. Also: why in Brighton, you're never more than twenty feet from a juggler, what a five-year-old building a sandcastle could teach Seth Godin, why having an escape route gives you the courage to escape. Cockpit Sessions is the series in which Woody and Irenka work through the book behind their eight-year sailing circumnavigation, one conversation at a time. --- 💙 SUPPORT OUR CHANNELS: A big THANK-YOU to our MOTHERSHIP PATREON family who make these videos possible. What is a Patreon? A Patreon is a regular person like you, who helps content creators like us, to make entertaining and useful stuff like this!  If you'd like to help towards the filming, editing and data costs of our Mothership Adrift channels, please:  ▷ Click the SUPER THANKS button below the video  ▷ Follow the Paypal link: https://paypal.me/Mothershipadrift  ▷ Follow the Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/mothershipadrift --- KEYWORDS:  Cockpit Sessions, Mothership Adrift, sailing mindset, escape the rat race, sailing circumnavigation, family sailing, liveaboard sailing, blue water sailing, sailing podcast, sailing with kids, adventure mindset, how to quit your job and travel, sailing around the world, Seth Godin, risk taking, adventure lifestyle, how to stop making excuses, sailing couple, Brighton, mindset for travel ---  #CockpitSessions #MothershipAdrift #FamilySailing #BlueWaterSailing #EscapeTheRatRace

Boatyard Update: Back in Greece, Fixing the Boat and Waiting for Dad | Mothership Adrift

No podcast this week. Just an update from the cockpit of our boat in Aktio Yard, Lefkas, in the Ionian Islands. The boat has been on the market for six months. The market is flat. There are repairs to finish, batteries to check, a seized generator to coax back to life, and an antifoul hull that has developed an unfortunate chalky white bloom thanks to the new EU-approved environmentally friendly formula. Progress.The other job today is walking to the airport to collect my dad. The taxi is €25 each way, which is the price of two meals at the local taverna, so the maths on that is straightforward. It is almost exactly nine years since my dad came out to Cleopatra Marina, just next door to where the boat is now, to help us get her ready for the circumnavigation. He is coming out now to help get her ready to sell. That is quite a bookend. Normal podcasts resume next week with Irenka back in the UK. We're the Wood family - Woody, Irenka, Rowan, Darroch & Yewan. 8 years circumnavigating on a sailboat with 3 kids  • ~40,000 miles  • ~40 countries & territories • BOOK RELEASE July 2026: "Mothership Adrift: A Dad's Guide to Escaping the Rat Race and Living a Life of Freedom, Travel and Adventure on the Sea with Your Kids" ▷FREE SAMPLE: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook -- 🎬 AS FEATURED IN: ▷Amazon Prime's "Adventure in Wonder"   - Sizzle Reel: https://youtu.be/0YJSjKO4js8  - Trailer: https://youtu.be/7OfAmECKj7E ▷The Telegraph: We quit rat race for eight-year sailing adventure - Read Through: https://youtu.be/5NnprymsWC0  - Article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/activity-and-adventure/eight-year-sailing-adventure/ ▷The Telegraph: We spent 8-year sailing around the world. This was the scariest part - Read Through: https://youtu.be/w7tgipworFE - Article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/trips-of-a-lifetime/red-sea-around-the-world-sailing/ ▷BBC News: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ep8w192yno ▷BBC South East Today: https://youtu.be/BuJe4VtLLmQ ▷GB News: https://youtu.be/KN5yhpD1csA ▷Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/we-are-raising-kids-sea-during-covid19-1530315 ▷Yachting Monthly Award Winner: https://youtu.be/Y1icRewwML8 ▷Lonely Planet: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/families-living-on-the-sea ▷Full press: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/about -- MORE MOTHERSHIP CONTENT: ▷BOOK: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook ▷PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/mothershipadrift  ▷YOUTUBE MOTHERSHIP MAINTENANCE: https://www.youtube.com/c/mothershipmaintenance  ▷YOUTUBE MOTHERSHIP ADRIFT: https://www.youtube.com/c/mothershipadrift  ▷YOUTUBE PODCASTS: https://www.youtube.com/@MothershipAdriftPodcast ▷SPOTIFY PODCASTS: https://open.spotify.com/show/7uv5MGLkCP1xsr9Thc0MYi?si=8a4326c9bef34c86 ▷INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mothershipadrift ▷FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/mothershipadrift ▷WEBSITE: https://www.mothershipadrift.com  --- 💙 SUPPORT OUR CHANNELS: A big THANK-YOU to our MOTHERSHIP PATREON family who make these videos possible. What is a Patreon? A Patreon is a regular person like you, who helps content creators like us, to make entertaining and useful stuff like this!  If you'd like to help towards the filming, editing and data costs of our Mothership Adrift channels, please:  ▷ Click the SUPER THANKS button below the video  ▷ Follow the Paypal link: https://paypal.me/Mothershipadrift  ▷ Follow the Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/mothershipadrift --- KEYWORDSMothership Adrift, boatyard update, Aktio yard, Lefkas Greece, Ionian Islands, sailing circumnavigation, selling a yacht, boat maintenance, liveaboard sailing, blue water sailing, sailing family, Cleopatra Marina, sailing podcast, yacht for sale Mediterranean, sailing life update #MothershipAdrift #Sailing #IonianIslands #Boatyard #BlueWaterSailing