We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Grace & Matt Grooms a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Grace & Matt, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Can you open up about a risk you’ve taken – what it was like taking that risk, why you took the risk and how it turned out?
Prior to walking across the United States we went all in ourselves and decided to sell almost all of our possessions and pack our lives into a baby jogging stroller we named Timmy. With no other plan then to walk coast to coast from CA to SC, we got out of apartment lease and began walking our first steps of our 2,858 mile walk across the country.
We had made our social media handle @theggoldenroad months prior and decided to share our lives and build an online audience of friends whom we now share all of our life with.
Deciding to sell everything and start walking with no other plan was risky, but we knew with our good energy and the good energy of people we met along the way that we could make something big out of what we were doing.
Several months into our walk our social media pages exploded and in the months following we were blessed to finish our walk, buy a short school bus (which we renovated into our home), and go full time into being entrepreneurs for ourselves.
We have now worked for ourselves for over two years sharing our lives with hundreds of thousands of people online while exploring the United States and sharing all of the great places and people along the way.
No risk is too big if you put your whole hear into it!
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
Matt and Grace here!
Whether we are living out of our short school bus or going on cross country walks, we aim to bring our online friends along for the adventure virtually where we hope you feel like you right there along for the ride with us!
We all about positive mindsets and good energy and we hope our videos and pictures radiate both through the screen.
We believe that social media should be used for good and help raise funds and awareness for different non profit organizations across the country on every adventure we go on.
Don’t miss out on the adventure where you will be sure to smile and learn more about living minimally, adventuring and traveling with your dogs!
We’d love to hear the story of how you built up your social media audience?
Building your social media channels will take time! Keep going! The most important thing that you can do is be authentic, provide value, and never give up! Make sure you are doing it for the right reasons and don’t become jealous of others. We always find that when we just let go and focus on what we are passionate about and not on the numbers that is when things grow the most. It is also so important that you are providing value and engaging with your community.
Is there mission driving your creative journey?
Our mission is to inspire others to travel, explore and find love in the little things.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://theggoldenroad.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theggoldenroad/?hl=en
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theggoldenroad/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/theggoldenroad
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEANBg5Kjjp_sGSJIkaypiA
- Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@theggoldenroad?lang=en