#102 How Letting Go of Security Can Launch Your Most Successful Business Yet with Continental DRIFTER®, Ralph Velasco

What if the one thing keeping you from success isn’t lack of skill, strategy, or resources … but your fear of letting go?

In this episode of Be the Wolf, we dive deep into the moment every entrepreneur faces …  when to take the leap and trust yourself enough to make your passion a full-time business. 

Ralph Velasco spent plenty of time in jobs and owning businesses that didn’t light him up. Because he didn’t know how to turn his passion into a business. 

He walked away from security – not once, but multiple times – until he finally built the business and lifestyle of his dreams.

If you’ve ever felt trapped in a business that no longer excites you … if you’re grinding away but never feeling free… or if you’ve been telling yourself “I just need more time, more money, more stability before I go all in”—this episode is for you.

We’ll uncover:

✅ The fear that keeps most entrepreneurs stuck—and how to break free

✅ Why waiting for the “right time” is killing your business dreams

✅ The hidden cost of holding onto security (it’s more than just money)

✅  How to trust yourself enough to take the leap and make it work

Stop settling for a business that drains you when you can have one that fuels you. 

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Connect with Ralph:

Website: https://continentaldrifter.co/

Free Expert travel tips handbook: https://mailchi.mp/continentaldrifter.co/get-free-ebook
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ralphvelasco/

X: https://x.com/ralphvelasco/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/continentaldrifter

Books:

3-in-1 book bundle titled The Mindful & Intentional Traveler

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DKTL61PL 

How to Be a Mindful Traveler Using Your 5+ Senses

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DFM2P87D 

Travel Activity Book for Adults: GRATITUDES Edition

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0D3MKB1TP 

60 AFFIRMATIONS for Travel https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQPLBM6T

About Ralph:

Since 2008 (16+ years) Ralph Velasco has been a full-time travel photographer and international tour

organizer, having created and led over 120 highly-rated international tours in well over 30 countries on 7

continents (plus over 100 domestic tours in the U.S.)

When not traveling, Ralph is based in Chicago. However, he's been location-independent for 11+ years and

traditionally spends anywhere from 8 - 9 months on the road internationally scouting and leading his tours.

Ralph has authored several books on travel photography, and he just combined his most recent books into

a 3-in-1 book bundle titled The Mindful & Intentional Traveler

(https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DKTL61PL).

These books include:

1. How to Be a Mindful Traveler Using Your 5+ Senses

(https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DFM2P87D)

2. Travel Activity Book for Adults: GRATITUDES Edition

(https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0D3MKB1TP)

3. 60 AFFIRMATIONS for Travel (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQPLBM6T)

He has a YouTube channel called The Continental DRIFTER® (https://youtube.com/continentaldrifter) and

a related website (https://ContinentalDRIFTER.co) where everything about his business can be found,

including tours, blog posts, his YouTube channel, podcasts, merchandise and more.

Ralph is often asked how people can learn to do what he does and so he created a self-guided online

course called Tour Organizer Training: Get Paid to Travel. In this course made up of 7 Modules and 26

Lessons, he goes step-by-step through what’s involved in creating a tour business.

Ralph has spoken all over the world and in the U.S. at the Travel & Adventure Shows and the New York

Times Travel Show, as well as at travel blogger conferences (in Spain, Sweden, Israel, and Ireland) and the

IOETI digital marketing conference in Cairo, Egypt (see more at https://continentaldrifter.co/speaking/)

Finally, he created an iOS app called My Shot Lists for Travel more than 14 years ago, but it's no longer on

the app store and instead he turned the information into a book called 52 Categories of a Shot List: Create

Images that Tell a Story, also available on Amazon (https://tinyurl.com/52categories).