This 33-year-old traveled to every country in the world and made $1.5 million doing it
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The INSIDER Summary:
- Johnny Ward traveled to every country in the world over the course 10 years and made $1.5 million doing it.
- He spent about three weeks in each country, taking time to explore each place.
- He feels more compelled to help the world and is working to help build schools in Southeast Asia.
Johnny Ward is living the dream.
The travel blog he started as a broke backpacker called OneStep4Ward developed into an online marketing firm that he can manage from anywhere in the world. He built himself a career that granted him the flexibility to travel for 10 years (and counting), and visit every country on Earth. Not to mention the $1.5 million he's earned along the way.
Ward spoke to INSIDER via email about how he made it all happen, one step at a time.
Johnny Ward didn't come from money growing up in Ireland.
OneStep4Ward/FacebookHe grew up on welfare in a single-parent household with his mother and sister. He moved to England to study International Economics, then decided to travel the world after graduating.
He funded his travels by teaching English in Thailand, and spent two years backpacking around Southeast Asia on a budget of about $10 to $15 a day.
OneStep4Ward/FacebookWhen that money ran out, he started blogging on OneStep4Ward.
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He quickly started earning around $7,000 a month.
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