{"id":60681,"date":"2025-07-29T11:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T15:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/?p=60681"},"modified":"2025-07-29T11:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T15:37:16","slug":"podcast-sailing-totem-made-someday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/people\/podcast-sailing-totem-made-someday\/","title":{"rendered":"PODCAST | How Sailing <i>Totem<\/i> Made \u201cSomeday\u201d Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <section class=\"hydra-container\">\n\n\t\t\t                <div class=\"hydra-canvas\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Podcast-Template-totem-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"hydra-image\" alt=\"Behan and Jamie Gifford on Totem\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Podcast-Template-totem-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Podcast-Template-totem-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Podcast-Template-totem-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Podcast-Template-totem-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Podcast-Template-totem.jpg 2000w\" \/>                <\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n            <figcaption class=\"caption margin_top_xs full border_1 hydra-figcaption\">\n                <span class=\"hydra-image-caption\">Behan and Jamie Gifford of Sailing <i>Totem<\/i> have been cruising full-time with their family since 2008, turning a dream into daily life at sea.<\/span>\n                <span class=\"article_image_credit italic margin_right_xs\">Courtesy Behan Gifford<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t            <\/figcaption>\n        <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n<p>In the very first episode of <a href=\"\/ahoy-podcast\/\"><em>Ahoy!<\/em>, the <em>Cruising World<\/em> podcast<\/a>, longtime voyagers Behan and Jamie Gifford of <em>Sailing Totem<\/em> share how they went from dreamers with a &#8220;someday&#8221; plan to full-time cruisers raising three kids afloat. Their story is one of patience, planning, and a shared love for the sailing life\u2014and it offers inspiration for anyone wondering what it really takes to go all in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe id=\"gkstfcayky\" src=\"https:\/\/cruisingworld.dragonforms.com\/gkstfcayky\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;height:165px;border:none;overflow:hidden;\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>The journey started well before <em>Totem<\/em>, their Stevens 47, carried them out of Puget Sound in 2008. It began with a shared sense of wanderlust, a love of the water, and a pivotal moment of clarity following the birth of their second child and the loss of a parent. \u201cWe realized we didn\u2019t want to wait for some vague retirement window,\u201d Behan says. \u201cWe needed to set a date.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So they did. With three young children in tow\u2014aged 4, 6, and 9 at the time\u2014they stepped away from traditional careers, sold their house, and committed fully to a life afloat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this episode, host Andrew Parkinson talks with the Giffords about the realities of cruising as a family, the intentional lifestyle choices they made along the way, and the emotional and logistical preparations that made it possible. From the early influences that planted the seed to the decisions that shaped their route and rhythms aboard, the conversation offers both practical insight and heartfelt storytelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/21xPba36t213hlNAPOX6nE?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, nearly two decades and tens of thousands of sea miles later, the Giffords continue to inspire through <em>SailingTotem.com<\/em>, their mentorship work, and their honest reflections on what it means to live a life under sail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Listen now on<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2wmlWySssGgm4l96UjHsOJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> Spotify<\/strong><\/a> or wherever you get your podcasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Explore more from their journey at <a href=\"\/sailing-totem\/\">cruisingworld.com\/sailing-totem<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sailingtotem.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sailingtotem.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behan and Jamie Gifford share how they turned a family dream into a global cruising life aboard <i>Totem<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":60682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"BS_author_type":"BS_author_is_guest","BS_guest_author_name":"Cruising World Staff","BS_guest_author_url":"","hydra_display_date":"","hydra_display_updated":false,"arc_story_id":"","arc_website_url":"","arc_subtype":"","arc_exclude_from_feeds":false,"sponsored":false,"sponsored_label":"Sponsored Content","sponsored_display_label":false,"post_right_rail":true,"post_right_rail_ad_1":true,"post_right_rail_ad_2":true,"post_right_rail_ad_3":false,"post_right_rail_ad_4":false,"post_right_rail_recirc":true,"fixed_anchor_ad":true,"post_top_ad":true,"post_off_ramp":true,"post_taboola":false,"labels":true,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":"","ad_settings_ads_on_this_page":true,"ad_settings_automatic_ad_injection_into_the_content":true,"ad_targeting":"","alternate_title_newsletter":"","alternate_content_newsletter":"","sponsored_image":false,"sponsored_url":"","social_share":true},"categories":[165],"tags":[2090,2000,197,2091,182],"class_list":["post-60681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-ahoy-podcast","tag-lifestyle","tag-people","tag-podcast","tag-sailing-totem"],"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}