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Podcast: The IBJ Podcast with Mason King
Episode: She kept her job but hit the road, lived in a school bus and reclaimed her calling
Description: Karmen Johnson certainly had the trappings of traditional success
in her mid-20s: the corporate job in finance, the new house and a wedding in
the works. Then she took a hard left turn in the early 2020s and transformed
working from home to working and living on the road.
She got a taste for what folks call van life—outfitting a truck, bus or van as a mobile home and traveling the country for months at a time. She persuaded her employer, Indianapolis-based credit union Elements Financial, to allow her to work remotely and way off th...