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JD & Britney Lott: We Live in a Bus with 10 Kids. Why Downsizing Saved Our Family | DSH #1607
12 Nov 2025
Chapter 1: What motivated JD and Britney to downsize to an RV lifestyle?
And I'll be honest, there are plenty of weird kids in public school. It doesn't matter where you are. I mean, weird is relative to your perspective, I guess. You'll be legal then. So in all fairness, they were hiking my purpose every day. Your kids are going to be as weird as you are.
At the end of the day, if you're constantly realizing that you don't have it all figured out, yeah, you may have like some personality things that are unique to your family you're bringing, but ultimately, like, that's just a value judgment based on you don't fit in with what I think the idea is. Okay, guys, got JD and Brittany here.
Chapter 2: How do JD and Britney manage technology use among their kids?
We are in Las Vegas. They're about to speak at Bitcoin Conference. Family of 10. Really unique story. Thanks for coming on, guys.
Chapter 3: What strategies do they use for effective homeschooling?
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, family of 10, but lives in an RV. I should have added that part, right? Yeah. That was an interesting story, you know? Yeah. Less is more. Yeah. We used to have a big house, cars and all that kind of stuff.
Chapter 4: How does living debt-free influence their family choices?
And we used to live in a 7,200 square foot house. Damn, man. That's enough. Well, I mean, it's just everything's bigger in Texas. Yeah. Right. But, you know, just we felt like we were pursuing things that ultimately don't carry like meaning. Hmm.
Chapter 5: What are the principles of legacy parenting they follow?
And we were just inspired. I converted an Air Force Base bus to an RV. And I've always been kind of hands-on, but I cut the roof off of it and raised it two feet, welded it together, did the plumbing, electric. We got the designer over here to make it look beautiful. Built me a bunkhouse for all my kids in the back. Baby skull.
We put a tub in there because we thought we were bringing her grandma with us. She was living with us at the time, and she is an awesome lady, and she really wanted to go. So, yeah. It's a cool bus.
Chapter 6: How do they define success and happiness in their family?
That's awesome. I was going to say, I can't stand in a bus. You raised it two feet. Oh, yeah. You can stand on our bus. This one again. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, you're pretty tall. 6'6". Yeah.
Chapter 7: What role does Bitcoin play in their family values?
Wow. Yeah, when I went to high school, I could not stand on my bus. Man, I'm 5'10 and 3 quarters, and I'll tell people 5'11 all day long. You have to round up as a guy. Yeah, for sure. Do girls do that? No. You round down or round up? Well, I round 7 for a while, but I measured her. Damn, called her out.
Chapter 8: How do JD and Britney navigate parenting with a large family?
I did. She wasn't 5'7? I think she's 5'5 and a half. Whoa, that's a big. I'm 5'6. Thank you very much, but yeah. Well, as you age, you do lose some inches, I heard. I don't know when that starts. That could play a role. This girl has had eight of my children. Her body. That's a lot. Women are impressive. Yeah. You going for double digits? You want 10? 20 would be nuts.
You'd have to adopt at that point, I think. Oh, no, man. Freaking them out. Okay. Now let's not volunteer. I think it's more just, you know, what, what will God give us? That's kind of, it's not a number. Okay. It's never been about a number. I love it. Here's the deal. I feel like people have this perception of family, but it's like, it's not based in their own personal experience. Family.
Unless they maybe have some baggage because maybe the parenting. One of our mantras is we want to give our kids tools, not baggage. To develop healthy relationships, it requires time and effort. You can't outsource that to other people. We all have an innate need to be valued. And if you're not willing to do that for your children, whom you are the one that cares most about them, who is, right?
At that point, they just become like a whiteboard for everybody else's values and truths. And then they have to navigate that as they get older. So for us, insofar as deciding how many kids we wanted to have, you know, when we had three kiddos, I said, Brittany, like, what are we doing? We're just going to have kids forever? Yeah. Right? Keep in mind, we're also like young, early 20s.
We got married young. So it was, he was like, oh my gosh, I'm looking at you thinking this could, this could get, we could get, we could get crazy fast. And it did, huh? Yeah, it did, you know? And then, um, uh, But it's been, you know, parenting is more about the growth of the parent than the child.
Like if you're willing to take the responsibility of parenting seriously, it's going to literally be the most rewarding thing that you ever do in your life. So we transition in a lot of ways to being legacy minded parents. This is a concept that you don't hear about or think about in mainstream.
So like every kind to just put a pin on the last thought or wrap it up is, you know, most people's perspective of family is what they see in the culture writ large and also shaded or jaded by their own personal experience. And like as a child or money problems or whatever, but it's really the most powerfully transformative experience in the world to have kids. I'm excited for it.
If you're willing to take it seriously. Yeah. Getting married this year. Oh, congratulations. Yeah, nice. And that's amazing. Hopefully within a year or two, you know, the first one. Yeah. I'm really excited. That's very exciting. Just encourage people, like, don't have your mind made up about, like, how many kids you're going to have. Like, why do you have to do that?
I mean, just, like, you're still learning. Where I'm still learning, right? I just feel like if you have your mind made up on how many kids you have, it's not because of information that you have from experience. It's from information that you have from your environment, right? Like maybe your environment as a child is rough or whatever, or maybe the culture around you has created this
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