36-year-old sold her childhood home in Wisconsin to live and travel in a truck she spent $50,000 renovating: 'I don't have a single regret'

Ashley Kaye’s father passed away in 2015 and she inherited her childhood home — a three-bedroom, one-bathroom house in Waterford, Wisconsin.

“I started thinking, ‘Did I really want to live here forever?’ Of course, because I didn’t really want to let go of that huge chapter of my life,” Kaye, 36, tells CNBC Make It. “But I had already been traveling a bit and knew that I wanted to keep traveling more and more.”

At the time, Kaye was working in corporate healthcare and then transitioned to a consulting job, where she worked 80 to 100 hours a week.

“I worked from home so I just walked from my bedroom to my office to the kitchen and repeat,” Kaye says. “I was a zombie in those times,”

While on a scuba diving trip in Honduras, Kaye met someone who travels full-time and realized she wanted to leave her career behind and keep traveling, too.