Behind The Scenes Of A Content Creator Couple With Julia & Gidi
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Listen to our interview with digital nomads Julia & Gidi:
🔥 How Julia & Gidi became a full-time content creator couple
🔥 Learn the different ways of how they make money online
🔥 What a routine as a nomad couple looks like
🔥 Some amazing tips for future nomads
🔥🔥🔥 And so much more must-know digital nomad lifestyle tips for (aspiring) digital nomads!
“Slowmadding gives you the opportunity to get the know the place better and experience more.”
Digital nomad couple Julia & Gidi have been nomadding for three years. Unlike many other digital nomads, they started their journey in their home country Israel. The couple sold most of their belongings and continued their European journey. The next stop was in South America and they are talking from the Cozumel island in Mexico. It’s not a big digital nomad hub but it offers beautiful scenery and plenty to explore. Not far from the island, you can immerse yourself in a bigger community in Playa Del Carmen.
How they make money online
They started their journey at the start of the pandemic and worked remotely. Julia is a website designer and Gigi makes a living as a developer. Aside from their job, they also turned their passion into a new career path and income stream.
During their travels in Israel, they got invited to participate in a couples shoot to promote a hotel. They both really enjoyed it and this was when they started thinking about continuing this type of work. To make this happen, they have to learn how to take photos, find their niche and reach out to hotels. At the start ,it was often an exchange from a free luxurious and of course, romantic break up to a free stay. As their portfolio grows and they gain more experience slowly, they are getting better at getting more promising deals.
While they still remain in their day jobs, building their businesses is something that drives them. Doing this while traveling requires a lot of work and as a couple, they need to pay attention to their relationship. We also talked about this in the very first episode with Anat & Orr.
Julia & Gidi share the following takeaways for other digital nomad couples to stay productive, relax and find me-time:
✅ During the day they work and try to finish around 6 pm to watch the sunset ✅ On Fridays and Saturdays they basically don’t touch their computer and have fun outdoors ✅ Working in separate spots is what they often do like a different room, location, or table. ✅ Community is important for everyone and also for nomad couples. Julia and Gidi try to join meetups together or alone to keep expanding their social circle. ✅ As a couple they spend a lot of time together and they like it, although they make a conscious effort to do things individually
Listen to the full conversation to learn more about digital nomad couples and tips to prepare yourself better for the digital nomad lifestyle.
Find Your Focus Mate For Distraction-Free Productivity For Digital Nomads With Taylor
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Listen to our interview with digital nomad Taylor:
🔥 What are some remote work productivity challenges
🔥 How to become a productive digital nomad with Focusmate
🔥 What are Man support groups, and why are they good for you
🔥 What are some of Taylor’s “aha” moments that led him to his success
🔥🔥🔥 And so much more must-know digital nomad lifestyle tips for (aspiring) digital nomads!
“We are social creatures and we almost service of those pats on the back and it’s really hard to get enough of that when you’re too isolated.”
Digital nomad Taylor started working remotely because he had a horrible commute. It seemed that this was the ideal solution for his problem but it opened up another unexpected challenge – focus.
After he started working from home, his productivity went down because he had difficulty staying focused. This resulted in a lot of procrastination and eventually became unsuccessful at this job. Unfortunately, he experienced the truth in a harsh lesson as he got laid off. We can learn from Taylor’s story that working remotely isn’t an ingredient for the success of a happier life. It requires hard work and a lot of self-awareness.
After he got laid off, he also lost his motivation to find another job. He started learning more about the mind and self-development and continued his career in executive coaching. Focus on productivity where an active topic of interest and he began to look at these things from the nervous system. Taylor was not the only one that struggled with focus and procrastination, and he helped a friend who Taylor identified as a high-performance. He pitched his idea to start a community to help others focus and this is how Focusmate was born. It’s been a success and Focusmate has thousands of members from 193 countries.
Becoming a productive digital nomad with Focusmate
Community is an important part of the digital nomad lifestyle and Taylor created a community around focus and stopping procrastinating. It’s for individuals as well as teams and is pretty easy to get started. On the platform, you select your accountability partner and if you enjoyed the session, you could favorite your focus buddy. Next, you set up a 30-60 min call and share with each other what you are going to work on. During the work, you will keep your sound on mute so you don’t distract each other but you can communicate in the chat.
At the end of the session, you get back on the video and can talk about how your session went. If you both like it, you can book another session and in this way, you can focus on getting your work done together with someone.
What we love about Taylor’s story is that he started his business because he was facing this challenge to the point that he lost his job. It was hard for him to concentrate and he could not calm down enough to be intentional with his time. We see in the community that many remote workers find it hard to focus and it gets even harder with an adventurous distractions like travel and sunny weather.
Taylor shares that the cultural foundation of Focusmate is safety. He overcame the shame he felt and his depression. When he got the idea to start Focusmate, his friend supported him and it’s incredibly to see what Taylor has accomplished so far.
If you would like to get a taste of Focusmate go to www.focusmate.com and use the code NOMAD22 to get a free month of Focusmate Turbo.
A Digital Nomad Family Enjoying It Part-Time with Rowena
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Listen to our interview with digital nomad Rowena:
🔥What is the definition of digital nomads
🔥How to live a digital nomad family life successfully
🔥Boundless life is the travel community for digital nomad families
🔥What are some key takeaways for digital nomads
🔥🔥🔥 And so much more must-know digital nomad lifestyle tips for (aspiring) digital nomads!
“Remote work is a way of living and it’s a lifestyle. I chose remote work because it gave me the flexibility to live a certain style which means that I don’t work all the time.”
The definition of digital nomads
Rowena’s digital nomad life goes way back even before having a family. Today, about fifteen years later, she is still enjoying the digital nomad lifestyle and created her own unique way of living it. Her first digital nomad moments were in 2008 during a backpacking trip in South East Asia. While some things always stay the same, her digital nomad lifestyle looks very different these days. One of the reasons is that she is not alone anymore. She is a part-time digital nomad with her family and enjoys this lifestyle during long school breaks.
How we define digital nomadism is very different for every person. This episode shows you can successfully live the digital nomad lifestyle with your family. Rowena and her family only do it around 4-5 months a year and in this way, no one is missing out on the important things like school. That is a very different picture compared to what we see on Instagram. She shares that there needs to be more open-mindedness about the definition of a modern nomad.
As one of the world’s experts on remote work and a professional educator, Rowena knows how to build a sustainable and successful remote career or business. She explains remote work as a way of living. She helps her clients succeed and provides various remote work training services.
But even for an expert, this lifestyle itself doesn’t bring happiness and success. It’s a common conversation with our podcast guests that this lifestyle requires constant self-awareness, self-care, and reflection. Rowena shares helpful tips to achieve a successful remote lifestyle and maintain a healthy work-life balance.
🌟 Know your core values in life and connect keywords to them like travel and self-care.
🌟 Model these values throughout your life so you can live by them daily.
🌟 Find different ways to commit to your values and make them part of your everyday routines. For example, going to the gym, a morning walk, or watching the sunset.
🌟 Set intentions for different moments in the day to help you get into the right mindset.
A final tip Nienke Nina adds to the conversation is to create a recurring task or calendar reminder to capture your wins of the day. Wins are not just about work but can also be related to self-care or your surroundings. Ending the day with a couple of wins helps you maintain a positive mindset and boost your self-love.
Boundless life the travel community for digital nomad families
Rowena and her family joined Boundless Life in Portugal. It’s a travel community for digital nomad families with a special education program and high-quality services to coordinate accommodations, child care, activities, and engagements, keeping her daughter occupied with impactful activities and so much more.
If you want to learn more about Boundless Life, stay tuned because we have a beautiful episode with the co-founder Marcos Carvalho.
Enrich your digital nomad lifestyle by giving back to local communities
In this special episode, the founder of Nomads Giving Back, Tarek, interviews Nienke Nina about how you can enrich your digital nomad lifestyle by helping local communities. He is an experienced digital nomad and passionate about sharing knowledge about how to support local communities successfully. The Nomads Giving Back team contributed to Nienke Nina’s book Digital Nomads With Confidence. They shared insights about the different ways to give back and practical tips you can apply in your digital nomad life. Tune in and enjoy this inspiring conversation.
“I would ask everyone, “How do you give back to the communities?” “How do you connect with locals?” Most of the time they would say, “I don’t know, but if you figure it out, let me know because I want to do the same thing.”
The digital nomad lifestyle can often feel like an extended holiday, hence why it’s becoming more popular. There are more ways to give meaning to this lifestyle and giving back to local communities is a beautiful way to enrich your digital nomad life and others.
There are different ways to support other communities beyond donating money. Tarek is the founder of Nomads Giving Back and shares his story on The Digital Nomads Daily Podcast. In the episode, he shares how you can give back and other helpful this. Listen to the episode by clicking here. The conversation inspired us to dedicate one chapter in our book Digital Nomads With Confidence to inspiring others to also give back to local communities. In the book you find answers to the following questions:
#93 Why is it important that I give back to local communities?
#94 How can I help the local community?
#95 How can I determine if a project is ethical?
#96 How do I know a volunteering program is right for me?
#97 What if I don’t want to join an entire volunteering program?
#98 How can I support a local community from a distance?
#99 How can I inspire others to give back too?
#100 How can I reduce my waste while traveling?
The chapter also includes one of the many personal stories of Nienke Nina. She shares how she turned her birthday into a donation day and helped a community in Brazil. The digital nomad lifestyle offers many beautiful opportunities and giving back to local communities could enrich your experience even deeper. Nienke Nina and Tarek share in this episode that smaller initiatives could already be impactful. And if you are not sure how to give back, you can always turn your birthday into a special donation day.
You see, we live in a world where it’s common to follow a set of “rules” to live by. Think about daily things like love, education, happiness, and work that pass on from generation to generation. Digital nomads are known for breaking patterns, not only for digital nomad entrepreneurs but also for remote workers. So many of us are already “breaking” those society-driven ideas in a way. Digital nomads seek a different lifestyle and step away from the conventional way of living.
Laura shares that The Code of the Extraordinary Mindwill help you to take action and step away from any limiting beliefs society has given you. Instead, it will amplify the way you view yourself, your relationship with yourself, and with your higher self. The biggest of reading The Code of the Extraordinary Mind benefit is the concrete action steps so you can start taking to change your life.
A personal disruption book for digital nomads
As the author Vishen Lakhiani says, this book is not a personal growth book it’s a personal disruption book.
The Code of the Extraordinary Mindis a practical blueprint that helps you disconnect from the chains of leading an ordinary life. Through real-life examples, you will see that everything that we know about the world – work, money, education, parenting, health, and love is basically a thought pattern followed by generations. These thoughts aren’t genetic or human instinct, they have been taught and can therefore be changed into positive, powerful thoughts.
The objective of this book is to teach you to live life by your own rules and terms. It challenges you and it makes you question everything that you have known until now. It fits very well with the mindset within the digital nomad community and is, therefore, a popular book among digital nomads and traveling entrepreneurs.
Teachings of The Code of the Extraordinary Mind
As digital nomads, we have already broken free from living a “normal” life. This book not only understands, agrees, and supports your way of living, but it will take you one step further. It highlights 10 actions to take, known as the code, to get you started on the road to finding your passion.
The Code of the Extraordinary Mind will teach you:
Living life by your own rules. It will help you to understand what’s appropriate for you and your needs. With things like university, career path, and relationships
Overcoming limiting beliefs and start believing in yourself
Listening and trust your intuition
Meditations and powerful exercises you can do from anywhere
Visualizing your goals and what success looks like to you
Understanding and conquering your mission in life.
Add this book to your digital nomad reading list
If you want to live an authentic life, this is the book for you! Click here to buy the book and let us know what you think!
Whether you are a digital nomad, entrepreneur, remote worker or have the idea is roaming your head. Apply the exercises, read this book with an open mind and learn a new way of living life. It’s an easy read, with simple exercises to put into practice and actionable.
