12: The Secret Of Finding A Remote Job With The Remote Job Coach.

Digital Nomad Jordan Carroll, also known as the Remote Job Coach, is back on the podcast! In this episode, he shares how anyone can land a remote job that fits their digital nomad lifestyle. Over the years, he has successfully coached people through 1:1 coaching sessions, group sessions and online courses. This episode is valuable for anyone seeking a job or looking for a change. Get ready for life-changing lessons with Jordan and kickstart your digital nomad lifestyle with a remote job at a company you love!

How did Jordan become the Remote Job Coach?

Jordan has been working remotely for companies of all sizes since 2013. Through these experiences, he was able to see insights into what it’s like to work remotely in different types of businesses. During his travels, he met many people and was asked the same question repeatedly, “how do I land a remote job?”

He took the opportunity and started building his business, and he is now known as “The Remote Coach.” He describes his role as very similar to someone who is a career coach. The big difference is that Jordan helps people land remote jobs. Jordan’s approach is more than just finding any remote position. As a remote job coach, his goal is to find a job that matches your desires and what you seek in creating a new lifestyle.

What is the difference between mentorship and a remote job coach?

Before becoming a coach, Jordan had been a mentor to a lot of his colleagues. So in his experience and the way he uses it in his vocabulary, mentorship is typically free.

Jordan describes mentorship as a free exchange based on his personal experience. He also shares that he sees mentorship as voluntarily helping someone with a lower commitment. On the other hand, coaching requires an investment and naturally evolves into a more significant commitment because there is a financial piece.

Jordan states that you don’t need to be an expert to become a remote job coach, but you simply need to be a few steps ahead of the person you are helping. There are many coaches around these days and to make sure you find the right coach, you’ll need to do some thorough research. For instance, look up reviews and testimonials of past clients.

How Jordan helps people to find remote jobs?

Jordan’s business as The Remote Job coach has evolved over the years. Today you can find a lot of free content about finding remote jobs on his website theremotejobcoach.com. You can also sign up for his courses or one of his group coaching programs. Rarely does he works with people one-on-one, although he prefers group coaching because people can learn from each other.

What we love about Jordan is that a lot of his content is free and there are many levels of working with him. His team also regularly posts remote job openings on his job board. Before the jobs are published, he and his team verify the job is entirely remote. Jordan thinks of himself as a facilitator and that results only come from the actions of his candidates. Simply because he cannot guarantee the results, but you will get the lifestyle you want if you are motivated and have a good mindset.

3 tips for finding a remote job from the remote job coach

Ask yourself what you are looking for in a company or job.
Finding the right job is so much more than just making good cash. You will have to ask yourself what is essential and how this job can fit into your digital nomad lifestyle. Working remotely is great but only if you can experience the freedom and lifestyle you desire.

Evaluate your own skillset

An important step is to look at your skills and find jobs matching those skills. If you have little work experience, you may want to consider doing an internship. Before starting an internship, you need to know what you want to learn to make sure this work experience is helping you move forward.

Be proactive rather than reactive when finding your dream job

Job seekers who don’t look beyond job boards tend to be reactive job seekers, meaning they respond to what is available at that moment. Or you will apply for jobs and wait for someone to reach out. Instead, Jordan encourages you to search with a proactive mindset. This makes the overall process more effective as you will target companies offering remote positions matching your needs.

Qualify and target companies that offer remote work

Jordan talks about actively targeting companies and the first step is to find qualified companies. For example, if you want to work in a specific industry, you could do a google search “industry name + remote companies.” The next step is to see if they talk about remote work and if the answer is yes, you want to save them. The easiest way is to bookmark them or create an online doc and perhaps add more company details. Check out if they have a job board, follow their social media, and stay up to date if a position opens up. By following and interacting with the company’s content, you target them.

 
At the end of the day, it all comes down to knowing what you can bring to the table and targeting remote companies that are looking for those skills. Listen to the episode for more tips about how to land a remote job.

Jordan’s book: Remote For Life – How To Find A Flexible Job And Fast Forward To Freedom

Jordan has been writing his book and he is publishing it by the end of the year. Jordan’s book arms you with all the lessons he has learned over the years. It includes lessons from his own work experience, working with clients and his online entrepreneur journey as The Remote Job Coach.

You will learn how to create the vision of your ideal remote life by visualizing and externalizing the remote life you want to build for yourself. And even if you’re already working remotely, this book can help you work towards the full potential of your ideal life. He also shares strategies and tactics to make you the ideal remote worker and an invaluable asset. The book also walks you through where and how you can find remote jobs based on your past experiences and current skills.

We are super excited to read his book. Finding a job itself can sometimes feel like a job. With the tips and experience from Jordan, the remote job coach, your chances will definitely be higher.

Quick links:

Follow his journey and remote job updates on Instagram @theremotecoach

More information and free content at theremotejobcoach.com

Join the Remote for Life Waiting List 

Support his Kickstarter campaign click here

More Digital Nomad Stories Instagram @digitalnomadsdaily

Meet your host Nienke Nina Instagram @nienkeninatravels

11: Overcoming the first obstacles in the digital nomad lifestyle with MS with Lina

Meet Digital Nomad Lina and learn how her remote lifestyle journey started

• How does Lina sustain herself?
• Balancing work, life, relationships, and health practicalities.
• Unexpected struggles of the digital nomad lifestyle Tips for digital nomads

Combing passive income with following your passion

Balancing work, life, relationships, and health practicalities

Unexpected struggles of the digital nomad lifestyle

Lina’s tips for new digital nomads

• Pack light: When you’re always on the move, overpacking will drag you down. You can also get rid of things on the way. If you’re going to a city, you can get your essentials there (toothbrush, toothpaste, etc).
• Research your nomad destination well: Take the time to read other bloggers’ experiences and reviews. Some accounts are not always credible. They are your trusted sources.
• Sell worn-out and unnecessary stuff: This is a good strategy to make extra pocket changes for your trips.
• Look into coworking spaces: If you are not confident about the Internet at your new home, search for backups. The Internet is very important, especially for digital nomads – it will be your new best friend!

10: Working Remotely From A Van With Digital Nomad Chelsea

“I have got the best of both worlds. It’s really great because I can come into the office, and then I can go and just jump in the van and drive north or south…”

How Chels became a digital nomad

At 18, Chelsea began her nomad journey when she graduated high school and decided to drive across the country in the summer. Since then, her love for traveling has continued to grow as she lives in a part-time van to explore every corner of the world. After high school, she dropped out of her university nursing program to pursue her photography and travel passion.
 

Building an online business in web-design and social media

She makes a living through web design, social media strategies, and SEO without any college degree. She agrees that many of her communication, time management, and organization skills come from her experiences at University and working in fine dining.

She has been running her travel and photography business part-time from her van and part-time from her house for three years now. This allows her to feel the security of having a home established somewhere. But at the same time, when she feels bored or in need of adventure, she hops on the van, and off she goes for a few weeks. As she calls it, “the best of both worlds.”

Challenges of the van life and finding balance

Even though the van life looks glamorous on social media, the reality can be very different. Chelsea faced many challenges, such as the separation between home and work/travel. She realized that she had to find a balance between the two to make it work. Chels also talks about the mindset shift in the episode. For example, to be disciplined with her work hours and time management. Another challenge was to build the van in a specific way so she could be comfortable working inside, and there was power.

Essential belongings & relationship with material stuff

When she started this lifestyle, Chelsea mentioned that she was one of those who had too many clothes and other stuff. Today she travels with a backpack and a carry-on enjoying the minimalist lifestyle. As a non-materialist person with a minimal amount of space, Chelsea shares her essential tech belongings for her home office and van.

Must-haves for her home office:

• Sit-stand desk because she wants to be able to go from sitting to standing
• The second screen helps her work, and everything is more visual
• A laptop stand and a separated keyboard and mouse
• Airpods (no cables getting in the way while working)
• An external hard drive is a must for her.
• USB to attach her laptop to her second screen

Must-have items for her remote van life:

• USB cord
• Phone charger
• Power cord

Quick takeaways from Chelsea’s episode

• Try to find your passion instead of going for the safest option
• This lifestyle is a process, and you don’t have to go all in at once.
• You can find a balance as a part-time nomad/ part-time house owner
• Listen to your personal need and how you can reach them step by step

Quick links:

Find out more about her work via Travellerbytrade.com

Follow her journey on Socials:

Instagram @travellerbytrade

Facebook @travellerbytrade

Pinterest @travellerbytrade

TikTok @travellerbytrade

More Digital Nomad Stories Instagram @digitalnomadsdaily

Meet your host Nienke Nina Instagram @nienkeninatravels

09: How To Achieve Financial Freedom With Digital Nomad Dean

When you’re constantly traveling and working remotely, achieving financial liberty can be tough. Though, every person has different definitions of wealth and freedom means. According to Dean Kuchel, the Founder of the Israeli Digital Nomads Community, wealth revolves around friends and knowledge. While freedom is the digital nomad lifestyle. Having visited over 103 countries, Dean outlines his 8-year nomadding journey. As a previous consultant that recently quit his job, he currently lives on passive income. In this episode, he provides tips on financial planning from passive income, investing, and saving to the biggest challenges in his nomad lifestyle.

“Wealth in terms of money and for me the most important part of it is to be able to say no to something like declining a job offer.”

How digital nomad Dean stared his digital nomad journey

Dean, the Founder of an Israeli Digital Nomads Community, has been nomadding for eight years. Previously, he was a consultant focused on customer success for various tech companies – e-commerce, security, etc. Though, he built enough savings to sustain him and allow him to shift to the digital nomad lifestyle – which is the fate he desired. Dean did not choose to become a digital nomad. Initially, he moved to San Francisco for a career, worked remotely for a few months, and met people at coffee shops who inspired him to discover the digital nomad lifestyle. Eventually, he found himself traveling around 103 countries while working remotely.

In this article we cover:

• Achieving financial freedom through passive income, investing and saving
• What is wealth and freedom
• Tips and recourses to achieve financial freedom
• Biggest challenges of digital nomad lifestyle

Achieving financial freedom through passive income, investing and savings

This episode covers some great tips about how to achieve financial freedom. Passive income is a popular topic also within the digital nomad community. Dean is not the only podcast guest who talks about this. Anastasia and Tomar also created passive income streams before starting their digital nomad journey. You can find this episode and the show notes here.

We would love for you to listen to the entire conversation with Dean. Here we list some of his tips about creating passive income and what he did to achieve financial freedom:

• Passive income streams worth $5k per month. It does fluctuate, and his goal is to bring it up to $30k a month.
• Build a 6-9 months emergency fund so you can say no
• Equity and dividends by investing in real estate and boutique hotel groups
• Investing in the foreign stock exchange

He lives a comfortable life, but he doesn’t purchase things to show off. His number #01 piece of advice to everyone is to invest every dollar and start today. Even if you haven’t started yet, it’s never too late.

The meaning of wealth and freedom

Every person has their meaning of wealth and freedom. To a majority of people, wealth measures how financially comfortable you are.

For him, wealth goes beyond that. It is about being able to say no and being comfortable with declining a job offer. Dean fears working in a job he does not genuinely like. Instead, his driving force is being confident to reject that offer and focus on where his passions lie.

Dean believes freedom stems from a digital nomad lifestyle. He may prefer visiting places he’s familiar with and meeting past friends, but Dean states exploring every beautiful corner of the world is what he truly enjoys.

Tips and recourses to achieve financial freedom

Dean claims that his pursuit of nomadic experiences is what helped him garner his own financial independence. In other words, by going to various places and learning from all walks of life, he recognized how to save money wisely while traveling and working remotely.

He offers personal tips and recourses for digital nomads to achieve this financial freedom. First, he suggests reading several relevant books a week, connecting with digital nomad communities, and listening to podcasts from men who drop their financial independence tips – e.g., how to invest like a boss. Next, he recommends how to manage your passive income as well as invest and save:

Create passive incomes

• Keep in mind that this can always fluctuate – e.g., Dean’s is at $5k/month, but his goal is to reach $30k per month.

Investing for digital nomads

• Set a 6-9 months emergency fund.
• Invest every dollar – whether that’d be the foreign exchange or elsewhere. Aim for investments that generate 10%-15%. Rely on doing real estate in syndicates and boutique investment groups as the equity and dividends are in the companies.

Digital Nomads and saving

• Start saving as young as possible!
• Don’t bother flaunting or showing off your wealth through luxurious goods – nice cars, shoes, watches, clothes, etc.
• You’re mistaken if you think it’s too late to begin saving your money. The best time to pursue a dream is now.

Overall, Dean encourages digital nomads to constantly scout for investment opportunities as they can easily lead you to that desired financial freedom. With saving, it is never too late to start. Make sure also to enjoy the process, travel the world, and have fun.

The biggest challenge in his nomad lifestyle

On the surface, a nomadic lifestyle may appear luxurious and facile. However, that is not the case. Like every other lifestyle, it comes with its challenges. Dean shares some of his difficulties in the digital nomad lifestyle. Even when achieving financial freedom goals, he emphasizes how some other aspects will always suffer.

• The depth of connections
• The pain of leaving friends and family
• Building strong relationships

Nevertheless, even the darkest obstacles lead to fortune. For instance, Dean mentions how saying yes to every socializing opportunity is what brings light to those difficulties. The beauty of a nomadic lifestyle blesses you with longtime and meaningful friendships that you would never anticipate. Meeting someone new is like his first step remedy to overcoming some of these challenges, as you never know what can blossom from those interactions.

Quick takeaways for nomads that want to achieve financial freedom

Achieving financial freedom

Take every chance you have to invest every dollar. But obviously, be conscious of the trends, understand how it works. Prepare a 6-9 month emergency fund and start saving from a very young age. Avoid showing off and flaunting your wealth and Rely on others for help and inspiration – digital nomad communities, books, and podcasts.

Everyone has different definitions of wealth and freedom.

Don’t shy away or be afraid to say no to a job offer – especially when it is not truly something you want.
Nevertheless, say YES to every opportunity you have where you can meet new people. Some days, it can lead to amazing friendships!

Don’t underestimate the challenges of the digital nomad lifestyle.

It comes with a lot of emotional pain as you foster great new connections, then you can leave abruptly. You also must leave your family and friends as you’re constantly on the go.

Quick links:

Follow his journey on Instagram @where_is_dean

Follow his Facebook page @where_is_dean

From Israel? Join his Facebook Group Digital Nomads Israel with 28k+ digital nomads. 

More Digital Nomad Stories Instagram @digitalnomadsdaily

Meet your host Nienke Nina Instagram @nienkeninatravels

08: Leaving the corporate world behind and reinventing yourself with Tarek

“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.”

How Nomads Giving Back started

Traveling somewhere? Here are 3 ways you can give back:

Learning from cultural differences

Allow yourself to reinvent yourself

Learn and give back to local communities

• How to get your dream online job
• How to become a social media manager
• How to become a virtual assistant

About Tarek

07: Overcoming Fears and Building Community with Digital Nomad Magali

“Just show up and say “Hey, how are you? I’m from Argentina.” That first step usually takes a lot of energy….”

Biggest challenges as a solo-female digital nomad

Magali knew that her digital nomad journey would also have a lot of challenges. In this episode, she shares how hard it was at the start. One challenge was not having anyone around that could give her tips or share personal experiences she could learn from. Going through all the challenges on her own also became expensive. The challenges that she encountered were:

• Taking the first step to meet people: one of the things that still make Magali so uncomfortable every time she travels is not knowing anyone. Her solution, even though it can take a lot of energy and motivation, is to convince herself of going to events, meet-ups to get to know new people.
• The time-zone difference: she works with remote teams and has a remote worker and traveler she always has to be aware of the time differences.
• Learning and adapting: As a solo traveler she keeps working on herself and focusing on routines that help her to feel safe and help her grow.

Practical tips to take the first step for making new friends

It’s never easy to take the first step but you kinda have to if you want to make new nomad friends. Getting out of your comfort zone and putting yourself out there is complicated for almost every single digital nomad. For Magali, this is one of the most difficult situations while traveling. Getting somewhere new and not knowing anyone, not having plans, or even not knowing where to go to meet them. Therefore, as a person who struggles with this more often than not, she has some tips for all:

• Say yes! Yes to any event you find online, to any co-working space, any meet-up you find out about.

• Just remember that we are in the same boat. We are all alone and everyone wants to make new friends.

• Co-working spaces that have a large community are a great way to meet new people. You can get a short-term pass and join all events to meet new people.

• When traveling somewhere new, go on Goole and type “city that you are at + digital nomads”. You will get some Facebook groups, blogs and best meet-up places.

Meeting new people when you are on a tight budget

Many nomads who are just starting have a travel budget. Our host Nienke Nina had a tight budget but that didn’t stop her from building community. So, she decided that the best way to meet people fast was to invest in a one-month subscription to Dojo Coworking in Bali. That month she showed up to every event, talk, party, dinner, meet-up and created nomad friendships for life.

Traveling as a solo female digital nomad

As a woman born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Magali is very aware of what is happening around her. She developed a sense of danger. Because of this she always prioritizes her health, her passport her money, and keeping her cards safe. As sad is might sound, it did give her the advantage to take the necessary actions whenever she travels. Luckily Magali has had no infortunes as a solo female traveler!

How to handle fear

Starting this journey with a lot of fears and doubts it’s completely normal. Many people experience so much fear before they even start and end up not giving the digital nomad lifestyle a try. Magali describes this fear as a big gray cloud in her mind. The cloud blocks you from understanding what is going on and you will hold on to that fear. To step away from this fear she uses a method where she’ll write down everything that she worries about. She points out the details and by doing this she identifies her fears and can separate fear from reality. With this information, she can take precautions and don’t let fear get in her way.

Routine that Magali follows to help this lifestyle

Many digital nomads follow daily routines. This could be a morning routine and an evening one before bed. Creating a routine keeps you sane and helps you adapt to a new location. Key elements in Magalies routine are:

• Sleeping +8 hrs
• Drinking 3L of water every day
• Swimming or any type of exercise
• Keeping a journal and writing everything that she is grateful for. It helps her realize everything that she has and how hard she has worked for it.

If you want to know more about morning routines, we interviewed Michael Saukulak about the power of morning routines.

How to make working online easier and more pleasurable

Working remotely has numerous perks, but it also takes a lot of process and energy to make it successful. Not only for yourself but for the people you work with. The last thing you want is to be a burden to someone else.

Magali is part of a remote team with people from different countries and cultures. As enriching as that can be, there are always some challenges. She shared some tips to help her work online and combat these challenges.

• Overcommunicate: always strive for clarity around tasks and projects.
• Make sure that everything is available for everyone all the resources, and information, and that it’s online available.

Quick takeaways

• Get out of your comfort zone and say yes!
• We’re all on the same boat and all want to make friends and have the best experience possible.
• Know what is important to you and act on that.
• Find a company or clients that match your values.

Join the Digital Nomads Meet Up in Buenos Aires 

Follow her journey on Instagram @magbejar

Listen to her Podcast @tienequehaberalgomas (It’s in Spanish!!)

Find Magali on LinkedIn 

Meet your host Nienke Nina Instagram @nienkeninatravels

More Digital Nomad Stories Instagram @digitalnomadsdaily