Working Remotely From A Van With Digital Nomad Chelsea

by Digital Nomads Daily | Apr 6, 2022 | Digital Nomad Podcast

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10: Working Remotely From A Van With Digital Nomad Chelsea

Digital Nomad and van-lover Chelsea talks about the perks of working remotely from her van. She built her online business in website design while exploring the beautiful corners of Australia. Chelsea combines her office on wheels with her home office. She has found the perfect “balance” between working and travel and has the best of both worlds. In this episode, you’ll learn how she built her online business and tips about living the nomad lifestyle for the run.

“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.”

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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:

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How To Achieve Financial Freedom With Digital Nomad Dean

by admin | Mar 23, 2022 | Digital Nomad Podcast

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.

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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.

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Leaving the corporate world behind and reinventing yourself with Tarek

by admin | Mar 9, 2022 | Digital Nomad Podcast

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

Our guest Tarek is a social entrepreneur who has been nomadding for more than 9 years. He learned that his mission was to give back to the local communities. His businesses, Nomads Giving Back and Nomads Skillshare, are his pride and joy and the start of something big. In this episode, he shares his love for meeting nomads. Tarek talks about his beautiful learnings and the cultural shocks. The last part of the episode covers the future of his business and his motivation to give back to local communities.

“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

After 12 years of living the corporate life and feeling unfulfilled, Tarek bought a one-way ticket to the unknown. He was certain about one thing though, he wanted to give back through social impact. During his travels, Tarek met a lot of travelers and got to know many digital nomads. He fell in love with their way of living and thinking. Especially those people who were going after their dreams, leaving the unconventional life behind, and facing their fears. When Tarek started meeting these remote workers, he used to ask them “How do you connect with the locals?” “How do you give back to the community?”. The majority of whom he asked had no clue how to support local communities but we’re definitely open to it. He often got answers like “I don’t know, but if you figure it out please let me know”. In this moment he saw the gap and a new opportunity entered his path. His new journey started and he called it Nomads Giving Back. Just like the name reveals, he wanted to help digital nomads and travelers to give back to local communities.

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

Aside from donating money, there are many ways to give back to local communities. Tarek identified 3 ways of giving back and can help you do this. There are three categories: Advocacy Tarek describes this as using your voice for social good. And as the nomad community is getting bigger every year, this will have a lot of impacts. You are not only inspiring other nomads but also the people who are in your home country and follow your travels. Volunteering The Nomads Giving Back team has developed a volunteer matching program. If you are interested in giving back in some way through your skills, Tarek team can help you. They partner you with one of their social causes that they are close to, taking into account your skills and knowledge. Fundraising or donations Fundraising and donations are always a great way to give back to local communities. Tarek and his team have many ideas and are connected to local NGOs to help you. If you would like to know more about this go to the website of Nomads Giving Back.

Learning from cultural differences

One of the craziest things that Tarek did was drive across India for 4000 km in a rickshaw. For our readers who don’t know what that is, it’s a mix of a tuk-tuk and a golf cart that is used as a method of transportation in many Asian countries. It was a wild ride because the rickshaw broke down around 20 times. At first, you might think that this is terrible but Tarek found himself in a magical moment. Funny enough, Tarek always received help within 2 minutes. One time the engine broke so badly that there was no option other than to take it to the mechanic. This was 2 km away and a local offered to push the rickshaw to the mechanic shop. After 45 minutes of pushing in the hot sun, Tarek insisted on giving back some money for anything the guy would need. The man refused to get paid, instead all he wanted was to be his Facebook friend.

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Allow yourself to reinvent yourself

When you travel or explore new cultures, you learn a lot. Everyone who joined the digital Nomads Daily Podcast so far experienced one or more life-changing moments. One of the things Tarek started to notice was the difference between the people who were back home and his new community. This might sound harsh but sometimes the people who love us and the people who we grow up with, are actually holding us back from growing. Of course, this is not intentional but does happen. Simply because while you keep reinventing yourself, back home people keep holding on to your old identity because that’s comfortable for them and especially for yourself! Don’t let yourself hold back by what other people expect from you and allow yourself to reinvent yourself.

Learn and give back to local communities

Nomadsskillshare.com is the a new social enterprise Tarek and his team are currently working on. At Nomad Skillshare you will find courses that are perfect to start your nomad lifestyle or if you wish to get in touch with nomads. All courses are in English and 100% online through Zoom. You can find the courses below on Nomadsskillshare.com

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

Nomads Skillshare also offers scholarships for locals to help local communities have a bigger chance of entering the remote work world. Through the Buy 1 Give 1 Program they ensure that local communities are not left behind by offering a scholarship to a less privileged student for every course purchased. Find out more at Nomadskillshare.com Special offer: Get 10% Discount on all courses now with the code DIGITALNOM10

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About Tarek

Tarek is a social entrepreneur with an MBA with honors from New York University and a career of working at top organizations like Goldman Sachs. In 2013, Tarek left the corporate world behind to explore the actual world. After traveling to over 100 countries, running 25 marathons, and supporting social causes, in 2018 Tarek launched Nomads Giving Back. With the vision to inspire you to give back to the communities, you call home away from home. In 2020, Tarek and his team launched Nomads Skillshare!, a learning platform & community empowering you to learn the skills to live the life you imagined!

Quick links: Follow his journey on Instagram @tarek.world Find Tarek on LinkedIn Learn more about how to give back to local communities at Nomadsgivingback.com Follow Nomads Giving Back and Nomads Skillshare on Instagram Explore courses on Nomadsskillshare.com Meet your host Nienke Nina Instagram @nienkeninatravels More Digital Nomad Stories Instagram @digitalnomadsdaily

Overcoming Fears and Building Community with Digital Nomad Magali

by Digital Nomads Daily | Feb 23, 2022 | Digital Nomad Podcast

07: Overcoming Fears and Building Community with Digital Nomad Magali

Magali Bejar is a technical remote product manager. While taking the leap into the digital nomad lifestyle three years ago, she has encountered many challenges as a female solo traveler. In this episode, she talks about how she handles her fears, the importance of saying yes, and how she gets out of her comfort zone.

“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.

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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.

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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.

Quick links:

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

06: The Power of Planning with Digital Nomads Anastasia & Tomer

by admin | Feb 9, 2022 | Digital Nomad Podcast

🎙 The Digital Nomads Daily Podcast Episode #06

The Power of Planning with Digital Nomad Entrepreneurs Anastasia & Tomer

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Learn from digital nomad entrepreneurs Anastasia & Tomer:

🔥 How to become a digital nomad

🔥 How to build an online content business

🔥 How to shift to an online entrepreneur journey

🔥 How to check in with yourself regularly

🔥 Tips if you’re thinking about becoming a digital nomad

🔥🔥🔥 And so much more must-know digital nomad lifestyle tips for (aspiring) digital nomads!

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“Sometimes you need to go through a short period of discomfort to create a lifetime of comfort”

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The shift to an online entrepreneur journey

While working their regular 9 to 5 corporate job, they knew that they wanted to become entrepreneurs doing something creative. Even though they planned, what business they exactly wanted to build wasn’t clear yet. With savings and a passive income in the pocket, they started their online business journey. At first, Anastasia and Tomer spoke about the remote lifestyle and traveling via Instagram @Generationnomads and a blog. After a while, they found out that this wasn’t moving the needle. One they that stood out was that making money online as a content creator can be overwhelming. It requires the right mindset, some tech know-how, and of course, the right content. This is where they shifted their business into helping content creators like bloggers make money online by monetizing their content. They developed an online coaching program that walks you through the steps of making money online with your content.

Know the mindset that you are in that moment

You might not think of this when you dream about becoming a digital nomad but planning does come in handy. You need to have some sort of plan to make this sustainable so you can enjoy the journey longer.

It might sound boring but all you want to do is to make sure you enjoy your time as you have planned. Things Anastasia and Tomer typically plan or think about where to go next are for example where to work from and if there is community. It comes down to your intentions and what you want to get out of the trip or location. What is important is that you know what you are looking for and find a location that provides all you need. Funny enough is that also Digital Nomad Kristina and Taryn talk about this on the podcast. If you are just starting out and you have no clue what you want, visit your dream places and learn as you travel. Check in with yourself regularly and ask yourself:

How do I feel here?
What positive impact has this place had on my daily routine?
If this place had ______, then it would be the perfect place.
If this place had less of ______, then it would be the perfect place.
What do I want to feel in my next location?
Is it that I want to get out of this situation? How do I want to travel? What is it that I want?

While you are nomadding, don’t forget that all of this is a learning experience. There is no right or wrong as long as you are willing to learn from every single situation.

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Keep an open mind

Planning is something that can help you make things go smooth but this isn’t always the case. Sometimes plans don’t go the way we expected and you need to adjust. In these situations, you must keep an open mind and check in with yourself. What do you need right now and what decision will help me get there? While you’re traveling anything can go wrong from small things to missing flights to larger things like safety issues.

This also happened for Anastasia and Tomer and found themselves in a situation where they thought it was perfectly planned but had to adjust to the situation. During their last days in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, they decided to go to the north of Brazil before heading back to Europe. Doing some last-minute research, they discovered how unsafe that area was, being the 7th most dangerous place in the world. Many questions started popping up and it was a stressful decision to go or not. After checking in with themselves they decided not to take the trip. Why? Because all they wanted was a relaxing trip to enjoy the tropical weather before going to Europe. A trip that could be very unsafe simply wasn’t what they truly desired. Canceling was the best option.

Tips if you’re thinking about becoming a digital nomad

Sometimes you need to go through a short period of discomfort to create a lifetime of comfort
Any kind of freedom that you want to create requires discipline first
You appreciate it so much more when it takes something to get it
Whatever you may need to make this happen, you already have it within you
You can start becoming who you want to be right now, you just need to make decisions
You already have everything that you need
There is no better timing than today

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🎧 Episode #51: How To Live A Balanced And Joyful Remote Life With Ali

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Dealing With High Anxiety While Building a Successful Online Business

by Digital Nomads Daily | Jan 26, 2022 | Digital Nomad Podcast

🎙 The Digital Nomads Daily Podcast Episode #05

Dealing with high anxiety while building a successful online business with The Remote Yogi

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Learn from digital nomad entrepreneur Taryn:

🔥 How to become a digital nomad

🔥 How to build an online business

🔥 How to choose the right nomad location

🔥 How to deal with anxiety as an entrepreneur

🔥 How to set boundaries and balance life for digital nomads

🔥🔥🔥 And so much more must-know digital nomad lifestyle tips for (aspiring) digital nomads!

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“A big thing for me was learning how to release shame and the shoulds around being an entrepreneur.”

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Starting her journey as a digital nomad

It might not seem this way but not everyone has a smooth ride when shifting lifestyles to become a digital nomad. In this episode, Taryn shares her story about how her path was everything but glamorous. After a rocky divorce, working as an event planner and yoga teacher, she felt desperate to travel the world. While she was anxiously looking for any job that could be done remotely, she saw and Ad of Remote Year and signed up. She also found a remote position and started doing sales for an event company. During her first 1.5 years of traveling and working at low wage income, she built her business and slowly paid off her huge debt on her credit card.

How Taryn became a full-time digital nomad and built her business

After Taryn decided to embark on her new lifestyle, she created her blog called The Remote Yogi. At first, she just wanted to keep her family and friends up to date about her adventures and share travel stories. While she was traveling with Remote Year she was surrounded by entrepreneurs and marketing experts. This is where she decided to put more work into her blog and transform it into a business opportunity. After the first year she started offering her first online product that would help her to gain more consistent income. Then she added more products like yoga memberships and more recently coaching women around building confidence and anxiety issues. Tyran has been dealing with high anxiety and built routines and ways to coop with them.
Today she is sharing her experience and approach to help other women who experience anxiety. While building her business she gained marketing expertise and her next entrepreneurial step was co-founding a marketing agency. After 5 years of hard work, she can now confidentially say that she is finally financially comfortable

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Defining what makes a place worth of returning

A struggle for many starting nomads is to find a destination. Of course we read and hear stories about magical nomad places. Rather than just picking a random place Taryn and Nienke Nina speak about how to pick a destination that works for you. Of course, you can also go anywhere but if you are looking for a specific experience you might want to follow the tips below:

Be aware of what matters most to you.

You must have your core values set. Because when you do, in your next destination that you travel to, you will know exactly what you need from that place. A tip from Taryn is when you get to a new city, ask yourself, how many of my values am I able to reach here.

Digital nomads have the freedom to explore.

If nature is something that means a lot to you, you have to be somewhere where you have easy access to it. In your near surroundings, or with available transportation to reach it.

Find your digital nomad community.

Even if digital nomads are travelers in heart, we still need to form a connection. Building a community far from home ends up being a necessity for almost everyone.

Digital nomads actively network.

Being able to meet a diversity of people, people who have the same mindset but different backgrounds can change your experience for the better. It’s having the capacity to network and grow professionally as well as personally.

Make sure that wherever you are traveling, you can incorporate those things that mean so much to you.

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How to handle entrepreneurship and anxiety

Two things that stood out to her in her process of becoming an entrepreneur were: releasing shame and facing the truths of entrepreneurship. Finding herself in these two situations helped her to build a healthier relationship with herself as an entrepreneur and succeed in her business.

Releasing shame:

One of her biggest challenges through this path of entrepreneurship was to learn how to get rid of a nagging feeling of shame and the shoulds. What you should be earning, what your business should have reached, how many hours you should be working. It’s ok to struggle and to make mistakes, it’s all a learning experience.

Wrong idea of entrepreneurship:

Taryn shares with us this idea that exists of building your business, which consists of dropping everything and hoping for the best. That method only works for a small percentage of the population, which does not include her. Being a person that suffers from anxiety, what worked best for her was having a variety of freelance jobs while building her company. Every person’s path is different, there is no right or wrong.

Boundaries and balancing with ourselves

With entrepreneurship comes learning how to hold boundaries with your clients and set the times that you are available. This also applies to setting them for yourself too. Taryn shares one of the methods that she has to not break these boundaries, which consists of blocking her email after certain hours, and she is only allowed to check her emails after 25 mins windows.