Guest Bio:

Tyron Mott is a software engineer by trade but recently made the move from Silicon Valley to the digital nomad lifestyle. He is a musician and the founder of VentureTY a site with the vision of helping people understand themselves better and craft a meaningful life. Tyron and I discuss transitioning from full-time corporate jobs to work on more creative endeavors and so much more in this exciting episode!

Links Mentioned:

• VentureTY, Tyron's site with the mission to help people discover themselves and craft a meaningful life
• Tyron on Instagram
• Remote Year, work and travel program for digital nomads that Tyron and I met on
• Regret Minimization Framework - Jeff Bezos

Show Notes: 

• Tyron, welcome to the Nomad on FIRE Podcast 00:30
• Tyron’s background and how he became a digital nomad 00:45
• Tyron discusses leaving his full time high paying corporate job as a software engineer and how following FI principles such as having a 40-50%+ savings rate helped him on his journey 07:30
• Eric gives his thoughts on journaling, finding the FIRE community and then transitioning to the digital nomad lifestyle 11:50
• Tyron discusses how his creative and entrepreneurial journey and experience with Remote Year has been so far 13:50
• Eric discusses having a similar experience so far on Remote Year and finding a good balance as a digital nomad 18:50
• Tyron discusses VentureTY and his vision for it 21:30
• Tyron and Eric discuss slowing down the pace of travel and staying in a place for longer than just one month 29:00
• Eric discusses his travel plans for the first part of 2020 in SE Asia 32:00
• Tyron discusses the pros and cons of the digital nomad lifestyle 33:45
  • Pros- Freedom!
  • Learning Spanish
  • Cons- how to leverage and how much to involve himself in the community
• Tyron discusses his experience with each of the cities we traveled to on our four-month Remote Year Program- Santiago, Chile, Lima, Peru, Medellin, Colombia and Mexico City, Mexico 38:30
• Eric gives his thoughts on the Latin American Remote Year cities the group visited 43:30
• Tyron discusses his experience with Mexico City and Mexico City as a creative hub 45:20
• One new thing Tyron has learned about himself or reinforced while traveling 47:25
• A perfect day for Tyron 50:45
• #1 Takeaway from today’s conversation 53:20
• Where to find Tyron online 54:50
• And much more...

Significant quotes: 

• “You look around and you see where you are and you just start questioning  what else is there, how can I challenge myself more, what else can I do?” 02:39
• “ I was always very conscious of lifestyle inflation and was always trying to live under my means” 05:39
• “Based on how much I’ve saved, I could leave my job I could live X amount of years not have to worry about anything and just continually discover in those things I wanted to pursue” 06:05
• “I knew that I didn’t want to go for the carrot that was in front of me, but I didn’t necessarily know what my carrot was” 09:20
• “Money won’t make you free, but it gives you more opportunities to express your freedom” 11:17
• “What is the next page that I’m going to write as opposed to just copy and pasting from the previous page?” 11:50  
• “I like to think of life as a series of bets, but it's really just an experiment” 25:16
• And much much more...