Nomad + Spice

• We're talking about being fat!
• Read this article! Everything you know about obesity is wrong
• Coffee with butter in it
• Jewels tell us what her badass curvy body can do
• On Eating by Susie Orbach
• Martina shares the bravery required to move through the world as a fat person
• If you don't follow Roxane Gay, get on that right now!! And read her book, Hunger
• Rachel discusses the challenges of packing
• The body neutrality movement
• Rayven leaves us on a positive note

Email us! [email protected] Facebook us! Nomad + Spice. Tweet us! @nomadandspice. Theme music! Yellow Sea by Madame Gandhi.

Some great fat and body posi Instagram accounts to follow:

Dani Adriana

Michelle Elman

Round the Way Girl

Kellie Brown

Whitney Way Thore

Sofie Hagen

Megan Jayne Crabbe

Jessamyn Stanley

The Plus Bus

Curvy Girl Chic

Virgie Tovar

Hannah McGregor

• We had a live recording at 7in7! It was so much fun!
• We were talking about what it means to be a nomad
• Check out Amy Scott's Nomadtopia if you don't already know it
• Marbree calls in from out of town
• Want to come along to 7in7 next year? We'll be in Wellington, NZ
• Nicole from Queer Women Digital Nomads is running Nomad Misfits in June next year
• Sarah goes head to head with Kit on the brand new quiz, 'Cult Leader or Bromad'
• We shout out Queer Women* Digital Nomads and Digital Nomad Girls
• We talk a bit more about 7in7
• Check out Clementine Ford, Roxane Gay, Ava Duvernay, Rupi Kaur
• There's a 1997 academic book called Digital Nomad and it predicted our way of life! Who knew?!
• We have a live interview with Dr Sonia Jaeger
• More about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Email us! [email protected] Facebook us! Nomad + Spice. Tweet us! @nomadandspice. Sling us a few dollars on Patreon! Theme music! Yellow Sea by Madame Gandhi.

• Watch out for our live recording from 7in7!
• Shine Theory: Why Powerful Women Make the Best Friends
• More on Shine Theory + CYG Episodes on Shine Theory + Shine Theory in practice
• Watch Anita Sarkeesian on the Smurfette Principle (and while you're there, check out all her Feminist Frequency and Tropes vs Women pop culture analysis because they're great)
• The politics photo Viv mentions
• Women in Congress having bipartisan meetings to get shit done
• The women of the Obama White House and their Shine Theory strategy
• Voice memo from Jewels Velky
• Voice memo for Mar Rosati
• Liz Scully explains her approach to Shine Theory
• Digital Nomad Girls Keep-in-Touch Tracker

How do you practice shine theory in your life? Continue the discussion with us on the Nomad + Spice Facebook group! You can also email us at [email protected] - we love getting your emails, it makes us super happy! You can also find us on Twitter @nomadandspice.

Thanks to Jewels, Mar and Liz for sharing their stories with us. If you'd like to be heard on the podcast, go to nomadandspice.com/speak to give your thoughts on our upcoming episodes.

Shoutout to the very shiny Madame Gandhi whose song Yellow Sea is our awesome backing music.

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See you on the road!

• We're back from our summer break!
• VIV GOT ENGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGED, you can weep at the video here
• This is how it could have gone, imagine!
• Check out Kit's #NASASocial posts
• The tweet from Amy @ Wherever Writer that starts the whole discussion
• Hannah at the Nomad VA shares her home-visiting philosophy
• Kit's childhood friendship nursery rhyme
• Check out our friendship episode for an in-depth discussion
• Sonia shares her wisdom about seeing her family more
• We hear from Michelle about how she centers family and community
• Go to WDS if you're looking for a cool community of nomad friends!

Do you visit home? How often? Do you feel guilty about being away from family/chosen family? Continue the discussion with us on the Nomad + Spice Facebook group! You can also email us at [email protected], or find us on Twitter @nomadandspice.

Shoutout to Madame Gandhi, whose home is almost certainly a rainbow galaxy floating above the clouds.

If you'd like to support the production of this podcast, head on down to patreon.com/nomadandspice where you can pledge to help us out from just $1 a month.

Go to our voice memo page to share your thoughts about visiting home and family as a digital nomad!

And now, let's replay one of our favorite episodes, in which we talk about privilege in the nomad world!

• "Anyone can be a digital nomad if they try hard enough" - can they though?
• We hear from Chrys, Pauline and LaToya, who wade into the waters of digital nomad privilege
• Privilege 101: we all have some kind of privilege over someone else
• We quote from White privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
• We dig into all the ways we can think of that we have privilege. Strap in!
• BTW, we allude to but don't specifically address the issue of straight privilege. (But we know we've got it!)

Extra resources:

Syllabus for White People to Educate Themselves

Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is

Intersectionality 101

… and so many more

Send us your thoughts on privilege! Send us a voice memo or an email to [email protected], or say hi on Twitter and Facebook. Please take a minute to subscribe and rate us on iTunes!

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And now, let's replay one of our favorite discussions with the coolest nomad women we know...

• We talk to Natasha Stanley (This Is For You), Beck Power (Nomad Fly, Nomad Work and Nomad Me) and Jennifer Lachs (Digital Nomad Girls)
• We're all fresh out of 7in7 and absolutely buzzing
• This was going on outside the apartment while we were talking
• How do you relate authentically? Be honest! Try to avoid talking about work for as long as possible
• Business opportunities are a side effect of making friends!
• Hot tip from Natasha: when heading to a networking event, prepare questions that will make people smile to break through the small talk
• Jenny talks about how she sees a potential bromad differently after one of Natasha's authentic relating games
• Hot tip from Beck: bring cheese to make friends
• QOTD from Natasha: "Confidence is just the memory of success."
• Shake hands to create a connection with someone
• Shoutout to Hannah Dixon for facing her balloon fears during 7in7

How do you create connections in person? Send us a voice memo or an email to [email protected]. Speaking of community, join us on Twitter and Facebook, and get more action and discussion on our lovely Facebook Group. Like the show? Subscribe and give us 5 stars on iTunes!

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• Kit's chilling on a beach this August before 7in7 stress kicks in
• Viv is ramping up for Edinburgh Fringe
• It's our 30th episode AND our one-year anniversary!
• Catch up on old episodes here
• How we read: paperback vs Kindle vs audiobooks
• The Nomad + Spice Book Club was born because of our Hobbies episode
• It's helped us get in the habit of reading with other amazing women (and get rid of book guilt!)
• Kit's GoodReads list is super long now
• Powell's is a super cool bookstore in Portland
• Kit loved Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
• Viv loved The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
• The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is fun
• Check out all the books the N+S Book Club has read so far
• Join the Book Club on Patreon
• Viv's summer book recommendations:
• • The Power by Naomi Alderman
  • Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
  • The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
• Kit's summer book recommendations:
• • The Binti Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor
  • Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
  • Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World by Jennifer Palmieri
• Shoutout to all our friends and listeners who've written books recently!
• • Kayla Kurin's Where Can I Find Wifi?
  • Michelle Chang's An Intentional Travelers Guide to Unconventional Budget Accommodations: Creative Ways to Save Money on Transformational Travel
  • Anna S. E. Lundberg's Leaving the Corporate 9 to 5
  • Janice Chaka's Introvert Insight, Women's Perspectives, Volume 1: Inspirational Stories Celebrating Female Introverts On International Women's Day
  • Susan Shain's The Ultimate Guide to Seasonal Jobs

• Viv wrote a book about the Edinburgh Fringe!
• Viv is running a super awesome nomad house during the festival in Scotland

What are you reading this summer? Let us know! Get in touch on [email protected], or say hi on Twitter and Facebook, where you can also be part of our Nomad + Spice Facebook group! Don't forget to give us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts RIGHT NOW and support our Patreon page to help us create feminist critique of nomad life!!

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• Find a fuck-up night near you
• LinkedIn: actually quite valuable for careers
• Nomading: not necessarily about travel
• Money: the bit you need to get right
• Metaphors: plentiful in this episode
• We rip on Tim Ferriss for a while
• Michelle Dale from Virtual Miss Friday shares her fuckup story
• Chani from the Unlikely Vegan shares an aromatic mess she made while traveling to Main Street Academy
• Liz Scully and her friend suffered from travel hubris and she's here to warn you against it
• Jessa is all about minimalist travel plans
• Dorene has freed herself from the deadline to make nomad life work
• Naomi gives us a sage perspective on how to look back on mistakes

Share your stories of nomad fails and realizations with us in our Facebook Group! Thanks to Michelle, Dorene, Chani, Liz, Jessa, and Naomi for sharing their stories with us, and shoutout to the practically perfect Madame Gandhi for our wonderful backing music.

Before you go, we'd love it if you could support the creation of Nomad + Spice on Patreon for as little as $1 a month: patreon.com/nomadandspice

Please don't forget to give us a 5 STAR rating AND REVIEW in Apple Podcasts or tell a friend about us - it really helps new people to find the podcast! And don't forget to SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss a single episode.

See you on the road!

• BLOOPER LOL
• Call Your Girlfriend's business episode
• Say no to yourself!
• We hire Podcasting Press to edit our podcast episodes
• We record via Zencastr
• Kit uses this tiny microphone
• We use Libsyn to distribute (check out their helpful videos and their Twitter feed)
• Our website is on Squarespace
• The story of how Kit met Madame Gandhi at Lesbians Who Tech
• We collect voice memos via SpeakPipe
• Podcast rec: Call Your Girlfriend
• Podcast rec: Another Round
• Podcast rec: Secret Feminist Agenda
• Podcast rec: Witch, Please
• Podcast rec: Flash Forward
• Podcast rec: Science Vs.
• Podcast rec: Thirst Aid Kit
• Podcast rec: How to be a Girl
• Other nomad podcasts you should check out: This is for you, The Traveling Introvert, Nomadtopia, Republic of Freedom, NomadMe, SheNomads

Are you going to make a podcast? Let us know! Get in touch on [email protected], or say hi on Twitter and Facebook, where you can also be part of our Nomad + Spice group! Don't forget to send us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts and support our Patreon page to help us create feminist critique of nomad life!!

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• Viv has turned 30! Kit is in Austin!
• It's harder to say no in business when you're operating from a scarcity mindset
• Western culture is full of advice to say yes (i.e. Shonda Rhimes' book and TED Talk)
• We heard from Audrey Louisa about how she taught herself to stop people-pleasing
• Look after your spoons
• Join the Nomad Feminist Bookclub via Patreon!
• Re-listen to our Confidence and Money episodes!
• Check out Tiffany Dufu's Drop the Ball
• If you're a newbie freelance writer, you can book in for a half hour chat with Viv
• Join the Nomad + Spice Facebook group!
• A Christian perspective on saying no that was shared by a listener
• Daisy Onubogu – does she have the biggest network ever?

Share your stories of the power of NO via [email protected], or you can Tweet us @nomadandspice, and Madame Gandhi wrote our amazing backing music.

We'd love it if you could support the creation of Nomad + Spice on Patreon for as little as $1 a month: patreon.com/nomadandspice

Please don't forget to give us a 5 STAR rating in Apple Podcasts or tell a friend about us - it really helps new people to find the podcast! And don't forget to SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss a single episode.