• 2017 recap! We've actually been working on Nomad + Spice all year long so we're looking back on an epic year.
• If you're in the UK and want to access local gyms, try Pay As U Gym for cheaper monthly gym access
• We look back on our Episode 2 travel speed goals and make some new ones
• Announcing the Nomad + Spice Book Club - starting with Drop The Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less by Tiffany Dufu.
• Membership for our book club will be one of the perks of our shiny new Patreon!
• Next year's topics include more on money, relationships, women's health and activism, plus more interviews with nomad women!

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• We recorded just post-7in7 and we were totally in a funk
• The paradox of choice can be a great funk instigator
• We use some great words, including malaise and inertia
• Check out our very driven friend Anna SE Lundberg for some inspo/jealousy
• If you haven't played Exploding Kittens, you should (but you should also be focused like Beck Power)
• We hear from Christine, Mariza and Janice
• QOTD: "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is now"
• Check out Note to Self's research on boredom
• Get yourself some Headspace
• Check out Derek Murphy's advice about writing and creativity
• Shout-out to Mariza's SheKnowsCrypto venture

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• 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

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This week we're tackling digital bromads.

• Urban dictionary defines 'Bro'
• We hear from Marbree and Jenny
• Bromads: a politics of libertarianism?
• Tim Ferriss: the original bromad?
• Maire gives us a more nuanced angle on the bromad
• Check out Nicole's group for queer women nomads
• Listen to our privilege ep if you haven't already!
• #notalldropshippers
• QOTD from Temi: "If it acts like a douche and it looks like a douche, it's probably a douche"
• Come meet us in 7in7 in Medellin, Colombia!!!!!!!
• Check out SheNomads, Digital Nomad Girls, Wanderist Life, Sun and Co for more women-lead nomad groups

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Treating yourself!

• If you haven't seen Parks & Rec you need to get on that stat
• Viv brags about her fancy holiday (shout out to Alice the travel agent at Flight Centre in Sydney)
• Kit extols the virtues of the Chase Sapphire Reserve Card (including on Twitter)
• We get treat yourself tips from Berrak and Hannah
• Our number 1 tip is getting a nice Airbnb apartment
• Treating yourself: self-care in disguise
• Check out boring self-care

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A quick post-7in7 update + a preview of what we'll be discussing in the final months of 2017!

• The New York Times article about friendship
• We discuss the nomad problem of loneliness
• We hear from Kyrie and Heather
• Viv vaguely remembers some high school sociology (and here's the idea that globalisation turns the world into one giant gesellschaft)
• Follow Kate Leaver on Twitter or Facebook and sign up for her lovely newsletter. Her book, The Friendship Cure, is out next April through HarperCollins
• The Atlantic article that claims that once you get married and have kids you stop having friends
• Next time you get a chance to see Merrily We Roll Along, take it!
• The episode of Secret Feminist Agenda dealing with friendship. Subscribe!

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• Viv is enjoying no screens + rose petal spa baths
• How do you treat yourself? Send us a voice memo at [email protected]!
• We gush over our reviews <3
• We're changing up our release schedule

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• "So are you, like, on vacation all the time?"
• We discover that our bodies are enforcing weekends
• France is on the right track to work/life balance
• The US is setting a terrible example
• We posit that working is not the best use of the beach
• Elle and Marbree share their dubiously successful vacation histories
• Kit shouts out the Hidden Brain podcast on scarcity + time
• Viv gets anxious on vacation; Kit wants to rage-quit everything
• We grade Viv's recent city break + make commitments for future holidays
• Kit dreams of going to Japan's cat islands
• QOTD: "I don't want to hear your great idea"

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• Viv reveals her former life as a fashion icon
• The surprising ease
• We hear from Christine and Cassie on their best style tips
• We love our carry-on only travel style, but it's not compulsory!
• Kit gives a shout-out to her Dr Scholl's flats
• The capsule wardrobe
• Viv half-remembers some makeup advice about red lipstick
• QOTD: "People really remember you when you have hot pink hair"

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