Bitten early on by the travel bug, Blake Boles dug into the different ways he could fund a traveling lifestyle for himself. Since 2008, he’s built his own travel tour company that allows him to follow this dream life as a digital nomad.

Learn how he built the business running only one or two trips a year and funds his lifestyle the rest of the year.

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Naomi is an actress with full citizenships in three countries. She has been location independent since 2007, and a full-time nomad since 2016. All while running her time-intensive consulting business. 

She’s learned to use house sitting strategies to both travel full-time and dramatically cut down her expenses and pay down excessive debt at a much higher rate than normal.

She runs a virtual team that works in the areas of assistant services, bookkeeping, copywriting, organizing, tech services, and business structure consulting.

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This one took me a bit of time to figure out, but it is of priceless benefit to my life once I started to work it out.

Being nomadic and moving from place to place makes building a typical local community difficult. Since your local changes from place to place, it certainly isn’t a traditional lifestyle.

It is critically important to have a community of your people for the times when things won’t quite go your way and you just need support.

I’ve been fortunate that I worked it out imperfectly, but have my group of friends (family), so that when this latest breakup happened, I had my people to go to rather than sitting alone in my room.

Go out and make yourself approachable to be sure you build up your core group of your people before you really need to.

Travel to most countries doesn’t really matter much, but when traveling as a lesbian, you do need to exercise a bit of caution in many cases.

I would never discourage anyone from travel, but as a single female traveller, you will want to be wary of who you tell about your situation. Most regular people aren’t used to the idea of a woman traveling alone, and I get asked about my husband or boyfriend all the time.

Sometime it doesn’t matter, but in most cases, a little extra discretion about who you tell is all you need to otherwise make this point of travel a non-issue.

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Today is a quick episode about selling off or otherwise getting rid of excess stuff. I’ll give you some of the many ways to sell off your stuff so you can move on relatively light.

It seems like it can’t be helped when you take up a home base for any length of time. You just accumulate stuff.

You can’t reasonably take it all with you when moving on to another country to make a different home base.

Listen to today’s episode for my advice on how to make the process as painless as possible.

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There’s a situation that comes up among female digital nomads. It’s a subject that gets talked about quite a bit, and that’s being approached by creepy men.

Not all men, of course. But it happens quite a bit. It’s not something that should prevent you from traveling at all, but it is something that seems to happen more often than back at home. 

It’s a conversation that needs to continue, as we continue to blend into different cultures and groups so that women can feel safer and respected, men can learn how not to be creepy, and even ways to offer up assistance, if needed.

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Every Digital Nomad will have to deal with goodbyes. 

Friends, relationships, even cities will come and go from your life as long as you are driven to explore.

Some people struggle with this even more than leaving home to start their travels.

Tune in to today’s episode to hear my take on this as I prepare to say goodbye to one chapter of this nomadic life, and am excited at what’s to come!

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M. Shannon Hernandez helps her clients establish themselves as the experts they already are.

She quit her 15-year career as a teacher making usual low teacher’s pay, and now lives mostly in Costa Rica working 3 days a week while generating $30k per month in revenue from her business.

If you want to be a thought leader, build a brand, and a business that you’re proud of based on your knowledge and authenticity — this is an episode you don’t want to miss!

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On today’s podcast, we’ve got freelance writer and co-host of the amazing Nomad & Spice Podcast Viv Egan.

A Digital Nomad since 2014, she now considers herself Location Independent, since she does work from a home base in the UK, but travels whenever she likes (and of course can run her business from anywhere).

Viv dishes out tips, resources, and some of the many types of writing jobs out there to get started with a freelance writing career, and tells you what you really need to get started as a freelancing Digital Nomad.

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Shortcuts are a great way to get ahead, if you can find real ones.

Focus on your business and it’s purpose, then the platforms will come easier, because you’ve been focused on the right thing.

Put in all the effort you can before moving on to something else from your business platforms.

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