Out of Office

Gillian Rose couldn’t quite find her calling as she went down the traditional path while also fighting her ongoing battle with depression. Her imperfect journey led to her dropping out of college and trying out a handful of odd jobs including working at a music store, a pizza parlor, and becoming an Upper East Side nanny. Her later return to school to study her passion for music led her to remote life and work abroad in Spain as an English teacher, and later a career as an audio book narrator.

Aline Dahmen identified a huge need in the digital nomad community with the challenges travelers faced in building meaningful romantic connections on the road. She built a community online for like-minded individuals to interact and plan their international meet-ups. When she sought out a co-founder with experience developing mobile apps, the Nomad Soulmates brand was born. The app will launch globally on February 14, 2018, and today Aline and I talk love and friendship as part of a nomadic lifestyle.

Alyssa DiFolco had just graduated from university and while her classmates were gunning for internships, polishing their resumes, and trying to land spots in graduate programs - Alyssa took a less than conventional path South to Santiago, Chile. When given the opportunity to be an Au Pair instead of taking a traditional office job, Alyssa knew she needed time to see the world and explore her passions. We totally nerd out talking minimalism, sustainability, travel, all-natural beauty routines, and podcasts.

Anna Sabino ditched her stressful job on Wall Street when a glass-blowing hobby turned into her successful jewelry company, Lucid New York. Through the creation of a brand in 100 stores and features in magazines like Cosmopolitan and VOGUE, she learned the fast track to financial independence. Now Anna wants to help other aspiring entrepreneurs through her new book, Your Creative Career. We talk Anna's jewelry brand, what it means to live a creative life, how to get published, and finding financial freedom.

Award-winning blogger and brand strategist Salma Sheriff grew up in a small town in Southern India where most women weren't encouraged to seek higher education or start their own businesses. But Salma did both. And it all started with a love for crochet and all things beautiful.

Today Salma runs a successful brand strategy and design business where she empowers other female entrepreneurs to build their own six-figure businesses. We discuss branding, sales funnels and becoming a social media influencer.

Belinda Irvine, an entrepreneur and SEO expert, left her home and corporate job in Australia to live in new parts of the world as required by her husband's job. She quickly sought out a passion project and created an online forum and blog about dogs. 

Belinda's research and passion for driving web traffic to her blog led to helping local clients with their SEO needs. A few clients here and there turned into a global client base and an expert team with Belinda running her empire from a boat in Fiji.

On today's first episode, I'm sharing my own journey of building my location independent business, ditching my corporate job, and traveling across the world as a digital nomad.

No desk. No boss. No BS. I paved my own path on the road less traveled by evaluating the potential of regrets and changing my mindset around what it means to climb the corporate ladder. And it only took six months to build a business and completely reinvent my unconventional life as a digital nomad and entrepreneur.