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Christa Romano is a location-independent career coach who’s spent the last 7 years traveling the world while working full time—first as a freelancer, then remote employee, and now as a content creator, coach, and entrepreneur who helps people launch their own location-independent careers. 

Christa has mastered how to build and nurture a global community while on the road. In this episode, we dive into how she's done it.

We discuss:

• The moments that first lead Christa to live abroad, work remotely, and travel full-time
• A humbling near-death experience that caused Christa to create a bucket list she’s been checking off ever since
• The specific ways she's built an intimate global community
• Christa's philosophy on dating as a digital nomad

Connect with Christa on Instagram: @christabellatraveles


Show notes for this episode: 
https://www.radicallydifferentpodcast.com/episodes/how-to-build-nurture-a-global-community-christa-romano

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Four years ago at the age of 22, Steph Smith left her consulting job and a two-hour commute to redesign her life. She began traveling the world, working from her laptop, and experimenting with different ways to live. Now she’s a growth marketer for top tech and media brands like the Hustle, a self-taught coder and indie maker whos projects have ranked #1 on Product Hunt, and a blogger with over 400,000 readers who writes about remote work, personal growth, women in tech, and learning to code.

In this episode we discuss:

• The “ah-ha” moments that lead Steph to discover the world of travel and remote work
• The concept pulled from the book Algorithms to Live by of exploration versus exploitation and how Steph has applied it to her life 
• The diminishing returns of freedom
• Steph's experience as a woman digital nomad in tech
• Our advice for how to learn to code
• Exciting trends Steph sees related to the future of the location-independent movement and remote work

Show notes for this episode:
https://www.radicallydifferentpodcast.com/episodes/designing-your-life-wisdom-from-a-26-year-old-nomadic-coderwritergrowth-hacker-steph-smith

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Two weeks ago, I joined seven other entrepreneurs and creators for a month-long coliving experience in Baja, Mexico. So far it's been magical... an opening ceremony, attendee-lead workshops, experiential dinners, mastermind sessions, dance parties, photoshoots, jam sessions, daily meditation & yoga, surfing, and deeper connection with ourselves and each other.

In this episode, I sit down with housemate Kimberly Rich (creator of The Bold Life Movement and host of The Opposite of Loneliness podcast) to explain how this all started, what the experience has been like thus far, and why intentional co-living is so powerful.

We dive into:

• Why we're both so passionate about the concept of intentional co-living
• Why we chose Baja, Mexico
• Some of the amazing (and also scary) things that have happened since we arrived
• How does co-living differ from having roommates? 
• How do you find people to co-live with?
• What challenges does it present?
• What cool events have been created?
• How do you manage 8 people living under one roof?

This unique episode was recorded live from our balcony in Baja. Enjoy!

Check out the original episode post:
https://www.theboldlifemovement.com/sam

Show notes for this episode:
https://www.radicallydifferentpodcast.com/episodes/co-living-in-mexico-how-to-create-an-intentional-co-living-community

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Are the days of freely backpacking around the world over? What happens when nearly all "knowledge workers" can work remotely due to COVID-19? What does the location-independent movement look like moving forward?

In this episode, I sit down with thought-leader, coach, and author David Passiak to discuss the future of travel, remote work, and digital nomadism. 

We discuss:

• The state of affairs globally when it comes to Covid-19, travel, and living abroad
• The future of air travel, live events, living abroad, and remote work
• Travel bubbles, work visas, and the things you should think about before traveling
• How to navigate an uncertain future

David is a former religion scholar, a digital nomad, and an expert on innovation, co-creation, and flow. He’s the author of four books, including Red Bull to Buddha, Disruption Revolution, Empower - how to co-create the future, and Flow of Innovation. He’s been living nomadically the past 10 years, visiting 15-20 countries a year. His new venture, Flow Coach, specializes in teaching the necessary skillsets and mindset to navigate an uncertain future.


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Jillian Richardson is on a mission to make the world less lonely. She's the founder of The Joy List (a weekly newsletter featuring events in NYC where you can "come alone and leave with a friend), a connection coach, a group facilitator, and the author of Unlonely Planet: How Healthy Congregations Can Change the World.

This interview was one of the most fun, thought-provoking, and useful interviews I've done to date. We discuss:

• How to build and maintain community during a global pandemic
• How to instantly find your tribe when you move to a new city
• Why Jillian has devoted her life to reducing loneliness
• The most "radically different" events Jillian has attended (this part is gold)
• Incorporating ritual into friendship
• Plutonic touch and cuddle parties
• What we've lost due to the decline of organized religion, and how we can get it back

Show notes for this episode:
https://www.radicallydifferentpodcast.com/episodes/the-path-to-an-unlonely-planet-jillian-richardson

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Debbie Arcangeles is the founder of The Offbeat Life - a podcast and a website that helps people find remote work or start an online business. She's interviewed over 150 location-independent entrepreneurs, and she’s turned her podcast (which began as a passion-project) into her full-time job. 

In this conversation, Debbie gives her perspective on how to become location-independent and create income from your passions. She also explains how she ignored conventional advice and was able to monetize her podcast. We discuss what it means to live an “offbeat life”, the sacrifices and tradeoffs of being an entrepreneur, and when it makes sense to hire a team and start delegating your work. 

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When I started traveling and working remotely I kept thinking is this just a phase? Or will I eventually have to go back to the U.S. and start a "real" career?

Then I met today’s guest, Wes Wagner, and he proved to me you absolutely can.

Wes is a 24-year-old startup founder who typically splits his time between Indianapolis in the U.S and Medellín, Colombia. When I met Wes two years ago in Medellín, he was 22-years old, fresh out of college, and spearheading marketing for a silicon-valley based startup called Microverse. Last year he went through Y Combinator, the most prestigious startup accelerator in the world. Now he’s combining all that experience to start his own tech company.

What I love about Wes is that he lives a life that bridges many cultures and communities. Simultaneously, He’s a Spanish-speaking lover of Latin America, he’s plugged into the Silicon Valley tech scene, and he’s a self-described “family man” that loves the Indianapolis 500, boating, and mudding. 

Wes believes you can have an incredible career while living abroad, and that you can plug in with world-class communities regardless of your physical location. In this episode, he explains how.


Show notes for this episode:
https://www.radicallydifferentpodcast.com/episodes/how-to-have-an-incredible-career-and-build-a-world-class-network-when-youre-location-independent-wes-wagner

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This episode is an interview I did on the That Remote Life podcast with Mitko Karshovski. We discuss how I discovered digital nomadism and got my first part-time remote freelance gig, why I started Radically Different, the “surprising power of remote work” and how it gives you the freedom to follow your curiosity, whether or not you should get a remote job before moving abroad, and the future of the digital nomad movement.

Show notes for this episode: 
www.radicallydifferentpodcast.com/episodes/sam-kern-that-remote-life-podcast

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An update from Tarek on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected Nomads Giving Back and the future of the Digital Nomad Movement.


Show notes for this episode: 
www.radicallydifferentpodcast.com/episodes/nomads-giving-back-tarek-kholoussy 

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Years ago, Tarek Khaloussy made the decision to leave behind the career he'd built in New York City in search of a more meaningful life. Since then he's traveled to over 100 countries, ran over 25 marathons on multiple continents, and founded Nomads Giving Back – a social enterprise with the vision to inspire nomads, ex-pats, and travelers to give back to the communities they call home. 

In this conversation we discuss:

• The series of wake-up calls that caused Tarek to leave his corporate career behind and begin traveling
• Whether the digital nomad movement is good for the world
• The problems Tarek sees with the digital nomad movement
• How digital nomadism could become a force for good
• "Taking off the training wheels" as a digital nomad
• The future of digital nomadism

Show notes for this episode:
www.radicallydifferentpodcast.com/episodes/nomads-giving-back-tarek-kholoussy

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