The Remote Edition Podcast

We are back after our 6 month hiatus interviewing Luke Lawson from New Zealand! Luke has been living and working remotely in Bali for 1 year now. He left his childhood home at 16, moved to Australia at 18, and has since become a sales manager for a remote Solar Company after doing 6 years of door-to-door sales.

Luke & I chat about his time living abroad in 3 different countries, his journey to discovering remote work through affiliate marketing, how he’s been able to run a successful sales team remotely, and gives lots of insightful tips & realistic advice on how to get the confidence to take some action into moving into a remote work position.

If you are someone who has been interested in the digital nomad lifestyle, but are in need of the advice of how to force yourself out of your comfort zone in order to make those goals a reality, you won’t want to miss what Luke shares with us in this episode.

YOU CAN FIND MORE ON LUKE AT:

Instagram: @EvoutionOfLuke

Website: https://www.warriorwithinchallenge.com

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjr7tDry3wi9BkFWX8ZdZ9g

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6.3million tourists visited Bali in 2019. Due to COVID19, there have been no tourists here for months. Tourism is a HUGE contributor to Bali's economy, with many Indonesians working in the sector. Businesses have been forced to close, many locals have lost jobs and suffered huge reductions in income with many struggling to feed their own families. A few kind expats and locals have taken the initiative to create Food Projects to help people in need. I decided to hire a local videographer, Imung, to show you the situation and one of the incredible initiatives run by the lovely Laura and Jeri.

This week I interview the amazing Sabby Choudhary from Canada and originally from India. Sabby’s is a digital marketer who has founded a series of startups over his career so far. He dropped out of University to get involved in different startups and projects and along the way, successfully applied to YCombinator with one of his startups (a social network for University students). YC is one of the largest startup accelerators in the world with Stripe, Airbnb and Dropbox all having gone through the program.

Sabby and I chat all about building a tech startup, the YC application process, getting Venture Capital funding and his learnings from the whole experience. Sabby now lives and works remotely in Bali and we chat all about how he decided to travel and live the digital nomad / location independent lifestyle before settling in Bali.

This week I interview Glenn Emery, an Accountant who travels the world and whilst working remotely. Glenn is originally from the US and is spending his lockdown time in Singapore. He started his career in Finance working in multiple jobs in banking and private equity before moving to a start-up called Exploding Kittens on the West Coast.

Glenn always had an itch to travel and something more entrepreneurial. Fuelled by fear of regretting never going traveling, he decided to quit his job for South East Asia and the digital nomad life. He tells us all about how he managed to keep his job working remotely for the start-up, whilst balancing freelance graphic design work, his passion for art and drawing all whilst travelling the world.

Glenn has tonnes of advice for people who want to travel and work remotely. His story is super inspiring and I know you're going to get a lot out of this episode!

This week I interview the lovely Lucia Grace, a lifestyle & travel blogger from the UK. Lucia's blogging has allowed her to build a business around remote work enabling her to split her time between Bali and Europe whilst working on collaborations with brands and her own freelance based content projects for clients all over the world.

We chat all about how Lucia got started with blogging, how she built her audience and used her work to build a business that ultimately allowed her the freedom to travel. She gives so many tips for aspiring bloggers and remote workers on how to get started!

We also chat a lot about these strange times we're in at the moment in the midst of COVID19 and what it feels like to have worked so hard to build a lifestyle that enables you to have the freedom to work anywhere and to suddenly be restricted to your home country and one place. We chat about how Lucia is dealing with being back in the UK and how she's had to get super creative to continue to produce quality content. Super helpful to hear her perspective and I expect it will resonate with a lot of you!

Martha is a Project Manager working remotely for an American company. Previously, her corporate career included working as a Project Manager for Diageo in both Colombia and London. She became fed up of working in the office at set times and decided to look for a remote opportunity. She now lives and works remotely from Bali.

Martha explains all about how she networked her way into getting her job and how working remotely allowed her to move to Bali. Martha shares her insights and experience of working remotely including tips for hiring, conducting remote interviews, managing a team you've never met and holding virtual meetings. She also gives you tips on how to find your own remote job.

She's super knowledgeable and as the whole world is working remotely at the moment, this episode will give you some amazing takeaways to improve your team's collaboration, productivity and overall happiness working remotely.

This week we talk about everyone's fave subject... TAXES. As a digital nomad who spends hardly any time in their home country, it can be really confusing about where your tax liabilities lie and how best to structure your business. Kathy specifically helps location independents and digital nomads with their taxes. She's a former tax lawyer turned Entrepreneur & digital nomad herself! After quitting her corporate law job in Australia to travel the world, she noticed many digital nomads were confused about their taxes, realizing she could help them, Wanderers Wealth was born! We chat all things tax law and business structures for digital nomads and location independents, tips for you if you're confused and how to approach it. We also delve into Kathy's own story of quitting her corporate high flying law job in favour of traveling the world.

This week we have the incredible Kieran Hedley on with us, he is an Anxiety Coach originally from New Zealand usually based in Bali. Kieran has experienced his own mental health battles and overcome anxiety, depression and suffering frequent panic attacks. He now coaches clients 1:1 to help them overcome their own battles.

I brought Kieran on this week as we are all going through very unfamiliar times at the moment because of COVID19 with many of you being in isolation. Coping with anxiety, uncertainty, fear and confinement can be extremely confronting. We chat all about the challenges we are all going through and Kieran provides some incredible advice on how best to manage your own situation and these feelings.

We also chat all about Kieran's story of going from a PT, striving for future success and always wanting more whilst inside feeling depressed, anxious and often suffering panic attacks. He overcame these battles through meditation and other amazing tools & techniques which he discusses on this episode.

This week I interview Liz Ribot, Co-Founder of Outsite. Outsite is a collection of spaces around the world built for the remote work community, in their spaces they have areas for co-living and co-working and their mission is to help people build location independent lives.

Liz and I chat all about how she started as Community Manager of Outsite’s first site on the West Coast of America to becoming co-founder and the journey along the way of getting investment and expanding to 28 sites across the world.

It’s a super interesting chat and I loved hearing more about Liz’s story and her thoughts on remote work and how she thinks the 9-5 schedule will no longer exist in the future.

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Suzie IG @suzieclark_ 

I quit my corporate job to work remotely 1 year ago.  On this ep, I chat through the 6 main things I've learned to help you improve your productivity or prepare to go remote! 

About this podcast... 

Welcome to The Remote Edition Podcast where we bring you the latest from the world of remote work. We share stories from people working remotely from all over the world. Whether they are entrepreneurs, digital nomads, freelancers, people who have remote jobs or coworking spaces we are sharing their stories. Whether you’re already working remotely, thinking about it or even managing a distributed team, this podcast is for YOU. 

About me (your host)... 

Hey I'm Suzie, I spent 6 years working in corporate sales roles in London including the largest Investment bank in the world and a San Francisco fintech unicorn. Despite these being quite impressive jobs to a lot of people, I always felt like something was missing. The routine started to really get me down so I did a lot of soul searching until I decided to quit my job, start a podcast and move to Bali to explore the world of remote work. 

What I discovered amazed me, there are entire communities of super smart and talented people working and living remotely, from all over the world, all doing different things and actually EXCITED about their work. I learned that many of them had left huge corporate jobs because they were restricted to staying in one place and had experienced similar things to me. 

From then on I became obsessed with this way of working, it opens up so many opportunities for you to travel, spend more time with loved ones or just do more things you love all whilst being more productive and generally happier. It also levels the playing field for global talent which is something I think can really change the economic landscape, solve issues in overpopulated cities and ultimately contribute to reducing global inequality. 

I want to help more people take advantage of this amazing way of working. Through my guest's stories, you will learn all about how they came to work remotely and the tips you can take into your own career and business.