Sometime around April 2015, broke and living with my parents, I told myself, “If I could just make $4,000 a month, THEN I’ll stop worrying.” I gave myself a deadline of a few months to grow my freelance business, or it was back to the office for me. But two months later, I was not making $4K a month—I was making more than $6.5K. So I moved to my dream city of San Francisco. And then everything was perfect. Just…
So you want to be a digital nomad, but you have no idea how you could get someone to pay you to work while you're traveling the globe? Relax! I've curated top ways to find digital nomad jobs, including six places I have personally found remote work.The key thing to note is that a "digital nomad job" is basically any work that you can do remotely, either as an entrepreneur or employee. Most digital nomads work remotely as an employee.…
As a general rule, when in Paris, one must always wear black, gray, or, if you’re feeling really adventurous, navy blue. I don’t know what is different about this day, but I decide to break that rule and wear red. It is November 26, 2015. Thanksgiving Day in the United States, but just a regular Thursday here in France. Decked out in a bright red trench coat, I spend the entire day feeling self-conscious, trying to slip by unnoticed in…
Attending Nuit Blanche in Toronto is a rite of passage. Every year on October 1st (give or take a day), from sunset till sunrise (7 p.m. to 7 a.m.), revelers admire contemporary art from all over the world displayed in the streets of Downtown Toronto for free. Now, I am not an “art person,” but I’d like to be, so I jumped at the opportunity to hone my art appreciation skills in Toronto by twilight, wine glass in hand. (Actually, Ontario has pretty strict laws governing alcohol…
If you want to start an online business, you need a website! In this post, I'll show you how to build a business website for FREE. While I strongly encourage you to invest in a self-hosted site with your own domain, I completely understand what it's like to not be in a position to pay for that right now (I've been there!). So, I want you to know there are free options out there.…
“How’s your heart?” Daniel whispers to me as we pick our way through cobblestone streets in Ollantaytambo, Peru, in the drizzling rain. We’ve just finished a harrowing 1.5-hour car ride through winding mountain roads that drastically change altitudes, so at first I wonder if he’s inquiring about my cardiovascular health. But I know what he means. “Mejor,” I tell him. Better. Daniel has a keen intuition I have never seen in anyone else, a sixth sense that feels what other people are…
I’ve been eyeing Roam coliving for a while now. When I first heard about the startup in 2015, I thought it was the perfect solution for a location-independent digital nomad like myself—flexible leases that give you the freedom to move from coliving space to coliving space across the world. What Is Coliving? Now, for those of you not familiar with the term “coliving,” it’s essentially where you live and work in a community in shared spaces. Coliving often consists of guesthouses with…