Going Remote - Interviews with Successful Digital

Lydia is the founder of ScrewtheCubicle.com and The Unconventionalists. She helps people leverage their skills to become coaches or consultants who work 1 on 1 to help clients. I had the pleasure of meeting Lydia a while back when we were both presenting in a workshop in London. She has such an interesting career story so this episode is a real treat. You’ll hear about what her day-to-day is like, how she got started, and learn how you can use your skills to create and grow your dream business. Without further ado, here’s Lydia.

Johnny FD is a legend in the digital nomad community. He has created many passive income businesses including selling books on Amazon, selling products in drop shipping stores, and getting income from affiliate marketing. He runs a popular blog on his website www.johnnyFD.com where he regularly shares his monthly income reports. In this episode Johnny talks about how he got started, how he plans his year out, and how aspiring Digital Nomad entrepreneurs can get started. Johnny also talks about Nomad Summit, his upcoming conference designed exclusively to bring together Digital Nomads from all over the world. Without further ado, here’s Johnny.

Renee works on the business development team at Remote Year, a travel program that brings 75 digital nomads together and get them to travel the world for a year. Renee’s work is all about building relationships with different companies. Hear how she went from a store manager at Lululemon to becoming a world-traveling remote doing business development. She also shares the key skills that you need to acquire to be successful at doing business development. 

Hailley is a Public Relations Specialist at Buffer. She helps her company strategize and implement different communication plans. Hailley is one of the main hosts of The Science of Social Media podcast. In this episode, you’ll hear about her day-to-day life working as a PR specialist. She also shares her tips and her tips for how you can get started and grow your PR career even if you don’t have any experience.

Dan is on the admissions team on Remote Year, a travel program that brings 75 digital nomads together and get them to travel the world for a year. In this episode, you’ll hear about what Dan does day to day as an admissions consultant on Remote Year, how he got there, and tips on how to get in as an applicant. This episode is especially relevant for those working in the human resources (HR) industry and want to learn how they can evolve their career to a remote job and travel the world. 

Adrien is the cofounder of a startup called Mangrove. His mission is to change how freelancers work and learn new skills. He’s a veteran Digital Nomad and helps lead retreats in exotic places all over the world to bring talented digital nomads together and reimagine how work is done. In this episode, Adrien shares with us what his vision is and the story of how Mangrove started. Learn more about Mangrove at meetmangrove.com

Eryn is an Account Manager for Toptal. She coaches startup companies and helps them with product strategy and organization growth. Eryn is a master at forging win-win relationships and draws her experience from working for Sony and Mercedes-Benz. In this episode, she shares what she does as an Account Manager, how she found a remote job that matches her talents, and how you can follow her career path if you don’t have any experience. She also shares some of her favorite travel hacks to stay super productive.

Remax Real Estate Agent Kara Keeton – Kara is a Real Estate Agent. She buys and sells houses while traveling the world. Now some of you might be thinking: how can someone sell property remotely when you need to be there physically to hold open houses and talk to potential buyers? Well guess what, Kara’s figured it out and she’ll be sharing her process on how she’s able to do it remotely. You’ll also learn how you can get started at become a real estate agent if you have 0 experience and how to eventually build that into a remote business that let’s you travel the world. Check out her website at www.karakeetonrealestate.com  

Josh is an online fitness coach. He’s the founder of Primal Shape Fitness and has clients from all over the world. He is passionate about helping people exercise not just for the sake of exercise but exercising to improvement functional movements that can be used in any of life’s activities. And what’s really unique about Josh’s training is that he’s figured out a way to train anyone from anywhere in the world. In this episode, you’ll learn about how he does it and the tools he uses as an online fitness coach. Before Josh became a fitness coach, he worked with many startup companies and specialized in helping them squeeze extra productivity out of their operations. Josh is an absolutely fascinating guy and I’m lucky to have gotten a chance to interview him. Check out his website at www.primalshapefitness.com

Simon is a professional YouTuber. He runs 3 YouTube channels (TopTenzNet, TodayIFoundOut, Simon Whistler Vlogs) and has over half a million subscribers. He is a phenomenal entrepreneur who is obsessed with creating automated systems. In this episode, you’ll learn what Simon’s day-to-day is like, his tips for how to succeed as an entrepreneur and how you can get started as a professional youtube if you have no experience and no audience. 

Karen Johnston is currently traveling with Remote Year Ikigai. She manages a team of accountants for Fuller Landau LLP. For all those listeners out there who work in the finance or accounting industry, you should pay extra attention to this episode. Karen breaks down step by step how she convinced the partners at her firm to let her work remotely and gives some key advice for people who want to follow her career path.

In today’s episode, I’ll be interviewing Natalie Underwood, an entrepreneur who has a venue finding business. Think of her as the Indiana Jones for event venues. She travels the world finding interesting hotels for her clients to hold events and conferences. Natalie has a really interesting job and shares what she does, how she got started, and what makes her successful. If you are in the event planning business and are thinking: “I could never make money working remotely doing what I do!” then this episode is for you.     

Michelle works as a UI translator for Google. This means she gets website and mobile projects from Google and translates all the different buttons and copy into Irish. Her job is absolutely fascinating and she does an amazing job sharing how translators work, how to get started if you have no experience, and how to find clients and market yourself. 

Todd is a faculty member in an undergraduate nursing program. I have lots of friends in the medical industry who loves to travel but have no idea how to evolve their career into something that’s location independent. If you’re in the same boat, then this episode is for you. You’ll hear how Todd transitioned from being a travel nurse to becoming a faculty member in a nursing program where he has full control over where and when he works. He’ll also share his insight on how other medical jobs like doctors and radiologists are quickly evolving to become location-independent. 

Today we’ll be talking Jacqueline Jensen, a community evangelist at Piktochart. Her company makes it super easy for anyone to create fun infographics. She travels the world as a community evangelist and spreads the good word of Piktochart. In this interview, she’ll share what it takes to become a community evangelist and how someone can get started without any experience. She’ll also share her 8 rules for planning for serendipity. 

Today we’re going to chat with Janet Rouss, founder of getrealbranding.com. She is a brand strategist, graphic designer, and international speaker. One of the nuggets of wisdom you’ll get in this interview is how she got her clients comfortable with with her working remotely. There’s also lots of other good stuff in there like how she grew her career from a graphic designer to a brand strategist and how she manages a team remotely. So without further ado, here’s Janet.

I just had an awesome interview with one of my best friends Osborn Chen, founder of UXbeginner.com. Not only is he an awesome UX designer, he was one of the people who started down digital nomad journey the same time I did. In this podcast, you’ll hear about how he grew his career into a UX designer and then freed himself to become a location-independent freelancer and entrepreneur. He also prepared a free gift for all my listeners. Get the free gift by signing up for my newsletter. 

In this podcast, we’ll be talking to Tanya Wasylewski, a certified life coach at Meraki Coaching. In this episode, you’ll hear how Tanya went from working in corporate to becoming a successful life coach. You’ll also hear about Tanya’s tips on how to find balance while traveling, which is one of the biggest challenges when you’re traveling as a Digital Nomad.  Want to get the next episode automatically delivered to your phone? Subscribe to the Going Remote podcast series here

In this podcast, we’ll be talking to Greg Caplan, the CEO and founder of Remote Year, a program that brings together 75 Digital Nomads get them to travel and work together for a year. I’m currently in the 3rd class and we’re currently all in the beautiful city of Prague. In this episode, not only will you learn more about Remote Year, but also Greg’s tips on finding remote work and what qualities and patterns he sees in successful Digital Nomads. The program currently has over 100,000 applications so they are super selective of who they pick to join the program so you can bet he has some interesting nuggets of wisdom to share. He’ll also tell us about how he runs a remote team and the processes and tools he uses.