A California Kid in the Canary Islands with Serenity and Shane Pearlman

03/25/21 • 34 min

Never Normal

In this episode we talk about:

The difference between being a "digital nomad" versus actually settling into a new home in a foreign land
What Serenity's life is like as a kid growing up in the Canary Islands
Why Serenity started blogging about her adventures around Gran Canaria
Why Shane (and Serenity's mom) want their kids to have the experience of growing up outside the United States

Links:

Serenity's Blog: Traveling with Serenity (https://travelingwithserenity.com/)

In this episode we talk about:

The difference between being a "digital nomad" versus actually settling into a new home in a foreign land
What Serenity's life is like as a kid growing up in the Canary Islands
Why Serenity started blogging about her adventures around Gran Canaria
Why Shane (and Serenity's mom) want their kids to have the experience of growing up outside the United States

Links:

Serenity's Blog: Traveling with Serenity (https://travelingwithserenity.com/)

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Self Care, Shadow Work, and Starting Up on the Side with Amanda Goetz

Amanda Goetz is the founder of House of Wise, a luxury CBD brand for women. She's also the part-time Chief Marketing Officer for Teal. And she has a popular account with a very engaged following on Twitter. On top of all that, Amanda is a single mom with three young kids.

In this episode we discuss:

How Amanda launched House of Wise while she was still VP of Marketing at The Knot Worldwide
Building something new versus managing what you've already built
"You have more options than you realize"
The importance of empathy when raising capital from investors for a start-up while still working a full-time job
The mission behind House of Wise and how it's creating new paths for women to build wealth
Overcoming stigmas around self-care, CBD, and affiliate marketing
Why it's important to build a business in a space that you care deeply about
Amanda's journey from not using cannabis to starting her own CBD brand
Why Amanda started a business at a time when most people would be looking for financial stability and job security
Amanda's "shadow work" that led her to freedom and rediscovering her true self
Making space in your life and to follow your intuition and explore new ideas
How "childhood trauma" shapes our adult decisions
How Amanda landed a "fractional executive" role at Teal
The benefits of building a personal brand
How Amanda changed her mind about who can succeed on Twitter

Links:

Next Episode

How to Earn Six Figures without a Job — Freelance WordPress Developer Tom Hirst

In this episode we discuss:

How Tom got started freelancing
Landing the first client
Do you need to be able to "sell yourself" to make it as a freelancer?
Getting out of the "feast/famine" cycle that traps many freelancers
What are the biggest mistakes that most people make when first starting out as freelancers?
What would Tom do if he was starting over again today?
Should you use marketplaces/platforms like UpWork to sell your services as a freelancer?
Is it important to choose a niche?
Where Tom gets virtually all of his new leads from
The advantages of "working in public"
Finding success on Twitter
Tom's viral Twitter thread on pricing freelance projects ( https://twitter.com/tom_hirst/status/1277933730078785537
How to create additional sources of income as a freelancer (besides client work)
Translating freelance expertise into creating and selling content online
Tom's new agency, Run the Show (https://twitter.com/rtsagency) that specializes in Headless Wordpress
What is "Headless Wordpress" and why would someone use it?