Creating Community Wherever You Go with Digital Nomad Alex Salinsky

02/12/21 • 64 min

Never Normal

In this episode we discuss:

What pushed each of us to become digital nomads
What's holding most people back from going nomadic?
Will there be a new wave of nomads post-COVID?
What people struggle with once they go nomadic
Alex's experience traveling abroad during the pandemic
How our travel styles change after years of being digital nomads
Traveling to countries where you don't know anyone and dealing with loneliness on the road
Alex's "Pop-Up Coliving" experiment in Medellin, Colombia
How to meet people and make lasting connections at conferences
The origins of Airbnb and how Alex got started building coliving communities
How to meet more people and make friends while coworking
Staying productive with the pomodoro technnique
Setting boundaries and meeting friends during the pandemic
Keep communities going when everyone is stuck at home

Links to People, Articles, and Books Mentioned in this Episode:

Alex on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexsalinsky/)
Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00H6JBFOS/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1)
Christine McDannell - Coliving Consultant (https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinemcdannell)
How to Meet People While You Travel and Avoid Becoming a Lonely Digital Nomad (https://nevilleamehra.com/digital-nomad-guide/how-to-avoid-becoming-a-lonely-digital-nomad/)

In this episode we discuss:

What pushed each of us to become digital nomads
What's holding most people back from going nomadic?
Will there be a new wave of nomads post-COVID?
What people struggle with once they go nomadic
Alex's experience traveling abroad during the pandemic
How our travel styles change after years of being digital nomads
Traveling to countries where you don't know anyone and dealing with loneliness on the road
Alex's "Pop-Up Coliving" experiment in Medellin, Colombia
How to meet people and make lasting connections at conferences
The origins of Airbnb and how Alex got started building coliving communities
How to meet more people and make friends while coworking
Staying productive with the pomodoro technnique
Setting boundaries and meeting friends during the pandemic
Keep communities going when everyone is stuck at home

Links to People, Articles, and Books Mentioned in this Episode:

Alex on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexsalinsky/)
Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00H6JBFOS/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1)
Christine McDannell - Coliving Consultant (https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinemcdannell)
How to Meet People While You Travel and Avoid Becoming a Lonely Digital Nomad (https://nevilleamehra.com/digital-nomad-guide/how-to-avoid-becoming-a-lonely-digital-nomad/)

Previous Episode

How to Have Your Best Year: Choosing Goals and Quality Questions with Justin Gary

In this episode we discuss:

Reviewing 2020 and setting goals for 2021
What do you do with goals you set for 2020 but couldn't accomplish?
How Justin conducts past year reviews (and why it takes him a lot less time than it used to)
"Aggressive but achievable" goals
What it means and what to do if you have a goal that just doesn't get done
Why you should beware of chasing "Laser pointer goals"
How to make difficult things like going to the gym more fun.
The lesson from reading Neil Strauss's interviews with hundreds of rock stars and other celebrities, and how it changes the goals you should set.
“Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.” — Zen Kōan
Unveiling your next goal or the next "layer of your karma"
Combatting "shiny object syndrome"
Justin's superpower "Rule of 3" for goal setting
My "master goal" that makes all of my other goals possible
How to build an audience.
My goals for 2021 - Creating value for others and creating consistently
How to use Leading indicators instead of Lagging indicators when setting goals
Replacing SMART goals with a PACT
Designing your ideal day
How to actually get the benefit from self improvement books and lectures
A Great Question Can Change Your Life - Get One in Your Inbox Every Day
Quality Questions (https://qualityquestions.co/)
Closing the year in gratitude

Links to People, Articles, and Books Mentioned in this Episode:

Tim Ferriss - Forget New Year's Resolutions and Conduct a 'Past Year Review' Instead (https://tim.blog/2018/12/28/past-year-review/)
Everyone Loves you When You're Dead (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007MAU4SO/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1)
Chris Bailey (https://alifeofproductivity.com/)
Billy Broas (https://www.billybroas.com/)
James Clear's 3-2-1 Newsletter (https://jamesclear.com/3-2-1)
SMART goals are not so smart: make a PACT instead by Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Ness Labs (https://nesslabs.com/smart-goals-pact)
Quality Questions (https://qualityquestions.co/)

Next Episode

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

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