That Remote Life | Interviews with Digital Nomads and Location Independent Entrepreneurs - TRL 153: Long Term Digital Nomadism, Traveling with Pets, Homebases, & Running Remote Takeaways with Chase Warrington

TRL 153: Long Term Digital Nomadism, Traveling with Pets, Homebases, & Running Remote Takeaways with Chase Warrington

06/28/22 • 60 min

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That Remote Life | Interviews with Digital Nomads and Location Independent Entrepreneurs

Today on the podcast, Mitko (@mitkoka) is joined by his good friend Chase Warrington (@dcwarrington), the Head of Remote at Doist and the host of the About Abroad podcast. This was a wide-ranging conversation during which they explored topics like traveling with a pet, why we’ve reached the age of long-term nomading, the appeal of vanlife, and what Chase and Mitko's plans for the rest of the year look like.

💬 Topics Discussed:

Keeping a diet as a digital nomad
Traveling full-time with pets
Airline regulations when traveling with pets
How infrastructure development made digital nomadism a viable long-term option
Remote work going mainstream
Spending time with family and friends as a digital nomad
Chase’s decision to give up his apartment in Valencia and be nomadic again
Traveling by camper van instead of flying
Getting down your ideal travel schedule
Chase’s impressions of Running Remote 2022
What surprised Chase about the digital nomad community at Running Remote?
The challenges companies and employees face when making the switch to remote work
Teaching companies to implement efficient remote work practices
The value of having a Head of Remote in a company
The future of company retreats and events
How do you become a Head of Remote?
Mitko’s planned summer trip around the U.S.
Mitko’s top places in Mexico

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💬 Topics Discussed:

Keeping a diet as a digital nomad
Traveling full-time with pets
Airline regulations when traveling with pets
How infrastructure development made digital nomadism a viable long-term option
Remote work going mainstream
Spending time with family and friends as a digital nomad
Chase’s decision to give up his apartment in Valencia and be nomadic again
Traveling by camper van instead of flying
Getting down your ideal travel schedule
Chase’s impressions of Running Remote 2022
What surprised Chase about the digital nomad community at Running Remote?
The challenges companies and employees face when making the switch to remote work
Teaching companies to implement efficient remote work practices
The value of having a Head of Remote in a company
The future of company retreats and events
How do you become a Head of Remote?
Mitko’s planned summer trip around the U.S.
Mitko’s top places in Mexico

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TRL 152: How to Build a Wildly Profitable Freelance Business with Stefan Palios

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💬 Topics Discussed:

Why Stefan bought a mansion in Canada and his plan to turn it into a coliving / coworking space
How Stefan’s studies in socioeconomics helped him as a freelancer
The importance of being a quality writer in the digital age
Are there any skills Stefan had to master during his studies that weren’t useful in the real world?
Stefan’s checklist for landing a freelance client
Usual mistakes freelancers make when starting out
Gaining Social Capital VS Spending Social Capital as a freelancer
Defining your freelancing skills and goals for clients
Building “market curiosity” with your services
Managing multiple services or businesses
Finding the common thread for your services
Knowing to recognize “market curiosity”
Distributing energy between different projects and clients
Knowing and defining your priorities as a freelancer
Tactics for getting client referrals
Making the decision to be a full-time freelancer and having an overlap period
Why you should always invest in yourself
What are the most important “laws” for freelancing success

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TRL 154: Creating the First Nomad Border Pass & the Future of the Digital Nomad Community with Lauren Razavi, Director of Plumia

Today on the podcast Mitko (@mitkoka) is joined by Lauren Razavi (@LaurenRazavi) the author of the new book Global Natives which is out now at Holloway Books. She is also the Director of Special Projects at SafetyWing where she heads the Plumia project which is on a mission to build the first country on the internet.

During this interview, Lauren and Mitko discuss how her Iranian background influenced her to become a digital nomad in 2013, what digital nomads as a community can do to tackle many of the issues plaguing local populations of cities that have become nomad hubs, and Mitko and Lauren discussed her work at Plumia and their goal to create the first Nomad Border Pass by 2025.

💬 Topics Discussed:

How Lauren’s immigrant background influenced her later decision to become a digital nomad
How local communities view digital nomads
How can digital nomads improve their relationships with local communities?
The relationship between governments and digital nomads
Why coworking spaces are the lynchpins of the digital nomad movement
Is digital nomadism really the ultimate tool for the democratization of opportunity?
The importance of second citizenship or residency to a foreign country as a digital nomad
Increasing global mobility of the nomad workforce
Citizenships and visas as a subscription service
How countries and individual cities are trying to attract digital nomads
How governments and government officials view digital nomads
Lauren’s book Global Natives
Lauren’s vision for the future of digital nomads
Speeding up the progress of government and the real estate sector
Mobilizing people to further grow and improve the global digital nomad movement

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