Recording 100 podcasts in 100 days was more than just putting on a show for you. Hopefully you've been able to learn quite a bit from these episodes, but the part that excites me the most is due to my own challenge.
After years of talking about doing a podcast, I finally decided to actually talk on a podcast, and publish it.
Things have changed considerably since starting 3 months ago. Taking on this challenge was pretty difficult, but the reward you feel from actually accomplishing the goal. I didn't always feel like doing it, and there were a ton of complications.
It would have been easy to walk away when things went wrong, but I'm the type of person who says they're going to do something, and it just happens. But it's still a challenge.
Hear how I encourage myself to follow through with some discipline in order to complete tasks I wasn't even sure was possible.
Hear what's coming next and why it's important to have the discipline to complete you
Playa del Carmen Mexico is one of the better digital nomad hotspots, and is where I am now.
The wifi situation has not been ideal in my experience, but some people have found better connections.
Playa is about 15–20% more expensive than it was for me in Bangkok, but I've been eating out at fancier places, and doing new stuff since I only just arrived.
Listen to today's podcast to find out the rest of my thoughts on Playa and staying here long-term.
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Eric has a long-term background in the world of finance, including all the traditional career life plans of banking industry jobs, grad school, and the world of corporate accounting.
He escaped from what he calls "Grey cubicle land" 2 years ago after the "overnight success" he found from starting a blog in 2008 and building his side-hustle.
He left his high-paid finance job when he was able to replace his income through freelance writing and other work based off his blog platform.
Eric goes deep into loads of tips on travel and flight hacking using credit card points and travel rewards programs on today's podcast.
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Lynan wants everyone on the road and traveling instead of complaining about the life they hate.
A semi-nomadic nomad based in Austin, she works with many international clients and scaling her business.
Starting as a bit of a retreat junkie, she's been building her own epic hosted retreat experiences for a variety of events. She also helps her clients to build their own events and retreats.
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Explaining yesterday's Pessimism episode (podcast episode? My own episode?)
Yesterday a lot of my fears and insecurities were bubbling to the surface. I know we all do this to some degree or another, and I'm a believer in dealing with it, letting it out, and getting it handled.
Almost every time it happens, it is related to comparing myself to others or something else I think I should be doing.
Handling it will get you past it and back to normal, and I cover some of the ways I deal with these momentary lapses in today's podcast.
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Does your brain make itself crazy too? Despite all evidence of past and current successes, our brains can find the flaws, make us feel weak and worthless, and fail to help us get things done.
Today you can listen to a personal self-therapy session and hear how my brain is working as I record this episode, and how saying all this stuff out loud actually helps make it better to help me realize how silly our brains are.
Hear how negative self-talk and general madness of that cycle can be dealt with so life can go on without interruption.
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If you’re easily distracted from the things you were planning by the newer shinier thing that pops up, and the thing you were planning never ends up happening, you might need a way to stay accountable (like me).
It’s why I started this public 100 podcasts in 100 days project. I could have kept it to myself as a personal goal, but knowing myself, I would have faffed it off at a much earlier episode than this one at 94.
This one was a lot of work, and I would have easily quit or been distracted and felt the shame of quitting early had I kept my standard low on this, or kept it quiet. I announced it publically, and the quitshame would have been far worse if everyone else knew too.
Listen to today’s podcast to hear how I’ve been dealing with my own accountability, and how you can get help with accountability of your own.
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Stuff can happen in life, and usually does. I made a video the other day with the intention of going into a totally different topic, ended up with a monologue about how I've had some of that stuff happen in my life recently.
Everything in my life has been shaken up this first half of the year, and it really threw me for a bit.
This time of reflection and vulnerability has lead me down the rabbit hole of finding out what I really want.
Listen to how you too can get back to finding the real You, and where you want to be. Learn how my brain works, and yours might as well.
Don't stay small and safe, when you can be the real you.
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Making decisions and taking actions can be a good thing. A lot can be said for listening to all the things, reading all the things, and learning all the things…and even taking some initial actions.
But very little gets said about that after the "getting started" phase of building a business. Things will get difficult, but it's part of the journey. There are a lot of aspects to a business, and there are tons of things that can keep you busy, but are merely distractions.
Hear how it's showing up in my business life, and how I deal with it to get back on track with the important things (like making money!)
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Chad is a digital Nomad who currently manages the marketing department for the craft beer industry in Southeast Asia. Yep, he gets paid to travel and share craft beer with people in exotic countries.
There are digital nomad jobs in every conceivable niche!
Learn all about passions, networking, and how you can build any business venture if you're willing to do whatever it takes on today's podcast!
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Chelsea Baldwin has been a freelance copywriter since 2008 and fresh out of college. She's travelled the world through Southeast Asia, India, and South America while sustaining her lifestyle through copywriting for businesses.
Learn on today's podcast how she gets clients and jobs, all about the workshops she teaches, and simple exercises you can do today to improve the sales copy for your businesses or for your clients.
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Talking with my friend Libby last night, we got into a chat about people who put up a facade. Usually online in various places (like Tinder) that only shows the best parts of their life and to make them look good, but isn't authentic
Authenticity is a lot easier than pretending to be something you're not. It's best to just be yourself so that the you that people see is the real you. Be authentic from day one and don't give a crap what anyone thinks.
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Digital Nomads have bad days. Just like everyone else. Don't feel like doing it today, don't want to get out of bed, whatever the reason, it happens to all of us.
So what should you do when you're having a day that just sucks?
First answer is to just embrace it. Let it happen and accept it. Within a reasonable amount of time. Don't have too many.
Find out what else you can do to overcome these bad days, whether you're a nomad or a normal person on today's podcast.
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