Traveling with Kristin

Today's guest on Badass Digital Nomads is Jari Roomer of The Personal Growth Lab. Jari is a Top Writer on Medium in Productivity, Entrepreneurship, Self Improvement, and Technology and he's here today to help you learn how to crush it in these areas of your career, business, and personal life! He will also share some of his favorite things about working remotely, work-from-home tips and travel hac...

What is it like to live in Argentina as a foreigner? Find out in this interview between two American Expats in Buenos Aires. We discuss what it's like to live and work abroad, what the cost of housing is like, if you need to learn Spanish, how to get permanent residency or a work permit, and much more. For the full Buenos Aires Travel & Cost-of-Living Guide, see this video: https://youtu.be/xEKTJt...

Get an inside look to the first coliving space in Argentina! Nomad Hub Co-Working and Co-Living in Buenos Aires. Find out cost-of-living info, Buenos Aires lifestyle, party scene, things to do, co-working community and more. Nomad Hub's Website: http://nomadh.co Coliving Buenos Aires Facebook Page . Nomad Hub Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thenomadhub/ About Kristin:  Kristin Wilson is an on...

Samantha Radocchia, or "Sam Rad" for short, is an entrepreneur, author, engineer, and early blockchain pioneer and advocate who combines the mindsets of an anthropologist and a technologist. She's led corporate trainings at Fortune 100 companies, governments, investment firms, and the United Nations, educating leaders on the technologies and cultural shifts that will shape their organizations—and...

Katie McKnoulty is an Australian nomadic writer, photographer and branding consultant, based between Paris, France and the world. Today, she talks to us from the sunflower fields of Tuscany, Italy. 🌻 Working remotely from her laptop over the past six years, she's travelled all over the world seeking to "find the light," immersing herself in 16 different cultures up-close and in-depth, spending a...

Christa Romano and Kristin Wilson share travel stories and what it takes to become a digital nomad! Christa has been a digital nomad or living abroad since 2013. We discuss: How she became a digital nomad How to find digital nomad jobs Our take on dating as a digital nomad How to balance work and staying productive while traveling Why she recommends co-living Some of the experiences she's had whil...

This episode's guest is author, speaker, career coach, and IT Product Manager, Kanika Tolver. If you're interested in quitting your job, changing careers, working from home, or becoming a digital nomad, this episode is for you! In this video, we talk about: • Why people are so unhappy and stressed in their 9-5 jobs and what they can do about it • Why you DON'T need any technical skills to work rem...

A new episode of Badass Digital Nomads with the founder of Nomad Summit, Travel Like a Boss & Invest Like a Boss Podcasts, and many other online businesses like courses on dropshipping, passive income, Amazon FBA, affiliate marketing, and how to make money blogging. Johnny has been featured in Forbes, Business Insider, Fast Company and Entrepreneur Magazine. He explains how he went from reading Th...

Christine McDannell is a location-independent tech entrepreneur who skipped college and entered the workforce right out of high school. After a career in real estate, she started her first of eight companies over the next 15 years. She has had multiple successful exits and is now part of the Techstars Accelerator in Amsterdam. About Christine: Christine is the founder of Kindred Quarters, CoLiving...

You want to travel more; you want to have more freedom. How? One of the things that becoming a remote worker allows you to do is escape the rat race. Start living below your means. STOP caring about "keeping up with the Joneses (or Kardashians, for that matter)." Remote work makes the social climb irrelevant and unmasks it for what it is - something Naval Ravikant calls a stupid game where you win...

Matt Bowles is a location-independent entrepreneur who started his own online business after stumbling across The Four Hour Work Week in a Barnes and Noble bookstore back in 2007 - the day he got laid off from his 9-5 job. He now helps people create passive income streams through location-independent real estate investment properties and runs a podcast interviewing other digital nomad entrepreneur...

It's no secret that automation is eliminating jobs. The question is, will it replace yours ?  In this solo episode, Kristin explains how to decrease your risk of being replaced by a robot. Instead of focusing on excelling in one area of expertise, you can become a "specialized generalist." Or, someone who uniquely combines multiple skills and talents.  While A.I. is expected to impact jobs in tech...

Equal pay is a hot topic right now, especially after the USWNT won the World Cup of Soccer and with democratic presidential candidates joining the conversation. Luckily, remote companies like Tortuga Backpacks are leading the way with innovative policies to help close the gender pay gap. A recent survey of 2,520 self declared digital nomads revealed a troubling reality: In spite of the other progr...

For the past 50 years, remote work has been treated as an "employee benefit" or reward that should be used sparingly. But to resist remote work is to resist change - a costly mistake that makes companies less competitive, innovative, and profitable. In this episode, Kristin explains how the 9-5 paradigm is outdated and why remote work is a return to basics rather than an innovation or trend. Remot...

Rolf Potts is an American author, essayist, screenwriter, and long-term traveler who is most known for his best-selling book, Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel. Tim Ferriss has cited Vagabonding as the reason he decided to travel the world for a year in 2004-2005. As a result, Tim went on to write The Four-Hour Work Week, which is how I found out about Rolf's book...

How much taxes should you pay as a US digital nomad? Kristin and Grace break down all the common tax misconceptions for you. Grace Taylor is a US tax expert specializing in tax issues for US expats and digital nomads. Following an 8 year career in the Big Four, focusing on US tax for global mobility programs, she started Gracefully Expat LLC to offer US tax consulting and compliance to individuals...

In this solo episode, Kristin clarifies the common myths, misconceptions, and possibilities around digital nomadism, location independence, and remote work, related to: * Required tech skills * Quitting your job * Traveling and cost of travel * Freelancing * Passive income * Job titles * Entrepreneurship * Digital nomad "trendiness" We also discuss: * The various categories and types of remote wor...

Not so long ago, Palle Bo would look at a world map in his kitchen and place pins on the countries he wanted to visit. But he didn't want to wait until he retired to start living his life, so he became a digital nomad at 51 years old. A few years later, he's officially been to over 73 countries and he's still 10 or 15 years away from the traditional retirement age. It just goes to show that it's n...

Vlad Glebov, the CEO of CoLife, and Kristin discuss what a world without borders would be like. Vlad is a serial entrepreneur and nomad on a mission. After starting several successful ventures he has now turned his focus towards his next startup called, CoLife co-living and a non-profit called Project Earthian. Vlad is passionate about helping people see the world through a new lens - Earth First....

Today's topic is life advice: I share the best 5 pieces of advice I've ever received and even more I found this week. But first, some news - thanks to my Patreon Patrons who support this content on helping people change their lives through remote work: • TWK is now on Roku and soon Amazon Fire TV • Travel vlogs on Estonia  and Kyoto on TWK • Destination Eat Drink   • The Maverick Show • I applied...

Location independent entrepreneur, Gavin Bell (aka "Scotland's Casey Neistat!"), tells exactly what steps he took to quit his job at a call center and become a digital nomad entrepreneur - working remotely from home and traveling the world as a public speaker and business consultant. His story is so inspiring! We also talk about why the 9-to-5 is complete bullshit. If you're ready to transition fr...

How two single, female digital nomads started working from home: Freya Casey is one of the happiest people in the world because she turned her greatest passion of singing into her profession: with absolutely NO prior business experience! She has been performing all around the world for many years, in opera, musical theatre, with orchestras, bands, combos, and as a solo artist. She sings in all gen...

Ant Knowles is only 22 years old and he's already been traveling around the world full-time filming for YouTube Channel, Passport Heavy. Ant is self-taught and is an inspiring example of how you can create the life you want, even coming from hardships and a dark past. Today, he lives between London and Chiang Mai, Thailand, but it wasn't always that way. Anthony's story is incredible - he has expe...

Andrew Tarvin is a badass digital nomad, corporate trainer, and public speaker whose TEDx Talks have been viewed over 3 Million times. After a traditional career in corporate America, he invented his own job - becoming the world's first "Humor Engineer". Sit down with Andrew and Kristin on this episode of Badass Digital Nomads as they discuss: How to have more fun at work How to stand out in the w...

In this episode, Kristin talks with Tom Kuegler (aka Finding Tom) on how he went from making $10 per hour as a freelancer to 25,000 Medium followers and five-figure blogging paychecks. We talk about: * Tom's first job interviews out of college * How he started freelance writing * How he build his online audience to hundreds of thousands of followers, likes and subscribers * How he became a digital...