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From Desk to Destination - Work Anywhere, and Live the Traveler's Dream - Aaron Clements #6058 · Financial Survival Network

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  So what do you think the biggest advantage of being a digital nomad is,
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  well, even for people, I appreciate that, you know, not everybody
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  wants to be on the road three hundred days of the year, and not
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  everybody necessarily wants my specific lifestyle or I appreciate that it's just the matter you
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  happy about bread out to be able to do what you want, when you
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  Network now more than ever. Ed Welcome you are listening to and watching the
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  Financial Survival Network. I'm your host, Carrie Lutz. Well, I tried
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  this for a while when I was in Thailand for three weeks. It was
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  really great being a digital nomad, and I liked it so much I'm going
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  to be doing it again later in the year. Here's a guy with us
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  now, Aaron Clements. Aaron, you are a digital nomad three hundred days
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  a year. You're on the road. What is that like? It's incredible.
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  I love having the independence that the location, independence to be able to
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  be anywhere and still be able to be connected to my regular betting routines,
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  as well as just exploring the world around me and really just trying to take
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  it in all of the sights and the cultures and sounds and the tastes the
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  food from all over the world. I've discovered that Initially I didn't think I
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  would like because I fells to the American house versions of that type of food.
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  So yeah, it's getting bound to it. Okay, So what do
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  you think the biggest advantage of being a digital nomad is? Well, even
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  for people, you know, I appreciate that, you know, not everybody
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  wants to be on the road three hundred days of the year, and not
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  everybody necessarily wants my specific lifestyle or I appreciate that. It's just the matter
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  of having about freedom to be able to do what you want, when you
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  want, where you want, happing that location and that's whether you want to
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  you know, you know with your jawks, or or you know, out
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  in Thailand or we had a great time in Bali earlier this year. I
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  was in Antarctica and still able to work, and that was just in products.
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  Being able to take in all of those experiences and experience new cultures and
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  everything like that while still being productive is just incredible. So what do you
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  think the biggest disadvantages are? The biggest disadvantages are foresaw people. I'm talking
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  to a friend of mine as well who's also on the road, just not
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  as much as I am. Sometimes it can be a little little lonely,
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  you know, if you're I'd like to travel with travel friends, travel bodies,
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  adventure buddies, whatever you want to call it, as well as I
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  like to go places where I know people, and so that way, you
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  know, there is uh tomoraderie there. But you know, my credit saw
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  from the other day, he was talking about the fact that sometimes he's in
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  a hotel room by himself, you know, twenty nights a moth in various
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  arts or not necessarily a hotel, but he's in his accommodations by himself.
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  He's having a great time. But sometimes there's you know, moments of loneliness
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  and and uh you don't have that same companionship routine then at home or in
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  traditional office, you know, there's no now that wark your talk. I
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  have a deal because your colleagues if if depending on what you're doing for work,
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  maybe you know, your closest colleague maybe several hours away. Yeah,
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  it's uh, you know, off content creation can be a very solitary existence.
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  Even though we're talking on zoom right now. You know, it's it's
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  not like being there, is it not. It's not quite the same,
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  not quite the same. So yeah, So I'm I'm the type of person
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  I will make friends anywhere I you know, and so I'm really enjoyed kind
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  of going out to new places and meeting new people. But things like that,
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  and you know, that's not necessarily the way that everybody operates. So
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  with that, I could I could see that being a challenge for for some
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  folks. M all right. So so when you're doing it, you know,
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  with all these things considered, the benefits and the you know, the
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  costs, if you will, uh, is it all worth it? Oh?
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  Absolutely, It's definitely the way that I kind of looked at it is
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  is there at first engineered by life two three, as many experiences as possible.
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  Uh, And with that, it's it's kind of a sort of minimalism.
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  I don't collect stuff. I don't collect things. I love to collect
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  experiences. So that's where I focused my life spending is a collecting experiences and
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  creating new experience as mars, you know, I have you know, kind
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  of downside quite a bit uh in the stock arena. You know, my
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  girlfriend was doing van life for three years, so you know, traveled around
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  with her quite a bit uh in in that space. And when you're in
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  those more and final spaces, you have to be very strategic about what I
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  know as your keeping and what items you are having around and often trying to
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  figure out ways to reduce the amount of items that are just you know around
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  in general, just because you don't have the space to be able to do
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  that. All right. So, well, if somebody and it comes to
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  you and says, hey, I'm thinking about becoming a digital nomad, but
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  what are three pieces of advice that you give to them? Well, the
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  biggest, the biggest piece that I would I would buy them to do is
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  to find something that they are passionate about and figuring out a way to logetize.
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  You know. The whole adage is that uh, you know, if
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  you level up, you do you'd never orgadate in your life. So figuring
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  out how to monetize things that they love is very very important. You know
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  that I have friends that additional ailmads that they work remotely and you know,
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  they don't necessarily shooing what they do. It's it's it pays well and things
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  like that. If they don't enjoy what they do, work selling. So
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  I always encourage people to, uh finds find a way to do what you
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  enjoy. That way, it enhances your experience while you're out tapping all of
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  these wonderful experiences in the world. That's great, it's just also it's just
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  gonna be an extra checkbox to make that transition easier. Additionally, I would
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  recommend that, you know, people figure out what what it is that they
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  need as far as their creature comforts while they are traveling, because I have
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  so many people that will pack to full size suitcases just for a three day
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  weekend trip just in case. And so figuring out, you know, kind
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  of really sitting down and having that conversation with you yourself, like what do
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  I need? What what is really willing to be something that I need to
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  have me uh that uh, you know, I can't just buying when I
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  get there. So that's that's really you know, having you know, oppsits
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  and clothing and things like that that work well together. So you could use
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  utilize most commindations and still ebiline to utilizing the saying actual articles of clothing and
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  in the twin washes. And it's along these lines as well as being able
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  to don't, like I said, buying stuff would you get there, you
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  know, we need to do a lot of people want to bring you know,
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  I mean obviously don't we use a whole lot of conditioned personally, but
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  a lot of people want to break like their entire you know, uh full
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  with that and split as far as their twinletrees and stuff is concerned when it's
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  really not necessary. Things like you know, toothpaste and uh you know shangpoo
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  can just share. Those are pretty universal anywhere that you go, and so
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  wherever possible, especially if you're staying in hotels that I have a lot of
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  those things for you. Uh you know the apispepe, you know, specific
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  toothbrush that you liked, you obviously bring that. Uh, but if you're
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  staying in a hotel and you can get too faste from the front desk.
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  You can get the odor from the front desk. You could get uh you
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  know, the shaghoom, could just share is provided for you as well,
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  or you could spop over to the up shop and pick up those items when
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  you get very stick travel science items because a lots aren't what I are when
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  I'm traveling, especially internationally. I went to travel internationally in places where the
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  American donalolder brings a lot further, So with that, like an unary volley,
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  we got uh, you know, a bunch of just normal toiletry items.
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  Wouldn't we arrived you were staying in the guest house that didn't necessarily have
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  you know, all of the state or hotel all enemies. And we were
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  able to pick things up basically everything you need for the entire week for about
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  three or four American dollars. Right. Hey, So basically you got a
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  book now telling you. OK So, I have a book out. It's
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  called From Desk to Destination. It is available in hardback and pating copy,
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  uh and uh it is an international bestseller. It's it is how to step
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  by step guide on all of the things that you need to do, uh
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  in order to make that transition to become a digital on that including some websites
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  where you find the jobs, where there's resources, different tools, different apps,
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  different packs, all of those things that you can utilize to really make
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  the most of your transition into the digital know map lifestyle. There's also a
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  section in there about the mindset because a lot of times people don't realize,
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  you know, sell the the challenges that they might face internally when they're making
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  that transition. So this kind of gives you, this gives you some tools
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  to be able to overcome that and to be able to you know, make
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  that transition successfully. It also even gives you some specific tips on like I
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  was saying earlier, like where the American dollar goes spout further so some of
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  the digital nomd halls where you're going to have these communities where you can plow
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  in with people who are also digital no ads in areas that have rates,
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  visa programs and things along those lines for the digital no ned lifestyle. So
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  it's called for death Definition and it is available now. You know, Amazon,
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  you Aren't and Noble as well as go to airinbeclients dot com. You
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  can get a link to to pig it up there as well. Okay,
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  well, hey, really interesting and I will personally find the information useless,
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  so we'll have a link useful, I should say, but no, seriously,
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  I will find it useful because I've been doing more and more of the
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  digital nomad routine and absolutely I find it really satisfying and fun and liberating in
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  a lot of ways. You got a question for Aaron or myself, shoot
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  me an email kl at Carrie LUTs dot com. The link to aaronsight is
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  in the show that's this interview on Financial Survival Network dot com. When you're
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  there, please sign up for your free newsletter. Aaron really appreciate your stopping
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  buy and we will definitely talk to you again. Awesome. Thanks for having
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  me go to see it and we'll talk soon. Thanks for listening to Carrie
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  Lets's Financial Survival Network, your solution to today's trying times. For the latest,
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