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How to Become a Digital Nomad in 7 Steps · The Spirit Nomad: Spiritual Awakening + Life Purpose

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  I will share with you seven easy steps to become a digital Nomad,
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  so that you can leave the rat race for good.
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  Travel the world, working remotely doing what you love.
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  I have been a digital Nomad for over two years now, and it's the
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  best thing ever. It literally is, I could never
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  go back to working in a cubicle. Like I used to do right now.
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  I'm working as our freedom coach teaching people, how to leave
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  the rat race and make money doing what they love.
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  And I am also the founder of the blog, the spirit, no matter.
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  Make sure to watch until the very end because I will be
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  sharing a little gift for you. That you don't want to miss if
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  you want to become a digital Nomad and don't forget to
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  subscribe and join the spirit Nomad Community.
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  If you want more digital Nomad tips in the future, number one
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  is get inspired. You might have heard that, you
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  are a result of the people. You you have around you.
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  So it's so important to be Part of a community, otherwise it
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  will feel very lonely and it's very easy to get back into Old
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  Habits, like getting an office job.
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  And yeah, your parents might tell you, you need to get a real
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  job, but if you have a supporting community that, I
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  will be so so much easier. Trust me.
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  So what you can do is you can join a meetup groups.
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  You can join Facebook groups. For example, I have the Facebook
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  group digital Nomad women, where we are a big group of digital.
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  No man, women or women who wants to become digital Nomads and we
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  can all support each other. We can, we can answer each
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  other's questions and it's just a very very valuable especially
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  when you're starting out as a digital Nomad.
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  A book, I can highly recommend this vagabonding by Ralph pots.
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  It's a really shatters the myth that you have to be rolling in
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  money to be able to travel travel.
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  Long-term another Mastery. This of course, the 4-Hour Work
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  Week, by Tim Ferriss. Which is actually the book that
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  inspired me to become a digital Nomad.
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  You can also follow digital Nomads on Instagram, such as my,
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  my account, which is at the Spirit Nomad and also my
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  community that Community account which is digital Nomad women,
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  and hashtags such as hashtag digital Nomad.
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  Hashtag laptop, lifestyle and other digital Nomad hashtags.
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  Step number two, identify by what you are good at and your
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  passions. So you might feel like, oh, I
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  have no skills that I can use as a digital Nomad.
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  Well, that is completely wrong. Everyone has some kind of
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  passion and you can teach that passion to other people, right?
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  You can create an online course, you can create a book and ebook
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  or YouTube channel teaching it. You can become a freelancer and
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  help people coach people in your hobby, where that is, A video
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  game like Dota or it could be a gardening or are whatever that
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  might be you can teach it to someone another really great one
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  that we all a school we all have is language you probably know
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  some kind of language right? And you can teach this language
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  to other people. So one thing I do to get income
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  as teach Swedish and in I first I thought that nobody's going to
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  want to learn Swedish Shhhh. We can all speak English in
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  Sweden and it's just a small language but believe me there
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  has been a huge demand and it's been a very easy for me.
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  So if you can if so if so if I can take teach Swedish online
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  and the demand for that then you can definitely teach your
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  language. So there are platforms like the
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  verbling or italki. I shock is the one I use and a
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  few others where you can teach Language online.
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  You also want to identify Your hard and soft skills.
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  Soft skills is like more about personality like your strengths
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  and weaknesses. For example, if your social or
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  if you're a good listener and the hard skills is more like
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  what you learned in school, what do you have professional
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  experience? And look at all this, like what
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  you're passionate about your hard and soft skills and what
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  you've learned about your experience.
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  So you don't have to start with what you're most passionate
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  about. If you just quickly.
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  I want to get out of the Rat Race.
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  Just try to make do what you did when you had an office job.
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  Remotely, step three is build your new skills.
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  So now that you have identified what you want to do as a digital
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  Nomad is time to build those skills and there are many ways
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  you can build skills. One is to go to university, take
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  courses there but that is not necessary anymore.
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  I think that's a very very few professions where you need it.
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  Most of the degree nowadays. There are so many online
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  platforms out there. I can highly recommend you to me
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  and skill shares, I will link it below if you want to learn
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  programming, there's tons of platforms, like code academy
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  team. Treehouse etcetera.
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  Number four is to reduce your location ties and expenses.
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  So when you just starting out as a digital Nomad, you don't want
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  to have lots of Desserts, especially if it's like a
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  location. Dependent cost like a gym
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  membership. For example, if you will be
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  traveling all over the world, that is so useless to have.
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  So, for example, if you have a car, it might be a good idea to
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  sell it. You don't have to keep like,
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  buying that insurance and it's runs and so it doesn't decrease
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  in value. Yeah, gym, memberships being
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  even Netflix membership. If you really want to keep your
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  cost down. Yeah, just identify What
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  expenses you have? Take a look at previous month's
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  bank statement, see what you're spending your money on and try
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  to eliminate as much as possible.
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  Also, think about where you going to do with a place where
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  you're staying, are you going to rent out your place?
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  And I will be a long-term Rend. Are you just going to keep it?
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  Because you don't want people to come into your house.
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  You can sell your place. All these things are things.
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  You need to think about early on when you want to become a
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  digital nomad. Step 5, get paid.
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  So there are three paths. You can take freelancer online
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  business or a remote job. So most digital Nomads start out
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  as a freelancer so they will sign up for platforms like,
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  upwork freelancer. People per hour fiver and they
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  will sell their skill. When that is translation,
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  copywriting programming, social, Management.
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  You can also build your own website and have a diet.
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  I have it there and then you can drive ads as a traffic through
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  ads to your website and get people sign up for your services
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  that way. It's a very easy way to get
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  started as a digital Nomad. However, you are trading your
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  time for money, which is not ideal in the long run.
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  Ideally you want to be able to get that passive income so that
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  you can make money while you sleep.
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  So you have lots of time to do things, you love at least that's
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  my philosophy. The other option is to start an
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  online business. And this is again another way to
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  make your work a bit more passive because that means that
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  you can hire people to do things for you.
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  Maybe, for example, let's say, you hate graphic design or your
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  hip programming, or you hate sales, then you can Outsource
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  these things to other people, so you can just spend your time on
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  things that you really. By doing, and you can hire
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  people from really really cheaply on up work.
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  For example, you can get a virtual assistant for think,
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  three dollars, an hour. Can you imagine how much time
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  you would save by hiring a virtual assistant to do all
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  these mundane tasks for you? So starting a business a little
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  bit more risky Christ, little bit more Capital than a
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  freelancer but if you're willing to start the risk, you can go
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  ahead and start with a business straight away.
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  Instead of going the freelancer route, first, it's completely up
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  to you some common online. Businesses Subs, to start as a
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  digital Nomad is Drop Shipping. Which is that you don't you have
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  an online store but you don't have your own Warehouse with the
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  stuff. So you have a supplier and every
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  time someone orders something in your website, Is a player will
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  send the product to the customer themselves, so it's less risky
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  than having an online shop with your own Warehouse.
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  Another common digital Nomad business is being a social media
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  agency so you can have yourself or someone else help companies
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  to manage their social media accounts.
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  And the third option is just to to get a remote job.
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  So this is the one that is most similar to the 95.
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  It has the stability of 95 that you are.
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  You have a contract, and you get a fixed salary, you work nine to
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  five. So it's a very stable non risky
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  option. However, do keep in mind that
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  when you travel around the world, use will still have
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  meeting in their time zone of where you live.
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  So, It might mean that you have like meetings in the middle of
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  the night and things like that. So, that's, that's good to keep
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  in mind, is, of course, more time-consuming because you will
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  be working in 95 even though your you can travel and have
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  options for that. So it's less flexible, but it's
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  a safe option. So where can you find remote
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  jobs? Well, there are many job boards
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  online. You have a, we work remotely
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  Flex job. Oops.
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  Or you can just search on a big search engine like, indeed for
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  the profession and then plus remote or work from home and you
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  can see what pops up in your country.
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  There's also job spresso working know, math and remote.
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  Okay. Step number six, decide on a
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  location. So this will be very much an
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  individual taste but something, some criteria or something.
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  Most digital Nomads value are fast Internet safety.
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  Whether rightmost digit, no one wants to be in Thailand or Spain
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  or in Sun, Shines and low cost of living.
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  So where can we find all these? Well, Shang, mine has been said
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  to be the digital Nomad capital of the world.
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  It has a great digital Nomad community, and they have the
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  Nomad Summit. Um, friends there every year and
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  this is really cheap, you can get a massage for like $5 or
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  less and a great night markets. I can hide recommend Chiang, Mai
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  Thailand, another popular one is Sheng gu in Bali.
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  Also, low cost of living slightly more expensive, but a
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  great additional amount community.
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  And there you also have beaches, beautiful beaches.
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  I just love having a sip of a coconut while I watch the She's
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  such a nice way to take a break from work.
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  Step, seven is to keep educating yourself.
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  So learning never ends as a digital Nomad.
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  You can't just say, I'm fully learned, I'm a fully fledged
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  Nomad and I am a lonely, to learn again, like, some some
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  office jobs, right? It's an ever-changing landscape.
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  If you work in marketing, the marketing Trends will always
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  vary the Google we changed her algorithms.
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  So, So you always have to keep learning and growing.
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  I also recommend that you find your community.
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  So go on meetup.com, find added at the digital Nomads.
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  Maybe join digital Nomad events like The Nomad Cruise know the
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  know my train Nomad City in the North in Las Palmas I think yeah
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  or co-working co-living Retreats like work wonders or work action
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  which I can highly recommend. You want to travel with other
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  Nomads instead of traveling solo and now it's time for my gift to
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  sub-30, YouTube sub-30. Let me know in the comments if
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  you want to become a digital Nomad or if you're already are
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  digital Nomad and if you want to become a digital Nomad, what do
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  you want to do is teach, you know.
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  It, I would love to hear how a beautiful For beautiful day.
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  Bye.