Chasing the Freedom: Recent Episodes
Lynn Hulver
This episode is #ReplayEpisode with my friend Fran who hosts the show "The Reckless Entrepreneur".
In this episode, we talk about:
- -Advice for people who really want to live a location independent lifestyle
- -Best/worst parts of being a digital nomad
- -Working towards a vision for your life while also enjoying where you are right now
- Why I started my podcast
- -How to find your purpose
- -What I would say to my 18-year-old-self
This is a juicy one! Let me know what you think!
Whether while backpacking Patagonia, living on a sailboat in Croatia, or writing blog posts from a co-working space in South Africa, Alex Martinez (or better known as "Typsy Soul") mixes work and adventure simultaneously. She founded her consulting business Typsy Soul to share her knowledge of social media, digital marketing and traveling all in one place. She inspires young professionals and creatives with the wanderlust bug who are seeking remote work, starting their own business, looking to optimize their socials, and to learning how to travel the world on a budget. She embraces the unknown of her journey and enjoys being her own boss; thus finding herself in twists and turns - but always growing. CONNECT WITH HER HERE! IG: @typsysoul
YOUTUBE: Alex Martinez - Typsy Soul WEBSITE: http://www.typsysoul.com/ PORTABLE WI-FI perfect for traveling: tep wireless HOW TO SAIL ON YACHTS BLOG POST: http://www.typsysoul.com/blog/2017/1/5/sailing-sets-you-free
Christa is an American digital nomad who has been living around the world (in 50+ countries!) for the last five years all while maintaining her career in marketing. She’s passionate about helping others achieve a similarly location-independent lifestyle and sharing her large collection travel stories on Instagram: @christabellatravels
Sol Spier is a location independent digital marketer from Costa Rica who calls the world her home. Shedoesn't live anywhere - all of her belongings fit into a backpack/duffel!
After graduating from college, she decided to take a 6 month sabbatical before returning home and joining the corporate world. However, she never took that flight home. She fell in love with the world and decided to build a location independent career that allows her to travel the world and work from anywhere.
You can find her in a different country each month, managing her digital marketing agency from a cute cafe with a coconut latte by her side(and sometimes a cat on her lap!)
Connect with her here!
Website: www.solspier.com
Instagram: @solspier
Email: sol@solspier.com
Ellie Shedden is originally from Sydney, Australia, but was relocated to Prague in her previous corporate position. Her background is in corporate finance, specifically in corporate banking, and then the financial management of the corporate services division of a multinational telecommunications company. She started her digital marketing company (THE-OOP.COM) after being bored at work and realizing that it was time for a change. Her company has been operating for 2 years now and specializes in organic digital marketing. They've also introduced a new service of Wordpress website hosting, and are offering a hosting plan code for Chasing the Freedom podcast listeners. This is an amazing service to have an optimized website for your customers. Head to the-oop.com and use the code FREEDOM20 for 20% off their new hosting plans! Connect with Ellie here! https://the-oop.com/contact/
Anna-Lena is a 28-year-old remote freelancer and brand & digital marketing expert. She is also the founder of Words of Motion, a company which helps adventurers, creatives, and visionaries create and share authentic stories. Listen in as she shares her insight for how she heard about the digital nomad lifestyle, how she made it a reality, and the mindset shifts that have shaped her journey.
RESOURCES:
- How to Actually Find & Land A Remote Job From Anywhere in the World FREE MASTERCLASS: https://bit.ly/2FciFX5
- The VA Starter KIT for those wanting to become a virtual assistant: https://digitalnomadkit.teachable.com/courses/va-kit?affcode=179737_mh9rjkvg
- The WordPress Beginners KIT: https://digitalnomadkit.teachable.com/courses/wordpress-kit?affcode=179737_mh9rjkvg
- Anna-Lena's free FB Group: "Outdoor Content Creators: Sports & Adventure Community"
- Contact her here!: https://wordsofmotion.com/contact/
Brooke Tomasetti is a 25-year-old Social Media Strategist at SmartBug Media, a 100% remote marketing agency. She's been full-time remote for 2.5 years, and has created her ideal lifestyle: Traveling for months at a time while also having a home base to return to in her favorite New England city, Providence, RI. Learn how she has designed her dream life through avid personal finance, “house hacking” her first multifamily investment property, and being intentional about her career path.
Connect with Brooke here!
Instagram: @bhtomasetti
Natalie Laine is a small-town US girl turned globetrotting digital nomad with a personal manifesto for a purpose-filled life of passion. She packed her life up into a few suitcases 3 years ago with a one-way ticket to South Korea in search of more adventure, new cultures and personal growth. She’s been living and traveling through Southeast Asia ever since while building her online business which is now focused on Public Relations for Podcasters. If she’s not loitering at a coffee shop behind her laptop or with a good book, you can find her doing yoga or meditation, attending a personal development workshop or talking to strangers on the street (that’s the most likely).
Connect with her more here!
Instagram: @virtually.natalie
Facebook: Natalie Laine
E:mail: hello@virtuallynatalie.com
Website: virtuallynatalie.com
90 DAY Virtual Assistant Program: www.90dayva.com/sales-page-25473485
Today's guest is Darlene Branco, a Customer Experience Onboarding Specialist for TeamSnap. Find out how the remote work lifestyle has provided her with more freedom, flexibility, and happiness, without sacrificing any of the benefits that come with a full-time job!
Find out more about Team Snap and their openings here: www.teamsnap.com
Message Darlene on FB: www.facebook.com/darlene.branco.1
Connect with her on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/darlenebranco/
Becoming a freelancer or online entrepreneur isn't the only way to location independence! Nicole is a 23-year-old digital nomad traveling the world as a Program Placement Consultant with Remote Year. Through her work, she helps full-time employees, freelancers and entrepreneurs keep their jobs while traveling the world full-time for a year. Nicole believes life is meant to be fully lived everyday, and that your time should not be wasted doing work you do not love or spent in a town that doesn't excite you.
Connect with her on IG: @nicolesifers
See what Remote Year is up to: @remoteyear
Want to go into 2019 knowing you have the freedom to work from anywhere in the world?
HERE'S HOW:
https://remotelikeme.teachable.com/p/free-masterclass-go-remote-now?affcode=104334_b0wtokjj
Meet Chloe Crain, a 23-year-old Millennial Money Coach who helps millennials go from broke college grad to financially free! She paid off over $36k in debt in 18 months and now helps her clients do the same by learning how to handle their money, pay off debt and build wealth.
Wanna connect with her more? Find her on Instagram @deeper.than.money
Here are 10 valuable things that I learned from my 23rd year of life (HONEST, RAW, REAL)
From following the pre-med track in college, to being a nanny, to following what makes her light up inside, at the ripe young age of 25 Nafsika says she's still a work in progress. Though she currently works remotely as a sales consultant for an online coaching program, her dreams and vision for her future extends far beyond that. Listen in as she talks about what it's actually like pursuing your passions as a millennial, being brave enough to follow the things that make you light up inside, and the truth about the emotional roller coaster that comes alongside entrepreneurship.
Want to talk with her more? Connect with Nafsika on IG @nafsikazacharakis_
Cate Cole is a 25-year-old Social Media Creative Coordinator out of the Philadelphia area who helps female bloggers, influencers, and entrepreneurs build and manage their social media accounts. Cate also runs The Curated Chic Facebook Group, a community of over 2500 female business women which caters to social media engagement and support. Listen to this episode to hear how she started from scratch and taught herself everything there was to know about Instagram and how to use it to her advantage. Connect with her here!! www.instagram.com/catecolechic
Www.instagram.com/thecuratedchic Website:www.catecolechic.com FB Group: https://m.facebook.com/groups/140342163405754
Jennifer Lachs is a former scientist turned world traveler, digital nomad and founder of Digital Nomad Girls, a community for location independent women around the world.
DNG is a worldwide community of over 50k women. They organize networking and masterminding retreats for women in amazing locations and also run the DNG Inner Circle, which is a virtual coworking community that travels with you.
Connect with Jenny here!
FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DigitalNomadGirls/
Website: https://digitalnomadgirls.com/
50 Digital Nomad Girl Jobs Blog Post:https://digitalnomadgirls.com/50-digital-nomad-girls-share-their-online-jobs-part-1
DNG Inner Circle Mastermind: https://digitalnomadgirls.com/circle
Linsey Marchant is a brand designer, Squarespace web designer, and also an aspiring workshop host. She focuses on helping small businesses worldwide, working with everyone from doula’s, to style coaches, to cake makers, and more. It is her passion to help entrepreneurs see their passions unfold with a beautiful brand, a converting website, and a game-plan that will set them up to make big moves in their chosen industry. She thrives off traveling around the world, following her dreams, AND baseball season. Linsey's partner plays baseball in all corners of the globe, and it turns out that the digital nomad life fits perfectly into the excitement of baseball life!
Connect with her more here!
Website: www.ljmediahouse.com
Instagram: www.Instagram.com/ljmediahouse
Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/ljmhllc
Kylie Francis is a social media influencer, marketing consultant, and digital course creator. She helps entrepreneurs get visible and make a massive impact online by helping them easily grow and build profitable social networks to create streams of passive income and influence. Through her own obsession of digital marketing and strategy, she has organically grown her social media following to 116,000 and counting, and now teaches others how to do the same through her trademarked keys to social media success, Vulnerability, Visibility, and Value™.
Stay connected with Kylie! Join the #VibeTribe - her top-rated social media marketing facebook group to ask all of your social media marketing questions, LIVE! https://www.facebook.com/groups/1435852003208517/
In this episode I give the insider scoop on what it's ACTUALLY like being location independent & a digital nomad. Have you wondered if this lifestyle seems too good to be true? Take a listen and find out.
Connect with Kelsey on social media: pinterest.com/wildsideco, linkedin.com/kelseyspecter, facebook.com/kelseykspecter Websites: wildsidedesign.co (main), hypester.org (financial trading signals & courses) Passport to Profit course signup link: https://wildsidedesign.co/passport-to-profit/
Meet Fran: a rebellious dreamer who built a digital marketing company from the ground up at age 22! Because her business gave her the freedom to work remotely, she booked a ticket straight to Bali, Indonesia in early 2018 and has been working and traveling since. Listen in to how this Ohio girl pushed past the fear, negativity & stayed true to her vision to create a lifestyle of choice.
Connect with her here! Website: www.francescamamlin.com IG: @francescamamlin FB Group: Inspired Entrepreneurs
I officially have hit my first 1,000 downloads! I could not be more excited and thankful for everyone who has supported me in this project so far. In honor of this milestone, I decided to make a mini-episode on what freedom means to me and how it's changed over the past few years. It's probably not what you think!
Elin is a 28-year-old Icelandic girl who left her 9-5 job in 2015 to sail around the North Atlantic. She taught herself everything there was to know about e-commerce, sales, and Amazon, and now makes a 5-figure monthly income sailing around the world and teaching others how to do the same! Learn more about her masterclass on sailopreneur.com IG journey: @elinrose89 FB: www.facebook.com/Sailopreneur Join her FB group for more tricks and tips on e-commerce: www.facebook.com/groups/sailopreneurmembers
Meet Krista Aoki - a brand & content strategist for female business owners. In 2017 Krista started a lifestyle and travel blog, which ended up gaining so much traction from affiliate marketing that she saved up enough to quit her job, move across the world, and build an online business helping creative female entrepreneurs build their online presence.
Connect with her on social! BLOG: www.reroutelifestyle.com INSTAGRAM: @reroutelifestyle FACEBOOK GROUP: www.facebook.com/groups/reroutelifestyle
Meesen Brown is the CEO and co-founder of Behere, a flexible living platform that helps women live and thrive in cities around the world. Her company can not only help you transition into a remote role but will handle all the details for settling into new places so you don't have to.
Check out all of Behere's resources at www.gobehere.com. Connect on Instagram @gobehere and @meesenb. Join their community on Facebook: Behere Community | Women Making Moves and check out our FB page Behere.
Know you want to work online and travel the world, stay home with your family, or have more choice and flexibility in your day but have no idea WHAT to do? I've been researching this lifestyle for years, have been living it for the past year, and can tell you there are SO MANY WAYS and opportunities for you to make an income online. With a little knowledge and research, you can find a way that is sustainable and also fitting for your personality and skillset.
Growing up in a single-mom household with 3 sisters, Shamangy was inspired to find solutions for the things in life that seemed challenging, like long-term happiness, a good income, personal freedom, etc. Fascinated by traveling and living an independent lifestyle, she poured herself into researching everything she could find online and ended up making 100K in 100 days through the dropshipping business model. Her story will make you question your mindset & beliefs about what is possible!
Learn how this 22-year-old went from being "voluntarily fired" at her 9-5 office job to running her own marketing agency within 1 year!
Want to learn more about starting your own online-service based business in social media, virtual assistant services, copywriting, or marketing management?
Connect with Hannah here! Website: www.hbandme.com Read her blog: www.hbandme.com/blog Instagram: www.instagram.com/hansandwichh
Today's woman in the spotlight is Taylor Lane - the lady behind Remote Like Me. She works with millennial women in helping them land remote jobs so they can start living more free and flexible lifestyles.
Wanna land your own remote job to build a career and location independent life you love? Check out Taylor's programs & courses to learn more! Website: www.remotelikeme.com FB Community/ Group: www.facebook.com/groups/365479800498644/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/remotelikeme
Hey everyone! I'm Lynn, host of Chasing the Freedom. I've been wanting to start this podcast for a year and am so excited to be bringing it to you now! Listen to this episode to learn more about who I am, my vision for this project, and how I know it can help you! Feel free to also follow my journey on IG - it's where I'm most active! @lynnhulver. Welcome to the show!