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Side Hustle School

#2505 - Failure Friday: “Remote Year” Nomad Experiences Blogger Burnout

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from a digital nomad who sets out to travel for a year—but soon becomes overwhelmed at the idea of building a business on the road. Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week. Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com Email: [email protected] Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions Connect on Twitter: @chrisguillebeau Connect on Instagram: @193countries Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. Welcome back to Side Hustle School, your host here, Chris Gillibow,

0:16.2

episode 2005. And once again we have come to Friday. Friday, also known as Failure Friday, a collection of short stories about mistakes,

0:26.5

missteps, disasters, and of course, failure. This is a segment where we dissect something that goes wrong or a lesson learned

0:34.0

perhaps along the way and like I'm trying to point out more frequently now the whole

0:38.8

point of these exercises is to actually encourage you, not to discourage you.

0:44.0

I want people to become more comfortable with the idea that not everything you try to do is going to work,

0:49.0

and that is okay.

0:50.0

It might actually lead you to something that works much better.

0:53.4

And so, yeah, I mean, lots of different stories

0:56.1

that illustrate that point.

0:57.8

Today we're going to look at one involving remote year,

1:01.2

a remote year nomad experiences blogger

1:03.6

burnout. So just as some context, lots of digital nomads out there

1:08.3

or people who are choosing to work remotely from around the world. I don't

1:12.3

always love the term digital nomad myself,

1:14.6

but that's just me.

1:16.2

It's definitely true that there are people

1:17.3

interested in working remotely and traveling.

1:20.0

And so in the past few years,

1:21.7

there have been a number of companies and organizations that have sprung up to kind of facilitate the process of

1:26.8

Travel and relocating and going to different places for a month or two to work and then moving on to somewhere else.

1:32.8

If you don't want to think about all the logistics associated with that,

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