80: How to Become a Digital Nomad w/ TJ Lee
The Lavendaire Lifestyle
Aileen Xu
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Aileen and TJ chat about what it’s like to sell everything and leave home to pursue your dreams, why being a digital nomad is actually hard and consistent work, and how to make the most of a lifestyle of freedom and adventure.
TIMESTAMPS:
- 1:15 – Knowing when to start: Why TJ quit her full-time job in tech
- 5:01 – The first steps to prepare for a digital nomad lifestyle
- 9:03 – Knowing when to stop: Why TJ is settling in Taiwan after two years of travel
- 10:05 – A not-so-glamorous week in the life of a travel vlogger
- 14:51 – The hardest part about being a location-independent freelancer
- 15:59 – Rebranding: Why CupofTJ is changing
- 17:00 – TJ’s creative video process + Tips for people who want to be better at YouTube
- 20:50 – “Asian Tourist Experiences Cat Park”: TJ’s proudest work
- 22:00 – TJ’s 3 top tips for aspiring travel vloggers
FIND TJ ONLINE:
MENTIONED:
- I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
- Remote Year
- Nomad List
- Cat Party at Parque Kennedy, Lima! Peru Travel Vlog
- How to Save For a Year of Travel & How Much
- MeFOTO tripod
QUOTES:
- If you don’t do what you want to do now, when are you gonna do it?
- It doesn’t feel like work…and that’s the joy of it.
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| 0:00.0 | Sure, this is Peloton. This is a 15 minute low impact ride. But so is this. |
| 0:07.2 | We're here together for a 10 minute empathy meditation. |
| 0:10.5 | And even this. We get hit in with a 20 minute hip-hop shadow boxes session. |
| 0:16.7 | Ah! |
| 0:17.7 | What more could you ask for? |
| 0:18.7 | Well, with thousands of classes on our bike treading app, there's more to Peloton that you might have thought. This is Peloton. |
| 0:25.5 | Internet Connection and Peloton all acts as membership required. C1 Peloton. |
| 0:29.2 | Go. UK. Welcome to the Lavender Lifestyle, the Podcast on Personal Growth and Lifestyle |
| 0:39.4 | My name's Eileen and I'm here to guide you to become a master artist of life. |
| 0:45.0 | Every Sunday you'll get new insight and inspiration on how to create your dream life. |
| 0:50.5 | After the episode, the conversation continues in our lavendare lifestyle Facebook group. |
| 0:55.0 | I can't wait to see you there. Life is an art. Make it your masterpiece. Hey everyone welcome back to the lavendare lifestyle it's Eileen |
| 1:05.0 | today's episode is perfect for those of you who are curious about living a digital |
| 1:09.2 | nomad lifestyle meaning your location independent traveling around the world and working from just |
| 1:15.1 | your laptop. |
| 1:16.3 | With us today is T.J. Lee, aka Cup of T.J. is a digital nomad and solo female traveler living out of her carry-on suitcase since 2016. |
| 1:26.7 | In the past two years, she's freelanced from 32 countries around the world and grown a travel |
| 1:31.8 | YouTube channel from 0 to 80,000 subscribers. |
| 1:34.8 | She's super cute and bubbly and this episode is especially fun and if you guys |
| 1:39.3 | are just curious about being a better youtuber or vlogger this episode will have a lot of great |
| 1:44.5 | tips for you. Hi TJ how are you? Hi Elaine I'm doing good how are you thank you |
| 1:50.6 | for having me I'm so excited yeah thank you for coming on the show. |
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