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Just in the last few episodes, we've run from Idaho to West Virginia, New York to LA, Vietnam to New Zealand, and today we're going to talk to a creative practitioner.

From New Zealand to Canada to Poland, all over Europe, Sam as a digital nomad, I don't even know where to say you're from. My guess is Sam Wayne's, great to have you today.

Hey, thanks Mark, it's great to be here. This is really interesting for me because I'm typically on the back end behind the scenes of a podcast. That's what I do for my sort of day job, if you will, but it's great to be talking about the work as well, so thanks for having me.

And the global perspective on the work, I think you've got a unique viewpoint, the birds eye view of what global creative influences are. How does that affect your work when you see it from so many different geographic and cultural points of view?

That's a great question. I'm not sure I've even thought about that. I came into this particular job I've been doing for the last of the while producing a podcast, and actually one of the things I thought was going to be super hard to do was like, oh, I'm never going to be able to get guests to come on the show.

Well, it turns out that's not really the hard part. The hard part is just getting everything else to line up. I think some listeners will be familiar with Imposter Syndrome.

That's when you don't believe you're qualified for the job, but you're actually just fine.

I fight with myself constantly. I don't know what I'm doing, but also, sorry, you mentioned the global sort of perspective. So I've found myself working from all sorts of different time zones, and that's another challenge is sometimes you've got to meet with people from LA, and you do have to meet with them because you've got to get an idea of what I'll be like for the show.

It depends if it's a late night or early morning, but you just got to make it work.

And we definitely want to get into your creative process, but I think first to give listeners a sense of your creative journey, tell us about the travels and tell us about the last couple of years as this digital nomad.

Yeah, sure, sure. I will just very quickly plug that I made YouTube videos about this from earlier last year.

My girlfriend and I have been doing some blogs, and then mostly they're based around Bali and Indonesia. So that's kind of been on the YouTube channel for a while. It's well, no mad with us.

But before that, even I moved from New Zealand to Vietnam, and the original idea was to be a teacher in schools, and very shortly thereafter we found ourselves in this worldwide situation.

And I found myself out of a job at least temporarily, and so I moved online, and we relocated to Bali, and that was where we sort of were based.

And so I realized like my whole world was just blown open. Wow, you can make money online like this.

I was working at hardware stores, supermarkets, and gyms before. And like I have a degree in sport and recreation, but I wasn't really using it very much.

And I was just blown away that you could like travel and work and stuff, and I was like, I have to, I just have to do this.

And that became my goal from 2018. I knew like after traveling in the US for a while, I was like, this has to be it. So that's what I do.

And a lot of people, as you mentioned to me before, think wow, how glamorous to be this traveling, you know, get to go all these places and work from wherever you are.

It's not as easy as it looks, is it?

Well, I'll give you a little peek behind the scenes here. I'm actually in a bedroom right now at my girlfriend's grandmother's place.

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