The Reality of Being a Digital Nomad

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4.4 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

With major companies extending remote work through next summer because of COVID-19 and countries like Barbados offering year-long visas to U.S. travelers looking to switch their office view to an ocean view, it's understandable to be thinking about picking everything up and relocating for a bit. While international options are limited, living as a digital nomad (spending a few weeks or months in one place before moving on to the next) is still enticing for many. Because it's not as easy as booking a plane ticket and throwing your stuff in storage, we asked two digital nomads—Cheraé Robinson of Tastemakers Africa and Annette Richmond of Fat Girls Traveling—to share their tips and tricks to making it work. (Admittedly, dating can be difficult when you change addresses every 30-or-so days.) Hopefully, it'll help you start to wrap your head around whether making the jump to a nomadic remote work life is right for you.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone, and welcome to Women Who Travel, a podcast from Connie Nass Traveler. I'm Meredith
0:09.4	Carrie, and with me, as always, is my co-host, Balearicoglu.
0:12.8	Hello. With many of us working from home these past few months turning our dining tables
0:17.6	into desks for an indeterminate amount of time, it's been easy to consider
0:21.5	a change of scenery. Some countries are actually making it easier to do just that with Barbados
0:26.5	and Bermuda, both introducing visas that let travelers live and work remotely there for a full
0:31.8	year. Now, we know it's not as easy as just packing up and hitting the road, so we've brought
0:36.6	two digital nomads on the podcast this week to tell us how they've been making it work. Usually in Ghana, but calling in from New York is Sherey Robinson, founder and CEO of Tastemakers Africa. Thank you so much for joining us, Shiree. Thank you. And from her new home in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico, Annette Richmond, founder of the Fat Girls Traveling
0:54.3	Instagram account. And now that, you know, this is your second time, a women who travel
0:58.8	regular. Right? Thank you so much for having me again. I'm excited. So to kick things off,
1:05.1	as Meredith mentioned, lots of people, especially now, are entertaining the idea of moving abroad or working remotely
1:13.6	and living the life of a digital nomad. When did both of you know it was the right time to move
1:21.1	back when you first started dipping your toes into traveling and working remotely?
1:26.7	So I sort of knew that first it would start with
1:30.9	like getting a job that would have me traveling all over the place. So prior to launching my own
1:37.3	company, I worked for the World Bank and actually lived in Mexico City for three years. And when I was
1:44.1	living in Mexico City, I was traveling 70% of the time.
1:48.0	So I was living on a research farm, maybe 40 minutes out of the city, and I was just everywhere.
1:54.0	And I tried to get like a quote unquote regular job when I moved back to the States and failed miserably.
2:03.0	Like I tell people all the time, I became very unemployable because I just could not just
2:07.7	be sitting at a desk all the time. Like, it just wasn't going to work. And shortly after having
2:14.4	that epiphany, I started tastemakers and wanted to be able to sort of recruit from all over the world.
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