TMBA522: The Digital Nomad Lie
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
We've seen a lot of conversations recently in the location independent lifestyle space about something we like to call "The Digital Nomad Lie".
The general concept is that being location independent is not everything that it's cracked up to be, and that the idea that you can have it all while sipping coconuts on the beach is simply a myth.
It's not surprising then that we've seen a rise in blogs and think pieces by digital nomads that are exhausted from travel and yearning to settle down.
But why are people feeling this way? At the heart of it, there may be many misconceptions and mistakes that we can make in the way that we think about travel.
We've invited our good friend and esteemed author Kyla Gardner on to the show this week to share some of her experiences living a location independent lifestyle, her biggest travel mistakes, and whether the promise of the digital nomad lifestyle is fact or fiction.
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| 0:00.0 | When I got into the lifestyle, it was freedom from a lot of things. |
| 0:04.9 | And then once you are free from those things, you're like, well, what's, what's all this freedom for? |
| 0:10.5 | Like, what am I actually moving towards instead of away from? |
| 0:17.6 | Hey, podcast, listener. |
| 0:19.1 | Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, right now in your earbuds, |
| 0:23.7 | you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe seeking to grow better, |
| 0:28.8 | more profitable, location independent businesses. |
| 0:31.3 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, |
| 0:37.0 | check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:46.5 | Oh, I think this one's going to be fun. |
| 0:49.1 | Today I have to apologize for the Jackhammer in the background, |
| 0:52.7 | but it is in the theme of today's episode. I got to do this podcast. What are these guys stop Jackhammer in the background, but it is in the theme of today's episode. |
| 0:55.4 | I got to do this podcast. Whether these guys stop Jackhammering or not, I am on the road |
| 1:00.3 | here in Barakai Island with the boss man. And we are doing some 2020 business planning. |
| 1:07.9 | It's really been amazing. And you're going to hear about some of that on the show in |
| 1:11.7 | upcoming weeks. But today's show is going to confront a somewhat controversial theme in the |
| 1:17.5 | location independent lifestyle space, one we've been chatting about in the production team for a while. |
| 1:23.0 | We've been calling it something like the digital nomad lie, a little bit hypey, but it's really about |
| 1:27.9 | misconceptions and also mistakes one can make. And certainly I've made in the way you think about |
| 1:33.6 | travel. And recently this debate was given a really interesting contribution over at a great |
| 1:40.0 | podcast episode by Justin and Joe of the Empire Flippers. In that interview, which we of course |
| 1:46.1 | linked to in the show notes of this episode, was with Mark Manson, the amazingly successful |
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