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What Kind of Freedom Are You Looking For?

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Why Do You Want to be an Anywhereist? For the first time in over a year, I’m drafting this issue of the newsletter from my local Starbucks. This particular SBUX has a lovely outdoor, covered patio - with ceiling fans to keep things cool on our hotter Central Florida days. I used to work here regularly when I needed a change of scene. I’m finding it hard to get anything done today, though. I’m much more distracted by the conversations around me, by people walking by. . . All the things I …

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Boost Your Business: 4 Freelance Professionals to Hire

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If you’re a solopreneur focused on growing your business, you may have realized just how challenging it can be to tackle your entire to-do list by yourself! And when you’re building a location-independent business inspired by Anywhereist, you also have to learn your way around new technology. After all, creating passive income actually takes a lot of work. But what if you could simply hire freelance professionals and save your energy? Here’s how working with expert freelancers can help you …

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Work From Home Isn’t the Right Model Any More

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Work From Home is Not the Right Model According to Harvard Business School professor and remote work expert Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, “work from home is not the right model, even if it was a pandemic-induced short-term requirement. The new employment normal needs to be work-from-anywhere.” It’s astonishing that we’ve gone from work-from-home as an unattainable goal for most workers, to work-from-anywhere being touted as the new normal. It's even more astonishing that we've done it …

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Episode 25: Interview with Nora Dunn, the Professional Hobo

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Nora Dunn sold everything she owned in Canada (including a busy financial planning practice) in 2006 to embrace her life-long dreams of long-term immersive world travel. She has been on the road ever since, living in and traveling through over 55 countries. Nora calls herself The Professional Hobo, and she's been a digital nomad since before we had that phrase to describe it. Today, she teaches people how to travel full-time in a financially sustainable way. You can find Nora on social …

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Episode 19: How to Jumpstart Your New Freelance Business

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Are you ready to jump from a job to starting a new freelance business? In this episode, Kitty and I talk about making the leap, and the steps you need to succeed as a freelancer. Since we're both writers, we focus on writing, but these strategies will work whether you're a writer, designer, programmer, or other type of freelancer. We discuss: The right timing for the jumpMaking it easy for prospective clients to find youConfidence (or overcoming imposter syndrome)PricingFinding clients …

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Episode 15: How to Reduce Stress and Manage Your Time Better as an Entrepreneur

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In this episode -- aimed squarely at entrepreneurs, freelancers, and bloggers -- Kitty and I attempt to answer questions like: What do you do when you’re an entrepreneur who has to handle many different tasks?How do you decide what to focus on, when you have so many things that you just can’t everything else?How do you manage mental, physical, and emotional resources?What happens to your brainpower, your energy, your focus, and balance during the day? And, most importantly, as a blogger, …

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