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In-depth conversations with today’s most interesting world travelers, location-independent entrepreneurs, and digital nomads.  Matt Bowles travels the world full time to find the most fascinating people on the planet, draw out stories of their most epic adventures, and unpack the skills, tactics, and strategies they use to build their remote businesses and design their lifestyles.  Ranked the #1 Digital Nomad Podcast by Web Work Travel and the Top 1% of all podcasts by Listen Notes, each episode pulls out actionable tips and advice you can implement in your own life each week.  You’ll meet diverse travelers from every continent who share their personal journey to location-independence as well as their reflections on identity, the power dynamics that shape our world, and how we can be more thoughtful, conscious travelers as we move through it. SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR FAVORITE PLATFORM:

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  2. 123: From Heroin Addict to World Traveler and 6-Figure Freelance Copywriter with Francis Nayan

Mar 2, 2021

Francis Nayan takes us in his journey growing up in a Filipino immigrant home in Memphis,
Tennessee. He reflects on his immigrant identity growing up in the American South, including
the racism he experienced, but also shares the things he loved about his diverse upbringing.
Francis then shares his experience going to college in Mississippi, getting into drugs, and falling
into a downward spiral that led him to heroin addiction. He explains how a heroin overdose
that almost killed him was actually the event that saved his life. Francis then takes us on his
journey of getting clean, healthy and designing his dream lifestyle around world travel. He
explains how he moved to Barcelona to teach English for a year, followed by teaching for a year
in Budapest, Hungary. Francis then takes us on his entrepreneurial to from an English teacher
to a location-independent 6-figure freelance copywriter who has now been to over 30
countries. Next he shares tactical advice on how businesses can significantly augment their
email marketing strategy. He goes deep on market research, email-list segmentation,
personalization, crafting emotionally-driven story-based copy, automating email campaigns,
and optimizing deliverability and open rates. Francis also shares the #1 leverage point a
business with an established email list can do right now to improve performance immediately.
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