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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. 124: Screw the Cubicle, Design an Inspired Life, and What to Do When You Find Gunmen in Your Bedroom with Lydia Lee

Mar 9, 2021

Lydia Lee takes us on her journey growing up in Malaysia, immigrating to Canada as a kid,
leaving home at age 17, and eventually starting to travel the world as an adult. She tells the
story of her trip to Southeast Asia with her girlfriends where she woke up one morning to find
gunmen in her bedroom, and how she confronted them. She then talks about how it was the
travel she did as part of her corporate job that inspired her to travel the world as a full time
nomad. She shares a major life-transitionary moment in Russia, when she had a total
breakdown and began reassessing her entire life, and that started her journey to location-
independent entrepreneurship. She explains how she started her blog “Screw the Cubicle” and
eventually scaled it into her coaching business that she runs today. She breaks down the
process she uses with her clients of finding their zone of genius, identifying their super power,
establishing purpose in their business, beta-testing their product or service and ensuring they
love what they are doing before they scale it. Lydia then explains how she designs her lifestyle,
her choice of travel cadence, and shares her tips on sustaining a life of long-term world travel.
She also shares her personal reflections and tips on dating and finding love as a nomad. FULL
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