Hey guys! Second livestream of the day. Oh my gosh! It's a record.
This could be one of three live streams, I'm not sure yet.
Welcome to my daily location independent digital nomad remote work
extravaganza livestream. I hope you guys were able to catch the impromptu
stream today on the ski lift where we talked with
Samantha, and Amber who are from the US and the UK respectively I believe. Wait,
Samantha and Emma not Amber. Who am I talking about?
And they,
I ran into them on the ski slope and I asked them to share their Digital Nomad stories.
So if you missed this morning's livestream, make sure to check that out.
But since I am trying to stream at the same time every day, I
couldn't let you down. So I'm back at the same night time. Hey, Andrew, how's it going?
Did you catch this morning stream?
it was a,
I think around
11 a.m. here. So would have been, I
don't know, sometime in the morning, on East Coast time or in this at night. Oh
you missed yesterday's stream. I was here.
But oh I'm sorry, you're sick sorry, did you hear that. Well, this is a quick stream because
I have a client relocating right now
to Mexico and have another one moving to Malta. So I'm in a work mode right now.
I'm gonna be working late in different time zones. But um
yeah, I just wanted to pop back in for another stream and I got some news today. So the other day I
told you guys that I had applied to speak at a conference called The Next Web and
I got their response today that they declined and said that they were full.
So that's kind of a bummer, but I wanted to share that
with you guys because it's um, it's important to know that you know
sometimes things don't work out the way you plan or the way that you would like them to go. And it's an important
Digital Nomad lesson as well because especially with traveling.
Murphy's Law big things never go as planned. And
just like this morning. Emma was saying how her original plan to go to Guatemala and Nicaragua
did not work out. She ended up in Bansko, Bulgaria, which she really loves and now she's buying a house with a farm
to live here with her partner and like have kids and
help the kids like grow up.
Growing their own fruits and vegetables and things like that. So
yeah, I mean I
applied to The Next Web because it seemed like the intersection of all or most of my
interests, so they have tracks that you could apply it to speak with or to speak at so tracks like the
future of work. Let me read them to you.
The Next Women - that is about the future of women in the workforce.
So it's Europe's leading tech festival. And
it's in May and I applied because a friend of mine,
well,
actually another expat
who is living in the Netherlands and saw my video on Amsterdam or one of my first videos on Amsterdam?
We became friends. She reached out to me invited me to some business networking events.
And she recommended that I apply because she's like, "Kristin this seems like right up your alley".
So I did but it didn't work out but it's okay because
llike there's plenty of conferences. I'll just apply again another year or I'll just go anyway and listen to other speakers.
Yeah, or I can use that the same topics that I pitched I can use them for a different
summit or a different conference.
So some of the tracks if anybody's going to be in the Netherlands in May.
Or nearby... they have the main stage with like lots of really famous people,
talking people like Tim Ferriss and Gary Vaynerchuk have been on that stage.
They have a track called Rebrand, about new marketing technologies.
One about startups called Growth Quarters.
One called Hard Fork, which is about cryptocurrency.
The future of work - my jam! It says, "The way we work is changing".
Company cultures and leadership teams are evolving to meet the needs of their digital native employees at the future of work.
We'll explore how the traditional office will transform from HR to the architecture of the building and everything in between."
I would argue there won't be many buildings many office buildings.
But well, I'll have to contribute my opinion, another time.
They also have stuff about like products and new technologies, machine learning.
Check out about E-commerce and Amazon
and The Next Women's summit. The future is female, especially in technology,
At this one-day summit, hosted by the next women, we're discussing the growing opportunities for women to work in a male-dominated industry.
Join workshops and keynotes and get inspired. So I pitched to speak at that track
because obviously that's something I'm really passionate about.
And yeah, so I still want to go but I actually have a wedding the same weekend.
So a wedding in England or in Scotland, so I don't know if I'll be able to
to go.
Obviously if I was speaking, I would go but it could complicate things if I just go for fun.
And I have to be at a wedding at the same time. So...
Hey Ahmed! Yeah, Murphy's Law everywhere. Techlords, what's going on guys?
So,
yeah, I just wanted to say especially since I've been
writing my book that it's okay if
things don't go as planned and things don't work out whether it's with a business idea that
you're really passionate about and it doesn't take off or
if it's
like with my book. I was trying to get it published through a well-known publisher and they just didn't get it.
So I could have kept trying with different publishers, but I was like
let me just write the book and publish it myself and you know,
not worry about the publisher like that's kind of putting the cart before the horse.
And yeah, I mean you look at people like Gary Vaynerchuk, who are
so influential and owns like a major media company and
are
speaking at these types of events. But Gary Vee, ten years ago wouldn't have been able to do a keynote there.
For example, and I think this conference has been going on for over ten years.
So yeah, it's just a reminder to whatever you're interested in and whatever you're passionate about doing or whatever you feel called to do.
Just do it anyway, and you don't need
anyone to validate it.
Besides the people that you are doing it for
so which in this case is you guys!
My audience, so I hope that you like what I'm doing and what I'm talking about.
But I do really enjoy speaking at conferences like the
the Nomad Summit and the Nomad Cruise.
And I feel like I'll definitely
pitch and try to speak at other
conferences in the future that are about topics like this - like the future of work and technology.
That are things that I think are going to really, really change the world. So I think it's awesome that there are
conferences like that. I had never heard of The Next Web before but you guys know how much I love Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
So the opportunity to speak at a tech conference in Amsterdam is like
it couldn't pass that up, but gave it my best shot and
it is what it is. So,
but that's that! Any questions today?
Second live stream of the day.
Bringing it.
Did you guys catch
Catch the... (S*%t!)
Patreon! Guys I forgot.
I'm going to try to fit that in tonight. I
keep forgetting about that and let me write it in my
planner.
Let me see if I can do that today.
So, new priority.
Ready to send Bitcoin my way! Yes!
Oh man! One day when I'm feeling up to it,
we'll have to talk about how all my clients were telling me to buy Bitcoin in 2011, and I didn't.
I'm not.
The trauma is still very real. I don't know if I'll ever be ready to talk about it.
But um, it's you know, the best time to
plant a tree was
10 years ago. the best time to buy Bitcoin was probably in 2010 or something and the second best time is
today. Now something that's how it goes.
The worst time to buy it is when it was
$30,000 or whatever 20,000. I don't know.
Oh man, well at least some of my clients became multimillionaires from Bitcoin. so good for them good for them. I mean,
if you are
preaching to other people to buy Bitcoin in
2011-2012 that's visionary - I had no idea what they were talking about. I tried to you understand it? But at the time like
Hindsight is 20/20 obviously, but I just didn't really get it. Ah
Tech Lords is a crypto consultant. Well, hopefully you have some Bitcoin from back then back in the day.
It's amazing how much has changed and it's just a few years.
But okay. Alright, I'm gonna I'm gonna go finish my work
and finish studying up my Patreon profile. I
don't know if like I'll have to link it.
I think I can link it to YouTube. So they asked for a lot of info though.
I'll just set up the basics like you know,
I'm kind of perfectionist. I go a little bit too all out.
Like my Next Web pitch. it took me like hours to write it.
It can be repurposed and used for something else now, so that's good.
But yeah, the Patreon
Profiles, there's a lot of.
Obviously, I want to deck it out with all the content and answer all the questions. And full and everything like that.
But of course, I opened the account months ago and I haven't
finished setting it up yet, because
paralysis, perfectionist, paralysis. So, okay. I'll go do that.
All right So see you guys tomorrow! And
I hope you enjoyed the snow livestream this morning.
This you know,
little failure story of the day, but I did hear another tip that I'd hear it. Yes in a podcast
I think when I was on the ski lift,
which was on the Mavericks show, by my friend Matt Bowles and he had Nick Martin on who's German and he's a TEDTalk
speaker.
And he has been travelling for six or seven years. I think he's been to like 70 countries.
And something that he said really resonated with me because I'm very much a believer that the
educational system and most developed countries needs to be
disrupted. overhauled, revamped. And Nick said something about that and he was saying how from a very very young age from like preschool
we're taught that
if we make a mistake, we get a bad grade or a bad mark.
Or if you get points deducted or whatever and if we don't make any
mistakes and don't cover color out the lines and all of those things then we get a star
we get an A or the teacher says good compliments and encouragement and whatever and so that leads us to
subconsciously think when we're older
that mistakes are bad. And that failure is bad and he was saying he thinks that failure and success
should be kind of on like the same page or at least
making mistakes should be on the same page as a learning experience
or
being successful at something. So I
just reel it in and let it roll and just keep going. So it's all good. All
right guys. Have a great night! And
hasta mañana!