Hey everyone! good morning from the Ski Lift in Bansko. It's a beautiful day.
Literally just hanging out because it appears that we are stopped for a second.
Yeah, it's beautiful though
Check out the scene. Oh, you can see Bansko behind me.
Beautiful day.
Lots of snow and the trees.
And I was just,
I'm gonna head down and go to the co-working space. And I was by myself and just sitting up here thinking,
contemplating life, as you do when you're skiing. Do you guys ski or snowboard?
there's something like I grew up on the beach in Florida, but there's something that's just so special about being in mountains and
you know yesterday, I published the
Badass Digital Nomads
interview with Gavin Belle and last night. I was re watching it and just going through.
And highlighting some clips that I liked and I was just thinking of how
how cool his story is really. And like how useful it is for people?
So after we recorded this when I was in Argentina, and he was in Scotland and then
that was about a month ago or so. It was right around Christmas. Oh, wow. This is pretty.
Check that out. Let's see if we get any cool skiers coming down.
So.
Yeah, he was basically 18 years, old out of high school. And he just realized that he didn't..
There's not so many pro skiers here. He realized that he didn't want to have a regular nine-to-five.
So,
he started out..
Turn around. It's hard with these gloves on. So basically to sum it up, right he started out
just self-taught. He started doing like marketing for personal trainers
and just taught himself from high school into now being
really like a young entrepreneurial business leader.
Being on podcasts and going around public speaking and now he's only 20.
He's 24 now. So,
in a time that people like me spent going to college. Hold on one second. Let me just get off the field.
This is a multitasking, which I don't normally recommend.
But
yeah. After he he taught himself some business skills
and he just took it day by day, month by month, year by year. And
that's how you do it guys. You just build like with me I started
my real estate career when I was 22.
Yeah 22. And I didn't know anything about real estate. And I just started learning.
I didn't even speak that kind of Spanish at the time and after a few years
I was a real estate expert in Costa Rica. And I was fluent in Spanish and those skills have basically set the foundation for
everything that I've done since. So
just a reminder that you got to start somewhere and
you can start like Gavin who was just out of high school working in a call center. And now is
a
seasoned entrepreneur.
Or you could start like me. I went to college, I went to grad school. I
had like I got good grades, but I didn't have any practical business experience. And
there's something to be said for just getting out there.
So one of the things that Gavin said yesterday that I wanted to highlight for you guys is he was talking about.
Well, like the question that I get a lot is,
what to do if your friends and family don't understand your digital Nomad dreams?
And they are kind of trying to get you not to follow.
Your ideas to travel and to work remotely and
I have to say that I went through the same thing. Sorry mom and dad. And
they pretty much kept asking me like what am I coming home?
Well first they said it was dangerous and they were super worried and then they were like when are you coming home?
When are you coming home? And this went on for years. And
I think the thing that made me keep going is that I
felt like I was on to something and I felt like
even if people didn't understand. I was having fun, and I thought that I was on the right track.
And I'm glad I stuck with it because it paid off.
In business sense and my personal life and the adventures that I've gotten to have since then. And
Gavin said, you know just surround yourself with like-minded people. So if you're living somewhere,
maybe you're in a rural area or a small town or somewhere in middle America or
you're in a country where,
you're one of the few people
that or maybe you haven't met anyone else who even knows about
remote work or digital nomadism and you're just feeling very isolated
and alone.
Just know that,
there's other people out here doing it and you can start with just meeting people on the internet and
joining Facebook groups or forums of people like like-minded people, talking about doing stuff like this.
Or like Gavin, he was born in a super tiny town in the northern part of Scotland. And
there weren't really many entrepreneurs out there.
And there certainly weren't digital nomads or remote workers. But he moved to
Edinburgh and
to a bigger city and he started over and he met people
who were
on the same path that he wanted to be on.
And that helped him level up really quickly and learn a lot. And
also have a new circle of friends, not like you have to ditch your old friends, but you can add new friends
who are going to challenge you and push you and encourage you and not just tell you why it won't work. So
I was just thinking about how
how important that is and what good advice because
so many times we have an idea and we talk about it. And then people put it down and then we maybe
don't do it or we put it off. Or we forget about it altogether. And so don't do that.
Hey Alex, what's up?
How's it going I'm just hanging out here. I
got up here at 7:30 this morning. It's about 11:30 or so.
So I'm gonna ski down but I really don't want to because it's really pretty out here.
Look at the clouds and the mist, it's beautiful. It's really foggy at the top though.
This run that I'm on now is it's pretty icy.. There's some powder out there. But
what are you doing today Alex on this Thursday? See if I can
strap in. I don't know if I should try to livestream and snowboard at the same time.
So did you guys watch the
the interview yesterday with Gavin, you know, you could also I think it would be really good.
It's cool as a video because you get to see like b-roll of what he's actually done.
But it's also good as just audio like you don't have to watch it.
You can listen to it like a podcast or an audiobook. Oh my god. How cute are kids that ski?
Look at this little kid!
They're so cute.
So yeah, let me know what you guys think about that.
interview and his journey and like
what would you do if you were a teen and nobody understood that you didn't want to get a regular job?
Maybe that was you maybe that was your situation.
What would you do?
And also,
you have about 10 10 episodes. I think about us digital nomads filmed right now.
But is there any one that you guys want me to have on the show?
Because there any interesting people,
business people, entrepreneurs, digital nomads that you're interested in hearing about their story. I can reach out to them
I've got some really cool guests coming up though.
I'm super excited and I have already a pretty big list of other people to reach out to. But
let me know what kind of topics you guys want to know about, like mostly jobs or
travel or lifestyle. Let me know.
Okay, it's time to get going.
Good you a couple more runs and ski down to the co-working space. But thanks for tuning in today guys. See you tomorrow.
Tomorrow's Friday, we'll do Q&A Friday. So I will post when that's gonna be.
Also comment below what time of day?
Do you like to have Q&A's on Fridays in the mornings and afternoons at night?
Let me know in the comments and see you manana.
Oh,
wait, sorry, Alex buddy. My stream is ending. I like good people with good energy. I
can't see that.
Alex dropped me a comment and come out and hang out tomorrow on the Q&A Friday and we'll catch up.