 Hey everybody, J.R. Fisher here. I am back. I'm back in town. The first thing I do is apologize because I noticed when I got up this morning this live stream was scheduled for 7 a.m. And the reason it was scheduled for 7 versus 9 is that because I scheduled it on an airplane while it was flying and it Picked up the time of the airplane. I guess whatever time zone I was in. So I apologize for that if there was any confusion I'm really glad to be back. I'm glad to be with you guys. Miss talking to you. Miss sharing ideas. If you're new today, hey, do me a favor. Subscribe. Don't forget to ring the bell too. Turn on all notifications here notified each and every time I go live. I do these live streams usually six days a week From Wednesday to Saturday. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to do it. I was on the road so much. The timing just didn't work However, I'm back and I'll be here from now on Talk to you guys in the morning kind of share some ideas. Get my day going gets my day going too What I try to do is share. Thank you so much James. He also said he hit the like button guys hit that like button He said I'm loud and clear and I appreciate that. He's my good buddy who watches over me when I when I mess up or when things are Going well, he lets me know so Today we're going to talk about how you can actually Master the life of a digital nomad now. I am not a digital nomad. However I'm I guess I'm a semi digital nomad. I travel around the world a lot in 2019 before The sickness we're not allowed to say the word Hit I think I was in six countries that year and on several trips So, you know, I've done a lot of this and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna share with you the tips That really will help you out However, if you have questions about anything else that has to do with, you know, making money online growing your business online Any of that stuff e-commerce? I've done that stuff. So I'll be happy to help you out with that So what I'll do is I'll go through this list and as I go through this list Put in that chat section, you know, have you done some of this? Are you curious about some of this? You know, you're trying to learn this Being a digital nomad is kind of interesting. Let's see here. Well Okay, I'm just reading a couple of comments to make sure I don't get behind there But feel free to put those comments in there guys So what I'd like to do is go through this list and have you comment as I go through this list What is your opinion? You know, the things I'm talking about is it is an accurate to what you've noticed Is it helpful to you, you know, I got to tell you I started in 2009 And the whole concept has really changed a lot since I started there's more options, you know, there's better Wi-Fi There's accommodations that make it easier to work remote, you know, there's places that cater now to digital marketers You know, there's cafes in Mexico, you know, and I've worked in them, you know in Bangkok, Thailand airport lounges, you know, I've worked all across The world actually at this point So being able to work anywhere in the world really is an amazing gift. I really do appreciate it I have noticed changes over the years, you know flights in the US Woof, I gotta say it's gone downhill and I hate to pick on the US But you know, I've flown in Asian Airlines and I've flown in US Airlines and to give you an example I just went to Asheville, North Carolina And it was one way over, you know, not a big deal We flew from San Diego to Dallas and then from Dallas to Asheville and We did fly first-class and I think a regular flight ticket was like four hundred and so much dollars Around trip and we paid a thousand dollars. So we paid a lot more money. Now. What do you get with that? Well in the US you used to get You know drinks and a nice hot meal and hot towels and snacks and peanuts and all these things in a blank It and all the stuff and I'll tell you now. You don't get all that as a matter of fact on our flight from Dallas to Asheville we got no hot food They gave you you did get a turkey sandwich. They hand you a wrapped up turkey same ones. They sell in coach And you could get some cheese and fruit same ones. They sell in coach Which I think they sell them for like 15 20 bucks So but we we have paid $600 more We went to plug in our phone. There was no plugs You really didn't get much. You know, you couldn't get a blanket. You know, my wife gets a little bit chilly Couldn't get a blanket. So for extra six hundred bucks. You got a seat that was a little wider. That was about it So that was kind of disappointing because I know in coach when I flew to Bangkok. It was super nice I mean they gave you meals constantly. They had buffets set out at the little stations I mean, it was really really nice to service was incredible So I'm hoping the US will come around I hope and we're going to improve things and I'm not complaining because I feel lucky You know, I feel lucky to be able to afford to fly let alone fly first class But it's disappointing when you pay that extra. You don't get extra. But that's just the way it is So the thing I like about being able to work online is the flexibility work my own hours Like I told you guys, I was scheduling this stuff on the airplane as I was flying back That's pretty cool to be able to do that So but you know, I don't want you to think that being a digital marketer is just all fun and games. It's not it's still work I mean, it's still work. It's still a job. You still have to do things You have to find good Wi-Fi, you know, you got to find good subjects to talk about you got to have good products to sell So you got to balance your travel and your work just because you're traveling the work still needs to get done It's like I said, I was working on the airplane So most people who work remotely have had struggles finding their personal balance, you know, how much time you spend, you know Leisure time work time travel time you got to balance all that stuff out and understand if you work from home You don't have to factor in travel time. So you actually have more home You know, if you're if you're working from home or you're working at a job You don't have to factor in travel time. So being a digital nomad. That's something added that you have to do It lets you see a lot of places But that's something I have to do now the first thing I'm gonna tell you guys is make sure you have work before you become a digital Nomad a lot of people say well, you know what? I'm gonna quit my job And I'm gonna go on the road and I'm just gonna be a digital nomad. I'm like, whoa How are you gonna make money? Well, no, I hear I can write a blog. I hear I can sell products online Here's what I would suggest do it first, you know, learn how to do these things first Don't just quit your job and dive into being a digital nomad Now it's going to be tempting to just throw caution to the wind and say hey It's an exciting new experience. I just want to do it It's a much better plan to have everything set up before you go anywhere It really is matter of fact, you should start making money first, you know blogs if you write a blog You can literally take years before you can monetize it now You know e-commerce. Yeah, you could make money in the first few weeks if you know what you're doing So you've got to really know what you're doing So I'm gonna tell everybody out there unless you've got a stream of income from this or unless you got a Lot of savings you want to live off of don't say I'm gonna go become a digital nomad before you have all this set up Not not a wise thing to do Let's see James says you Have recently read Andrew Henderson's Nomad capitalist Go where they treat you best. I have not read it. I've not read it I have got a stack of books James that's so tall to read and I want to read of all It's just a matter of time and it's like when I get on the plane when I could read I'm gonna end up doing some work or something, but no I have not I will put that on my list though a nomad capitalist I definitely will put that on my list. Thank you so much for that Number two number two thing I would tell you because I think I got nine things in this Set a clear divide between work and travel. Okay balance is one of the hardest things about working Remotely abroad Okay, in a new country, okay in a new country It's easy to spend too much time traveling and having fun and not enough time working Okay, new foods new attractions new people all that can tempt you into spending a bit too much time off the clock Okay, and you still got to work guys You still got to do it to make sure you get your work done set clear boundaries for when you work and when you're exploring and looking Around the best digital nomads have strict calendars to ensure that they get everything done Maybe you dedicate, you know an entire days to one or the other Okay, or maybe you divide up each day, but whatever it is you need to have a schedule You got to get things done whatever strategy you choose stick with it. Don't alter it Okay, don't alter it because somebody else says hey, we're gonna go do this today You want to go if you've got work scheduled do your work. I mean you really have to this will ensure that you get Work done and also ensure that you have the experiences you want I mean because that's the whole idea of being a digital nomad and traveling around and like I said, I'm a semi digital nomad I do a lot of trips, but I live at home for the most part Okay, next thing number three. This is kind of a weird one But slow down your travel slow down your travel the best way to balance your work and travel is to get to know Your destinations in incredible detail, okay If you're constantly traveling you're traveling every three or four days. You're going somewhere you you've eaten up so much time with that travel time That it's gonna take away from seeing where you're going to it's gonna take away from your work. It's the travel time itself You don't get much out of that. You're sitting on an airplane. Okay, so don't head to a new city every other day Don't move to cities every other week. Don't do it consider spending weeks if not months in one place And you're saying well jr. I thought it was like every week you go somewhere. I wouldn't do it I wouldn't do it. I think you eat up too much time that way You'll have plenty of time to build productive habits routines while getting in-depth experience of the destination you're in And that's what I like to do. I like to know more about it. I like to see more of these destinations So you want to do that? You'll be able to play tourist you'll be able to network you'll be able to attend events You'll get a feel for life more than the standard tourist does. I can't recommend this enough really quality over quantity That's what I would suggest to you. How would you start? digital drops Hipping in 2021 digital drops I'm not quite sure what you mean there James if you would expand on that a little bit it reads How would you start digital drops? Hipping in? 2021 not quite sure what that means a little bit more in there, and then I'll figure down a little bit slowly I'm probably still foggy from all my travel. I'm still three hours off because it's three hours later now on the east coast Which is where I was for the past five days Number four make sure you got great Wi-Fi. Make sure you got great Wi-Fi. Okay when you work online Fast Wi-Fi is really vital Before you choose your destinations look at the Wi-Fi situation. Is it easy to Excess it. Okay. Is it fast? Can you get a SIM card for reliable data? Every country varies. I know when I went to Bangkok I looked at my phone plan and Although they would let me do it in Bangkok and use my phone. It was exorbitant and cost So what I did when I went to Bangkok is I took out the SIM card of my iPhone And I went and bought a SIM card with Wi-Fi and I paid for the Wi-Fi and I use that which changed my phone number, too So anybody that was trying to call me You know they I wasn't gonna get the call plus if I tried to call anybody else They saw a different phone number. So you got a you got a factor that in or maybe have two phones, you know You can also do that You've got to find out more about the Wi-Fi speeds in different countries. Okay, you can use nomadist Let me put this in here nomadist To figure this stuff out nomadist Dot-com gosh that reminds me of a commercial dinner If this this will help you a lot guys to use this one right here For example Shopify Aliexpress Alibaba Oh, you can you talk about drop shipping stuff. That's not hard to do at all. You can do that many country What I do suggest is that you have a US address if you're from the US or whatever country You want to go run things from and there's a lot if you just type in get US address Mail drop address phone address you can get that If you're doing drop shipping from another country It doesn't have to go through you because it's let's say you're selling to somebody in Arkansas and you're in Bangkok You're gonna put your order in with the drop shipper. They're just gonna ship it to that person in Arkansas So you don't so much have to worry about that However, I would have an address in the US and you can forward anything that you need sent to you That's pretty important to have that done So I would do that, but it's not hard to do that's not I know people who do that all the time now So every country varies and even regions within countries vary So you got to make sure that you do some type of research before you go This is really important for anyone working with video. I do video Uploading video is a bear if you have bad Wi-Fi. Okay, or if you're doing photography or you got large files and you that stuff It can be really difficult. So you want to find out about those Wi-Fi speeds. It's really important When you rent Airbnb or a long-term stay ask the owners to send you a screenshot It's in the screenshot of the Wi-Fi speed You know, I've spent a lot of time is trying to find good Wi-Fi in countries And I can tell you nothing kills your productivity Then spending the day trying to find Wi-Fi when you couldn't have it at the place when you couldn't have it It's your own place to start with so make sure you do that Next thing and this is something a lot of people don't do let me get a sip real quick Number five get a VPN. Okay, VPNs are super important. These are called virtual private networks They're super inexpensive, you know, like maybe, you know, $50 or $100 a year As a digital nomad, you're going to be connecting to Wi-Fi networks in all kinds of places banking Personal messages email. They can all be accessed if you aren't careful Be sure your information is protected using a reliable VPN Which what it does is that mask your online signature so data can't be stolen Just like you would secure your valuables in a hostel locker or a hotel safe or something like that You also need to secure your data one of online VPN like I like Nord VPN and I'll get a Lincoln stick it in there I can help you do that But a lot of them are like, you know, three or four dollars a month I mean, they just don't cost much money So I would highly recommend you doing that and besides that if you if you have a VPN you can log in in any country You want okay, so I could be in San Diego and I could say I was in England and I'm logging in there Or I could say I was in Asia or I could say I was in Canada and here's the funny thing When you do that, let's say you have a Netflix account when you change your VPN location It changes what shows you can watch so even if you're in the US if you have a VPN and you say gee I want to watch some of the stuff. They're watching over in Europe All you got to do is put in a Europe VPN location. You have like tons of locations. Just click on them And you're gonna see new things on Netflix that you wouldn't have seen in the US and vice versa. They see things You don't see so that's kind of cool Next up, this is number six get this get this get this make sure you have travel insurance So important. I was on a trip with my wife in 2000 gosh 19 19 and we were in Mexico and The first time we got there I mean within hours and it was like three or four o'clock in the morning She started having a really serious back pains and stomach pains and as it turned out she had a kidney stone We ended up in a Mexican hospital for the next couple days and the bill was $3,500 to spend the night there. I had travel insurance which paid for it $3,500 and I think that travel insurance cost me like 150 bucks, you know, maybe 200 bucks and it paid $3,500 now The thing is with travel insurance or excuse me thing is with your own personal insurance like we have health insurance But it's useless in Mexico. They aren't taking it in Mexico. They look at it and go So what that's for the US so when you're in one of these other countries if something happens to you guys And you don't have travel insurance You're gonna be in a bad bad situation plus it covers everything from like lost luggage delayed flights theft You know it covers so many other things outside of district health, but your health is pretty important, okay? So I would strongly recommend you doing that There's there's a couple insurance companies. I would recommend Insurance companies world nomads and safety wing Okay, both of those are really pretty good Your airline may also offer it to you whoever you're booking it through may offer it to you But man, I'm telling you get travel insurance is so very important which brings us To number seven and number seven mess me up today. It messed me up And it messed me up because I was flying Scheduling a video in a different time zone so it grabbed that time zone wherever I was flying And I don't know I was somewhere between oh gosh Chicago and San Diego when I was doing this and You know, I fell in a time zone. It was two hours different. Okay, which probably was what would that be? Would that be mountain time zone? No, that would be central time zone I think is is what that is anyhow It was two hours different. So when I scheduled my videos at 9 a.m. The way I normally do it switched it to 7 a.m Okay, so You want to do that if you have a job that requires meetings with other people also make sure you keep the time distances in mind You don't want to be waking up at 4 a.m. For a conference call when you didn't have to wake up till 9 a.m. Okay? Or you don't want to have emails flooding right in when you're getting ready to log off at the end of the day You got to think about, you know, the people you're working with and what's going on That's not to say you can't travel, you know To all these different weird locations with different time zones, which you'll need to communicate The time difference to your team or your clients, okay? Let them know where you are and what they can when they can expect a reply That way you won't feel pressured to wake up at random hours for emails or calls unless you want to do that And some people do that There's a site you can use called time zone converter you can use for that. So just type in time I'll put this in here Use time zone converter to calculate your time All right, let's see here siren what's going on good to see you here James Breen friend visiting from England had a stroke and now owes st. Joseph hospital Savannah over a hundred and sixty eight thousand dollars. Yes. Yes, this can happen now some of them are capped So you do want to be careful. They only pay up to a certain amount I think ours only paid up to ten grand And because I bought it through the airline if you go to a couple of these sites I showed you you can get a whole lot higher coverage Siren says hi, sir. Hello. Tell me where you're from. It's interesting to see where people are from Tell me where you're from what time it is with the weather's like there share some of that information if you don't mind All right, we're up to number eight Number eight is huge huge Bring a water bottle tap water and most of the world isn't safe to drink and I got to tell you in San Diego you can't drink the water the water is one of the worst waters in the country And we buy it from another state and it's shipped in here in our water bills I mean the four or five hundred dollars a month for average water bill at a house here It's common So you want to bring bottled water if you can now when you're going through TSA checkpoints You can't bring a bottle of water However You could buy it on the other side and you need to hydrate you really do a bottle water is really an affordable alternative It's incredibly wasteful and I know that but destinations around the world are struggling with populations and single-use plastic Which much the world ends up in the ocean so if you can get a You know Reusable bottle like I have like this like steel one reusable bottle and fill it up with good water somewhere You can do that You can also be a responsible traveler and get yourself a bottle with a built-in filter Life straw makes one that removes 99.9% of the bacteria and parasites. So you want to check that out That's life straw and we put that in here To me when I try that one There's another one Called staring pin which uses UV light to get the same result and we put this in here staring pin And that will Here we go that will Purify your water for you so you can use that That's important either way bring a you reusable bottle if you can so you can safely drink water and avoid Single-plastic, okay? If you can get by with not using single-plastic, please do it If you have to of course you have to and I get that Let me get another sip before we get to number nine. Can you believe we're at number nine? Am I going too fast? Tell me if I'm going too fast. I am from India. Oh, man. Good to see you from India Heist you are really brilliant. So I'm not really a believe me. You haven't listened long enough I mess up all the time, but I know I have a huge audience in India. That is actually my second country It's the US and then India and then I think Canada falls below that but I'm my brothers in India. I'm telling you I love you guys I have worked and I've had the pleasure to work with a lot of people in India. You guys are amazing I really do appreciate gosh your intelligence your work ethic Half of the stuff I get done technology wise is actually done in India. You guys are amazing. You know the sip Now here's a crucial one. Here's a real crucial one. This is number nine. Okay, we're nearing the end today 922 we're getting close to the end when I first started I didn't know about this I had problems with this but number nine is don't forget to log off Don't forget to log off when you're your own boss It's really easy to constantly be working checking your email here and there planning projects working from your bed And when you should be sleeping or out sightseeing you got to enjoy I mean the whole idea and being a digital nomad or being able to travel some like what I do Is that you get to see different places? You know you you are Going to be the same person you are today But for the books you read the people you meet the places you go those three things The books you read the people you meet in the places you go Those things change you as a person they really do and I think they change you for the better They give you a better understanding of the world. They help you compare things I mean I can compare a first-class ticket in the US on an airplane to a coach ticket on a and a Which is the Asian airline and I'll take a and a every day every day for a coach ticket as opposed to a first-class ticket in the US And it's you know that that opens my eyes to stuff Okay, you you think where wherever you are as the bastard, you know, or maybe you think another place is great You know some of you may not have been to Hollywood you think Hollywood, California. Oh my gosh glitz and glamour. It's not it's terrible It's homeless. It's dirty. It's crime-ridden. It's not what you think it is a lot of times What's depicted on TV and in the movies is not what's real So while starting a new business entails a lot of work always make sure you set boundaries You can't work 24 hours a day or you're not going to enjoy it emails can wait Emails are not something that you are even required to reply to because somebody emails you you're not required to respond to them Okay, they don't know your time. Okay, now you can choose if you want like my business Obviously, that's about a food product But I get a lot of people who email me and say hey you need to be my mentor Hey, can you take a look at my website or hey, would you watch my videos of my channel or hey? Would you subscribe to this and I don't and I don't because I can't do that I mean, you know, I get like thousands of those and if I were to do that all the time I'd never get my own work done So I just don't respond to I can't do it. So don't fall in the trap of overworking. Okay, the internet never stops You're never going to outwork the internet. It's not going to happen Um Don't let it control you. Okay, it's a tool and you use it as such. It's just a tool It's very very easy for those few hours of work to turn into an entire day in a cafe And I've done it myself to where you know, I said, well, I'm going to work on this project for a few minutes here I'm just going to stop and do this And then all of a sudden, you know, four or five hours have passed six hours have passed seven hours have passed So I do like to say, hey, I'm going to work here till three o'clock and then I'm going to go to the gym I'm going to work here till one o'clock and then I'm going to go to lunch It just set those boundaries and try to get as much as you can done during that period of time But don't worry about it if you don't not a big deal. You don't have to worry about it Um, so that's what I got for you today. That's where we start now Since since I did travel I thought I would do something about traveling for you guys and something else I did which I didn't mention it's on this trip, uh, I filmed it, uh, and um I actually did a review of this hotel. I stayed at The town I was in Uh, and James you may know it because uh, well, you're in South Carolina though. So you you'd make no no no no You're in South Carolina. Yeah, I think I'm trying to remember. No, you're in savannah, georgia. What am I saying? What am I saying? Wherever you go, you you gotta bring yourself If I ain't happy in savannah think I'll be happy joyous and free and back to my That's true really you you make your own happiness wherever you are. It's not it's not the place you're at I mean sure there's beautiful places to visit But the place I went to was Highlands, North Carolina I've never seen a town like it before it was very small there. You got your one main street I stayed at 200 main in Highlands, North Carolina You can look that up if you want it's part of a group of hotels And I'm doing a review of that hotel And you can kind of see what the rooms look like with the property look like with the town look like The week I was there they had a car show Day before yesterday really cool cars And I'll show you a video of that guys. There were Ferraris and Lamborghinis and all kinds of old cars It was a Stanley steamer car actually a steam engine car was there So I saw some really neat stuff That I think you would appreciate So I filmed all that I'm going to put all that together and I guess a review kind of video a travel review video I've never done one like that before but I thought I would D ragu says hi. Hello D ragu good to see you man. Glad you joined us today Put in there what you do, you know, what you're working on whatever James brings this great session today. Thanks for sharing good news D ragu says good night. He says hi and good night I don't know if you came in and come out real quick, but we're glad to have you here We're glad to have anybody here that wants to listen and join our group and James I don't know what happened to paul today. Did he fall off? We hope paul didn't fall off He's usually here, but he's not here today. Ah, I see D ragu says it's night in india. Yes, it is And you may have missed it D ragu, but I have people I work with in india all the time I mean for years like over 10 years And I'm always hiring and you know freelancing out jobs and stuff like that So I have a lot of Indian people that work with me great people love them Love them. They've done a lot for me and and I can't say enough for the food because I like food that has variety And oh my god, you guys have the best variety food in the world. I love Indian food So anyhow, so that's what I got for you today guys. I hope you enjoyed it I hope you got something out of it. James says peace and blessings always everyone see y'all tomorrow and yes He will and guys I want to thank you so much. Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't hit that subscribe button there It'll be red. You need to click it and turn it gray. You want to ring the bell? Turn on all bell notifications so you're notified each and every time I go live I really appreciate you being here guys If you like this channel and you're getting good information, please share it with somebody else If you're watching this and it's not live. You weren't able to get here live. I totally understand Feel free to put your comments in the comment section. I do come back and answer those comments So if you have any questions or anything you want to know put that in the comment section there Paul may have had more honeydews today. Well, I hope not. It's almost like she's the boss How could that be? How could that be? 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