Meet The Nomad Summit Team: Chris Lioe
Chris has strong passions for entrepreneurship and adventure travel. When he’s done staring at spreadsheets, he enjoys going on weekend motorbike trips in the mountains or heading to the islands for scuba diving.
Q: Why did you join the Nomad Summit Team?
A: I’m friends with the organizers and I enjoy being a part of the community
Q: How long have you been working remotely? Where have you lived since then?
A: I’ve been working remotely for the past 5 years. I’ve spent most of that time split up between S. America, SE Asia and Europe.
Q: What does the location independent lifestyle mean to you?
A: The ability to do slow, long term travel and enjoy new experiences.
Q: Books every digital nomad should read
A: - Adventure Capitalist by Jim Rogers – He retired from wall st. (rich) at 37 and travelled around the world twice. Once by motorcycle and once by car, setting a Guinness World Record. Nice.- Zero to One by Peter Thiel – I like his definition of capitalism and building valuable businesses based on secrets.- The Everything Store by Brad Stone – Amazon/FBA is a popular business model for a lot of nomads. The book gives insight into what makes Bezos the GOAT.
Q: How do you start your day?
A: Straight to coffee, then straight to laptop.
Q: What’s your productivity hack?
A: The fear of being dead broke.
Q: Are you working on any personal projects or businesses?
A: 2 ecommerce sites and some other side hustles
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Meet The Nomad Summit Team: Alexandra Kozma
Alexandra started traveling the world at the age of 6 and visited over 20 countries before she turned 18. Thanks to these experiences, she developed a level of curiosity and passion for growth that made it clear: she needs to continue exploring.
Ever since, she has worked in many different areas, from teaching English to selling journals, but they all had one thing in common: helping people grow and explore, whether it's the world or themselves.
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Meet The Nomad Summit Team: Rachel Isabel Yenko-Martinka
New to the nomad world, Rachel left her cozy life in Minneapolis, Minnesota to indulge in a life of slow travel, beginning her journey Chiang Mai just last year. A musician and graphic designer with a background in event planning and community outreach, Rachel is an enthusiastic addition to our Summit team!
Meet The Nomad Summit Team: Heather Pollock
Heather has been living abroad for the past 10 years, but only as a digital nomad for the past 1.5 years.
She was thrown into this lifestyle unexpectedly after being made redundant from her new job with a start-up in Dubai. She sold everything she owned and left her life Dubai with no plan and a one-way ticket to Bangkok!
What was supposed to be 'a few months' of travel and re-evaluating, turned into a year. After ending up in Chiang Mai early on, she quickly got the location independent bug.
She spent the next year learning, networking, trialling different business ideas to figure out how to make this lifestyle a reality for herself.
After trying 'all the things' she discovered she has a love of design and content curation. She now is focusing on this as her business.
Meet The Nomad Summit Team: Johnny FD
Originally from San Francisco, Johnny moved to Thailand in 2008 to pursue Muay Thai Kickboxing and to travel while working as a Scuba Divemaster.
He's now traveling the world 11 months of the year while living out of carry on luggage.
Johnny FD is the founder of the Nomad Summit Conference.