Welcome welcome hey! What's up as we begin today, and also a new weak tears, a reminder for you. If the path you're on the right one. It's ok to make a change, it doesn't matter you feel like you should have made that change earlier. It doesn't matter if you ve got Invested in something else, you can't change the past, no matter how much you think about it. I know that all too well, but it's ok, because you have the opportunity and also perhaps the responsibility to make active decision.

About your future, you might not be able to make a change right away. That's a big part of the status of school philosophy, not saying that everybody can. You know it make a complete one, eighty today tomorrow etc, but that also doesn't mean you have to remain completely stuck because there is something you can do right here right now and you can take steps today that will allow for more options tomorrow or at least in the near future. So by the way this is site also school. My name is critical about and in this story and organic chemist from Germany makes that kind of shift for herself. Leaving her former career behind in learning to make a living through remote work and then along the way. She finds an all new purpose of uniting women across the world with similar values, which is what we'll look at today. We're calling the story, the sisterhood of the traveling, that you don't know, Matt's it's coming right up after this message from our sponsor support for this podcast comes from Octa. What's your mother's maiden name, what's the name of your purse?

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Jenny, lack started her career in Germany. I earning a phd in organic chemistry, but before long she realized academia wasn't the path she wanted to follow. The time all her friends were Phd didn't as well. I thought she had lost your mind. She decided to completely changed course, although it wasn't easy to go against the girl Jenny believe another life was possible for years earlier. She had taken a solo, tripped, Israel or she met people who are travelling for months and years on it after finishing a phd in saving all the money she could Jenny embarked in a round the world trip with her boyfriend when funds got low seven months in she spent a year working in Australia on a working holiday visa which involve all sorts of random day jobs. It was during this time that she came across people working on line

eager to keep seeing the world Jenny Jimmy John's to try out any online work. She could find to see whether she liked it is good at it and could make money from it. She discovered a passion for writing, eventually became full time, freelance writer and social media manager, people were willing to pay. Still, she never considered before, like translation and having a phd after her name seem to inspire trust, even if it was in a completely unrelated feel Riding in social media management are location, independent jobs, in other words, there is no need to be physically present in an office as long as she has her laptop and wifi connection. Jenny can continue working from anywhere in the world In the first few months of becoming a digital, nomad, Jenny found herself living and working from a beautiful island in Thailand. It was the Instagram cliche dream, but something was missing. She was lonely. Jenny knew that for this new lifestyle to be sustainable, she had us around or sub with others who share the same dreams and values. This was a lesson she had learnt during her phd when she also felt really alone, although she travel

your boyfriend, she missed having close female France. She tried joining online business communities, but didn't find it to be a supportive if she hoped most of the loudest voices on the scene tended to be male earning themselves. The term romance hypocrisy, location in Japan it's for different reasons and shocking late. Many didn't identify with that bromide culture that had developed there was a real need community where women could exchange stories, learn from each other and support each other. So as a passion project, at least at First Jenny started Digital Nomad girls, she launched a facebook group and invited the women she'd met on the road to joint they out of their friends and a community took off the group for a steady. And a hundred per cent organically soon members were asking Jenny for in person meet UPS G organised for first retreat from scratch. Co living space in Spain expecting maybe five or six people to sign up. Instead, a group of fourteen women from ten countries joined in for that first weeklong, retreat, Jenny, remember thinking. While this could be a thing, could actually be my business

thirteen months that passion project turned business, Jenny, Wren, three retreats earning twelve thousand euros or about thirteen thousand six hundred dollars in net income all while juggling her freelance client work? Two years in the Facebook community still going strong, Jenny launched a membership site for digital, nomad curls called the inner circle, your memories dancing around her apartment, like a maniac, when the first person join that in our circle she had accustomed button sent to the woman and then went out to a celebratory dinner with her boyfriend membership sight was a game changer. It brought in steady, recurring income and almost doubled annual profits to twenty two thousand dogs. Through this inner circle, Jenny offers weekly virtual corking sessions, monthly master classes on work, travel and lifestyle topics, accountability, bearings and discounts on retreats monthly. An annual memberships are available start up costs for rough

five hundred dollars, Jenny added a Wordpress blog in called member press to collect membership payments to host community discussions, uses the mighty networks at which acts of the community's own private social network. For group, video cause she's zoom monthly expenses are just around tuner dots. Running a membership site, isn't like a course or one off programme. It is ever evolving Jenny experiments with different offerings to see what works best for her members. She has found at the life components like virtual Co. Working an online social are especially valuable. She's notice that her members crave that personal connection while travelling. She currently works about ten to twenty hours a week on the membership site and also continues to plan retreats for digital Nomad girls each year with the early twentyth as members of the free facebook community and roughly a hundred and thirty inner circle. Members income from digital, nomad girls is expected to more than triple this year. As

reflects an elite. She made to turn her passion project into a business. She is deeply grateful. She says that creating something from scratch that helps people supporting her and her lifestyle allowing her to learn. New skills is incredible. That Phd in organic chemistry feels like a lifetime ago, well talk about a gap in the market. What made this is huge. It's totally sure that most, the voices in that space is traditionally have been nail, may not just mail but also hyper masculine. So I mean it's actually a term airspace. I haven't really resonated with much myself I'm, even though I am effectively the quintessential digital no map. I've just never use that praise, because I've always gonna be doing my own thing for many years before this whole phrase in concept was popular. So to the point here, I'm not surprised that she has twenty thousand people. Her facebook group who were looking for a deeper

form of identification or at least a different kind of camaraderie support community Adcetera, so good for her and for all of our listeners out there who are looking for a different perspective in that kind of world. Perhaps you want to check it out. We will, of course, like it up and my question for you as well, as you know, is there else out there that's dominated by one viewpoint or perspective, but yet a lot of people are interested at two concept that has value Whatever reason the online conversation or the offline conversation, whatever it is, is dominated by one viewpoint, perspective, and perhaps a lot of people would resonate with something different, and we think about that, because I think there's a lot of ideas. There are a lot of possibilities and opportunities. There are just as there are so many opportunities impossibilities in our world today unless Please don't be afraid to make a change our eye. Today. Shots are at sight of school dot. Slash eight hundred zero zero. Its episode, eight hundred, oh my gosh, I can't believe we have come so far,

So much more on the way, just like any said to be able to create something that people out there are caring about and learning from adapting in different ways on their own. It really is incredible, so I am grateful to you today, just as I challenge you to continue working on your story when you hear about it some time thanks so much, my name is critical about. This is beside us all school onwards,. From the onward projects.