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Sometimes life requires something more.
One can have an excellent job in a prestigious place.
Yet the call of exotic lands can be too much to bear.
After realizing this Jodi turned that passion into a powerful journey.
She has been on the road for five years and has only just begun…
Please welcome, the founder of Legal Nomads.
The lovely, Jodi Ettenberg.
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“Opportunities come your way and you either go with them or not.” – Jodi Ettenberg (Tweet It)
Travel Topics:
- Jodi’s excellent packing guide
- Explaining her lifestyle of living in SE Asia half the time and USA the rest
- How Jodi went about leaving a well paid position at a law firm to travel the world
- The transition between a lawyer turned slow traveling global adventurer
- How 5 years of travel has led to a career she never expected
- How to budget for travel on a per year basis
- The origins of LegalNomads.com
- How her passion for writing almost accidentally turned into a profession
- On the importance of authenticity
- The long term, community driven way to make money online
- Why providing value is essential to entrepreneurs
- On the value of sticking to what you care about
- What captivated her about the Trans Siberian Railway
- On the joys of being bench-pressed by giant Russian men
- Her magnificent story of a “non-space view of the overview effect analog”
- How slow travel works
- Why Jodi made the decision to stay in Bangkok during the riots of 2010
- How to question engineers as to the direction they placed their sniper wire
- Even as a lone female traveler, she feels safer walking around at night than in much of North America
- We discuss safety on a deeper level than I ever have before
- How travel safety instincts can develop with time on the road
- The value of avoiding attention when in a foreign country
- On the challenge of being sick in a foreign country
- How having a backup plan to a lifestyle of long term travel is a smart decision
- On how building a worse case scenario and preparing for it can give you more confidence in your travels
- Jodi’s entrepreneurial plans for launching food explorations of cities based on colors
- Her plans to create a travel site to help those travelers with Celiac Disease
- Advice to those who know they want to travel but are unnerved by taking the first step
- How Jodi uses Twitter
- All the other Lovely Stuff
Lovely Links:
- Check out the Lost Girls
- Learn about the Trans Siberian Railway
- Read Jodi’s piece on the Overview Effect
- Learn more about Planetary Collective
- A great resource is Wandering Earl’s Website
- Explore Shannon’s sit called A Little Adrift
- Connect with Jodi:
LegalNomads | Twitter | Facebook
Travel Tools:
- Planning a trip? Get Jodi’s preparation guide.
Music Credits:
- Love and Light Music by Mr. Bill
- Rehab by Paul Kelly
- Bluegrass – (I have no idea where this one came from, but I LIKE IT!)