Every industry has a guru, spokesperson, or GO-TO resource. For digital nomads, that’s Kristin Wilson.

Kristin, also known as Traveling with Kristin on YouTube and Instagram, is the host of Badass Digital Nomads podcast, the author of Digital Nomads For Dummies, and the Go Overseas Mentor at International Living. Who better to walk us through the digital nomad experience than a contributor to the “For Dummies” series?!

Kristin is also a DJ on the side - we love a multi-passionate nomad who shows us what it looks like to travel and actively pursue your hobbies. But how do you ACTUALLY pursue hobbies, run a business, and travel? Sounds like a fast path to burnout, right?

Today, we’ll get into how to avoid soul-sucking burnout, and get real about why Americans have certain stereotypes that follow them from country to country. If you’re hoping to travel more in the coming months, you’re going to love this episode.

Listen to my episode with Kristin of her podcast, Badass Digital Nomads, ⁠HERE⁠!

In this episode, we chat about:

• Finding your travel style and embracing slow travel
• How to make friends while traveling
• Why it’s so important to establish financial stability before embarking on a digital nomad journey
• How you can actually save more money by being a digital nomad (yes, we’re serious)
• American stereotypes - why can’t we shake them off?
• How influencers can create an influx of travel in certain destinations

Transcript

Chelsea: [00:00:00] Kristen Wilson, also known as Traveling with Kristen on YouTube, the host of Badass Digital Nomads podcast, and the author of Digital Nomads for Dummies. Welcome to the show.

Kristin: Thanks so much, Chelsea. It's great to be here.

Chelsea: I know you are so well versed in digital nomad lifestyle, and I have so many people interested in understanding how you actually make this happen.

And so I just want to get straight into understanding how you built this life for yourself. So why don't you tell us where you are right

Kristin: now? Right now I'm in Northern England in Manchester and I've been here for A few months just kind of exploring around the north because a lot of people go to London when they come to the UK, right?

So I wanted to just see a different part of the countryside and I'm also a part time DJ and music producer, so I wanted to kind of immerse myself in the music scene here. And yeah, just get to know a different side of the UK. So that's what I like to do is [00:01:00] combine work with pleasure and hobbies and goals and kind of blend everything together into a lifestyle where I'm working remotely, but I'm also traveling and I'm pursuing my hobbies and other personal