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Day 1: Getting Organized
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Orientation: how to take this course
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Visualization exercise to build up your resolve for going nomadic via the “Sliding Doors” exercise.
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How to determine the best travel program for your situation.
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Intro to the master checklist for tracking 42 key tasks
Day 2 - Program selection, resolving employment & living situation issues
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If you have a remote-friendly job how to get buy-in from your employer : strategy, tactics, ammo from others who have excelled
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If not are you willing to change jobs to make it happen? Use your savings to travel?
- Resources for finding remote-friendly work or creating your own business
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Options for getting out of your lease (early termination penalty, sublet, subrogation)
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Getting free of other common encumbrances
Day 3 - Passport, Visas, Insurance, Immunization, storing stuff, mail forwarding
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Sorting out your passport and visa situation
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Sorting out your immunization requirements
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Obtaining traveler’s insurance and canceling other forms of domestic insurance
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Storing and/or selling your possessions and vehicle
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Handling your snail mail
Day 4 - Financial & Communications
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Reducing paper footprint with bills and billing
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Securing a travel-friendly ATM/debit card
- Securing a travel-friendly credit card that earns you travel points
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Solving your telephony needs
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Setting up proper payments apps
Paid course content
Day 5 - Gear purchases
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Figuring out the most appropriate luggage for your travels
- Identifying your must-haves
- Identifying your luxury items
Day 6 - Infosec Part 1
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Getting set up with a VPN service
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Locking down your computer with timed screen lock and mouse corners for quickly locking screen
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Enabling full disk encryption
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Enabling a firewall
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Migrating all your sensitive passwords and accounts into a password manager
Day 7 - Infosec Part II
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Configuring the most appropriate backup process for your situation
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Setting up 2-factor authentication on any important accounts
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Implementing power and connectivity redundancy if your job demands it
- Other useful tips & tricks when working from the road
Day 8 - Mobile Apps
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Enabling passcode, iCloud backup, wifi calling
- Setting up core mobile apps for
- Payments
- Navigation
- Communications
- Transportation
- Lodging
- Discovery
- Airline tickets
- Utilities
- Tweaking phone settings for reduced battery consumption
Day 9 - Program-specific orientation (culture, activities, rituals, etc)
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Introduction to travel programs and their mechanics
- Overview of the Remote Year program and its components (tracks, town halls, transition days, knowledge drops, positive impact, etc)
Day 10 - Memories preservation
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Overview of Instagram, Snapchat, Blog, Vlogging, 1sec/Day app
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Offline journaling (TurboScan)
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Sending physical postcards via the TouchNote app
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Enabling Google Timeline, Swarm app, Polar Steps for tracking your activities over time
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Syndicating your travel blog via NomadBloggers.com
Day 11 - Wellness & Personal Safety
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Ensuring proper nutrition on the road
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Options for staying fit while traveling
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Introduction to personal safety basics (situational awareness, distance, de-escalation, basic combatives)
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iSOS registration & usage
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Making yourself traceable by trusted friends & family using Tiles and iPhone family sharing
Day 12 - The Art of Side trips
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Scouting: Travel blogs, take the lead, be inclusive. Slack polls & emojis
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Discovery: blogs and travel sites
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Planning: Rome2Rio, Evernote w travel deets
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Booking: flight apps, BlaBlaCar, Couchsurfing, Airbnb (VRBO), group buying power
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Executing: splitwise, WA temp groups, share live location)
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importance of Exit Confirmation
Day 13 - Lessons from deconstructing Sean’s 7 biggest travel snafus
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When a Chilean airport agent has it out for you (exit conf, plane ticket, printed, yellow fever card, 2fa for public terminals)
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Sleeping in an ATM booth (accoms in advance, HotelTonight for last minute emergencies, AirBnb support)
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Sales calls in hail storms at Cliffs of Moher (connectivity redundancy, calendly quarantine windows, tethering)
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Carrie detained in UK (the W word in immigration interrogations)
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When your luggage stays behind Barcelona/San Sebastian (value of Tiles, check dest tag, not safe until at gate with verbal conf)
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Dysfunctionality of customs : 6 boxes return to sender (gifts, value delcaration, VAT)
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Delayed flight out of Miami = missing the FEIE by one day (FEIEcalc.com, buffer days)
Day 14 - Taxes, Pro Tips, Final Countdown & Wrap-up:
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Implementing backup payment method on Uber & ApplePay
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Putting Tiles in everything, scotchgard and Permetherin everything, passport RFID accidents
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Downloading offline Gmaps, scan passport, Split cards, paper copy of passport in moneybelt
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Making the most of local experiences: EatWith, Meetup, Internations, AirBnb experiences
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Understanding the FEIE – pay for your whole year via tax loophole (consider residency in non income tax state prior). FEIEcalc
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Best resources for rapid language acquisition
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Adopting a “tribal mentality”
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Preserving friendships back home
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Dating on the road
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Getting through the 3-month dip
- Being a responsible nomad (aka not a “bromad”)