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Designing your life: Wisdom from a 26-year-old nomadic coder/writer/growth hacker ~ Steph Smith

Aug 25, 20201 hr 8 min
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Episode description

Four years ago at the age of 22, Steph Smith left her consulting job and a two-hour commute to redesign her life. She began traveling the world, working from her laptop, and experimenting with different ways to live. Now she’s a growth marketer for top tech and media brands like the Hustle, a self-taught coder and indie maker whos projects have ranked #1 on Product Hunt, and a blogger with over 400,000 readers who writes about remote work, personal growth, women in tech, and learning to code.

In this episode we discuss:

  • The “ah-ha” moments that lead Steph to discover the world of travel and remote work
  • The concept pulled from the book Algorithms to Live by of exploration versus exploitation and how Steph has applied it to her life 
  • The diminishing returns of freedom
  • Steph's experience as a woman digital nomad in tech
  • Our advice for how to learn to code
  • Exciting trends Steph sees related to the future of the location-independent movement and remote work


Show notes for this episode:
https://www.radicallydifferentpodcast.com/episodes/designing-your-life-wisdom-from-a-26-year-old-nomadic-coderwritergrowth-hacker-steph-smith

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