What Do Digital Nomads Tell Us About The Future? - Lauren Razavi (Executive Director, Plumia) | The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd podcast

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Episode description

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Episode description

Lauren and I first talked when I was locked down in Taiwan in 2021. It was amazing to connect with another nomad and writer after weeks of not seeing people. I was also a bit stuck in my book writing process and she gave me a ton of helpful hints to take my book to the next level.

I was excited to interview Lauren because she just finished her own book, Global Natives about her own experience as a nomad (since 2013!) and also the past, present, and future of the movement. I think she is one of the most thoughtful perspectives on the future of work and global mobility.

Currently, Lauren is Executive Director of Plumia, the mission to build an internet country for digital nomads at SafetyWing, a Y Combinator company that raised a $35 million Series B in 2022. She is also author of the book Global Natives and writes the Counterflows newsletter) about borderless living. She tweets @LaurenRazavi.

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Timestamps

2:01 Introduction

3:22 Lauren's Influences Growing Up

6:30 Lauren's Idea of Home

9:00 Paul on International Couples

10:24 Lauren on how she sees "place" & digital citizenship

12:44 Becoming a Digital Nomad

17:26 Paul's experience in Bali

19:34 Digital Nomads being self-reflective

23:51 The fear of asking questions about life

30:10 How everything changed in 2020

31:52 Why the remote work is here to stay

34:21 Asking better questions - Nomads and Settlers

43:52 Lauren's approach to writing - working with an editor

51:21 The most interesting experiments with countries/policies

58:23 The problem with the real estate

1:02:28 Rapid fire questions with Lauren

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