BrazenCareerist, a “career management tool for next-generation professionals,” offers a webinar for Matador readers to learn how to become location independent.
Another day at the office. Photo: Peter Kaminski
OVER THE PAST several weeks we’ve been in contact with Ryan Paugh from the BrazenCareerist Community. We signed an ad deal, and are stoked to see how our two communities can grow supporting one another.
Brazen Careerist’s tagline is “Where Ideas Are Your Resume.” It’s a community of people who have achieved a location-independent lifestyle via new and social media, blogging, design, and other online work.
Profiles of Brazen Careerists
There’s never a 100% “typical” Brazen Careerist. Their community is super diverse and dynamic. For example, take the following three Brazen Careerists and what they have to say about the community:
Lea Woodward, Founder of Location Independent Professionals
I live a nomadic life with my husband and 6 month old daughter, traveling and living in places like Cape Town, Phuket, Chiang Mai, Grenada, Panama, Buenos Aires. Brazen Careerist has been a great way to nurture existing professional relationships while I’m on the road.
Having also set up a group for other location independent people on BC, it’s been a fantastic way to “meet” people who live or want to live a similar lifestyle and demonstrates that borders and geography really don’t matter these days.
Caitlin McCabe, Founder of White Label Marketing & the blog Smile Like you Mean It
As a location independent I use Brazen Careerist to ask other entrepreneurs what processes and systems are working for them. The community is really receptive to questions that a lot of other business pros don’t want to talk about or answer and the network there is really honest in their opinions.
Cath Duncan, Social Worker, Life Coach and blogger at Mine Your Resources and Bottom-line Bookclub
As a location independent professional, one of the fine balances is the tension of being independent in location whilst staying interdependent with my tribe, and Brazen Careerist helps me to do that. I’ve found a lot of great people on who share my core values – like innovation, inventing an authentic life, making a contribution, doing meaningful work, and so on, and I love that it’s a spam-free thinking environment that makes it easy for me to keep up with the latest thinking amongst my peers and like-minded young thoughtleaders.
5 Ways for Travelers to Start a Location-Independent Career: A Webinar for Matador Community
After discussing various ways by which we could share info between Brazen Careerist and Matador, Ryan thought of an exclusive webcast for Matador readers/members.
Here’s the info:
SUMMARY: Career-advice expert, author, columnist and speaker Penelope Trunk will teach you how to build a career that fits the nomadic lifestyle of travelers and travel writers / photographers / filmmakers.
They will cover:
* Steps you can take to make a seamless transition
* Building and maintaining a network that will make Location-Independence possible
* How social media is the key to making it all happen
* Plus, much more
The event is scheduled for next Wednesday, Feb 10, at 9PM EST.
We encourage anyone interested in evolving their professional options to register for thelocation independence webinar with Brazen Careerist. It’s free, and you’ll be in contact with a great new community.
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This is great. It looks like a valuable and mutually beneficial relationship.
Really looking forward to the webinar. “Location Independence” is part of my 5-year plan. (never thought I’d have a plan, let alone a 5-year one!)
Just a couple more at this desk…
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I’m already location independent, but I’ll be tuning in. Love the idea, love the tagline of Brazen Careerist, and appreciate the reminder of their existence– I meant to join after reading the first article about them by Lea.
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thanks for the 411 David…
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for some people, wealth is their ultimate goal, some fame, and all the those other hackneyed nouns i’ll refrain from using further. i want nothing more than to have a location independent career and leave within my meager means. as i still have a year or two before i graduate, i hope this will prove a valuable asset. i already appreciate what they’re doing. thank you.
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Same, with you know, the ocassional new pair of shoes. Pumped for this!
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As a member of Matador, LIP & Brazen Careerist, I’m so happy to hear this as it is definitely the wave of the future and a fast growing trend!
We have been on an open ended, world tour as a family since 2006, to 32 countries so far on 4 continents, thus demonstrating that it’s a fantastic way to live, work and educate your children to be multi-lingual global citizen’s in the 21st century.
As a featured Case Study in the latest edition of Tim Ferriss’s 4-Hour Workweek, we demonstrate as Tim says, “Living richly does not require riches.” because we live large and very green on just 23 dollars a day per person as we travel the world (much of it in “expensive” Europe).
I’ve written extensively on this topic on my website and now doing it on the Huffington Post, because I passionately want people to know it is easier, cheaper and more enriching than most realize.
Love the work that Matador, Brazen Careerist and LIP are doing, thrilled they have gotten together to pass the word out to others.
It’s time for more people to start living their dreams!!
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Is there anyway to get a copy of this webinar, as I am working tomorrow and unable to participate in the event.
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I’ve just recently discovered the Matador network but have been a fan of Penelope and Brazen Careerist for awhile now. Glad to see that you two have partnered and excited to join in on the webinar tonight.
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I’m a fan of Penelope and her forwardness, but I think that she was the wrong person for this topic. Matador is about traveling the world, and I think most people that read this site know of the Location Independent group (Lea Woordward, Tim Ferriss, etc). Penelope started off her webinar with “I’ve never even heard of the term location independent, it must be a gen y term.” She also made some statements how a lot of jobs couldn’t be location independent (interior designer, for instance. She could have gone on about how you could take those skills to apply it to another job that CAN be location independent, such as a teaching interior design in other countries, working as an ID consultant, etc), how taking an 8 year old around the world / not have a home base is borderline child abuse, and suggested taking corporate jobs and treating that as a freelance career. Ryan – I wish he would have talked more as he had some sound advice. Penelope has great advice for someone that wants to grow into a career, but I think there are a lot better spokespeople for leading a location independent life.
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