Hey everyone, the past few days I have came down with a gnarly sickness. I am visiting family I swear my niece and nephew will just walk up and cough directly in your face hahaha. Bad news is I am moving pretty slow these days, I bought a ton of meds and am resting up. I think I will be better soon. In the meantime I am moving our weekly call to Sunday (update), apologies for the last minute change. Looking forward to seeing everyone on the call and I will be circling back to everyones DMs today as well. I know by Sunday I will be fully recovered as well as will have some major updates and resources for everyone

Hey which VPN router do you guys recommend? is there a promo code I can use? anyone else using starlink satellite internet?

Hey everyone! I’m Daniel Ortiz. Just recently joined. Hoping to interact with everyone and here. I am from Los Angeles , California. I’ve worked mostly in Blue collar jobs and Food industry most of my life. My current life goal is trying to figure out how to work remotely and live abroad. I currently have a long time LDR relationship with a Filipina that lives in Philippines. My hope is to move to Philippines and make a stable living to provide a good life for future family. I found remote freedom community from Austin’s TikTok videos. Austin invited me to join after reaching out to him. I was inspired by him to purse the digital nomad lifestyle I hope to achieve one day. Just getting started here and excited to learn the ropes! Hoping to contribute to the community and always open to having a good conversation.

I landed in Medellin 3 days ago, tons of outdoor walking and things to do. The language exchanges are a great spot to meet expats. The people I’ve met there just pour free knowledge about work, travel, safety, and other cool hacks. Tomorrow I’ll continue on to Perrera, Cali, Armania, than back to Medellin for most of December. Everything is super cheep outside the tourist areas. and it’s fairly simple to see what areas are safe good people and what areas to stay away from. On my next leg back to Medellin I’ll be staying in Laureles instead of poblato. It’s 20% cheeper in air bb, less tourist and a 5 dollar cab ride back to Poblato where most the tours leave. The culture here enjoys bargains, so even air bb they are willing to make a deal if you ask. I would not buy anything here unless you negotiate all prices first. Let’s see if I have enough energy to finish up my final project next week in my Data analytics course. Haha Feel free to reach out if anyone is in the area or has tips.

It's been a journey so far for me this year and just wanted to share a win. My flight got cancelled going back to the US on Nov 4th from the Philippines due to Typhoon Tino. I was supposed to be back for work that week. I spoke to my manager about working remotely using a VPN to connect to our servers and she agreed to give it a shot. Fast forward to now, I am back in the US. I asked my manager if I can work remotely from the Philippines and she agreed to it finally! My one way ticket back is on 12/8! Yee!!