Nomadic Serendipity and the Space Shuttle Launch

photo credit: Matthew Simantov One of the many nice things about being based in central Florida is being so close to Kennedy Space Center. Even though I live on the other side of the state, it is only 100 miles or so to the East coast, and with clear skies, I can see the launch [...]

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Career Outsourcing: Replaced by the Lowest Bidder

photo credit: Richo.Fan It was August 20, 2009. Kristi Coyne was told she would be out of a job as of September 30. Her department of 130 employees would be let go: the county was farming out their mental health services to a private company. It’s a common story these days, but not one that [...]

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Crush It! Work Your Face Off with Gary Vaynerchuk

Gary Vaynerchuk is the founder of the popular and long-running video blog at Wine Library TV, also known as the Thunder Show. He began to parlay his success with the show into speaking on the subject of business in today’s world, and now has a NY Times Best-selling book out called “Crush It!: Why NOW Is [...]

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Book Review: Reclaim Your Dreams

If you aren’t yet familiar with Jonathan Mead of Illuminated Mind, now is a good time to start. Jonathan is a Life Coach and popular Personal Development Blogger who quit his “regular job” to live on his own terms. I originally became aware of him about a year ago after seeing his contributing posts over [...]

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Adventure Photographer Trevor Clark – Part 2

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In part one of our interview with Adventure Photographer Trevor Clark, we got to know a little bit about how he lives a location independent lifestyle on the road. This second part will cover some of the tools, gadgets and equipment that make this life on the road possible. From the obvious tools a photographer [...]

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Adventure Photographer Trevor Clark – Part 1

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“What do you do?” We all get asked that common social question. Rarely does one’s job title paint an complete picture of who that person is as a whole. A more accurate question for Trevor Clark would be, “what don’t you do?” Trevor is one of those who does what many people only dream about [...]

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Lemonade Movie Cut Your Story? Be in the Book!

If you haven’t yet heard of the film Lemonade, you really should watch the short trailer below. Erik Proulx was laid off from his job in the advertising world back in October of last year. He was not alone. Determined to do something to try to help himself and others who shared this new-found extreme [...]

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Unplanned Working Vacations when Location Independent

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Leaning back in the lounge chair writing, I found myself unconsciously humming along to the song playing somewhere in the atrium below. It may have been coming from one of the restaurants surrounding the fake walls of the reconstructed fort of St. Augustine below the balcony where I worked. The music in the huge air-conditioned [...]

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Your Invitation to Live Collar Free

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Want to travel around the world by motorcycle? Wander the Americas living in an RV? Move to a foreign country? Sail around the world? Love your current life, but want more free time with your kids? Think you can’t? People do these things and more every day. We’re taught to get a good job working [...]

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