Episode #53: Ayahuasca in the Amazon, Self-Love and Building the Freelance Travel Network with Danielle Thompson

Episode Summary

Danielle Thompson takes us on her path through entrepreneurship, building multiple different businesses until she finally found her true passion with The Freelance Travel Network—helping nomadic freelancers grow and profit from their online service business while traveling the world. She explains how she grew and scaled that business while traveling the world herself. Danielle also opens up about her personal development journey. She explains the profound impact that Ayahuasca ceremonies and other psychedelic experiences had on her business breakthroughs, personal growth, and development of self-love. She also takes us on her travel journey since 2015 when she became a full-time digital nomad. She shares her biggest takeaways, epiphanies, struggles, identity conflicts and growth moments from long term stays in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Lisbon, Bali, and Buenos Aires. She discusses her experience participating in the WiFi Tribe work-travel program and the importance of cultivating and sustaining community in the long-term nomadic lifestyle. Danielle then discusses her personal day structure and productivity habits, including how she gamifies her entire life and the app she uses to do it. She reflects on the significance of what travel means to her and shares her #1 travel hack. She also recommends her #1 most influential book, her favorite productivity app, and shares the one person in the world with whom she would most like to have dinner. FULL SHOW NOTES AVAILABLE AT www.TheMaverickShow.com

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About the Guest

Danielle Thompson

Danielle Thompson is a 25-year old serial entrepreneur and full-time digital nomad. She is the founder of Moku, an agency focused on web and app design for tech startups. Her design work has serviced over 100 million users and has helped founders raise over $19 million in seed and VC funding. She is also the founder of The Freelance Travel Network, an online school that helps nomadic freelancers promote, grow and profit from their online service business while traveling the world. Danielle has helped individual freelancers 10x their income and land some of the world’s top brands as clients. Her mission is to empower 1 million freelancers by teaching creatives the business skills they need to get work that inspires them. She runs all of her businesses remotely and has been traveling the world full time since 2015. Since then, she has lived in over 20 countries and has amassed 50,000 Instagram followers.

What You'll Learn

Why creating certain types of discomfort is important for realizing your higher purpose.
How and why to develop a greater self-love.
Danielle’s personal and business breakthroughs from Ayahuasca ceremonies.

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WORK-TRAVEL PROGRAM IN WHICH DANIELLE PARTICIPATED

WiFi Tribe

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#1 BOOK DANIELLE RECOMMENDS

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

#1 TRAVEL APP DANIELLE RECOMMENDS

Sunsama

OTHER RECOMMENDED APPS

THE PERSON WITH WHOM DANIELLE WOULD MOST LIKE TO HAVE DINNER

Richard Branson

INTERVIEW TOOK PLACE

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DANIELLE’S TOP 3 FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATIONS

DANIELLE’S TOP 3 BUCKET LIST DESTINATIONS

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CONTACT DANIELLE

Time Stamped Show Notes

[3:08] Danielle’s Entrepreneurial Journey

Her earliest entrepreneurial memories
Her first creative venture as a photography
Her first experience with freelancing
Her first business and the biggest lessons learned
Her first experience teaching and working with ADHD students
Validating her ability to charge clients $15,000
Getting accepted to Toptal and transcending imposter syndrome

[16:25] Danielle’s Digital Nomad Journey

Her first solo international trip to Costa Rica
Joining WiFi Tribe for a month in Nicaragua
Overcoming fears and trepidation about Central American travel
Deciding to become a full-time nomad, sell all her stuff, and go outside her comfort zone
The value of work-travel programs and building community
Traveling to Portugal and experiencing Europe for the first time
Traveling to Asia and falling in love with Bali
Matt and Danielle discuss their love for Bangkok
Matt and Danielle discuss their experiences in Buenos Aires
Danielle’s identity conflict between the lifestyles in Bali and Buenos Aires