Dylan Madden
@Dylanmadden • 125,712 subscribers
Lived in 27 countries. Sharing how I build a great life and real friendships in any city on earth.
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being a digital nomad with no roots will leave you with an empty life. and i say that as someone who traveled for 7 years. 27 countries. every successful expat i know eventually stopped moving and planted somewhere. every single one. here's why, and how to actually pick the place.
Dylan Madden33,672 次观看 • 3 个月前
Imagine being stuck in a foreign country where you don’t speak the language and you can’t access your own money. Years ago I was in Morocco. Went to pay for my hotel and my card didn’t work. Tried again. Nothing. Called my bank. They told me there’s no banking treaty between the US and Morocco. Plenty of money in the account and none of it was reachable. A friend covered it and I sent him the transfer (shoutout to Atlas & E-go) Then I got up to my room and remembered I had another bank I’d never used. Went back down to the lobby and pulled cash out fine. That taught me something that seems obvious now. Never rely on one bank. That’s a single point of failure sitting on top of everything you own. Two or three accounts outside your home country. Then it doesn’t matter where you are, you can always reach your own money.
Dylan Madden26,840 次观看 • 2 个月前
everyone's losing their minds because the algorithms changed. i've been in this for a decade. it was forums. then blogs. then X. instagram blew up. it's already changed 8 times and it'll change again next month. views were never the point. i've met people with 2 million followers who are broke. begging hotels to comp a room in exchange for a video. desperate. meanwhile guys getting 300 views on a post are making more than all of them because those 300 are the right people. so what do you actually want. views or money. they're not the same game. pick 3 topics you'd genuinely enjoy talking about every single day. go deep. put your face on it. stand for something. the faceless motivational accounts are about to disappear completely.
Dylan Madden16,736 次观看 • 3 个月前
