The One Where I Talk To Freelance Translator & Digital Nomad, Katy Fowler

My guest on the podcast this week is the divine Katy Fowler.

Katy is a freelance translator, and a full-time digital nomad, with a particular passion for travelling overland. She spent several years travelling the whole way around the world without taking any flights.

Katy is both single and childfree.

Topics that we cover are:

• how Katy has been single for a decade, and has come to see it as a blessing;
• how many of the most exciting things she’s done have been because of her single status;
• how being single has enabled her to spend more quality time with her family;
• Katy’s adventures in the dating world, including the bad behaviour of some men;
• attachment styles, and how Katy and I are both anxious / avoidant;
• Katy’s experience of therapy, and why it doesn’t work for everyone;
• how the break up of her most recent relationship was the catalyst for her digital nomad journey;
• the year she spent with Remote Year, a company for remote workers travelling the world as part of a community;
• how her journey overland from Vietnam to Hampshire, UK, made her decide to travel around the world without taking any flights;
• the 6 weeks she spent in 2019 in Odesa, Ukraine, learning Russian;
• how Katy was in Bangkok when Covid hit, and subsequently spent two and a half years on Thailand;
• her first ever cruise from Singapore to Perth, Australia;
• her various experiences with several creepy crawlies;
• her journey across the Pacific from New Zealand to San Francisco;
• how some of Katy’s friends surprised her at the port in Southampton on her return to the UK;
• the difficulties of a nomadic life, and finding a place to call home.

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