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The Nomad on FIRE Podcast
#02 | Andrea Mujica | Digital Nomad Living in Chile for the Past 9.5 Years!
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Eric Richard
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Season 1
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Episode 2
Guest Bio:
Andrea Mujica, originally from Florida has lived in Chile for the past 9.5 years! Andrea discusses teaching herself the necessary digital and content marketing skills to work for herself, break into the Chilean tourism industry and live the digital nomad lifestyle. She is a super positive and awesome person, I think you’ll really enjoy this episode, especially if you’re from the US and interested in living outside of the US for an extended period of time, especially if you’re interested in Chile! Check out her blog Where She Goes Today.
Links Mentioned:
- Puerto Varas in the South of Chile
- La Joya Hostel in Valparaiso, Chile
- Paralelo Coworking Space | in Valparaiso, Chile. 9000 CLP or about $11.50 USD for a day pass
- Where She Goes Today | Andrea’s personal blog and travel stories
- Today In Chile | Chile specific content, hotel, restaurant reviews, and top Chilean travel itineraries
- World Packers
- Armenia, Colombia https://www.desktodirtbag.com/armenia-colombia/
- Andrea’s Instagram
Show Notes:
- Andrea welcome to the Nomad on FIRE Podcast! 00:30
- Andrea’s background and how she first moved to Chile 01:00
- How Andrea became a Content Specialist to expand the Chilean tourism industry 05:30
- How Andrea decided to leave Santiago and live a more digital nomad style life 07:10
- How Andrea and I met 09:00
- Andrea’s Blogs- Where She Goes Today | Andrea’s personal blog and travel stories and Today In Chile | Chile specific content, hotel, restaurant reviews, and top Chilean travel itineraries 10:00
- More about Andrea’s role as a content specialist 10:57
- How Andrea broke into helping the Chilean tourism industry 13:00
- Andrea’s tips for creating your own job and breaking into digital marketing 14:35
- Pros and Cons of living the digital nomad lifestyle vs. being more settled 15:26
- Tips for finding and healthy balance and routine while living the digital nomad lifestyle 18:04
- 18:40 Using Notion as a to-do list, journaling, a task tracker and habit tracking
- Eric’s experience in Chile while traveling with Remote Year 20:15
- How Andrea budgets for $1,000 USD a month to live in Chile as a digital nomad by living in hostels and using the site World Packers to receive free rent in exchange for help at hostels 27:15
- And much more...
Significant quotes:
- “When I came back home to the United States I kinda had this reverse culture shock” 02:53
- “Everybody was in the exact same place, doing the exact same thing” 03:10
- “ I wanted to keep creating content for my blog, but also help others in the industry create content” 05:45
- “ I learned about all this stuff just thanks to Google and to Youtube. I would watch hours and hours of content” 06:20
- “In my work, I do a lot of content creation as well as web development because I realized a lot of companies don’t have websites” 12:10
- And much much more...