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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

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Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. Then, in 2019, she lost her job. Their family had previously traveled in an RV, so she knew it was something she enjoyed. A few months later, they were on the road living in it.

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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

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Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. Then, in 2019, she lost her job. Their family had previously traveled in an RV, so she knew it was something she enjoyed. A few months later, they were on the road living in it.

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American Express on The Rise of the Digital Nomad

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American Express recently released its annual Global Travel Trends report.   said that the freedom and flexibility of being able to live and work while traveling the globe is more appealing now than it was prior to the pandemic." million in 2019 to 10.9 million in 2019 to 10.9 digital nomads grew from 7.3

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Armchair Digital Nomads Hitting the Road

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.  Instead, they've mostly treated digital nomadism as a spectator sport, following the exploits of real digital nomads via Facebook, Instagram, blogs, and other forms of social media. For example, in 2019,  57.1 million Americans said they would (16.1 These numbers dwarf the 7.3

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This Is How You Can Get Better at Reading People

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It also includes every way you communicate, whether it’s in person, by phone, by email, by text or on social media. According to a 2019 DISC® Assessment validation study , 9% of the population is in this quadrant. According to the 2019 DISC® Assessment validation study, about 28% of the population falls in this quadrant.

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Follow the Science: Ze Frank Teaches Us True Facts and Life Lessons

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At this inflection point, Frank considered law school while answering phones for the Latin American division of Travelers Insurance. Now he tapped Buzzfeed founder Jonah Peretti, who’d also been a student of virality, and together they raised funding for Star.Me , a sticker-based, social media-linked game. No problem.

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Why Supporting Small Businesses This Holiday Season Is More Urgent Than Ever

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You can also search the hashtag #localbusiness on social media to find locally owned and operated shops near you, use Google or read on for some suggestions of small businesses, all with fewer than 40 employees, that offer some amazing products shipped nationwide. And thus in 2014, mumi was formed. Photo courtesy of MOTSI.

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