Well, this is it. Today is day 30 of my 30 day, daily blog challenge to myself. As I write this I’m somewhere over the Nevada desert en route to Las Vegas, for a trip I take a trip with friends every year. If you’ve been around for a while, you may remember my daily vlog experiment […]
That Time I Lost My Passport in Japan…
Over the years I’ve made a lot of stupid travel mistakes. There was the time I was supposed to have a meeting in Ubud (the center of the island in Bali) and after two hours of riding my motorbike, I ended up at the ocean. There’s the time I almost lost my laptop at Boston […]
Radical Transparency: How to Get People to Be Brutally Honest With You
A few things you should know about me: I hate letting people down. I’m a people pleaser. I take criticism very personally. Even after close to a decade online, I can get 100 gushing emails about how great Location Rebel is, but one negative one, throws me off and I analyze it and take it […]
How to Start an Online Business (It’s Easier than You Think)
9 years. That’s how long I’ve been running my own online businesses, and while the online landscape is completely different now than it was back when I started in 2009, there’s one thing that remains the same: There is no one right way to build an online business. Every single one is different. Even businesses in the […]
Canadian Rockies: Exploring Banff and Canmore
Last week in partnership with Canadian Rockies Golf, I took an epic 7 day trip to Alberta to see the best of what the area had to offer in terms of golf and the outdoors. To put it bluntly, the Candian Rockies were even more breathtaking and spectacular than I could have expected. Arriving in […]
Overcome Uncertainty: How To Turn Uncertainty into an Asset
Last year I started a golf community called The Eighty Club. The idea was it would be a place for likeminded golfers to be able to network, share their home courses with each other, and create a global community that prioritizes camaraderie and love of the game over anything else. One of the promises of […]
Daily Blog Update Week #3: Heading into the Home Stretch
Three weeks down, one week to go. Today marks my 23rd day of daily blogging, and it’s been an interesting experience. So far it’s fair to say it’s pretty much gone exactly how I expected it would. The first week there was a lot of new found interest and engagement. People were leaving comments, traffic […]
Screw the Box: Why You Should Differentiate Your Brand and Business
No, not like that, get your mind out of the gutter. For the last couple of years, I’ve found myself stuck in the same box with Location Rebel. It’s completely contradictory to where I was when I started growing the site what feels like eons ago. Back in the day, I wrote about a lot […]
Why You Need to Find a “Third Place”
Once upon a time I lived in Bangkok. When I landed in the City, I honestly knew nothing about it. I didn’t know what the neighborhoods were. I didn’t know which areas were touristy or not. I didn’t know which spots were “safe” and which ones weren’t. I just showed up. I had a hostel booked for […]
The Early Morning Panic Spiral (Trust Me, It’s Going to Be Ok)
It usually hits around 3:30 or 4 in the morning. There’s no telling when it’s going to come, but when it does, it can make small problems feel like the world is collapsing down on top of your bed. I’m talking about the early morning panic spiral. I have no idea if this is a […]