Nomads Playbook Ep. 1 - November 2024

Hello friends! We’re thankful for every single one of you who’ve been part of our community from the very beginning.

Today, we’re launching Nomads Playbook. We hope to provide an unusually transparent look into our minds & business of full-time travel.

Travelling can be lonely and we would love to connect with like-minded people like yourselves to travel while working less and earning more remotely.

1. YouTube

This month, we hit the most number of subscriber growth and watch hours on YouTube 🎉🥳.

When we started the channel in September, we hoped to become part of YPP so that we can monetize our videos and continue to make more enjoyable content.

We’re about a quarter of our way there which we’re extremely excited about!

• 2 Videos published this month

• 181 Subscribers (18.2% to goal)

• 933.8 Watch Hours (23.3% to goal)

Thank you for your likes, comments, shares and just spreading love and positivity on our latest videos!

If you haven’t already, feel free to check out our new videos.

And if you like them, we’d appreciate your Subscription, Likes, and Comments - it goes a long way in supporting our channel.

On a more personal note, a close friend of mine texted me after watching our videos to say that he now feels that everyone can become a YouTuber.

It’s so true!

I believe that the greatest opportunity for our generation is YouTube.

As more and more people start creating their own channels, the novelty will eventually wear off and the barrier to entry will even get higher and higher over time.

Naturally.

Just as everyone has a TikTok, Facebook, or Instagram account,

and you wouldn’t intentionally check out someone’s account just because they are on one of these platforms,

the same will apply to YouTube.

We enjoyed early traction on our videos because YouTube is still relatively novel now.

But not for long.

So if you’re sitting on the fence, go for it.

And let us know if you do because we will gladly support you along in your journey too!

2. Affiliate Partnerships

We’ve partnered with Klook, which is extremely exciting!

Now, you can use “DARIENANDJOANNA” promo code to enjoy 10% discount for new customers, 5% discount for existing customers on Klook.

And we earn a small commission on every booking made using our exclusive promo code.

How neat is that?

3. Health

We’ve found a great gym here in Lombok where we’ve been going for daily Hyrox, HIIT, Yoga, Boxing, Strength training and other random workout classes.

We did have some trouble finding the right gym initially and we’ll be showing the hunt in our upcoming video, so stay tuned!

Keeping up with consistently putting out YouTube videos that are interesting can be mentally stressful, but we love it and don’t ever want to burn out.

So we’re keeping steady pace of a target of one video every two weeks.

Hey, we didn’t quit our full-time jobs to work more… right?

Smart work beats hard work any time!

This reminds me of an article I wrote on Medium about a year ago on building a business while working a 9-5.

Check it out here.

It’s funny how things have progressed past the Line of Resistance now.

4. Relationships

This is my last point… on relationships.

Wealth. Health. Relationships.

See what I did there?

The three keys to a balanced life.

Relationships are hard to build while travelling on the road, which is a HUGE push factor for me to get this newsletter going.

Our goal is connection.

Not with just anybody, but with likeminded people like you who dream big and want more from life than just doing what everybody else is doing and letting life slip by.

So we’d love to hear from you, whether you’re in the beginning of your journey, or deep in.

Take care and until next month.

With love,
Darien (& Joanna)