Last week, my computer crashed.

Have you ever had one of those "Oh ****!" moments?

Well this was it for me.

I run my entire business from my computer, so this was like finding my office space burned to the ground. To make matters worse, I am in the Philippines and the internet here is basically nonexistent.

Not a good feeling.

While this could have been one of those freak-out moments, I took a breath and evaluated the situation: What exactly was broken and what wasn't?

Sure, I had to do a hard reboot of my computer and I lost all my files...but I had everything backed up on an external hard drive (and a second backup to the cloud), so I was able to get back up and running in a few days. At the same time, I received thousands of hits to my website and hundreds of new subscribers to The Resistance Broadcast. I simultaneously sold several hundred dollars worth of books from my online book store.

Basically, everything I had built these past three years had continued to operate without me.

This is not something I take for granted, but I'm also not lucky - I put a lot of time and energy into making sure everything I build can operate without me. A big part of this was researching the right tools for the job...

That's why today I want to share over a dozen business apps that allow me to not only automate the majority of my business (so it can work even if I'm not there), but apps that allow me to work from anywhere in the world.
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traveling and working abroadIn the past twelve month, I’ve:

  1. Traveled to 5 continents
  2. Spent time in 12 countries
  3. Literally lived out of a car for two months in New Zealand
  4. Almost got stomped by an elephant in Africa
  5. Snorkelled the Great Barrier Reef
  6. Driven through the deserts of Namibia to find cave man paintings (found them!)
  7. Had way too many doble espresso con crema’s in Argentina
  8. Canoed around the Amazon
  9. And a lot of other crazy stuff (that’s been documented) but for the sake of brevity, let’s move on…

In that time, I’ve also run into a lot of travelers

Inevitably, after hearing how long my wife and I have been traveling or how long we plan to continue traveling, we get the following question:

“How?”

People want to know how we do it.

Or rather: they want to know how we pay for it.
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