Global Travel Stories & Life Beyond Borders
Hipster Investments founder Ali Boone shares her story of leaving her top-secret government job as an aerospace engineer to move to the beach and start a real estate investment company. She talks about her path from rocket scientist to real estate investor to location-independent business owner. Ali opens up and shares the inside story of...
Julia Shem tells the story of how she came to the U.S. from Russia alone at age 19 with limited English skills and went from waitress to self-made entrepreneur in just 3 years. Now 25, Julia explains how she has fully-automated her business, Goldy.LA, which sells custom metallic temporary tattoos, so that it nets her...
YouTube Influencer Nick Nimmin explains how he grew his personal YouTube Channel by over 100,000 subscribers in under 12 months. He talks about the biggest mistakes people make with YouTube and why most people fail to grow their audience. He gives a detailed example of how a local real estate agent could use YouTube to...
Nomad Summit founder Johnny FD shares his story of how he decided to quit his corporate job in Los Angeles and move to Thailand to live on the beach, work as a dive master and eventually become a professional Muay Thai kickboxer and an online business owner. He opens up about his personal journey overcoming...
Jennifer Magee shares her personal journey through the world of architecture, design and real estate development on her way to becoming a location-independent business owner. She opens up about how she navigated repeated business failures and continually implemented the lessons learned until she eventually selected the right business partners, built the right team, and started...
Business coach Sarah Gregg shares her story of how she and her husband Chris quit their jobs and sold their house, car and all their stuff to pursue their dream of starting their own business and travelling the world full time. After landing major corporate clients like IKEA and helping the European Commission create an...
Long-term digital nomad Kristin Wilson speaks publicly for the first time about how she completely burned out at age 21 and had a grand-mal seizure just months after winning the U.S. National Collegiate Surfing title, dashing her dreams of professional surfing and forcing a major life pivot. She talks about how she reinvented herself and...
Get Rich Education podcast host Keith Weinhold pulls back the curtain and opens up about his personal journey through entrepreneurship, real estate investing and designing a “location independent” and “time asynchronous” lifestyle in his dream location. He talks about his path from being voted the “most quiet and shy” person in his high school to...
This interview takes place on a boat in the Mediterranean Sea over a bottle of wine! May Ling Lai tells her story of how she built a $2 million business from scratch in 2 years at age 24, before going on to manage a billion-dollar hedge fund portfolio. She talks about strategies for navigating a...
10: Bigger Pockets Blogger Ali Boone on Turnkey Real Estate Investing, Property Management, and Her Reality TV Debut
This is Part 2 of the Interview with Ali Boone who is the owner of Hipster Investments and has been a regular contributor to the Bigger Pockets Blog since 2013. In this episode she shares her personal real estate investing journey and discusses why she buys “turnkey” residential investment properties, why she buys them out...