Asking RICH Digital Nomads What They Do For a Living (Bali, Indonesia)
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What are you doing out here in Bali?
What type of business do you guys have?
What is a tough part about being in
Bali?
>> Oh, crush.
>> How much do you pay for rent in Bali?
What's a common misconception that
people have about digital nomads? What's
it like living in Bali?
>> What's the most you've made from one
modeling job?
>> 6K.
>> Have you ever been scammed in Bali? Is
there a dark side to the digital nomad
lifestyle? Any tips for creating great
content? How much money do you make?
>> Between like 400 and 500K.
>> Hey guys, so we're in Bali, Indonesia,
and today we're going to be asking
digital nomads what they do for a
living. Now, we made this video about
two years ago. They absolutely blew up.
We talked to some amazing people. So, I
figured we should do it again and find
even more awesome people to meet. We'll
be asking questions like, "What do you
do for work? How much does it cost to
live in Bali? How much money do you
make? And what advice do you have for
aspiring digital nomads? I've been in
Bali for about 5 or 6 days now. It has
been so fun and I'm super excited for
this video. So, let's go. Okay, so the
first spot we tried getting interviews
was this place called Wrong Gym.
Membership here costs almost $200 per
month. And yes, that's US dollars, not
Indonesian rupee. And after getting
permission to film along with a quick
tour, we set out to find our first
digital nomad.
>> Did I interview for my
>> No, I like to stay under the radar.
>> Find someone else.
>> I'm not sure about
>> Okay, this is a lot tougher than I
expected.
>> I guess I should have expected people at
the gym to be focused on working out
instead of talking to a random stranger.
So, I went out to the pool area where it
seemed like people were relaxing and I
found some young entrepreneurs who are
really friendly. All right, so what are
your names, your ages, and where you
guys from?
>> My name is Aub. I'm 21 and I'm from
Rockov.
>> My name is Leo. I'm 21 and I'm from
England.
>> What brings you here to Bali?
>> We're just working online. It's good for
lifestyle, good for work life balance.
We just come to the gym 5 minutes away,
then go back home and work 12 hours and
scale our business.
>> What type of business do you guys have?
>> We have a supplement brand where we run
it fully organically, have over 350
creator working for us, and we've
managed to get over 2 billion views in
social media and that's how we grew the
Amazon brand.
>> I mean, those are great numbers. So, you
guys are super young. How did you guys
get started with this business?
>> Yeah, so I started out as a graphic
designer. I was living in a refugee camp
in Morocco. I learned how to draw people
in my iPhone 4, right? I had $3 in my
name. So, I started drawing people and
then I got into Facebook groups and
start posting the these drawings asking
for people. I'll draw you for like $5
$10. I got not no one to I want to pay
me. But then one guy said, "Could you
make a logo?" Then I went and learned
how to make a logo. And I started making
logos for people. I started drop
shipping. I lost it all in Facebook,
right? And then I get back to graphic
design, earn more budget, lose it in
Facebook ads until I did Tik Tok ads as
well. So I just ordered five product to
my house with all the money I have and I
started posting videos on Tik Tok about
them and then two or three of them blew
up. Then I started a drop shipping
store. I got to six figures. I met Leo
in a Discord group and then we said bro,
we'd make a fire team. We started
working together. We worked together for
2 years without never seeing each other.
We've met just like few months ago here
in ballet for the first time and now
we're working and scaling launching new
products. Yeah, we're on track to do
seven figures a month.
>> What advice do you have to aspiring
entrepreneurs?
>> Get a mentor. Get a mentor that's doing
a lot better than you and shut up and
listen to him. Basically, other advice
is constantly keep working hard. Like it
doesn't happen overnight. It took me
years to start building especially to
big numbers, multiple six figures, seven
figures a month. You need takes years of
work and get good partnerships cuz work
with good people and like I was the best
person I've ever met in my life and like
without each other I don't think we'd be
here today.
>> How much does it cost to live here?
>> Cost as much as you want. Personally, we
spend like $10,000 a month. Pretty
luxury lifestyle. Like
>> what do you get with that?
>> Everything. Like the biggest villas, the
best gyms, the best food. But if you
want to live it cheaply, you can
obviously stay in a host. You can spend
live here for like $500 a month.
>> Yeah.
>> Do you have any advice for people that
may want to be a digital nomad and work
abroad?
>> I would say lock in for a year or two
years. Never travel. Just get here to
Bali. Get a cheap villa or cheap
apartment. Don't go out. Don't go party,
alcohol, all of that. work for a year, 2
years until you build up that momentum
and then start traveling. If you're
broke, just start in that building
process, just lock in.
>> What's the best advice you guys ever
received?
>> Focus on the highest leverage points.
The guy that told me it said it with a
really weird example which said if you
are with a girl right in bed.
>> Mhm.
>> Right. How would you make her like hot
as fast as possible? You go to a certain
point, boom, she explodes. That's like
the business. Find your leverage points
in your business. There are always
leverage points, things that you put a
little bit of effort in gives you huge,
huge amount of value, huge amount of
growth. These are the things that you
should be working on. Every other thing,
delegate, hire people and focus on the
most important things. And if you are a
beginner, the most important thing is
learning.
>> What's the best business to start today?
>> Selling a product that people buy
multiple times that you can make content
for and go viral organically. Whether
it's digital products, physical
products, anything. Just make sure that
people buys it multiple time like a
supplement. business world right now
with learning content creation. Anyone
can learn to go viral. If you learn that
skill, you can take that skill into any
business across online like online work
or any even physical businesses. Yeah, I
look for three things whenever I start a
business. First thing is gross margin. I
need at least 80%. Second, is it easy to
get viral in social media? And then
third is people buy this products
multiple time and I need to put
subscription on it.
>> Thank you so much. Shout out to those
two guys. They were really nice and gave
out a ton of good advice. Right after
the interview, Joey, who was helping me
film, said he didn't feel too good.
>> Oh, I'm getting like the chills, but
it's okay. I'll be about to do it. Yeah.
>> So, then I met up with two people
outside who had really cool businesses
and a ton of advice. So, what's your
name, age, and where are you from?
>> My name is Sumar. 30 years old, and I'm
from Big Sir, California.
>> How long have you been Bali for?
>> About 8 months.
>> And how is it?
>> I would never leave. I would raise a
family here. My favorite place I've ever
been, I would say.
>> So, what makes it so amazing?
>> I mean, first off, the culture. It's
beautiful, man. the way they live, the
gratitude, the love, how inviting
they've been to me as a tourist
visiting. I think the island is special.
Like literally the land, you've got
volcanoes, ocean, you got everything you
could ever want outside. Amazing expat
scene, cool entrepreneurs, easy to meet
people. It's just got it all.
>> You're selling me on this? Yeah. Yeah.
So, what do you do for work?
>> A couple different things. All of it's
in like the real estate development
niche. 6 years ago, I started a very
weird side project in real estate, which
is creating these like ranches. We call
them ranchets. So, we buy big tracks of
land and subdivide them, sell them off.
no physical development or we just buy
and resell land. In America, there's a
ton of land, a lot of supply and there's
kind of like a hidden minority of people
that love buying land in America.
There's like an insatiable demand for
it, especially after co. Four years ago,
I launched a coaching program teaching
other people how to do it and then 2
years ago I built a software that pretty
much runs the business for you.
>> Like how much money do you make living
here in Bali?
>> Uh this year so far anywhere between
like 400 and 500K.
>> Okay. Yeah.
>> What can you buy with that money here?
>> Yeah. I'm not really a big spender to be
honest. We live a pretty simple life. We
bought a house when we first moved here.
So, we're like 2 minutes up the road. We
paid 285,000. I bought a motorcycle over
there for 12,000 bucks. We have like no
expenses. We eat out every meal of the
day, massages a few times a week, house
cleaning, travel a bunch. But yeah, I
probably spend 10 to 15 grand a month.
>> With all that extra, how are you
investing it?
>> Index funds, real estate, like buy and
hold real estate. I'm buying a big track
of land that I'm developing here in Bali
and then probably too much cash just
sitting in a bank account. Crypto, too.
>> So, how did you get started with your
entrepreneurship journey?
>> Started when I was in second grade. I
was selling candy on the schoolyard. I
almost got expelled for it. It really
started to click though in high school.
I had a photography business. So I'd
shoot houses for realtors. I'd sell
those photos to like contractor if
there's like an engineering company
involved, the painters. These are like
high-end homes in Carmel, California. So
I'd take one photo and sell it a few
times. Then I did that through college.
Dropped out in college after 6 months.
Started a big FBA business. We were
selling like 400 500 textbooks a month.
Then moved to private label. And it's
just been one thing after another.
>> Dude, that's almost exactly what I did.
No way.
>> I sold candy in high school. I did
photography and video. I also did FBA.
>> No way.
>> That's a small world.
>> So, what types of people live in Bali?
>> Oh, man. You get everything. You got the
party crowd. You got the fitness crowd
like at Wrong Gym here. You've got the
Dubai bro entrepreneur crowd. You've got
the crypto bro crowd. You got the Aboot
spiritual crowd. You got it all. Like
really any community you want to find,
you can plug into it here.
>> Is he throwing?
>> Oh my god.
>> You good, man?
>> Oh my god.
>> You have a long night or what? What's a
culture shock that you faced when moving
here?
>> The trash for sure. It's an island
that's growing rapidly. There's a lot of
irresponsible development here. And you
have a workforce that comes from Java
that's kind of fly by night. They're
making money for the family back home
and there's just kind of a lack of care
for the environment. I think that's
starting to change. But dude, in
America, you rarely see people litter.
I'll see people throw a bag of trash on
the ground and that's heartbreaking.
>> So, how do you stay motivated to work
when you have such beautiful places
around you? There's just no other way
for me and I honestly enjoy what I do.
Like I'm super fortunate. I work with a
great group of people within the
business. So I'm lucky to do things that
I enjoy in the business and I couldn't
imagine my life without it. We have a
good work life balance. I probably work
5 to 6 hours a day.
>> What business would you start today if
you were to start from scratch
>> for enterprise value? Like I wish I got
started in software a long time ago.
Like we hit a 8 figure plus enterprise
value in a year and a half. And I'm like
yeah I should have been doing that all
along. For cash flow, I honestly, of
course, I'm a little bit biased, but I
think the land flipping world's pretty
unbelievable. And we've got folks inside
our community that make half a million
in their first year with like zero real
estate experience.
>> How do you structure your team?
>> We've got about 32 or 33 employees
across three different businesses. About
40 to 50% of that salesreated in all
three of the businesses. We have like
one or two marketing people across
across all three of the businesses. I
still do a lot of the marketing. It's
kind of like my sweet spot and what I
enjoy the most. and then back office ops
people and executive assistants is
pretty much the stack. And I would say
right now it's like 40% US, 60%
overseas.
>> What are some of the costs of living in
Bali?
>> So you're going to need a longerterm
visa. I think that's $1,200 what we
paid. That's a 2-year visa. You have to
leave every 6 months or you pay a bit of
a fee to stay longer. One of the weird
things moving here is if you're going to
do like a true like month-to-month
rental that looks like a monthtomonth, a
lot of times they want that money up
front. I would say someone could move
here for 5 to 10 grand and get set up if
you know how to find cheap rentals. Now,
if you go on Facebook groups, you can
find stuff that's like local outside of
Changangu. 600 bucks a month. You can
cook meals for two to three bucks a meal
easily. You can also get people to do
meal prep for you for a few bucks per
meal. Our gym membership, we go to Omni,
240 a month, but it's got like blood
work and they does everything.
>> Any final advice you want to give the
audience?
>> Dude, I mean, if you're watching this at
home, buy a ticket and go travel
somewhere. Whether it's Bali or anywhere
else, like the highest ROI investment
you can make, in my opinion, is probably
travel. And not enough people in America
travel in my opinion. So, yeah.
>> Love that. Thanks so much. By the way,
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interviews. All right. So, what's your
name, age, and where you from?
>> I am Sarah. I am 27 and I'm originally
from New York.
>> What brings you out to Bali?
>> I just fell in love with Bali. I
actually came for a solo trip in 2022
and I felt so safe here. Like, the
locals are so welcoming and as a female
traveler, there's not a lot of places
you feel super safe, but I would like
walk around at night and I don't know, I
loved it. There's something about the
island that gets you.
>> So, what do you do for work as a digital
nomad?
>> Okay. I do fitness and nutrition
coaching. It's lifestyle coaching. I've
been doing that full-time since 2018.
>> How does your business make money?
>> So, all of my clientele are in the US. A
very small percentage in the UK and
Australia. It is full lifestyle
coaching. So, we do weekly
accountability, nutrition, meals,
recipes, workout programming, and then
all the adjustments that you would need
with macros. So we have clients that
sign on between 6 months, 12 months, 2
years.
>> To inspire the audience, would you be
willing to share how much money you're
able to make?
>> Yes. So I've gone through different
seasons of my business where I really
grew to having a bigger team. Right now
I make between 20 25K a month and I have
one assistant coach who's amazing. I
have like someone who does my sales
calls and a setter. So got a little team
but we're doing well.
>> What is the best part about living in
Bali?
>> I think your quality of life is
extremely high. So obviously we are in a
very privileged position to make money
in USD. The locals are so incredibly
welcoming. There's so many like-minded
people here and there really is like a
little niche for everything.
>> What's the toughest part about being a
digital nomad? And
>> I think just missing your friends and
family. For me that's the hardest part.
>> So if you were watching this video and
you were considering becoming a digital
nomad, traveling abroad, working, what
advice would you want to hear? Everybody
that I've talked to in their I would say
40s and above says, "Oh my gosh, I wish
I did something like that when I was
young. Now is the time to do it." You
can reinvent yourself at any point in
your life, but if you're thinking about
it, do it.
>> Do you have any interesting life hacks?
>> Don't tell the world you're going to do
something unless you're going to do it.
>> Well, they get like a dopamine hit by
telling people instead of actually doing
it, right?
>> Yes. It's the same thing with fitness. I
feel like the best way that you can
build self-confidence and selfworth is
by following through with what you say
you're going to do. But so many people
make a commitment publicly and don't
follow through, which just makes you
feel like about yourself.
>> Any fitness tips?
>> So my biggest fitness tip would be learn
about tracking macros and lift weights.
So even if you're only lifting 2 days or
3 days a week, the amount of health
benefits, even just preventing
osteoporosis in your later years of
life,
>> what are the best supplements?
>> I would say creatine. And then for most
women, maybe men as well, women tend to
vastly undereat on protein. So taking a
protein supplement can be really
helpful. I think for most people the
hardest part about online business is
getting clients. How do you market and
how do you get your clients?
>> You need great results. I mean, bottom
line, you just have to be good at what
you do. And if you're good at what you
do, clients will come in. They'll refer
other people. A lot of my business is
run on referrals and resigns. So, if
you're just getting started, you don't
know where to start. Offer a couple
people that you know are serious. Cuz
I've coached people for free that are
not. Once you've got solidified
clientele, know your worth. But you need
social proof. Like, show you're good at
what you do.
>> How about social media? What role does
that play in your business?
>> All my clients before I started getting
referrals and resigns came from social
media. So, I post very consistently.
>> Any tips for creating great content?
>> Plan it. I used to be the queen of
winging it. But once I started planning
it out and batching content, my content
definitely got better. Once you get
going, don't be afraid to hire help.
>> I think a lot of people watching this
video might want to get into coaching,
right? What tools and like platforms
should they use?
>> There's so many coaching platforms. I've
used a couple of them. I now use one
called Zenfit and it's great. A lot of
these platforms now there's they're
getting better and better. So Zenfit's
great. You can create courses within
them. So a lot of people have a coaching
program and then a course. You want
something that's all-encompassing.
>> And how can anyone become a better
entrepreneur?
>> If somebody knows more than you and has
done more than you and is more
successful than you, listen to them.
Take other people's advice, but only
people who are in a position that you
want to be in.
>> Any final things you want to tell the
audience? Like I've met a ton of people
who have only stayed in the US or only
stayed in their home country and then
people who've traveled the world. People
who travel the world you can just tell
like there's like a lightness and an
understanding and compassion that you
just don't feel with people who have
like lived in this little bubble their
whole life of just thinking my country
is the best country and does it the best
way.
>> Thank you so much. So as you guys saw
midway through the interview, Joey was
really feeling the food poisoning. And
after we were done talking to Sar and
Sarah, we were deciding on whether to
keep pushing or not. So Joey's been hit
by Bonnie Belly and it's not feeling
good.
>> No energy. I'm nauseous.
>> So that was it. Joey went back to the
villa and I took a cab to meet up with
one of my project managers, Benji, who
came in clutch to help us film.
>> So can you introduce yourself?
>> My name is Benji. I'm originally from
Jakarta, Indonesia, and I'm a digital
nomad.
>> So what do you do for work?
>> I currently work as a project manager
for Lee Chang right here. Yeah, I
basically help him manage uh his YouTube
channels from beginning to end and
multiple facets of the production
system.
>> How'd you get this job?
>> Uh, shout out to Pa, that's for sure.
>> What are your names? What are your ages?
And where are you guys from?
>> My name is Dustin and this is my wife
Almir. We are from Kazakhstan.
>> And what do you guys do for a living?
>> I'm a fitness coach working in
Kazakhstan, Dubai and maybe going to
work in Bali too.
>> I'm software engineer. Um, I'm working
remotely for a Singapore company. What
made you want to become a digital nomad?
Travel and work at the same time.
>> Uh I think it's a great opportunity for
like any person in the world because
it's a great chance to see the world to
see their different styles of living.
>> Just want to explore Asia to be honest
because we love the cuisine of Asia
trying something new every day.
>> So how much money does someone need to
have to be able to move here and start?
>> Minimum of around 2K to pay for your
rent to your gym membership and that
should be enough. How can people find
jobs that allow them to work remotely?
>> For an IT guy, I think it's pretty
simple. Just go to LinkedIn and find
something.
>> I can say that yeah, it's and nowadays
it's not a problem to find a job. For
example, if we're going to say about
fitness, it's not like 100% remotely
job, but uh if you are really good
specialist in your field, uh it's not
going to be a problem to find a work
anywhere in the world.
>> Would you guys be willing to share how
much money you are making? I'm making
around4 and5 here.
>> For me, it's quite difficult to answer
the question because it depends on uh
the location also. For example, the last
time that I worked in Dubai, it was
approximately like 1K or $15,000
in a month. Yeah.
>> What's been the best part about Bali?
>> I think the atmosphere, the vibe, and
the people, the people are here very
kind, very open-minded, and it's really
like make you fell in love with Bali.
>> How much do you guys spend for rent?
>> We spend it 1.6 1.4. Yeah. How do you
stay focused with all this amazing stuff
to do around here?
>> I just need to dedicate one or two hours
to stay focused like with no
distractions and it allows to boost your
productivity.
>> Any final advice or things you want to
tell audience?
>> Just not to be afraid to explore the
world because it's very big and
different and it will make you even
better.
>> Love that. Thank you so much. It is a
very hot day here in Bali. It's very
humid as well. Completely different type
of heat. It's only probably like 90° but
it feels just feels insane. We decided
to go to Body Factory Next, which was
another well-known gym in Bali for
digital nomads, costing up to $220 per
month. So, what's your name, age, and
where are you from?
>> I'm Ian, 36. I'm originally from the UK.
>> What do you do for a living?
>> My background is health and fitness, but
I'm in property now. So, I buy property
and then rent it out effectively.
>> Sort of like villas.
>> No, no, this is back in the UK, so it
would be like three bed villas or HMOs,
like house, multiple occupancy, things
like that.
>> So, you're able to do all that remotely?
>> Not really. I have to go back. So I'm
here I come here for like 6 months at a
time and then I go back to the UK for a
couple months just kind of working
things but it's kind of at a point now
where it kind of runs itself cuz it's
rentals once you've got a certain number
of properties everything's under
management it's pretty easy.
>> Do you find that there are a lot of
other entrepreneurs here in Bali?
>> Yes it's pretty much full of them online
people entrepreneurs or or maybe want to
be entrepreneurs things like that. Yeah.
>> And what made you choose Bali?
>> I love it. come here for the last 6
years now. Every year for at least a few
months at a time and it's just my
favorite spot as far as like if you're
into health and fitness, healthy food,
it's that perfect hub of everything you
need. Do
>> you have any fitness tips? Cuz you're
obviously very in shape.
>> Consistency. Don't stop.
>> How long have you been working out for?
>> 20 years. Don't go in with the goal of I
want to get to this point. Go in with
the goal of I'm going to start training
regularly 2, three, four, five times a
week, whatever, and I'm going to do that
for the rest of my life. That's the
goal. Just keep going. A lot of people
that want to become digital nomads are
scared that maybe they can't find a good
community or friends after moving. What
would you tell them?
>> You come a place like this, come a place
like Body Factory, sit down, have a
coffee, someone will chat to you if
you're not comfortable, someone will
start chatting to you and you'll meet
all sorts of different people. I'm a
very much an introvert. So, I find it
hard to approach people, but a lot of
people, you know, naturally start to
approach you and it opens up
conversation. So,
>> what's a common misconception that
people have about digital nomads?
>> It's an easy lifestyle. I think people
think like, oh, I'd love to be a digital
nomad. I want to be free and be able to
travel and do whatever I want, but it
takes a lot of graft.
>> Can you tell us about one mistake you've
made in the past and what you learned
from it?
>> I've made a few.
>> Every time I've tried to take the
shortcut because it looks like a better
return on paper. I've lost money. So, be
patient. Take the long route.
>> If someone wants to start investing in
real estate, what advice would you give
them?
>> You don't have to buy where you live.
Buy where you can afford. And once
you're on that property ladder, it'll
start to, you know, keep going from
there on.
>> And do you think people should like if
they want to move to Bali, should they
buy?
>> No,
>> I don't think so. No. Everything's
leaseold in Bali. So, you never actually
own the property. The maximum term you
can own in the property is 25 years
which means you you just never own it
and I don't like that. I like freehold.
So personally I wouldn't recommend I
mean the only thing I would recommend in
barley is if you're going to lease the
land build on the land and sell as
quickly as possible. Don't buy it to
keep it.
>> Any final advice you want to give anyone
starting out in entrepreneurship?
>> My advice is always just be patient.
Take your time. Be patient. Don't try
and take a shortcut.
>> Thank you so much. So what's your name,
age, and where you from?
>> I'm Justin. I'm 25. I'm from California.
>> What brings you Bali? I came to Bali
about a year ago and I fell in love with
it. Getting to surf every day, how cheap
it is, how far your money stretches
here, and the people are just the nicest
here. And there's a huge entrepreneur
community as well.
>> And how long do you think you're going
to stay?
>> Well, I booked a one-way trip to Bali,
not knowing when I'm going to go back
for now.
>> So, what do you do for a living?
>> Couple things. I run an e-commerce
business. That business I started since
college. I've been running it for about
4 to 5 years. That one's doing about $2
to $3 million in revenue a year. I'm
also starting my personal brand. I've
been making content on Instagram for a
while. Starting my YouTube channel as
well. And I also just started doing
coaching and consulting to also teach
others what I do as well.
>> So many serial entrepreneurs here. And
how do you stay focused?
>> For me, I try just try to stick to a
good routine. That's just waking up at a
good time, setting up time for myself,
whether that's like reading, meditating,
going on a walk, whatever. And I think
just sticking to a structure and a
disciplined routine really helps me to
avoid all other distractions.
>> Can you share some of your wins in the
last year?
>> Honestly, a big win has just been
financial freedom. Being able to travel
to like places like Bali, went to 15
countries with my friends. Was able to
get my parents like phones and laptops
and whatever things that they need. I
was able to fly my sister out to come
enjoy some time with me in Bali.
>> What advice would you want to give to
other young entrepreneurs? Figuring out
exactly what you want and figuring out
your ideal life, breaking it down to
like actually visualizing what that
would look like really helped me have a
goal and figure out like every day if
I'm making progress towards that goal.
>> What common trait do you see among your
successful entrepreneur friends?
>> I would say work ethic. A lot of people
will show like yeah the lifestyle is
amazing. It's fun. You get to do
whatever but to get there it takes a lot
of discipline. It takes hard work. It
takes saying no to a lot of distractions
and fun things. Is there anything in
Bali that's surprisingly expensive?
>> The gyms are pretty expensive, I would
say. Some restaurants are like the more
touristy restaurants are definitely more
expensive.
>> What's surprisingly cheap here?
>> The food is surprisingly cheap, but also
really good. I've been really impressed
with the quality.
>> Found out the grabs like Grab in Gojek
are so cheap here.
>> Cheap. Yes. Like an hour from here,
Changangu to Uluatu, what? $6. Insane,
right? That's like $40 at least in
California. You want to go an hour away?
>> I don't want to go to the airport. It's
like $100 for like a 45minut drive.
>> How many people are in your online
businesses and what tools do you use to
run it?
>> We have four offshore employees. Most of
them from the Philippines and then I
have also a friend that runs all of our
paid media marketing in the US as well.
We use Slack for communication, ClickUp
for project management. Yeah, those are
kind of the two biggest tools we use.
>> How much do you pay for rent in Bali?
>> Me and my friend split a villa. We're
paying about 1,200 a month each. And
it's a really nice villa. We got a nice
pool, big rooms, like big glass windows,
which I love.
>> If someone wants to travel to Bali,
where should they stay?
>> Here in Changangu, if you like a more
bustling kind of a city vibe, this is
more definitely more of like a beach
town, but a huge network of
entrepreneurs and everyone's super
active and fit. I would say Ubud if
you're more a little bit more spiritual,
laidback, want to chill. And I'll say
Uluatu if you're you really like
surfing. There's some of the most famous
surfing in the world happens down in
Uluatu. How has living in Asia shifted
your perspective on life and work?
>> After a few months in Asia, I feel like
I have maybe gotten a little bit less
aspirational because seeing people,
especially the locals, how happy and
content they are. While for me, when I
was in LA, there's like I see people
with Lambos, everything, and it's just
like, damn, I want that, too. Here, I'm
definitely a little bit happier, but
it's also I feel like I have to keep
that in check so that I'm still
motivated to hit bigger and bigger goals
and not just be satisfied with what I
have. Any tips and tricks for people
that want to work abroad?
>> I would say learning some type of high
income skill, whether that's sales,
marketing, social media marketing, low
barrier to entry things that you could
do, some type of service- based agency
or selling products online as well.
>> And how much money do you need to live
comfortably here?
>> I would say $2,000 would get you a
pretty nice villa, have you being able
to eat out every day, get laundry done,
surfing, massages, whatever you need.
>> Thank you so much. Okay, so at this
point the humidity was really intense
and I've been sweating a lot, so I did a
quick outfit change before trying to
find the next person. We may need to go
somewhere else cuz there's literally no
one gym right now, which makes sense cuz
it's like 2:00 p.m. So, let's go for a
walk and see if we can uh find people at
any of these cafes.
Could I interview you from my YouTube
channel?
No. Okay. Would you be open to being in
my video? No. Okay. Thank you guys.
After a few more awkward rejections, I
bumped into an entrepreneur who owns a
physical business here in Bali. So,
what's your name, age, and where are you
from?
>> My name is Tev. I'm from Australia,
Sydney, and I'm 27 years old.
>> And what do you do now here in Bali?
>> I'm into property and I own Basi in
Changangu French restaurant.
>> So, you actually have like a physical
location business here?
>> Yes. Yes. And I've been doing it now for
2 years.
>> How did you get started?
>> So, just like all the tourists, you come
to Bali, spend a few weeks here, and
lifestyle gets addictive. There's no
political things going on here. You get
to train, spend time with your close
friends, and at the same time make money
and, you know, socialize.
>> What is it like to start a restaurant
here?
>> Look, it's uh definitely not easy,
especially being in a different govern
uh place. But in terms of like making
money, especially for young investors,
young people looking to make money, I
think Bali is a a perfect place to be.
>> Can you tell us about like how you got
started with this business, how it came
to be? Basically,
>> my parents are from Maitius. So, uh, I
go to Paris two, three times a year and
I eat at onto uh, which is a steak
fritz, uh, concept. Came to Bali, I seen
a bit of a gap in between. So, I hit
that gap, went balls deep and, uh, now
I'm here.
>> How much money did it take to get this
up and running?
>> This is more of like a luxury place. Uh,
so the investment was a lot more than
what you you'd spend on. You're looking
about a4 million Australian dollars.
>> Okay.
>> You guys lease the space?
>> I own the space and then I done the
renovation. So, there was nothing here
before, just empty land, and I built it
from scratch.
>> How's it doing?
>> Doing good. Um, we're running out of uh
tables and chairs.
>> What's your biggest piece of advice for
aspiring entrepreneurs?
>> Go for it. Stay strong. Discipline,
responsibility, make your bed in the
morning. That's how you start.
>> Would you be willing to share some of
the numbers in your business like
revenue or anything like that?
>> I don't want to discuss too much about
numbers, but I'm comfortable. I get to
do what I want. I get to travel, buy
what I want. So, I'm definitely a
comfortable place.
>> And how long do you plan to stay here?
>> Many more years. Got more projects
coming.
>> We're going to build more and more
restaurants.
>> Restaurants. Yeah. So there there will
be more oxod coming everywhere in Bali.
>> Any last advice you want to give
audience?
>> The people you have in your group, your
friends is a main thing. If you're
telling somebody you want to do
something and they telling you don't,
they're not the right people for you.
That's all I can say.
>> Thank you so much. So what's your name,
age, and where are you from? H
>> I'm Andrea. I'm 28 years old and I'm
from Spain.
>> What do you do out here in Bali?
>> I'm a digital nomad. I have a marketing
agency.
>> How did you create your business and get
started in entrepreneurship? Yeah. So I
have a digital skill. It was SEO. So I
was working in a business and then I
started to get clients and then I
started to create a team and Yeah. And
right now I have marketing agency.
>> So what type of services do you guys do?
>> Mainly SEO and social media
>> to inspire the audience. Share some big
wins you've had in the business in the
last year.
>> So I have two main incomes. Okay.
>> One are the marketing agency more or
less it will be like 20,000 per month.
Okay.
>> And the other it's uh I'm content
creator. So I teach to other people how
to do the same. Last month it was uh
15,000.
Yeah. In selling courses, mentorships
and everything.
>> What advice would you give to someone
that wants to be a digital nomad?
>> I think mainly advice is to learn a
digital skill.
>> What's your daily schedule like?
>> Uh so I get up early. I work a little
bit. H then maybe I go to the gym or
sort classes. Then I launch. Then maybe
I work a little bit more. Then maybe I
go out with friends like in the
afternoon. Then maybe I work a little
bit
>> or maybe I create content also. Yeah.
And then I go to sleep.
>> So what type of person should move out
here to Bali?
>> Bali is very good if you are starting to
become an entrepreneur because it's very
cheap. Yeah.
>> So you can live in here with less budget
but also people who wants like uh more
nature, more peace, more I don't know.
People here in Bali they are very real
people. life. It's very real. Very.
Yeah. I like it so much.
>> How much do you pay for rent here?
>> $500.
>> $500.
>> Yeah.
>> Wow. You're saving a lot of money. So,
what are you doing with that money? Are
you investing it?
>> I'm starting to search for investing,
but mainly I reinvest in the business.
>> How do you reinvest in the business?
>> For example, now that I have the
courses, the academy, so I invested in a
team for that they create me the
content.
>> What's the most important trait that you
have that allowed you to become
successful?
>> Persistence and patience. Is there a
dark side to the digital nomad
lifestyle?
>> You feel like little bit lonely because
you are changing countries.
>> How do you meet friends then?
>> For example, uh it happens to me a lot
in social media. I create content and
people who speaks Spanish from Bali.
Maybe they start to to following me.
Maybe they text me, hey, I've seen that
you are in Bali blah blah. You want to
join? Or also in WhatsApp groups groups.
It's full of WhatsApp groups.
>> Okay. What is your best travel hack? So
when I arrive to a place, I never book
in advance too much days. I book maybe
one day or two like in a hotel. Then I
see if I like it and then I extend more
because they I know there are people
that they book maybe 1 month and they
haven't seen the place.
>> Any last thing you want to tell the
audience?
>> What is the worst thing that can happen
to you coming here and then do you don't
like and then coming back?
>> Thank you so much. So what's your name,
age, and where you from?
>> I'm Terrell. I'm 28. I'm from the UK.
>> What brings you to Bali?
>> I just thought I'd try to do some
traveling. I hear so much good things
about Bali. I just thought I may as well
come and see if it's worth the hype.
>> What's the best part about Bali so far?
>> I think you need to travel around the
whole island. So, don't stay in
Changangu. The culture is beautiful. Um,
but just come to Changangu when you want
to be more familiar with the Western
world. And then, yeah, I just say go far
north as you can for the best
experience.
>> North. Oh, yeah.
>> What do you do for work?
>> I'm a crypto trader. I'm only Salana
based meme coins at the moment.
>> Can you share one of your big wins
recently?
>> A coin called UFD. I got into it before
it bonded. So, it was I think 50K market
cap.
>> Okay. I ended up coming out at 140
million market cap.
>> Wow.
>> So, I did uh I did pretty well.
>> That's really good.
>> I did I wish I put more in, but you
know.
>> What's the most amount of money you've
made from one single trade?
>> I won't say an exact number, but I'd say
at the start of six figures,
>> okay,
>> on that one trade and I uh I invested
just over £100. So, is the whole thing
with like these meme coins, put money, a
little bit of money into like a thousand
different coins and hopefully one of
them is going to like
>> I say that's what everyone does at
first, but then over time you kind of
need to start filtering cuz there's a
lot of scams. So, you start to get your
own method, what to look out, what to
avoid. Like, I miss a lot of good coins
because of my filters. However, I also
miss a lot of scams.
>> If someone wanted to start making money
with crypto, what would you tell them?
>> Just be patient. Don't follow what all
the crypto influencers are telling you
to do. If you're going to learn, learn
yourself. Read your own books. Um, trial
and error. Don't be afraid to mentally
buy a coin without physically buying a
coin because that way you can gain
experience without actually losing money
and just trust yourself.
>> What would you tell someone that is
thinking about moving to Bali? Should
they do it? What steps should they take?
>> I'd say do it, but I'd say, as I said
before, come out here first because the
island, each area is so different. You
might come to Changoo and decide you
don't like Bali or if you go to Aboud,
you'd love it. I'd also say travel a bit
more in Southeast Asia. I've only come
to Bali and I want to stay in Bali, but
I'm unsure whether that's just because
I've not experienced everywhere else.
So, I'd say travel um and then make a
decision.
>> How much do you pay for rent
>> here? I pay £1,200. It's like a loft
apartment.
>> Okay.
>> It's that price because it's literally
in the center of Changung. So, if you
want to be in the center, you're going
to pay a lot more.
>> What types of people have you met in
Bali?
>> All sorts of people like people that
have just come to party. I've met people
that are close to millionaires, people
that are starting their businesses, many
influencers. There's a lot of
influencers here. What does the world
need more of?
>> Feel like everyone just needs to be a
lot more open-minded to show a lot more
compassion. Like where I'm from in the
UK, everybody has a pre-positioned
opinion on everyone. I don't know if
that's the right word. Whereas when you
come out here, you see that everyone's
very open and they take it at face
value. And yeah, I feel like the world
would just be a better place if everyone
just followed them rules.
>> Have you ever been scammed in Bali?
>> I've been scammed as in paying too much,
but I've not been scammed as in like
people taking my money. I'm not.
>> Like what' you pay too much on?
>> Everything.
>> Everything.
>> Everything. Like food, travel. So they
see that you're like a a foreigner and
they're like, "Okay, I'm going to mark
up the price."
>> Yeah. Yeah, definitely. You don't mind
too much because at the end of the day,
if it's cheap for you and it's good
money for them, I guess you can't
complain too much. You know what I mean?
>> Thank you so much. So, after talking to
Tyrell, we went to the beach to enjoy
the sunset. One of the cool things about
Bali is that there's all these
restaurants right along the beach. So,
you can sit and just chill, watch the
surfers or you have a meal up there.
It's actually really nice. Super
beautiful at sunset. We did this on like
the first day that we were in Changangu
and it was amazing. who's at this beach
where we met Lena who is a professional
model from Ukraine. So what's your name,
age, and where are you from?
>> My name is Lena. I'm 26 years old and
I'm from Ukraine.
>> So what do you do out here in Bali?
>> I'm a professional model. Uh it's
actually a lot of modeling job here in
Bali. It's coming from everywhere from
Indonesia, from Australia, from China a
lot. So it's a very nice market to be.
>> How did you get into that?
>> I wanted to come to Bali for surfing.
You need to get money from somewhere
>> and then I found out it's a very nice
market. So, I've decided to combine all
together and Bali is perfect place for
everything. Yeah.
>> What's the most you've made from one
modeling job?
>> 6K from one job. I have uh 9 years
experience and it's like the only job
that was paid that much.
>> What are some of the cool brands that
you've shot with?
>> Shooting for Fela a lot.
>> Okay.
>> For again, Provocator if you know them
for Burberry, Uber. Actually, a lot of
cool brands.
>> What advice would you give to someone
that wants to start modeling? If you
have a friend, a model or a photographer
or like a fashion designer to talk about
all that with that friend and probably
to just search for an agency in your
country for just the beginning.
>> There's a lot of rejection too, right?
>> Yeah, of course. You need to have like
very strong mind and like stability
because you will hear a lot of
rejections but you need to understand
that it's mostly not because of you but
because you just do not suit a brand or
a topic.
>> What's it like living in Bali? I love
waking up in the morning for surfing and
then uh it's very beautiful everywhere.
I love the variety of things that you
can do here. I love people also because
here you can find the community in
everything, you know, like I'm Ukrainian
and here I have huge community. I didn't
expect that but it's a lot of Ukrainians
here.
>> How much does it cost to live here in
Bali?
>> $1,500 per month.
>> Yeah, that's what I spend.
>> Any last words you want to tell the
audience?
>> Get financially
smart. Don't lose all of your money and
never leave until uh last 10 bucks in
your pocket. You know what I mean?
Because it happened to me once and it's
terrible.
>> Thank you so much. All right, guys. So,
there you have it. Asking digital nomads
what they do for a living here in Bali,
Indonesia. We definitely met some
amazing people today that have now
become my friends. And that's one of the
best things about doing these types of
videos. You get to meet so many people
that you would never have met otherwise.
And that's why I love making these types
of videos. I love social media and I
just love content in general. Hopefully
you guys got some value watching this
video. Hopefully you're inspired. If you
yourself are watching this and you want
to travel more and you want to become a
digital nomad, work remotely. I think
this might be a sign for you to take
that leap of faith. Go out there, take
action, do it, and hopefully this will
push at least one of you to, you know,
go on that digital nomad journey because
I really think you're going to love it.
I learned so much from the people we
talked today. We met some really amazing
entrepreneurs and people doing all types
of jobs. It's so cool. It really is a
melting pot here in Bali. So, I really
recommend coming and checking it out.
So, yeah, that's it for this video. Make
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Peace.
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