311: Financial Planning for Digital Nomads with Michael Kim

311: Financial Planning for Digital Nomads with Michael Kim

Author: Matt Bowles: Full-Time World Traveler Since 2013 November 18, 2024 Duration: 1:06:38
Learn how to improve your money mindset, set financial goals & avoid the biggest financial mistake digital nomads make. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE Michael Kim starts off talking about his family’s immigration story of how his parents got to Canada, his experience growing up in Toronto, and how is interest in travel started to develop. He shares his experience studying abroad in Poland, then traveling to Japan and Korea, and eventually deciding to become a digital nomad and begin his entrepreneurial journey. Michael describes the healing impact of moving to Mexico and then shares the highlights of spending 3 months in Puerto Escondido and slow-traveling through southeast Asia. He also reflects on his experience and gives tips for traveling the world as a Queer digital nomad. Michael then talks about founding “Michael E Kim Coaching” and gives tips on how to improve your money mindset, how to set financial and lifestyle goals, and how to make, save and invest your money. He speaks about financial planning for digital nomads in particular, and how to avoid the top financial mistakes that digital nomads are making. ⁠ ⁠ → Full show notes with direct links to everything discussed are available here. ============================ FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU: See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ============================ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram and DM Matt to continue the conversation Please leave a rating and review — it really helps the show and I read each one personally You can buy me a coffee — espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

There’s a certain texture to life lived in motion, a collection of stories that emerge not from postcards but from the messy, beautiful reality of planting roots in foreign soil. The Maverick Show: Global Travel Stories & Life Beyond Borders captures that essence through long-form conversations hosted by Matt Bowles, who has been navigating the world full-time since 2013. This isn't a guidebook podcast; it’s a series of intimate dialogues, often unfolding casually over a shared bottle of wine, where the destination is understanding. You’ll hear from a diverse range of voices-expats, digital nomads, women forging paths abroad, and diaspora storytellers-each sharing the raw, unfiltered nuances of what happens when you cross borders for good. The focus is on the human narrative beneath the itinerary: the cultural misunderstandings that become breakthroughs, the loneliness and liberation, and the profound ways a global life reshapes identity. Listening feels like pulling up a chair at a cafe somewhere in the world, eavesdropping on a conversation that’s equally about internal discovery as it is about geographic change. Matt’s own experience as a long-term traveler informs these discussions, steering them toward the substantive lessons learned far from home. If you’ve ever wondered about the true weight and wonder of building a life between cultures, this podcast offers a genuine, thoughtful window into that journey.
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