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What It's About
A love of travel spurs a paralegal to help others start working remotely.
Business Model
Service
Skills Required
Remote Work & Time Management
Complexity
Low
Profit Potential
Medium
Words of Wisdom
For Brittnee, she knew that her creativity would be stifled if she was struggling with money. She wasn’t ready to just quit her job and figure out how to make money on the way. Instead, she spent time building up capital, and she suggests others that are hoping to be entrepreneurs do the same.
Fun Fact
The first person credited with the idea of using electronics to work remotely was astronaut Jack Nilles. He worked at NASA in the 1970s, and called this type of work “telecommuting”. It wasn’t until the 2010’s that the term “digital nomad” became widely used.
Notes from Chris
Episode 937
Brittnee Bond dreamed of working remotely. Even as a teenager, she was brainstorming ways that she could take her future career in law and transform it into something that she could do from anywhere. And her journey accelerated when she graduated from college and scored a job as a paralegal in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was there that she began to find ways to make her job accessible wherever she was. She encouraged her law firm to go completely paperless. Then, she nudged two more law firms to do the same thing. Not only was it practical, Brittnee had the alternative motivation of making her work that much more location independent. Three years later, she managed to convince her company to let her work in San Diego for a while. If that went well, Brittnee would be allowed to work from Costa Rica for another stint of a few months. Long story short, it worked out, and two months later Brittnee was on a plane headed south. She was excited! The only downside was that her law firm viewed the trip as a “once in a lifetime opportunity” that would get the travel bug out of Brittnee’s system. But after a few months of surfing and lounging on the Costa Rican beaches, the travel bug was nowhere close to leaving. If Costa Rica was this amazing, Brittnee couldn’t imagine what the rest of the world had to offer! She came back from the trip with a new goal in mind: to become fully location independent. Soon after returning home, Brittnee quit her job in Salt Lake and moved across the country to New York City. Over the next two years, Brittnee scrimped and saved. She worked her day job, and in the morning, on her lunch breaks, and at night, she worked on her new project: a travel company to help others who wanted to have location independent jobs. Eventually, that company became Bond Works—a consultancy where she helps businesses transform conventional jobs into location independent ones. She’s also working on a series of courses about the same topic. This approach is less hands-on than her consulting work and has the potential to double or triple her income. Brittnee had a goal in mind to live a location independent life. By balancing the right amount of risk and cautiousness, she was able to test out a series of projects until she found a few that took off. As she gained experience, she took notice of the needs of her communities and based her new hustles off of those needs. Now, she’s exploring the world just as she imagined.MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
- Bond Works: Learn more about the work that Brittnee is doing over on her website
- Squarespace: The website building platform that Brittnee used to create her website
- Project Manager Helps Cubicle Workers See the World: When a corporate employee is told she can’t take a big trip because of her daughter, she starts a company to make travel more accessible
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Digital Nomads: A German chemist goes nomadic and builds a community for women who work remotely
- Working Military Mom Finds Success Working Virtually: Leaving the corporate world behind, a mom and military wife now earns 6-figures helping people learn the world of virtual assistance
Quote of the Day
"Save as much as you can now, even if you don't know what idea you want to pursue. Because even if you find a viable idea, you need capital and a runway while you're building your business."
—Brittnee Bond #SideHustleSchool
