TRL 154: Creating the First Nomad Border Pass & the Future of the Digital Nomad Community with Lauren Razavi, Director of Plumia

That Remote Life | Interviews with Digital Nomads and Location Independent Entrepreneurs

Today on the podcast Mitko (@mitkoka) is joined by Lauren Razavi (@LaurenRazavi) the author of the new book Global Natives which is out now at Holloway Books. She is also the Director of Special Projects at SafetyWing where she heads the Plumia project which is on a mission to build the first country on the internet.

During this interview, Lauren and Mitko discuss how her Iranian background influenced her to become a digital nomad in 2013, what digital nomads as a community can do to tackle many of the issues plaguing local populations of cities that have become nomad hubs, and Mitko and Lauren discussed her work at Plumia and their goal to create the first Nomad Border Pass by 2025.

💬 Topics Discussed:

• How Lauren’s immigrant background influenced her later decision to become a digital nomad
• How local communities view digital nomads
• How can digital nomads improve their relationships with local communities?
• The relationship between governments and digital nomads
• Why coworking spaces are the lynchpins of the digital nomad movement
• Is digital nomadism really the ultimate tool for the democratization of opportunity?
• The importance of second citizenship or residency to a foreign country as a digital nomad
• Increasing global mobility of the nomad workforce
• Citizenships and visas as a subscription service
• How countries and individual cities are trying to attract digital nomads
• How governments and government officials view digital nomads
• Lauren’s book Global Natives
• Lauren’s vision for the future of digital nomads
• Speeding up the progress of government and the real estate sector
• Mobilizing people to further grow and improve the global digital nomad movement

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🎒 Resources:

• https://plumia.org/
• https://lraz.io/
• https://twitter.com/LaurenRazavi
• https://www.holloway.com/b/global-natives
• https://www.hackerparadise.org/
• https://thatremotelife.com/episode91/
• https://hbr.org/2014/06/how-to-succeed-in-business-by-bundling-and-unbundling
• https://apnews.com/article/1983c1c12e2048beba26e1900294be01
• https://plumia.org/tag/plumia-talks/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoIoWylLdDg&ab_channel=Plumia