Today we speak with Lifestyle Preneur Nathaniel Boyle. Nathaniel is a serial travel adventurer, story teller and web designer who transformed  his skill into a lifestyle business.

His love of travel started at the tender age of five, when his mother swapped their home in Massachusetts for a castle in England. According to Nathaniel, the castle enhanced his imagination. Later he saw travel as a way to further explore and play.

According to Nathaniel:
when he is at home, he is less than himself … he feels more alive when he travels
As an adult, Nathaniel found himself unhappy at work. He decided to quit his traditional 9 t0 5 job and go traveling. He took a year off from work to see the world and did odd jobs to keep traveling.

Soon enough, Nathaniel fell in love with the explorer version of himself.

Upon his return to the states, Nathaniel took web design classes and found a job to learn everything about the skill. Later, he created a freelance web design business which allowed him the chance to work from anywhere he wanted to.
Nathaniel's Advice For Aspiring LifestylePreneurs:

Clearly identify the lifestyle you want, in your mind (for him it was to be able to live and work from anywhere).

Learn a skill, perhaps one that you are already good at (he took a job and stayed at that job until his learning curve was met).

NOTE: When you are identifying a skill, keep in mind it does not have to be your passion.
If you don’t have a skill that you love, then find a customer that you love - a group of people that you want to help... maybe they are emerging travelers or emerging entrepreneurs who are fighting for their life to find freedom and get their business off the ground or put food on the table for their family.
Find a fight you believe in... find those people that are fighting that fight and help them.
Understand that business and methods with which you help others will always change, but they (the people) will always be in the fight. If you love them, you will never get tired of doing business with and for them.

Begin to practice freelancing your skill until you are good enough to consider yourself a professional (while still at his job, Nathaniel began to take clients while sharpening his skills).

Go for it!  It all comes down to fighting to find those first clients and delivering to them 10x the value that they are paying you. Eventually, they will recommend you to other people.

Sites Mentioned in Podcast:
dailytravelpodcast.com

makeyourthing.co
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