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Nora Dunn is a digital nomad who has lived and traveled in over 75 countries since 2006. She shares her story, tips and tricks on how to travel full-time in a financially sustainable way on her blog, The Professional Hobo.
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The Professional Hobo is about how to travel long-term and...
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Jun 6, 2023 · The Professional Hobo is about how to travel long-term and full-time in a financially sustainable way, as experienced since 2006 by Nora Dunn, former financial planner and current world traveler/writer/speaker/host.
The Professional Hobo is about how to travel long-term and full-time in a financially sustainable way, as experienced since 2006 by Nora Dunn, former financial planner and current world traveler/writer/speaker/host.
- Hey, Nora. Tell Us A Bit About Yourself and What You do.
- What Made You Sell Your Financial Planning Practice and Start Traveling?
- How Did The First Few Months of Hitting The Road Look like?
- What Is Slow Travel and What Do You Love About It The most?
- How Do You Make A Living on The Road?
- How Long Did It Take You to Earn A Full-Time Income While Traveling?
- When and Why Did You Start The Professional Hobo?
- How Has The Blog Grown Ever Since in Terms of Traffic and Income?
- What Are Your Income Streams as A Travel Blogger?
- What Strategies Do You Use to Get More Traffic to The Blog?
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Hiya! I’m Nora Dunn, aka The Professional Hobo. In 2006, I sold the lot in Canada (including my financial planning practice) to embrace my lifelong dream of traveling the world on a long-term and immersive basis. Since then I’ve traveled through and lived in 55+ countries. To keep my travels financially sustainable, I established an online career a...
It all started with a dream that was kindled at a young age; a dream to understand various cultures from the inside out. Over the years I took vacations, but I rarely achieved more than a chance to defrost from Canadian winters for a week or two at a time. Hardly a culturally significant experience! My last traditional vacation before I sold everyt...
The first few months of my travels set the stage for the following 12 years. It started with an idea to go to Costa Rica, but for some reason I couldn’t bring myself to book the tickets. Then, my boyfriend at the time (who accompanied me for the first few years) got a call from his brother in western Canada, who was getting married and wanted him i...
Slow travel is both a necessity and a privilege for full-time travelers and digital nomads. First of all, slow travel offers the chance to explore more than just cursory experiences by staying somewhere for months at a time. It offers cultural insights through living with – and like – locals. Second, if you’re running a location independent busines...
I earn a living as a freelance writer and blogger, on the topics of travel, personal finance, and lifestyle design – usually a combination thereof. I also run my own website – The Professional Hobo – which generates a few different types of income. While I make a fraction of the money I made as a financial planner, I also discovered that my cost to...
When I started traveling full-time, I had a small income from the sale of my financial planning practice (about $2,000/month CAD). While I also had savings, I challenged myself to learn to live and travel full-time on this income – something that was made possible by my free accommodation endeavors. Shortly into my travels, I connected the dots and...
Travel blogs in 2006 were glorified online travel journals, and that’s exactly what mine was too! Though at the time, while hosted on a free Blogger platform, it wasn’t even called The Professional Hobo. The official (self-hosted) website The Professional Hobo was born in 2008, in the aftermath of accidentally starting an international NGO that att...
Because I was one of the first travel bloggers, my site grew quickly as the industry grew. This is partly because there was a much smaller pool of travel bloggers, and I had achieved some recognition. As such, I got a lot of features – which in turn, got me a lot of backlinks. So I did pretty well in the initial years, all the while ignoring many o...
My main income streams are ads, affiliate sales, and freelance writing. I publish my income and expenses annually; my income reports in particular break down the various sources of income, along with detailing my business practices and plans.
At the moment, I’m doing something I never wanted to do in the past – SEO! And you know what? It’s not as soul-destroying as I had thought it would be. There’s great satisfaction in optimizing a post and tangibly measuring the results of my efforts in the form of increased traffic -and thus, income. (It’s also a chance for me to revisit some of my ...
Learn how Nora Dunn sold her financial planning practice and traveled full-time for 12 years, saving over $100K on accommodation. Find out how she makes a living as a freelance writer and blogger, and what she loves about slow travel.
Greetings from The Professional Hobo! I've been a digital nomad since 2006. I help people design their lifestyles and arrange their affairs to travel long-term while working remotely.
Mar 31, 2022 · Twelve years ago, Nora sold her possessions and started chronicling her globe-trotting travels in her blog – The Professional Hobo. She found her niche – financially sustainable travel – after learning how to cut down her cost of living abroad.
6,866 Followers, 2,815 Following, 1,187 Posts - Nora Dunn -TheProfessionalHobo (@theprofessionalhobo) on Instagram: " ️ Digital Nomad since 2006 🎥 Host of Travel Smart In Style. I'll help u travel long-term while working remotely! 💰 Former CFP 👇 Click here!👇".
