BusinessBackpacker.com is a platform for like-minded individuals to come together and share strategies and insights to help you take your business online and live the lifestyle of your dreams.
Who We Are…
The Business Backpacker community is made up of intelligent, fun-loving, jet-setting entrepreneurs and freelancers around the globe. We are professionally-oriented, but we value our families, friends, and work-life balance over money. We are tired of trying to fit into the conventional “American Dream” lifestyle and would choose freedom over a little temporary security any day of the week. Are you a Business Backpacker?
Where We’ve Been…
Brooke Ferguson
Brooke has always had an unconventional approach to life. She was introduced to business at an early age, working for her father’s small business at age fourteen. Realizing the difficulties of working the typical nine to five job, she vowed to discover another way of living. Brooke has been seemingly obsessed with ‘solving the puzzle’ of how to help others, find career enlightenment, and have control of her own lifestyle. After many years of research and trial and error, she has come up with a system that she now teaches others.
Brooke started Lifestyle Design and Business Consulting in 2006 to show others how to build their business to have the lifestyle of their dreams. Brooke holds a BS in Education and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA). She believes that business owners can have the lifestyle they want and can show you how to build your business to go global and work from anywhere in the world.
Brooke has followed her own advice and is living her dream of traveling and working from around the globe. Brooke currently lives in Thailand and spends the bulk of her time doing activities she enjoys: snorkeling, diving, rock climbing and writing. She enjoys helping small companies and entrepreneurs to streamline their business, find balance, and go location-independent. Her personal motto is Kaizen which means “continual change for the better”.
Cody McKibben
Cody is a location-independent web freelancer originally from Sacramento, California, who loves travel and music. He runs ThrillingHeroics.comas a personal project to encourage other twentysomething professionals and college students to pursue an unorthodox, exciting lifestyle & career. He has been fortunate to travel across North America, Europe, the UK, and is now running his business remotely from Southeast Asia.
Professionally, Cody founded ThrillingDesign.com to provide social media consulting and blog development services geared towards authors, speakers, and entrepreneurs and help them expand their global reach online. Follow his adventures around the globe at codymckibben.com.
Where We’re Going…
We started this blog to reach out to fellow travelers that have had a difficult time making the square peg fit into a round hole. Travelers don’t fit into conventional jobs—and we wanted to gear our resources and consulting program to help other entrepreneurs who want to build a business they can operate from anywhere in the world. How frickin’ exciting is that??!!
Upcoming Destinations
Brooke: China is on the list, for sure. Thailand and Malaysia (there is a tree-house there I want to check out) and I’m itching to get back to diving and climbing, as well.
Cody:I’ve just recently touched down in Bangkok, Thailand, and will be exploring the beaches here and wandering around Southeast Asia throughout 2009. (I’ll be back in California in April for Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival though!)
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