You have a skill worth $3,000 a month. You’re just calling it “being a mom” instead of recognizing it as project management, scheduling, negotiation, multitasking under pressure. Companies pay $50-75 an hour for people who can do what you do daily while managing toddler meltdowns. The skill you’re not seeing: Managing everyone’s schedules and coordinating pickups and activities and meal planning while working and keeping everyone alive? That’s operations management. That’s executive assistance. That’s logistics coordination. Businesses pay for exactly that. You’re doing it for free at home. How freelancing actually works: You have skill. Someone needs that skill. They pay you to use it. Done. Why $3,000 matters: In US that’s poverty level. Can’t afford rent or healthcare or childcare on $36k a year. In Portugal or Mexico or Thailand that’s comfortable middle-class life with savings buffer. You don’t need six figures to live well abroad. You need modest income in place where that income actually covers life. The shift: Stop thinking your skills don’t count because you used them raising kids. Start thinking you’ve been managing complex operations with competing priorities and tight budgets and impossible deadlines for years. One makes you feel unemployable. Other makes you actually marketable. The blender method: Take what you’re good at. Add what you know about or enjoy. Match to companies needing exactly that combo. Good at scheduling plus know fitness industry equals virtual assistant for personal trainers handling bookings. Good at budgets plus know real estate equals bookkeeper for property managers. Why this beats job hunting: Freelancing means you decide where you work. Clients care about deliverables not location. You qualify for remote work visas with $2-3k monthly income. Job hunting means competing for rare international positions. Employer controls everything. Maybe they let you work abroad, probably not. Stop overcomplicating: You don’t need courses or perfect website or business plan. You need to identify your skill, find companies using that skill, reach out offering it, do the work, get paid. Start before you’re ready. Figure it out while doing it. What skill are you sleeping on? 🆘🇺🇸
@nomadveronicaTranscript
Seriously, you need to stop looking for jobs and start selling skills that you already have. I know that you have $3,000 a month's skills. You're just not understanding what you need to do to convert the skills into income. Think of it from a mother's perspective. You have amazing negotiating skills, project management skills, scheduling skills. You can multitask with the best of them and those skills can be turned into freelance gigs from companies who need skills just like that in order to make more money for themselves. It's all about positioning. So take those skills that you have and match them with things that you like out there in the world and mush them all together in a blender and figure out who needs that. And then go sell those skills to that company. That's all you have to do to become a freelancer. I think people try to make it overly complicated, but skills plus someone that will pay you becomes freelancing. And then you do not have to focus on having some employer sponsor you for a job or make sure that you're allowed to work globally remote on the job that you're trying to get that says remote in the listing. That's all nonsense. You can create your own job with a multitude of clients who don't get to dictate where you are in the world. If you are freelancing and just contracting for somebody, then you're able to move abroad. And the reason I said you only needed $3,000 a month out of this is because even a very modest income within the United States can become a very good income if you move to a cheaper cost of living country. So while you might be thinking you need to have some six figure salary to be happier broad. It's not the case at all. You can be making any very modest income and use that income to move abroad.
Download Transcript
Related Videos
If picking a new country was as easy as comparing crime statistics and educational outcomes, than obviously that country would be overrun with expats. The best countries to move to are not one size fits all. Before you get your hopes up about any particular country, I suggest you take a step back. Determine your visa eligibility first. Some countries are trying to attract retirees. Other countries are welcoming digital nomads. And there are countries only looking for wealthy expats. Your income type and amount will determine what countries will take you. Schedule your exit plan call if you’re ready to stop daydreaming and start packing. #creatorsearchinsights
You say you want to leave America for another country, but you never do. Here is exactly where you can go, an island paradise with friendly English speaking people and no paperwork required. Yet, you still won’t go. We’ve gotta change your mindset about leaving America. It’s not healthy to just keep saying you want to leave but never doing what you say you want. You can absolutely move to another country and I will show you how. 🆘🇺🇸 #TikTokEncyclopediaContest #creatorsearchinsights
There are a lot of people who love the idea of moving abroad. There are fewer people who are actually ready to make it happen. If you have been stuck researching how to move abroad from the US, how to leave America, where to live overseas, or how to move abroad with kids, but you still do not have a plan, this page is for you. A lot of smart people get trapped in analysis paralysis. They keep consuming more content because it feels productive. But more information does not always create movement. Sometimes it just creates more confusion. You do not need fifty more tabs open. You need the right order of steps. You need a strategy that fits your life. You need someone who understands how to move from vague dream to actual plan. I help Americans who are tired of researching moving abroad and ready to start taking action. Follow if you want practical guidance, realistic next steps, and a clear path toward living abroad. 🆘🇺🇸
The life you've built in America isn't the life you wanted. It's the life you could scrape together under constraints of: wages that don't cover basics, healthcare tied to employment, housing costs consuming half your income, constant financial stress, survival mode as default state. You didn't choose misery. You chose best option available within impossible constraints. But those constraints are geographic. Change geography, change constraints, change what's possible. The apartment you can barely afford in America becomes the nice place with breathing room abroad. The paycheck that barely covers survival in America becomes the income that allows saving abroad. The constant stress about one emergency destroying you financially becomes manageable situation where emergencies are expensive but not catastrophic. Same income. Same skills. Same person. Different location. Completely different life. You're not stuck because you lack resources. You're stuck because resources you have don't work in location you're in. Move those resources to location where they work better, and you're not stuck anymore. But moving requires: tolerating uncertainty about how things will work out, being uncomfortable while figuring out new systems, releasing familiar patterns even when familiar is miserable, trusting you can build better life from scratch. Most people choose familiar misery over unfamiliar uncertainty. Devil you know feels safer than devil you don't, even when devil you know is grinding you down. This is why people stay in: jobs they hate, relationships that don't work, locations that don't serve them, lives that feel like slow suffocation. Because at least they know how to survive current misery. Unknown is terrifying even when unknown might be better. But what if you're not choosing between misery and uncertainty? What if you're choosing between: familiar misery that will continue indefinitely, or temporary uncertainty that leads to actually building life you want? When you're in survival mode, you're making choices based on: what's cheapest, what's fastest, what gets you through next month, what keeps crisis at bay. Not what you actually want. What you can manage given constraints. Those choices compound into life that doesn't reflect your preferences. Reflects what you could piece together while drowning. But when you move somewhere your income works better, you're not in survival mode anymore. You have breathing room to choose based on: what you actually want, what serves your family, what creates life you're proud of. That's not small difference. That's the difference between life you're enduring and life you're choosing. Living in America isn't default you're stuck with. It's choice you're making every day by not choosing differently. And choosing differently is available to you. Link in bio for people ready to choose. What would you choose if survival wasn't consuming all your energy? 🆘🇺🇸