After two decades, today’s guest left his sales career, working for massive tech corporations like Symantic and McAfee, to pursue his own thing in a different place. That place was Singapore where he started his sales and marketing automation company, Linchpin. Damian Thompson is what you might call a digital nomad, and he’s here to talk about that lifestyle - He recently left the Philippines to go nomadic, and I’m excited to have him on to chat about the places he’s lived, and in his own way, how he took the step that so many dream to take into his untethered life beyond the borders of his home country. Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Soundcloud or TuneIn What We Cover: How travel as a kid and professional helped make the jump to living as an ex-pat easier. Painting a picture of an ex-pat and digital nomad lifestyle Damian's original plan to create a life of travel was to write content for websites to support his journey A day in the life of an ex-pat entrepreneur in Ho Chi Minh City How Damian manages his friendships and relationships Loneliness should never prevent you from travel. Meeting people is the point of travel. Words from an Explorer: "Society tells you this is the path you're supposed to follow. So when you jump off that path, it's definitely scary. It's not normal. But there's a lot of us abnormals out there." – Damian Thompson More Quotes: "No matter if you want to be the weirdo because you want to travel and you don't really want to have a house, that's not your goal ... Trust me. There's hundreds of thousands of us around the world. When you actually get out, we're pretty easy to find. We'll be in the cities you'll be in... You're not alone if you think you're the weirdo and nobody in your family understands what you want to do." – Damian Thompson “The line blurs between life, work, friends, family... when you decide to live a more nomadic lifestyle.” – Damian Thompson Explore Further: @DamianThompson on Twitter Linchpin Music Credit: Move Slow by Felxprod ft. Jess Abran (Myriad Remix), Intrepid Journey, by Aaron Static Become a Friend of the Show: Please subscribe and review! It just takes a second and you can help the show increase its rankings on iTunes just by this simple and quick gesture. We’d be grateful for a review. Leave one here. If you do, click here to let me know so I can personally thank you! Your Feedback If you have an idea for a podcast you would like to see or a question about an upcoming episode,email me! I’d love to hear from you. Thank you so much for your support! See you next time! The post 79: Inside the Mind of an Ex-Pat in Vietnam with Damian Thompson appeared first on The Daily Travel Podcast.