On this episode, I’m sitting down with a Canadian outdoors adventurer, explorer of remote places, online entrepreneur and consultant, writer and photographer, snowboarding enthusiast, and digital jack of all trades — whose skills have, I discover, led him to live different lives in multiple places he calls home.
Matt Gibson lived and taught english in Taiwan for 6 years, where he learned to speak Mandarin and founded his own travel magazine. His website has been featured on Afar, the Atlantic, TSN and more, and he’s interviewed a lot of people on this show to get insights from their experiences in travel.
Today we explore the unique path he’s taken by pursuing a love of travel that’s guided his decisions and professional skills. Matt demonstrates how it’s okay to not go after that one thing, and instead explore a world and the many opportunities for experience – in work and life – that are out there to be found along the way.
[powerpress]What we cover:
- How Matt found an opportunity to teach English in Taiwan.
- Why teaching English is a wonderful way to learn a culture while earning money.
- Why Matt started his own magazine before eventually selling it to write for other publications, and how he found opportunities to do so.
- Where he found the inspiration to earn a living as a professional travel blogger.
- The many things a jack-of-all-trades like Matt can do now to earn a living in a variety of ways that allows him the freedom to travel when he wants.
- How Matt approaches the travel industry with his skills.
- His experience at Angkor Wat, his favorite ski mountains, and what it is about Taiwan that he loves.
- Matt’s travel style, and why he doesn’t like to research the places he visits.
- Getting trapped in a monsoon while riding a motorbike and seeing pigmy elephants.
Explore further:
- Matt-Gibson.org
- @xpatmatt on Twitter
- Matt’s interview series on Transitions Abroad
- Agoda, for rooms in Asia
- Skyscanner, for International flights
- Yapta.com, sets price alert on a particular flight
- Matt’s recommended bag, the EAGLE CREEK MORPHUS 22 CARRY ON/TRAVEL BAG (STONE GREY)
Credits
- Music credit: Intrepid Journey, by Aaron Static
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