{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business","title":"027: How to work from anywhere and follow your passions w/ Laura Peña","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2895,"description":"Making career decisions that are based on your heart and not your wallet is tough. It’s also important if you plan on having a fulfilling career. Don’t be scared, others have made the difficult transition and my guest today might just inspire you to follow your passions too! Laura Peña is a motion designer who transitioned to working remotely from all parts of the world as a digital nomad. Recently though she put her career on hold to pursue a truly inspiring and meaningful passion project. It all has its challenges for sure, but as you’ll hear Laura tell you in this interview, it’s been worth every bit of it. When it comes to working as a digital nomad, Laura has had to deal with some unique difficulties. We discuss how to keep old clients and find new ones when you’re working in distant countries. Networking while traveling and working is difficult, but Laura has figured it out and it has been totally worth it. Laura has also been working steadily on a passion project film series “She is the Universe” in which she interviews teenage girls around the world about their dreams, passions, and obstacles. This is such an amazing and important project and we discuss what it means to be driven to create and pursue your dream job. Have you been working on a passion project? What sacrifices have you made to do so? How has it fulfilled you as a person? Leave a comment below! In this episode: How to transition into working as a digital nomad full time Some of the common pitfalls of working remotely and how you can cope with them Dedicating yourself to a passion project of your own design Using meditation to unplug and center and ground yourself Getting outside the motion designer box and meeting and getting inspired by people in other fields   Quotes: “I realized that my freelance clients and also my clients, the ones that I’ll do everything for, they really didn’t care where I was as long as I was delivering the work.” [6:41] “That’s the hardest part of traveling, the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/6xsBYKnILeAtccYypWeYL_O2NEWlJf8222gnA24qdKQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzUwODIxLzE3MTA3/ODEzMDYtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}