Interview with Holly MacDonald

NOTE Recorded in February before Covid really hit. Holly talks about her family's big decision to move away from conventional employment and a large city in order to live a simpler life on Salt Spring Island. From a work and vocation perspective it meant that she had to make the big jump to becoming a first time entrepreneur

Show Notes

Holly tells us how her and her husband decided to leave Vancouver in 2007 and to live a simpler, cheaper rural life style. After considering a lot of different factors they chose Salt Spring. Her husband maintained his existing employment allowing Holly the opportunity to simultaneously move and start her own business:  providing e-learning and training development services. This business has changed and grown over the years, but she has done very well, better than she first thought she could when living remotely on an island. Holly says that she can be super productive working at home but has struggled with loneliness and motivation issues at time. In her role with the Salt Spring Island Community Economic Development Commission she has seen more and more digital workers making the decision to put lifestyle first and move to Salt Spring (or wherever else in the world their heart wishes)

What is Digital Work Futures - The Islands Perspective?

David Crouch is your host in an examination of Digital Work Futures. He chats with a range of people who have made a meaningful career / vocation away from large cities to living and working on the Gulf Islands in British Columbia. These people began working remotely from home, and living a different dream for their life, years and decades before any pandemic generated interest in Remote Work, Live Where You Want, and WFH (Work From Home). Valuable insights on how to successfully create a different work future for yourself. DISCONTINUED