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2017 in Review: Lessons Learned and Life as a Digital Nomad (Plus Income Report)
It's now the end of the year and this 2017 in review post is as much for me as it is for you. As honestly, without sitting down to phy...
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Date With Destiny Guide, Review and Inside Look!
I just got back from Tony Robbin's Date With Destiny have have a ton of share! This blog post is going to be a recap of what I learned, ...
Income Report: November 2017 - Las Palmas to Lisbon, Portugal
Spending November in Las Palmas on Gran Canaria was perfect. The weather was great even though it started getting cold elsewhere in Europe, ...
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria - Guide to the Canary Islands for Digital Nomads and Expats
It's been an incredible two months here on Gran Canaria and it's a place that I could definitely see myself moving to as a permane...
Amazon Black Friday Shopping Spree: What I Bought!
My parents always know when I'm getting ready for a trip back to the U.S. because packages start arriving like it's a week before Ch...
Selling on Amazon vs. Shopify (or both!)
There's always been a huge battle between using Amazon or FBA to sell your products and selling directly to customers using Shopify. Wel...
Udemy's $10 Black Friday Sale Starts Today!
Hey what's up, it's now 2017 and It's almost black friday again so I figured I'd update this list of my favorite $10 U...
Why I'm Going to Tony Robbin's Date With Destiny
For a lot of you following my blog, you might think my life is pretty good and that I have it all figured out. But the truth is, I sometimes...
Retiring My Parents.
Two years ago today I called my parents and told them that they could both retire. I honestly didn't know what I was signing up for at t...
Income Report: October 2017 - Las Palmas, Gran Canaria - Canary Island Digital Nomad
Wake up late, walk on the beach to the coworking space, have a long lunch, write a blog post, finish work early to go snorkeling, then hav...
Passive Income 4.0 - Investing and Location Arbitrage
If making passive income through investments isn't on the top of your priority list, it needs to be, even if you don't yet have the ...
Just Sold My 4th Dropshipping Store! (Dropship Partnership Case Study)
Last december I had this crazy idea to start a bunch of new dropshipping stores with the goal of selling them off one by one at the end of t...
Thoughts and Solutions to the #MeToo Cause
Like most men, I didn't want to get involved with the #MeToo causes, posts, or even talk about it. I didn't want to get mixed up in ...
Designing the Perfect Coworking Space
There are plenty of articles about the world's most beautiful coworking spaces, or rehashed posts about the "best" coworking ...
How to Guest Post for My Blog!
Everyday I get dozens of emails asking if they can guest post for JohnnyFD.com or become a contributor. I'm not actually sure how people...
Dear Apple, please build this Laptop
As more and more people work remotely, from cafes, coworking spaces and on the road, the more important our laptops become to us. For digita...
Income Report: September 2017 - Ukraine and Canary Islands as a Digital Nomad
I started the month in the furthest East you can go in Europe in Odessa, Ukraine and ended it on the Canary Islands off the coast of West Af...
My Thoughts on Ukraine: Life, Economy, Dating, Entrepreneurs, Lessons Learned and Advice (Мои мысли)
Living in Ukraine is a love/hate type of relationship. On one hand, the people, culture, and food impresses me everyday and is quite frankly...
EcommCon 2017: Russell Brunson, Ezra Firestone, Trevor Chapman, J Keitsu, Plus 50 More Ecommerce and Dropshipping Experts
It's insane how big ecommerce has gotten in the past few years with entrepreneurs making millions of dollars from running stores built ...
How to Start a Dropshipping Store on a Budget or Even For Free!
Learning how to start my first dropshipping store was the the best thing that had ever happened for me financially. I went from making $200 ...
28 Ways to Make Money While Traveling!
It's feels almost unreal, but I've been traveling full time now for almost 10 years! I first left California in 2007 to go on a 3 we...
August 2017 Passive Income Report: Making Money As a Digital Nomad
I'm back! It's been a fun six months or so of early retirement and it was amazing for the first couple of months of doing nothing fo...
Things to Know: Divemaster (Scuba Diving, DMT)
Working as a scuba divemaster was some of the best experiences of my life, and I would recomend going through a divemaster training course i...
Packing as a Digital Nomad: What to Pack to Travel
A lot of people have asked me for packing tips since I've been traveling now for almost 10 years straight and have lived mainly out of m...
July 2017 Passive Income Report: Digital Nomad, Investor, Early Retirement
I can't believe that I'm living in Ukraine, and I can't believe it's been a full month in Kiev as a digital nomad. It's ...
Buying a House: Investing in Real Estate
Throughout my entire life I've been told that buying a house was the best thing I could ever do. My parent's were living proof of it...
June 2017 Passive Income Report: Digital Nomad in Ukraine
I honestly cannot believe that it's only been a month since I last wrote up a monthly report. Without looking at my calendar, it felt li...
Johnny's Guide to Ukraine: Kiev, Odessa, Lviv, and Chernobyl
It's 2017 and I'm back in Ukraine to enjoy the summer here and update this post! I never thought I'd come to Ukraine especially ...
My Passion and Thoughts on Cars and Automobiles.
You might be wondering why I'm writing about cars when I mostly write about travel and business. But if you knew me growing up you'd...
Johnny's Ultimate Travel Guide to Thailand
Since I've been living off and on in Thailand for almost 8 years now, naturally have had dozens of friends ask me what they should do in...
The Wicklow Way: Walking and Hiking Ireland from Dublin
The Wicklow Way is advertised as an epic 8 day hike starting in Murray Park in Dublin, and ending over 81 miles (131km) away in the south, b...
May 2017 Passive Income Report: Digital Nomad Barcelona to Ireland
Being a digital nomad in Barcelona this past month has been a unique experience. It felt more like a vacation than anything else as I only w...
Travel Guide to Barcelona, Spain for Digital Nomads
I've heard a ton about Barcelona and Spain as a great place for digital nomads to live, work remotely and travel, but honestly didn'...
How to Find U.S. Dropshipping Suppliers
A ton of people have been asking me how to find American based suppliers that are willing to dropship. People have asked me to give them sup...
How Much Money I Make from Dropshipping (Actual Net Profit)
It's been an amazing journey these past couple of years running my dropshipping stores and it was the first online business that made me...
Dropshipping from China with AliExpress
A ton of people have asked me questions about dropshipping from Aliexpress and shipping from China. Usually I just tell people that's no...
April 2017 Passive Income Report: Digital Nomad in Bali to Barcelona
This is new chapter for JohnnyFD.com, and for myself as the author. I've been writing monthly income reports since July of 2014 which is...
Find 3 Hobbies You Love and You'll be Set for Life!
I recently heard the quote, "Find three hobbies you love: one to make you money, one to keep you in shape, and one to be creative"...
Johnny's Guide to Komodo Islands, Indonesia (Dragons and Diving)
I first heard about the legendary Komodo islands almost six years ago when I was working as a divemaster in Thailand. Komodo is not just t...
March 2017 Passive Income Report: Digital Nomad in Bali
This was my first month living in Bali as a digital nomad and it a completely different experience from living in Chiang Mai. I've been ...
Digital Nomad's Hierarchy of Needs
It's been an epic journey starting out as a digital nomad just four years ago with the goal of making $600 a month so I could continue t...
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