Hey Remote Trailblazers 🚀

Remember when “professional development” meant bad coffee, free donuts, and someone reading slides at you? Same. Hard pass.

Here’s the upgrade: your remote lifestyle is the growth hack. Every café with Wi-Fi, every new city, every chance encounter on the road—it’s all raw material for leveling up. Flexibility doesn’t just give you freedom, it gives you a front-row seat to opportunities office life can’t touch.

This week, we’ll show you how to turn your remote rhythm into a personal and professional growth engine—without the stale pastry hangover.

Let’s grow smarter, freer, and bolder.

— Ric & Shellie

P.S. Want to fuel someone else’s growth? Share this newsletter with a fellow remote hustler. 🙏

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

How Might We Thrive Remotely?

By Rachel Thompson

Still replicating your cubicle setup at home in 2025?

Rachel discovered that defaulting to familiar office routines was crushing her remote work potential. One simple three-word framework from a design thinking workshop completely transformed how she approaches professional growth and personal development. 

But here's the twist: the most powerful part isn't the question itself, it's how she uses curiosity as her career compass.

Discover Rachel's Growth Mindset transformation → 

LAST WEEK’S POLL RESULTS

What's your biggest growth challenge while working remotely?

RESOURCED LIVING

Reorganizing from Within

By Becca Marshall

Resourced Living is a monthly column for remote workers, weaving practices and tools as lifestyle medicine—so you can stay balanced, clear, and supported in everyday life.

Tired of forcing rigid schedules that leave you drained by Wednesday? 

Becca discovered that most remote workers are organizing their weeks backwards, cramming structure onto tired bodies instead of building from what actually nourishes them. Her somatic check-in method transforms calendar chaos into sustainable rhythms that support rather than exhaust you. 

But the real magic happens when you learn to ask one game-changing question before planning anything.

Unlock Your Body's Weekly Planning Wisdom →

QUICK TAKES

Always Be Growing

✅ How to build a growth mindset as a remote worker. 

✅ How Important is Traveling for Your Professional Growth

✅ 5 Powerful Microlearning Techniques for Busy Working Adults: Learning Smarter, Not Harder

MEME OF THE WEEK

THE VIBE

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🔆 Why remote work is still the secret sauce behind small business success. A well-managed remote work program will increase the single best measure of employee productivity - results.

STATE OF REMOTE

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POLL – NEXT WEEKS TOPIC

Next week: Mastering Asynchronous Excellence. Using async methodologies, you can lead remote teams to outperform in-person counterparts, driving projects forward.

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