Event Agenda
Working in partnership with Esc’s Digital Nomad Village in Popoyo, Nicaragua, I am happy to bring you this easy, empowering lifestyle workshop with actionable takeaways.
10:00 – 10:15 AM | Meet & Greet
Connect with fellow remote workers, freelancers, and entrepreneurs and get inspired!
10:15 – 11:30 AM | Build a Profitable Lifestyle Business
Learn how to:
✔ Identify Your Strengths for Remote Work
✔ Build a Standout Professional Profile
✔ Find and Apply for Remote Jobs
✔ Create a Personalized Action Plan
11:30 – 12:00 PM | Interactive Q&A & Networking
Get personalized feedback and expert advice from Christy Nichols
Meet like-minded creatives and expand your network.
12:00 PM | Lunch at El Tigre Restaurant ️
Enjoy some tasty food while continuing conversations with your peers.
About This Workshop
Remote work offers the freedom to earn on your terms while living life on your own schedule. But how do you find the right opportunities, showcase your skills, and land well-paying jobs online?
This interactive workshop will walk you through the essential steps to building a flexible, sustainable remote career. You’ll learn how to assess your skills, reframe past experience, and overcome mindset barriers to working remotely. You’ll learn how to identify your strengths, craft a professional profile that stands out, and navigate the best job platforms to find job opportunities that fit your skills and lifestyle.
Whether you’re new to remote work or ready to take the next step, this session offers practical strategies to boost your income and creativity.
What makes this different? This isn’t just a conversation—you’ll leave with a personalized roadmap that includes:
✔ A clear understanding of how to translate your skills into remote job opportunities
✔ A polished professional bio and resume tailored for online work
✔ A list of real job leads that match your experience and goals
✔ A concrete action plan to start applying and upskilling immediately
By the end of this workshop, you’ll have the confidence, tools, and next steps to kickstart your remote career without being overwhelmed.
Why You Can’t Miss This
✅ Proven step-by-step process to define and refine your job skills and access better-paying jobs.
✅ One-on-one guidance from an expert with a profitable lifestyle business
✅ Lunch & networking with fellow digital nomads and entrepreneurs
✅ FREE access to additional learning resources, tools, and templates
What to Bring
- Laptops and Chargers: Essential for participating in workshops and accessing digital resources. Ensure your laptop is equipped with all necessary software and that you bring any associated chargers.
- Notebooks and Writing Instruments: For taking notes during sessions and jotting down insights as you engage with mentors and peers.
Meet Your Workshop Hosts
Christy Nichols
Retreat Director | Author | Speaker | Purposeful Travel Advocate | Book Coach | Curator of Transformational Retreats | Reiki Master
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Christy’s professional education expertise has afforded her the opportunity to work all over the world. Since achieving a Masters Degree and Teaching Credentials in Sussex, England, she has delivered educational and leadership initiatives internationally to individuals in the UK, Europe, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, South Africa, Canada, the USA, and Australia. After successfully creating and developing EDventure International, an organization combining leadership development, education, and conservation projects overseas, she launched Venture Within. Her passion is creating transformational experiences for personal and professional growth through overseas immersion, executive life coaching, and adventurous experiences abroad. She enables and inspires others to live a full and meaningful life.
- Expert in leadership development amongst professionals
- 20 years an Educator, CEO of Venture Within, and EDventure International
- ICF Accredited Certified Professional Coach
- Curated strategic leadership workshops catered for traveling professionals, with a focus on personal development and growth.
- Utilizes cultural immersive experiences as transformative opportunities.
- Specializes in transformative experiences that enhance leadership abilities on personal and professional levels.
Thomas Talavera
Program Facilitator | Founder and CEO of Start Loaded & Atravela
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Thomas founded Start Loaded to help freelancers create more freedom by working less, charging more, and increasing their value as professionals.
With 17 years of freelancing experience and over eight years as a digital nomad, he’s dedicated his career to empowering creatives and businesses worldwide. Through Start Loaded, he’s helped freelancers work smarter, earn more, and achieve true freedom. His book Laid Back Freelancing, top-rated courses, and masterclasses have guided over 200,000 students toward building thriving businesses and designing lives on their terms.
At Atravela, his marketing agency, he’s partnered with over 200 brands, including BBC and TEDx, and helped 20 startups raise over $24M. Guided by our motto, “Simplicity Empowers,” they specialize in transforming businesses from the ground up, delivering digital solutions that simplify and elevate operations globally.
Bloom is the culmination of everything he’s learned, packaged into an all-inclusive program designed to help you unlock meaningful productivity and freedom. Drawing on the lessons of his career, it’s more than just a retreat—it’s an opportunity to gain the tools, strategies, and community needed to work less, charge more, and make impactful decisions with confidence.
Join us at Bloom to break free from the mundane, embrace exceptional creativity, and build a life of freedom and adventure. Together, we’ll transform your creative and professional journey into one of purpose, growth, and lasting success.
- Specializes in transformative experiences that enhance leadership abilities on personal and professional levels.
We’ve partnered with ESC, La Jolla and Start Loaded to give you the best experience possible.
Venture Within cultivates deep learning opportunities that enable you to create more meaning and purpose in your life. By designing powerful experiences in personal transformation, Venture Within programs enable you to shift your mindset to create, re-align, and connect and ease into an inspiring new direction. Whether it’s through curating purposeful travel experiences, writing for you, or coaching burgeoning writers, Christy helps you create joy, connection, and meaningful moments in your life.
ESC is a vibrant sanctuary for digital nomads, remote workers, and creatives, nestled along Nicaragua’s breathtaking Emerald Coast. More than just a physical space, ESC embodies freedom, creativity, and connection, offering an inspiring environment to thrive personally and professionally. With a mission to redefine work-life balance, ESC fosters collaboration, innovation, and community, empowering individuals to break free from traditional office norms and embrace a dynamic lifestyle of growth and adventure.
Located along Nicaragua’s Emerald Coast, La Jolla de Guasacate views the brilliant blue ocean and mountain peaks in every direction, inviting you to explore. Our spacious and comfortable rooms are located in the most exclusive residential community in the city. Get in touch with local culture by going out and exploring nearby attractions. Surf the waves at Playa Popoyo or take a dip in our refreshing outdoor pools. Savor the cuisine at our El Tigre restaurant. Our resort is more than a place to rest, it´s a once in a lifetime opportunity.
Start Loaded helps entrepreneurs build a thriving lifestyle business by working smarter, charging more, and increasing value. Focused on creativity, simplicity, and empowerment, it provides the tools and inspiration to succeed on your terms. Founded by Thomas Talavera, Start Loaded has guided over 200,000 students through top-rated courses, helping them break free from convention, streamline their work, and design a life of freedom and adventure.