Today we’d like to introduce you to Taylor Mills.
Hi Taylor, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
I am born and raised in LA. In the last decade, I’ve lived & worked in eight cities across four continents. I’ve been a digital nomad since before it was a thing.
Ever since I was five years old, I traveled solo throughout the country to visit family. My parents weren’t able to travel so I would fly by myself every year coast to coast to visit my family.
I loved experiencing new places as a local, doing/eating/seeing things through the lens of the people who lived there.
I started expanding my perspective and relating to people who looked, spoke and thought differently than I did.
In high school, I won a rugby scholarship to spend a week playing in a tournament in Hong Kong. I “lived” with a girl there who was also my age (15). She spoke five languages and had lived in 5 countries.
Meeting her solidified my goal of immersing myself in new cultures, learning new languages, and connecting with people around the world.
After college, I started looking online to learn new skills and read about people who were able to live, work, and travel full-time, or what we now call digital nomads.
I watched 100+ webinars on various topics relating to making money online. I eventually realized that I really enjoyed that form of practical, bite-sized learning. It was a lot cheaper, quicker, and easier to apply than my college courses (I HATED college and am STILL paying off loans for my Ivy League degree from Wharton.) And I felt like I learned A LOT.
Fast forward to now, I am a full-time digital nomad. Now I am 100% remote and work from anywhere. I help others sustain their own freedom-based and/or nomad lifestyles. I run mastermind groups for solopreneurs, do 1:1 coaching to help people with their first webinar launches, and consult for small businesses so that they can build businesses around being themselves, their own version of freedom, and using their gifts to help others.
I’ve run the masterminds in Spanish & English, scaled companies to 7 figures, and run my programs while traveling full-time across various time zones and countries. My past experiences prepared me to be able to adapt and work with different types of people of various backgrounds and cultures and give them the ability to work on the things they enjoy, in and outside of their businesses.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
It took me a while to figure out my path and accept it. I spent a lot of time feeling lonely, guilty, and indecisive. I knew that I wanted to be able to not only travel but immerse myself in new cultures. I thought that the only way to achieve this was to work in the travel industry or in a large, international corporation.
I went to the best business school in the world, thinking that if I “followed the right career path” I would reach my goals. Yet, I HATED college, as well as my post-grad corporate jobs. I did not enjoy or fit in because I am a lot more free-spirited and many of my values are counter-culture to the Ivy League and corporate environments where I was.
During and after college, I tried various career fields that I thought would allow me to travel and/or be location independent. I lived and worked at Google in Silicon Valley, at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, at Mindvalley in Kuala Lumpur, and more. I kept ending up at the “best” or. “happiest” companies yet feeling miserable, which would lead to me getting fired or quitting within six months. Then I’d have to move back home and start over.
When none of my jobs lasted more than six months, I realized I needed to create my own path. I started freelancing remotely before “remote working” was a thing. I would go online and learn how to make websites, then take on website clients. I was one of THE very first Lyft drivers. I worked at a salsa club. I taught Spanish. I was in a constant state of starting over and figuring things out. Most of my friends were moving up the corporate ladder while I kept moving back home to work gigs or side hustles without seeming to have any real plan or stability.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I specialize in helping people create businesses that actually align with the life they want. Through webinar launches, I help online entrepreneurs make money while building the foundation for a scalable business that can run without them. This way, they can spend more time on what brings them joy. Whether that means taking time away from work or only working on the parts of their business they enjoy and feel good at.
I have helped many people replace their 9-to-5 income and quit their jobs, scale their businesses to 7 figures and hire a team, get clarity on whether entrepreneurship is even right for them before taking the leap. And out of all of this, the thing I am most proud of is helping people live more in alignment. My greatest feeling is when my clients say things like “your Mastermind calls are the highlight of my week” or “I’ve never enjoyed my business as much as I do now” or “thanks to your coaching, I feel clear on where I want to go.”
I think entrepreneurship and remote work has become glamorized. An increasing number of people are looking to entrepreneurship and remote work because we want freedom, and then we end up more burnt out and less free than we were before we quit our jobs. The solution to that is being intentional about designing our businesses around our ideal lifestyles and making sure that both are in alignment. Because being successful and burnout is NOT freedom.
Is there something surprising that you feel even people who know you might not know about?
I’m fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. I worked at NBCU in Madrid, Spain and at Google in São Paolo, Brazil. Falo Portuguese y también español. I plan to live abroad again in various places where either of those 2 is the main language, this time as a digital nomad and not in a corporate office. When I was 18, I learned Italian and spent a summer in Florence, Italy but I’ve completely lost my grasp on the language.
Contact Info:
- Email: taylordmills@gmail.com
- Website: taylordmills.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/taymakesmoves/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/makemovesmastermind/
- Book a call with me: https://calendly.com/makemoves/
