People Without Borders

Podcast
Written By Arjun Basu
 
 

What happens when a Brit moves to Spain to live and work, gains virtual residency in Eastern Europe, and then tells everyone about it? Perhaps the most Solo business ever.

Maya Middlemiss is a storyteller from the future, obsessed with the future of everything, but mostly about personal autonomy and choice. An author, journalist and consultant, she and her family left London, England to move to Valencia, Spain over a decade ago. Middlemiss is an expert in remote work and workers, work/life balance, cryptocurrency, and technology. She has published numerous books about remote work and founded the website HealthyHappyHomeworking to help new Soloists navigate remote life, and aid established Soloists to better navigate remote life.

Maya Middlemiss

Maya Middlemiss

Middlemiss is a sought-after consultant, not just for Soloists, but for companies attempting to create the optimal conditions for remote workers as well as for hybrid offices. In other words, she’s busy and getting busier.

She has also set up an e-residency in Estonia and has extolled its virtues as an example of a country that has fully embraced digital life and its efficiencies, a country that has invited people from around the world to take advantage of what it has to offer.

We recently spoke to Middlemiss about living in Spain while working for clients everywhere, what Spain gets wrong about remote work and what it can learn from its neighbor, Portugal, about the psychological barriers to remote work that everyone needs to overcome, the very real FOMO of remote workers in a hybrid office, and how the ripple effects of the rise of the Soloist will impact, well, everything.

—Arjun Basu

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