Daily Life and Entrepreneurial Routine for Expats in Bangkok

So, you move to Bangkok and the excitement fades. You're back in your day-to-day normal routine, and you want

to know what that will really look like. I think this is going to be an important video for aspiring expats, especially

those moving to Thailand. Um, you might think that every day is going to be an adventure. You might also think that

your body is going to want to explore and just be out there every single day, but the reality is you very much will

need to develop a daily and weekly routine when you're here to make sure that you one don't collapse and two

still build some structure into your life because starting over abroad is it's a huge decision and it can be

really exciting but it could also be really overwhelming if you don't have kind of boundaries in place to kind of

guide the habits that you do want to maintain or build. Okay, so I'm just going to share what my normal dayto-day

and week to week routine looks like. It probably won't be as exciting as you might think. [laughter]

I mean, it can be exciting, but uh the way my life works, I'll quickly share my entrepreneurial cycle. So, I have

spring, well, we all have spring, but here's how I do it. Spring, summer, uh fall, winter. Spring is for launching.

Summer is for living. Fall is for listening. Winter is for learning. And so learning goes back to spring, which

is launching. So I'll I'll slow that down a little bit. I try to make my whole annual salary within 3 months. I

ran like this. I ran my business like this for like four to 5 years on and off. And it just depends on what season

I'm in. But this is a really great way to live because it takes away I don't want to call it financial anxiety but

sometimes you have a lot of pressure whenever you approach a launch season. So it's just nice to launch everything

back to back to back to back at once and then make your annual revenue within 3 months. So, I try to do that in the

spring, which leads to summer where I'm able to live a little bit and enjoy all the hard work that I put in because yes,

those three months are incredibly intense and stressful and maybe some of the fulfillment is up front. So, it just

takes a lot of energy. And then in the fall, that leads to listening. So, this is where I'm sending out surveys. I'm

just collecting feedback, um, doing polls in my private community, just figuring out what people are needing for

the next year and where there's still a gap in what I'm able to offer. And then based on those answers, it leads into

winter, which is the learning season. So, I look at the answers, I study them, and then I go deep and learn as much as

I can about some of the areas where people need the most help because number one, I just want to serve them better.

people who have already invested in me and into my products and services. And then number two, I love to learn. So why

not just go deep on a couple topics and really give yourself three months of I don't want to call it isolation, but

intense focus. [laughter] And I love to hibernate. Like this blanket came with this condo and it's just the coziest

thing. This couch is literally the best. But I feel like this place is so conducive of learning and just putting

your head down and getting to work. So yeah and then based on all the things that I learn goes back to the beginning

of the cycle which is spring I launch a new product or revamp a service and that is my life as an entrepreneur. Okay. Um

depending on the year I might have events and different like retreats and masterminds and boot camps and all of

that will vary yearbyear. Uh, but more often than not, I'll have more seasons of stillness that look like this. And

then four to five times a year, I'm like doing in-person events and activations. This year, we somehow managed to pull

off 12 events in 11 months in 10 countries. That will never happen again. I don't know what Stefan and I were

thinking last year when we planned this. Uh we were just very excited about the community that we were building. We just

wanted to give them as many opportunities as they could to meet up with us, travel with us, learn from us,

all that stuff. So now that it's behind me, I can kind of like really focus on the next version of my brand, next

version of my business. And while I've been building this daily 116 now videos um in a row on YouTube, I've actually

abandoned my Instagram. I have not posted a single thing all month. That's in 24 days. 3 weeks I've ghosted my

Instagram community. So yeah, my DMs are like, "Hey, is everything okay?" So I need to regroup and rethink my

short form strategy because long form it just it's a different part of your brain that you're activating. And short form

content is just it's different. You you can't pull this same strategy from YouTube onto Instagram. And so I really

want to rethink who I want to be and how I want to grow on that platform. Okay, all that said, I don't know if that was

interesting. If you're an entrepreneur, let me know in the comments if this was insightful for you to kind of hear more

about the behind the scenes of my business, but yeah. So, let's start off with Monday. So, Monday, I do personal

training with my tennis coach. Uh, he's a Brazilian guy. I looked up, I think, actually chat GBT. I was like, who are

the top tennis coaches in Bangkok? and he was first. I was like, "Great." I think I actually reached out to three

people, the top three, and he was the first to just like schedule it, book the courts, and just offer me a discounted

package. I was like, "Great." So, yeah, he's he's been great. I actually have two tennis coaches. Um,

one I work on my form and kind of do it's like a combination of personal training with tennis and then I have

another one. He's like elderly and yeah, it's just it's very cute. It's I feel like I'm uh

playing with my dad or grandpa like so he's just adorable. He's just like this quaint petite Thai man probably in his

60s and he whoops my butt sometimes. [laughter] And then his grandson who's in his like

20s, I sometimes play with him. [laughter] Sorry y'all. It was really I really love

life. But the grandson when I when I'm playing with him and every now and then I'll have like a really powerful stroke

and he says, "Wow, power. Oh, power." [laughter] It's the cutest thing.

I need to I need to upload a real of one of our last sessions. It's just so funny. Pawa. Oh, Pa.

>> [laughter] >> Okay. So, Monday is for private tennis training and um pampering. So, if there

is today, like today, today is a Monday. I went and got my hair rebraided. You know, being a natural blonde, I uh

kidding. Of course, I like to go in between like I'll do platinum blonde, honey blonde, brunette blonde, auburn

blonde. Yeah. I just I just love color. And I actually had uh an elderly black woman commented once. She was like, "If

you when you wear all black hair, it ages you." I was like, "Thanks. Noted." So, I think I've been traumatized since.

So, now I only have color hair. [laughter] I mean, there's nothing wrong with being

aged, but yeah. So, I I tried out something. It's like I This is the thing. I asked for this specifically.

This was not in her arsenal. And let me know as well if you want um information about the braiding experience in Bangkok

and you want to gauge how many people are needing this information. But I asked for Seneaglles twists with boho

style leaveout and curly all over. And this is she did it. Like it's obviously going to um it's going to undo itself

naturally and be a little bit more poofy and natural over the coming days, but I really like how it turned out. And this

woman is amazing. So, I'm just very grateful. And if you're a black woman, most black women here, we're either all

natural or we have protective styles. And for protective styles, there is no less than two dozen shops of places that

can um braid your hair. They'll be both African and Thai. Like the Thai people, they know the market. Listen, they

learned. They learned quick and they can braid just as good as a black and African Newman. So, um, yeah, it's just

very dope. Okay, so Monday, it's a very ADHD video, but we're going to stay on track. Okay, Monday is the private

tennis training with the pampering. So, that's getting my nails redone if I need to, manicure, pedicure, um, lashes,

hair, any anything that feels cosmetic. I do that on Monday along with tennis. And that pretty much takes up my whole

Monday. And then Tuesday, that'll be my day for personal training. So, I have a trainer. I train at base gym. There's

like I think there's like five or six branches. Shout out to Ari, by the way, um Jim Hookie on Instagram. She she put

me on to Bass because she shot I think an Under Armour commercial with the founder or the owner of Bass. And so,

yeah, she just introduced us. And so, I was like, "Yeah, I'll I'll sign up." So, I've actually never had a personal

trainer before. So, this is my first time doing this and I'm really excited. I don't think I've ever had a season

where I focus this much on my health and my health has always unfortunately taken a backseat to everything else. Um, fun,

work, family, friends, relationships. I've always just kind of said, "Oh, my health, you know, when it gets bad

enough, I'll take care of it." And that is absolutely the wrong mindset. And I think Thailand is so conducive of just

it's a healthy environment. It's it's conducive with better habits. So, naturally, I just wanted to try out

personal training and see, you know, just what it can do for me. And if you watched my 75 hard video, I talked about

how I'm doing 15,000 steps, you probably might have noticed in my face, well, at least my friend did. She she text me.

She's like, "Glow, you looking snatched in the face." I said, "Okay, it's working."

But I'm doing 15,000 steps, 15 stand hours, 150 minutes of active time. What else?

Doesn't sound like much. 15 minutes of personal development with Oh, sorry. Personal finance and 150 gram of

protein. Yeah. 15,000 steps, 150 gram of protein, 15 stand hours, and 150 active minutes. So, it's 1515 is basically um

yeah, kind of like ruling my life. 1.5 hours, you know, I'm going to put it in the video description. It's 1.5 hours

of active time. Basically, it's just like five, easy to remember. And I was inspired by 75 hard, which I completed 3

years ago, four years ago, and I lost 30 lbs doing that. And it's it's really intense. It's not sustainable, but it

definitely I'm the kind of person where I need a challenge to get myself in motion. It's very hard for me to just

naturally be motivated for the positive benefits of things, unfortunately. So, with 75 harder, I wanted to do it when

it was going to be 75 days until 2026 so that I enter January 1st already having having completed something really hard

and using and carrying that momentum forward. So, yeah, I'm just really proud of myself today. makes the official

halfway mark. And yeah, I know that I'm I haven't, you know, I'm going to start weighing myself again. I know I've lost

10 pounds so far. Um, my clothes are just I I noticed the clothes immediately. You just don't even realize

how tight your clothes were before. When you put them on, you're like, "Oh, this is really loose. Wow, the sleeves are

really baggy." [laughter] And it's just those small subtle differences. And I I would say the

biggest difference in weight loss because it's not just vanity metrics and aesthetics, but my hip pain, I have had

chronic hip and back pain for years. It just comes and goes, my knee as well. And when you have less body mass being

put and stressed on these ligaments and parts of your body, you naturally feel less pain. And so I'm able to walk a

little straighter. And oh my goodness, I just I wish I did it for the benefits of the the not experiencing this pain

earlier. Yeah. Okay, we we're going to get through this video. Promise you. So, [clears throat] I get Tuesday personal

training and a massage. So, this is usually just like a 90-minute foot massage or I'll have a lady come in and

she'll do a 90-minute full body massage in my condo. If you want more information on that, I'll put it in the

video description. But the company is called RLax. And yeah, I think it's really reasonable. For about $10, um,

you can get someone literally come straight to your door and give you a massage. Antonette always says to tuck

me in treat treatment. >> [snorts] >> And yeah, she she will really push you

to bed and it's just very nice. So that there's that. And then Wednesday we are doing again back to tennis a private

tennis lessons or private tennis uh training session. And then I'll also have my coaching that day. So obviously

being 12 hours ahead of East Coast time, it makes um coaching calls and any type of live interaction a little bit tricky.

So, I usually open up my my own personal calendar from 8:00 p.m. to midnight. So, I have that 4-hour block to work with my

private clients. This is both in business and relocation. So, it's been fun working one one-on-one with

relocation clients. And if you are someone that's interested in that, I'll put that in the video description. But

yeah, Wednesdays are like my days where I stay up a little bit later. In full transparency, I'm staying up till

midnight anyway because I usually need to get the last 500 steps up until like 11:00 p.m. So, it's not too bad. And I I

think I'm sleeping 7 to 8 hours. So, I'm waking up my body's waking up naturally around 8 to 9. So, yeah, feels good.

Okay. And then um Thursday we're doing uh personal training again, massage again, and then with the church, every

other Thursday we feed the homeless. And this is something that's just a really beautiful way to be a part of the local

community. Um but also give back to the city that's giving you so much. And I definitely want to get more involved

with other types of ways that I can give back. I think feeding the homeless is beautiful. And there's all always so

many volunteers for that. But I think I want to also figure out a way where I can give back to I don't know if it's

like small business owners or young entrepreneurs, but like mentor like the the youth of Thailand and the youth of

Bangkok. See if there's a way that I can yeah like help engineer the next um generation of just like builders and

innovators. I think there's something there too. But yeah, so that's what Thursday is for. And then uh Friday I

have my two-hour Thai lessons with my Thai tutor. And I used to do uh 3 hours a week on three separate days, like

every other day. I think it was like Monday, Wednesday, Friday. I did 1-hour lessons. And I later learned that this

messed up my brain. This messed up my day because it was so hard to get Thai. Well, learning Thai takes such a

specific part of your brain that if you are not fully invested in speaking Thai and just thinking Thai all day, it's

just going to take you it's going to take a lot of energy out of you. So, it was an energy investment to get my brain

ready for Thai, study Thai, take the lesson, do the homework, and then undo the Tai to get back into English. It

wasn't just a 1-hour lesson. It was like four to five hours of my brain trying to get back to English. So, yeah, I I

realized that I better it's better for me to just do a longer chunk of time one day of the week and focus very

specifically on different contexts that I want to learn and study for that week. So, I've been really enjoying um that

flow. Okay. Uh and with all of this, so that's Monday through Friday. Feels very basic, but I'll just say it again.

tennis and pampering for Monday, personal training and massage for Tuesday, tennis and coaching for

Wednesday, Thursday, personal training and massage. Um, and then feeding the homeless, and then Friday, Thai lessons.

Whenever I'm doing interviews, like podcast interviews or any type of press or business meeting, brand campaign

meeting, anything like that, I'll usually schedule those on Tuesdays or Thursdays as well. I used to have it all

on Wednesdays. Like Wednesdays was my camera day, but brand campaigns and negotiating and interviews just takes a

different part of your brain. Like I only want that on my schedule for that day. So yeah, Thursday and Tuesdays are

better for that now. And I have an interview coming up. It's going to be a really like many of you. She was a

household name and we're going to do a Facebook interview um in a couple weeks. So, I'm looking forward to telling you

guys more about that and how they found my videos on YouTube. Um, and it's a paid opportunity, so it's like you just

never know what telling your story online will do for you. Okay, then Saturday, um, this is brunch. I'm in a

group chat. I'm in probably four group chats. No, to be honest, it's more like six. Um, but they're all very specific

about different things. Like one is like just about fitness. One is about co-working. One was like brunch. It's

called like the Bangkok ladies and we just do brunch. And then one is about different adventures. So yeah, it's kind

of nice. I can kind of figure out, okay, what do I want to do this weekend? And with these people, I've done this people

with these ladies. Uh we've done like tie cooking classes. We've done a yacht cruise. We've done an R&B brunch and day

party, Friendsgiving. And so there's all these activities that we'll do on the weekends. Camping and yeah, most

recently we did like a yacht cruise in Patia. It's still Patia Paya. Patia, I'm going to say Patia. Uh it's down south.

It's about 2 hours souththeast of Bangkok. So um that's fun. And Sunday is church praise and worship posing up.

I try to do like no device day, which is kind of impossible with this daily YouTube thing, but yeah, Sundays are

really just for the Lord. So, trying to keep it sacred. But yeah, y'all, that's it. Again, I don't know if this is

boring or insightful, but hopefully it is um helpful in understanding that you could live an exciting life abroad, but

still have a very boring structure uh to your everyday. And because I just got done hosting three events here in

Bangkok, uh there was a mastermind in Shiang Mai from my Lifeloop community. I'll put that in the the video

description. Then we had a Bangkok boot camp where we shot almost 100 videos of many episodic series basically for their

Instagrams to help them market their products, services, retreats, and all that kind of stuff. Was very, very dope.

I got to basically help them produce and film like their series for for social media so that you have 30 episodes by

the time you leave this boot camp and you can spread those 30 episodes out for the next two to three months. So, it's

just a really cool way to batch content and then I had a VIP weekend with a client to help her with her episodic

series but also build out her business plan for 2026. So yeah, obviously there's a lot of movement, there's uh

excursions, private chefs, activities, all types of stuff that go into those types of events. And um yeah, there was

I mean we started off the year in Costa Rica. We were there for two months, Stefan and I. And yeah, ending in

Thailand, which is crazy. Just opposite end of the world. But I love that starting the year in a sunny place,

ending the year in a sunny place. I looked at the weather forecast the other day and it's like straight sun for the

next 10 days and I'm like, "Oh yeah, this is a true summer or like a true winter, but it feels like I've been

experiencing a perpetual summer." And that's one of my favorite things about travel is that you can just avoid cold

weather if you want to. And a place like Thailand, you you have wet and dry season. So even when it's rainy, it's

not ever really cold, which I love. Okay y'all, I hope this is helpful. If you don't know, my name is Glow and I make

videos every single day and they're more focused than this one. I promise. Usually I'm shark, but I've been sitting

in a chair all day getting my hair braided. So, I think I'm a little delirious, but you can check this link

out for more ways to work with me, including one-on-one if you want to go deeper and plan out your customized plan

to move to Thailand and yesterday's video. Aren't you? It's a pleasure. I will see you all tomorrow. Bye.