Today we’d like to introduce you to Greg Goodman.
Hi Greg, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
As a kid, I always wanted to be a businessman. In my earliest ventures, I hawked origami, comic books, and mixtapes. High school brought internships and business cards, while college netted me a marketing degree.
As it turns out, the “real world” wasn’t all it’s cracked up to be. My dream of rising the corporate ladder was in direct conflict with my desire to live life on my own terms.
Everything changed when my girlfriend quit her job and joining the Peace Corps. Being apart for two years didn’t seem like a good plan, so I quit my job, sold my stuff, and went down to visit her before moving to California.
I figured I’d last two weeks: at best. I wound up living in Murra for seven months!
I found my Self in a small village in Nicaragua.
I lived with Carrie in her remote mountain village for seven months. While there, I embraced a life of “less.”
Less stuff
Less comforts
Less money
Less stress
Life flowed so easily in Murra. Living in a simple house. Picking beans in a finca. Hiking to nearby villages to lend a hand. Organizing men’s groups. While surrounded by less, I actually found more!
More happiness
More fulfillment
More excitement
More appreciation
I followed my heart and trusted that success would follow.
While traveling, I dedicated my days to my passion of making photos and sharing the stories behind them.
As a photographic storyteller, my work was featured in galleries, airports, trade shows, publications, and private collections around the world.
Meanwhile, as a digital nomad living in Thailand, I worked alongside (and learned from) scores of successful online entrepreneurs. Our offices were coffee shops, common spaces, and anywhere with wi-fi. We took breaks from our screens to hang out in the real world.
It was such an amazing feeling that I dedicated the next decade to traveling the world with Carrie and chronicling the adventures on a travel blog.
To finance my decade of travel, I made websites and did marketing on the side. Then, every few years, Carrie and I returned to the states, worked and saved for a while, and did it all again.
My biggest takeaway is that great businesses have no boundaries: geographical or otherwise.
Goodman Creatives was founded on the same principles – and I’m infinitely grateful for the freedom it provides.
Every day, I get to help amazing people soar while also being there with my kids as they grow up. What an incredible gift … all thanks to following my heart, taking a chance, and trusting completely.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
There’s no such thing as a smooth road. The biggest struggle has been finding a way to scale my business from just being a freelancing gig that I do in between travels to a full service marketing agency with a mission of improving the mental health of 1 million people around the world. The struggle is learning how to go from that freelancer, solo lifestyle to a business owner and everything else that it entails. Despite having a background in business, marketing, advertising, and PR, I never took a class about starting and running a business in college.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I am a man of many hats. Photographic storyteller. Web designer. Artist. Digital Nomad. As I shared in my story, for a large part of my life, I was known as travel Photography Greg. Now, the founder of Goodman Creatives, a digital marketing agency focused on helping mental health professionals help more people.
How do you define success?
I define success by the impact my work and passion have on those around me. In all my careers, my mantra has been “how can the content I create to make someone’s life better even if they never become a paying client, buy a photo, or interact with me in any way.”
Contact Info:
- Website: https://goodmancreatives.com and https://adventuresofagoodman
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/adventuresofagoodman and https://instagram.com/goodmancreatives
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/adventuresofagoodman and https://facebook.com/goodmancreatives
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/greggoodman10044/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/iamgreg007
