By Trevor Fenner | Updated 2026 I didn’t move to Bali because it was comfortable. I moved because my life in Los Angeles had become something I didn’t recognize anymore. A marriage that had turned toxic, a routine that felt more like a rut than a life, and a persistent sense that I was capable […]
What Skating in Bali Taught Me About Embracing the Uncomfortable Read Post »
By Trevor Fenner | Updated 2026 Not everything I build is about revenue. That might sound strange coming from someone who runs a dropshipping education platform, an ecommerce store, and a portfolio of niche content sites. Most of what I do is deliberately built around generating income and the specific kind of freedom that income
Why I Started Paradise Skate Mag and What It Means to Build Something You Love Read Post »
By Trevor Fenner | Updated 2026 Skateboarding has a culture that most people on the outside don’t fully understand. From the outside it looks like a hobby. Kids at a park doing tricks, maybe filming clips, maybe getting hurt. What it actually is, when you’re inside it, is one of the most demanding and character-forming
The Skate Mentality That Made Me a Better Entrepreneur Read Post »
By Trevor Fenner | Updated 2026 There is a specific kind of mental fatigue that comes from running multiple online businesses. It’s not the same as physical tiredness. You can sleep eight hours and wake up still carrying it. It’s the accumulated weight of open loops: campaigns that need monitoring, supplier relationships that need attention,
How Skating Keeps Me Sane While Running Multiple Businesses Remotely Read Post »
By Trevor Fenner | Updated 2026 Nobody feels motivated every time they skate. That might sound obvious but it took me a long time to really internalize what it meant. I grew up thinking that the days I skated well were the days I showed up wanting to skate, and the days I skated poorly
Consistency Over Motivation: A Lesson I Learned on a Skateboard Read Post »
By Trevor Fenner | Updated 2026 I’ve been skating since I was a kid in Seattle and building businesses since I was in my twenties in Los Angeles. For most of that time I thought of them as completely separate pursuits: one was how I stayed sane and connected to something physical and creative, the
Why Learning a New Trick and Launching a New Store Feel Exactly the Same Read Post »
By Trevor Fenner | Updated 2026 I learned how to fall before I learned how to land anything. That’s not a metaphor. In skateboarding, learning how to fall safely is genuinely one of the first things you develop as a skill. How to bail off a board without breaking your wrists. How to roll out
What Skateboarding Taught Me About Failing Forward in Business Read Post »
By Trevor Fenner | Updated 2026 I left Los Angeles in 2016 with no fixed destination and a laptop. I’d been running ecommerce businesses through Ecommerce Paradise well enough to untether myself from a physical location, and Southeast Asia had been on my radar for years as the obvious place to test what a genuinely
Bali vs Other Southeast Asia Digital Nomad Hubs and Why I Keep Coming Back Read Post »
By Trevor Fenner | Updated 2026 The visa situation in Bali is one of those topics where bad information is everywhere and the consequences of acting on it can be genuinely serious. I’ve been based in Bali since around 2018, after leaving Los Angeles in 2016 and spending about a year in Bangkok before landing
The Visa Situation in Bali and What I’ve Learned Living Here as an American Read Post »
By Trevor Fenner | Updated 2026 Fair warning: my schedule is going to sound strange to most people. I stay up all night and sleep through the morning. My workday starts when most of Bali is eating dinner. I’m usually just winding down when the digital nomads in Canggu are opening their laptops at their
What a Typical Workday Looks Like When You Run Businesses from Bali Read Post »
