Many of us wish we had more time to write, but few of us are willing to redesign our entire lives in order to make time for writing. In today's interview, David Kadavy talks about how he changed his mindset, processes, and even his country, in order to pursue a life of writing. Just a brief intro today as I have been in Spain on a yoga retreat – gotta be a Healthy Writer! I wish everyone a Happy Independence Day for the week ahead and challenge you to consider whether you really are independent. I tell my story of being laid off during the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, and how I swore then that I would never be dependent on one company for my income again. I now make a living from multiple streams of income – and if more authors did that, there would be less of an issue with some of the dominant platforms making changing that impact the livelihoods of writers. How can you expand your streams of income so as not to be dependent on one company? This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life, which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. You can also subscribe to the Kobo Writing Life podcast for interviews with successful indie authors. David Kadavy is a creative entrepreneur, a best-selling author, and podcaster. His books include Design for Hackers and The Heart to Start, Win the Inner War, and Let Your Art Shine. And he also has several mini books for creators. You can listen above or on iTunes or Stitcher or watch the video here, read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and full transcript below. Show Notes * Accidentally getting an offer to write a book * Struggling to write a second book * Blogging as a way into finding our writing voice * Transferring lessons from working in Silicon Valley to writing books * Redesigning our lives to write and produce more * Finding constraints that make it easy to do the things we say we want to do, like write * Disconnecting from a problem in order to incubate solutions for it * On the digital nomad lifestyle and tips for exploring places to live * How to make money writing on the STEEM blockchain – check out the book here.  You can find David Kadavy at kadavy.net and on Twitter @kadavy Transcript of Interview with David Kadavy Joanna: Hi, everyone. I'm Joanna Penn from TheCreativePenn.com and today, I'm here with David Kadavy. Hi, David. David: Hello, Joanna. Thank you so much for having me. I'm very excited to be here.