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Entrepreneur / Speaker / Community Builder

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About Hannah · The Nomad

Building businesses, communities, and unconventional paths to freedom.

I work with remote-first founders, freelancers, and anyone bold enough to design a life that refuses to follow the script. After 20+ years as a non-stop traveller and digital nomad, I built the Virtual Excellence Academy, a leading global virtual assistant training platform with an interconnected community of over 45,000 freelancers worldwide. I’ve also delivered keynotes on stages from Bangkok to Budapest.

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The Lifeline

Travel became more than a lifestyle.

But my path here wasn’t conventional, nor was it handed to me. After a tumultuous childhood, I later found myself in a DV situation that hugely shaped how I view freedom, safety, and independence. Travel and remote work became more than a lifestyle; they became my lifeline.

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The Outlier

There’s never just one way to do things.

As a queer and neurodivergent entrepreneur, I’ve never believed there’s just one way to do things. That belief underpins everything I build: businesses, communities, and opportunities designed around purpose, belonging, and radical inclusivity.

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The Realization

The conventional path is optional.

You want to travel but can’t afford it? Work exchanges, house-sitting, home swaps. You want to make money but struggle in a 9 to 5? Freelance from home using skills you already have. There’s endless ways to do life that most just aren’t aware of. Unconventional excellence starts with one realization: the conventional path is optional.
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The Community

Belonging, built on purpose.

Through partnerships with youth empowerment NGOs, including MaNaBu Movement, I work to bring remote work opportunities and self-leadership skills to those who can benefit most. In addition, I’ve founded Rainbow Remote, a fast-growing networking community for LGBTQIA+ remote professionals.

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The Book

Part memoir, part blueprint.

There’s nothing typical about how I work, live, love, travel, and structure (or don’t) my days. I’m currently bringing together years of entrepreneurship, training, adaptive intelligence, and lived experience into my upcoming book, Unconventional Excellence—part memoir, part blueprint for tearing up the blueprint in order to live out what most only do in their wildest dreams.

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What I Build

The Ecosystem

Six projects, one idea: build a life and a business on your own terms.

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Digital Nomad Kit

Virtual Excellence Academy

The ecosystem redefining how people work, earn, and live. Home to the Virtual Excellence Academy, an award-winning training platform supporting over 45,000 freelancers. More than a course, DNK is a globally interconnected community and ethical hiring and matchmaking network.

  • 45,000+ freelancers
  • Training
  • Ethical hiring
Visit DNK →
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Rainbow Remote

For LGBTQIA+ remote professionals

A global community for LGBTQIA+ remote professionals. Rainbow Remote connects freelancers, founders, and remote workers through networking, visibility, and shared experience — both online and through in-person meetups worldwide.

  • Networking
  • Visibility
  • Global meetups
Visit Rainbow Remote →
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MaNaBu Youth Program

Remote work where it’s needed most

Creating access to remote work where it’s needed most. In partnership with MaNaBu Movement, this initiative equips at-risk youth in Eastern Europe with digital skills and self-leadership training. Every DNK enrollment contributes directly, extending opportunity far beyond the individual.

  • Digital skills
  • Self-leadership
  • Gives back
Learn more →
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Advisory, Speaking & Activations

From startups to global orgs

I take a multidisciplinary, strategic approach — working with startups through to global organizations across product, partnerships, community building, and remote team culture, helping them build stronger, more connected businesses while scaling both income and impact.

  • Product
  • Partnerships
  • Team culture
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Unconventional Excellence

The forthcoming book

A forthcoming book exploring the pillars of building a life and career on your own terms — from forging alternative paths to redefining success beyond societal benchmarks. I share ideas and snippets in my newsletter.

  • Memoir
  • Blueprint
  • Newsletter
Join my newsletter →
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VA-cation Retreats & Events

Where work meets lifestyle

Where work meets lifestyle. From retreats to global meetups, VA-cation brings virtual assistants and freelancers together around the world, blending coworking, connection, and growth. Designed to support both business and lifestyle — showing what’s possible when work is built around your life.

  • Retreats
  • Meetups
  • Coworking
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Speaking

International Speaker

I speak internationally, both in-person and virtually, on progressive approaches to business, life, and freedom — with a rare ability to captivate, connect, educate, and entertain in the same breath. My story and experiences draw people in, and more importantly, draw them to each other.

In every space I facilitate, I create real, human connection in an increasingly digital world — leaving audiences not just inspired, but moved to take action.

Signature Topics

What I speak about

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Remote Freelancing & Digital Nomad Life

Building freedom-first careers and location-independent lives

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Unconventional Excellence: Designing Life on Your Own Terms

Rewriting the rules of success, work, and fulfillment — even against the odds

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Community Building, Belonging & Inclusive Leadership

Creating spaces where people feel seen, safe, and connected — and why that matters

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Ethical Hiring & Working with Freelancers

Designing flexible, human-first teams through ethical hiring and the open talent model

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Queer Entrepreneurship & Travel

Navigating identity, visibility, and freedom on your own terms

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Social Impact Through Entrepreneurship

Using business as a vehicle for access, equity, and opportunity

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Awards & Recognition

Award-winning work

Lifetime Achievement Award

The Nomad World

Community Leadership Award

The Nomad World

Voted #1 Best Virtual Assistant Course Globally

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Voted #1 Best Program to Make Money Online

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Partnerships

Reach an Engaged Global Audience

I work with brands that want to reach a highly engaged, globally distributed audience of remote workers, freelancers, and location-independent entrepreneurs. My community is built on trust — they listen, act, and invest in their future.

Opportunities include newsletter sponsorships, course integrations, speaking partnerships, community activations, podcast features, and co-created content. All partnerships are values-aligned and audience-first.

25,000+Newsletter Subscribers
19,000+Instagram Followers
70,000+Total Community
“My work attracts the outliers, those shaped by identity or circumstance to live differently. Through it, they don’t just find meaningful, accommodating work; they find their voice, themselves, and each other. Our global meetups and events are proof of that ripple.”

Hannah Dixon

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Let's Work Together

Interested in a speaking engagement, brand partnership, workshop, or custom training? I'd love to hear from you.