Welcome to Remote Work Europe Connected
The New Online Home for Europe's Remote Workforce 🌟✨
Here, you'll find a blend of expert-led learning, community networking opportunities, and a supportive environment created specifically for employed and freelance remote professionals across Europe. Join us to transform your remote career, find new opportunities, and be part of a movement redefining the future of work!
Imagine a place where boundaries vanish between nations and professions, creating a melting pot of ideas, skills, and opportunities. If you're a creative freelancer, a side hustler, gig guru, or a corporate remote worker, or you’re simply ready to reinvent yourself for the new year… there’s a new place for you, at Remote Work Europe Connected.
Community and connection has always been at the heart of Remote Work Europe. But, there is only so much you can do in Facebook groups. We know people want more specific, actionable, and individual support, and sometimes that’s better sorted out away from the gaze of 2 billion other users…
So we have created something better, for our most engaged and active members, to help you achieve your remote work goals. Whether you want to negotiate flexibility as an employee-preneur, launch a new side venture, or create the next distributed global enterprise (because everything starts from somewhere!), there’s a place for you in RWE Connected 🥰
Remote workers are used to going it alone.
But independence and autonomy does not have to be lonely. Everything is easier, in the company of those who understand.
Even more so, we know it’s not always easy to find the right information and guidance, to keep yourself accountable, and to get the word out when you’re ready.
That’s why you deserve to be Connected.
Sol Duval, events and training co-ordinator
“Remote Work Europe Connected circle pushed me forward to take action and realise my dream of working as a Virtual Assistant. The guidance and encouragement from Maya, Diana, and the entire community, coupled with the wealth of invaluable resources at our disposal, have made all the difference. Thanks to RWE Connected, what once seemed like an unattainable dream is now becoming a reality.”
We're not creating just another networking group; we're a vibrant ecosystem tailored for the unique challenges and opportunities of European remote work.
From navigating different time zones to understanding varied work cultures,
our community will become a treasure trove of resources.
From day one you will find:
A warm welcome and conversation with fellow remote rockstars
Join in our podcast and put questions to guests, in advance or live
Weekly “Out-of-office Hours” for real-time Q+A, to work on your personal next moves
A place to share your business, service or product, and make deals with fellow Connectors
Space to set and share goals, and help hold one another accountable
A network to grow your social media, your referrals, your connections, and your ideas
Somewhere to celebrate your successes, with those who appreciate everything you are working towards
A community of mentors, collaborators, connections, and friends
Exclusive resources and content
In Remote Work Europe Connected, you won’t just find networking and connection, though.
We’re building a comprehensive library of exclusive training, workshops, conversations, and insights. From mastering your technology to slaying your socials, we’ve got you.
Every week, our resources will grow, as we shape the content in line with what YOU need most.
Are you ready to transform your remote work experience?
Join us in Remote Work Europe Connected
Remote Work Europe Connected is ready to welcome you today.
You get 14 days to check it out completely free!
Will you be joining us? (It’s €30 per month, for the lifetime of your membership. Or you can upgrade to annual membership at any time and get 2 months on us.)
Hope to see you on the inside, and ready for your next move 🌟✨
Coralie Renée, Coach and VA
“Maya and Diana have encouraged me to put myself out there and made sure that I got some visibility with what I’m offering (coaching, workshop, massage as well as Virtual Assistant work). They are really generous and help you connect with the right people.
I have also learned a lot thanks to Maya’s knowledge on remote work.
It’s been only a month and I’m sure that like wine, it’s gonna get better and better.
If you are like me, having a great community of peers who are there to support each other as a self-employed remote worker is essential for my sanity.”
Your facilitator and host
Maya Middlemiss, founder of Remote Work Europe, has been working from home since before this millennium began!
She built a distributed team before the term existed, moved her family from London to Spain for purely lifestyle reasons, hired people from around the world, and then transitioned her work to full-time freelancing and solopreneurship as an author and podcaster.
She figured out all this stuff the hard way, from the remote team leadership to the technology, because there was no Remote Work Europe back then.
All of the “how-to” stuff was figureoutable. It always is.
But what Maya really lacked throughout those first decades was a sense of community.
Suspended between the suburban Yummy Mummies and the Career Commuters, even moving to Spain didn’t solve that problem. Because although she met many wonderful people from all over the world, back in the 2010s hardly anyone worked the way she did.
All that changed though when the whole world unexpectedly got a taste of remote working, often in very challenging circumstances, and Maya pivoted her role to help people survive, and even thrive, in this strange new world.
And as that world unlocked and everyone explored the new normal, she found growing numbers of people who were excited by the possibilities before them, now that they knew they could work in a location-independent way.
Remote Work Spain was where it all began… And now, Remote Work Europe Connected, is the key to the future!
FAQs
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Everything we offer that is priced at less than €30 (the monthly membership fee) is included completely - in fact, the eBooks are already waiting for you in the group files section.
Our higher-tier products are offered with a substantial discount to Connectors, usually half price. However in practice, most of these products have been developed with the help and feedback of this community, and many have already had access to them within the membership in exchange for feedback and advice, before we reach the point of launching publicly.
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Yes it is! We firmly believe that the future of work is blended and integrated, and that there is space for everyone to own their career and plan their preferred lifestyle. That might mean upskilling and adding value to your present role, negotiating more flexibility about where and when you work, or acing your next performance review. Furthermore, the past few years have brought so much upheaval, that (without any intent of scaremongering) there’s really no such thing as a 100% ‘safe’ job nowadays.
So for both these reasons, yes, RWE Connected is for you. You don’t have to be planning to launch a new side hustle or even look for a new job, to want to invest in your professional and personal development as a remote worker.
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RWE Connected is a closed community, and we will require all participants to read and agree to a Code of Conduct, which includes - among other things - that what's shared in the community stays in the community. So if you're testing ideas for something new, or sharing a dilemma about your career, you can be assured of a safe space to express yourself.
However, we cannot enforce this legally or otherwise, and we do not recommend sharing proprietary IP or personally sensitive data in the community. Furthermore, we expect the community to grow and change its membership over time, so you should be aware of that when sharing - a factor we intend to enrich and grow our collective value to each other as RWE Connected evolves.
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We're hosting Remote Work Europe Connected in a private Facebook group - we moved here, because everyone is on Facebook already, and knows how to use it, and manage their alerts, etc. We will sometimeshave live event calls too but most of our communication will be text-based and in threads. We do the 'Out-of-office Hours' AMAs this way too, because it's far easier for people to find the information they need, as well as chipping in to the conversation when it's joyful and convenient to do so… We definitely do NOT want to be filling your calendar up with even more meetings 😎
You’re welcome to introduce yourself, and to start a thread/post about anything related to your remote working life /career /dreams /ideas etc.
We are also introducing a monthly email round-up to Connectors, summarising interesting threads of conversation, and also highlighting any new included products/offers, so you don’t miss out! -
Both Maya and Diana offer one-to-one professional consultancy. However RWE Connected has been created to offer a far more accessible and affordable "one-to-some" approach, which enables us to support more people, while still focusing on individual needs and challenges.
This also means that whatever support is offered both benefits other members, and benefits from the input of the whole community. Because we can all learn from one another, and the crowd can be wiser than any individual.
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You can ask about anything you like, so long as it is related to remote work in some way - career decisions, business dilemmas, tech conundrums…whatever is on your mind. (However please note, we will NOT be able to give professionally indemnified advice in specialist areas like tax, immigration, etc.)
If we don't know the answer or cannot help, then we'll say so, and see what we can do to find out. Perhaps your question will require a more detailed response, and it might inspire an expert guest session or future podcast/article.
The idea of these sessions is that we will respond in real-time, and it builds a body of knowledge to which we can all refer back, hence the weekly chat threads rather than video/audio.
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Our sales cart is operated through Stripe, and you can download a full tax invoice through it. If you need some special information on there or something, let us know, we will try to figure it out. We all have to keep our accountants happy!
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We want to create an inclusive and welcoming community, and it's really more important that members resonate with the values we share, rather than be physically located in any particular place. Further, we appreciate that a lot of remote workers are location-flexible and nomadic, and may not have a base anywhere.
That said, we will be emphasising European news and markets, as well as focusing on our timezones for live events. So, it's completely up to you… Why not use the free trial to check things out, if you're not sure?
More questions?
Just ask. That’s what being Connected is all about.
Hope to see you inside soon!