Career Lifestyle Coach Dr Paul Symonds and about Paul

My dream has always been to get out of the stress of working in a management and corporate world, to be free and work from anywhere.

Not only that but to travel the world and to spend time doing the things my wife and I love doing. Learn more about our journey to freedom below.

Our Mission for Ourselves and to You

Our goal (Valeria and I) has always been to develop a business that helps us lead the lifestyle we want BUT we also genuinely LOVE teaching!

So moving forward, we want to continue to:

Be able to work from anywhere in the world
Work for ourselves
Help you and other people also to gain more flexibility time-wise. It is extremely rewarding when we help other people to also build their own freedom. It is an amazing feeling to teach and help others.

About Us

Paul and Valeria - the PromarketingOnline team

We are a married couple and are now both full-time bloggers and digital nomads.

We met in a pub in Dublin, Ireland, in 2001, and have been together ever since.

Within 6 months of meeting, Valeria suggested we travel together (a great way to get to know each other) and we decided to move to South Korea together!

We moved to Korea, where I taught English and Valeria taught Italian (in a university).

Ever since we lived in Korea we have dreamed of being truly free to work for ourselves, to be in charge of our own destiny, to choose our own hours, and where we work.

Being able to work from Chiang Mai, Australia, South of France, the UK, or Sicily, wherever we want, when we want, has always been the motivation.

Developing PromarketingOnline hasn’t always been easy. We have made many mistakes along the way but always tried to learn from them, to refine our business.

It is from these mistakes we made, that we try to teach our students the right way to build an online business.

I was born in Plymouth, Devon, England and I love to travel and love learning new things. For the mental challenge, I recently did and successfully passed a PhD with Cardiff Metropolitan University in the UK.

Rather than move into academia to teach though, I have continued building on my 15+ years of Online Marketing experience to work for myself.

The journey has not always been easy in that we have made many good decisions but also made our share of mistakes in business.

We (Valeria and I) started off, for example, writing blog posts and content on our earlier sites, without actually understanding how sales funnels work and having a clear end goal and not properly understanding how to build mail lists and use call to actions effectively etc.

We are now at a point where we successfully teach a number of students and we make a comfortable living from blogging.

5 quick facts about me:

I am a fanatical Plymouth Argyle supporter (the football/soccer) club from my home city in Devon, England. The Pilgrims!
I also love our home sauna having once done a 6-month exchange at university to Finland and learnt about sauna etiquette.
Cornish pasties are my favourite food and Guinness my favourite beverage.
I have travelled across 40 of the U.S. States. Hawaii is one where I haven’t been yet, though I am looking to get to soon.
I LOVE blogging, computers and working online. I love my job!