Marketa Machalkova

Atheist, Event planner, Explorer, Global soul, Idea generator, Job-seeker, World traveler, Writer/Editor

I'm a community facilitator and destination scout with Hacker Paradise, a small remote team of 10 nationalities spread across 7 time zones. I help curate a community of remotely working professionals from all over the world, promote location independence and a Work-From-Anywhere lifestyle. We focus on building stronger relationships and meaningful experiences abroad, sharing skills and promoting diversity, inclusivity and tolerance. I'm living my dream of working in an international community of like-minded people, using my beloved English as the main communication tool, and staying in countries where I can practice all the other languages I've been learning conversationally.

the English language, traveling, travel planning, reading and book hoarding, DIY, mountain climbing and playing my ukulele.

Change the world by doing work you love.

Education, Languages, Learning, Remote Work, Teaching, Tour Guiding, Travel, Writing

I can actually trace what I do now back to a couple of concrete TED talks that had sparked an idea, a passion, and influenced the direction of my life, and not just the professional one. I've had many eye-opening moments and epiphanies when watching certain TED talks. There are other amazing short talks I've seen 20-30 times as I've been using them as a teaching material when I taught English. There are talks I cried to, laughed with, that made me think differently from that point onward, that made me take action. I was thrilled to learn about TED circles, and we hosted them for our community of remote professionals and general public in 2020 Medellín, Colombia. They inspired so much conversation and meaningful relationships I still keep to this day. Becoming a TED translator was a natural inclination for me, I wanted to share those talks and ideas I found so incredibly inspiring. Well, all those I personally adored were already translated into Czech, so I focused on other topics close to my interests and curiosity.

Patience and endurance