Vol. VII · Issue 04 · Global Edition
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Subscribers: 247,831
Dumb Bitch Academy Est. 2019 · The Riviera · The Algarve · The Internet
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Editorial · Amalfi, shot on film
The 2026 Spring Cohort · Now Accepting 12 Students

Don't think
about it. Just fuckin'
do it.

A six-month global finishing program for women who, like me, are done. Emotionally. Spiritually. Geographically. You don't need a plan — you need to land somewhere beautiful before you talk yourself out of it. — Paige

247k
Followers (mostly bots)
14
Countries visited in 2025
1
Weird trick (we won't tell you)

"You can absolutely quit your job, sell your things, and move to Lisbon with your boyfriend and two cats — the money always works itself out." Paige · Founder · @paige

01The Curriculum

Six pillars of the
unbothered life.

From wine fluency to visa arbitrage, our program teaches you to conduct yourself as if money has always been — and will always be — someone else's problem.

Villa
Module 01

Villa Acquisition 101

Identifying the right 18th-century stone farmhouse before it appears on Instagram. Includes a primer on "good bones" and why the pool is non-negotiable.

4 WeeksTuscany Intensive
Wine
Module 02

Wine, Fluently

How to order a €340 bottle with the quiet shrug of someone who has already forgotten it exists. Pronouncing "Gevrey-Chambertin" with no tells.

3 WeeksBurgundy
First class airplane cabin
Module 03

The Geography of Tax

A light and breezy introduction to the 183-day rule, the Schengen shuffle, and why your accountant simply adores Portugal right now.

2 WeeksLisbon · Dubai
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02The Founder

Meet Paige.

She has been to fourteen countries this year. She is, she's pretty sure, doing great. Probably. Just — let her explain.

Paige portrait
Founder · Head of Intuition · Nothing Is Really That Serious

Paige.

@paige · 247,831 followers

"I quit my job in 2017 and I have genuinely never been happier. I mean — I've been anxious. Pretty much constantly. But that's separate. That's a separate conversation."

Paige left corporate life nine years ago with what she calls "not a plan — a feeling, which is better." She now divides her time between the Algarve, a rented ski chalet in Verbier, and the passive income from a small real-estate portfolio (12 rental units, inherited + acquired during 2009) that she does not, as a rule, discuss on the podcast.

"I didn't have a plan. I had a vibration. I landed in Lisbon with two suitcases, a ficus, and — honestly? Enough savings for about eleven weeks. I figured it out. You just figure it out. You have to trust that the universe is going to provide. And also, separately, that your father is."

Host of the Unbothered podcast. Please do not email her. She will not reply. She may, however, voice-memo you back at 2:40am her time, from a moving car.

02bFrom Paige

Stories from the road.

Lightly edited voice memos. She sends a lot of them. They come in at strange hours, from strange countries, usually without a discernible plan.

Lisbon rooftop
Lisbon · March 2023

"I signed the lease in euros."

"I hadn't seen the inside. I'd seen the outside. The light was good. The neighbor was watering a lemon tree. I called my dad from a pastelaria and I said — listen. I'm doing it. Don't make it weird. Just — don't make it weird."

Positano coastline
Positano · June 2024

"I extended the trip."

"It was supposed to be eight days. I stayed three weeks. I had to move a podcast, two doctor's appointments, and — well, a few things. But you can always move things. Things are moveable. That's the lesson. That's really the lesson."

Lake Como villa
Lake Como · last August

"I didn't check the price."

"You cannot check the price of a villa in the moment. You can only feel the villa. Check the price afterward — in the car, with the windows up, with a friend driving. If you look at the price in front of the host, you have lost. They know. They can tell."

Mykonos harbor
Mykonos · July 2024

"I said yes to the boat."

"I didn't know whose boat. I still don't. I spent four days on a boat, and I have five new friends and one — one small, ongoing concern about a laptop that may or may not be in a cabin. That's just — that's just the kind of week it was. Honestly."

Paris
Paris · October, no year

"I booked it in the Uber."

"I was in an Uber to JFK and I bought a one-way to Charles de Gaulle. First class — and I cannot stress this enough — because there were no other seats. I landed with a tote bag and a charger. The universe took care of the rest. And also, separately, my dad."

Santorini
Santorini · an August

"I stopped opening the app."

"You have to reach a point where you do not open the banking app. You just don't. You're in Santorini, the sun is a very particular color, and the app is going to say what it's going to say. Let it. Let the app say its thing. You're not there."

"You can absolutely quit your job, sell your things, and move somewhere you can't pronounce. The money works itself out. Or it doesn't, and you come home quietly. But you will have gone. That's the only thing nobody can take from you." Paige · voice memo · 11:42pm · Amalfi coast

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03The Journal

A diary of the life
you're about to lead.

Unedited moments from our 2025 cohort. (Lightly edited. Some moments. Many filters.)