#4 – Jay Topp: Dropping Out, Being a Digital Nomad and the Arctic Circle
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Show Notes
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Jay is one of the coolest people I’ve met
1:56 - What’s wrong with the school system and how to escape it
5:48 - Growing up in an entrepreneurial family and dropping out
8:18 - Become more valuable by learning high value skills
10:45 - Voids create value / why Jay wants to change the way education is done
13:20 - Digital Nomad and filming a documentary in the Arctic Circle
21:10 - The most profound thing Jay learned from traveling to 57 countries
24:30 - All morality is localized / every idea is open to criticism
29:31 - How you do one thing is how you do everything
30:20 - What “home” means to a digital nomad / I’m a citizen of the world
39:21 - Next steps for Jay
44:00 - Biggest mentors in Jay’s life + books / closing remarks
In this podcast I speak with Jay Topp.
He’s like one of the coolest people I’ve ever met.
* Jay is 22 years old from the Gold Coast, Australia.
* He’s a Digital Nomad who’s stepped foot in 57 countries. He calls himself a “citizen of the world”.
* He dropped out of school when he was 16 at a time when he started earning more than his teachers while helping his family scale their business.
* His agency, Lion Social helps scale businesses from ideation to seven figures and has had a couple of great success stories.
* He’s an excellent musician.
* He’s been working on a documentary on “Digital Nomads living in the Arctic circle” which releases later this year.
* His mission is to play a meaningful role in the revolution of education.
WHAT WE TALK ABOUT
* We talk about the flaws in the education system and how Jay escaped it.
* Jay shares the most profound thing he learned upon traveling to 57 countries.
* We explore who digital nomads are and the reasons why Jay is creating a documentary about them situated in a very unique place.
* Jay shares what “home” means to him.
* And much more.
Jay’s links:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jayt0pp/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzevubxwGHCx7aVbKPTOxjg
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