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Ep 5454: Fire-Spinning, Ethical Tourism, and Relocating Digital Nomads to Chiang Mai with Amanda Gedney

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Amanda Gedney begins by explaining her love of hula hooping and fire-spinning, how to do it, how she learned it, and how she manages the fire-spinning performances at the Jai Thep festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ She then takes us on her journey, starting with growing up in New York, going to college at the Fashion Institute of Technology, studying abroad in Paris, falling in love with travel, and then totally pivoting and moving to Chiang Mai to teach English right out of college. She then explains her entrepreneurial trajectory and her experience building her company, Settle in Abroad, which helps digital nomads and teachers re-locate to Chiang Mai. She explains what is included in her turn-key relocation package, as well as her other shorter-term offerings for tours and experiences in Thailand. She then goes on to talk about “ethical tourism”, how travelers should think about it as they explore the world, and how she ethically vets all of her tours and experiences. Amanda then goes on to talk about building and scaling her business, the biggest challenges, and why she over-pays her staff and supports them in building their own businesses. She also talks about her partnership with One Tree Planted, Warm Heart and explains how and why Settle in Abroad gives back to social causes for every program sold. Amanda then gives her advice to high school and college students who desire remote work options and want to integrate travel experiences into their lives. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Oct 15, 20191h 32m

Ep 5353: Ayahuasca in the Amazon, Self-Love and Building the Freelance Travel Network with Danielle Thompson

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Danielle Thompson takes us on her path through entrepreneurship, building multiple different businesses until she finally found her true passion with The Freelance Travel Network—helping nomadic freelancers grow and profit from their online service business while traveling the world. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ She explains how she grew and scaled that business while traveling the world herself. Danielle also opens up about her personal development journey. She explains the profound impact that Ayahuasca ceremonies and other psychedelic experiences had on her business breakthroughs, personal growth, and development of self-love. She also takes us on her travel journey since 2015 when she became a full-time digital nomad. She shares her biggest takeaways, epiphanies, struggles, identity conflicts and growth moments from long term stays in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Lisbon, Bali, and Buenos Aires. She discusses her experience participating in the WiFi Tribe work-travel program and the importance of cultivating and sustaining community in the long-term nomadic lifestyle. Danielle then discusses her personal day structure and productivity habits, including how she gamifies her entire life and the app she uses to do it. She reflects on the significance of what travel means to her and shares her #1 travel hack. She also recommends her #1 most influential book, her favorite productivity app, and shares the one person in the world with whom she would most like to have dinner. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Oct 9, 20191h 23m

Ep 5252: Mastering Productivity, Scaling Remote-First Companies, and Managing Staff in 32 Countries with Liam Martin

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Liam Martin tells his story of being ranked one of the top 30 figure-skaters in the world before breaking his knee cap at age 21 and having his dreams dashed. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ He then pivoted into academia but, after receiving the worst teaching evaluations in the department’s history, he pivoted again, this time into remote entrepreneurship. Liam takes us on his business-building journey, that ultimately culminated in the creation of “Time Doctor”, a productivity software that he scaled into a 7-figure remote-first business which now has over 100 staff in 32 countries. He takes us behind the scenes of his company operations and gives detailed tips on remote hiring, building systems and processes, training and running a remote sales team, project management and communication across time zones, detailed marketing and SEO tactics that are working today. He also shares his approach to executive leadership, remote management and building company culture in remote-first companies. Liam then details his personal productivity and time mastery techniques, as well as the way he manages stress and approaches business problems or setbacks. Liam then talks about co-founding “Running Remote”, the world’s largest conference on building and scaling fully remote teams. He discusses who should attend, what to expect, and where/when the next conference is happening. He then talks about his passion for international travel and explains his travel cadence, how he decides on his remote work locations, what travel really means to him at this point in his life, and shares his favorite travel app and the #1 gadget he never travels without. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Oct 1, 20191h 23m

Ep 5151: Bootstrapping a $4 Million Chair-Massage Businesses and Tripling Revenue by Going Fully Remote with Eddie Rich

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Eddie Rich takes us on his journey of founding LoDo Massage during the recession with just $30 and scaling it to operate in 45 U.S. states and land clients that include some of the top Fortune 500 companies. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ After losing almost everything in the recession of 2008, approaching 50 years old, and unable to find investors for his business idea, he explains how he creatively bootstrapped it and cultivated competitive advantages based on his expertise in SEO marketing and building efficient systems and processes, which allowed him to scale the company to over $4 Million with only 5 corporate staff. Eddie gives tips for SEO marketing and building businesses with minimal startup capital. He also talks about his leadership style, his productivity habits, and morning routine, and how he runs his company from different time zones and coordinates with his team. He then talks about the advantages of going fully remote, and how he tripled his company revenue once he made all of his staff location independent and started traveling the world. Eddie also shares his experience doing the Remote Year program at age 56, the Nomad Train at age 57, and why he is so passionate about travel and chooses to continue the nomad lifestyle. He shares his favorite book, productivity app, travel hack, and gear recommendation, as well as his top 3 favorite travel destinations of all time and what is currently at the top of his bucket list. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Sep 24, 20191h 30m

Ep 5050: The Maverick Show Throwback and Highlight Reel from the First Fifty Episodes

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On the 50th episode of The Maverick Show, I want to thank you so much for listing to the show. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ Please enjoy this highlight reel from the first fifty episodes! So that we can continue to improve and provide more value to you, please take a brief survey at www.TheMaverickShow.com/Survey and give us your input and opinion on what you like most about the show, where we can improve and how we can deliver more value to you. Also, if you have gotten any value at all from the show in the first 50 episodes, please support the show by subscribing, writing a review on iTunes, sharing The Maverick Show with your social media followers and/or making a one-time financial contribution to help cover production costs (Just go to PayPal.com and enter the email [email protected] as the payment recipient). Thank You in advance for all of your support! FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Sep 18, 20191h 44m

Ep 4949: Magnetic Confidence, Building Your Online Brand and Owning Your Power and with Ashley Hann

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Ashley Hann shares her journey to location-independent entrepreneurship beginning with her experience being hired as the Marketing Director at one of Mark Cuban’s start-up companies and helping to grow it 500% in a year. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ She explains how she restructured the customer service policy and exponentially increased their sales on Amazon. After that, she explains why she took a job in a large-corporate environment and then, after 7 very successful months, quit the day after presenting to the board about a successful marketing campaign. She talks about that transitionary moment and how she went on build her own business. She shares the top tips for leaving the corporate world with your skills and the mindset required to enter a crowded market and win. She gives tactical tips on personal and company brand building that are working today and how to build trust and authority on social media. She goes deep on Instagram tactics, sharing the latest techniques that are working for both content and hashtags. She then tells the story of how she met Gary Vaynerchuk, how he became a friend and mentor to her, and shares the biggest lessons she has learned from him. Ashely then goes on to talk about her top tips for a high-converting website, optimizing your online brand presence, and the SEO tactics that are working today to generate organic traffic. She then goes on to talk about “Magnetic Confidence”, explains what it is, how to develop it, and tells her personal journey overcoming anxiety, depression, fear and limiting beliefs that led her to write her best-selling book on Magnetic Confidence. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Sep 10, 20191h 23m

Ep 4848: Remote Year CEO Greg Caplan on the Future of Work, Nomadic Communities and Building the World's Largest International Work-Travel Program

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Remote Year co-founder and CEO Greg Caplan shares the behind the scenes journey of starting and building the world’s largest international work-travel program. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ He tells the story of how his unique upbringing in the Chicago suburbs led him to became passionate about international travel and cultural immersion. He then explains how he was driven to start Remote Year based on his own interest in working while traveling with a community of friends and shares his surprise with the amount of initial demand he received for the concept. He then explains how he went about building the infrastructure for the program, what the initial challenges and setbacks were, and the lessons he learned from them. He goes on to explain how the program functions today—how the onboarding, orientation and city previews work, as well as the overall experience that participants can expect on the program. He then details the concept of the “Remote Nation” and how the “Citizenship” program works to connect the Remote Year alumni network across the globe and offer unique experiences to them on an ongoing basis. Greg also explains Remote Year’s mission and values, and talks about the “Positive Impact” initiative as well as the “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” initiative that Remote Year is prioritizing for both staff and participants. He then shares his vision on the macro trends that are shaping the future of work, both in terms of employee desires to work remotely while traveling the world, and also in terms of companies increasingly offering remote work as a benefit to recruit and retain top talent. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Sep 2, 20191h 24m

Ep 4747: How to Buy Turnkey Rental Properties in the Best U.S. Markets Regardless of Where You Live with Matt Bowles

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Matt Bowles starts off by explaining what “turnkey real estate investing” is, and discusses the benefits of buying and holding residential investment property vs. other asset classes like stocks and mutual funds. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ He goes through the 5 different potential profit centers you have when buying and holding rental properties—market appreciation, cash flow, tax benefits, mortgage principal pay-down by the tenant, and a built-in hedge against inflation. He explains the benefits of not having to be the rehabber or the landlord yourself and how buying a performing rental property (that is already cash-flowing when you close) can substantially mitigate your up-front risk. Matt then explains the benefits of buying and “holding” (instead of flipping) your rental property, and why it’s important to own the deeded real estate as a hard asset as opposed to buying real-estate-backed securities. And, finally, he explains the benefits of building a portfolio of single-family rental properties as opposed to buying an apartment building. He then teaches how to identify the most investor-advantaged real estate markets—assessing demand drivers, and price-to-rent ratios, calculating capitalization rates properly, and buying in the “real estate investor sweet spots”. He also covers the essentials of conducting due diligence on an out-of-state buying opportunity, the importance of verifying everything independently, and how to find and use third-party services. Matt concludes by explaining the business model of Maverick Investor Group, how their niche has been serving individual real estate investors exclusively since 2007, why it doesn’t cost any money to work with Maverick, and how Maverick intentionally created an incentive structure that puts the buyer’s interests first. He then offers two opportunities to connect with Maverick and either learn more or start building your portfolio of cash-flowing rental properties. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Aug 27, 201951 min

Ep 4646: Undocumented, Detained and Deported: Becoming a Full-Time Nomad on a Kenyan Passport with Agnes Nyamwange

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Agnes Nyamwange shares her experience growing up in an Indian-majority neighborhood in her home country of Kenya, going to college in Kampala, Uganda, and then moving to the U.S. where she completed her Master’s Degree and worked in the healthcare industry for a decade. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ She opens up about how she struggled through 16-hour workdays, racism, being an undocumented immigrant, and ultimately falling into a depression where she couldn’t get out of bed. She explains how her depression, and the subsequent negative effects of anti-anxiety medications, prompted pivotal self-reflection and life changes that led her to start traveling. Agnes then explains the challenges of being a full-time digital nomad on a Kenyan passport and shares her experience getting detained at the Miami Airport, held for 36 hours in deplorable conditions, and deported to Brazil. From there, with $300 in her bank account, she explains how she moved to Bolivia and starting to rebuild her life-support-training business with a location-independent infrastructure so she could run it from anywhere in the world. Matt and Agnes then recount their experience traveling through West Africa together for 3 months through Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Senegal. They reflect on everything from the amazing music and nightlife to the corruption and military shakedowns they encountered to the history of the West African slave trade. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Aug 20, 20191h 43m

Ep 4545: Closing 5,000 Raw Land Deals with 300% ROI and The Art of Passive Income with Mark Podolsky

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Mark Podolsky shares his journey leaving the corporate world and starting his own land investing business. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ He explains how land investing works and the systems he created to consistently generate 300% returns. He then discusses the way he turned his land investing into a location-independent business by building systems and processes, automating, delegating, and hiring a team to run the different aspects of it. He talks about his leadership style, his hiring process, and how he manages an internationally distributed team. He then explains how and why he began creating an information product/service business where he mentors and teaches others how to replicate his methods. He also talks about his podcast “The Art of Passive Income”, shares his top tips on podcasting. He then talks about his book “Dirt Rich” and explains how and why he wrote it. Mark then shares his biggest business mistakes and how he manages stress and handles business setbacks. He discusses his morning routine, meditation practices, and the creative ways he integrates fitness into his life. Mark also explains his lifestyle design choices now that he has automated his business. He then shares his favorite book, app, travel destination, the advice he would give to his 18 year old self and the celebrity with whom he would most like to have dinner. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Aug 13, 20191h 4m

Ep 4444: Finding your "Flow", Practicing Gratitude and How Not to Take the Trans-Siberian Railway with Sarah Gregg

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Sarah Gregg talks about her new book “Finding Your Flow: Capture It, Use it and Make it Yours.” She begins by explaining the concept of “Flow” including the history, psychology and popular usages of it. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ She then goes on to explain how people can harness the concept of Flow to order their consciousness, be fully present in the moment and invest their attention towards the goals that matter most to them. Sarah then shares the 3 core conditions required for Flow to occur, and discusses the “journal system” that she created for finding and optimizing your Flow. She explains her morning routine which includes a gratitude practice, goal setting process, and the technique of “imagery scripting” of her ideal day. She emphasizes the importance of the gratitude practice in controlling your morning mood to start your day, as well as how to reflect positively at night, use self-distancing techniques, and identify your Flow states from the day. She then goes on to explain why Flow is not reliant on external factors, how it is unique to the individual, and how it is rooted in science and psychology. Sarah also takes us behind the scenes of the book writing process and shares how the book deal came about, how she overcame self-doubt, how she structured her research and writing process, and describes the marketing roll out plan for the book. Sarah then shares some travel adventures including her hilarious experience taking the Trans-Siberian railway across Russia into China. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Aug 6, 20191h 4m

Ep 4343: Revolutionizing African Cross-Border Money Transfer, Pitching Joe Montana and Raising $2.4 Million with Maijid Moujaled

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Maijid Moujaled takes us on his journey growing up in Accra, Ghana and moving to the US to study computer science and engineering and work for Yahoo and Imgur before embarking on his entrepreneurial journey. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ After being denied an H1B visa and being forced to leave the U.S., Maijid explains how he joined the Remote Year program and traveled the world for a year with 50 digital nomads. And while on Remote Year, Maijid tells the story of how he built “Chipper Cash”, a no-fee African cross border payment app together with a business partner from Uganda. He explains the challenges raising investment capital for the project and describes his first major breakthrough of getting accepted to the 500 Startups accelerator, followed by his first investor and eventually his path to raising a $2.4 million seed round. Maijid then talks about how he rapidly scaled Chipper Cash, built systems and processes for a remote-first company, and how he is hiring and managing a distributed team. He then shares his thoughts on an exit strategy, potential competition, and his 10-year vision for Chipper Cash. Maijid also talks about his personal productivity habits, his super simple morning routine, and the #1 thing he does for stress reduction. He then discusses his travel experiences, his love for Brazil, and the primary way he connects with locals when he can’t speak the language. He concludes by recommending his top book, app, podcast and shares his favorite travel destinations. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Jul 30, 20191h 21m

Ep 4242: Real Estate Tax Strategy, Writing New York Times Best Selling Books, and Building a Virtual Accounting Firm with Diane Kennedy

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Diane Kennedy shares her path to becoming a CPA, becoming Robert Kiyosaki’s tax advisor, and publishing one of the first books in his Rich Dad Advisors series. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ She talks about her writing process, the key to publishing New York Times best sellers, how the publishing industry has changed, and why she does independent publishing now. She also talks about her entrepreneurial journey, how she built and grew her accounting practice, and how she transitioned to a location independent infrastructure. Diane then explains the tax advantages of buying and holding residential investment property. She talks explains ‘deprecation’, ‘accelerated depreciation’, ‘1031 exchanges’, and the ‘real estate professional’ status, and shows why real estate is the most tax-advantaged asset class in the U.S.. She then explains the tax benefits of being a business owners, and how quick and easy it is for anyone to start a business on the side and start taking the tax deductions immediately. Diane also talks about her world travel and the way she designs her lifestyle, having been to 40 countries. She explains the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion, and how American’s who qualify can shelter over USD $109,000 of earned income per year while traveling the world and running their businesses remotely. Diane also talks about the dynamics of doing business with her husband Richard, and shares her approach to parenting, including how she adopted and raised her son David who has now also become a business owner. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Jul 22, 20191h 16m

Ep 4141: Buying $500 Million in Distressed Debt and Mastering the Note Investment Game with Scott Carson

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Scott Carson takes us on his journey from his banking and finance background to real estate investing to becoming an entrepreneur who specializes in investing in non-performing mortgages. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ He explains how to identify and buy non-performing notes and how he bought over $500 million in distressed debt for his own portfolio. He also explains the risks, how he conducts his due diligence and his precise strategy for making non-performing notes into profitable investments. Scott also talks about his entrepreneurial journey as the founder and CEO of WeCloseNotes.com and shares how he built his business, how he developed his information products and coaching programs, and how he scaled his business through networking and content marketing. He also talks about why and how he built his company with a location-independent infrastructure so he can run it remotely while traveling the world. Scott then talks about his leadership style as a CEO, his tips on hiring and managing staff, the importance of training and process building, and explains his concept of the “marketing octagon’. Scott then talks about how and why he started The Note Closers Show podcast, what the business benefits have been, and what tips and lessons he has after publishing nearly 500 episodes. We then talk about Scott’s lifestyle design, what he loves about world travel, and how he chooses his destinations. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Jul 15, 20191h 0m

Ep 4040: Building 8-Figure Fashion Brands, Collaborating with Top DJs, and Prioritizing Your Mental Health with Shane Vitaly Foran

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Shane Vitaly Foran shares his background growing up in Canada, getting into the punk rock scene, and pushing boundaries in fashion and style early on with his piercings, tattoos, hairstyle, and clothing choices. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ Shane tells the story of how he parlayed his rebellious, anti-establishment style into two fashion brands that currently produce over 8-figures in annual revenue. As the founder, CEO and lead designer of Vitaly Design and Clocks and Colours, Shane takes us on his entrepreneurial journey, his numerous setbacks along the way, and how he persevered and learned lessons from each business challenge. He explains how he now collaborates with the world’s top DJs, including a recent product line he produced for Zedd. He tells the story of how he appeared on Dragon’s Den (the Canadian version of Shark Tank) and delivered the most successful pitch in Dragon’s Den history, receiving investment offers from every single dragon. He also shares how he was approached by Axe to do a 60 second commercial and by MTV to do a spot on his team. Shane then talks about his leadership style, what it took to identify high quality manufacturers, how he manages his distributed team remotely while traveling the world, how he hires the right people, and how he deploys and optimizes a $5 million+ annual marketing budget. Shane also discusses his morning routines, productivity habits, the importance of prioritizing mental health and why he believes everyone should go to therapy. He explains how he differentiates his personal brand from his company brands, and why that is important. He also talks about what he loves about travel, the business benefits of traveling the world, his favorite destinations, his top bucket list destinations. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Jul 8, 20191h 22m

Ep 3939: Intrapreneurship, Charity Makeovers and The Key to Closing Sales with Sean Tierney

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Sean Tierney starts off by sharing the beginnings of his entrepreneurial tendencies and tells the story of how he made over $1,000 on one sales initiative in 8th grade. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ He then takes us through his decade-long journey as a serial entrepreneurial, running party bus and pub crawl companies, raising 750K for his startup Jumpbox, creating a short-sale real estate education company, experimenting with art and music businesses, trying to launch Survival School TV, and running the Lean Start-Up Circle in Phoenix Arizona. Sean then explains how he gravitated towards “Intrapreneurship” and ended up taking a job as the Sales Director at Pagely, where he can be very creative and innovative and act with a high degree of autonomy but still be in a salaried position with a paycheck and not have to take the risks associated with entrepreneurship. He talks about the Leviathan system he developed for Pagely and some of the lessons he has learned. He also talks about the key to closing any sale, whether it’s an individual customer or a Fortune 500 company. Sean goes on to talk about how he works remotely as a nomad and shares a story about closing a deal while tethered to his phone while driving through a hail storm in Ireland. Sean shares other travel adventures as well, including how he got his paragliding certification in complete white out conditions. Sean also shares his musical background, talks about his love for hip-hop, and performs his original song “Blind”. He also talks about his Charity Makeover initiative, Season 2 of his Nomad Podcast, and explains how his Nomad Prep Academy helps people become digital nomads. He also shares his morning routine, and productivity habits and explains his concepts of “punching past the board” and “reverse goal planning”. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Jul 2, 20191h 26m

Ep 3838: Traveling the World Full Time on Passive Rental Income and Coming Up in the Hip Hop Game with Tiffany Green

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Tiffany Green shares her experience coming up in the hip hop radio industry, working at WGCI in Chicago and Hot 97 in New York City. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ She explains what hip hop means to her and shares behind the scenes experiences of meeting A-list musicians, breaking artists as a music director, and interacting with some of the biggest names in music. Tiffany then goes on to share how and why she started investing in real estate. She explains how she bought her first property and how, 10 years later, she was able to retire on rentals properties. She explains how she she selects her macro markets, micro markets and specific properties, and how she built her portfolio one property at a time over a decade. She explains how she built up her net rental income to the point where it exceeded her salary and how she then quit her job and started traveling the world on her passive rental income. She also names her top 5 hip hop artists, as well as the #1 person she would most like to have dinner with. She also shares the #1 piece of advice she would give to her 18 year old self, recommends her top 3 travel destinations, and gives her top bucket list destinations where she most wants to go next. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Jun 25, 20191h 25m

Ep 3737: Bootstrapping a $9 Million Business from Scratch in 3 Years and Disrupting the Freelancer Marketplace with Nathan Hirsch

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Nathan Hirsch shares his entrepreneurial journey of founding his first business in his college dorm room buying and selling text books, and explains how he scaled that to sell $25 million on Amazon in the next 6 years. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ He then explains how, at age 27, he founded FreeUp to help businesses hire pre-vetted virtual assistants and freelancers. He started the business with $5,000 and was able to scale it to $9 million in gross annual revenue in just 3 years. He explains how he was able to enter a crowded marketplace of freelancer platforms and disrupt it by substantially differentiating his value proposition and marketing it in a way that enabled him to scale very quickly. Nathan then goes on to talk about his biggest setbacks, how he overcame them, and what he learned. He gives his top tips for effective hiring and management of large distributed teams, and how to create a peak performance company culture in a remote company. He also talks about how, as an introvert, he taught himself to network and to be the face of the company in podcast interviews and on public speaking stages. He shares his morning routine, his day structure, and his productivity tips, as well as his stress management techniques. He also shares his most influential book, app, and the person he would most like to have dinner with. Nathan concludes with the most important piece of advice (also his biggest business lesson) that he would give to his 18-year-old self if he could go back in time. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Jun 18, 20191h 0m

Ep 3636: Angel Investing, Wine Tasting, and Chasing Robbers Through the Streets of Lisbon with Jennifer Magee

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Jennifer Magee returns to the Maverick Show and talks with Matt about epic shared travel adventures since the last episode. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ They talk about the birthday experience Jen organized for Matt in the Stellenbosch wine region of South Africa and their time in Cape Town together. Then Jen tells the story of how she chased two robbers through the streets of Lisbon, Portugal after they stole her iPhone. Jen and Matt then reminisce about their trip to Bolivia and why they were both blown away by the country. Then they discuss their experience going to Diner en Blanc in Paris, wine tasting in Bordeaux and Burgundy, and nearly driving off a ravine in Corsica. Jen then explains the architectural significance of Antoni Gaudi’s masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia, in Barcelona. Jen also shares her experience speaking on a “Women in Architecture” panel in New York City and how she fielded questions from other architects about running her location independent architecture business. Jen then speaks about her Angel Investing. She begins by explaining what an Angel Investor Is and the difference between full time vs. part time angels. She explains how to think about bootstrap vs. seeking investment capital. She then explains her personal criteria for evaluating start-ups and deciding to invest. Jen also talks about what makes a desirable Angel Investor from a founder’s perspective why founders should reject some Angel Investors. Jen then explains the difference between angel Investors vs. advisors. She also explains the biggest mistake that founders make when raising investment capital and the most important challenges founders have to overcome. And finally she shares her top tips for mitigating the risk of founder burnout. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Jun 10, 20191h 25m

Ep 3535: Bad-Ass Digital Nomads, Personal Brand Building and Designing Your Path to Location Independence in 30 Days with Kristin Wilson

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Kristin Wilson shares her latest travel adventures, and her upcoming plans to attend Rolf Potts’ travel writing course in Paris. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ She then gives a sneak preview her forthcoming book, “Digital Nomad 101: The Path to Location Independence” and shares her writing process. She also talks about how and why her “Long Term Digital Nomad Success” group on Facebook has grown to thousands of members and why she refers to it as a ‘family’. She also explains why she is focused not only on helping people transition into the digital nomad lifestyle, but doing it in a way that is sustainable over the long run. She then discusses why she created her new course, who it’s for, and how it provides a defined 30-day framework to help people jump start their digital nomad journeys. She then explains why she launched the Bad Ass Digital Nomads podcast, and talks about her interview with Matt and others who have been on the show. She also talks about her experience being the Keynote at the Nomad Summit in Las Vegas 2018, and then discusses her primary business “Orbis” which helps relocate people all over the world. She also shares some historical travel adventures and business snafus from her 15 years living and working in over 60 countries. She then gives tips on personal brand building and explains her morning and evening routines as well as the changes in her productivity techniques that have enabled her to level up her output over the past year. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Jun 4, 20191h 20m

Ep 3434: Taking Fabulous Photos, Dating as a Nomad and Running a Wedding Photography Business Remotely with Lydia Baikalova

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Lydia Baikalova tells her story of growing up poor in Ukraine, learning to speak English at age 13 and developing her entrepreneurial drive out of necessity to make money. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ She then shares her acting trajectory which eventually led her to Los Angeles. After years of modeling and acting, she explains how she decided to start a wedding photography business that she eventually scaled to over 25 staff. She explains how she build the systems and processes and infrastructure that now allows her to run it remotely while traveling the world. She shares specific tips on hiring, systems building, and scaling a service-based business as well as artistic and creative businesses. She then offers tips on how everyone can take better photos, for Instagram or anywhere else, and look fabulous. Lydia then goes on to talk about her passion for travel and the nomadic lifestyle. She shares her insights on personal growth, relationship building, and dating while traveling the world as a nomad. She also recounts some of her top travel experiences, adventures, mishaps, and favorite places. She talks about her love for tango, free-diving, and her passion or learning new skills as she travels. She also recounts her experiences in South Africa, explains how “Burning Man” events have impacted her life, and shares her views about having “nice things”. She also discusses the expansion of her business, and the opening of the boudoir division, and that why that is so significant to her. She also shares her specific morning routine, day structure, and productivity tips. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

May 27, 20191h 56m

Ep 3333: Building a Dozen Streams of Passive Income, Expanding the Nomad Summit and Traveling Like a Boss with Johnny FD

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Johnny FD talks about his latest travel adventures and begins by explaining why he loves the value destinations of Sri Lanka and Nepal in South Asia, Ukraine and Bansko, Bulgaria in Eastern Europe, and Lisbon, Portugal in Western Europe. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ Johnny then goes on to talk about his strategy for building businesses that can be automated, and building (or buying) assets that generate passive income. He debunks the most prominent myths about “passive income”, and describes his tenacious work ethic, morning routine, exercise and nutrition regimen, and explains what it really takes to build functional streams of passive income. He explains how he has now built a dozen streams of passive income that finance his lifestyle and world travel. He breaks down the details of how he does affiliate marketing, how he creates online courses, how he builds audience and monetizes his blog and his You Tube channel, and why he chooses a long-form interview format for his podcast even though it makes him less money. He also gives tips on avoiding “shiny-object syndrome” and spreading yourself too thin. Johnny then talks about his latest course “Income Boss”, who it is for and the value it provides. He then gives specific tips on personal brand building. Next he talks about why he loves travel so much, how he selects his locations, and how he designs his lifestyle. Finally, he explains why he expanded the Nomad Summit to take place twice a year on different continents, and why it now includes an optional post-Summit meet-up for up to a month afterwards and how you can participate. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

May 19, 20191h 11m

Ep 3232: Winning Emmys, Directing Feature Films and Running a Production Consulting Firm While Traveling the World with Michael Thelin

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Michael Thelin takes us on his journey coming up as a trader on the CBOE (Chicago Board Options Exchange), explains what that unique environment was like on the inside, how he managed the rollercoaster of stress and euphoria, and the personal life lessons he took from the experience. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ He then opens up about how he pivoted to become a writer and director, lived on unemployment for a year as he grinded away, and finally had his breakthrough when he sold a show to NBC. He explains how he built his own path to success through networking, staying creatively focused on producing high quality work, and never taking a vacation. He talks about how he landed fortune 500 commercial clients like BMW, Amex and Coca Cola and landed production consulting work for Warner, Universal and Fox. He then talks about the projects that won him Clios and Emmys and shares some behind the scenes mishaps. He then explains how he built his business, “MTP”, a film and television production consulting company that he scaled to over 20 staff, which now oversees the production of Google’s premium streaming content that is competing with Netflix and Amazon. He explains how he built his business with a location independent infrastructure so he can run it remotely while traveling the world. He then shares his creative process for co-writing and directing his first feature film Emelie, which released theatrically in 2016. He shares what it was like on set directing the film, explains the incredible stress level and how he managed to stay focused and complete the project to critical acclaim. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

May 12, 20191h 18m

Ep 3131: From Walking Red Carpets to Building Location-Independent Businesses: Creating a Life You Truly Love with Marisa Meddin

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Marisa Meddin shares her experiences as a brand marketer at Pepsi for 6 years, and describes what life was like throwing celebrity parties for influencers, walking red carpets at the Grammys, Clios and Golden Globes, and regularly interacting with her A-list clients. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ She distills down the business lessons learned from managing the $1.5 Billion Diet Pepsi brand, and breaks out the core principles of Pepsi’s brand-building strategy that are applicable to businesses of all sizes. Marisa then explains why she left Pepsi in her late 20s and walked away from what everyone saw as “the good life” and the “dream job”. She takes us through her career and life transition, why she decided to start over and how she taught herself to build location-independent businesses from scratch. She takes us through her journey of becoming a real estate professional and then building a completely automated business that now generate her enough passive residual income to cover her lifestyle expenses while she travels the world as a full-time digital nomad. Marisa emphasizes the tenacious work ethic required to learn, build, and automate successful businesses, and then breaks down the specific tactics for how she executed her product development, focus grouping of her target market, copywriting and marketing, and building effective sales funnels. She also goes deep into tactics for creating the right mindset and how to surround yourself with the right stimulation and create powerful incentives to succeed. She then talks about her move into the life/career coaching space and her love of working with people to help them create lives they truly love. And finally, she shares some of her top travel experiences and conveys the crucially important role of ‘community’ for long term world travelers. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

May 5, 20191h 59m

Ep 3030: Building Cryptocurrency Companies, Racing a Moto-Taxi Down the World's Most Dangerous Road, and Becoming Thailand's Fittest Man with Ben Lakoff

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Ben Lakoff takes us on his journey of becoming a Division 1 Golfer, getting into corporate finance, and then becoming an entrepreneur and helping build one of Thailand’s most popular Cryptocurrency exchanges. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ He shares his experience helping to raise $2 million dollars through an ICO (Initial Coin Offering), and becoming the CEO of Intelligent Trading Foundation which develops sophisticated tools for cryptocurrency investors. He then shares insights on making the entrepreneurial leap, the work ethic required to build a start-up, cash-flow management strategies, scaling and hiring, and tips for communicating with and managing a distributed team. He also talks about being an angel investor, how he evaluates investment opportunities and the most important thing for him to invest in a company. He then explains his overall personal investment portfolio strategy, including alternative investments like Indie-films, and what he sees for the future of cryptocurrency. He also talks about becoming an Under Armor sponsored athlete and being named “Thailand’s Fittest Man”. Ben then shares his experiences traveling to over 60 countries and living outside the U.S. for 8 of the last 10 years. He tells stories about hiking the Himalayas to Mt. Everest base camp, scuba diving around Komodo Island (Home of the Komodo Dragons) in Indonesia, Racing a Moto-Taxi down the World’s Most Dangerous Road in Bolivia, and participating in the “Running of the Bulls” in Pamplona, Spain. He also gives his tips for staying fit while traveling the world, reducing stress and optimizing productivity. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Apr 27, 20191h 14m

Ep 2929: Bootstrapping an 8-Figure Business, Co-Living, and Founding the Nomad Train with Maria Sirotkina

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Maria Sirotkina shares her entrepreneurial journey, starting with co-founding her first company, J-Study, in her home country of Russia, and running it as an 18-year old CEO. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ She explains how she and her partners scaled that business to 8-figures in annual revenue and what her biggest leverage points and breakthroughs have been. She provides tactical strategies for bootstrapping a lean startup, growth hacking, and paying attention to the right metrics and KPIs. She also explains the concept of co-living, how she developed her passion for it, and why she founded her Co-Living business ReStation in the Canary Islands, which she has now scaled up to 4 buildings that have housed over 1,000 nomadic travelers. She shares both the real estate and business lessons she has learned from operating her co-living space, and why it is crucially important to co-living spaces to establish a clearly defined culture. Maria then explains why she co-founded her third business, Nomad Train, which takes groups of Nomads from Moscow, Russia to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Maria also shares her passion for nomadic travel, why she chose to study Arabic, how she met her husband in Cape Town, and what her top 3 favorite travel destinations are. She also explains the concept of ‘deep work’ and shares her productivity strategies, including the specific tactics she uses for running three businesses in different countries while being a wife and mother of two who prioritizes her family. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Apr 21, 20191h 35m

Ep 2828: Producing A-List Music Videos Remotely, Getting a Billionaire Real Estate Mentor, and the Transformative Impact of Men's Suits with Colin Randall

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Colin Randall shares his experience working in real estate and explains how he quickly rose up the ranks right out of college to start selling million dollar homes within 3 months. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ He then tells the story of how he landed a billionaire real estate investor as a mentor and he shares the real estate investing lessons he learned working for him over the years. Colin then opens up about some of the biggest challenges and setbacks he faced and how, at his lowest point, he discovered that dressing well, wearing fashionable suits, and taking pride in his appearance had a powerful impact on re-building his self-confidence. He then talks about his major career pivot into producing music videos in Los Angeles. He explains the specific strategies and leverage points he used to quickly rise in the industry to start landing major studio contracts to produce music videos with 6-figure budgets for A-List musicians like The Back Street Boys, Pitbull, Enrique Iglesias and many others. He then explains how and why he decided to start traveling the world full time and running his business remotely. He shares the tactics for how he continues to run the video production business from different countries around the world, the unexpected benefits of doing so, and how he was able to 4X his income in his first year of being a full time digital nomad. Colin then talks about how he decided to start a second business selling fashionable men’s suits, including a charitable component that donates suits to homeless and other disadvantaged men, and shares how he even took the charitable component around the world with him as well. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Apr 14, 20191h 15m

Ep 2727: Long-Term Nomading with your Executive Assistant, Radical Collaboration and Rethinking Performance Management with Dr. Laura Gallaher

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Dr. Laura Gallaher shares her path to becoming an organizational psychologist, then an entrepreneur, and finally a nomad traveling the world with her executive assistant and running her business remotely. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ She explains how she got hired by NASA early in her career to help change the cultural influences that were deemed to play a role in the Space Shuttle Colombia explosion. She shares what those 8 years were like behind the scenes at Kennedy Space Station and how she was able to positively influence culture, develop leadership capacity, and improve organizational performance. She explains how she was later hired by Walt Disney and helped manage the radical changes in their performance management process and philosophy. She then talks about founding her own business, Gallaher Edge, which helps business leaders create cultures of accountability and grow from the inside out. She shares actionable tips and advice for business leaders about the importance of open, honest communication, creating cultures of accountability, team cohesion, “radical collaboration” and why there needs to be a serious revamping of “performance management” to re-focus on ‘coaching’ instead of ‘judging’. She also opens up about her personal entrepreneurial journey, the setbacks she experienced, and how she ultimately built a thriving consulting business. She then shares her nomading experiences and explains how she decided to travel the world with her executive assistant. She opens up about the challenges of trying to run her business remotely, but also the unique business developments that the remote work environment inspired her to create, the personal growth she experienced, and the evolution of her concept of “home”. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Apr 7, 20191h 50m

Ep 2626: Real Estate Investing for Old Dawgs, Nomading with Your Kids, and Being Interviewed by Oprah with Bill Manassero

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Bill Manaserro tells his incredible life story which begins with him getting elected to public office at age 18, becoming a corporate VP by age 21, then becoming an entrepreneur, gravitating into the tech space, getting hired by one of Meg Whitman’s companies, and then losing it all when the tech bubble burst in the late 90s. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ Bill had 5 kids at the time and decided to make a major life pivot, become a professional musician, and travel the world long term with his wife and kids. Homeschooling his kids and teaching them life lessons through travel, Bill shares what life was like for his family as itinerant nomads for over 3 years before moving to Haiti where they would be based for the next 12 years. Bill explains how he and his family founded “Child Hope International” which established medical clinics, orphanages, schools and entrepreneurial trainings for the people of Haiti, and ended up getting his family featured on a CNN special with Soledad O’Brien and interviewed by Oprah. He explains how incredibly challenging yet incredibly rewarding life was for his family in Haiti. Bill then talks about how he transitioned back to life in the U.S. and started investing in real estate in 2014 at age 58 and explains how he has acquired 88 units since then. Bill gives his top advice for real estate investors over 50, and shares tips on analyzing and conducting your due diligence on out-of-state rental properties. Bill then explains why he started the “Old Dawg’s REI Network” podcast and shares his biggest takeaways from it. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Mar 29, 20191h 33m

Ep 2525: Pitching Celebrities, Selling Your House in One Day, and Raising Entrepreneurial Kids with Seth Greene

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Seth Greene shares his entrepreneurial journey from being a magician to a financial advisor to founding his own direct-response marketing firm, Market Domination, LLC. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ He explains the marketing principles he discovered that radically improved all of his business results. He then tells the story of how he met, “kidnapped”, and effectively pitched Shark Tank’s Kevin Harrington, which led to a lasting business relationship including Kevin and Seth co-hosting the “Sharkpreneur Podcast”. Seth explains the most effective strategies for pitching and networking with celebrities and other high profile people. He also shares his experience as a judge on Pitch Tank, the live version of Shark Tank, and what he has learned from interacting with billionaires like Steve Forbes and other highly successful businesspeople. He also shares his opinion of the top 3 marketers today that every entrepreneur should be closely following. Seth talks about some of the biggest mistakes he has made along his journey and what he learned from them. He also shares how he manages stress and entrepreneurial setbacks, and how he separates work from family and prioritizes his wife and kids. Seth then goes on to discuss parenting and how he is raising entrepreneurial kids. He explains how his 10-year old daughter Ella, who co-hosts a YouTube show with him, has already published her own book, been on the local news, and has paying clients. And finally, Seth shares exactly what he would do if he had to start all over with no money, no following, no list and nobody knew who he was. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Mar 25, 20191h 36m

Ep 2424: Speed Reading 2,400 Words Per Minute, Business Lessons from Karaoke, and Meditation in Motion with May Ling Lai

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May Ling Lai shares her personal story of growing up on the Florida Gulf Coast where she became a musical performer on local stages starting at age 5 because her mother wanted to prevent any tendencies towards shyness. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ She talks about her ongoing passion for music and the business lessons all people can take from karaoke. May Ling even performs an acapella song on the Maverick Show! She then talks about running her first marathon at age 35, and subsequently completing 3 full marathons and 20 half marathons in a dozen countries. She explains the concept of “meditation in motion” and how distance running enabled her to meditate at a much higher level, both while running and stationary. She talks about some of her most recent trips to Budapest, Rome and Kuala Lumpur, including a story about why you should always talk to your taxi driver. She then goes on to discuss her latest course “The 7 Skills of Speedreading” and explains how she can read at about 10x the average person’s speed. She talks about how she became a speed-reader out of necessity when she was managing a billion dollar “short portfolio” for a hedge fund when the economy started to collapse. She dismantles the misnomer about speed-reading being a “hack” and talks through the actual mechanics of how people can learn to speed-read without comprehension loss. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Mar 17, 20191h 22m

Ep 2323: Extreme Performance Training, Boozy Cupcakes and Kicking Life in the Dick with Brooke Siem

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Brooke Siem talks about her work as an Extreme Performance Training (XPT) certified coach and explains the theory and practice behind the XPT workshop she conducted in New York City the day before the recording, in which Matt participated. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ She discusses the value of sitting in 3-minute ice baths to practice calming your body down through breath work in high intensity situations, a technique that is subsequently transferrable to handling high stress situations in business, travel and life. She then explains how she works remotely as a “breath coach” with private clients that include professional poker players, and shares her tips for the most important steps to developing a meaningful breath practice. She also shares her personal back story of her professional ballet dancing career getting unexpectedly derailed and how she then pivoted and pursued a culinary career—becoming a chef, opening the Prohibition Bakery in Manhattan to sell “boozy cupcakes”, authoring a cookbook, and competing (and winning) on the Food Network TV show “Chopped”. Brooke also opens up about her personal struggles with eating disorders, suicidal tendencies and living half her life on a cocktail of anti-depressant and anti-anxiety drugs. She shares her life changing decision at age 30 to get off all prescription drugs, became a digital nomad, and join the Remote Year program to travel the world with a community of 50 people for a year. Brooke explains how her discovery of non-traditional “self-compassion’ therapy helped her heal past traumas, overcome her eating disorders, and begin a process of self-renewal. She also shares how the Remote Year experience and subsequent world travel helped enable her to re-discover herself and re-take control over her life and her future. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Mar 9, 20191h 59m

Ep 2222: Nomad Cruise Founder Johannes Voelkner on Kitesurfing, Brand Loyalty and Building Nomadic Communities

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Johannes Voelkner takes us on his digital nomad journey, which started in 2010. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ He shares many of his initial failures and setbacks, all of which led him to start what would become one of the largest Facebook groups for digital nomads. He explains how that ultimately lead to the founding of The Nomad Cruise, which now attracts nearly 500 participants per voyage and is one of the largest ‘workation’ events in the world. Johannes then takes us behind the scenes and talks about how he runs and grows The Nomad Cruise as a business. He explains his process for identifying and hiring his team, his process for managing distributed staff and volunteers across time zones, the project management software he uses, and the operational systems he has developed for organizing the Nomad Cruise conference. He also explains why he incorporates a “night of failures” on every cruise and shares his personal belief in the importance of repeated failure in order to create the eventual outcome of success, and wanting to foster a supportive environment on the cruise for people to talk about their failures. He also reflects on how he has been able to cultivate fierce brand loyalty from customers, staff and volunteers who continually return for cruise after cruise, and why building ‘community’ is his core passion and driving inspiration. He also discusses his personal day structure, work routines, and his passion for kitesurfing as a destination sport that inspires many of his personal choices in travel locations. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Mar 4, 20191h 13m

Ep 2121: Increasing Sales 70% in a Year While Working Remotely from 18 Countries and Closing Deals in a Moroccan Bowling Alley with Sean Tierney.

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Sean Tierney shares his background as a musician, kite surfer, entrepreneur, podcast host, digital nomad and, since 2015, the Director of Sales at Pagely. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ Tasked with selling B-to-B to Fortune 500 companies, he explains the techniques he used to increase Pagely's sales by 70% in a single year while traveling the world with Remote Year, living in 18 countries, and closing his single largest deal from a Moroccan bowling alley. Sean then breaks down the sales systems he developed into 7 steps but emphasizes the importance of establishing product-market-fit before attempting any scaling techniques. Post-product-market-fit, he explains the importance of starting with "flow mapping" the lead experience. He then shares the next step of measuring metrics and KPIs. Next he explains how to build a sales "process". Then he explains his concept of "Flintstoning" and why it is so important. After that he explains how to start "delegating", and eventually to start "automating". And finally, he talks about the more advanced technique of "Scaling Personal Attention", and discusses the "Choose Your Own Adventure" interactive video experience he developed or Pagely. We then move on to talk about Sean's world travel adventures and his experience hosting The Nomad Podcast. He then explains the scope of his "Nomad Prep Academy" that he created as a course for helping people get into the digital nomad lifestyle. And finally he shares his vision of the future of the remote work and how the digital nomad ecosystem is evolving, and he explains why he thinks people deserve to lead extraordinary lives and how nomadic travel can help them to do so. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Feb 24, 20191h 49m

Ep 2020: Teaching German with Humor, Getting 340K Subscribers on YouTube, and Making 6 Figures a Year as a Teacher-Nomad with Anja Winter.

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Anja Winter shares her journey from growing up in her hometown in Germany to becoming a “Teacher-Nomad” who has been travelling the world full time for 5 years and now makes over 6 figures a year teaching German online. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ She explains how she began teaching both German and English in Chiang Mai, Thailand in a traditional classroom setting and was able to re-connect with her passion for teaching. She then tells the story of how she began making videos for her students and eventually realized that the humor and creativity she used when teaching German had a much broader appeal and was able to grow her YouTube channel to over 340,000 subscribers. She breaks down the techniques she used to build her audience and makes specific tactical recommendations ranging from posting frequency to production quality to marketing strategies to attract new viewers. She then shares the moment when she first realized she could monetize her YouTube channel, and how she grew that from for her first $3 to a six-figure annual income. She then explains how she listened to the needs of her audience, and created multiple courses to fill those needs that she was then able to market and sell directly to her YouTube audience. She also talks about her travel life, why she has chosen to travel the world very slowly over the last 5 years, what her favorite travel destinations have been, and why she chose to join the Remote Year program to travel the world with a community of nomads for all of 2019. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Feb 18, 201956 min

Ep 1919: Stripping for Travel Money, Getting Shot with a Spear Gun, and Living Life to the Fullest with Nick Martin

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Nick Martin tells his story of leaving his corporate job in Germany in 2010 with 9,010 Euros in his bank account to embark on a year of adventure, “couch-surfing” around the world on a $30/day budget. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ He takes us through his journey starting with his first destination, Mexico, which began with lost-in-translation moments as he learned Spanish with a host family and culminating in a near-death experience on a catamaran caught in a storm with 36 foot waves, a ripped sail, busted motor and lost dingy. He then takes us through his hilarious trip through the U.S. where he wound up being a stripper at a bachelorette party in Las Vegas to make some travel money and later found himself on a naked bike ride in Seattle. He then shares his adventure in Fiji where, after island hopping and a day of beach volleyball, someone accidentally shot him with a spear gun and he had to be rushed to the hospital in a local fishing boat. After recovering and spending time in Australia to finish out his year, he explains how he decided to continue traveling, which has turned into 8 years of adventures and counting. He explains how he subsequently monetized his travel stories into a book, podcast, course, and professional stage show that has drawn paid audiences of over 1,000 people. He also explains how he landed his first TEDX talk in 2017 and what it was like. Nick concludes by sharing his biggest life lessons from his travel adventures, how to deal with haters, why he recommends making tons of mistakes, and his top advice for living life to the fullest. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Feb 11, 20191h 39m

Ep 1818: Building a Guitar Academy into a Passive 6-Figure Online Business and Getting Over 30 Million Views on YouTube with Tobias Rauscher

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Tobias Raucher shares his story of being unable to sing or read music and yet teaching himself by ear to be a modern percussive finger-style guitarist. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ He explains why he became so passionate about this form of music and how he started creating and performing his own songs on his YouTube channel which now has over 300,000 subscribers and has gotten over 14 million views on a single video. He then shares the story of his entrepreneurial trajectory, including lessons learned from his first failed business venture in his home country of Germany. He goes on to explain how he then built his Guitar Academy into an online business that generates him 6 figures/year in net passive income. The membership site teaches students not only how to play his songs but teaches the actual creative process for creating their own original songs as well. He also talks about strategies for building audience on YouTube, and outlines the biggest mistake that most musicians make when trying to build a fan base. He then discusses his “Tube Accelerator” business where he teaches musicians how to most effectively build audience on YouTube. He also explains his latest project of creating an online “Digital Lifestyle Conference” that interviews successful location independent entrepreneurs. He concludes by sharing how he structures his personal work/travel lifestyle, his top book and app recommendations, and his number one tip for early-stage entrepreneurs. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Feb 3, 20191h 2m

Ep 1717: Running the World's Highest Marathon, Racing a Rickshaw Across India, and Finding Your Purpose with Tarek Kholoussy

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Tarek Kholoussy tells his story of growing up in Philadelphia, going to top academic institutions, and working in world leading financial institutions in New York and London until one day he decided to completely change his life course. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ He explains what inspired him to quit his job and travel the world, having now been to 100 countries before the age of 40. He shares stories about his epic adventures including racing a rickshaw across India and taking a matatu across Kenya and illegally crossing the border into Uganda by accident. He also shares stories about the humanity, thoughtfulness and authentic warmth he encountered from local people in country after country. He then explains how he began setting physical fitness goals and started pushing his body to the next level by running 25 marathons around the world. Those included the world’s highest marathon at Mount Everest Basecamp, two ultra (double) marathons, and running 16 marathons in 16 months across 13 countries. He then talks about his true passion of supporting socially sustainable initiatives that empower marginalized and impoverished communities around the world. He explains how and why he decided to found Nomads Giving Back, a social enterprise which creates awareness and opportunities for nomads and travelers to give back in a manner that supports and empowers local communities. And finally he concludes by sharing his tips on how everyone can begin finding and pursuing their own purpose in life. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Jan 27, 20191h 10m

Ep 1616: Netting 300K/Year from AirBNB Rental Arbitrage and Selling over $1 Million in Courses on Udemy with David Dang Vu

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David Dang Vu talks about his working-class upbringing in a Vietnamese immigrant household in Southern California and credits his mother as his primary inspiration to become an entrepreneur. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ He explains his pure-bred entrepreneurial tendencies, selling and flipping products to his classmates going all the way back to middle school, and his decision to drop out of college after one semester to go build businesses. David shares his initial business failures before building his first multi-million dollar company selling t-shirts. He explains that innovation and creating a unique user experience is what helped his t-shirt company land celebrity clients like Taylor Swift and LMFAO. He explains his decision to sell his interest and how he moved on to build a $3 million gift card company. David then talks about how he discovered the ability to dropship on Ebay and built that into a business which now nets him over $300K/year. He then documented exactly how he did it in a course that he sold on the Udemy platform, which became the bestselling Business course on Udemy in both 2016 and 2017. He then shares his latest business venture doing AirBNB Arbitrage (renting an apartment on a long-term lease and then subletting it out for short-term rental rates on AirBNB) which now nets him over $300K/Year. He talks about how he selects the location, mitigates downside risks, creates systems and automates the business. He explains how he then made another successful Udemy course about the AirBNB arbitrage business. Having now sold over $1 million in courses on Udemy, David also shares his tips on creating and selling a successful online course. He concludes by telling the story of how he met his wife while traveling the world as a digital nomad. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Jan 21, 20191h 27m

Ep 1515: Becoming a Digital Nomad at Age 50, Taking the World's Highest Bungee Jump, and Running an Award-Winning Production Company Remotely with Palle Bo

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Palle Bo (aka “The Radio Vagabond”) shares his story of deciding to become a full time digital nomad at age 50. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ He explains what led up to his decision to sell all his stuff and slow-travel the world on a quest to visit every country while documenting it all on his podcast The Radio Vagabond. He tells stories from his travel adventures, including his trip to Macao where he took the highest bungee jump in the world, his hot air balloon ride over Siem Reap, Cambodia, and what it was like to visit to North Korea. He also talks about his professional journey founding radio stations in Denmark (he now co-owns 17 stations), and then founding RadioGuru, an award-winning company that produces radio commercials and podcasts, which he now runs remotely as the CEO while traveling the world. He explains how he landed LEGO as a client, and both produced and hosted the LEGO Technic podcast. He tells the story of how that project got him secret and confidential access to the Bugatti factory, what it was like inside and what he learned from interviewing their staff. He also shares his professional tips on what makes a truly great and effective audio commercial for radio or podcasts, and tells you how you can follow his travel adventures. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Jan 13, 20191h 2m

Ep 1414: Social Impact Nomadism, Empowering Ugandan Artisans, and Solo-Traveling the World on Passive Rental Income with Stella Airoldi

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Stella Airoldi begins by explaining why she chose to invest in rental properties and how her lifestyle expenses are now covered by her passive rental income. She then shares her journey beginning with her choice to travel the world and how she was regularly confronted with poverty and injustice, raising her social and political consciousness and inspiring her to pursue dual Master's Degrees in International Law and Human Rights and Democracy. Her passion for children’s rights then led her to Uganda with an academic focus on the rights of girl child soldiers. She explains how her time in Uganda allowed her to meet a talented Ugandan artisan, Susan Laker, who was an illiterate, impoverished, HIV-positive mother of 3, who inspired her tremendously. She explains how she and Susan developed a close personal friendship and eventually a business relationship that led to the launch of 22 Stars Jewelry. Stella then discusses the creation of the 22 Stars Foundation which now sends over 300 kids to school, provides a hot meal, runs after-school programs, and provides small business training and micro-loans for local Ugandan businesses. She then explains the social impact of “co-workations” that she organizes to bring location independent entrepreneurs to experience Uganda and participate firsthand in the 22 Stars project. Stella then talks about why she travels, and how it has contributed to her personal development, and shares stories about how she used Tinder for alternative purposes while solo-traveling through Africa. She explains how she deals with stress and optimizes productivity, and shares her top tips for female solo travelers. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE.

Jan 5, 20191h 51m

Ep 1313: Goat Yoga,, Managing a Fully Remote Staff, And Getting Over 100,000 Paying Customers Per Year to Attend Your Live Events, with Daraja Asili

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Daraja Asili shares her entrepreneurial journey and how the real estate and mortgage crisis of 2009 caused a major life transition that put her on the path to founding Happy Trees Entertainment which currently draws over 100,000 paying customers per year to attend her live events. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ She explains her unique offerings which include Paint Night, Plant Night and Farm Fresh Goat Yoga, and then discusses how she hires, trains, and manages a fully remote staff of over 30 people. Daraja also shares her personal meditation practice, how and why she varies her day structure, and how she organizes her time for optimal productivity. She also talks about business growth and when it actually makes sense to ‘scale back’. She then discusses ‘Daraja Consulting’, her other business that helps small to medium size companies accelerate their business growth, and shares the most effective ways to improve your sales and marketing to take your business to the next level. She talks about why the best ROI today for your marketing dollars is on social media platforms, how she built her business primarily through Facebook advertising, and shares her single most important piece of advice for optimizing your Facebook ad strategy. She explains how highly targeted affinity-based niche marketing can work for any business, and gives an extended example of exactly how real estate agents can successfully execute this strategy. She then discusses how you should think about establishing the right strategic business partnerships that can really accelerate business growth. She concludes by sharing the advice she would give to her 20 year old self, knowing what she knows now. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Dec 28, 20181h 53m

Ep 1212: Axe Throwing, Seeing the World Through Street Art, And Using "People Ops" to Increase Your Company Growth by 80% in 2 Years with Ali Greene

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Ali Greene talks about being a full-time digital nomad for the last 2 years while working as a full-time salaried employee in a senior management position as “Director of People Operations” at DuckDuckGo. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ She explains the concept of “co-living”, discusses the different lifestyle infrastructure choices available for digital nomads, and shares which ones she likes best and why. She explains the importance of having control over your location and mobility, as well as the importance of curating intentional communities of people who inspire and empower you in meaningful ways. Ali then talks about her passion for street art as a transformative expressive medium. She also shares her analysis about how digital nomadism is transforming work, community, and society at large, but emphasizes the importance of pro-active relationship building for long-term sustainability of the lifestyle. She then moves on to talk about her professional work in People Operations and explains how she helped her company grow 80% in 2 years through adjustments in their People Ops with a focus on gender diversity. She gives specific tactical advice on hiring practices, managing an internationally distributed team, and performing as a senior manager from different time zones around the world. She talks about what “company culture” really means, the importance of it, and how to build it meaningfully with a fully remote staff. She talks about some of the unique productivity hacks she uses, including “context switching” by physically changing work locations multiple times throughout the day to correspond with different tasks. She also shares why dyes her hair pink and blue and once joined an axe-throwing league! FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Dec 21, 20181h 50m

Ep 1111: Hacker Paradise CEO Spencer Jentzsch on Emotional IQ, Optimizing Your Tinder Profile, and Running the World's First International Work-Travel Program for Digital Nomads

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Hacker Paradise CEO Spencer Jentzsch talks about his role running the world’s first international work-travel program for digital nomads. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ Founded in 2014, HP has taken over 550 people to live, work and play together in 20 countries and has attracted participants from companies like Google, SpaceX and Y Combinator. On the trips HP provides housing, workspace access and a community of cool people to explore and party with, as well as organizing weekly workshops, talks, skill shares, goal sharing sessions, and networking events to help participants with professional development and goal achievement. Spencer shares his hiring practices for building the HP team and talks about the crucial importance of emotional IQ. He also talks about how to manage staff across time zones, how to structure a daily routine to optimize productivity, and how to deal with stress. Spencer also opens up about his personal journey of self-discovery through world travel and tells the story of leaving the US for the first time at age 19 on a Mormon Mission to Korea for two years after which Korean language and culture because his passion and the focus of his academic work. Spencer then tells the story of how his Korean language skills led to his role escorting the CEO of Samsung (the most powerful man in South Korea) at the 2010 Olympics, and then hand-writing Samsung’s Christmas cards to top fashion designers like Marc Jacobs. He also talks about his role in co-founding a Tinder Profile Consultancy, and gives specific suggestions for how to immediately optimize your online dating profile. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Dec 17, 20181h 38m

Ep 1010: Bigger Pockets Blogger Ali Boone on Turnkey Real Estate Investing, Property Management, and Her Reality TV Debut

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This is Part 2 of the Interview with Ali Boone who is the owner of Hipster Investments and has been a regular contributor to the Bigger Pockets Blog since 2013. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ In this episode, she shares her personal real estate investing journey and discusses why she buys “turnkey” residential investment properties, why she buys them out of state, why she is comfortable buying them sight-unseen, why she buys to hold and not to flip, and why she always uses professional property management. Ali talks about the importance of prioritizing your time and mobility and explains the difference between being a real estate investor vs. a landlord or a rehabber. She talks about how to build your team and manage your property managers. Ali tells the story about how she once dealt with a roof blowing off her rental property in the US without ever having to leave the swimming pool in Nicaragua. She then discusses her degree in spiritual psychology, the benefits of meditation, Kundalini yoga, Tantra, and her specific techniques for dealing with stress. She also talks about her TV Debut on a reality makeover show and tells the story of how she had to give flight lessons wearing 5-inch stiletto heels. She shares her top book recommendations, and favorite travel region in the world, and talks about her top bucket list destinations as well as the advice she would give her 20-year-old self if she could go back in time. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Dec 5, 201855 min

Ep 909: From Rocket Scientist to Real Estate Entrepreneur: The Inside Story of Hipster Investments with Ali Boone

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Hipster Investments founder Ali Boone shares her story of leaving her top-secret government job as an aerospace engineer to move to the beach and start a real estate investment company. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ She talks about her path from rocket scientist to real estate investor to location-independent business owner. Ali opens up and shares the inside story of her business-building journey, including details about her financial struggles in the early days of building Hipster Investments. She talks about her setbacks, failures, going broke and even getting on food stamps in the beginning of her entrepreneurial journey. She gives advice for planning your transition out of the corporate world and how to set expectations for yourself and endure the difficulties of early-stage entrepreneurship. She talks about how controlling her time and her mobility is now more important to her than the income she makes. Ali then talks about hiring and management tips for business-building, emphasizes the importance of relinquishing control, and gives tips on avoiding the self-employment trap. She talks about the required confidence to know that it's okay not to know how to do something and the importance of hiring people who are smarter than you in certain areas. Ali also talks about her first skydiving experience, what the scariest part was, and why she continually pushes herself outside her comfort zone. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Dec 3, 20181h 8m

Ep 808: Building an Automated Physical-Product Business that Generates 6-Figures/year in Net Passive Income by Age 25 with Julia Shem

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Julia Shem tells the story of how she came to the U.S. from Russia alone at age 19 with limited English skills and went from waitress to self-made entrepreneur in just 3 years. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ Now 25, Julia explains how she has fully automated her business, Goldy.LA, which sells custom metallic temporary tattoos, so that it nets her over 6 figures in passive income per year while she travels the world. Julia opens up about getting fired as a waitress, then working as a computer programmer in a real estate office in LA, and finally teaching herself how to start her own physical product business and quickly scale it to full automation. She gives specific tips on how to develop your business idea, test and verify your minimum viable product, select a manufacturer and fulfillment process, swiftly build your systems and outsource to the right staff. She shares the specific apps, project management software, CRM, and other tools she uses to run her business. She also shares her personal productivity hacks, time management techniques, and stress-reduction practices. Julia talks about how she meditates, maintains a visual inspiration wall in her bedroom, and continually updates her list of top priorities and goals. She then talks about her lifestyle design and travel experiences, including doing Yoga in the Himalayas, and recommends her top 3 international travel destinations. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Nov 26, 201856 min

Ep 707: YouTube Influencer Nick Nimmin on Hip Hop, Meditation, and How to Get Over 100K Video Subscribers 12 Months

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YouTube Influencer Nick Nimmin explains how he grew his personal YouTube Channel by over 100,000 subscribers in under 12 months. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ He talks about the biggest mistakes people make with YouTube and why most people fail to grow their audience. He gives a detailed example of how a local real estate agent could use YouTube to dominate their local market, and explains the #1 mega-mistake real estate agents make on YouTube. He then explains how to optimize your ‘watch time’ and ‘session time’, why to use a ‘series playlist’, how long your videos should be and how frequently you should publish in order to maximize your authority and increase your chances of YouTube recommending your videos. Nick also opens up about his personal journey, talks about his early days as a hip hop DJ and tells the story of how he got to open a concert for 2 Live Crew. He then shares his pivotal transitionary moment when he got in shape, dropped 100 pounds, sold all his stuff, moved to Thailand and slept on the floor of his brother’s storage room for 4 months as he got on his feet and started his business. He also talks about how his daily practice of meditation over the last 3 years has changed the way he sees everything. He explains the specific details of how he meditates, the science behind it, and then makes recommendations for how beginners can get started. He concludes by naming his top 5 hip hop MCs of all time! FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Nov 20, 20181h 17m

Ep 606: Nomad Summit Founder Johnny FD on Overcoming Insecurity, Becoming a Professional Muay Thai Boxer, and Making Over $200K/Year Online

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Nomad Summit founder Johnny FD shares his story of how he decided to quit his corporate job in Los Angeles and move to Thailand to live on the beach, work as a dive master and eventually become a professional Muay Thai kickboxer and an online business owner. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ He opens up about his personal journey overcoming insecurity and developing the confidence to pursue a location-independent lifestyle. Johnny then talks about his online business journey through drop-shipping, affiliate marketing, blogging, podcasting, and explains how he grew his online income to over $200K/year and got featured in Forbes, Business Insider, Fast Company and Entrepreneur Magazine. He explains the content-monetization strategies he uses and the specific ways he created multiple streams of automated passive income online. He then tells the story of how he founded the Nomad Summit in Chiang Mai, Thailand which has grown from a small local gathering to a major international event attracting over 400 digital nomads each year from around the world. Johnny talks about the evolution of the digital nomad scene in Chiang Mai, describes the cost of living, quality of life, and the social scene in the world’s largest nomad hub. He then discusses how the broader digital nomad eco-system is growing and developing globally. Finally, he pulls back the curtain on how he invests his personal net worth and what percentage he keeps in real estate vs. other asset classes, and shares the biggest lesson he has learned from his hundreds of guests on the Travel Like a Boss and Invest Like a Boss podcasts. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Nov 12, 20181h 39m

Ep 505: Landing Fortune 500 Clients, Dancing to Relieve Stress and Running an Architectural Design Company While Traveling the World with Jennifer Magee

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Jennifer Magee shares her personal journey through the world of architecture, design and real estate development on her way to becoming a location-independent business owner. ____________________________________ Subscribe to The Maverick Show’s Monday Minute Newsletter where I email you 3 short items of value to start each week that you can consume in 60 seconds (all personal recommendations like the latest travel gear I'm using, my favorite destinations, discounts for special events, etc.). Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram ____________________________________ She opens up about how she navigated repeated business failures and continually implemented the lessons learned until she eventually selected the right business partners, built the right team, and started landing Fortune 500 clients. She talks about how she built her architectural design company, Retail in the City, with a virtual infrastructure that she can run from anywhere in the world while serving clients like Saks Off 5th, Barnes and Noble, and The Sharper Image. As a digital nomad who chooses to live in different time zones across the world for extended periods, she discusses how she structures her workday in order to manage her international team effectively while optimizing her own lifestyle design. Jen also explains why her two most effective techniques for stress-relief over the years have been 1) Dancing (more than any other form of exercise) and 2) Spontaneous travel. She tells the story of how she took a last-minute trip to Peru by herself to do a multi-day hike to Machu Picchu and ended up with a private entourage and cook attending only to her! Jen also names the celebrity she would most like to have dinner with and what questions she would ask at that dinner. She then shares her most influential book, her most impactful productivity app and, after travelling to over 50 countries, she recommends her top 3 travel destinations of all time. FULL SHOW NOTES AND DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED IS AVAILABLE HERE. ____________________________________ See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ____________________________________ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Please Leave a Rating and Review. It really helps the show and I read each one personally. You Can Buy Me a Coffee. Espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

Nov 5, 20181h 15m