As Told By Nomads

Today's interview is with Mike Silberg. For the last 6 years, Mike has been working around Israel building High-Tech communities. He worked as a consultant at KPMG, he has built the Economic Growth Department at OR Movement, a large NPO, working on creating economic growth in peripheral areas in Israel. He launched and managed the Wework in Beer-Sheva (a small city in the Israeli Desert that is marked today as one of the future Cyber Innovation Capitals of the world) and in the last year he has been the Business Development and Community Director at Brooks-Keret, one of the largest Financial Management providers for startups in Israel and lead them, into working in Beer-Sheva. in his "free time", he is a lecturer at the Interdicplantary Center in Herzliya teaching students about Regional Business Development while they create strategic plans and assist MNCs to find opportunities in the Israeli periphery.

Just this week he announced he is joining forces with Oren Simanian, the founder of Start TAU and TAU innovation, Tel Aviv University's entrepreneurial cluster and one of the first startup communities in Israel.

Together they are building an international Innovation Community agency building bridges and exporting Israeli innovation and methodologies to drive entrepreneurship aiming to make the world a more sustainable place and providing entrepreneurial opportunities to all.

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For nearly three decades, English has been the lingua franca of cross-border organizations, yet studies on corporate language strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce. In her new book, The Language of Global Success, my guest today Tsedal Neeley provides an in-depth look at a single organization—the high-tech giant Rakuten—in the five years following its English lingua franca mandate. Neeley's behind-the-scenes account explores how language shapes the ways in which employees who work in global organizations communicate and negotiate linguistic and cultural differences.

We discuss the following:

• Her new book: The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations
• How to bring together a team whose members are geographically and culturally dispersed?
• How organizations can become more globalized 
• How to overcome the challenges of cross-cultural communication
• What about facilitating dialogue amongst individuals from people who fundamentally hold different values from you
• The attitudes and behaviors that are necessary to make a successful global employee
• What went into her TEDx Talk: Why Global Success Depends on Treating Language And Culture Separately

Resources Mentioned In This Episode

• Website: http://www.tsedal.com/
• Tsedal's Book: The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations: https://www.amazon.com/Language-Global-Success-Multinational-Organizations/dp/0691175373
• Tsedal's TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8VoxpR08Vg&t=744s

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Today's interview is with Ash Kumra. He is the founder of Youngry: Youngry creates high-end viral content combined with a unique Mentorship App that provides bold yet easy to understand solutions on how to become a successful entrepreneur. We have now developed a 360 degree evolution track for new-age entrepreneurs to reach success and then provide Mentorship to the next generation of entrepreneurs.

Ash is an award-winning entrepreneur, author, public speaker and talk show host. He has been recognized twice by the White House as an entrepreneur making an impact. We discuss what led to his current project is Youngry.com, his entrepreneurship background and his debut on Sony’s new business show, MEET THE DRAPERS. Stay tuned!

Resources Mentioned In The Episode

• Youngry: https://youngry.com/
• TV Show: https://republic.co/youngry

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Today's episode is with Stefan Pretty. He is an internet tech entrepreneur from Scotland with specialities in strategy, online inbound marketing, product, business development, UI design, backend development and subscription ecommerce. He made his first website at 12 years old and continued to develop those skills and teach himself design and coding. While he attended University of Glasgow to study Civil Engineering, he had side projects including:

• Unleashed: Student Pub Crawls for local students.
• YoudGetIt.com: An anonymous dating website which gained 200,000 visits in less than 2 weeks without any marketing spend.
• SocialWhispers.com: Social referral marketing tool where users can swap Facebook and Twitter posts for free content.

He left university to pursue Pretty Klicks (PK) full time, eventually moving to Edinburgh where he grew PK by 400% within 1 year. He now works on Subbly full time as the CEO. Subbly has been mentioned on Product Hunt, Entrepreneur.com, Wired.com, USA Today, NPR and more. 

We talk about:

• His background story as a Scotsman in the U.S
• Bootstrapping - doing more with less
• Ideas vs execution - ideas are cheap, execution is the key and expensive part
• The perception of effort versus success
• How to set up and run an amazing remote team
• How Subbly is revolutionizing the subscription business
• The realities of being a 20 something entrepreneur

Resources Mentioned In The Episode

• Subbly Website: http://www.subbly.co/
• Effort Vs. Success Blog: https://m.stefanpretty.com/the-perception-of-effort-vs-success-is-sickeningly-wrong-reality-check-time-9aaaf3bf83e5?source=linkShare-5bcc6c99e7d9-1509474134
• Guide To Starting A Subscription Business: http://www.subbly.co/blog/start-a-subscription-box-business/
• Personal Website: https://www.stefanpretty.com/

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Today's interview is with Bri Seeley. She supports women around the world by helping them bring their visions to life. Bri is motivated by a deeply-held belief that every woman deserves to live a life that inspires her, and her work reflects this deep remembering that our desires are ultimately inevitable.

Through her signature 6-month training Permission to Leap (plus best-selling book + podcast by the same name!) she will guide you through the process of leaping from the day you commit to your vision, all the way through each stage, up until the day you land softly on the other side of it all.

A catalyst, speaker, and best-selling author, Bri is a regular contributor for The Huffington Post and Influencive and is known around the world for her compassionate, yet tell-it-like-it-is guidance that creates massive and epic changes in every woman she encounters. We discuss what has happened since she was last on the podcast and the incredible transformation she has experienced.

Resources Mentioned In This Episode: 

• Permission to Leap: The Six-Phase Journey to Bring Your Vision to Life: https://www.amazon.com/Permission-Leap-Six-Phase-Journey-Vision-ebook/dp/B076QSTQTM/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
• Website: https://www.briseeley.com/
• Discount Link: bit.ly/readp2l

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Today's interview is with marketing expert, best selling author and creative thinker Jeff Goins. Jeff presents a set of twelve easy-to-follow rules for artists to live by that translate artistic success to business success in his new book, Real Artists Don’t Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age.

A sought-after keynote speaker with a reputation for challenging the status quo, in three years, Goins built a million-dollar business, published four books, and became an online marketing expert, using his skills in writing and business to help others [millenials] succeed. He is the author of four books, including The Art of Work, which landed on the bestseller lists of USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly, and The Washington Post.  

We had an informative and intellectual discussion and Goins spoke on several topics including:

• Marketing, partnerships and the importance of collaborating for the sake of creativity
• How success in business and in life flow from a healthy exercise of creativity
• How to make a living off being a writer and artist
• Why Goins believes all great artists steal before they can create
• The general topic of entrepreneurism and managing a business 

Resources Mentioned In The Episode

• Real Artists Don’t Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age: https://www.amazon.com/Real-Artists-Dont-Starve-Strategies/dp/0718086260
• Website: https://goinswriter.com/

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Today's interview is with Meredith Wood. Meredith is the Head of Content and Editor-in-Chief at Fundera, an online marketplace for small business loans. Prior to Fundera, Meredith was the CCO at Funding Gates. The content team which Meredith runs is Fundera's largest and most reliable customer acquisition channel. She has built Fundera's blog into the most heavily-trafficked blog on small business finance in the country, and has secured content partnerships with over 40 sites including Inc, Entrepreneur, and HuffPost.

We talk about:

• What Fundera does
• Her background and how she developed as an female entrepreneur
• The different types of loans and why loans aren't always bad
• Why content should never be overlooked in a business.

Resource Mentioned In This Episode

• Fundera Website: https://www.fundera.com/

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Amazon’s new grocery store has no cashiers, no baggers, no clerks. Is the end of the US worker near?

Amazon isn’t the only company experimenting with artificial intelligence doing every day jobs. Soon many white-collar jobs will also become automated. When it comes to smart machines, we can’t beat them and we can’t join them—so what does that mean for us?

In today's interview, I talk to Ed Hess one of the co-authors of Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age. In the book, he along with his co-author Katherine Ludwig outline exactly what we need to do to excel in the smart age era, and Hess and Ludwig call it being “New Smart.” In this timely book, they offer detailed guidance for developing several New Smart attitude and the critical behaviors that will help adapt to the new realities of the workplace. Drawing on extensive multidisciplinary research, Hess and Ludwig emphasize that the key to success in this new era is not to be more like the robots, but to build on the best of what makes us human and to excel at doing what technology can’t do well. 

Ed is a Professor of Business Administration at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. You’ve seen and heard him in places like WSJ Radio, CNBC, NPR, and Investor’s Business Daily.

Ed and I discuss the following topics:

• What jobs they expect to see become automated first
• Why smart machines can do many jobs better than humans
• What being “New Smart” means
• How we can excel in the Smart Machine Age
• Why we need to adjust our thinking and behaviors fast

Resources Mentioned In The Episode

• Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age: https://www.amazon.com/Humility-New-Smart-Rethinking-Excellence/dp/1626568758
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/HessEdward

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Today's interview is with Eli David. As a digital nomad since 2010, he has been changing locations every 2 months. In that period he lived in dozens of countries, while founding several Startups. (More about his lifestyle can be read in the CNN article). Eli is the CEO and co-founder of StartupBlink.com, a global Startup ecosystem map mentioned by dozens of magazines including Forbes, The Next Web, and Business Insider.

Over the past few years Eli has given lectures on entrepreneurship and the nomadic lifestyle in dozens of countries.

Eli has also published several articles and was interviewed on major magazines in various countries such as T-portal, Huffington Post and Silicon Republic.

Resources Mentioned In The Episode

• StartupBlink: StartupBlink.com
• BecomeNomad: http://becomenomad.com/

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Today's interview is with Michelle Khouri. Michelle is a natural-born storyteller with a keen eye and inquisitive spirit. A lengthy career in communications gifted her with a mind for strategy and project management. Michelle is a PR veteran and magazine editor whose multidisciplinary communications experience includes planning complex, large-scale events, art directing photo shoots, hosting travel videos, leading media outreach campaigns, and creating thousands of pieces of content. A longtime writer, Michelle is passionate about uncovering hidden stories about the arts, culture and society.

We discuss her thoughts on:

• Identity and how she found hers
• What it is like to be part of the first globalized generation en masse
• The ups and downs of entrepreneurship

She uses her difference to make a difference by using her kindness to be more accepting of different cultures in addition to using her mind as an insatiably curious storyteller to tell hidden stories.

To find out more about her and her podcast, click on the links below:

• Website: http://www.michellekhouri.com/ 
• The Cultured Podcast: http://culturedpodcast.com/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/michellekhouri
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellekhouri/

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