Two weeks ago, immediately after I got home from spending over five weeks in Italy I headed right back to the airport less than 12 hours later to go to the Financial Bloggers Conference in St. Louis. Now, I had a ton of jet lag and the day next was a blur, but was excited about FINCON for a few reasons.

• Even though I don't write about personal finance anymore, FINCON was one of the first conferences I attended as a blogger and have quite a few friends that go.
• This was my first solo speaking gig at a "blogging" conference (I'll be sharing the video of this when I'm able to in mid-December).
• I always love conferences. Something about them reenergizes me to keep pushing forward when I get back to work.

Anyway, during the conference I had the chance of recording a "live podcast" in front of an audience and since Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income, guest number 5 of the Cubicle Renegade podcast, was there giving the opening keynote I figured this would be a great opportunity to have him share some more of his story.

It is really easy to see where someone is now, successfully running a profitable business, and to assume they've never made any mistakes. The truth is, everyone makes mistakes. The difference is that successful people learn from them and move on quickly to trying something new.

In this episode of The Cubicle Renegade Podcast I'll talk with Pat Flynn about some of his biggest mistakes over the last five years of building an honest online business, plus what he has learned from them.

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Items Mentioned in this Episode:

• Smart Passive Income
• Green Exam Academy

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Routines.

Love em or hate em, you've got em.

In this session of the Cubicle Renegade podcast we're going to take a look at the power of routines (both in negative and positive ways) and give you a few tips for creating better routines in your life.

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• App: Commit
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts
• Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
• Accidental Creative by Todd Henry
• Manage Your Day to Day by 99u

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On today's session of the Cubicle Renegade podcast I'm joined by Paul Jarvis, a web designer and author. In this episode we talk about how he went from working at a design firm to freelancing and how all his clients followed him.

We also talk about why he doesn't follow what other designers are doing around the web, books himself as a client to work on personal projects, and what matters most about the design of your website. He also gives a ton of insight into how to work with a designer on a website or work with a client if you are a designer.

You can listen or subscribe to the podcast iTunes or use this player.

Items mentioned in this episode:

• Paul's Home: pjrvs.com
• Paul's Wordpress Themes
• Paul's writing on Medium
• Expert Enough: 5 Ways to Always Do What You Say You'll Do
• Be Awesome at Online Business

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Cheers!

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On today's session of the Cubicle Renegade podcast I'm joined by Josh Kaufman, the International Best-Selling author of The Personal MBA and The First 20 Hours (which comes out this week). We talk rapid learning, whether or not you should get a traditional MBA, and how many years he blogged before he actually earned anything sizable from it.

You can listen or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or use this player. 

Items mentioned in this episode:

• The First 20 Hours
• The Personal MBA (Book)
• 99 Best Business Books List
• Mindset by Carol Dwak
• 10,000 Hour Rule
• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
• Getting Things Done
• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
• Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got by Jay Abraham
• Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes

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Cheers!

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On today's session of the Cubicle Renegade podcast I'm joined by Andy Traub, the host of the Unofficial Linchpin Podcast and author of The Early To Rise Experience: Learn to Rise Early in 30 Days. We talk self-publishing, why you should give away your book for free to anyone that wants it before you launch, how to get a bunch of reviews on Amazon, and why waking up early can make a huge difference.

You can listen or subscribe to the podcast iTunes or use this player.

Items mentioned in this episode:

• Early To Rise Book
• Unofficial Linchpin Podcast
• TheSelfPublishingSystem.com
• Andy Andrews
• Mastering the 7 Decisions
• Jeff Goins
• Tribe Writers
• Dave Ramsey
• Entreleadership Podcast

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Cheers!

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In today's session of the Cubicle Renegade podcast I chat with Alan Perlman, a former cost-of-living analyst in over 60+ countries, who now works at Hubspot as a certification program manager and runs Nerve Rush. We chat about everything from what content marketing really comes down to, what his favorite business books are, and what it takes to really work done on your personal projects when you have a full-time gig.

You can listen or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or use this player.

Items mentioned in this episode:

• Permission Marketing by Seth Godin
• PersonalMBA.com
• Work the System by Sam Carpenter
• Getting Things Done by David Allen
• GTD episodes of Back to Work - 95, 96, 97, 98, 99
• I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi

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Cheers!

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Last July at the World Domination Summit conference in Portland I met Nathan Barry, who at the time was an iOS app developer. Little did I know that over the next 9 months he would go on to release three books and a web app that would earn him over $150,000.

In this session I chat with Nathan about how he was successful at building an audience from scratch, landed high-level guest posts on launch day, how pricing his book into multiple packages earned him $50,000 more, and why he has no interest in working with a traditional publisher any time soon (and neither should you).

You can listen or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or use this player.

Items mentioned in this episode:

• NathanBarry.com
• ConvertKit
• Authority
• The App Design Handbook
• Designing Web Applications
• Gumroad

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Cheers!

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Thomas Frank is the founder of CollegeInfoGeek.com, a recent graduate from Iowa State University, and paid off over $15,000 of student loans before he graduated through earning money on his blog.

In this session we talk about how he built a presence online while still in college, how he landed an internship through Twitter, tips and tricks for how to "do college right", and how a single page on his website helped him graduate debt-free.

(Note: Thomas also had me on his podcast today as well. You can check it out here.)

You can listen or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or use this player.

Items mentioned in this episode:

• College Info Geek
• College Info Geek Podcast
• The Ultimate Guide to Building a Personal Website

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Cheers!

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Steve Kamb is the founder of Nerd Fitness, a website and community that helps people "level up" their lives through fitness, health, diet, and endless geeky references. Steve creates some of the most epic content on the web, not just in his niche. He has self-published fitness, strength, and running guides, has a highly successful iPhone and Android app that helps people eat Paleo, and has travel hacked his way all over the world.

He also has a great story for why and how he started Nerd Fitness, left a job he straight up loved to dedicate himself to it full-time when he wasn't earning any income from it, and how he has built it into a thriving community of over 55,000 nerds (including me).

You can listen or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or use this player.

Items mentioned in this episode:

• NerdFitness.com
• NF Rebel Guides
• Paleo Central App
• NF Forums
• 4 Hour Workweek
• Chris Guillebeau's 279 Days to Overnight Success
• Steve's April Fools Post & Reactions
• Staci's Success story

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Cheers!

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If you follow Gary Vaynerchuk (author of Crush It, The Thank You Economy, and the upcoming book: Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy, Social World) you've probably heard that he is doing an interview a day this year and I had the pleasure of chatting with him this morning.

In this podcast session we dive into the difference between hustling and just working a lot of hours, work life balance, scaling authenticity and engagement as your audience grows online, why it is never too late to get started, whether or not you should being doing videos online, and even who he wants the New York Jets to draft this weekend.

He also gives a rebuttal to the response he received from his post earlier this week on LinkedIn called "My Best Mistake: Too Much Success".

My favorite quote from this episode is:

"If you've got the content and you find the medium that works for you... the tools don't matter." - Gary Vaynerchuk

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Items mentioned in this episode:

• LinkedIn Post: My Best Mistake: Too Much Success
• The video of Gary ranting on an airplane
• Crush It
• The Thank You Economy
• Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook
• @GaryVee on Twitter

If you have enjoyed this or other episodes of The Cubicle Renegade Podcast I'd love for you to leave a review on iTunes.

Cheers!

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