I have to recommend a book that every aspiring and early stage entrepreneur needs to read, and that’s Launch!: The Critical 90 Days from Idea to Market, by Scott Duffy, our guest on the show.

Scott is an entrepreneur, consultant, angel investor, Founder & CEO of The Launch Project™, a company dedicated to helping millions of entrepreneurs launch new businesses, products, and services, while remaining competitive in today’s entrepreneur-based economy.

Scott began his career working for best-selling author, life-coach, and motivational speaker, Tony Robbins; worked for several early-stage small businesses which went on to become household names such as CBS Sportsline, NBC Internet, and FoxSports.com; and founded the private aviation online booking tool, Smart Charter, which was later acquired by the Virgin Group. In addition, Scott has spoken at the NYSE, and provided commentary for numerous media outlets including CNBC, FOX News, & CBS Radio.

Scott’s on a mission to help one million plus entrepreneurs in the US launch and grow their businesses and make their big idea a reality. We also discuss the best ways to raise capital, the excuses people make which bar their way to success, and Richard Branson’s plans to buy the Amazon rainforest!

In this week’s motivating podcast, you will learn about:

Scott’s journey to entrepreneurial success, and the one really important lesson he learned along the way

The defining traits of high-impact entrepreneurs, and what separates the successful ones from those who continually struggle

How to play it big without burning out, and how to get over that point when you reach the end of your tether, and feel like throwing it all in

How to discover what your unique core competencies and skills are, and what you should do with that knowledge

The one simple thing you can do to turn a six-figure business into a million-dollars-plus

The keys to finding and attracting your soulmate investor

What the biggest mistakes are that people make when seeking investment capital, and how to avoid them

Mentioned in this interview

August Capital

Tony Robbins

Iron Man challenge

Where to Find Scott

ScottDuffy.com

Scott Duffy's Launch! on Facebook

Scott on Google+

@scott_duffy

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Living in Chiang Mai gives me such great opportunities for meeting other digital nomads and location-independent entrepreneurs, and one person I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know recently is Amy Scott, founder and owner of Nomadtopia.

In 2004, Amy quit her office job to travel the world, and has never looked back. She now keeps a home base in Buenos Aires while she and her Argentine husband travel the world. Nomadtopia is not only packed with great info on the diginomad lifestyle, it’s also a virtual community where location-independent entrepreneurs around the world can share their inspiring stories and provide mutual support.

Through her other business, Nomad Editorial, Amy helps non-fiction writers finish their books. Amy also offers a six-week program, ‘Create Your Nomadtopia’, designed to help entrepreneurs start unplugging their businesses and their lives from their physical locale.

Amy and I sit down to talk about the nitty gritty of the location-independent lifestyle – the good, the bad, and the brilliant. Now, location-independence doesn’t mean that you are constantly on the road, it just means that you can work from home, or anywhere – you choose. The truth is, the diginomad lifestyle really isn’t for everyone, but everyone can certainly benefit from more flexibility and freedom. So, in this episode, you’ll discover:

How to transition from regular employment to being a location-independent entrepreneur.

Important things to consider before quitting your fixed-locale lifestyle.

The secret of identifying target customers, and how get your first clients.

Strategies to keep your message out there so you don’t miss out on potential work.

The pros & cons of being a digital nomad, and how to avoid feeling isolated.

How to deal with business institutions that require you have a residential mailing address, and ways to get around this annoying formality.

How to determine if the digital nomad lifestyle is truly right for you.

Mentioned in this interview

Dynamite Circle

Yawanawa Festival

Creative Web Biz - Yamille Yemoonya

Docusign

CamScanner app

Where to Find Amy

Nomad Editorial

Facebook Page

Destination Nomadtopia book

Work-from-Anywhere Test Drive

Create Your Nomadtopia

Nomadtopia Facebook

Twitter

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It may seem difficult to keep in touch with perpetual travelers but there are alternative ways to deal with staying in touch with location-independent digital nomads who travel around the world with no fixed address. Similarly, as a location-independent professional, you need a reliable way for people to contact you.

There are tricks you can follow to set up a reliable phone number which can forward to any of your local phone numbers, anywhere around the world.

In this video, you will learn:

Three indispensable ways that Skype can rock your world

The two tools you will need in order to have a reliable number

What a Skype premium service has to offer

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0:37 How do you stay in touch with people when you're traveling, without having a huge phone bill?

0:50 What are my top two indispensable tools for low-cost comms?

1:00 What are the three most useful things Skype can do for you?

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I just got back from Awesomeness Fest, a conference hosted by Mindvalley, a media company that spreads ideas of enlightenment through online courses, apps, and other exciting ventures.

What I find incredibly inspiring is the growing movement of entrepreneurs who not only want to create wealth, but who want to address global problems specifically through for profit business & technology innovation.

Dr Wayne Visser is one such social entrepreneur. He’s the Director of Kaleidoscope Futures, and Founder of CSR International. In addition, Wayne is Chair of Sustainable Business at the Gordon Institute of Business Science in South Africa, Adjunct Professor of Sustainable Development at Deakin Business School in Australia, and Senior Associate at the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership in the UK.

He has authored 20 books on the subject of sustainable futures and corporate social responsibility, and is a guest columnist for UK newspaper, The Guardian. Wayne is listed as one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior, and is a recipient of the Global CSR Excellence & Leadership Award, the Emerald Literati Outstanding Author Contribution Award, and the Outstanding Teacher Award of the Warwick MBA.

Wayne’s here today to talk about the evolution of corporate social responsibility, environmental sustainability, and the future outlook for human civilization.

My biggest question for him was really, “Are we all going to hell in a handbasket?”

Wayne reveals where he thinks we’ll be in 2050. Are we actually heading in the right direction toward, if not actually eradicating poverty and starvation? And if we are, what do we need to do right now to ensure that the progress we make today ensures a brighter future for everyone, not just for those who can afford it. In this episode, you will discover:

The future of corporate social responsibility.

The three qualities of successful social entrepreneurs.

What companies need to do to tap into the power of going glo-cal – that is, serving local markets while having global impact.

Some of the most exciting clean technologies on his radar.

What we must do to avoid world chaos and more environmental disasters.

The five strategies for resilience and survival in a volatile world.

The four different types of change-agents we need to ensure a sustainable future – and which one are you?

 

Mentioned in this interview

Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership

Gordon Institute of Business Science

Deakin University

Rio Earth Summit

Anurag Gupta - A Little World

Muhammad Yunus - Grameen Bank

World Economic Forum

Patagonia outdoor clothing

Global Reporting Initiative

Footprint Chronicles

Interface ® / Ray Anderson

Mondragon Corporation

Ann Makosinski - Hollow Flashlight 

Freeplay

Millennium Development Goal 

Jane Chen - Embrace Innovations

Where to Find Wayne

Kaleidoscope Futures

CSR International

Website

Facebook

Twitter

LinkedIn

Wayne's Books: The Quest for Sustainable Business | The Age of Responsibility

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Calling friends, family, clients, and dealing with important matters with your bank, student loans, or credit card accounts can get tricky when factoring in different timezones, long distance calls, and other hurdles. It doesn't have to be this way. There are free and cost-effective solutions to keeping in touch with people, and doing business in the US while you're offshore.

In this video, you'll learn:

The top 5 tools to help you communicate while you're traveling abroad

How to reduce your smartphone bill from $200/month to $40/month

Why slow travel can be cost-effective

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1:20 How did I slash my phone bill by four-fifths?

2:44 What are the five tools you can use to drastically reduce your communication costs?

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Why should you use a VPN service? A VPN, or Virtual Private Network, creates an encrypted tunnel through which your data can pass. This means that you can have a more secure internet connection, which adds extra protection against hackers, especially when you are accessing important private information.

As a location-independent entrepreneur, you probably take advantage of free Wi-Fi in cafes, co-working spaces, airports, etc. Making business or money transactions in these public places places you at risk of getting hacked, which is why a VPN service is important.

In this video, you will learn:

When to use a VPN service

Which countries Google Voice works in

The advantages of having a U.S. IP number when you're abroad

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0:57 Why are public WiFi services not a good idea for the business traveler?

2:09 How a VPN keeps your information secure.

3:02 What other benefits does a VPN offer?

3:23 How does a VPN help online marketers?

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What’s the most effective way to change the world? If you are anything like me, you’ve probably pondered this question a great deal.

When I reflect on anyone who has made a great contribution – Mother Theresa, the Dalai Lama, Madam Curie, Wangari Maathai, Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla - I doubt a single one was thinking,

"What can I do that would massively impact a large swath of the human population, so that what I did would be considered in history as worldchanging?"

These changemakers were acting, wholeheartedly, from passion, a determination to find solutions to problems they cared deeply about, and had a tireless commitment to contribute to something bigger than themselves.

In my opinion, worldchanging is not the exclusive domain of the brilliant minority who have the genius, resources, and the support networks to invent something that's game changing - anyone who wants to make a difference can be a world-changer.

You don’t have to be a disruptive technologist or inventor - everyone has a unique zone of genius and can make a valuable contribution.

So "What's the Most Effective Way to Change the World?" For me, there are 2 answers, which can both occur simultaneously.

The outer game approach. Create a game-changing solution that addresses an urgent social or environmental concern that creates significant positive and minimal negative impact on people or the environment.

The inner game approach. Change yourself – be the change that you want to see in the world.

So what does it take to design a game-changing solution to one of the world’s most pressing social concerns?

Jane Chen, co-founder of Embrace Innovations will tell us how. Embrace Innovations is a hybrid social enterprise that produces a low-cost infant warmer, designed to help the millions of vulnerable premature babies born every year in developing countries survive and thrive. Unlike traditional incubators that cost up to $20,000 and require electricity and skilled technicians to run, the Embrace infant warmer costs around $200 and can be handled by anybody. The device is safe and intuitive to use  - it requires no electricity, has no moving parts, and is portable, washable, and re-useable.

Jane received her Master’s in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Prior to her graduate studies, she was the Program Director of Chi Heng Foundation, a nonprofit organization that sponsors the education of children affected by AIDS in central China. Jane was also formerly a management consultant at Monitor Group.

In this in-depth interview, Jane shares her in-the-trenches story of how she and her co-founders were presented with an urgent need, designed a high-tech, low-cost solution, and validated their market to verify that their product would truly serve those at the bottom of the pyramid.

You will learn:

The market research process they followed in order to come up with a viable product idea.

The market validation process they used to determine whether their prototype truly served their target customers, and how it needed to be improved.

Why they chose a hybrid for profit, nonprofit business model, how this structure allows half the organization to focus on developing the best health care products for their market, while the other half distributes them profitably.

The 3 stages of designing for innovation.

Keys to finding and approaching impact investors to fund your social enterprise.

Mentioned in this interview

Warren Buffett

Chi Heng Foundation

Monitor Group

Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Clinton Foundation - Tanzania

Impact Investors Vinod Khosla’s Impact Fund 

Khosla Ventures

Capricorn Investment Group

Jeff Skoll

Where to Find Jane

Embrace Innovations

@JaneMarieChen

@EmbraceInnov

@EmbraceWarmer

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Living a work/life balance while traveling can be difficult but it's achievable with the use of essential items that every location-independent entrepreneur can't live without. Wi-Fi is a business lifeline that every online entrepreneur needs, and there are many other must-have tech devices that also support the plugged-in lifestyle.

In this video, you'll find out:

The top indispensable must-have equipment to travel with as a location-independent entrepreneur

Tips and tricks for optimum efficiency when in unfamiliar places and spaces

The best ways to back up files

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1:34 Why a Macbook Air is such a great business tool when on the road.

1:51 What are the best options for backing up and sharing files?

3:15 How to charge all of your gear and protect it from local power surges.

4:49 The essential piece of kit to ensure you are always powered up.

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As a location-independent entrepreneur and traveler, you may have to make important calls to your home country to deal with your bank or credit card accounts, for example. This can be a challenging task when you consider the expense of long distance calls and time differences but there are various ways to get around this.

In this video, you will learn:

The best Skype alternatives for doing video calls

The best alternative free voiceover services

A great high-quality service for travelers

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1:29 When is Facetime a good alternative to Skype?

1:49 Is Google Hangout better than Skype?

2:20 Which apps are available as reliable alternatives to VOIP services?

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I am a huge fan of David Siteman Garland, and his web show The Rise to the Top. And through his newsletter, I discovered today’s guest, “The Communication Stylist”, Nikki Elledge Brown, who is one of David’s truly inspiring success stories

Nikki Elledge Brown spent nearly 2,000 hours teaching communication at the college level before launching her own business as “The Communication Stylist” in April 2013. Her mission is helping entrepreneurs attract their dream clients, one brilliant message at a time. By combining her natural skillset with some seriously purpose-driven inspiration, Nikki was able to grow a six-figure business in just 10 months after launching her flagship program, A Course About Copy, which launched to the tune of $50,000.

So in less than a year, Nikki went from being a Pearl Harbor park ranger, and part-time college professor – with no website, except a splash page, and no email list - to becoming a full-time entrepreneur with a six-figure income. So of course, I’m intrigued by her secrets to success. In our conversation today, Nikki will share with us.

The keys to identifying and finding your dream clients

How to get clients all over the world, working from your sofa, in your PJs.

The power of online coaching programs, and why every entrepreneur should consider joining one.

What you can do when you have a great idea for an online course, but don’t know how to get started.

The difference between offering your services and pitching to people.

How to get more optins to your email list.

What an evergreen launch is, and how to go about putting one together

And much more

Mentioned in this interview

Create Awesome Online Courses Marie Forleo's B-School

B-School Facebook group

Amber McCue

Yes Yes Marsha

Stories from a Screeensaver blog

Where to Find Nikki

www.nikkielledgebrown.com

www.acourseaboutcopy.com

www.facebook.com/nikkielledgebrown

www.twitter.com/nikkielledge

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