Anthony Rigogliosi, Founder of Podcast Ninja, went from being homeless and living out of his car in New York to becoming a global podcast ninja. It began when he was a manager at Best Buy but went through a few massive changes in his personal life when he found himself homeless. He shares his struggles with alcohol, cookie dough and the realization that his decisions had gotten him into this so it was up to him to start making different decisions to get different results.

"I have an opportunity of a lifetime that I have to take."

A defining moment was when he read the book The 4-Hour Work Week. He also started embracing the simplicity of the minimalist lifestyle and not having a lot of material possessions weighing him down. He then wrote down on a piece of paper, Thailand, and developed a plan to pursue a new life living overseas. In this episode we discuss... Working at Best Buy during the day, working overnights at Target. Sleeping in his car in the parking lot. Reading The 4-Hour Work Week. Writing down on a piece of paper one word, Thailand. Writing on his exit paperwork from Best Buy, "I have the opportunity of a lifetime and I have to take it." Buying a one-way ticket with a backpack and bicycle. Travel and explore to regain his piece. His first impression of Chang Mai when he landed. Conquering his fear after exploding his comfort zone. Biking over 2,000 kilometers across Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Running his savings down to $300. Teaching English to people in China. Getting from Hanoi, Vietnam to Chang Mai, Thailand on his last $300. $600 internship learning about podcast production for JohnnyFD. Learning about Affiliate Marketing and making money online. Starting his podcast production company, Podcast Ninja, to help other podcasters launch and produce their shows. His nomad life was more expensive than he had planned for and he soon found himself out of money when a timely call came from an established podcaster in Chang Mai, Thailand that was looking for an intern. That was the break that Anthony needed. He headed to Chang Mai that would lead to his new career as an entrepreneur and Podcast Ninja helping others launch and build podcasts.

"Follow your heart and follow your dreams, and watch the world conspire to support you."

If you have ever thought, I hate my life but I don't know what to do, you are not alone but Anthony proves that you do have the power to change your life and it just starts with a simple plan...Thailand. Show Notes PodcastNinja.net LinkedIn @anthonyrigogliosi Digital Nomad and location independent entrepreneur, JohnnyFD Teach English for $10/hour: NiceTalk The Book that sent Anthony on the path of a digital nomad. Sponsor PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife Editing by: FriedoNation.com Mic used on the Go Hunt Life podcast. Go Hunt Life on iTunes

Burton Cleveland has built a healthy food retail store for pets and a neighborhood resource for anyone wanting to keep their dogs and cats healthy with high-quality food and snacks that are all free of corn, soy, wheat or by-products but this is an entirely new career for him. A few years ago he was living the corporate sales life traveling 50% of the time and selling legal services to law firms and was trained as a paralegal. He reached a point in his career where he didn't think he was in control of his success and meeting his professional goals so he made the jump from employee to retail entrepreneur to take more control over his life and financial situation. He quit his job but didn't have a definitive plan on what to do next in his career and professional life.

"You should just do it, you only live one time." 

His first step was interviewing people that he respected and another entrepreneur, a book store owner, helped him fine-tune his decision. To make his jump into the pet store successful, he turned to mentors within the industry and looked to friends in Dallas that had a similar business model. He has stuck the landing and launched Prime Pet Austin, a neighborhood resource and pet store, in December 2015. We dive deep into what exactly it has taken for Burton to make a transition from an employee with a salary, benefits and perceived safety to retail entrepreneur in the world of pet food competing against big box retailers. In this episode we discuss... What steps did you go through to start the transition from corporate employee to retail entrepreneur? How did he start learning about healthy pet food since he didn't have any professional experience in this industry? What happened on opening day? How close have you been to reaching your initial financial projections? What does the term 'neighborhood resource' mean and how does that impact your business? What is the biggest mistake that you've made in the first 16 months of being in business? What organizations govern the pet food industry? How do you band together with other businesses in your neighborhood and in your industry to help the business? How does a typical week look like being a retail store owner? What advice would you give someone right now sitting in traffic that is considering making a major life change and go from employee to retail entrepreneur? Burton brought up the term and mentality called 'community over competition' and how much of his success has been dependent on help from the other businesses in his neighborhood and how they all have embraced each other's businesses and success. Burton went from the corporate life where he felt he didn't have control of his success to now being in complete control of the success of his business and financial success but it's still impacted by others. Show Notes primepetaustin.com Instagram, Facebook and Twitter @primepetaustin Sponsor PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife Go Hunt Life on iTunes

Ian Usher is a minimalist traveler living and traveling all over the world but a few years ago he was just like everyone else. He owned a house, a car, a jet ski, a motorcycle and his home was packed full of stuff that didn't need so he decided to put his entire life for sale on eBay. The global media jumped on the story after the bid reached $2.2 million dollars and his story took off. The problem was that the huge bid came from a 15 year old...that didn't have $2.2 million. Not a problem though, he went to the next highest bidders but it turns out they really weren't interested either. The auction closed and Ian didn't have any legitimate buyers for his life. Dejected and without the money that he expected, he set out anyway to accomplish his goal. Not just one goal though. Ian set out to check off of his bucket list 100 goals in 100 weeks all over the world.  6 months into his travels, his house eventually sold and then the big call came from an agent in Hollywood. Disney was interested in buying the rights to his story. They put up $20,000 for an 18 month option, renewed it for another 18 months at an additional $20,000 and in the end payed him $240,000 for his story. Ian took his windfall and did want any normal person would do. He bought a Caribbean island off of the coast of Panama. In this episode we cover... How much was he trying to sell his entire life for? What happened when the global media companies started reaching out to him? How did his plan fail when the auction closed? How did he persevere through the disappointment and lack of money to fund his trip? How did the Disney deal go down? What's it like to buy an island and build a sustainable, minimalist life on a Caribbean island? How they now live house sitting all over the world? What are the down sides of house sitting? How do they make money as tutors teaching English to people in China? My conversation ends with a great view into his life as a minimalist traveler. They are going to South Africa and then Barbados for the next few months and continue to teach English for less than 50 hours a MONTH to keep their dream funded. Show Notes ianusher.com Facebook and LinkedIn @IanUsher House Sitting Magazine - everything you need to know about seeing the world and being a house sitter. Buy Ian's book that dives DEEP into his story. Sponsor Check out clickplacement.com to ignite your pay-per-click and social marketing strategies. Go Hunt Life on iTunes

Roz Savage is an environmental activist, author, world renowned speaker, a lecturer at Yale and is an Ocean Rower with 4 Guinness World Records but what makes her story even more remarkable is that she once had a seemingly normal life. Roz is from England and into her 30’s she was living a life of materialism chasing the big house and big money as a management consultant but she quit it all to pursue a life with purpose. Now, she is the first woman to row solo across 3 oceans, the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans and she did it in a 23 foot rowboat. in 2010 she was named Adventurer of the Year by National Geographic. We talk about endurance, perseverance, minimalism, facing death and letting go of a materialistic life and mindset to transcend self-imposed limits and build a platform for environmental activism. She’s now a lecturer at Yale University teaching a course titled: Courage in Theory & Practice. Buy Roz's book In this episode she answers… What did your life look like before you pulled the ripcord? What personal and material possessions where you giving up? What was the hardest and scariest part of making the transition? How do you go from a Management Consultant living a normal life crossing the Atlantic ocean in a 23 foot row boat? How do you fund your projects and pay for your boat? How often have you felt like you were on the brink of death? What did it feel like to see land after so many days at sea? What does your life, business model and a typical week of an environmental activist look like today? What does your course at Yale titled Courage in Theory & Practice actually teach students? You currently have 4 world records, do you have your sights set on any others? What can each of us do in our daily lives to treat the environment better? She explains how the simple step of not buying plastic water bottles can have a huge impact on our water resources. Roz was living a normal life but chose to chase her passion of environmental education by creating a global platform and she’s done it one oar stroke at a time. Show Notes rozsavage.com and rozsavagecoaching.com Instagram, Twitter and Youtube: @RozSavage Podcast: Roz Savage Project Sponsor Check out clickplacement.com to ignite your pay-per-click and social marketing strategies. Go Hunt Life on iTunes

Andrew Townsend is 60 years old and he can outrun you and me but 6 years ago he couldn’t run a step. 6 years ago he was 70 pounds overweight, eating and drinking too much and bound to a desk. It had gotten so bad that he was labeled an ‘invalid’ because of his battle with arthritis. He had no one to blame but himself and how he had chosen to live his life up to that point so he made a choice to change. His life transformation started with one step.

"I tried blaming everyone else but I had no one to blame but myself."

This timeline is amazing. 2011 he couldn’t run a step and in 2016 he ran across the Spanish Pyrenees. They are the mountains in the Tour de France that look impossible. He ran over those for 525 miles from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean with an elevation change of 100,000 feet. Imagine climbing Mt Everest 4 times and he did it in 27 days.

So obviously a lot changed from 2011 and we get into all of it. When we recorded this conversation he had just gotten back to his home in Reading England from a trip where he ran across Italy. He is a running beast and an inspiration for anyone thinking that it’s too late in life to make a major life change.

In this episode we discuss…

What does it mean to be an invalid living with arthritis?

Did he blame the disease from choosing him or himself for living his life that brought the disease upon himself?

The treadmill at his new gym breaking which forced him to get outside and run. In 2014 running a marathon a month in 12 different European Countries.

In 2015 running 8 marathons in 8 countries in 8 days driving between races and a world first. In 2016 completing a self-supported traverse of the Spanish Pyrenees running from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean, 525 miles with total elevation of more than 100,000 feet and you did this in 27 days.

What his life transformation looks like today and where he is headed next.

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Most couples when they get married, they go on their honeymoon and then settle into the married life and nest. My guests today are Sarah and Patrick Houston are not like “most couples” and they are not “nesting”. They are pursuing a minimalist lifestyle traveling through the Southeast US and Mexico on bicycles. As they were planning their wedding in early 2016, they were also planning their exit from their normal jobs, with comfortable salaries and a normal, predictable life to pursue their passion of water conservation and educating themselves and others on this fleeting resource.

Making conservation a Wild Adventure.

A few months after they got married, they had sold everything they owned, gave away what they couldn’t sell and got on bicycles to travel through the Southwest US and Mexico to raise awareness about the scarcity of water. If you want to know anything about water conservation and want to get really geeky about it, Sarah is your go to. She’s dedicated her life and career around this diminishing resource and now she’s educating all of us through their blog and Youtube videos. I talked to them from La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico where the Colorado river actually ends and they were 4,000 miles away from their old lives and they couldn’t be any happier. In this episode we discuss… Why do two college educated, newly married, employed people quit their jobs to get on bikes to travel the Southwest US and Mexico? What steps did they go through in their old lives to set up a minimalist lifestyle? What is a day in the life of their new new professions, Environmental Educators? The average daily water usage in the US compared to Mexico. How has their relationship evolved since the beginning of the trip? This is my conversation with Environmental Educators, Sarah and Patrick Houston and you can follow them anywhere online at Wander Like Water. Show Notes wanderlikewater.com Instagram, Twitter and Youtube: @Wanderlikewater Sponsor Check out clickplacement.com to ignite your pay-per-click and social marketing strategies. Go Hunt Life on iTunes

Bill Sycalik had the stark life re-evaluation when he said, "my lifestyle wasn't FEEDING me, it was feeding ON me." and needed a lifestyle reboot. He was living the New York City life. He was a successful management consultant living the experience riding the subway into Manhattan, working 12 hours a day then hitting happy hours, restaurants and live music. Bill quit his NY life in the summer of 2016 to go on a pursuit of self discovery through a transformational lifestyle reboot. He re-lives his feelings of being relieved to quit his job but also him being afraid of walking out on the only life that he had ever known. His comfort bubble was exploding and he was the one doing it.

What the hell am I doing?

His current profession? Chief Running Officer for his own initiative, the National Parks Marathon Project, where he is running a marathon in all 59 US national parks. His self supported and self funded quest to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the national parks service. How many parks has he run so far?  32 and he’s doing all of this out of his car. Driving from park to park, camping out of his tent that’s actually on the roof rack of his car and the running. Biggest mental and physical challenges? Him breaking the mindset and the physical and mental purging of his old life and to stop worrying about what other people think but he admits that it’s not an easy habit to break. Bill still struggles, but not as much recently, with the thought of…What the hell am I doing? This conversation drills into what it takes to reach a point in life when everything is going good and there is no logical reason to make a change yet a change is drastically needed. That was Bill's motivation to do a lifestyle reboot. Show Notes RunningTheParks.com Twitter: @RunTheParks Instagram, Facebook and YouTube: @RunningtheParks Sponsor Check out clickplacement.com to ignite your pay-per-click and social marketing strategies. Go Hunt Life on iTunes

Nancy Sathre-Vogel and her husband were career teachers when her two 10 year old boys came up with a plan. The family had always done bike rides together and even long bike rides but nothing like this cycling journey. They were on the pursuit of a cycling adventure and a modern day exploration of cultures and countries. This was their motto: "What would you do if you were not afraid?" - Nancy Sathre-Vogel: Author, Cyclist, Teacher and Mother. The family put a plan together for them to sell everything they owned, rent out their house and ride their bikes from Prudhoe Bay Alaska to the southern tip of Argentina, 17,285 miles. They were hoping to do it in 2 1/2 years, it took them 3. They camped most of the nights and also relied on friends and strangers for shelter and food. This conversation is unique for a few different reasons compared to most of my other guests because Nancy and her family had a definitive end point. The tip of Argentina. This dramatically changed the conversation when we discuss this part of the journey. In this episode we cover… Bear attacks. Logistically how does a family of 4 bike 17,000 miles. What was it like pedaling out on that first morning. What was she most afraid of? How did they plan to eat, sleep and have enough water. The kindness of strangers after their water filtration pump breaks. Homeschooling from the road. The emotional ending of the trip in Argentina. Their tough decision literally of 'now what'. What does a family do with an infinite number of options? Getting back into a normal life in Utah. How did the boys, now 13 years old, handling getting back to a normal routine? Nancy Sathre-Vogel has written a book about their journey titled, Changing Gears: A Family Odyssey to the End of the World. Show Notes FamilyonBikes.com Twitter and Facebook: @FamilyonBikes Sponsor Check out clickplacement.com to ignite your pay-per-click and social marketing strategies. Go Hunt Life on iTunes

Don Larson was a senior executive with The Hershey Corporation and had built a 25 year career in the food industry. This executive lifestyle of abundance had massive financial perks including a big house with a pool, tons of toys, luxury cars and even a hot air balloon but Don and his wife Terri decided to sell it all and invest their life savings into building a cashew company in Mozambique, Africa. They started The Sunshine Nut Company and dedicated their lives to helping others. Mozambique is one of the poorest countries in Africa but back in the 1970's it was home to one of the largest producing countries of cashews. Don has used his faith and his experience in the food industry to build a company with a "quadruple bottom line" adding transformational bottom line to the financial, environmental and social bottom lines of corporate social responsibility. In this episode we cover... Quitting a 25 year career in the food industry, mostly with The Hershey Company as a 'turn-around guy' and telling Campbell Soup Company that there isn't enough money for him to accept another 'job'. Living a life for others by investing their life savings into a nonprofit mission. Being effected by the level of poverty that he witnessed in Africa while at his career at Hershey. The freedom of selling everything. Going on a 1 and a half year spiritual journey. Selling off all of their life's possessions to roll everything into starting and building The Sunshine Nut Company. Don, his wife Terri and their youngest son move to Mozambique, Africa. Being galvanized even further on their mission after being robbed at gunpoint in their home. Distributing 90% of the company profits to the poor and orphaned through transformative projects personally managed in the villages. Designing a company distribution system that delivers fresh products to their global customers including HEB, Whole Foods and Amazon online store. Show Notes sunshinenuts.com Buy a bag on Amazon Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @SunshineNutCo Sponsor Check out clickplacement.com to ignite your pay-per-click and social marketing strategies. Go Hunt Life on iTunes

Rachel Mazza never wanted to be an employee. She has designed her digital marketing agency around her lifestyle and specializes in working with businesses to drive targeted traffic to their website through Search Engine Optimization tactics and Content Marketing. Her current lifestyle didn't just happen automatically. It started at her college graduation when she told her Dad...

"Thanks for putting me through school but I don't think this job thing is for me."

She tried to have real jobs in life and was working as a paralegal in Chicago but a friend asked her to move to Australia and help him start a nonprofit. Two years into her stay in Australia, she found herself working and normal sales job and that just didn't feel right.

"I'm a location independent entrepreneur building a sustainable company."

She ripcorded out of Australia with a friend and started building her freelance, side-hustle gig into a real business while also traveling and seeing the world. She's now been living abroad and building her own value for over 4 years. In this episode we discuss...

Freelancing for extra money building Wordpress websites to start her outsourcing career.

Focusing on business development through word-of-mouth and her warm market.

Working full-time and building her side-hustle business.

Taking all of her life savings and paying off her student loans.

Living in Chiang Mai Thailand on $500/month.

Expats relying on the DC, Dynamite Circle

Staying in one stable place to focus on business.

Entrepreneurs decide their own value.

Her definition of 'home' after traveling for 4 years.

The definition of a 'digital nomad' vs. an 'location independent entrepreneur'.

We talk while Rachel is in Bangkok Thailand and she explains the two ripcord moments that lead her on her entrepreneurial path. Show Notes rmmediaandmarketing.com Facebook and LinkedIn @RMMediaandMarketing LinkedIn and Twitter @RachelMazza Sponsor Check out clickplacement.com to ignite your pay-per-click and social marketing strategies. Go Hunt Life on iTunes