This week your favourite hobos are joined again by John Bardos of JetSetCitizen.com fame, to ruminate on hobo relationships. John and his wife have travelled together continuously for the last 4 years, so Chris and Nico grill him with questions to try and uncover his secret sauce for the successful traveling relationship.Topics covered and mentions:Why John and Motoko left the conventional lifestyle behind

The hobo lifestyle as a means to avoid getting fat, lazy and stupid

Working and living together

Possible ingredients to a successful couple hobo life

Is it possible to have kids and start a family as a hobo?

Regarding children, conventions are quite different in other countries which creates/forces a lot of flexibility

Traveling single vs. as a couple - can you start a relationship while traveling?

Quote from John:"I think it's harder to be a couple than it is to be single. And it is harder to be a family than it is to be couple, but it's definitely doable."Editing and production by Podcast Magic

Chris shares with Nico his experiences in opting out of Christmas, as well as some ideas for alternatives to running around like a headless chicken buying last minute presents then roasting one and getting drunk over it's greasy carcass.Pleasure is in giving not receiving - so don't give anything :D

Ways to avoid getting presents

Buddhist Christmas

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John Bados of JetSet CitizenReferences

Diamonds are not a girl's best friend: The AtlanticHat tip to our pal George Millo - Humbug (another good rant about Christmas)Editing and production by Podcast Magic

This week we examine the moral compass (or morality biscuits), how can one draw the line between good and bad? Is there even an objective right or wrong? No porn, no gambling? We look at how this affects the hobo business person plus the complexity, upsides and downsides of seeking an integral, moral path.Hobo Suitcase

Darren joe of touchmba.comMentioned in this episode

Peter Shankmann

Chris and Nico are joined this week by fellow hobo entrepreneur Almog (pictured above surrounded by his disciples), and together they take a deep dive on meditation, presence, emotion, spirituality and how it fits in with the hobo business person.More than just a sexy baritone voice, Almog has woven a great balance in his life across business, social, emotional and comedic. Chris and Nico ran into Almog in Berlin and have had regular hobo philosiphical business discussion, and this week remembered to turn the microphone on :)Mentioned in this episode

The Presence Process: A Journey into Present Moment AwarenessThe KabbalahEditing and production by Podcast Magic

Chris and Nico dig into a more simple and straight forward interpretation of "follow your passion". They look at an easy ways of being motivated by pursuing what comes easy, what you are "aligned" to as opposed to the perhaps more trumpeted approach of using sheer willpower and taking bold, courageous steps towards your true "passion".Some nice bullet points, we all like bullet points

Via Negativa, stopping doing things that are destroying your motivation, and then naturally arriving at passion and motivation

Contrary to 1) actively changing state, perhaps reacting to some extreme negative situation

2 types of people - being motivated towards things, or away from things

Focus on the results, not the process e.g. the beautiful cleaned house, rather than the 1 hour of vacuuming cleaning.

Doing things with mindfulness, turning menial tasks into a meditation

Successful people, either not really knowing why they are successful, or being poor teachers

Mentioned in this episode

The sentence game: sentence-game.com

Mark Manson: markmanson.net/

Benny Lewis: www.fluentin3months.com/about/

Taylor Pearson's post: http://taylorpearson.me/was-i-a-pussy-today/Not mentioned in this post

Since we recorded this, Chris started reading The Motivation Hacker, on topic and strongly recommends it.Editing and production by PodcastMagicThanks to doggie for joining us!

And thanks to doggie for sitting in on this one.

The hoboCEOs are broadcasting from Berlin this time.From minute 03:11 to 10:20…

The episode features a hobo suitcase special with Mark and Philip from The Bakery.Then, on to the main topics, hobos!starting at 11:00 until 27:49How to get clients for freelance work

Our response to Yohai's question about how to get clients before heading off to hobodom, which in short are:make sure to get the right clients, meaning the ones that fit your criteria and the one that you can actually help

pick a niche to appear more competent and speak directly to this niche's needs

possibly use platforms like Elance or oDesk

reach out to prospect in an active rather than passive manner

go to local network events and reach out to people from other circles where it's more likely to meet prospective clients instead of just other freelancers with similar skills like you

public speaking or giving a presentation about some topic you are well educated or experienced in to establish yourself as an "expert"

organising a meeting or network event yourself. Be a connector.

do a project to get some exposure, examples: www.didyouvalidate.com or "Was iOS 7 created in Microsoft Word?"

check out Seth Godin's work, especially his podcast "Seth Godin's StartUp School"

starting at 27:50 until the endThe power of nonsense

A concept which has two parts to it. We will elaborate on this more in future episodes.Part 1 is about paradox that not everything can be understood by the mind aka the rational can't tackle the non-rational.Part 2 is about the mind demanding to understand the world/reality.So how can the mind, or rather we, be aware of its limitation and, more important, how can we use the mind to overcome its limits or harness the power of nonsense.Our first little experiment will involve a lucky charm to "become consciously superstitious".Production and podcast editing by Podcast Magic

In this episode we give you an overview of our current and essential tools, from hardware to software, that we use to "organize our shiat" as Andreas specified in his question.Here's the tl;dl for you stressed out folks:Most important rule: Have as little as necessary.Software we're currently using

Project and Task Management with Asana

Google calendar with multiple time-zones support to simplify scheduling

1Password for password security and handling millions of logins (works on desktop as well as mobile devices)

A Timer (as included in most smartphones or the good old egg timer)

Backups with TimeMachine (Mac), cloud storage from Dropbox to Amazon servers

Evernote for accessing my snail mail from whereever online

Chat and Video Calls with Skype, HipChat and Google Hangouts

Hardware we're carrying around

Nico's coffee set (see picture below), including the AeroPress with a re-usable metal filter, a coffee bean grinder, a scale, a thermometer (not in the image), a milk frother.

Laptops, in our case Apple Macbook Pro 15" and Air 11"

an unlocked smartphone

wifi hotspot device, like this one

Jambox bluetooth speakers for fairly good portable sound amplification

Nico's coffee setThe "nature of understanding"

The difference between understanding things and being able to explain them.

Intuition vs. rational reasoning.

Being aware that you can't understand everything with your (limited and sequential) conscious mind.

Nico mentions the wonderful piano music of his teacher Chris Beier, "Aeolian Green - piano worksVIII" (You can find this on iTunes as well as Spotify).Chris mentions the book "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" by Malcom Gladwell.Any questions? Feel free to use the voicemail service on the right of the screen or any other means of getting into contact with us. We'd love to hear from you.

Following on a question from Ian Robinson of freedompodcasting.com, we delve into how to start being a hobo CEO right now.Preparation

Mindset etc. - listen to episode #1

Remove things holding you down

Have no debt

Embrace the minimalist lifestyle

Main types of hobo-compatible businesses

Freelance service provider

Product (as in physical product)

Attention business (blog, content site etc.) - selling info product, selling someone else's product affiliate marketing/advertising etc. Listen to James Clark interview

Writing and/or pusblishing a book or an ebook. Resources: APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book, Podcast on publishing your first book on kindle

Saas - software as a service

Poker, listen to our interview with Tynan

Create a community or membership site

Maybe the best way to get started

Working for / with another hoboCEO. There are plenty of opportunities to do this, really. Just understand this to be less of a job and more of an apprenticeship. If you're interested, let us know. Chances are we can hook you up according to your preferences and skills.Other possibilities for combining work and travel

Seasonal work

English teaching - or some sort of teaching/skill (see http://jetsetcitizen.com/)

Working as a fitness, yoga or … instructor

Mentions

James Clark

Jodi Ettenberg

Jimmy Hayes

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Like the tip of the iceberg, much of what we see in life is only a fraction of what is really there and so we don't easily see most of what is going on. Chris and Nico dig into why success stories, common views and opinions are often misleading or even false and present five tips for uncovering the truth.Learn to detect exaggeration

Check for emotional responses

Avoid the default option

The Cartesian model model

Truth is often fluid

Plus three extra bonuses, including "How to be your own grandfather"See also Fail - learning from success.Edited by: podcastmagic.com

Following on from the post last week about the digital nomad trap, we talk about escaping the conventional lifestyle and then keeping out of traps from the subsequent hobo existence.Escaping the conventional lifestyle through:Following what makes a hobo happy

Avoiding what makes you unhappy

Facing fears that might be holding you back

Does mindset come from action, or is action from mindset?

See also our previous episode on the essential ingredients to location independenceAnd avoiding the hobo trap:Taking on responsibility

Being comfortable without a plan

Being humble, not bragging, keeping a low profile at times

Leverage the hobo freedom - don't follow the herd

And not falling back into arrangements for the sake of arrangements

Mentioned in this episode

Thanks for the 5 star review from Terry Lin of buildmyonlinestore.comTwitter banter from Ian Robinson (thanks for the

TimeScroller app tip)And the very special Jimmy Hayes of minaal.com, designer of the ulitimate carry on luggage featured in this weeks "inside the hobo suitcase"