What you are going to LEARN in this episode:

Learning on the VA job vs “formal” College education

Typical working hours and salary for a call center technician

How the freedom from working at home benefits both VAs and Clients

Call Center job vs being a Virtual Assistant

Welcome back to Liberty Entrepreneurs Podcast! Today’s guest is Dexter “Dex” Carreon, Team Liberty’s very first Virtual Assistant!

Dex joined Team Liberty in Summer 2016 as the “Virtual Podcast Manager”. He’s role includes editing audio, designing social media graphics, competitor research, Wordpress management and even building an Woocommerce online store.

The purpose of this episode is to, again, give you an inside look at the background and experiences of another Virtual Assistant and the journey to finally becoming a VA. Like many of us, Dex started off stocking shelves in a grocery store, then was hired for the night shift for a technical support call center and now as a technical Virtual Assistant.

Tune in to hear how Dex used to spend 5+ hours/day to travel to-from work and put in 11-hour workdays during the “graveyard shift”. Listen to his enthusiasm as he describes how his life has gotten so much better now that he works as a Virtual Assistant. More money; way fewer hours and work from home without the need to travel.

We also discuss his experience without having a 4-year college degree, but getting the same types of jobs and picking up skills and “software upgrades” that continued to raise his market value.

In the end, Dex could never go back to the Call Center jobs. The lack of dynamic tasks and flexible schedule can’t compare with the awesomeness of working from home as a Liberty Virtual Assistant!

Remember, when you hire a Virtual Assistant you are creating a win/win scenario and helping improve the lives of someone on the other side of the world. #winning

Tune in next week to hear my Tip to Effectively Communicate with your Virtual Assistant.

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What you are going to LEARN in this episode:

What’s is like to be a Virtual Assistant

The importance of English Proficiency

How the BPO and Call Center industries help train Virtual Assistants

Why a “home-based” VA jobs provide safety and freedom

Welcome back! In an effort to remove the MYSTERY around working with a Virtual Assistant, I interview Cherry Lou, the LibertyVAs.com Recruitment Manager! We’ve been working together for a few months and she opens up with her story and experience in the call center and “BPO” industry right after graduating with a 4 year degree. I hope you come away with valuable insights on the freedoms and opportunities available by becoming (and working with) a Virtual Assistant and you realize that they aren’t much different than you, the Entrepreneur. Everyone is using the skills and talents they’ve built to open doors, make connections and hopefully better their and their family's lives.

We start out hearing Cherry Lou explain what the BPO (or Business Process Outsourcing) industry and her experience working in a call center for AT&T. She goes on to explain why the BPO industry is so popular in the Philippines and how the skills learned while working in call centers builds the skills necessary to be an awesome Virtual Assistant.

A typical day of a chat support representative in the Philippines:

Traveled 1-2 hours to go into work. (each way, unpaid travel)

Graveyard shift which often feels dangerous to travel alone

Very long days (check in 30 min before shift starts). Only paid for 8 hours/day, but often had to work much longer until the clients stopped calling

Didn’t allow for much creativity or dynamic work. All scripted and it got really unmotivating!

We continue on to hear how Cherry Lou decided to change call center jobs and why she saw it as a real first step to building her own freedom. Eventually, after several years of similar call center tasks, she felt confident enough to become a Virtual Assistant and work from home! Tune in to find out how...

Being a VA is so much better than working in the BPO industry. Repetitive tasks, little to no creativity and bosses who don’t appreciate you...sounds terrible!

We end the interview by discussing the importance of English and when the average Filipino begins learning the English language. Without the ability to read, write and speak English, many Virtual Assistant positions are very limited and this is one of our TOP skills that we test for when matching our LibertyVAs.com clients with a new virtual team member.

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What you are going to LEARN in this episode:

1. What is a Virtual Assistant (VA)?

2. Why did Liberty Entrepreneurs start Season 1 and what to expect?

3. What benefits can a Virtual Assistant add to your team

So it’s been a few weeks and I haven’t posted a podcast. So what’s the deal? We’ll so many people started asking me about my Virtual Assistant that I decided to build a business to help other digital entrepreneurs quickly hire, train and add their own new virtual team member. I’m proud to introduce Liberty Virtual Assistants (https://www.LibertyVAs.com).

For me, it seems easy. I’ve been working with a remote staff for 5 years, but to others it’s still a very foreign concept. How do you find and hire? How do you pay? How best to communicate through cultural differences and language barriers? What tools and apps bring the team together? How do you build respect and keep morale high?

So many good questions, but not ones I’ll ask myself lately. One day I sat down and started thinking about all the things i’ve learned over the past 5 years and was astonished at the wealth of knowledge and experience that only lives in my head. It’s time to create content around what i’ve learned and create value for others who are just now starting to build a virtual team.

Welcome to Season 1 - How to Work with a Virtual Assistant! I hope you find it helpful. If you are interested in hiring a Virtual Assistant to your team, and want to use our VIP virtual assistant service, please complete the “Let’s Get Started” form on the website (https://www.LibertyVAs.com/#form)

Even if you don’t hire a new Virtual Assistant, there’s no doubt that you’ll gain a TON of insights and knowledge from this podcast series.

Until next time...Keep Building Freedom!

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My guest today is Jeff Berwick, Founder of www.StockHouse.com, Founder of The Dollar Vigilante, Host of Anarchast Podcast and creator of the largest Anarchist conference Anarchapulco.

What you are going to LEARN in this episode:

What is was like to be a Digital Entrepreneur during the 90’s tech bubble

Why Jeff started The Dollar Vigilante and what it’s purpose is

Why working “crappy” jobs is better than going to high school

How Bitcoin and blockchains are changing the way that digital communities are being created

Why Anarchists should become entrepreneurs

A lot of us are just now learning about and trying to become digital entrepreneurs, but my guest Jeff Berwick has been one for over 20 years. Back in the 90’s, while working at a bank, he created the website www.StockHouse.com which had ~20,000 subscribers. The site was basically the MarketWatch.com of Canada. After growing to 250 employees in 12 countries, Jeff experienced the Tech Bubble crash and found himself with only 12 employees all in Canada.

After reading The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, Jeff decided to sell StockHouse.com and travel the world to find economic truths. He had figured out that the government’s money (aka fiat money) was a fraud and a ponzi scheme and dedicated his life to helping others see this truth.

In 2011, Jeff was introduced to Bitcoin and it changed his life. Not only was Bitcoin a global currency, it was also not controlled by a nation state and was limited in supply. Jeff quickly realized that this mean the Freedom of Money could once again be had by the general populous. He created a successful economic and investing newsletter called The Dollar Vigilante to help others understand the fraud of paper currency.

Since then, Jeff has created the Anarchast podcast as well as the “world’s largest Anarchist Conference” in Anarchapulco (where I will be speaking in Feb 2017).

Networking with like-minded people is so important and I highly recommend you check out the Anarchapulco conference. Sign up through my affiliate link and receive 10% off the listed price.

Sign-up using affiliate code libertye. You will save on the ticket and it will also help support the Liberty Entrepreneurs podcast!

I hope you enjoy hearing Jeff chat about the early days of the Internet as well as Bitcoin. Don’t miss the end where Jeff gives his advice for young entrepreneurs who are just starting out on their journey.

Until next time...Keep Building Freedom!

Favorite Quotes:

"To become an Entrepreneur, find something that you can offer at a better price or better a quality than other people can"

“Money is just a tool to transfer value between two people"

“How is being an Entrepreneur any different than just being human and living life?”

Contact Info:

Anarchast: www.anarchast.com/

Anarchapulco: www.anarchapulco.com (**Remember to use promo code libertye for 10% off the conference ticket price**)

The Dollar Vigilante: https://dollarvigilante.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DollarVigilante

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DollarVigilante

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDollarVigilante

Mentioned Podcasts:

LE15: Trace Mayer – You are the CEO of Your Life: Be Epic! - http://libertyentrepreneurs.com/2016/01/le15-trace-mayer-you-are-the-ceo-of-your-life-be-epic/

LE48: Steemit.com – The Future of Social Media w/ CEO Ned Scott - http://libertyentrepreneurs.com/2016/08/le48-steemit-com-future-social-media-w-ceo-ned-scott/

LE57: How Arcade City & Blockchains are Disrupting Uber - http://libertyentrepreneurs.com/2016/11/le57-arcade-city-blockchains-disrupting-uber/

Today’s guest is Ryan X. Charles, CEO and co-founder of Yours.org, a Bitcoin-powered social media platform which rewards content creators with cryptocurrency payments.

What you are going to LEARN in this episode:

Why the current model for monetizing social media is broken and Bitcoin may be the answer

What are “micropayments” and why they might just be the next “big thang”

How Yours.org is different than Facebook, Reddit and Steemit.com

How AI bots will integrate into and improve our everyday life (and how they can pay for themselves)

The Problem: Content creators are curating high-quality content on social media, but have little ability to monetize it.

Yours.org’s Solution: Build a social media platform on the Bitcoin network which also includes a digital currency economy and payment system. By using micropayments, community members can reward content creators with small Bitcoin donations which are free and fast to send. Content creators are allowed to offer a donation-only or paywall revenue model.

Favorite Quotes:

"If you work for someone else, you're going to live your life working for money."

“When you are building a business, you are building an asset that creates value for the world.”

"You don't want to have a job to earn money just to spend it all on your house and car. You want to OWN assets that create cash flow for you."

Contact Info:

Website: www.RyanXCharles.com

Twitter: @RyanXCharles

Yours.org: www.yours.org

Recommended reading:

Peter Thiel - Zero to One

Yours.org competitors:

www.Reddit.org - traditional, non-economic social media platform. No digital token or blockchain used.

www.Steemit.com - blockchain based social media platform; runs on it’s own blockchain

Related Podcasts:

Steem CEO Ned Scott - http://libertyentrepreneurs.com/2016/08/le48-steemit-com-future-social-media-w-ceo-ned-scott/

What you are going to LEARN in this episode:

Why Bitcoin is the Austrian School of Economics in ACTION!

How Entrepreneurship helps others create, retain and utilize their freedoms

How money is formed in prison

Why community coins, like Steem, are so significant

My guest today is Charlie Shrem, Bitcoin pioneer, founder of BitInstant, Founder of the Bitcoin Foundation and serial entrepreneur. Ever since I met Charlie at the 1st Latin American Bitcoin Conference (in 2013), I was super impressed with how he saw the world. He’s a young guy, still in his mid-20’s, and his mind is constantly looking for ways to build and create value for others. The true mindset of an entrepreneur and I noticed it right away.

In high school, Charlie found that he was proficient with computers and created a business around solving computer and printer problems. In college he saw the success of Groupon and created a similar business where he would sell excess inventory from local warehouses. In his senior year of college, while studying Economics, Charlie found Bitcoin...and it changed his life.

As a self-proclaimed student of the Austrian School of Economics (www.mises.org), which of course he didn’t learn about from his college professors, Charlie saw Bitcoin as the Austrian School in ACTION! Common criticism is laid on the Austrian School in the form of “sure, this sounds great in THEORY, but where has it been put into practice?” Bitcoin was finally the opportunity and real-life example that Charlie had been waiting for.

The BItcoin Problem: In 2011, there weren’t many good places to buy/sell Bitcoin. A company called TradeHill was one of the prominent exchanges, but they were slow and prone to wire issues. Losing bank accounts and wire routes were very common for early Bitcoin companies, especially exchanges.

The BitInstant Solution: Seeing this problem, Charlie decided to build a company, BitInstant, to help alleviate the wait times to buy Bitcoin. He could fund his corporate account at Tradehill, and introduce new access points for clients to place orders. Instead of taking weeks to purchase Bitcoin, it now took only a few hours. Rather than wiring to Tradehill directly, you could fund your BitInstant account from ~1M locations in the US including Walmart, 7-11, CVS and Walgreens. Talk about convenience!

He recollects on how money was formed [in prison] out of consensus rather than depending solely on a barter-only system. “Money Mack’s” and “Food Mack’s” were the currency of choice, and we discuss why. As long as people want to exchange goods and services with one another, money will find a role.

Now that Charlie was able to move, communicate and interact as he wished, it was time to start building again. Not long after he was set free, Charlie found an interesting platform called Steemit (www.steemit.com) which was a community-based blockchain which incentivized social engagement and content creation. Quickly finding the value, he got to work creating a new and improved markup editor to solve a few of the inconveniences associated with the platform. He’s now one of the most popular bloggers on the site with a huge following.

Charlie’s most recent entrepreneurial project is called Intellisys Capital which is using the blockchain to sell ownable shares of a portfolio of company stock. Since its blockchain-based, you can quickly and easily show that you own the shares (unlike in the current stock shares world) and get paid dividends in crypto-assets (such as Bitcoin, etc). Never a dull moment in the life of Charlie Shrem!

Remember, Bitcoin is an opt-in/opt-out currency. If you think that it will benefit you, in any way, then you are welcome to join our community. If not, then no hard feelings and best of luck to you. We have no desire to force you to do anything.

Until next time...Keep Building Freedom!

In Liberty,

Ashe

Contact Info:

Twitter: @CharlieShrem

Steemit: https://steemit.com/@charlieshrem

What you are going to LEARN in this episode:

Why traditional inventory finance is so inefficient

How crowdfunding can solve delays throughout your supply-chain

What’s the difference between Kickstarter and Kickfurther

The Problem: Retailers currently offer difficult terms and expensive financing costs when funding inventory for smaller businesses. Payments are made 30-60 days after inventory is delivered which slows down the entire supply chain and makes small businesses less efficient and profitable.

How Kickfurther solves the problem: On their online platform, individuals (like you and I) are able to choose which companies we want to invest in and who we want to purchase inventory for. We then OWN this inventory and when it sales, we get a return on our investment.

Kickstarter vs Kickfurther

Kickstart is a “pre-order aggregator” and is used to fund ideas. People will pay you upfront for future delivers. Most of these companies are not actually cash-flow positive and are in the market research phase.

With Kickfurther, you are not taking deliver of the physical products (as you are in Kickstarter) instead you are funding an established company’s inventory. This shortens the timeframe of financing the inventory, helps the business sell more product and gives you an ROI on your investment.

Kickfurther removes the middleman and takes the banks and large lenders out of the equation and instead connects businesses and smaller investors.

Launched Jan 2015 and currently has >10,000 users which ~25% are active investors. Most members are buyers since the companies they are investing in and buying the inventory for have established sales channels, but you are welcome to take delivery and sell the inventory on your own (not recommended).

Sean’s Advice: “Keep answering your customer’s emails for as long as possible because there’s nothing better than direct feedback from your customers.”

Contact Info:

Website: https://www.kickfurther.com/

Email: [email protected]

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What you are going to LEARN in this episode:

If college is still a smart investment

How much entrepreneurs benefit from attending college

What employers really think of your diploma

The importance of building an “experience portfolio”

Today’s guest is Derek Magill, college dropout turned online marketing entrepreneur, author and business strategist. Like most high school students, Derek was told that college was the absolute best idea to ensure he lands a job and makes a “good living”.

During his second year of college, Derek started to realize that the most valuable and enjoyable parts of his life were when he wasn’t in the classroom. He started a small t-shirt company and made a few thousand dollars while in college. Before long he felt like he was creating far more value in the world by selling shirts than he was by writing essays to only turn in to his professor.

He says, “you are never actually creating anything or building anything valuable during your college career.”

Rather than sitting in class and continuing to learn more and more theory, Derek recommends building a website, learning how to sell something online, or maybe start a podcast or blog. By the time your peers are graduating from college, you’ll have a portfolio of experiences and assets that you’ve built for yourself.

I can assure you that, as someone who’s hired dozens of people, this type of “portfolio of experience” is waaaaaaay more valuable than a diploma.

We end the show with a discussion about why “college dropouts” have such a negative stigma and how college may be just an extension of our under-performing public high schools.

If you are a highschool or college student, then don’t miss the Derek’s advice towards the end about taking a “gap year” and learn from the real world rather than only experiencing professors, textbooks and exams.

Contact Info:

Derekmagill.com blog - http://derekmagill.com/blog/

Get a Job at a Startup - http://www.DiscoverPraxis.com

Recommend podcast: http://libertyentrepreneurs.com/2016/04/le30-isaac-morehouse-experience-based-education/

What you are going to LEARN in this episode:

Why keyword research should be done BEFORE building an online business

Should you try and “cheat” the Google algorithm to get a faster start?

How to leverage Amazon using their affiliate platform

Moving from Solopreneur to managing and delegating to staff

Today’s guest is Ewen Finser, owner of Venture4thMedia.com. He has built and now manages a portfolio of ~25 websites and several of them cashflow >$5000/month. Not bad...eh?

I met Ewen at a recent conference in Las Vegas where he was a speaker. His presentation was on keyword research and the importance of validating your business idea BEFORE beginning to build it. It was good timing since I was currently building www.CryptoShirts.io and only later realized that only ~300 people per month search for “bitcoin t-shirt”. That’s probably a big reason that I’m seeing slow sales.

In this interview, Ewen gives you the inside scoop on how he started building online businesses, particularly his “review sites” that help consumers compare similar products (ie. running shoes) and links you (the consumer) to Amazon for the purchase. Since he’s driving traffic and sales to Amazon, they pay him out an affiliate commission. This could be >20% commissions earned on a product that you don’t have to stock, ship or support.

Like many of you, Ewen has chained to a desk for several years after college. Unsatisfied, he decided that he’d rather be working on building his own dream, rather than someone else’s dream.

After his day/desk job, Ewen would visit a Starbucks and build his own (soon to be) digital empire. Rather than sitting in traffic, why not sip some coffee and build and learn? You’d be amazed what you can build in only ONE focused hour.

The Freedom that Ewen experienced when he was able to generate his own income was life-changing and he quit the cubicle job, never to return. He controlled his time now and worked on projects that he owned and controlled. Reaping the rewards and experiencing the struggles of entrepreneurship.

Now Ewen manages a team of content writers, SEO experts and Wordpress professionals. You don’t want to miss the part where Ewen talks about the transition between being a solopreneur to hiring, managing and delegating various parts of his business.

I also want to invite you to join our private Facebook group. I just started it, so it’s small for now, but I expect many new fellow Liberty Entrepreneurs to join and share their passions and talents. https://www.facebook.com/groups/TribeLibertyE/

Podcast Resources

Learn how to create content sites: www.authoritysherpa.com

Ewen’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ewen-finser-66741272

Great content and affiliate site: www.thewirecutter.com

Liberty Entrepreneurs Social Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TribeLibertyE/

Keep Building Freedom,

Ashe

What you are going to LEARN in this episode:

How blockchains are breaking the old model of centralized, big-business.

How the Free Market and the sharing economy build around government’s heavy taxation.

Why the blockchain allows us to trust each other without needing to know each other.

How digital token sales are much easier and cheaper to raise funds for your startup

Today’s guest is Christopher David, Founder of the decentralized ride-sharing app Arcade City. While living in New Hampshire at the Free State Project, Chris saw first hand what the government was doing to cripple Uber and the ride-sharing economy. At the time, he was driving for Uber.

After attending countless town hall meetings, Chris decided to take matters into his own hands and build an Uber competitor which was decentralized and much more difficult to shut down and regulate. He felt that he had much more control when building rather than when begging the government to hear his side of the story.

Crowdfunding and the Digital Token Sale

In order to build their app and continue development, Arcade City needs funding. Rather than going the standard route of Angel investment or VC funding, Chris decided to issue a digital token (similar to Bitcoin) instead of selling shares of the company. These tokens have various uses and we are seeing these “ICOs” (initial coin offerings) starting to be used more frequently (Ethereum, Augur, Airbitz, etc).

The ability to create a scarce, digital asset to manage and sell directly to the people who will fund your business is a great tool for digital entrepreneurs and their startups. Unfortunately, I expect the heavy hand of the SEC to come down on these ICO’s in short order.

So that’s it! As many expected, blockchains are being used in so many different areas of life, even after only 8 years in existence. The full capability of this new, cutting-edge technology will only continue to grow as does the usefulness and utility of the Internet.

Welcome to the age of digital, programmable money!

Contact Info:

Website: https://arcade.city/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArcadeCityHall

Email: [email protected]

Slack Channel: slack.arcade.city

Podcast Resources:

Book mention: Swarmwise - https://www.amazon.com/Swarmwise-Tactical-Manual-Changing-World/dp/1463533152/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1478236019&sr=8-1&keywords=Swarmwise

Referenced Podcast: LE54: How the Free Market Feeds the Hungry – Unsung.org

http://libertyentrepreneurs.com/2016/10/le54-free-market-feeds-hungry-unsung-org/