Mariana Pimenta

Johnny is a personal transformation blogger, who is constantly living and sharing his journey. He founded “Nomad Summit”, for example, which is a conference held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, each year, that attracts hundreds of people interested in the digital nomad life. He has podcasts, various online courses, he does coaching, blogging, writes books, among many other interesting projects.

I admire him for his hard work, for always sharing all that he learns and for constantly trying to be achieve a better version of himself. This way, he’s been helping thousands of people to do the same.

I first met him in Chiang Mai in 2015, while working at Punspace, my favorite coworking there. I was just starting this podcast when I attended “Nomad Summit” conference with around a hundred people (last year it was over 400 people) and I really enjoyed it. So I wanted to hear from him the story behind it all. And here you’ll have it. We talk about all the “sides” of Johnny and you can see how humble and giving he is.

It’s interesting to notice how he likes inspiring and challenging those who approach him. When I invited him to participate in the podcast, he asked me how many interviews I had already done. When I said that he’d be my third interviewee, he asked me to invite him again when I had five. So I did. We recorded this 18 months ago, when he made a new challenge.

I told him that I was taking around six months to publish each new episode because of my work as a business coach and because of my delaying perfectionism. I told him how much I wanted to be more like him to just put it out there, no matter how good it was. So he challenged me again to publish this episode in 30 days, but it took me 18 whole months!! Oh man!

I guess I owe him and my followers my apologies for taking so long and for keeping this great material all to myself. Shame on me! The truth is that I had to prioritize some other projects before I could come back to this podcast that I love producing. But the good news is that I did it now, rather than never. Right? So enjoy!

We talk about:

* Why Johny “FD"

Quotes:

“I think a lot of people spend too much time focusing on how to do it perfectly versus just getting started”

“Good Karma exists. The easiest way to make 1MM dollars is to help 1MM people”

“not everyone was meant to be an entrepreneur”

"even if I had to start over, I could do this again”

"if you have a job now, spend 2 months mastering it, and if you still don’t like it, change it!"

Do heavy metal ao Financial Times. Vandyck Silveira com certeza não é, nem pretende ser, conhecido ou reconhecido pela suas habilidades diplomáticas.   Mas sim pelos resultados que traz às empresas com as quais escolhe trabalhar. No episodio de hoje vocês vão conhecer as ideas disruptivas do atual presidente da Aliança entre o Financial Times e IE Business School, empresas que dispensam apresentação.

Com uma carreira vertiginosa, aos 24 anos ja era Presidente do IBMEC, umas das maiores escolas de negocios no Brasil, passando do ambiente financeiro ao educacional. Toda a bagagem acadêmica e corporativa lhe serviu para irromper no mercado educativo, levando o Ibmec de Belo Horizonte a ser referência nacional em altos estudos empresariais.

Vandyck nos conta como foi a época do Ibmec, do IE Business School, e como aliar o Financial Times, colocou a pimenta que precisava para aumentar ainda mais os resultados. Ele nos explica como funcionam as escolas de negócios no mundo, e como corrigiria a educação brasileira.

Não percam as dicas que ele dá sobre mentores e "sponsors"(patrocinadores) para a sua própria carreira!

FALAMOS SOBRE:

10:29 Modo de relacionamento com os professores que Vandyck trouxe das universidades dos Estados Unidos para BH.

12:42 Como procurar e achar mentores, e a diferencia entre mentores e sponsors.

21:03 Origens de Vandyck, cabelos longos, heavy metal e desejos dos pais.

23:11 Quebrando o academicismo da IE Business School . Exemplo do Santander, Grupo Arla. Jornalistas e mágicos como educadores da IE.

32:55 Existe diferencias entre uma Business School no Brasil e uma na China?

35:51 Qual o erro maior das escolas atuais tentando ensinar o mesmo que Harvard, e como seria o modelo de Vandyck baseado em três atividades.

45:12 Como a vida nômade e digital se insere na visão de Vandyck. A importância das aulas online.

56:17 Qual seria o primeiro passo para melhorar a educação no Brasil.

01:12:00 O que é uma Exciting Career para Vandyck. E sobre entregar pizza de Harley Davidson.

01:16:49 Como foi perder o Ibmec.

01:26:15 Porque Vandyck tem medo de ser nômade digital.

MELHORES FRASES:

05:10 "Eu tenho um PhD mas não sou o PhD. Eu nunca vou me definir por um titulo que eu tenho"

14:20 "Quando você transita do mentorship para um sponsorship, você passa a ter pessoas que olham você como um investimento, uma extensão física e emocional deles mesmos. E eu tive oportunidades na minha vida por causa disso”

34:47 "Grandes escolas de negócios são aquelas que tem ramificação real na vida das empresas e executivos"

39:18 "A gente vai ter que criar nosso emprego”

42:16 "O mandato é: criar uma escola para empresários, visionários do futuro do mercado no qual vão entrar”

01:08:51 "No Brasil, devemos tirar investimento do ensino superior que da ganhos privados, e dar para ensino primário que é um bem público”

01:16:49 “Ibmec pra mim foi como ser perder um filho, assistir ser sepultado. Eu tenho medo de não ter outro desafio tao emocionante como foi. Ali eu faria de graça. Eu nunca trabalhei la, era como ir pro clube."

“o importante não é fazer o que gosta e sim gostar do que faz”

“satisfação com a carreira esta ligado a satisfação com a vida pessoal”

EM VIDEO:

PART 1 -

"nao sou conhecido ou reconhecido pelas minhas competencias diplomáticas”

(4 min) https://youtu.be/Sf31jCa59gU

PART 2 - "descobri que tinha espaço muito maior para os executivos e professores do que para aluno , uma inversão total de valores”

(7 min) https://youtu.be/6QqUkgCuiB8

ETC..

Felipe Carvalho - De frentista de posto no Brasil para Gerente de Projetos na Europa. Esse episodio é especial porque é o primeiro em portugues. O maior objetivo meu e do Felipe é inspirar jovens brasileiros que estão na situação que ele estava com 18 anos: frentista de um posto de gasolina em São José dos Campos, morando com os pais, e sem muita perspectiva de futuro. Neste podcast, Felipe conta como ele conseguiu sair dali, e hoje trabalha numa multinacional austríaca, falando fluentemente 4 linguas. E ainda melhor, ele pode trabalhar de onde ele quiser ja que a empresa dele da 100% de liberdade digital.

Conversamos sobre como os funcionarios produzem mais assim, podendo trabalhar de onde eles querem no mundo. Felipe hoje mora em Valencia, e continua trabalhando para a empresa austríaca que presta serviço para uma empresa alemã. Eu conheci ele num coworking em Valencia, onde moramos hoje. Fomos almoçar juntos e quando descobri a historia dele não pude deixar de gravar para compartilhar com vocês. É uma historia fascinante e espero que vocês gostem.

Se vocês quiserem mudar de rumo na sua carreira ou trabalharem digitalmente, como nos, não deixem de me contatar, e se conhecerem uma historia interessante para compartilhar, deixem nos comentários, por favor.

Falamos sobre:

05:54 Primeiro emprego do Felipe como frentista de um posto de gasolina em São José dos Campos

07:24 a importância de ter um orientador na vida e carreira

11:54 Como aprendeu o alemão?

17:06 conselhos do Felipe para jovens saindo de baixo que aspirem sair do Brasil

27:51 Como é trabalhar remotamente

41:52 Como fazer uma transição de carreira

44:52 LinkedIn e Xing. Importância de usar essas plataformas em certos países.

46:57 a importância de networking/linhas de confiança

51:25 empresas digitais, mundo corporativo

54:03 sobre mentores e porque o chefe dele assina como Coach e não como Diretor da empresa

Frases marcantes:

"Ter pessoas experientes ao seu lado é o que vai ajudar você realizar seus sonhos"

"O importante não é a Faculdade ou curso técnico, o importante é uma boa ORIENTAÇÃO para ajudar a tomar uma boa decisão para onde a gente quiser ir. Isso se encontra na Universidade, num Coach, na família, nas pessoas mais experientes, um mentor"

"Busque e contate essas pessoas que sirvam de inspiração e orientação, sem ego, sem vergonha"

"Confiança é tudo na vida. Você pode ser divertido, um fanfarrão, mas na hora de trabalhar deve ser serio. Você não precisa ser o melhor, mas as pessoas devem poder contar com você"

Links:

SAP

LinkedIn

Xing

Phoron Consulting GmbH

Frases marcantes:

"Ter pessoas experientes ao seu lado é o que vai ajudar você realizar seus sonhos"

"O importante não é a Faculdade ou curso técnico, o importante é uma boa ORIENTAÇÃO para ajudar a tomar uma boa decisão para onde a gente quiser ir. Isso se encontra na Universidade, num Coach, na família, nas pessoas mais experientes, um mentor"

"Busque e contate essas pessoas que sirvam de inspiração e orientação, sem ego, sem vergonha"

"Confiança é tudo na vida. Você pode ser divertido, um fanfarrão, mas na hora de trabalhar deve ser serio. Você não precisa ser o melhor, mas as pessoas devem poder contar com você"  

Links:

SAP

LinkedIn

Xing

Phoron Consulting GmbH 

I met Eduard a couple of years ago in Barcelona, at my first Digital Nomad event. I had just learned this term "digital nomad" a few months before through a website that organized events in various cities around the world. I saw there would be one in Barcelona, so I got excited to go meet some like minded world traveling digital entrepreneurs like me, for the first time.

When I got there, I sat next to this young man, in his early twenties, who gave me a class on how to register a business in Hong Kong. He had done it years before and had already lived in several countries. I could not stop talking and learning from him. And I am still learning. Since then we’ve become friends and are always exchanging ideas on different struggles we go through. I’m sure you, too, will enjoy meeting Eduard and keeping up with what he is constantly learning and sharing.

Some time after that, he invited me to join his Coworking, where we had the most amazing view of Barcelona to work from. That’s where we recorded this talk for you.

And a few months after we recorded, he published a great article called "What I Learned Starting Lumumba And Fucking It Up". It’s a must read after you listen to this conversation we had. Hope you enjoy!

We talk about:

1:53 How Eduard started his journey in China at 19 years old, and continued through 25 countries in Asia, Africa an America.

2:40 Why Hong Kong is the best place to incorporate, and difficulties to find an accountant that can understand our DN situation

3:30 How he started making money at 15

6:21 The power of randomness of coworking spaces to network, build community

7:35 Lumumba: Eduard's multicultural apparel startup. Strategies to build and sell via ecommerce, and challenges involving so many cultures and countries. Lumumba's business model and work ethic.

15:00 Why the Western world is a minority and is losing influence and how important it is to speak the language of new consumers.

17:02 his dreams: nomadism, having multiple productions centers, multiple offices.

20:50 How one can get involved with Lumumba project. Examples from Ghana, South Africa, India

23:13 How to get money from Venture Capitals and what is the true challenge. How partners, employees, contracts, and accelerators get involved.

34:13 How Eduard left the 9-to-5 job, moved from corporate to a nomad lifestyle today.

40:00 his performance tools and lifestyle.

Significant quotes:

"I had investments in the stock market in Spain when I was 15 and when the crash came in 2008 I've lost half of my savings. That was my motivation to travel" 4:39

"A startup must to be part of your lifestyle. If it doesn't fit, it doesn't make any sense [to start one]" 30:35

I met Eduard a couple of years ago at my first Digital Nomad event in Barcelona. I had just learned this term "digital nomad" a few months before through a website called www.nomadlist.com.  I saw they organized events in various cities around the world, and I saw there would be one in Barcelona, so I got excited to go meet some like minded world traveling digital entrepreneurs like me, for the first time.

When I got there, I sat next to this young man, in his early twenties, who gave me a class on how to register a business in Hong Kong. He had done it years before and had already lived in several countries. I could not stop talking and learning from him. And I am still learning. Since then we’ve become friends and are always exchanging ideas on different struggles we go through. I’m sure you, too, will enjoy meeting Eduard and keeping up with what he is constantly learning and sharing.

Some time after that, he invited me to join his Coworking, where we had the most amazing view of Barcelona to work from. That’s where we recorded this talk for you.

And a few months after we recorded, he published a great article called "What I Learned Starting Lumumba And Fucking It Up". It’s a must read after you listen to this conversation we had. Hope you enjoy!

LinkedIn

Twitter

'WE TALK ABOUT' 

05:02 How Eduard started his journey in China at 19 years old, and continued through 25 countries in Asia, Africa an America.

05:49 Why Hong Kong is the best place to incorporate, and difficulties to find an accountant that understand your situation

06:39 How he started making money at 15 selling bootlegs on bulletin boards

09:30 The power of randomness of co-working spaces and being so inexpensive to network, build community, make friends

10:44 Lumumba: Eduard's multicultural apparel startup. Strategies to build and sell via ecommerce, and challenges involving so many cultures and countries. Lumumba's business model and work ethic.

18:09 Why the Western world is a minority and is losing influence. Why it's important to speak the language of new consumers.

20:11 Eduard dreams: nomadism, having multiple productions centers, multiple offices.

23:59 How one can get involved with Lumumba project. Examples from Ghana, South Africa, India

26:22 How to get money from Venture Capitals and what is the true challenge.

37:22 Eduard's tipos for who wants to leave the 9-to-5, move from corporate job to a nomad lifestyle today.

43:09 performance tools and lifestyle.

46:17 Eduard's definition of startup based on the method. "You don't assume anything until you go to market" vs Traditional methodology.

'QUOTES' 

"I had investments in the stock market in Spain when I was 15 and when the crash came in 2008 I lost half of my savings. That was my motivation to travel" 07:48

"A startup must to be part of your lifestyle. If it doesn't fit, it doesn't make any sense [to start one]" 33:44

'RESOURCES' 

nomadlist.com

Bulletin boards - the Web 1.0
Cloud CoWorking
Lumumba
Founder Institute
Google Drive
Lean Startup
Zero to One
Steve Blank

What I Learned Starting Lumumba And Fucking It Up

Meet Tan Dhammavidu, one of the most respected foreign monks in Thailand Right after I finished my last 6 day silence retreat in Dipabhavan Meditation Center in Koh Samui island, Thailand. 

"I just felt the need to do something I'd never done before. And it was strong enough to change my life completely"  30:16

Right after I finished my last 6 day silence retreat in Dipabhavan Meditation Center in Koh Samui island, Thailand, a couple of months ago, I got to talk with T. Dhammavidu and T. Cithapon, two of their monks. I filmed the video with my cell phone so can see that through my youtube channel. Or, if you prefer just audio, while you workout at the gym or commute to work,  you can go to the Exciting Career Podcast on your phone.

Dhammavidu, which means revealer of Dharma, is originally from England. He explains to me how he became a monk “by accident”, how the digital world is already challenging the monks, the reasons why they have to give up most of their "excitements" in life such as playing music, having sex, eating yummy food, the difference the western impact has made in the life and customs of Thailand in general, among many other things I asked him about.

For 23 years he has given the Meditation and Dharma instruction at Suan Mokkh International Dharma Hermitage, the famous meditation centre in Surat Thani, Southern Thailand. Presently he is providing the same service at Dipabhāvan Meditation Center.

I hope this conversation inspires you to start doing meditation and going to silence retreats because this has really changed my life in ways I can’t even describe. Basically, it took me almost 40 years to discover I had no idea how to breathe and how I could use that for developing my mental control and consequently for discovering who I really am. If you want some tools to help you, check out this post I made.

Marti Rubio - Spanish, writer, got career inspiration by helping Syrian refugees in Greece.

What do most people do when they are not happy about their career? Look for another job, right? Well, some people, like Marti, who I met at Cloud Coworking in Barcelona, like being different. And think “how can I help other people and get the inspiration that I need for my career transition?”.

When I asked him to send me a summary of his professional moment, he sent me this message below. It’s a good start for you to understand why I had to interview him. Hope it inspires you, too. 

"I'm journalist and I'm 26 years old.After a bad work-experience, I decided to change my life. I took some time to think about me and about what I wanted to do. HOW???

I always loved to write, that's one of the reasons because I studied Journalism. But journalism, the newspaper journalism, it's not the kind of writing I loved. After a few months, I decided to apply for a Master of Literary Journalism (in the sixties, it was called New Journalism, so now its like a new old new journalism). This journalism explains stories, I mean, it's reality, research, and all the stuff that a Journalist needs to do, but also explained as a novel or as a story. The final project of this master is to write a long reportage, called sometimes "non fiction novel".

To do it, I decided to go to the refugees camps, in the North of Greece. I was there with a NGOs of firefighters (...).

Now I'm doing this reportage and I am so happy to do it. First, because I love writting Second, because it was one of the most shocking experiences in my life. Third, because I think that this reportage is like a tribute for the refugees and for the people of the different NGOs. Also, for me, it's a big objective!

We talk about:

- what is “New Journalism” and “non fiction novel”

- how/why he decided to go to the Refugee camp in Greece and did it after 3 emails

- his habit of writing ideas and expectations into notebooks to know himself and make decisions

- how one could help more easily through smaller organizations

- why join a coworking to write the book

- previous jobs he had (documentalista, volunteer  for UNICEF and other humanitarian NGOs)

- his passion for mountains

Remarkable quotes:

"I was thinking about what i wanted to do, what I love, in what I want to spend my life and now I don’t know if I’m in the correct place but now I’m actually happy.”

"A lot of them said to me they prefer go back to Syria than stay in Greece because in Syria you die in one second but in Greece you die slowly. "

"I want to do this project for me, and only for me and maybe the people I love or people who know about the story or a friend that has heard me speak of the project”

"Maybe that could happen to me in the next 20 years, maybe it’s a war then I will have to go to Syria.”

"I don’t have wife, I don’t have children, I don’t have a big responsibility in my life so now is the moment and maybe there will be a lot of moments in the future but now it’s one of the moments”