Ray Blakney worked as a computer programmer in Fortune 500 companies, Silicon Valley startups and the government for about 10 years before becoming a full-time entrepreneur in 2008. He became a location independent entrepreneur in 2012 (though he did not find out it was called that until 2016). He specializes in bootstrapping online education businesses and is current projects include LiveLingua.com, Onmatu.com, my400words.com, and twiducate.com. He also recently ventured into angel investing and is a majority owner of an artisanal chocolate factory in the Philippines.

Ray is a very interesting dude... As you'll find out at the end of the episode with his travel story. But he also knows his shit.

Ray has worked with some big companies to help them grow their traffic organically, mainly through SEO, and has been extremely successful in doing so (he talks about this in his intro). So with Ray's history, he's the perfect person to come on and talk about SEO because I'll be honest, I don't really know much.

So I learned a lot from today's episode too!

Show notes can be found over at https://TMDshow.com/12

In today's episode, I have Kate Erickson from Entrepreneur on Fire co-hosting this episode with me. We talk about how to avoid procrastination and how you can keep productivity high.

Kate's other half, John Lee Dumas, is well known for having a crazy sick work ethic, and Kate is the same. We talk about different ways we keep ourselves focused on the tasks at hand. We talk about batching again in this episode... Apparently, JLD records 15 episodes of his podcast in one day! Crazy!

I also asked Kate two questions the Dude Brood community wanted to know answers to. Kate was gracious enough to ask them :)

Show notes can be found at: http://TMDshow.com/11

In today's episode, I talk with Amy Scott from Nomadtopia about what it takes to run a business whilst you're travelling.

Amy Scott quit her office job to travel the world in 2004 and never looked back. She now keeps a home base in Buenos Aires while she travels the world with her Argentine husband. She's the founder of Nomadtopia, a hub of information, inspiration, community, and support for others who also want to live their ideal life, anywhere in the world. Through her other business, Nomad Editorial, she helps nonfiction writers finish their books.

And boy we had an amazing conversation today!

Amy has been a digital nomad for a long time and really knows how to keep her business going whilst she's on the move. We both share our experiences with making mistakes and explain how you can avoid them yourself.

Show notes are at: http://TMDshow.com/10

In today's episode, I have Tyler McCall on to talk about how we can all use Instagram to build a fantastic relationship with our audience. I asked Tyler to give a short intro about himself, here's what he said:

"I’m Tyler and I help entrepreneurs grow a business they love using the power of Instagram. I teach business owners how to build an engaged Instagram following, turn their followers into raving fans, and convert those fans into paying customers. I live in Asheville, North Carolina and work with clients around the world!"

I got to connect with Tyler for the first time a few weeks prior and man, I was blown away by his knowledge on Instagram. We covered a lot of the basics in this episode and Tyler tells us his 6 simple steps to crush it on Instagram.

Show notes for today's episode can be found over at http://TMDshow.com/9

In this episode, I chat with Amanda Baye about our reasons why we travel and share some travel stories! This is part 2 of our conversation and Amanda shares an awesome story from Japan!

Show notes can be found at http://TMDshow.com/8

In this episode, I chat with Amanda Baye about our reasons why we travel and share some travel stories! This is part 1 because we talk for waaaay too long.

Show notes can be found at http://TMDshow.com/7

In today's episode, I have Alex Sol from Extra-Paycheck.com on to talk about getting started with podcasting. Podcasting is a brand new adventure for me and I remember Alex starting his podcast around 18 months ago and he's still rocking it.

I've known Alex for a while but it's been well over a year since we had last spoken. I know Alex travels around a lot because of the business he has created for himself so I thought he's the perfect person to bring on to discuss this topic.

This episode is a little longer than most because we try to cram everything into one episode. We basically go over the broad strokes of starting a podcast.

Show notes can be found over at: http://TMDshow.com/6

In today’s episode, I have a good friend of mine on today’s episode… Yuliya Chernykhovskaya! And yes… I said her name wrong 😛

Yuliya says, ” I’m a business strategist for health and wellness coaches, and so I really work with health and wellness coaches to help them set up the online portion of their coaching business. So we work through marketing; you know, sales strategies; sales confidence; mindset for success; how to actually coach people; and, you know, really make that a powerful machine.”

Yuliya is amazing… And crushes it in her Facebook group. This is the reason I wanted to bring her onto the show today to talk about Facebook groups and how awesome they really are!

Show notes for today's episode can be found over at: http://TMDshow.com/5

Also, come join the Dude Brood FB group at: http://DudeBrood.com

In today's episode, I have Madison Black from The Slow Health Movement come on to discuss taking the leap and getting started with your digital nomad journey. We discuss multiple topics and give our own experiences on them.

Plus Madison shares a story about losing her phone in Mexico! Enjoy!

Show notes can be found over at: http://TMDshow.com/4

In today's episode, I break down the third 30 day's of getting started online. Download the calendar over at http://TMDshow.com/3 to follow along!