Welcome to another episode of the OpenWorld podcast! We’re recording from a tower in Penang, Malaysia today where Jesse Krieger’s book “Lifestyle Entrepreneur,” became a Malaysia best-seller before hitting the international circuit. It was a fitting setting to record this episode with Jesse, who has quite the colorful background. Jesse has been passionate about leading a life outside of the norm from a very early age. He grew up around music and travel, and at a ripe young age booked […]

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It’s a real treat to feature Mark Messick in this episode. Mark is a 16 year-old Amazon author who has self-published nine books, including several Amazon best-sellers. Last month he just received a check from Amazon for $4,000 from his book sales. On top of that, he dropped out of traditional school at age 11. A few short years later and he is already earning more money passively than most Americans do working at full-time jobs. Mark discovered his love of […]

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In this exciting episode, we sit down with Andrew Michael, co-founder and CEO of Funifi, a startup which builds applications to help parents in the household. Andrew and I connected after I read about the results of a recent growth hacking experiment he did, where they ran a personality test for parents on social media. The personality test prompted parents to answer a set of questions to determine “what type of parent are you?” and share their results across social media. […]

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In this episode we talk with Evelyn Badia, an online solopreneur who quit her job in advertising and created a new lifestyle by leveraging the sharing economy! An Airbnb superhost in New York City, Evelyn began hosting in the early days of 2010. Airbnb has allowed Evelyn to generate a full-time source of income that covers all of her living expenses also create a wonderful lifestyle for herself. During her former life as a television producer, Evelyn sometimes worked 35 hour straight […]

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In this interview, we invite Nathan Chan, the entrepreneur and publisher behind Foundr Magazine, on to the show. Nathan launched his digital magazine (www.foundrmag.com) from his bedroom and two years ago foundrmag.com and crushing it. It has since become a profitable 6-figure business with 25,000 monthly readers, and 150,000 downloads. He’s interviewed Richard Branson, Tim Ferriss, Arianna Huffington, Seth Godin, and many others, and he is on track to reaching over one million people the end of the year with his magazine, […]

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In this inspiring interview we talk with the indefatigable Irishman ultramarathon runner Tony Mangan, who recently completed his “world run” around the entire planet! At the age of 52, Tony left his home in Dublin in October 2010 and then ran around the entire world. He went from the top of North America down through Central America and to the very tip of South America, then on through Australia, Asia, and Europe. The incredible 50,000km+ journey lasted four years and two days. During […]

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In this episode we welcome John Lee Dumas, host of the Entrepreneur on Fire podcast on to the show. John’s exploits in the podcasting world are the stuff of legend. He rose quickly to the top of the podcasting business; in March 2015 alone EoF pulled in $232,761 in revenue. What is less well-known to most are John’s travels around the world and how his personal experiences in new and foreign environments shaped and molded who he is a person […]

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In this interview I talked with Alex Darroch, expat and co-founder of the Mad Monkey, Cambodia’s largest hostel chain. He has quite the story. Alex is creating a new chapter in his life and together with his partners, helping to re-write a new story in a developing country that has reeled from decades of hell and hardship brought on by bloodshed, poverty and political instability. In all began in the rural, rustic “Bamboo island” off the coast of Cambodia. Far removed from the […]

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Introducing Rob Cubbon! Rob is an Amazon best-selling author, online teacher, graphic designer, digital nomad, and all-round good guy from London, currently in Saigon, who blogs at RobCubbon.com. Rob had a normal life in the UK as a graphic and web designer, but he was bored. He sought more excitement in life, and wanted to travel. So he started to focus on creating information products to break the chain of trading time for money. In his latest passive income report he writes: “Just two […]

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Introducing Josh Denning! Josh is known as the “Tropical Entrepreneur” and he has a podcast of the same name that he’s been able to set up while living a Tropical Lifestyle from his base in Thailand. He regularly interviews some of the most successful location-independent entrepreneurs and digital nomads. Josh calls himself the “inquiries super charger,” because he has more than a decade of digital marketing experience and teaches how to leverage podcasts, blogging, digital advertising book publishing and messaging maximum traffic, leads, […]

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