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This has been a long time coming for me and someone that I've admired as an investor for a very long time. There aren’t many books about investing that remain relevant over 40 years after they were first published. Burton Malkiel’s A Random Walk Down Wall Street, first published in 1973 and now in its twelfth edition, is one.

Burton Malkiel, professor emeritus of economics at Princeton University and author of the seminal finance book “A Random Walk Down Wall Street,” told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” that investors would be wise to “sit tight” and “stay the course” in light of the stock market’s latest sell-off.

Malkiel’s book, now in its 12th edition, kickstarted the investing industry’s foray into indexing, influencing top minds including Vanguard founder Jack Bogle, the creator of the index fund.

I had a chance to chat with Johnny FD. A digital nomad who In 2008 quit his corporate gig in California to move to Thailand and follow his passions and work as a Scuba Diver around the world. It was in Thailand that he spent a few years training professionally as a Muay Thai Fighter and fighting professionally. 

In 2013 he started my first online business through publishing a book on Amazon Kindle, then replaced his 9-5 income by starting a dropshipping store which he later sold and start investing in other passive income vehicles. Johnny also started a blog to document and share his journey as a location independent entrepreneur or what he now labels as a digital nomad with my friends and family.

Johnny and I discuss;

• What is a Digital Nomad
• How he finances his travels
• Staying connected with friends and family
• Steps to becoming location independent
• His growth spiritually, mentally, financially
• and much more!

Sponsor/Partnership:

Coinbase  a secure online platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing digital currency

 

Other Resources:

Digital Nomad Summit US http://www.nomadsummit.com/ Johnny's Podcast http://www.travellikeabosspodcast.com/ Johnny's Course http://www.johnnymethod.com/

Author and international keynote speaker, Roger is a recognized expert in the use of brain and behavior research to improve marketing, sales, customer experience and corporate culture. He has worked with companies ranging from Fortune 500 firms to entrepreneurial startups to enhance their digital and conventional marketing.   As well as authoring Friction: The Untapped Force that Can Be Your Most Powerful Advantage, Roger has also written the best-selling Brainfluence: 100 Ways to Persuade and Convince Consumers with Neuromarketing which has been translated into nine languages. In addition, Roger writes the popular blog Neuromarketing and a column at Forbes.com. He founded Dooley Direct, a consultancy, and co-founded College Confidential, the leading college-bound website, which was acquired by Hobsons, a unit of UK-based DMGT, where Roger served as Vice President of Digital Marketing after the acquisition.   Roger's new book takes you step-by-step through the process of:

• Empowering frank conversations
• Guiding individual and team behaviors
• Getting ahead of friction
• Optimizing the customer experience
• Building a frictionless corporate culture

Combining scientific research with real-life examples of leaders who have conquered business friction, Roger shares with us his thoughts on how to identify roadblocks, alter them for the benefit of both business and customer, and create positive, lasting change.

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For the first 24 years of his life, Chris Rickerson’s future looked dim. He grew up in poverty, with a drug-addicted mother and drug demons of his own. Facing dire consequences, he turned his life around and, in 2013, started Elite Staffing Solutions, a Wichita, Kansas-based staffing company that lifts up people who are struggling as he once did.

We talk about;

• Growing up in a home with a drug addicted mother
• Chris’s own battles with substance abuse
• How his faith helped him turn his life around
• Why his firm doesn’t hesitate to hire those with similar backgrounds to Chris’s
• The keys to Elite Staffing Solutions rapid growth
• Mentors
• People over profit
• Advice to other entrepreneurs

Sponsor/Partnership:

TubeBuddy’s channel management browser plugin helps content creators, brands, and networks save time and grow their brands directly from within YouTube.

Other Links: This $3 Million Company Hires People Who Need a Second Chance. Because Its Founder Needed Help Once, Too. (INC article)

I had a fun and eye opening (or mind opening) discussion with Nir Eyal who blogged often about psychology and marketing which eventually brought him to the path of marrying the two and published a book called: Hooked – How to Build Habit-Forming Products. 

Hooked is a guide with a very insightful and simple thought system to building habit-forming products. If you’re a marketer, designer, entrepreneur and more, this is for you.

We discuss;

• What started his interest around the psychology around products.
• The ‘Habit Zone’ that’s outlined in his book and the four habits in the thought system.
• The key elements to consider when creating a product.
• And much more…

Also Read: Playing to the Addictive Tendencies of the Consumer

 

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul ~ Dieter Uchtdorf

That fully embodies Roberto Blake.”Create something awesome today.” Roberto Blake is the CEO and Creative Director of Create Awesome Media, LLC., where he develops and produces digital content and online media properties. Currently he is the host of a popular Creative Education Channel on YouTube, “Always Be Creating”. Roberto also host and co-produces the “Create Something Awesome Today Podcast”

Roberto Blake uses this tagline at the beginning of every video he creates, edits, and uploads on YouTube. He has a real passion for creative entrepreneurship and empowering others, and the community he’s built around his creative philosophy is a reflection of his commitment to his following.

Roberto and I discuss;

• How Roberto got his start in design and focus on being a “creative”
• How others can start in YouTube today and why it’s not saturated?
• What’s the future YouTube
• The next social media “thing” people and businesses should turn their attention to
• Tips for a budding vlogger to develop a strong relationship with followers?
• How to engage with followers in all three (Twitter / Instagram / YouTube) channels and platform he uses the most?
• The YouTubers and Bloggers that inspired him when he started and today
• and much more!

Sponsor/Partnership:

TubeBuddy’s channel management browser plugin helps content creators, brands, and networks save time and grow their brands directly from within YouTube.

Bailey Richert is Founder of Virtual Summit School and Host of the Infopreneur Summit. In this episode - we discuss what a virtual summit is, how to get started, tips on tech setup and general building awareness around your brand.   For years Bailey was caught up in the ‘rat race' as she followed what she was taught was the ‘right path' in life. A high school valedictorian and magna cum laude engineering university graduate, Bailey took a job for many years working the 9-to-5 consulting grind in California. The cubicle life would never allow her to achieve the dreams, goals and ambitions she had. So she decided to make a change and the journey began and continues today.   Bailey and I discuss;

• Her decision to leave the corporate world and why this may not be for everyone
• What and Why a Virtual Summit?
• Benefits she realized from hosting 4 virtual summits
• Steps to starting your own
• ROI on a virtual summit
• and much more...

 

Sponsor/Partnership

The Beginner’s Guide To Outsourcing Your Business: Find, Hire, and Build Your Team Virtually Today! $2.99 Ebook on Amazon. Step-by-step guide every entrepreneur needs to build his or her business with the asset of working with virtual employees. Focusing on business growth, giving you the time to work less in the business and more time working on the business.

Sword and Scale is a must-listen podcast for fans of true crime everywhere. Covering some of the most heartbreaking and tragic murder cases in modern history,   Mike Boudet the Creator and Host of this hit true-crime podcast clearly knows how to be a storyteller in the truest since. Mike and I sit down to discuss his career path; what brought him into podcasting, developing a hit show, dealing with controversy, and more.

• Making the transition into podcasting
• How Mike started in Podcasting and True Crime specifically
• The science behind research and storytelling
• Mental health and the impact in telling tragic stories of others
• Challenging parts starting a podcast and being in the limelight
• Hope for humanity
• Willingness to try new things

Mike's Blog: The TV show that never was.  

Sponsor/Partnership

The Beginner’s Guide To Outsourcing Your Business: Find, Hire, and Build Your Team Virtually Today! $2.99 Ebook on Amazon. Step-by-step guide every entrepreneur needs to build his or her business with the asset of working with virtual employees. Focusing on business growth, giving you the time to work less in the business and more time working on the business.

Kristen Hadeed imagines a world in which all organizations have cultures that empower people to keep climbing toward the best version of themselves every day. As the young leader of Student Maid, a successful cleaning company that hires students, Kristen has fostered a unique perspective on leadership, organizational culture and engaging the next generation.

In October 2017, she published her first book, "Permission To Screw Up," in which she tells the stories of her biggest mistakes in leadership. She hopes to inspire other leaders to share their "perfectly imperfect" stories of success to empower people with the knowledge that even if they screw up, they can still make it. Kristen and Student Maid have been featured in news outlets including PBS, FOX, Inc., TIME and Forbes. Her first TED Talk has received more than two million hits on YouTube.

Sponsor/Partnership:

Coinbase is a secure online platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing digital currency.

Other Links: What One CEO Did When 45 of Her Employees Quit (INC)