The Maverick Show: Global Travel Stories & Life Beyond Borders

Learn how deep work, daily routines, and time tracking can keep you productive while your location constantly changes.

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WiFi Tribe co-founder and CEO Diego Bejarano Gerke share his experience growing up in different countries around the world, his identity of being half Bolivian and half German, and what the concept of “home” means to him.  He talks about why he thinks Bolivia is the most under-rated country in South America, what it’s like to spend time there, and what it means to him. He then shares the story of co-founding WiFi Tribe, explains what the term “Tribe” means to him, and describes the WiFi Tribe community.  He explains how WiFi Tribe is actively attempting to diversify the program, how the community-wide value of “respect” is paramount, and describes the company’s feedback and redress mechanisms if any member feels unsafe or uncomfortable.  Diego then shares his #1 tip for remaining productive as a nomad and explains how to create productivity anchors that remain constant across changing locations.  He shares his morning routines, day structure, time-tracking techniques, and emphasizes the importance of noise-canceling headphones and daily ‘deep work’ sessions.  He shares his tips on finding love as a nomad and maintaining location-independent relationships. And, finally, he takes us behind the scenes of running WiFi Tribe, explains how he manages a fully-distributed staff, and which marketing techniques are currently most effective for the company.  He also clarifies how the WiFi Tribe interview process works for participants, describes the ‘chapter selection’ process for members to curate their own itinerary, and explains the virtual Slack Community.

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Hear how surviving political violence reshaped his ideas about privilege, impact, and designing a more intentional life.

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Jonathan Kalan takes us on his journey of international travel, journalism, entrepreneurship and co-founding “Unsettled”—a global travel community of 2,000+ people from 80+ countries who are redefining the terms of their own work and lifestyle.  Jonathan explains how, after college, he moved to Tanzania to open a pizza shop, and eventually transitioned into international journalism for major outlets like the BBC, Al Jazeera, and New York Times. After unexpectedly getting caught up in both the Egyptian coup in 2013 and the Al Shebab attack on the WestGate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, and seeing dozens of people get killed, he began heavily reflecting on his ‘privilege’ and how he could make the biggest impact on the world.  He tells the story of meeting his co-founder and ultimately doing a TED Residency to incubate the idea for his company “Unsettled”, and delivering a TED Talk at the end that. Jonathan then talks about the evolution of Unsettled, the steps taken to prioritize diversity and to ensure that participants are connected with locals in the ground, and how they facilitate that in places like Beirut, Lebanon. He then explains the types of travel experiences currently offered by Unsettled for one week, two weeks, and month-long durations.  He then explains Unsettled’s virtual “Lifestyle Incubator” program that helps participants audit themselves, envision their ideal career and lifestyle, and then create an achievable action plan with timeline and accountability mechanisms to achieve it.

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Learn how intentional guest curation, virtual connection, and distributed teams can turn co-living into real community.

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Liz Ribot shares her experience growing up in Puerto Rico, her travel journey, and ultimately co-founding Outsite—a global network of co-living spaces in some of the world’s most epic locations. She opens up about leaving her office job to pursue entrepreneurship, the importance of finding the right business partners, and then explains how the Outsite co-founders divide responsibilities and what her role as the COO entails. Liz explains the value proposition of Outsite and how their primary focus has shifted from “lifestyle design” to “building community”. She also explains how they screen guests, curate community, how their membership-subscription program works, how the virtual Outsite community arose and now thrives on the Slack platform, and what guests can expect when staying at an Outsite location. Liz also takes us behind the scenes of scaling the company and shares what it was like going through the “500 Startups” accelerator program, raising $3.5 million, opening 15 new locations in a single year, and what the #1 biggest business challenge has been for her throughout the process. She shares her top tips for productivity and stress management, and also shares her #1 hiring criteria. She then explains how she manages an internationally distributed team and coordinates project management across multiple continents and time zones. Liz then shares what travel means to her, how she structures her lifestyle as a location-independent business owner, and what the future holds for Outsite.

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Learn how keyword research, content gaps, internal links, and white-hat outreach can build sustainable search traffic.

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Bill Widmer takes us on his journey of growing up in Pennsylvania, deciding to nomad full time in an RV, and shares the pros and cons of RV travel life.  He also opens up about and failing at multiple business ventures and takes us through his biggest setback of losing 90% of his income overnight, hitting rock bottom, and what it took to emerge from that.  Bill then shares how he co-founded and built multiple 6-figure businesses, including The Wandering RV blog, with his wife Kayla, that now gets over 250,000 organic web visitors from Google per month and nets them a multiple 6-figure income.  Bill takes us behind the scenes and shares the specific tactics for how to master the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) game. He explains how to do keyword research the right way, assess “content gaps” with your competitors, best practices for creating a “skyscraper post”, how to optimize it.  He explains the “hub and spoke” model, how to use internal linking the right way, and how to use “latent semantic indexing”. He shares his 3 most effective tactics for conducting a “link building campaign”, both to get traffic to the site and to build domain authority. He explains the most highly leveraged activities you can use for SEO, based on where your domain authority currently lies and emphasizes the importance of “white hat” tactics for building consistent long-term traffic.  Bill also shares some personal reflections and tips for doing business with your spouse and how to separate the business from the relationship.

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Learn how reverse engineering, risk reduction, and brand positioning can make an unconventional business work remotely.

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Matt Bowles dissects the Maverick Investor Group business model and shares 5 tips for building a location independent business in a space that is not traditionally virtual.  He begins by explaining the importance of believing it can be done, ignoring the naysayers and perceived limitations, and surrounding yourself with or at least consuming content by people that have done similar things. Matt shares multiple examples of entrepreneurs interviewed on The Maverick Show that have built businesses with a location-independent infrastructure that many people initially thought was impossible to do.  He then talks about the importance of reverse engineering your business model to ensure you don’t make any geographically restrictive mistakes. Next, he talks about the importance of mitigating any additional perceived risk in the mind of the buyer, and then to go beyond that and to actually make your location independent infrastructure part of your value proposition and explain how it is advantageous to your buyer. Matt provides examples of how Maverick Investor Group does this with their buying opportunities for cash-flowing rental properties that people can buy in the most investor advantaged markets regardless of where they live. And finally, he talks about integrating your location independent lifestyle into your brand identity, using it to be more interesting than your competitors and also to establish affinities with other people that live or aspire to that lifestyle. 

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Learn how mindset, community, and remote work can help women of color create a move abroad aligned with personal goals.

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Sienna Brown shares her story of growing up in New York, starting to travel outside the US, falling in love with Spain, and her broader reflections on the process of self-discovery and re-discovery through travel.  She describes what she loves about Spain in general and shares the work she has done since 2014 in building Las Morenas de Espana (LMDES)–a community and online platform for women of color to redefine the narrative of what it means to be Black in Spain.  Sienna shares specific tips for women of color on traveling the world or moving abroad, including the importance of transcending white male representations of the ‘digital nomad’ lifestyle, navigating safety and discrimination concerns, and building community in local areas where you travel.  She also talks about her 8-week course “Master Your Move Abroad” which helps women of color get the confidence and clarity they need to score the remote work they want and identify the ideal lifestyle and location fit for themselves. She explains the importance of focusing on mindset, methodology, and motivation.  She then breaks down her I.S.S.I. the methodology used in the course that helps her students create lives with freedom and flexibility that is also aligned with their personal and professional goals.   Sienna also talks about “co-living” and her role as the Director of Marketing and Business Development at Sun & Co. in Javea, Spain.  She talks about the most effective marketing tactics that are working right now, how she balances her work at Sun & Co. with building LMDES, and how she optimizes her personal productivity and mitigates stress.

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Hear how getting fired at 30 sparked a radical career pivot and the values that shaped Matt’s life without a home base.

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In this wine-induced episode, the tables are turned and Maverick Show host Matt Bowles gets interviewed by Sean Tierney. Matt opens up about his personal journey, telling stories from back to high school when he became a hip hop DJ and then built a mobile DJ company as his first business.  He then pivoted and talks about how all of his academic background and professional work experience up until the age of 30 was in the non-profit advocacy space. He tells the story of the life-altering moment when he got fired from his office job at 30 years old, and on that day, decided to completely pivot again and start his own business.  He explains his process of recruiting the right business partners and then building Maverick Investor Group as a location-independent real estate investment company. He also shares his experience being a full-time digital nomad with no base and living in over 50 different countries since 2013. He reflects on the most important sustainability pillars for maintaining an itinerant lifestyle for so long and shares his passion for minimalist packing.  He explains how he travels the world for years with carry-on luggage only, including a podcasting studio, an espresso maker, and a Hugo Boss suit. Sean also pulls out some of Matt’s top travel adventures and, at the end of the interview, Sean tells Matt what is true super-power is!

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Learn the systems, tools, team roles, and workflows behind producing and distributing every Maverick Show episode today.

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Matt Bowles pulls back the curtain and explains how each element of The Maverick Show Podcast is produced, including the systems and processes as well as the specific vendors, software and equipment he uses.  He starts by sharing his techniques for finding high-quality guests for the show, how he builds rapport with them prior to the episode, how he preps them for the interview, and why he usually shares a bottle of wine with them when recording in person :).  He then shares all the specific audio equipment he uses, as well as the recording software he uses for both in-person and remote interviews. He shares how he had the cover art produced, how he had the professional intro and outro produced, and how he gets the episodes edited.  He also talks about the crucial role his Podcast Production Assistant Jayson plays in the operation and how he found, hired, and built systems for Jayson to run. He shares the podcast hosting service he uses to syndicate each episode to all the major podcast-listening platforms, and the software he uses to repurpose audio content into video format. He then shares how he produces the show notes page, including links from the episode, time-stamped show notes, and how he gets each interview professionally transcribed.  He also shares the podcasting educational community he joined and remains a part of today. Matt concludes with tips for aspiring podcasters about the elements that make a great podcast and announces the “Behind the Scenes” resource tab on The Maverick Show website that contains links to all of the equipment, software and vendors used to produce the show, which will remain continually updated over time.

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Learn how deep-focus work, phone separation, and healthy routines can boost productivity while minimizing daily stress.

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Chris Reynolds shares his journey from growing up in a farming community to attending business school to traveling the world full time as a location independent entrepreneur, podcast host, and high-performance coach.  He shares a number of productivity tips and the science behind them, including the importance of lifetime planning, work environment, deep-focus work, the keys to a productive day, and why it’s so important to physically separate yourself from your phone, not just silence the notifications.  He also talks about the importance of meditation, exercise, and nutrition in maintaining optimal mental, emotional and physical states to boost productivity and minimize stress. He then goes on to talk about his experience starting The Business Method Podcast and his biggest lessons learned after publishing over 400 episodes.  He even shares his #1 tip for growing a podcast audience. He then shares his reflections on being a full-time digital nomad for over 9 years, what travel means to him today and the keys for staying productive while traveling the world full time. Chris then talks about his live event, “Get Sh*t Done Live”, and explains how he works with clients as a high- performance coach.

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Learn how marketing psychology, relentless ad testing, and the right partnership fueled extraordinary business growth.

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Gavin Dantez tells his story growing up between Canada and Eretria, life lessons he learned in each country, and how his early entrepreneurial tendencies resulted in years of frustrating failures before he finally found the right direction and alignment.  Gavin explains how he discovered the right digital mentorship and was eventually able to self-audit his skills and find a business partner to complement his marketing expertise. He then describes the process of co-founding Magnet Mount and growing it from zero to $3 million in revenue in a single year and reflects on the primary leverage points he used to generate rapid growth.  He explains the importance of massive ad iterations, re-targeting, conversion psychology, behavioral response marketing, and other techniques he deployed to scale as fast as he did. He then talks about his “Limitless” masterclass, and how to hack and reprogram your own mind so that you can live life on your terms. He also talks about the importance of alignment between all aspects of life - work, play, social, fitness, etc. He shares his approach to health and fitness as well as his top productivity technique for achieving more in less time.  He then talks about the significance of lucid dreaming in his life and gives tips for beginners on how to start waking up inside your dreams. And, finally, Gavin shares his reflections on traveling to 40 countries and the importance of gaining multiple perspectives and developing true wisdom through travel.

→ Full show notes with direct links to everything discussed are available here.

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