In 2015, Diania Merriam discovered the Mr. Money Mustache blog about financial independence and reading it was like a refreshing punch in the face. At the time, she was living in NYC and $30k in debt. She got out of that debt in 11 months and started saving 60% of her income. This newfound grip on her finances gave her a huge boost of confidence to pursue goals that previously felt out of reach. In 2017, she moved to Cincinnati after negotiating a remote working arrangement with her employer.  

She then took a 2 month unpaid sabbatical to walk the Camino de Santiago (a 500 mile trek across northern Spain). She also bought a house, adopted a dog, and found herself a midwestern gentleman.  Diania founded EconoMe, a one day event at the University of Cincinnati on March 7th, 2020, to make the ideas that inspired her more accessible to others.

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For the re-launch of the Boundless podcast, I'm releasing a previously Patreon-only audio discussion of a piece I wrote - Crisis at Work - which was published in the fall of 2017. 

*You can read the piece here*: Crisis At Work

I talk through six key reasons why organizational fail to unlock human potential:

1. We're defaulting to the wrong goals (shareholder value)
2. We're mistaking authority for performance (the Tom Brady principle)
3. We aren't providing a connection to purpose
4. We don't understand how organizations operate (Chaos theory)
5. We aren't giving people autonomy
6. We're choosing comfort over growth

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Amir Salihefendić is the Founder and CEO of Doist, a fully distributed, remote company that creates productivity tools (Todoist & Twist). We dive into his story of moving from Bosnia to Denmark as a child and how he started Doist while in college.  He’s built a growing technology company in a fully remote setting, often experimenting with different ways of working and sharing the thinking behind the decisions as he goes on the doist blog as a major supporter of the remote work movement.

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Moataz Ahmed otherwise known as “motizzy” is a graphic designer, consultant and hand lettering artist.  He recently published Part 1 of his book titled, “Lazy Person’s Guide to Freedom” and we talked about his journey and book in this conversation.

We also talk about:

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I connected with Visa on twitter, where he’s made many friends over the past several years. I wanted to interview Visa to talk about his leap to self-employment over the past couple of years, but we talked about so much more. We talk about:

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Alex Pang is the author of Rest about how you can do more while working less and is author of the forthcoming Shorter, which shares stories of companies that have shifted to a four day workweek.

Hear about Alex's own sabbatical, how he changed his relationship to rest and what he's learning now.

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I'm experimenting with some shorter episodes where I explore side hustles and creative experiments with people taking action on experiments they are excited about.  

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I had a 2nd conversation with Stephen about the phases and emotional experiences of what a shift looks like.  He's coached hundreds of people so has a good understanding of what people typically face.

I created this as part of my curious exploration of making sense of what it takes to reinvent in the modern world.

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Andy Sparks founded a company called Holloway, which is trying to solve the problem of sharing knowledge online.  He shared how his startup is trying to combine beauty, writing & deep knowledge to complex topics like Venture Capital and Hiring.  

We talk about his journey, how he started writing, the professor that changed his life in college and how his father has influenced his approach to work & life.  He also shares how he thinks about "a lake" as a metaphor for life and how he stays in touch with friends in a vulnerable way.

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" coworking at its best isn’t an occupancy based business at all. If the only time your members can get value from their membership is when they’re in the room, you’re limiting the potential of your community "

Alex Hillman runs one of the longest running co-working spaces in the world - Indy Hall - in Philadelphia.  He thinks the word "coworking" has lost some of its meaning and that many companies are running "spreadsheet businesses" rather than cultivating community.

"That level of dependence on a single employer is brittle at best and dangerous at worst. And that single source of 50,000 jobs being Amazon, who is notoriously one of the most ruthless businesses in the world, is the WORST worst way to generate those jobs. "

We also dive into Alex's working model of a new project, the 10k independents project.  Hear about why he thinks self-sufficient independents are better than Amazon (I tend to agree)

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