The Voluntary Life

Pete Sisco is an entrepreneur, blogger and author of The Freedom App. In this interview, Pete talks about his life as a perpetual traveller including:

• Long term travel with a family
• Self-publishing
• Passive income businesses
• Working with people all over the world
• Dealing with bureaucracies when travelling
• Perpetual travel as the ultimate personal freedom

Show Notes:

• Pete's website and blog
• The Freedom App book

An interview with Kevin Koskella, host of the Freedom Lovin' blog and podcast. Kevin talks about his life as a perpetual traveller. He explains his approach to funding a digital nomad lifestyle with online passive income businesses and shares some of the best and worst experiences of his permanent travel life!

This episode is an interview with strength trainer and youtube personality Elliott Hulse. In the interview Elliot talks about his approach to getting freedom by creating a non-job. Topics covered include:

• Growing up rebellious
• What it means to have a non job
• Sharing your ideas, even though you suck at first
• How to finance the early days of your non job
• Perseverance
• What to do if there is not much demand for what you are passionate about
• Being more expansive than your expertise

Show Notes

• Elliott's Youtube channel and Facebook Page
• Campaign For Non Jobs Website
• Previous TVL episodes on Unjobbing

Stephanie Murphy interviews Jake Desyllas on the Porc Therapy podcast. We talk about different strategies to escape the rat race, including unjobbing, intensive saving, passive income businesses and selling a business. The discussion focusses on some questions about pursuing financial freedom, including:

• What is financial freedom?
• College- is it worth it?
• Does having kids make financial freedom impossible?
• How does becoming a stay-at-home parent fit into the idea of quitting the rat race?
• Is "voluntary poverty" a viable strategy for financial freedom?
• Do you have to be a sleaze to start a passive income business?
• What's the role of Bitcoin in an investment strategy like the Permanent Portfolio?
• Why doesn't the Permanent Portfolio contain silver?
• How do intensive savers do it?

Show Notes:

• Episode 124 (Original Talk on Four Ways To Quit The Rat Race)
• Harry Browne's book on the Permanent Portfolio
• Early Retirement Extreme blog and book
• Mr Money Moustache

This episode is a recent interview about Getting Things Done that I did on the School Sucks Podcast. The discussion is with Brett Veinotte and here is his summary: "This is the sixth and final (for now) installment in a series of shows inspired by my experience with and successes after reading the book, Getting Things Done by David Allen. Jake Desyllas joins me to discuss his experience with GTD, and to share his Eight Tools For A Freed Mind."

The Question and Answer session from my talk about Four Ways To Quit The Rat Race. See Episode 124 for the main talk.

Audio from a presentation given at the 2013 Libertopia conference. The talk explains how I quit the rat race aged 38 and what I have learned about different ways that other people have found to do so. There are four basic ways to quit the rat race presented in the talk:

• Unjobbing
• Intensive Saving
• Passive Income
• Selling A Business

Show Notes:

• Michael Fogler's book Un-Jobbing
• Linda Breen Pierce's book Choosing Simplicity
• Elliot Hulse
• Your Money or Your Life
• Amy Dacyczyn's book The Complete Tightwad Gazette
• Early Retirement Extreme blog and book
• Mr Money Moustache
• Introduction to the Permanent Portfolio
• Smart Passive Income
• Tim Ferriss' blog and book The 4-Hour Workweek
• Laura Roeder
• Derek Sivers' book Anything You Want

A podcast mashup with Hannah Braime of Becoming Who You Are and Stephanie Murphy of Porc Therapy.

An episode about making conscious choices as an entrepreneur.

Entrepreneurs have to make hundreds of decisions about their businesses every day. It is easy to lose sight of which decisions are the really big ones- the ones that have huge repercussions. The big decisions are also an opportunity to express your individuality and creativity as an entrepreneur: to make a conscious choice about the purpose and design of your business. This podcast provides an overview of what the big decisions are:

1. Choosing your own goals and motives

Why am I an entrepreneur? What is my own motivation? What do I want? How do my motives for being an entrepreneur fit in with my vision for my life? I have found that being conscious about my own motivation is key to ensuring that I can gain fulfilment from being in business.

2. Choosing the purpose of the business

Why does my business exist? What's the purpose of the business? Deciding on a clear purpose for your business gives coherence to all your actions and decision. For me, that comes down to identifying what this business is going to do to provide value to others and make other people's lives better.

3 Choosing business partners

Am I going into business with others, or alone. Why? This choice has huge ramifications and it is extremely useful to be very conscious of why you are making any choices with regard to cofounders.

4. Choosing how to finance the venture

Why do I want funding? What am I going to do with it? It's easy to assume you need as much money as possible to start, but you have many choices as to how to approach financing the venture.

5. Choosing how to sell

How am I going to make money? Why will customers give me money? There is an interplay in this decision, as we all learn from customers as we come to understand their reasons for buying.

6. Choosing the design of your operation

How are we going to organise the work? Why are we working in this way? There is often a temptation to recreate the processes from your last job, however being a business owner gives you the opportunity to consciously design the workflow of your business.

7. Choosing your approach to profit

How much profit do I aim to make? How am I going to do it?

8. Choosing your approach to growth

How big do I want this business to be, and why? It's easy to assume that you want growth, but bigger means more complex.

9. Choosing how you will exit

How do you plan to exit the business? Everyone has to exit someday. Many entrepreneurs want to sell, but even those who don't will have to plan for some kind of exit, either through a succession plan or simply ceasing to trade one day.