As Told By Nomads

Are you an expert in a particular field or an aspiring author who needs to put your idea into a book? Then Tucker Max is your guy. His company, Book in a Box has a process that can literally turn your idea into a book in less than 24 hours. In this episode, we discuss what it takes to be a thought leader, an influencer and a bestselling author. Some other things we discussed are: The top three reasons people want to write a bookThe difference with all the bestseller lists How to building your platform that influences the world ANDOur mutual love for Bill Simmons To get his newest book, click here. Tweetable from Tucker Max in the interview. "Being an entrepreneur is solving people's problems"  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ryan James lock is a highly sought after business consultant and personal success coach, helping clients to create bigger incomes and audiences from their work by packaging what they already know, raising their profile in the media and creating a solid brand around themselves and their work combining business consultancy, mind set coaching and personal mentoring. In the last two years alone, Ryan has:  Gone from a PR consultant in London to aninternational success coach, brand consultant and writerHad his work and advice featured in different media around the worldBeen chosen as a featured expert speaker on “The Brand Bazaar”Built up an international client base in 4 countriesTaught group training programs in New York based on his workBeen called “The ULTIMATE business coach for serious entrepreneurs” by Under30CEO.comMore than tripled his own income and salesLaunched digital products and programs based on his work for an international audience You can find out more about him on his website and catch...

Jim Pickell is the founder of HomeExchange.com. Jim is a serial entrepreneur and a recovering attorney. He left the corporate world and its rigid routines to seek out and collaborate with like-minded forward thinkers to create idea shifts that will change the world. That quest brought Jim to HomeExchange, first as a member and now as an integral part of the Team. Jim’s lifelong wanderlust has taken him to over thirty countries, including stints living in Japan, Mexico, Italy, and the UK. His wife, Ellie, is from Italy and their son Byron is named after one of their favorite destinations, Byron Bay, Australia. They most recently celebrated the birth of daughter Madison during a home exchange and IN their exchange home (a HomeExchange first!). That swap evolved into a long term stay and friendship with the owner, who raised her children in the same house. Jim and Ellie relish travel to where they can connect with the locals. HomeExchange has provided them not only access to beautiful homes, but to their...

Have you ever wanted to be likable? I'm sure many of you are nodding yes. Well you're in luck! I talk about that and ways to be the best version of yourself with Arel Moodie in today's episode. So who Is Arel Moodie? Arel Moodie is a national best selling author and has been a featured speaker at the White House and has been personally acknowledged for his work by President Obama. Inc. Magazine called Arel a “High-Energy, Motivator” and named him to their “30 Under 30 list” of top American entrepreneurs under 30 years old joining people like Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook. Essence Magazine said “Arel should be the poster boy for rags-to-riches stories…He is America’s Top Young Speaker.” Arel has been quoted in The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Forbes, Portfolio, Fox Small Business, Yahoo! Finance, & USA Today. Arel was named by the prestigious St. Gallen Symposium in Switzerland as one of the 100 Leaders of Tomorrow. Black Enterprise Magazine named Arel as one of their “Tycoons Under 35”. Arel...

Roshini Rajkumar is a keynote speaker, emcee, executive coach, talk show host and author. Roshini is the go-to person for individuals and teams who need to showcase powerful presence and command the moment. She is also an expert in communicating with millennials in the workplace. Some of what we talked about in today's interview were: How leaders can relate to millennial employees, whose culture is unlike any generation beforeWhy millennials are so driven to advance their careers and how to direct this energyCommunicating with millennials through the methods and styles they like bestUnderstanding the communication style of millennial women in particularThe professional values millennials care most about that affect how leaders and colleagues interact with them Roshini has coached the leadership of Fortune 500 companies like Bridgestone Americas, Minnesota Vikings and Minnesota Wild on better business communication. She is an adjunct professor of communications at St. Catherine University and is also a...

Ever since Laura  Roeder quit a design job and started her first business at age 22, she has been an entrepreneur since then and she's traveled the world (in fact  she met her husband on the road). She has launched successful businesses like B-School with Marie Forleo, and was even named a Top 100 Entrepreneur in America Under 30 a few years ago.  Now, Laura has pivoted her business to focus on Edgar, which was created out of a need Laura had in her own business to more effectively manage social media. Laura and her husband built Edgar from the ground up, have bootstrapped the entire way, and have spent the past year building a remote team and a really profitable business from scratch.  In this episode we discuss: The importance of content marketingRepurposing contentBuilding a company from the ground upFollowing your passionWhy you shouldn't delegate your core businessHow to build your teamWhy she loves the challenge of bootstrappingWhy Edgar is the best tool to manage all your...  See acast.c

Hetain Patel is an artist who makes photographs, videos, sculptures usually for galleries and theatres. His work has also appeared on the web, on television, in print, in housing estates, and behind toilet doors. Some of his works are in public and private collections in the U.K, China, India and U.S.A. In recent years, he has done Bruce Lee impersonations on stage at the Royal Opera House, completed commissions for Tate Modern and Southbank Centre, London, made a working class Transformer robot from an old Ford Fiesta (with his dad), designed part of a mini golf course for the Venice Biennale, toured his live performance, TEN, internationally (in English and French), made his first dance company work for Candoco, and was invited to do a TED talk which has since had over two million hits. He is interested in connecting marginalized identities with the mainstream in an effort to destabilize notions of authenticity and promote personal freedom. With an autobiographical starting point he uses humor and...

Kim Ades is president and founder of Frame of Mind Coaching and JournalEngine™ Software. Author, speaker, entrepreneur, coach, and mother of five, Kim is one of North America's foremost experts on coaching with a focus on mindset and thought mastery. By using her unique process of combining coaching with journaling, she works with clients who are intelligent, driven and ambitious, and helps them examine and shift their thinking in order to yield extraordinary results. Kim designed the Frame of Mind Coaching program to provide her clients with a powerful infrastructure where they could develop the skill of deliberate thought. Kim understands that the single greatest difference between those people who are stratospherically successful and everyone else is their thinking. She knows that we all have the propensity to shift our thinking and achieve success.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A couple of weeks ago you got to hear my mom and brothers talk about ways they found their cultural fit through all their travels. Today I talk to the man behind all those moves. My father. Upon completing his mandatory youth corps service in Nigeria, he decided to pursue a job as a diplomat. We dive into the step by step process he took to becoming a representative of Nigeria. He also discusses the moves we made growing up, things aspiring diplomats can work on and why Nigeria is a place foreign investors should look into. Catch the episode here or below  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today's interview is with Scott Beebe. He is the proprietor of My Business On Purpose; a multi-broadcast platform that equips, inspires, and mobilizes business professionals to live out their skill set to society. He is a strategist, teacher, and business coach.  He helps small business owners and organizational decision makers uncover things that they cannot see, and create game-changing strategies so they can take immediate action and live out their life and business with purpose and intentionality. The various broadcast mediums he uses are a once weekly interview-based podcast (The Business On Purpose Podcast with Scott Beebe), a blog posted multiple times weekly, daily social media posts, and a variety of other products and offerings to be provided in the coming year. Scott and his wife Ashley planted two Churches, pastored one of them, and have been working in rural Nigeria since 2005 building a platform for sustainable partnership with Nigerians through a variety of sectors including...  Se

Today's interview is with Cindy Ashton. Cindy is a speaking voice & presentation skills trainer, singer/entertainer and speaker with over 15 years experience touring & training all over North America, on multiple platforms. Rejecting the old model of posing and gesturing that turns people into robots, her work goes deep to get her clients to unleash their natural magnetism and connect authentically. She has received awards from both President Obama & the Queen of England for her lifetime of volunteerism and has appeared in multiple media including on the front page of the lifestyle section of the Times and in Performance Magazine alongside Donald Trump. To learn more about Cindy, click here. We talk about ways to network, interact with people and speak to audiences anywhere in the world. We discuss ways to elevate your presence and increase your influence. Check out the interview here or below.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Helen Roe is a marketing mentor for entrepreneurs. In particular, she works with men by helping them connect and market to women! She comes from a mass market global brand background and has made it her mission to help entrepreneurs and business owners understand how to reach this untapped demographic. Women are no longer a niche market. They ARE the market - making over 80% of ALL purchase decisions, including high tech products, luxury cars and financial services. In this episode we go over some steps to do just that and she touches on her Irish, Australian and French connections. As a gift to the audience she is offering 5 complimentary spots to men who want to Unlock what’s sabotaging the growth of your business so you can make space for real growthLearn how to take inspired action with simple strategies you can implement right nowGet clarity and direction on how to effectively reach more female buyers Take advantage of the opportunity here or take a look at her website.  See acast.com/priva

WOW!!! As Told By Nomads has 100 episodes! I can't believe it's believe we made it this far. It's been a little over a year since I started this podcast which of course led to UYD Media. One of the biggest requests I have gotten is to know more about my family and how we grew up across cultures so that's what this episode is about. I talk to my lovely mom and two younger brothers and we discuss ways we navigated across cultures. Don't worry I didn't leave my dad out. He'll be on the next episode (Didn't want to make it over two hours haha) Thank you for helping me reach this milestone. I love you all and here's to a hundred more! Listen here or below!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today's conversation is with Micha Mikailian. Micha has been a serial entrepreneur for the last 22 years, with 8 companies under his belt. He most recently Co-Founded Intently, a software platform that leverages virtual real estate to transform people's experiences with technology. It is a vision boarding application that deeply connects its users with their goals and intentions by replacing advertisements with pictures from their vision board.  Micha's specialties include business start-up formation and funding, venture capital, entrepreneurship, web based businesses, digital marketing, and leadership. Intently is an ad blocker that replaces the advertisements you see on the internet with the inspirational content of your choice. Traditional ad blockers simply replace ads with whitespace, which achieves the goal of removing pesky ads, but nothing more. Intently leverages the ad space by allowing you to see the images that inspire you to achieve your dreams, goals, and intentions. I just started using...

Dorie Clark is a marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker, and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, TIME, Entrepreneur, and the World Economic Forum blog. Recognized as a “branding expert” by the Associated Press, Fortune, and Inc. magazine, she is the author of Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013), which has been translated into Russian, Chinese, Arabic, French, Polish, and Thai. Her most recent book, Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It, was released by Portfolio/Penguin in April 2015. In this episode we talk about different ways to stand out, embrace your identity and be a thought leader.  Dorie's website.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Remember Chris Backe? He let us into his world about a few months ago when he was talking about his amazing blog. Now he has a new project called Choose a Way. Choose a Way™ guides are interactive travel guides to a world-famous city - like a choose-your-own-adventure book mashed-up with a travel guide. They bring a classic format into the 21st century, and let you call the shots every step of the way. With this project, he is giving listeners a chance to be official authors and a chance to make some money. Take a listen to the podcast here and find out how.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today’s guest is Ankur Nagpal from Teachable.com, an online platform that helps entrepreneurs launch and grow their online courses. In this episode, Ankur and I discuss what it was like for him living in Oman as an Indian, moving to the United States as an International and how he decided to break off as an entrepreneur. He also shares strategies for marketing and promoting your online course based on the actions of Teachable's most successful teacher entrepreneurs.  In This Episode, You'll Learn: How Ankur got his start as an entrepreneurWhy he created Teachable   Mistakes I made when I tried to launch my courseStrategies for growing and promoting your courseWhy you shouldn't price your online course based on the length of the content  You can follow Ankur on Twitter here. Thanks for Listening! Have some feedback you’d like to share? Leave a note in the comment section below! If you enjoyed this episode, please share it. Also, please leave a review for As Told By Nomads on iTunes!...  See aca

Today's interview is with digital innovation consultant Bhavani Esapathi. Bhavani is the founder of Chronically Driven,  a space where people with chronic conditions can transform their conditions into motivation for themselves and others by sharing their stories.  I loved conducting this interview because Bhavani did a great job of discussing how people from any walk of life, background or circumstance can live an extraordinary life if they shift their mindsets. Her mission is to change the mainstream narrative of those living with chronic conditions from ‘despite of’ to ‘because of’. She discusses how one's condition can empower one to achieve excellence.  Bhavani's Website Chronically Driven  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today's conversation is with Belinda Coker. Belinda is an entrepreneur that assists start-ups, entrepreneurs and existing companies negotiate production sourcing in China and Taiwan.   In 2004, she launched Envirosax, which eventually became the most renowned reusable bag globally.  The brand was successful in Australia, Canada Europe, and the USA. While she still designs and oversees manufacturing for Envirosax, she now runs Bellouco Consulting where she helps others negotiate the vast vortex of manufacturing in China.  It pains her to see young companies, with positive, energetic people behind some great ideas, get unstuck with dealing with unscrupulous suppliers - some of them even losing everything before they get started.   She also does a lot of charitable work one of them being the Rescue Mission for Children in Chang Rai in Thailand? We discuss her success with this company and some of the challenges that come with running a multinational company and what doing business in China is...  S

Vinh Ly is an Asian -French entrepreneur who used to be a private jet salesman traveling around the world who was also a contestant on the French version of the Apprentice. Now he is a digital nomad with a Conversion Optimization business. We talked about and what it was like leaving a prestigious corporate job to becoming an entrepreneur and nomad. Another thing we discussed was what it was like being raised by Asian parents in France and how that helped him improve his cultural flexibility.  Other fun facts about him: He is an Amazon best selling authorHe has practiced competitive Karate and Kung Fu for more than 20 yearsHe sometimes vouches for supervillains in superhero moviesHe hates running, but he still does it  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.