As Told By Nomads

Today's Episode is with Lee Caraher. Lee Caraher is the CEO of Double Forte PR & Digital Marketing; an acclaimed communication strategist, she’s known for her practical solutions to big problems. Her company works with some of the top consumer and technology brands in the country. Lee’s the author of Millennials & Management based on her experience with failing and then succeeding at retaining Millennials.Her new book, The Boomerang Principle dives into how to inspire lifetime loyalty from your employees. Lee has a reputation for building cohesive, high producing teams who have fun together at the same time. We discuss the building blocks of personal branding, how to retain millennial employees and how to stand out in a crowded world. Resources Mentioned In The EpisodeThought Leader Academy: https://www.thoughtleaderprogram.com/courses/thoughtleaderacademyThe Boomerang Principle: Inspire Lifetime Loyalty from Your Employees: https://www.amazon.com/Boomerang-Principle-Inspire-Lifetime-Em

Today's episode is with Shayne Hughes and we talk about Ego. He believes that ego is single-handedly working sabotage our businesses every day. His expertise in creating cultures of open communication and collaboration has lead to substantial improvements in organizational and personal performance for such clients as Fairchild Semiconductor, NASA, Sandia National Laboratories, Shell Oil, and Encore Capital. He is also experienced in the complex dynamics of family businesses. Shayne and I discuss his new book Ego Free Leadership and ways to end the unconscious habits that can hijack businesses. I love the unique style this book is structured as it’s told from “two lively first-person perspectives.” The stories, all true, are woven quite effectively to help illustrate each of the authors’ points. If you’re looking to break some bad and unconscious leadership habits, it's definitely a book you should check out!Resources Mentioned In The Episode:Thought Leader Academy: https://www.thoughtleade

Today's interview is with David C. Baker. David is an entrepreneurial adviser and speaker who teaches us how to make a global impact through thought leadership and how to turn your competitors into an asset. He grew up with a tribe of Mayan Indians in a remote village in Guatemala and has worked and lived all over the world before finally settling down in Nashville, TN. He is also a regular speaker not only for TEDx, but for Harvard, Adobe, and other international conferences. His fifth book, The Business Of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight To Impact + Wealth teaches entrepreneurs how to elevate themselves and the world.David grew up with a tribe of Mayan Indians in a remote village in the highlands of Guatemala. He's a helicopter and airplane pilot, an avid photographer, and taught high performance motorcycle riding/racing. Based in Nashville, he has visited and worked all over the world. He is married, has two boys, two daughters-in-law, and multiple grandchildren.D

Today's interview is with the amazing Dr Perpetua Neo. Dr. Neo sorts out these blocks quickly and deeply— the Big Three of busy minds, toxic relationships and panic attacks, that most ignore. People come to her frustrated by how motivational seminars, self-help and meditation aren’t working. Dr Neo supports them to heal deeply first, because a tree can only soar as high as its roots are deep. Blending neuroscience/psychology and ancient wisdom, her once-overworked and perfectionist clients are charmed by how they start to love and respect themselves. So they not only look like they have it all, they feel and know that they have it all.Dr Neo’s also been spotlighted as an international expert on Forbes, Business Insider and ELLE, amongst others. She writes for The Huffington Post, MindBodyGreen and Thrive Global. Her work has been translated into 21 languages.Resources Mentioned In The Episode:Thought Leader Academy: https://www.thoughtleaderprogram.com/courses/thoughtleaderacademyDr. Neo's website: http:

Today's episode is with Meiyoko Taylor. In our world today, there are so many people currently living a life this not in alignment with their passion or purpose. They want to journey into a better life for themselves but they have no clue on where to begin. Meiyoko was one of them. After working at a job that made him miserable, financial hardships, an unhealthy relationship of 7 years, and declining health, he officially hit rock bottom. He knew something had to change. His quest for fulfillment, and happiness resulted in reading over 175 books, a catalog of over 300 audio cds/podcasts, and attending many workshops on Personal Development. He discovered the secret, he realized that your current state in life is a manifestation of your belief system. Success must first start from within. In order to institute this change, he had to re-wire his mindset and his emotions. This discovery allowed him to become successful in many areas of my life. Today he is a best-selling author, entrepreneur, and one of the

Today's interview is with Ryan O’Donnell. Ryan is the Co-Founder/CEO ​of two tech platforms used by thousands of companies, both large and small, for generating a consistent sales pipeline. SellHack is a Chrome browser extension to build targeted prospect lists and Replyify automatically sends out your cold emails so you’ll never forget to follow-up again.He is a growth marketer obsessed with helping sales professionals and business owners sell like a robot while still sounding like a human. Ryan implements the software platforms he’s built to consistently generate over $1M in revenue.After a quick stint on Wall St. where he cut his teeth making 500 calls a day as a broker, Ryan saw the opportunity in technology and has been building Internet businesses for the last 10 years. He is the former CEO of Sociagram and a Yahoo alum after a $680 million dollar acquisition of Right Media. We discuss:His entrepreneurship backgroundThe psychology behind sales emailsWhat he learned about himself

Today's interview is with Stephen Garten. He is doing something really unique with his company Charity Charge. With his company, they produce a card that steers 1 percent of all purchases to nonprofits of the customer's choice. The Charity Charge MasterCard issued by Commerce Bank is not limited to a single organization or cause — as with “affinity” cards — and there is no donation-processing fee, so recipient groups get the entire cash-back bonus. Consumers choose target charities when they sign up for the card and can change them at any time.According to Garten, he just wants to make doing good part of the routine of everyday living and i'll say he's doing a great job at it. Currently, in the United States of America, 200 million credit cardholders are better at accruing rewards than spending them. It has been reported that people are sitting on a whopping $16 billion worth of unused rewards points. Apparently, what motivates us to get cards in the first place isn’t the extras on offer. It’s the simple

Today's interview is with Donna Brown. Donna is a speaker, business mentor, creative and intuitive with over thirty years experience as a consultant in such diverse fields as fashion, interior and garden design, lifestyle, events, food service, publishing, tv, editorial projects, coaching and mentoring. With each client, whether foundation, entrepreneur or corporation, she provides long-term and profound visions of what they can become to truly fulfill their mission and purpose and with them creates the strategies and tactics to execute this vision.Her spiritual journey in Buddhist studies and her experience with corporate-based mindfulness have led her to realize her biggest successes in business stem from the combination of her spiritual practices, experience and strategy. It is this unique combination of business and awareness that represents the trend and shift for businesses of the future. Shifting the paradigms around business itself and her visionary strategy are the secret weapons she uses to unleash

Today's interview is with Scott Mautz. Scott Mautz is an award-winning keynote speaker, and the author of "Find the Fire - Ignite Your Inspiration - and Make Work Exciting Again". He's also author of "Make It Matter: How Managers Can Motivate by Creating Meaning" – a book that’s received many accolades including “The 2106 Leadership Book of the Year - First Runner Up”.He’s a Procter & Gamble veteran who successfully ran several of the company’s largest multi-billion dollar businesses, all while transforming organizational health scores along the way. He’s been named a “CEO Thought-leader” by The Chief Executives Guild and a "Top 50 Leadership Innovator" by Inc. Magazine, where he also writes a bi-weekly column for the national publication. Scott is an Adjunct Professor at Indiana University where he teaches others-oriented leadership and the secret to sustaining motivation.Scott’s also the CEO of Profound Performance LLC, a keynote and training company that helps you Work, Lead, & Live

Today's interview is with Mike Silberg. For the last 6 years, Mike has been working around Israel building High-Tech communities. He worked as a consultant at KPMG, he has built the Economic Growth Department at OR Movement, a large NPO, working on creating economic growth in peripheral areas in Israel. He launched and managed the Wework in Beer-Sheva (a small city in the Israeli Desert that is marked today as one of the future Cyber Innovation Capitals of the world) and in the last year he has been the Business Development and Community Director at Brooks-Keret, one of the largest Financial Management providers for startups in Israel and lead them, into working in Beer-Sheva. in his "free time", he is a lecturer at the Interdicplantary Center in Herzliya teaching students about Regional Business Development while they create strategic plans and assist MNCs to find opportunities in the Israeli periphery. Just this week he announced he is joining forces with Oren Simanian, the founder of St

For nearly three decades, English has been the lingua franca of cross-border organizations, yet studies on corporate language strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce. In her new book, The Language of Global Success, my guest today Tsedal Neeley provides an in-depth look at a single organization—the high-tech giant Rakuten—in the five years following its English lingua franca mandate. Neeley's behind-the-scenes account explores how language shapes the ways in which employees who work in global organizations communicate and negotiate linguistic and cultural differences. We discuss the following:Her new book: The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational OrganizationsHow to bring together a team whose members are geographically and culturally dispersed?How organizations can become more globalized How to overcome the challenges of cross-cultural communicationWhat about facilitating dialogue amongst individuals from people who fundamentally h

Today's interview is with Ash Kumra. He is the founder of Youngry: Youngry creates high-end viral content combined with a unique Mentorship App that provides bold yet easy to understand solutions on how to become a successful entrepreneur. We have now developed a 360 degree evolution track for new-age entrepreneurs to reach success and then provide Mentorship to the next generation of entrepreneurs.Ash is an award-winning entrepreneur, author, public speaker and talk show host. He has been recognized twice by the White House as an entrepreneur making an impact. We discuss what led to his current project is Youngry.com, his entrepreneurship background and his debut on Sony’s new business show, MEET THE DRAPERS. Stay tuned!Resources Mentioned In The EpisodeYoungry: https://youngry.com/TV Show: https://republic.co/youngry  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today's episode is with Stefan Pretty. He is an internet tech entrepreneur from Scotland with specialities in strategy, online inbound marketing, product, business development, UI design, backend development and subscription ecommerce. He made his first website at 12 years old and continued to develop those skills and teach himself design and coding. While he attended University of Glasgow to study Civil Engineering, he had side projects including:Unleashed: Student Pub Crawls for local students.YoudGetIt.com: An anonymous dating website which gained 200,000 visits in less than 2 weeks without any marketing spend.SocialWhispers.com: Social referral marketing tool where users can swap Facebook and Twitter posts for free content.He left university to pursue Pretty Klicks (PK) full time, eventually moving to Edinburgh where he grew PK by 400% within 1 year. He now works on Subbly full time as the CEO. Subbly has been mentioned on Product Hunt, Entrepreneur.com, Wired.com, USA Today, NPR and more. We ta

Today's interview is with Bri Seeley. She supports women around the world by helping them bring their visions to life. Bri is motivated by a deeply-held belief that every woman deserves to live a life that inspires her, and her work reflects this deep remembering that our desires are ultimately inevitable.Through her signature 6-month training Permission to Leap (plus best-selling book + podcast by the same name!) she will guide you through the process of leaping from the day you commit to your vision, all the way through each stage, up until the day you land softly on the other side of it all.A catalyst, speaker, and best-selling author, Bri is a regular contributor for The Huffington Post and Influencive and is known around the world for her compassionate, yet tell-it-like-it-is guidance that creates massive and epic changes in every woman she encounters. We discuss what has happened since she was last on the podcast and the incredible transformation sh

Today's interview is with marketing expert, best selling author and creative thinker Jeff Goins. Jeff presents a set of twelve easy-to-follow rules for artists to live by that translate artistic success to business success in his new book, Real Artists Don’t Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age.A sought-after keynote speaker with a reputation for challenging the status quo, in three years, Goins built a million-dollar business, published four books, and became an online marketing expert, using his skills in writing and business to help others [millenials] succeed. He is the author of four books, including The Art of Work, which landed on the bestseller lists of USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly, and The Washington Post.    We had an informative and intellectual discussion and Goins spoke on several topics including:Marketing, partnerships and the importance of collaborating for the sake of creativityHow success in business and in l

Today's interview is with Meredith Wood. Meredith is the Head of Content and Editor-in-Chief at Fundera, an online marketplace for small business loans. Prior to Fundera, Meredith was the CCO at Funding Gates. The content team which Meredith runs is Fundera's largest and most reliable customer acquisition channel. She has built Fundera's blog into the most heavily-trafficked blog on small business finance in the country, and has secured content partnerships with over 40 sites including Inc, Entrepreneur, and HuffPost.We talk about:What Fundera doesHer background and how she developed as an female entrepreneurThe different types of loans and why loans aren't always badWhy content should never be overlooked in a business.Resource Mentioned In This EpisodeFundera Website: https://www.fundera.com/  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Amazon’s new grocery store has no cashiers, no baggers, no clerks. Is the end of the US worker near?Amazon isn’t the only company experimenting with artificial intelligence doing every day jobs. Soon many white-collar jobs will also become automated. When it comes to smart machines, we can’t beat them and we can’t join them—so what does that mean for us?In today's interview, I talk to Ed Hess one of the co-authors of Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age. In the book, he along with his co-author Katherine Ludwig outline exactly what we need to do to excel in the smart age era, and Hess and Ludwig call it being “New Smart.” In this timely book, they offer detailed guidance for developing several New Smart attitude and the critical behaviors that will help adapt to the new realities of the workplace. Dr

Today's interview is with Eli David. As a digital nomad since 2010, he has been changing locations every 2 months. In that period he lived in dozens of countries, while founding several Startups. (More about his lifestyle can be read in the CNN article). Eli is the CEO and co-founder of StartupBlink.com, a global Startup ecosystem map mentioned by dozens of magazines including Forbes, The Next Web, and Business Insider.Over the past few years Eli has given lectures on entrepreneurship and the nomadic lifestyle in dozens of countries.Eli has also published several articles and was interviewed on major magazines in various countries such as T-portal, Huffington Post and Silicon Republic.Resources Mentioned In The EpisodeStartupBlink: StartupBlink.comBecomeNomad: http://becomenomad.com/  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today's interview is with Michelle Khouri. Michelle is a natural-born storyteller with a keen eye and inquisitive spirit. A lengthy career in communications gifted her with a mind for strategy and project management. Michelle is a PR veteran and magazine editor whose multidisciplinary communications experience includes planning complex, large-scale events, art directing photo shoots, hosting travel videos, leading media outreach campaigns, and creating thousands of pieces of content. A longtime writer, Michelle is passionate about uncovering hidden stories about the arts, culture and society.We discuss her thoughts on:Identity and how she found hersWhat it is like to be part of the first globalized generation en masseThe ups and downs of entrepreneurshipShe uses her difference to make a difference by using her kindness to be more accepting of different cultures in addition to using her mind as an insatiably curious storyteller to tell hidden stories. To find out more about her and her podcast, click on t

Today's episode is with Adda Birnir. A bit of background on Adda and her company—When Adda founded Skillcrush in 2012, she did it with one specific mission in mind: to give students the technical skills they need to enter high-earning and flexible careers. She’d spent the four years prior doing work in media that wasn't particularly interesting, and she noticed that some of her colleagues seemed to have it completely made. While Adda sat chained to a desk doing rote tasks, this group of mostly men had flexible schedules, the ability to work remotely, billed super high rates, and actually seemed fulfilled by their careers. They also had job security—something Adda definitely didn’t. She wanted in on whatever those guys had. It’s not a shock: They had tech skills. Adda taught herself to code and Skillcrush followed soon after (but not without a number of bumps along the way). A lot’s changed since then: In the last few years, Skillcrush's revenue has grown 4X and our company size has increased by at least