As Told By Nomads

Back at it again with cultural codes! We are continuing our series with cross cultural expert Andy Molinsky. Andy’s series is highlighting the cultural codes of 10 countries. The country of choice today is France. France has long been a global centre of art, science, and philosophy. It hosts Europe's fourth-largest number of cultural UNESCO World Heritage Sites and receives around 83 million foreign tourists annually, the most of any country in the world. France is a developed country with the world's sixth-largest economy by nominal GDP and ninth-largest by purchasing power parity. In terms of aggregate household wealth, it ranks fourth in the world. France performs well in international rankings of education, health care, life expectancy, and human development. France remains a great power in the world, being a founding member of the United Nations, where it serves as one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, and a founding and leading member state of the European Union (EU). Andy...

It's the 200th episode! And all I have to say is thank you! Thank you for listening. Thank you for sharing and thank you for all the feedback. Feels like just yesterday we were at 100 and boy, have things changed! I've learned that a lot of you care about how to use cross cultural skills to either build businesses and solve some of the world's biggest problems and so I have focused on doing that. Today's episode is a little different. It's a recent recent keynote I gave at the MAPCON conference on ways one can build community with storytelling & podcasting.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today's episode is with Santiago Prieto. Santiago is the co-founder of Punkpost, a service that mails beautifully handwritten cards for you as quick as texting. It's super simple: Choose a card. Add your message. Sit back and relax. A talented scriptist will pen your message and drop it in the mailbox within 24 hours. What's more? You can also add confetti bombs, photos, and emojis. Santiago and his wife Alexis started Punkpost to rebel against Facebook happy birthdays and SMS love notes. They want to to bring freedom, fun, and collaboration back to tangible written communication. So they created an app and invoked a community of artists to make mailing cards relevant to today’s interconnected societies. Punkpost: http://punkpost.co/ Really enjoyed hearing the story behind the company and I hope you do too.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Back at it again with cultural codes! We are continuing our series with cross cultural expert Andy Molinsky. Andy’s series is highlighting the cultural codes of 10 countries. The country of choice today is Great Britain. Great Britain, also known as Britain is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe. It is the largest island of Europe and the ninth-largest in the world. Politically, the island is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, with Great Britain constituting most of the United Kingdom's territory. Most of England, Scotland, and Wales are on the island, with their respective capital cities - London, Edinburgh, and Cardiff. The term Great Britain often extends to include surrounding islands that form part of England, Scotland, and Wales. He uses the following six-dimensional framework to capture the differences across cultures. Directness: How straightforwardly do people typically communicate in this...  See acas

Today's episode is with the author of The Successful Immigrant: How To Land Your Next 6 Figure Dream Job in The United States. Why is she so passionate about helping immigrants land their dream jobs in the US? 16 years ago, she came to the US not knowing a word of English–she only knew how to shake and nod. She was the ONLY immigrant in the Catholic school she came to in the US, there were no ESL classes, she was held back a grade, and it was sink or swim time. Within 2 years, she skipped a grade and she made it to all honors and AP classes in high school, and went to UC Berkeley for college because she refuses to settle for anything but the best. A month after graduation, she remembers sitting on the floor of her apartment without a single job interview, thinking “What the hell happened?” She decided it was again crunch time. She personally emailed 100 CEOs and got 90 rejections, 10 interviews, 2 offers, and accepted a job as a business analyst with zero experience and no internships during all 4...

Back at it again with cultural codes! We are continuing our series with cross cultural expert Andy Molinsky. Andy’s series is highlighting the cultural codes of 10 countries. The country of choice today is India. India is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country (with over 1.2 billion people), and the most populous democracy in the world. India's capital is New Delhi; other metropolises include Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Kolkata. Following market-based economic reforms in 1991, India became one of the fastest-growing major economies; it is considered a newly industrialized country. However, it continues to face the challenges of poverty, corruption, malnutrition and inadequate public healthcare. India is a federal republic governed under a parliamentary system and consists of 29 states and 7 union territories. India is a pluralistic, multilingual, and a multi-ethnic society. It is also home to a diversity of wildlife in a variety of protected...

Today's episode is with Rachel Smets. Born and raised in Belgium, where she returns often for family visits, she currently resides in the Netherlands. She left Belgium in her mid 20’s and moved to Spain where she landed her first job abroad. This was the beginning of her exciting journey, filled with challenges, learning curves, more moves, new jobs, new people, but never a dull moment. Every move gave her the opportunity to immerse herself in a different language and culture. Each place she has lived has taught her so much and the adventure has enriched her life. Rachel Smets is founder of RachelSmets.com. A life coach, as well as teaching 6 different conversational languages, and delivering multi-cultural business trainings. Her expertise comes from living in several countries, where she worked mostly in the corporate world. Passionate about people and cultures, she has terrific networking skills, which she has used over and over again to integrate in new countries. It has benefited her social life and...

Back at it again with cultural codes! We are continuing our series with cross cultural expert Andy Molinsky. Andy's series is highlighting the cultural codes of 10 countries. The country of choice today is Japan. Japan is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean with dense cities, imperial palaces, mountainous national parks and thousands of shrines and temples. Shinkansen bullet trains connect the main islands of Kyushu (with Okinawa's subtropical beaches), Honshu (home to Tokyo and Hiroshima’s atomic-bomb memorial) and Hokkaido (famous for skiing). Tokyo, the capital, is known for skyscrapers, shopping and pop culture. Capital: Tokyo. He uses the following six-dimensional framework to capture the differences across cultures. Directness: How straightforwardly do people typically communicate in this culture? Enthusiasm: How much positive emotion and energy do they typically show? Formality: How much deference and respect do people typically demonstrate? Assertiveness: How strongly do people typically...

Hola UYDers! Glad to be with you for another week. Today's episode is with my buddy Charles Davis. We met when I was hosting this NowThis News segment on Black Lives Matter (https://www.facebook.com/NowThisNews/videos/1113663612057095/). He stood out to me then and I knew I had to have him on the show. But before we dive into the topics of today's show, let me introduce you to him. Currently, Charles is the Director of Higher Education Research and Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania Center for the Study of Race & Equity in Education. As the director, he is primarily responsible for managing their portfolio of postsecondary services to include campus climate assessments, diversity trainings and workshops, executive education programs, equity institutes and other professional learning experiences for college faculty and administrators, and commissioned studies related to equity issues in higher education. His own scholarly research broadly examines the use of digital media in contemporary... &#

Today, we are continuing our series with cross cultural expert Andy Molinsky. If you remember from last week, Andy's series is highlighting the cultural codes of 10 countries. The country of choice today is South Korea. South Korea is highly urbanized at 92%, South Koreans lead a distinctive urban lifestyle; half of them live in high-rises concentrated in the Seoul Capital Area with 25 million residents and the world's sixth leading global city with the fourth largest economy. He uses the following six-dimensional framework to capture the differences across cultures. Directness: How straightforwardly do people typically communicate in this culture? Enthusiasm: How much positive emotion and energy do they typically show? Formality: How much deference and respect do people typically demonstrate? Assertiveness: How strongly do people typically express voice their opinions? Self-Promotion: How acceptable is it for people to speak about their accomplishments? Personal Disclosure: How much do people... &nb

Today's interview is with Mathilde Caraccio. She is of Italian and French descent and has lived in Singapore and France so she has constantly been in in between different cultures. She is one of the founders of the Third Culture Kid Project. It is a project aimed at strengthening the community of Third Culture Kids (TCKs) around the world. Through her own experience, she found that there is not enough emphasis on the loss TCKs experience with each move so she has been focused on fixing that problem. By sharing stories from TCKs around the world, she hopes to bring answers and relief to other TCKs. For non-TCKs, she wants to raise awareness. We tackle all these issues and more. To find out more about her project, check out her website here: www.thethirdculturekidproject.wordpress.com. To catch the segment I did with NowThis News that I was discussing on the podcast, take a look here: www.facebook.com/NowThisNews/videos/1157916740965115/ >> WEBSITE: www.thethirdculturekidproject.wordpress.com >>... &

Today's episode of As Told By Nomads is a special one as it is with cross cultural expert Andy Molinsky. Many of you will remember him from Episode 77 when he discussed Global Dexterity. Today's episode is the first part of a ten episode series highlighting the cultural codes of 10 countries. According to Andy: Most of us collaborate with teams across borders and cultures on a regular basis, whether we spend our time in the office or out on the road. And when we do, it’s essential to have a quick sense of the “code” of the new culture we’re operating in. With this in mind he developed an e-book that provides a executive summary of 10 different cultural codes that you can download here. He uses the following six-dimensional framework to capture the differences across cultures. Directness: How straightforwardly do people typically communicate in this culture? Enthusiasm: How much positive emotion and energy do they typically show? Formality: How much deference and respect do people typically...  S

What’s the purpose of your job? If you believe that your sole purpose is to make money, then you’re cheating yourself, and your team, out of a meaningful experience. This interview is for leaders and aspiring leaders who want to improve their results and job satisfaction. In this interview, I talk to Lisa McLeod about: Why purpose-driven organizations outperform the market by over 350% Why the traditional language of business unintentionally sabotages purpose and innovation. Why pursuing profit results in mediocrity How to reclaim your sense of purpose to make your job more meaningful, productive, and dare we say it, fun. Lisa McLeod is a sales leadership expert and best selling author. Her newest book, Selling with Noble Purpose, hit the bestseller list within one month of publication. A sought after keynote speaker, McLeod’s clients include Apple, Google, Kimberly-Clark and Pfizer. She also works with numerous franchise organizations, non-profits, and trade associations. McLeod writes leadership...

In the era of the millennial, Ranker.com has created a way to have the public’s voice heard in a fun interactive way that allows the public to create and vote on topics including “The Druggiest Rockstar of All Time,” “Best All Time Movie,” “Best College Football Coach,” and 11,000 more fun polls. They have 35-million unique visitors per month, and average 11-million votes a month on topics ranging from entertainment, pop culture, politics, gaming and more. In doing so, they have brought Silicon Valley to their Los Angeles headquarters while establishing themselves as the go-to company for crowd sourced data and rankings that speak to pop culture while giving a voice to today’s generation using up-to-date methods…the internet. Today, I have with me Clark Benson, the CEO of Ranker and we discuss his startup success and failures and how he is essentially using social media and crowdsourced data to tell a story and express public opinion in a way that is not “all about me” as other platforms have become. ...

Don’t repay evil for evil. Don’t retaliate with insults when people insult you. Instead, pay them back with a blessing. That is what God has called you to do, and he will bless you for it  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today is Gender Equality Day but we are very far from actual equality so here are my thought on why men need to step up and bridge the gap.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today's interview is with Craig Ballantyne. Craig is an expert in personal development, productivity & transformation. He is also the author of The Perfect Day Formula: How to Own the Day and Control Your Life. His book is so fascinating to me that I spent 30 minutes picking his brain on systems we can set up to have a more productive day and what I got out of it was incredible. We talked about how to go from feeling stuck and simply going through the motions to feeling unstoppable and having The Perfect Day. Other things we discussed are as follows: The Perfect Day Formula The 3-C formula and how it works The 5 pillars of personal transformation Make sure to grab the book here: https://www.amazon.com/The-Perfect-Day-Formula-Control-ebook/dp/B01BERZSRW. He's on Twitter at https://twitter.com/craigballantyne and you can grab your perfect day kit here at http://www.earlytorise.com/perfectday/index_friends.html?utm_ad=29222&utm_placement=3&utm_medium=7&ls=102b4e9cf866bfbb660f0cb34fb0a5 &#

Today's episode is with Jason Will. Jason will grew up in an entrepreneurial family who stressed the importance of customer service and communication. Therefore, those principles have been ingrained in him from an early age. Over the past 10 years, he has successfully worked as a social media and technology consultant, freelance writer, speaker and advisor. A few things became clear over the course of time: building personal brands, teams and companies were the fueling elements of his passion. If you ask him, he'll tell you that Content marketing is greater than social selling ALWAYS. We discuss how he used his level of self awareness to pursue a passion and how he is helping influencers monetize their social media presence across cultures with Zipkick. Zipkick is a perfect representation of all the things that make him happy. It is a community driven by friendship and a love for food, drinks and the ability to discover new places. Due to having a global network, he can quickly help scale personal...

Today's interview is with Paul MacAlindin. Paul discovered from an early age that he loved being an artist leading artists. As a musician, dancer and all-round performer, he found his voice through conducting, a passionate journey that has led him to work with orchestras and ensembles all over the world, from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra to the Armenian Philharmonic to the Düsseldorf Symphoniker. Today is the launch of his amazing book Upbeat: The Story of the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq. The story of the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq as told by Paul from its inception to its eventual end. The NYOI came through the most difficult and dangerous of times to produce fine music not only in Iraq but also in Britain, Germany and France. A beacon of hope and achievement the young musicians and their tutors made bridges across their own ethnic divisions, made great music in the most trying and tragic of circumstances, and became their country’s best ambassadors in 5000 years. Here's him in a... &

I interview Kate Sweetman on today's episode . She is the co-founding partner at SweetmanCragun (http://www.sweetmancragun.com/), a global management consulting, training, and coaching firm. She is an expert on the new competency of Reinvention — the ability to create “quantum individual and organizational change accelerated.” Together with her co-founder, Shane Cragun, they have helped leaders, teams, and organizations around the globe increase performance dramatically and today she is sharing their forward-thinking, yet easily applicable guidance for Reinventing proactively, rapidly, and successfully in their new book, Reinvention: Accelerating Results in the Age of Disruption. In our interview, we discuss all this in further detail: The opportunity to proactively leverage disruptive events in an effort to leapfrog the competition and actually accelerate results. The danger and threat of the Six Deadly Blindfolds that leaders and organizations often wear that result in vision loss when dealing... &#