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As Told By Nomads

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As Told By Nomads features interviews with changemakers, global nomads, Third Culture Kids, and entrepreneurs discussing what it takes to be better inclusive and global leaders.


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Episodes

103: Building a Business on Purpose Locally and Globally with Scott Beebe

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 intentional...

Nov 17, 201537 min

102: How to Find Your Persuasive Voice with Cindy Ashton

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 life...

Nov 12, 201553 min

101: How to Market to Women with Helen Roe

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...

Nov 10, 201546 min

100: Meet the Rocksons

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...

Nov 05, 20151 hr 29 min

099: Create A Vision Board For Success with Micha Mikailian

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 format...

Nov 03, 201527 min

098: How to Stand Out in a Crowd and Build Your Brand with Dorie Clark

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:...

Oct 29, 201530 min

097: Choose a Way with Chris Backe

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 s...

Oct 27, 201547 min

096: Ankur Nagpal: From International Student To Teaching Entrepreneurs

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:...

Oct 22, 201543 min

095: Chronically Driven-Real Stories That Inspire A Better World

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 mainst...

Oct 20, 201536 min

094: The World is Just One Global Community with Belinda Coker

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 ma...

Oct 15, 201537 min

093: Vinh Ly- From Private Jet Salesman to Being A Digital Nomad

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. Othe...

Oct 13, 201537 min

092: Selling Secrets For Non Sellers with Pat Helmers

Pat Helmers is the author of the Selling With Confidence sales system. He believes great sales is based on having the mindset “I’m here to help and add value”. He believes that anyone can become a skilled seller with their current personality. By drawing upon their passion for their business, they too can become a master seller. Pat is the host of the weekly Sales Babble podcast. He is a former Bell Labs software developer, inventor, account executive, and Vice President of Sales.? Website www.s...

Oct 08, 201539 min

091: Global Millennials with Oana Amaria

Oana Amaria is an intercultural trainer and organizational development consultant with a specialization in workforce development and over 7 years of international development experience in countries such as Ghana, India, Mexico, Romania, and China. She is an expert in leveraging technology and social media to achieve blended learning outcomes that go beyond a single classroom experience. She is a skilled presenter with extensive global experience in conducting high volume training, curriculum de...

Oct 06, 201540 min

090: Opportunistic Travel and the Digital Nomad Lifestyle with Evo Terra and Shiela Dee

Evo Terra and Sheila Dee describe themselves as opportunistic travelers. They are a couple of successful pros in their mid-40s who sold everything they had in January and are currently traveling the world -- wherever opportunity takes them.Because they've been on the bleeding edge of digital innovation since their early 20s, they're documenting their new lives as they live it, letting armchair travelers the world over live vicariously through them. This experiential style of travel and being dig...

Sep 29, 201525 min

089: Understanding Your Blind Spots And Brain Types with Michael Cooper

Michael Cooper is a business coach and facilitator with over 15 years of work with some of the most innovative and influential people on the planet. From years in software development building the first internet car ordering system to the first wireless web platform that enables everything on your smartphones today, to managing one of the very first user experience teams, to coaching TED Fellows in India, to coaching one of the Top 50 designers and advising one of the top 50 innovative companies...

Sep 24, 201537 min

088: Reclaiming Culture in Kiribati and Fiji with Janice Cantieri

Janice Cantieri is a Fulbright Scholar for National Geographic covering the people of Kiribati, an island that'll completely disappear in the next 50 years because of global warming. She's in Fiji now, speaking to the people who are from Kiribati but were forced to leave by the British in the 1940s. After this, she'll be heading to Kiribati to stay there for 9 months. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 22, 201529 min

087: Always Be Networking with Polygot Ivan Raiklin

Here's a crazy story for you!Last week at the Mid-Atlantic Conference I met a guy called Ivan Raiklin who had followed me on Twitter and Facebook a couple of days prior to us attending the conference.We shook hands and he proceeded to ask me what my podcast was about since we were at a podcasting conference. Naturally, I responded with "it's about nomads, people with global mindsets entrepreneurs and international business people and how they communicate across cultures professionally and profes...

Sep 17, 201533 min

086: How To Build A Business You Love And Still Travel The World

Today’s conversation is about building a location independent business you love and how to also enjoy the benefits of traveling. We discussed systems, mindsets and the importance of finding your true north.I want to give a special shout out to Isabelle Rizo of Bellavie , Sunni VonMutius ofWildflower Strategy and Chris Tyre of Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 15, 20151 hr 4 min

085: Bringing Business To The Inner City with Karim Webb and Edward Barnett

Meet Karim Webb and Edward Barnett of PCF Management, 2014 California Small Business of the Year Award winner and one that is sparking attention in struggling LA communities for being a fearless force of employment and opportunity for many who have lived too long without. For years businesses have been reluctant to move into inner city areas like South Central Los Angeles. Concerns like: can we make a profit, will we need to deal with vandalism, gangs, stealing, etc have plagued these areas, wit...

Sep 12, 201531 min

084: Building Your Freedom Business with Erlend Bakke

Erlend Bakke is a Norwegian serial entrepreneur, speaker, and #1 international bestselling author born in 1981 in London, UK. He currently owns the following three companies Mr. Outsource, 3sixty, and 3sixtyfactory. Erlend speaks on the topics of entrepreneurship with focus on how to automate and outsource your business to avoid the trap of becoming a business prisoner. He spends most of his time between London, Oslo, and Davao City in the Philippines, but is available to speak at venues all ove...

Sep 11, 201538 min

083: How To Build An App Without Any Coding Experience with Grant Glas

Grant Glas is the founder of App Press. After college, he was an art director building magazines. In 2010, when the iPad was first presented his mind lit up! He knew he wanted to build an iPad app. However he had two problems.One: He couldn't code.Two: He didn't know what to build.He enlisted the help of his eventual co-founder Kevin Smith who had created several iPhone apps at the time but he was still struggling with what kind of app to create. That's when his wife came home with an idea.A sim...

Sep 08, 201534 min

082: Planting People And Growing Justice with Artika Tyner

Dr. Artika R. Tyner is a passionate educator, author, sought after speaker, and advocate for justice. At the University of St. Thomas College of Education, Leadership & Counseling, Dr. Tyner serves as a public policy/leadership professor. She trains graduate students to serve as social engineers who create new inroads to justice and freedom.She is building a social change movement by reimagining education and reimagining the very essence of leadership. Her work is inspiring people across the...

Sep 01, 201534 min

081: The Benefits Of Owning an Online Investment and Building a Passive Income Stream with David New

David Newell is the Head of Brokerage at FEI where they help online business owners sell their businesses ($20K up to $5M) to investors.The niche has become increasingly popular with buyers online and offline in recent years as people discover the benefits of owning an online investment (passive, location-independent etc).David tends to focus on helping buyers understand the marketplace so he is a specialist in valuation, investment ideas and acquisition strategy.He is also the author of 2 e-boo...

Aug 26, 201526 min

080: Discover Your True North with Bill George

Bill George is the former Medtronic CEO, current senior fellow at the Harvard Business School and best-selling author of Authentic Leadership and the True North book series. Bill's latest book, Discover Your True North, was published by Wiley on August 10.Bill, also appears as a regular contributor on CNBC and sits on the boards of Goldman Sachs, Target, Novartis and the Mayo Clinic, is credited with having popularized the phrase "authentic leadership" to describe CEOs who are consistent and tru...

Aug 21, 201533 min

078: Remmi Smith: Cooking Her Way to the Top

Remmi Smith is a teen entrepreneur and celebrity chef whose products have appeared in Whole Foods, Reasor's and other upscale grocery storesDuring her 15 years on Earth, Remmi Smith has achieved more than most people do in their entire lifetime (let alone before they can legally drive). As the host of her own healthy cooking show, Cook Time with Remmi, she inspires children all over the country to live in wellness. Remmi's Italian salad dressing is sold at Whole Foods Market and other specialty ...

Aug 11, 201529 min

077: How to Achieve Global Dexterity with Andy Molinsky

Andy Molinsky is a Professor of International Management and Organizational Behavior at Brandeis University's International Business School, with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology. He is also the author of the new book Global Dexterity: How to Adapt Behavior Across Cultures Without Losing Yourself in the Process(Harvard Business Review Press). Andy received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and M.A. in Psychology from Harvard University. He also holds a Master's Degree in In...

Aug 04, 201535 min

076: 2 Billion Under 20- How 2 Entrepreneurs Are Building The Next Set Of Global Leaders

I first heard of 2 billion Under 20 when I met up with one of my good friends in New York City. he had told me he was involved in some cool projects with these group of change makers who were all 20 and under. I was 24 at the time but I knew I had to meet the people behind this movement so i asked for an introduction and the rest as they say is history. I met up with both Stacey and Jared separately and we quickly found that we had a lot of synergy. They both told me stories of a book that would...

Jul 28, 201532 min

075: Jeremy Hockenstein- Delivering Digital Content, Data and Research Worldwide

Jeremy Hockenstein is the co-founder and CEO of Digital Divide Data (DDD), an award-winning social enterprise that delivers digital content, data, and research services to clients worldwide, under an innovative model that employs talented youth from developing nations and low-income families. Jeremy’s mother is a holocaust survivor, which caused him to be deeply moved by the aftermath of the genocide in Cambodia and motivated him to incorporate social change to his core business. Prior to DDD, J...

Jul 21, 201529 min

074: Britt Hysen- The Voice Of Gen Y

Britt Hysen is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of MiLLENNiAL, a news and lifestyle brand highlighting global millennial leaders. From celebrities involved in causes to CEOs disrupting their industries, Britt focuses her stories on the social impact of the generation.Unlike most journalists, Britt began her professional career as an actor. While working on such productions as AMC’s Mad Men and Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, she attended Penn State University online, earning a degree in Busines...

Jul 14, 201537 min

073: How to Build Controllable, Repeatable, Scalable, Predictable Digital Sales With Your Business W

Shola is the world's #1 expert in CRSP™ – controllable, repeatable, scalable, predictable digital sales growth for leading authors, advisors and sellable companies. She has grown more than 3 companies by 10,000% in 5 years and her clients include market leading NY Times, USA Today and Amazon bestselling experts. Trained as an economist at Oxford University and Swarthmore, she began her career at Citigroup and the Corporate Executive Board (NYSE:EXBD). Her first online venture was acquired by Fre...

Jul 08, 201541 min
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