“Why don’t we just build the world we want to live in rather than try to change the current legacy systems that oppress us?” – Ashe Oro Today’s guest on the Art of Adventure podcast is the fascinating Ashe Oro, founder of Liberty Entrepreneurs . He is a thought leader, entrepreneur, engineer, and crypto-economist. Ashe Oro graduated as an engineer and started working for the government. After deciding that he needed to move into the private sector, he joined the banking industry. It is his exper...
Jun 28, 2018•1 hr 5 min
Superconductors is coming out July 2018 and I wanted share with you the two-year process that led to this book being published. I'll walk you through the development and writing process of the book up until launch, highlighting the key points along the way. This is my first solo book, and first time working with the publishing industry, so this is just one example of how the process might work for you if you want to publish a book. Timeline: * In his podcast interview , JG Francouer suggests I h...
Jun 26, 2018•17 min
“I don’t take no for an answer, I keep going back in.” – John Abbott Today’s guest on the Art of Adventure podcast is a thought leader, mentor, writer, entrepreneur, world-traveler and adventurer, John Abbott. John wants to show others how through the act of giving we can positively impact the world. John is on a mission to awaken people to their power and to create a positive change on our planet. He discuses the Giving Model and shares how this technique is not only good for business, but a gr...
Jun 12, 2018•1 hr 1 min
Recently, I took a group of entrepreneurs on AdventureQuest to climb Mt. Batukaru, the second highest volcano in Bali. It was an epic 10 hour trek to the top, through 4 different types of forests. We got back to our van after dark, using the lights from our phones to guide us. For many it was one of the hardest physical things they had ever done. We spent time on the hike thinking of analogies for how climbing a volcano (or mountain) is like being an entrepreneur: * You can't get to the top if y...
Jun 08, 2018•14 min
“Our desire to understand other cultures is rooted in our desire to know ourselves better.” – Antesa Jensen Today’s guest on the Art of Adventure podcast is the fascinating and articulate Antesa Jensen. She is a speaker, coach, and emotional intelligence expert. She runs adventure retreats and also the website, Adventure Awake. The experiences Antesa has gained from her travels has awakened her self-awareness. She considers travelling as a trigger to self-awareness, and that it opens our eyes to...
Jun 05, 2018•56 min
At the end of 2017, we purchased our first Airbnb investment property in St. Louis, Missouri, and this episode is all about how we found the right house and how we run the business! Want to check out our AirBnb listing or come stay at our place? Here is is our house on AirBNB We plan on returning to St. Louis to live in the house for half of each year I have some friends that already have invested in Airbnb properties, mostly other digital nomads as well. One of them even has a podcast and has b...
May 30, 2018•10 min
“We are all on the same level. It’s only the perception that you are not on that level, is the only reason why you are not on that level.” – Chase Boehringer Today’s guest on the Art of Adventure podcast is Chase Boehringer, founder and creator of the Bucketlist Lifestyle . Chase is a returning guest and a good friend of mine. We have met up a couple of times in different continents and we run a similar lifestyle – coaching and leading adventure trips. Chase has great travel instincts. His invol...
May 25, 2018•1 hr 3 min
I just finished running this year's AdventureQuest Bali , and if you are curious what it takes to put on an adventure or business retreat (our was both), here is your guide! What you will learn in this episode: * Finding a location * Setting your schedule * Using an assistant * Determining your budget/profitability * Filling the retreat * Bringing in guest presenters/speakers * Long term profitability options * Scouting adventures Canyoning!...
May 22, 2018•16 min
“What you focus on most becomes your reality.” - John Logar Today’s guest on the Art of Adventure podcast is John Logar, a speaker and consultant for consultants. He is a digital nomad who travels in style and luxury. He goes where his market is and helps people grow their coaching consulting businesses. I met John at a mastermind event I attended in San Diego in 2017 and right away realized how he can simplify things for his clients and make them more money. I hear his voice in my head telling ...
May 20, 2018•41 min
Two weeks ago a friend was visiting us in Bali from the states and I had a limited window of opportunity to take them around the island, so I planned a 24 hour adventure. We started in Ubud, Bali and took a road trip on our scooters, never going farther than 25 miles from home. In this episode, I'll tell you how it all went down! What we crammed into 24 hours in Bali: * Visited the Sangeh Sacred Monkey forest * Sunset walk in the Jatiluwih UNESCO world heritage rice terraces * Glamping at Sang G...
May 05, 2018•10 min
“My brain is out there for people to see.” – Robin Farmanfarmaian Today’s on the Art of Adventure, Robin Farmanfarmaian returns for her second appearnace! Robin is a strategic thought leader, international speaker, best-selling author, and medical futurist. She is an Angel investor, vice president of several companies, has raised millions of dollars, and is a TED conference donor. Robin is considered as one of the widely known preeminent thought leaders in the medical technology space. She inten...
Apr 18, 2018•54 min
When you live in Indonesia, you often have to leave the country for a "Visa Run" to reinstate your visa eligibility. So recently we flew for a few days to the Malaysian island of Langkawi We stayed at the totally rad and unique resorts called Temple Tree , which is linked to Bon Ton Resort Temple Tree's rooms are actually a collection of heritage colonial houses from around Malaysia. We stayed in the "Colonial House", which was built by Arab goldsmiths in Penang, nearly 100 years ago. Our room w...
Apr 15, 2018•9 min
“You have to put in all of the work to get the result.” – Jordan Harbinger Today’s guest on the Art of Adventure podcast is Jordan Harbinger, one of the best long form interviewers in the world, and the host of the new Jordan Harbinger Show Jordan recently split with and can no longer access his former podcast, the Art of Charm. Over the past ten years, Art of Charm became one of the biggest podcasts in the world, with over 4 million downloads per month. But after the split then Jordan was left ...
Apr 11, 2018•59 min
After more than two years of writing, research, and editing, I recently finished writing Superconductors , one of the hardest things I have ever done. I started thinking about all the successes I have achieved, especially the multi year endeavors, and looking at patterns or what led to successful out comes. Here are some of the keys to doing really big hard long term projects: * Set a clear deadline. It could be draining to not know when something would end. Setting a clear deadline in reaching ...
Apr 07, 2018•9 min
Last week, I got up at 4:30 in the morning to go photograph a volcano. I had to climb a mountain, another volcano that was opposite this one, Mount Agung, to get there. Mount Agung is the one that recently erupted, by the way. I wanted to get a photo of this volcano at sunrise before it was surrounded in clouds and shoot the photo through a temple gate. That’s actually very photogenic and that’s how I found out about this location in the first place. It’s a very magical, serene, and spiritual lo...
Apr 06, 2018•6 min
“Resilience is what we draw upon inside ourselves that help us recover from the worst day of our life.” – Rick Hanson Today’s guest on the Art of Adventure podcast is Rick Hanson, PhD, NYT bestselling author, adventurer, and clinical psychologist. His latest work, one co-written with his son, is called Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness . Rick describes this latest and fifth book as experiential. Resilient discusses experiences in mindfulness, compassion, ...
Mar 28, 2018•1 hr 2 min
“The best way to be your own brand is to just literally be yourself constantly.” – Emily Utter Today’s guest on the Art of Adventure podcast is Emily Utter, mypersonal business coach, who is back on the show for her second appearance. Emily attract clients who vibe with her. She shares that she likes clients who actually want to be coached and have a passion to learn. She likes creating big results. Although she also attracts rebels, she sees this as a challenge because she looks for that person...
Mar 21, 2018•57 min
“Doing something within your skillset to help your cause is incredibly valuable” – Amy Freeman Today’s guests on the Art of Adventure podcast are Dave and Amy Freeman, speakers, writers, educators, advocates, and adventurers. The couple spent a year in the wilderness in the Boundary Waters as an expression of their fight for clean waters. The Minnesotan couple also runs the Wilderness Classroom, where they introduce kids to wild places and unique cultures through their educational programs. They...
Mar 15, 2018•1 hr 3 min
Lots of people have been asking for specifics: how do you travel with your family? In this solo round episodes, I go into details about how we lived in 10 countries in the last year with our family. Bali! Country #10 as a family Travelling with your family is definitely different compared to travelling solo. When you are with your family, you want some degree of safety and comfort, and a lot of other considerations. Me and my family have been to twelve countries in the first fifteen months since...
Mar 11, 2018•16 min
“If you’re not growing, then what’s the point?” – Brendan Leonard Today’s guest on the Art of Adventure podcast is Brendan Leonard, a writer and a creator whose work mostly centers on adventure and travel. He runs a website, the Semi-Rad, where he shares his enthusiasm for being outside and in his words, it’s a “web site for those of us crushing it, kind of”. Brendan is a funny and creative guy who writes a comic on Instagram. He is also currently expanding on film. In this episode, Brendan shar...
Feb 28, 2018•54 min
The Art of Adventure is celebrating 200 episodes! It's be an amazing journey, and I wanted to do something a little different for this episode - an adventure radio hour. I've collected some of the wildest and most remarkable tales of adventure from seven of my favorite interviews and stitched them together for you! Featured in this episode: * Dave Cornthwaite * Sean Conway * Anne-Laure Carruth * Jeff Shaprio * Mike Spencer Bown * Carl Hoffman * Jeno Lineen You will hear about: * Swimming the len...
Feb 20, 2018•39 min
“Come back to your brand, come back to offering tons of value.” - Brenda Burns Today’s guest on the Art of Adventure podcast is Brendan Burns, founder of @ TheAdventureDaze . Brendan is a coach and online instructor who has organically grown his Instagram accounts over 100,000 followers. Brendan loves lifestyle design and wants people to follow their passion and find a way to monetize that. I originally connected with Brendan on Instagram and after we chatted, I knew I needed to have him on the ...
Feb 14, 2018•1 hr 7 min
We spent December 2017 and January 2018 living in Southern California (SoCal), halfway between San Diego and LA. I spent many full days writing Superconductors, but we still had time to work in a bunch of adventures! Adventure highlights from our time in SoCal: * Attended a business mastermind in Encinitas (With former guests Chase Boehringer and Emily Utter) * Hosted an Art of Adventure meetup in San Diego * Skiing at Big Bear Mountain * Hot Air Ballooning with California Dreamin ' in Temecula ...
Feb 10, 2018•7 min
“When heaven and earth come together, that’s where life happens.” - Andrew Miles Today’s guest on the Art of Adventure podcast is Andrew Miles, a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, currently based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is a catalyst, through his works and his podcast, for other people to become specialists and really run with something. He not only nurtures his career, but other people’s as well, to be able to make the best use of the resources that at this time, he happens to have. Andrew is...
Feb 08, 2018•54 min
We moved to Budapest, Hungary for two months in 2017. I was invited to speak at the Freedom X Festival, and instead of just flying in for the weekend, we decided to move there from Croatia, where our 90 day stay was running out. We packed up our bags and took the bus from Zadar, to Budapest. We did something new just about every day in Budapest, It feels like we lived a lifetime there. Here are the most memorable adventures we had in Hungary: * Living in a 140 year old aristocrat apartment with ...
Feb 04, 2018•9 min
“Don’t wait. Start right now.” - Sean Conway Today’s guest on the Art of Adventure is Sean Conway, adventurer extraordinaire. He is a record holder for the world’s longest triathlon and has done many physical challenges and has speed record attempts for cycling across Europe and around the globe. He is one of the most well-known adventurers around the world, and definitely a badass ! Sean was born in Zimbabwe, grew up in South Africa, but has English and Irish families. The adventurer and explor...
Feb 01, 2018•38 min
Confidence is the number one thing that entrepreneurs tell me wish they had more of. "I would be able to make more sales, give a speech, and make new friends if I were more confident" But how to be confident? Confidence has many layers. First is the outer layer. This is shown in what you wear and how you carry yourself. This is basically one’s charisma. This is what you talk about, and is something that you can work on. This includes one’s body language and posture. The next layer is what you as...
Jan 29, 2018•4 min
Today’s guest on the Art of Adventure podcast is Tom Fabbri, an adventurer, private pilot, chef, health and wellness expert, Mr. Natural Universe at the age of 52, and the author of Ageless You. In this inspiring episode, Tom talks about fear, and being selfish when it comes to taking care of ourselves. He stresses that we need to take care of ourselves first because after all, you can’t fill others if you have an empty cup. Tom is quite the adventurer, as he has done so many great things. He is...
Jan 25, 2018•59 min
"The ripest fruit at the top of the tree isnt the prize, its the choice to climb into the tree in the first place" - Jeff Shapiro Today's guest on the Art of Adventure podcast is Jeff Shapiro, a wingsuit base jumper, paraglider, rock climber, professional sponserd athlete, and philosopher, to name a few. In this unique episode, Jeff takes us with him to his wingsuit base jump adventure which, as he sees it, is his a reflection of his happiness, and how he shares this happiness with others and at...
Jan 11, 2018•1 hr 20 min
This is the fifth year I have published my annual review and goals for the upcoming year. If you are curious about how I have honed the process, here are the yearly reviews for 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 and the goals setting posts for 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 . This annual review process is inspired by Chris Guillebeau who has been publishing his annual reviews for several years and has a free spreadsheet for you to download and do you own review. This year I am also using Orian Marx' Lifecraft...
Jan 08, 2018•11 min
