All Episodes
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The Humans Behind The Gig Economy (Sarah Kessler, Quartz)
Amid all the buzzwords and reports on the future of work, I find Sarah Kessler's stories about the gig economy to be the most insightful and the most human. Her storie...
Screw The Cubicle (Lydia Lee)
Lydia Lee was a self-described "multi-potentialite" growing up and loves to experiment and play games growing up. You can probably draw a straight line from her hostin...
How A Remote Company Enables Freedom, Trust & Digital Dance Parties (Wade Foster, CEO of Zapier.com)
Wade Foster was graduating during the worst recession in the past 100 years and traditional employers were simply not hiring anyone. He reached out to a local software...
"My Name Is Nemo and I Don't Do Small Talk"
Nemo Ashong's bold vision is "a truly inclusive and empowered world" He helps people to be fully expressed and to be more authentic, be more unique and be more powerfu...
Ervin Ling On Escaping The Corporate World At 30 To Travel The World
Ervin Ling followed the default path as an actuary, passing test after test. After passing all the tests, he found himself working harder than he was ever working. As ...
Ted Bauer: The Absurdity Of The Corporate World & Real Future Of Work
Ted Bauer is a freelance writer and content strategist who writes prolifically about the future of work. In this episode, he talks about some of his experiences in the...
Shayne Spencer on the dumb idea project and how failing econ helped him start his firm
While Shayne has built a successful marketing consulting firm, there was no "plan" to do this. His first exposure to marketing was out of necessity - his professor let...
Jacqueline Jensen on sabbaticals, rethinking work and building a "calm company"
Jacqueline Jensen has been a digital nomad for 3.5 years, living and working globally. It might surprise you to find out then, that she's written a book called "Travel...
Dr. Laura Gallaher on using humor at work, leadership at NASA after crisis, and building a business traveling the world
Dr. Laura Gallaher joins me from Serbia, where she is part of Remote Year, a community that travels to twelve locations within a year with a cohort of people working r...
Andrew Taggart, Practical Philosopher, on how "total work" is taking over our lives
Andrew is a Practical Philosopher who believes that "there may be no greater vexation in our time than the question of how to make a living in a manner that accords wi...
Podcast Update, Digital Course Experiment & Moving To Asia
Paul provides a summer update:Shifting the podcast from making sense of the future of work => "The Human Side Of The Future Of Work"Early lessons from the digital cour...
Tony Triumph on growing up entrepreneurial, moving to NYC with $300 and building incredible relationships
Tony grew up around entrepreneurs but did not use the label at the time. At age 19, he was going to college in Maryland and felt the pull to something bigger. He deci...
Reflections: One year of freelancing, experiments & other people's reactions
In this short "reflection" episode, I check in on where my head is at one year into my freelance journey and share some of the opportunities I have had, how I have cha...
Luke Kanies on his journey from commune to CEO and why people hate working for big companies
Luke grew up on a commune and then ended up as a co-founder and CEO of a startup that raised $87 million. He talks about his unique path and how that shaped his though...
Candace Cabrera Moore, fearless yoga entrepreneur on building a global business, brand and community
Candace was first inspired by her mother who always looked for solutions to problems rather than admitting defeat so always had an entrepreneurial spirit. She had also...
Stephen Warley on the biggest shift since the industrial revolution (Episode 19)
Stephen has been self-employed for more than 18 years. At first, it was by accident. He referred to himself as a “reluctant freelancer.” We talk about how that mindset...
Nita Baum on how to "be free" and self-employed (Episode 18)
Nita Baum is a rock star self-employed freelancer. She has been working on her own for over a decade and now splits her time across many domains, describing herself as...
Boundless/Unleashed: Paul on the future of work, freelancing and his media diet (Episode 17)
This was an interview of Paul on the Unleashed podcast hosted by Will Bachman, who is the founder of Umbrex, a platform for independent consultants.Will's podcast inte...
Damien Peters on blogging, wealth, and building a remote business from Spain (Episode 16)
Damien Peters is a self-described "personal finance nerd" - which explains how he ended up founding WealthNoir.com, a platform to preach and teach about the importance...
Connor Gillivan on entrepreneurship, selling on Amazon and working with freelancers (Episode 15)
Connor's path as an entrepreneur began when he was in college via an AIM chat with a classmate in one of his classes. What started as a textbook e-commerce business le...
Jen Morilla on breaking plates and traveling the world with purpose (Episode 14)
Jen Morilla is an impact travel influencer. What does that mean? It means she travels the world and writes about her experiences but also has a central mission. At fir...
#14 Romy Rost on leadership, freelancing & coaching as a skill
Romy is an employee engagement consultant turned coach. She built her career consulting for and working in Fortune 100 companies on all challenges employee-related. He...
#13 Tanya Alvarez on entrepreneurship, community & redefining failure
Tanya Alvarez is the Co-Founder, and CEO of OwnersUP is a platform which advances solopreneurs business through accountability, goal setting, and community. Over the p...
#12 Pauri Pandian on tennis as a career, coaching & healthy masculinity
Pauri started playing Tennis when he was seven and it has turned into a clear passion. He wasn't always sure that was the path he wanted to take, but when a job as a t...
#11 Ben Dubow - From State Department Rejection To Propaganda-Fighting Startup Founder
Ben is the founder and COO of Omelas, a startup that is focused on using technology to fight propaganda. Ben's journey, however, does not start there. His journey is a...
#10 Paul Millerd on Finding Work That Matters To You
This is a copy of the interview I did with Stephen Warley on the Life Skills That Matter Podcast. Stephen is a bit of a role model for me. We have similar missions and...
#9 Amma Marfo on Combining Humor, Creativity & Writing
Amma Marfo cracked me up several times on this podcast. It is no surprise then, that she describes herself as "thoughtful yet incurably silly." She also defines hersel...
#8 Tom Critchlow on Personal Branding, Freelance Consulting & The Future of Work
I discovered Tom by reading a piece he wrote on freelance consulting. I was fascinated with his approach and how similar it was to mine - especially coming from a com...