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81: How to explore careers, make circumstances work for you, and practice the art of harmony with Cheyenne Noelle Jan 08, 2018

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Cheyenne is a writer and futurist with a fierce love for leveraging digital communication. She's mostly ghostwriting, copywriting, and content writing about life, innovation, technology, and human-centered design. She is the current Editor-in-Chief of The Catalyst, a design publication owned by Paradigm Innovation. When she's not writing or learning something new, Cheyenne travels and spends time with her little boy. She currently resides in Raleigh, North Carolina.

I know Cheyenne's episode would be a good one...but wow! Listening to her tell her amazing story definitely exceeded my expectations. From being broken and hitting rock bottom, to rising up and inspiring thousands of people with her writing and entrepreneurial spirit, Cheyenne is the epitome of a Successful Dropout. I think you will really enjoy this episode and her story. Make sure to follow her journey...it's going to be epic!

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80: How to design your life and your career with Grant Schroll Jan 02, 2018

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Grant Schroll is a co-founder at Mission Collaborative, an organization that runs nights-and-weekends programs to help young professionals make career changes. He's passionate about helping people build careers they love and redesigning higher education to better serve learners today and throughout their lives.

Grant is just an all around stud who's on the forefront of the changing education and career climate in the world today. If you're in a place of confusion in regards to your life and you career, this is the episode for you and Grant is the guy to connect with! Expect to see him again at Successful Dropout.

Here are just some of the things we discuss:

Legos
Grant's journey to discovering his calling
The life and career design process
Reflecting on your life and career
Defining your life and your career
Test driving your life and your career
Figuring out your life is not a linear process!
Much more!

Resources

Mission Collaborative - Grant's company

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79: Everything you need to know about cryptocurrency for beginners with Stephen Olmon Dec 25, 2017

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Stephen Olmon is a business development executive, investor, writer, and was formerly a consultant at KPMG. His current company, SimpleLTC, was acquired in 2016 after seeing significant revenue growth during his tenure. He is passionate about all things finance - he loves the ins and outs of traditional investments, is a self-taught cryptocurrency investor, and is currently writing a book on personal finance. Stephen loves disruption in any market and wants to be at the forefront of that disruption whenever possible. Stephen, his wife Jennifer, and soon-to-arrive daughter are based in Dallas, TX.

Stephen is a childhood friend that I've recently re-connected with and it was awesome to have him on the show talking about two of his favorite subjects; finances and crypto. As crypto is becoming more popular, it's important to understand what it is, how it could shape the future, and how to safely get involved.

Here are just some of the things we covered in this episode:

What is cryptocurrency and blockchain?
Is there a bubble?
What can crypto and blockchain technology be used for?
You've bought cryptocurrency before, you just didn't realize it!
You first steps to get into crypto and some general advice
Some pointers on how to choose what to invest in
Stephen tells us how much money he has made in crypto (no not really, but kind of)
Mistakes that Kylon has made in the crypto-verse
Crypto terminology
And much more!

Resources

Below are several resources, links and tools relating to crypto. Everything from early beginnings to who to follow in the space.

Early Beginnings

NSA Document "The Cryptography of Anonymous Electronic Cash", 1996

Weidai's theoretical b-money (referenced in Bitcoin white paper)

Original Bitcoin White Paper

Updates and News

Recent Thought Leadership

Bruce Fenton speaking on "Bitcoin as the Global Reserve Currency"

Maria Bustillo's "You Don't Understand Bitcoin Because You Think Money Is Real"

Ari Paul of BlockTower Capital speaks on the value of cryptocurrency (11/27/2017)

Blockchain and Online Marketplaces

Blockchain

Don Tapscott's TED talk on "How Blockchain is changing money and business"

How Blockchain Works illustrated by Israth Elona

Investing

Coinbase - #1 platform for retail investors

Coinigy - #1 crypto trading and analysis platform

www.coinigy.com

Intro to Crypto Investing and Analysis by BTCKYLE

How to profit in the new cryptocurrency economy by Rocky Darius

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78: The 10 life skills that matter with Stephen Warley Dec 18, 2017

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Stephen Warley is a self-employment advocate and coach. He is the founder of LifeSkillsThatMatter.com. He believes self-employment is the future of work. He wants to inspire you to create your own work. He teaches self-management skills to the side hustlers, freelancers and solopreneurs. He's been self-employed for the past 17 years. During that time he built a sales training business with annual revenue of $600,000, ran his business from Spain for 4 months and has saved enough money not to work the next 8 years of his life. I have a new long-term friend in Stephen Warley. The dude is centered, sharp, and extremely passionate about improving other's lives. When it comes to the future of work, how to become self-employed and how to achieve self-awareness, Stephen is the guy to talk to. Wherever you are on your journey, this episode will have something for you. Here are some of the things we chat about:

The future of work
Practicing self awareness
10 life skills that matter
You don't have to work 100 hours a week to be successful
Finding your optimal time for output
And tons more!

Awesome quote from Stephen:

"Before "stuff" (things you have, buy, status symbols, "the end goal" etc), comes money. Before money, comes relationships. Before relationships, comes knowing who to reach out to. Before knowing who to reach out to, comes understanding yourself, your values, your needs, and your abilities."

12 week FREE course on how to assess yourself Resources

Life Skills That Matter
Interested in being self-employed? Check out Stephen's Self-Employment Starter Kit!

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77: The ins and outs of real estate with Successful Dropout Zach Coppinger Dec 11, 2017

Show notes

Zach Coppinger is a full time entrepreneur and real estate investor. Since 2013, he has bought and sold over 120 properties. He invests primarily in single family residential properties. He does some fix and flips, but his primary focus is long term buy and hold properties. He started his company three years ago, and has built a strong team of contractors, bankers, private lenders, attorneys, title companies, etc to continue building his portfolio. He thinks single family real estate is the greatest asset class to invest, and is an asset class accessible for anyone to invest (barriers to entry are very low). Quote of the week: "Good entrepreneurs find reasons to do things, not reasons to not do things."

Resources

Zach's Twitter
The One Thing by Gary Keller

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76: How how to conquer bullies with high school dropout Abbey Sager Dec 04, 2017

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Abbey who is currently 18, founded the Diverse Gaming Coalition after being heavily bullied in high-school, causing her to drop out among other reasons. Diverse Gaming Coalition focuses on ending bullying and harassment while modernizing the culture we use to educate about harassment. She cares about various social issues, while volunteering for organizations such as Born This Way Foundation, Peace First, and more. She is a current Sophomore at Southern New Hampshire University studying Non-profit management.

I had a great time chatting with Abbey. Just in the hour I talked with her I can tell she has a huge heart and an incredible drive to help people...so much so that she dropped out of high school to start her non-profit despite the criticism from family and friends. In this episode we explore the pros and cons of earning a degree, the issues and solutions surrounding bullying and harassment, marriage, gaming, mail (yes mail) and much more!

Quote of the day: ""If you fear to be criticized, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing."

Resources

Diverse Gaming Coalition - Check it out!

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75: Generate electricity by walking and save money with entrepreneur Swarnav Pujari Nov 27, 2017

Show notes

Swarnav is the CEO of TouchLight a power generation solutions company for commercial spaces. He is also a regional board member for the CleanTech Open Midwest. He brings experience in Materials Engineering and extensive knowledge of commercializing new technologies in the Clean Tech and software space.

Loved chatting with Swarnav...not only does the guy have a unique name, he also has a unique solution to producing electricity. We talk about:

Elon Musk and robots taking over the world
Zombies
Counting cards and why you shouldn't play poker or BS with Swarnav!
What future tech can we look forward to?
Innovative solutions to generating electricity and how Swarnav came up with the idea for his company
Taking entire airports off the power grid
Recommended books
Tons more!

Resources

TouchLight - Swarnav's company
Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
The Customer Service Revolution by John R. Dijulius III

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74: Get your mind off the conveyor belt with Steve Patterson Nov 20, 2017

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Steve Patterson is a philosopher and author working outside of academia. He is also the host of the Patterson in Pursuit podcast, where he has been traveling the world, interviewing intellectuals from various backgrounds on different topics. He's spoken with everybody from professors at Harvard to Buddhist monks in Thailand and Japan. His work covers a range of topics from epistemology and metaphysics, to the philosophy of mathematics, politics, and economics.

I was absolutely embroiled in my conversation with Steve....who knew you could get philosophical about mathematics?? Does 2+2 NOT equal 4 in some cases? Steve has the ability and willingness to ask the tough questions in search of truth. Asking these kinds of questions can be extremely uncomfortable, especially if you are questioning a worldview you've known all of your life! But it's absolutely essential if you want to grow your perspective and understanding as a human being. To be human is to search for truth. Learn to be skeptical and to question societies most basic assumptions...it can be scary at first...but you will be better because of it. Get your mind off the conveyor belt. Break free.

Resources

Steve's website - connect with him!

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73: How to turn your idea into a business with Bennett Quintard Nov 13, 2017

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Bennett is a recent college dropout who left the classroom to bring his education to the real world. Driven by a strong entrepreneurial aptitude, he focuses on creating products and systems to beat the statistic that 90% of startups fail. Currently, he is the Chief Operations Officer at siëo, a company helping startups start up.Bennett helped grow the company from 6 to 23 team members over a rapid four month period. He is the youngest C-suite executive on the siëo team, due to his ability to execute on long term visions by creating strategic operational infrastructures and nurture a high level of scalable growth. Bennett has led the creation of a professional services and consulting program, which has doubled in profit for the past three consecutive months.

Bennett's background is rooted in philanthropic and international leadership training. He launched his first business at the age of 17, a non-profit focused on providing scholarships and strategic guidance to college-aged big thinkers. By 18, he was living in a small community in Northern Ecuador working to improve the local educational system through youth groups and community outreach.

Now, as a 21-year-old with a refusal to accept the status quo, he is working to create large-scale impact through helping entrepreneurs launch and grow businesses.

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Siëo - Bennett's business
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72: How to brand your business with Silicon Valley's mad man of brand Damien Foord Nov 06, 2017

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Damien is a modern-day Don Draper, without the alcoholism and misogyny. An Air Force veteran and creative entrepreneur, he developed a proprietary brand development methodology which has been used in support of LinkedIn, Adobe, Tesla and hundreds of other brands in Silicon Valley. He is the expert at the intersection of business and humanity ensuring brands keep pace in times of exponential change.

This episode is incredible. Branding is such an interesting and nuanced subject and Damien is the expert. Get a pen and paper and get ready to take some notes as you listen to this one...there are so many little nuggets of truth and wisdom!

Resources

Damien's website
Damien's Twitter - definitely worth the follow!

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