111: Chris Guillebeau – How To Create Your Dream Job

The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

Ryan Hawk

Business, Management, Careers

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🗓️ 30 March 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Episode 111: Chris Guillebeau – How To Create Your Dream Job

Chris Guillebeau is an extraordinary leader. Between his best-selling books and hosting the World Domination Summit every summer, he’s constantly inspiring and empowering others to be creators and leaders. During this conversation, you’ll get to hear why Chris specifically wanted to come on the show and his personal backstory (It’s incredible). We had a fascinating conversation on this episode of The Learning Leader Show.

During a lifetime of self-employment that included a four-year commitment as a volunteer executive in West Africa, he visited every country in the world (193 in total) before his 35th birthday. Since then he has modeled the proven definition of an entrepreneur: “Someone who will work 24 hours a day for themselves to avoid working one hour a day for someone else.”

Chris’s first book, The Art of Non-Conformity, was translated into more than twenty languages. His second book, “The $100 Startup,” was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, selling more than 300,000 copies worldwide. His latest book, “Born For This” will be released April 5, 2016. This book is the culmination of years of research on people who’ve found or created their “dream job.” From the outside, it looks like these people have been lucky. But in reality, they’ve followed a process of trial-and-error to get exactly what they want.

Every summer in Portland, Oregon, Chris hosts the World Domination Summit, a gathering of creative, remarkable people with thousands in attendance. Chris is also the founder of Pioneer Nation, Unconventional Guides, the Travel Hacking Cartel, and numerous other projects.

Episode 111: Chris Guillebeau – How To Create Your Dream Job

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Curiosity and persistence leads to sustained excellence
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Why we should all think like a janitor
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How to build a tribe through creating interesting content
The art of non-conformity
Build a business on vision and relationships… Not on tactics
Receiving life coaching from Jay-Z
You Inc. – Build a small empire
Why a side hustle is something that everyone should have
How to be a DIY Rock Star
Why you shouldn’t think like a CEO
Being a learning leader means you are actively engaged in learning – positioning yourself as a learner

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Read: Born For This
Read: The $100 Startup
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Bio From ChrisGuillebeau.com

Chris’s first book, The Art of Non-Conformity, was translated into more than twenty languages. His second book, The $100 Startup, was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, selling more than 300,000 copies worldwide. His latest book, The Happiness of Pursuit, was published in September 2014 and was also a New York Times bestseller.

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0:16.5	You know if somebody if somebody's listening and maybe they're like just getting started you know down this road and so they're like wow that makes sense but you know it seems kind of daunting you know what I would say is the great thing about this process. Yeah, it takes it takes work of course it takes hustle it takes dedication
0:24.2	But the great thing is when you build it this way as opposed to like some kind of hacker or trick or you know like there's all kind there's always like little tactics and things and that's fine but don't build your business or your
0:27.1	brand on tactics right build it on vision and relationships when you do that it's
0:31.2	actually going to be far far more valuable in the long term.
0:34.6	In the long term, like you've created this tremendous asset and the asset is not just
0:38.7	a product you've made or a service, the asset is not real estate or a car.
0:42.8	The asset is the relationships you have with these readers or
0:45.9	listeners, your fans, you know, your community, whoever it is that connects with you.
0:50.1	And that I think is the most valuable asset that anyone can build not just in their business and in their lives.
0:55.0	Our leaders born or are they made.
0:58.0	Our host, Ryan Hawk, believes that leaders can be made through determined, focused work on learning the art and science behind the makeup of other successful leaders.
1:07.0	Now it's time to inhale knowledge and exhale success.
1:10.0	You're listening to the Learning Leader Show with Ryan Hawk.
1:14.0	Hey guys, remember episode number 97 with Alejandro Chaein. He is the CEO of
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