#807 Location is Leverage
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Dan shares how advanced digital nomads use geography as a lever for business growth—and why most people get it wrong. If you’re going to travel, do it with intention. This episode breaks down how.
CHAPTERS
(00:02:00) The Embargo on “Digital Nomad”
(00:02:35) Why Most Nomads Miss the Point
(00:05:38) 4 Ways to Travel Smart and Build Faster
(00:06:13) Leverage Financial Arbitrage
(00:09:16) Curate Better Relationships
(00:16:20) Pick Places That Serve Your Goals
(00:21:49) Reduce Lifestyle Overhead
(00:22:30) Advanced vs. Beginner Nomading
(00:25:09) Pitfalls to Avoid: Currency Traps, Isolation, Network Ceilings
(00:29:44) The Challenge of Finding a Life Partner
(00:31:46) Nomading as a Lever, Not a Lifestyle
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Thursday morning, everybody. |
| 0:14.5 | Back to the podcast. |
| 0:17.4 | I just got off an airplane from D.C. Mexico, feeling refreshed, actually, and energized. It was a all-time good Dynamite Circle event. |
| 0:27.9 | Somebody listeners of the pod were down there. There's 162 of us in attendance. And I would estimate about half of a million-dollar-plus businesses. But overall, just the quality of entrepreneurship, professionalism, and importantly the mindset. |
| 0:42.2 | And we're going to get into that in today's episode. |
| 0:44.7 | Now, one of the interesting things, we're talking about a serious group of entrepreneurs who have travel in their DNA, many of whom are former digital nomads or planning a digital nomad adventure |
| 0:55.5 | and some of whom are full-time digital nomads. Yet they run these serious, serious businesses |
| 1:01.6 | that provide a great deal of time and location freedom. And today's topic is in line with that. |
| 1:08.3 | It came from, of all places, a thread on Reddit. I was reading a bunch of |
| 1:12.7 | digital nomads complaining about the digital nomad lifestyle. It the thought occurred to me that |
| 1:19.3 | location is leverage. And this is something that advanced digital nomads understand and apply in their |
| 1:27.4 | business. So I thought I'd just ruminate a |
| 1:30.1 | little bit on the topic of could it be the case that a DNA of travel, a adventure mindset, |
| 1:38.6 | an approach to location and time flexibility could actually be strategic in your business. |
| 1:45.0 | What does that look like? |
| 1:46.3 | Today's podcast is a meditation on that. |
| 1:49.3 | Ian and I will be back next week with a full recap of our experiences down in Mexico. |
| 1:55.0 | So tune in for that one. |
| 1:56.2 | I'll roll it now. |
| 1:57.4 | Thanks for listening and let me know what you think about this one. |
| 2:02.3 | As a team, |
| 2:08.1 | we've actually had an embargo on this term for quite some time and I want to lift the embargo today and talk about the term digital nomad. So all of us had some connection or opinion about it. |
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