Digital Nomadism, Location-Independent Lifestyle & Scaling a Company Remotely with Sondre Rasch
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Sondre Rasch is a co-founder & CEO of SafetyWing and host of the Building Remotely podcast. SafetyWing is a fully remote team building a global social safety net. Their mission is to create a country on the internet, removing the barrier of geographical borders to create equal opportunities and freedom for everyone.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. You will succeed by being creative and coming up with ideas to solve problems.
2. Digital nomadism and location-independent are about working online and living wherever you want to.
3. In the future, anything that can be remote will be remote. The global market offers many opportunities, and you can use it to build products and make a profit.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Light that spark fire nation, JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network with great shows like The Hustle Daily. |
| 0:12.0 | Today we'll be breaking down digital nomadism, location independent lifestyle and scaling a company remotely to drop these value bombs. |
| 0:21.0 | Sondrae, Rashq and the EO Fire Studios, is a co-founder and CEO of Safety Wing in host of the Building Remotely podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | Safety Wing is a fully remote team building a global social safety net. Their mission is to create a country on the internet, removing the barrier of geographical borders and create equal opportunities in freedom for everyone. |
| 0:44.0 | And Fire Nation will talk about digital nomadism, what it is, location independent lifestyle, secrets, strategies, tactics. |
| 0:52.0 | We'll talk about building and scaling a company remotely and so much more. And a big thank you for sponsoring today's episode goes to Sondrae and our sponsors. |
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| 1:09.0 | Download the app, mention John Lee Dumas, my pedopolo username, when you sign up for a free account and start listening now, that's p-o-d-o-p-o-l-o.com. |
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| 1:41.0 | Sondrae, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful that most people disagree with. |
| 1:52.0 | What I believe about success is that failure is caused by not knowing how to succeed, which means that the cost of success is figuring out how to do it and that's done by creativity. |
| 2:06.0 | So the obstacles on the way to success are problems. They're sold by coming up with ideas and which are solutions to problems and as long as you are able to stay creative, you will eventually succeed at whatever it is as long as it's within the loss of physics. |
| 2:21.0 | Fire Nation, we're talking about being a digital nomad. We're talking about location independent lifestyles. We're talking about scaling a company remotely and we have some real strategies and tactics that we'll be getting into. |
| 2:35.0 | But first off, Sondrae, I want to hear your story. What's the background? |
| 2:39.0 | My story is I'm born in Norway and as a teenager, I was very interested in computers. I grew up on the internet and I met people from all over the world there and we learned to cooperate, started my first little internet company. |
| 2:54.0 | Also as a teenager, the Dutch and Romanian friend I met online and that got a bit distracted. I was drafted to the military that is still a draft in Norway and studied economics and got interested in policy for a little bit. |
| 3:07.0 | Worked as a policy advisor for the government in Norway. But then I got frustrated with government because government is a big organization and change happens slowly if at all. |
| 3:17.0 | And so and you needed to get back to startups. So I then started Superside, which is design freelance platform. |
| 3:28.0 | And it which also was venture funded and got into a common it turned some stuff and then it was there to discover the problem that became safe to wing. |
| 3:39.0 | We wanted to provide benefits for the freelancers. Nobody offered it. So we decided we have to build this ourselves and that became the start of safe doing a project to build first global social safety net and country on the internet. |
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