Ep. 205: Chris Ducker Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following
Michael Covel
4.6 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2014
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Chris Ducker, a serial entrepreneur and author of the bestseller, “Virtual Freedom”, and more recently, “Rise of the Youpreneur”. He owns and operates several businesses, that combined house over 400 full-time employees internationally. He’s also a trusted international business mentor, keynote speaker, podcaster, blogger, as well as the founder of Youpreneur.com - the leading personal brand business education company in the world.
The topic is his book Virtual Freedom: How to Work with Virtual Staff to Buy More Time, Become More Productive, and Build Your Dream Business.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- The definition of virtual freedom
- How Ducker came from the cubicle originally, and how he got to be the location independent entrepreneur he is now
- How Ducker became a “virtual CEO”
- The idea of a “superhero syndrome”
- The idea of a virtual, international staff
- The process of finding a VA (virtual assistant)
- The two types of outsourcing
- Hiring for the role--not for the task
- Text, audio, and video communication
- Tim Ferriss and the four-hour work week
- Developing a location independent lifestyle
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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.3 | That's my passion. |
| 0:32.9 | Today on the show I have Chris Ducker. |
| 0:36.3 | Chris is a Brit, so we'll excuse him for that. |
| 0:40.4 | But he is also a very, very accomplished, as one might say, a virtual CEO. |
| 0:49.4 | Chris is like me. |
| 0:51.3 | He runs his online business. |
| 0:52.7 | He's got his niche, his edge. And he helps people to find |
| 0:58.3 | what he refers to as virtual freedom, which is also the title of his new book. I met Chris |
| 1:05.8 | in the fall of 2013 in Bangkok. Good guy, |
| 1:11.7 | smart guy, |
| 1:13.0 | learn something. |
| 1:14.7 | I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:22.3 | Hey, Chris. |
| 1:25.2 | Mr. MC, how are you? |
| 1:27.3 | I'm doing pretty good. |
| 1:30.5 | You sound FM radio awesome. |
| 1:34.2 | Well, I'm doing my best radio DJ voice. |
| 1:34.6 | Okay. |
| 1:35.8 | You sound good. |
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