Ep. 91: How To Do What You Love And Get Paid For It w/ Chris Guillebeau
The Jay Ferruggia Show
Jay Ferruggia
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2016
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, New York Times best-selling author Chris Guillebeau returns to the show to discuss his new book Born For This and teach you how to unlock a life of financial freedom and ultimate fulfillment.
We discuss….
0:22: Chris recaps his remarkable trip to every country in the world.
2:54: Chris outlines how he sets (and achieves) his goals
4:32: One rule to follow that will keep you on track with where you spend your time
8:02: When is it time to change your goals?
9:07: Chris’s daily routine
13:03: The “Joy-Money-Flow” formula and achieving financial success with life satisfaction.
15:58: How to determine if your side hustle is worth pursuing (and how to start one if you want to).
20:41: Why specialization is hugely overrated and finding a niche may be the worst thing you can do.
25:08: How to leverage your worth with specific actions and skills, whether you’re self-employed or not.
28:16: Financial tips to make a little bit of money go a long way.
29:27: How to get your message into the world in 2016
31:52: How to be a “Do It Yourself Rockstar” on social media
33:54: Life coaching from Jay-Z
36:13: Chris’ recent travel adventures living in an apartment in the sky
37:22: Chris and I talk music and our recent good reads
If you want more from Chris, be sure to check out his website www.ChrisGuillebeau.com and get his new book Born For This at www.BornForThisBook.com
You can find him on Twitter @ChrisGuillebeau, Instagram (@193countries) and Facebook atwww.facebook.com/chrisguillebeau
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the J Faruja Show. |
| 0:06.0 | Build your body. |
| 0:08.0 | Strengthen your mind. |
| 0:10.0 | Optimize your life. So Chris, for those who don't know you, can you give a quick background? |
| 0:24.7 | One of the things you're known for is for traveling the world and back. |
| 0:29.3 | So can you just tell a little bit about that, how you kind of got started on that and maybe get some quick |
| 0:34.2 | travel tips or hacks? Sure sure absolutely well thanks first of all Jason for |
| 0:39.0 | having me back on the on the show. Yeah my pleasure it was a big highlight yeah last time when when I had the |
| 0:44.1 | last book out I came on the show and I really enjoyed our conversation as did I and |
| 0:48.0 | as you know I'm a fan and still to this day one of my favorite books is the art of |
| 0:51.6 | non-conformity so thank you again for writing that. |
| 0:54.0 | Yeah, cool man, well shout out for that. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah, so I'm a writer, traveler, an entrepreneur, and as you mentioned, I went to the world and back. |
| 1:01.0 | I spent about 11 years on this quest to visit every country in the world. |
| 1:06.0 | And while I was doing that, I was working as an entrepreneur. |
| 1:10.0 | The first five years of that quest were just kind of a personal thing. |
| 1:14.0 | Like I wasn't a public project. |
| 1:15.7 | I didn't even have a social media profile or anything. |
| 1:18.5 | And then about halfway through I started writing a blog about it called The Art of Non-Conformity which eventually became a book. |
| 1:24.6 | So Chronicle the second half of that quest which wrapped up two years ago. |
| 1:29.0 | The goal was to do it by my 35th birthday. |
| 1:31.7 | So that was like literally on my 35th birthday when I wrapped that up. |
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