Episode 129: TMBA 129 (LBP114) – Sometimes We Are The Champions, Sometimes We Are Awful

Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle

Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen

Digital Nomad, Business, Ecommerce, Society & Culture, Amazon, Founders, Cash Flow, Places & Travel, Founder, Business Owner, Cashflow, Management, Entrepreneurship, Million, Operator, Operations, Profits, Distributed Team

4.9 • 527 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2012

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

It’s been a really rough week for Dan and Ian. This is mostly due to the fact that they arrived in the Philippines to meet with 14 bright eyed participants of our August TMBA Session and it was a bit of a challenge.
Not because of the participants.
Instead they encountered a slight typhoon wreaking havoc on Manila, Batangas City & Pier, Mindoro, Puerto Galera, and Badladz Resort. In other words, they were surrounded by the storm. What should have been a fun 3-hour tour of the Philippines to get to the resort turned in to an adventure of epic proportions. But everyone arrived safe and sound, amped up on the adrenaline of their adventure, with huge grins on their faces and dates with their beds.
Which is to say, in true internet meme fashion, sometimes owning a business isn’t all double rainbows and Tiger Blood. Sometimes, you are killin’ it and sometimes you are struggling to get it all done, through some pretty adverse situations and circumstances.

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0:00.0	Sometimes we are the champion.
0:02.1	Sometimes we are awful.
0:09.4	Hey, podcast listener, even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial pursuit, know that today, right now in your earbuds, you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs all around the globe seeking to do the same thing you are.
0:22.0	If you want to know more about this program or this podcast or want to get barraged by a lot of
0:27.0	annoying pop-ups, check out our website, Lifestyle Businesspodcast.com.
0:39.5	Yeah, buddy, it's Thursday morning.
0:44.5	That means it's time for another lifestyle business podcast on Twitter with the hashtag LBP.
0:53.9	Today I'm joined by my role dog, my co-hostess, with the moses, a man who here in the Republic of the Philippines is commonly renowned for his pasonality.
0:54.8	Ooh.
0:56.9	Yeah, that's a good distinction.
1:02.2	If you guys stick around to the end of the show, Ian and I are going to share with you one of our favorite new online resources.
1:04.1	We've really been digging deep into this one.
1:08.8	It's a great new blog, specifically tailored for Superballers.
1:12.2	Superballers, like Scotty Picking when he was winning championship.
1:19.4	All right, let's focus on the shouts and the news. Today we got a bunch of news items.
1:44.2	Somebody today was asking me on the boat, Ian, what is the number one thing that allows us to make a good podcast? First of all, this is the boat that we were stuck on for two and a half hours. It was only supposed to be an hour that started with... Go back and go back to the whole story. It was a flood and then missing the summer marketing mashup and Typhoon and Manila. And I didn't even sleep last night because I was scared that our building was going to fall down.
1:47.9	Right. So a three-hour trip to Porta Gallero, where we are right now.
1:52.5	And I'm not concerned about me or yours well-being. I'm concerned that the 15 people here at the Tropical NBA think that we're huge nutbags and being irresponsible with their lives.
1:57.5	Yes, but they're all here. They all seem pretty happy. A couple of them have already gone to bed. But the point is, and this is the turning pro point, is that we're sitting here, we're tired, but we're still going to try to do something. We're going to talk about what's going on our business. We're going to do a podcast. That's what we do. We're podcasters. Anyway, enough whining about having to do a podcast. This is a very high quality problem. Yeah, really is.
2:20.9	Remember when you having to do a podcast this is this is a very
2:18.7	high quality problem yeah remember when you have to do real work no like a shovel oh yeah yeah
2:25.6	yeah anything like that right right okay all right uh let's talk really quickly about uh matt
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