Episode 258: TMBA258: Living, Working, and Adventuring in South East Asia
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2014
⏱️ 57 minutes
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http://www.tropicalmba.com/travelfish/ This week I was lucky enough to catch up with Stuart McDonald, the founder of Travelfish, which one of the most respected sites on the web for South East Asia travel information. If you peak over the shoulder of a random backpacker in Bangkok cafes, expect to see a "TravelFish" URL along with Facebook blue.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, oh, happy Thursday morning. I just wanted to, it actually is Thursday morning, number one, |
| 0:05.0 | number two. I wanted to jump out in front of the intro music just to let you know this episode |
| 0:10.2 | is going to be a little bit different. It turned out to be a long form interview, which is something |
| 0:14.8 | frankly, I'm not that motivated to do that often, but when it came to Stewart, the founder of |
| 0:19.6 | Travel Fish, which is one of the most |
| 0:21.4 | respected websites on Southeast Asian travel, I just had so many questions I wanted to ask |
| 0:26.1 | him. There's a few people in the world that know more about travel in the region than Stewart, |
| 0:30.5 | and we focused a lot on that, on expat living, on travel. Towards the end of the conversation, |
| 0:35.4 | we get into how he turned travel fish into a business |
| 0:39.3 | that employs writers throughout the region. So things will touch on. It's a long show, but we'll |
| 0:43.1 | touch on raising kids in Southeast Asia, Stewart's favorite travel itineraries. If you're coming to |
| 0:48.3 | Southeast Asia for a month or less, the full moon party, we'll talk about, you know, the best temples, |
| 0:54.9 | foods, and visas in the region, some of the best places to live and some of the recommended reading that Stewart |
| 1:00.3 | has. So this is a really fun one for me. I hope you enjoy it too. The show notes are at |
| 1:04.5 | tropical MBA.com slash travelfish. |
| 1:11.9 | Hey, podcast listener. |
| 1:13.4 | Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, right now in |
| 1:17.2 | your earbuds, you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe |
| 1:21.5 | seeking to grow better, more profitable, location independent businesses. |
| 1:26.1 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, |
| 1:31.3 | check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 1:43.3 | In 2008, I moved to Vietnam and it was the first time that I'm an expat. |
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