Episode 291: TMBA291: I’ve Got Tons of Student Loan Debt, What Should I Do?
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2015
⏱️ 41 minutes
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http://www.tropicalmba.com/studentloandebt/ Last week I was on vacation in Southeast Asia with my family, and we are all huge Penn State fans. I spent some of my most formative years around State College in Pennsylvania. I was thrilled when one of who listeners named Brian, who teaches at Penn State, reached out to us and asked us to answer some questions for his students at the university. In this episode Ian and I lay out a three-part plan to become a location independent out of college, talk about how why you should be looking for an apprenticeship instead of a job, and finally answer one of the questions we get asked the most: why cat furniture?
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| 0:00.0 | To all you graduates, as you go out into the world, my advice to you is don't go. |
| 0:06.7 | It's rough out there. |
| 0:08.3 | Move back with your parents. |
| 0:09.9 | Let don't worry about it. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, podcast, listener. |
| 0:16.5 | Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, right now in your earbuds, |
| 0:21.1 | you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe seeking to grow better, |
| 0:26.2 | more profitable, location independent businesses. |
| 0:29.2 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, |
| 0:34.4 | check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:46.5 | Thank you. catalog check out tropical nba dot com hey oh welcome to the tropical NBA podcast how you doing this week boss man I am doing excellent how about you I hear you're on family vacay is that |
| 0:51.6 | true I'm on family vacay we are actually you know i was mentioning |
| 0:55.3 | i maybe should sell this package tour this is a really good intro tour to asia i should write it up |
| 1:00.5 | for blog readers we've been to hong kong hainois and now we're in the south of thailand and we're |
| 1:05.8 | going to end things up in bangkok it's been an incredible trip my parents first time in as in Asia. Their minds are blown, but I think they're in love. You can't lose with these locations. There's just so much to see to do. They're so different. It's been really cool to share that with my family. Yeah, I'm jealous. I'm not on that trip, man. It sounds like a lot of fun, especially Hanoi. That place is like so much different than the West, |
| 1:28.4 | you know? It's just a mindblower. It's intense. So my parents were very happy to have me there |
| 1:34.9 | to show them the way. And a few listeners to this show who helped us out as well. Speaking of my |
| 1:40.9 | family, Ian, as you know, we are just huge Penn State fans. Like huge. |
| 1:46.2 | Like the household would shut down every single Penn State game. My father went there. |
| 1:51.7 | My parents lived there for many years in State College. I spent my whole senior year of high |
| 1:55.8 | school basically hanging out in State College. So I was absolutely delighted when Brian, who's a podcast listener, |
| 2:03.6 | reached out to us and said, hey, I'm a professor at Penn State. And I teach a class where you guys |
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