Episode 294: TMBA294: A Guide to Finding, Winning, and Creating Location Independent Apprenticeships
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2015
⏱️ 38 minutes
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http://www.tropicalmba.com/apprentice/ One of the most frustrating parts of the entrepreneurial life script is that when you first hear about it and understand the benefits, you probably aren't ready to start a business. You know the answer is starting a business, but you aren't quite sure how to get there yet. We have long been advocates for seeking out an apprenticeship, but it's not always that easy. How do you get an apprenticeship, where do you go when you find one and what happens after you get one? Over the last couple of years, Vincent Nguyen from GrowthNinja.com has gone through all of these stages himself. I've invited him on to the show to talk about his experiences as an apprentice at Empire Flippers and how he has managed to transition from being a successful apprentice into owning his own business.
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| 0:00.0 | Wax on, right hand. |
| 0:02.8 | Bucks off, left hand. |
| 0:08.6 | Hey, podcast, listener. |
| 0:10.2 | Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, |
| 0:12.6 | know that today, right now in your earbuds, |
| 0:14.8 | you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs |
| 0:17.0 | from all around the globe seeking to grow better, |
| 0:19.9 | more profitable, location-independent |
| 0:21.9 | businesses. If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, |
| 0:28.1 | check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:36.9 | One of the most frustrating parts of the entrepreneurial life script, the trajectory, is that when |
| 0:42.8 | you first hear about it and understand the benefits, you know, like living anywhere you want, |
| 0:48.5 | having money in the bank, being able to work on projects that you find personally interesting, |
| 0:53.4 | when you first hear all that stuff, you're probably not ready to start a business. I mean, that was certainly the case for me. I mean, I didn't even know where to start. You know the answer is starting your own business. But for many of us, we don't know what lies between right now, the present moment and that moment of Genesis when we can start our own business. Now, in the past on this show, we've said, if you're in that position, you need to go get an apprenticeship. And I very much think that's the case. But there's a bunch of problems with that advice. Number one, how do you get one? Where do you go to find one? And what happens after you get one? You know, what's the future look like for me? If I throw away my |
| 1:28.3 | career path and take on this apprenticeship idea you guys are talking about, what are the next |
| 1:33.2 | steps? It was actually seeing this trajectory in person that inspired this episode. The other night, |
| 1:38.3 | I was sitting around a table of 15 entrepreneurs and apprentices and someone leaned over to me |
| 1:43.8 | and said, you know, everyone is at this |
| 1:45.7 | table because of this concept. And when you looked around the table, you know, no one's going to a |
| 1:50.0 | nine to five job. People are living in exciting, interesting places, traveling a lot, working on |
| 1:55.8 | really cool businesses. And, you know, some of the people were wealthy and some of the people |
| 1:59.6 | were on the path and some of the people were just getting started. the people were on the path and some of the people |
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