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Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle

Episode 345: TMBA345: You’re a Resident of Where?

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

4.9527 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

http://www.tropicalmba.com/estherjacobs/ One of the recurring themes on this show is freedom. The freedom to make personal choices. The freedom to travel. The freedom to create a business that allows you to live the lifestyle you choose to live.

Dan and Ian have spoken to many people about what that freedom means, but perhaps Esther Jacobs has the most profound story about freedom that has ever been shared on this show. Esther is one of the youngest people in the Netherlands ever to be honored with the distinction of knighthood. Despite that event, Esther has a very unique story to share about how she was disowned by the very same country that named her a knight. Esther has an unbelievable story, and it could carry serious implications for digital nomads all around the world.

Transcript

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The first thing I lost was my parking permit, which isn't a big deal.

0:04.0

But then I lost my voting rights, my pension rights, my right to Social Security.

0:09.6

So it was like my world was falling apart.

0:11.7

And they also kicked me out of the health insurance.

0:13.9

There was only one organization that kept saying,

0:17.1

Miss Jacobs, to us, you are and will always be a citizen of the Netherlands. And that was

0:22.6

a tech service.

0:27.1

Hey, podcast, listener. Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today,

0:31.9

right now in your earbuds, you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the

0:36.4

globe seeking to grow better,

0:38.3

more profitable, location independent businesses.

0:41.2

If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog,

0:46.4

check out tropical MBA.com. So we talk about a lot of things on this podcast, everything from how to start a business to specific kinds of businesses that were obsessed with like product-tized services, e-commerce, blogging, podcasting.

1:11.7

Lately, we've been thinking a lot about Amazon and investing, real estate, Boss Man's recent

1:16.4

purchase of a ranchette in Texas.

1:18.6

All fascinating issues. I'm sure everybody would agree.

1:21.9

These are the issues.

1:23.4

Occasionally, I think it makes sense, Dan, to dig a little deeper into the issues that face our

1:28.7

community. Specifically, I think you can say like location independent entrepreneurs. Why not?

1:32.9

Because look, we didn't start our business because we thought, you know, business was our calling

1:38.9

in life. We started it because we wanted personal freedom. To me, I think the thing that ties

1:43.1

together all the topics on the show, even the health

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