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Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle

Episode 400: TMBA400: Back To Our Roots

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

🗓️ 3 August 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

http://www.tropicalmba.com/400thshow/ Dan and Ian have spent a substantial amount of their life making this show, nearly 8 years to be exact.

What better way to celebrate the 400th episode of this podcast than to return to one of their favorite episode formats: the good, old-fashioned Q&A.

This week, Dan and Ian are answering more listener questions, and riffing on topics like "Comfy Bed Syndrome" and "The Golden Handcuffs". You'll also hear some retrospective thoughts on 8 years of talking about entrepreneurship.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey podcast listener, even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, right now in your earbuds, you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe seeking to grow better, more profitable, location independent businesses.

0:17.8

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

0:23.5

Tropical MBA.com.

0:32.5

Boss, man, before we got on the air, you're dying over there.

0:35.3

Let us know what's going on.

0:36.6

What's it going on? Oh, my gosh. You were doing some math. No wonder you're dying over there. Let us know what's going on. What's it going on?

0:38.0

Oh, my gosh. You were doing some math. No wonder you're in pain. I just pulled out the calculator. This is a special show, but I didn't realize how much in my life this show has been, honestly. You didn't remember when we started the show. It just saw it for you. I didn't remember when, no. For some reason, everything is like three or four years ago in my head. Like everything just happened three or four

0:57.9

years ago. But this is our 400th episode. And when you divide 400 by 52, you get 7.69. Right. And that's

1:07.8

the friendly number because we didn't do 52 shows a year, every year.

1:12.5

So essentially what you're telling me is eight years we've been on these microphones.

1:17.6

Yeah, I've got to pull up my calculator, something like that. It's a long time. Don't you? I mean, you sort of feel like we should have accomplished more.

1:23.9

But here we are. We had a lot of sort of brainstorms about what this show was going to be maybe

1:30.7

something special cool turns out it's just me having a little mini breakdown before we record

1:36.8

as i pull out my calculator here's what we're going to do we're going to do one of our

1:42.8

favorite episode formats and one that we hope to do more of in the future. And that's where we're going to answer your questions. And just to get this out of the way, to get some head trash out of the way, I want to say something about how we're answering questions. Because we really appreciate it when you guys write into us. And it us to they're like prompts you know it's like

2:02.4

i'm going to help these jokers out they've been podcasting for the better part of a decade they need

2:07.3

ideas and that's really how we look at these questions and so sometimes i feel bad i'm not giving a good

2:12.9

answer to the question you know and i just want to sort of set that up in advance that we appreciate

2:18.6

your prompts and your inspiration, giving us issues that you feel like would be good for the show.

2:25.2

You know this, Dan, but just for the listeners out there, one of our favorite radio shows is Loveline.

2:29.5

And if you listen to Loveline, the format's pretty interesting. So someone calls in, they say,

2:34.1

I have this problem, they say, I have this

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