TMBA523: A Love Letter to the Philippines
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
For the first time in a decade, Dan and Ian are recording a podcast from one of their favorite places in the world, the Philippines.
The Philippines has been an integral part of their business for many years, and it continues to have a strong influence on the lives of so many entrepreneurs in the location-independent community.
On today's podcast, they'll be discussing their history in the Philippines, what the country has meant to their business, and whether it still makes sense for entrepreneurs to build teams in the Philippines in 2019.
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| 0:00.0 | All right. So I want you to do some real journalism stuff for me right now. I want you to do your |
| 0:08.2 | best to describe where we're at right now. We are literally in the middle of nowhere. Like, |
| 0:15.4 | if you look at a map, we wouldn't even come up. Hey, podcast, listener. |
| 0:21.9 | Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, |
| 0:24.3 | know that today, right now in your earbuds, |
| 0:26.5 | you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs |
| 0:28.7 | from all around the globe seeking to grow better, |
| 0:31.6 | more profitable, location-independent businesses. |
| 0:34.6 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do |
| 0:36.7 | and download our entire |
| 0:38.4 | back catalog, check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:50.4 | Welcome back to the pod. Join us today. Join me and the boss man on a tropical island for a little bit of a workcation. |
| 0:57.9 | What's more on brand than that? |
| 1:00.1 | That's right. |
| 1:00.7 | Recently, I packed up my laptop and not much else and flew to the Philippines to meet with |
| 1:06.9 | Ian to talk about our 2020 plans. |
| 1:10.5 | And one of the things that was just on the top of our mind |
| 1:12.9 | is this idea of sort of the country behind the country. And that's the Philippines, the place we're |
| 1:17.7 | going to talk about today, a place that's had an enormous impact on this community. |
| 1:24.2 | We've talked over the years about the idea of the micro multinational business. And just as |
| 1:30.5 | you design a lifestyle, you also design a business. Like, where's your addressable market? |
| 1:35.6 | Where are you going to live to reduce maybe your tax burden or to be the most productive? |
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