This episode was recorded in the same room(!) in Phuket, Thailand, on one of our quarterly global meet-up brainstorming extravaganzas. Hope you’ll enjoy some ideas we are cooking up. You can connect with us on twitter, if you are in to that kind of thing.

I gave a ring to my SEO expert and good friend Tom to give us that crash course in article marketing I promised in earlier. If you enjoy Tom’s advice, I’m sure I can hook him into more regular appearances, just let us know your SEO questions! As I said, this guy has 1000’s of dollars locked up in his head! We are not sending out emails for every episode, that means you need to pull our itunes feed or RSS feed (both links on sidebar and header) in order to get immediate updates. Twitter doesn’t hurt either! @TropicalMBA

Listen to this episode before our lawyer makes us take it down! I mentioned this interview from Mixergy: Thursday, Dec 17 @ 11 AM Pacific live on Mixergy.com(currently available via Mixergy feed on iTunes). Colin Plamondon, Founder of Spreadsong

I'm pullin' in quick excerpt from Gary Vee about baselining. We'll discuss creative start-up scenarios in Asia, ask how hungry are you, introduce the concept of resort hopping, and the future of Asian lifestyle destinations as marquee locations for new online based entrepreneurs and start-ups.

We’ve also determined that there are two types of people in the world: those who are crushing it, and those who are not. Look around the room right now– see anybody who is crushing it? We know you are crushing it!

We read the 4 Hour Work Week, wrote down some goals, and started a company. Over 2 years later, we're here to tell you about it. Plus some other stuff.

This is a pretty informal podcast that outlines 2 challenges I’ve faced in the past week when it comes to being effective and getting stuff done. I thought I’d share with one tactic and one mindset I’ve employed that’s helped me to get some tough stuff done and get on with growing my business.

Hey everybody, we are back with a list of 10 very inexpensive online software services (and some other stuff!) we use to help us run our business and stay productive. All of these services are either very inexpensive or free, and can be implemented in your business immediately. Hope you enjoy!

In this episode I outline the one simple lightweight packing tip that changed my approach to traveling forever. Next week we'll be back with more business.

This is the first episode recorded from two corners of the globe (the Philippines, and San Diego California). Today we take an insider’s look at outsourcing in the Philippines.

In this episode we explore one major myth about entrepreneurship, how to program your brain, and why home owners give bad advice. We also give a parting shot with a definition of what lifestyle business is really all about. In other news, I am currently on a world class tropical island with very few tourists and great WIFI. I’m doing it for LESS than it costs me to live in California. Shortly I’ll be pulling together the economics of how living in paradise can actually save you money. I’ll be sending that information out to those on the mailing list… if you are interested just put your name into the opt-in form at the top of the page.

I was really inspired by Frank Kern’s recent videos with Tony Robbins on how to overcome fear– I pulled out a fear-beating technique I’ve used on many occasions to take on difficult but valuable tasks.

Lifestyle designers need passive income, or at least sources of income that aren’t tied to time or location. Let’s call it “results based mobile income.” I’ve seen so many interesting ways to creative an incredible lifestyle, and in this episode I’ll share a few– each method of creating a passive income is inspired by actual people I’ve met along my travels. I am doing some tweeting at @Danspodcast, but the best way to reach me is via email, Dan@lifestylebusinesspodcast.com

Thanks to everyone who wrote us great questions on the last podcast. This episode is about the single most important thing we think you can do to grow your business today. We hope you enjoy it. You can send your questions to Dan@Lifestyle-Business-Podcast.com or follow me on twitter @DansPodcast.

In this episode Ian and I finish up our discussion about 10 key differences between business flashpackers and more traditional backpackers. You can follow my updates on twitter @Danspodcast. See you next episode!

In this episode, we get started with our 2 part conversation about a select group of entrepreneurs who have decided to create businesses while they travel the world. They fall into a new group of travelers called flashpackers, and we discuss how this new group of mobile entrepreneurs travel differently than their backpacker brethren.