Johnny is a personal transformation blogger, who is constantly living and sharing his journey. He founded “Nomad Summit”, for example, which is a conference held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, each year, that attracts hundreds of people interested in the digital nomad life. He has podcasts, various online courses, he does coaching, blogging, writes books, among many other interesting projects.
I admire him for his hard work, for always sharing all that he learns and for constantly trying to be achieve a better version of himself. This way, he’s been helping thousands of people to do the same.
I first met him in Chiang Mai in 2015, while working at Punspace, my favorite coworking there. I was just starting this podcast when I attended “Nomad Summit” conference with around a hundred people (last year it was over 400 people) and I really enjoyed it. So I wanted to hear from him the story behind it all. And here you’ll have it. We talk about all the “sides” of Johnny and you can see how humble and giving he is.
It’s interesting to notice how he likes inspiring and challenging those who approach him. When I invited him to participate in the podcast, he asked me how many interviews I had already done. When I said that he’d be my third interviewee, he asked me to invite him again when I had five. So I did. We recorded this 18 months ago, when he made a new challenge.
I told him that I was taking around six months to publish each new episode because of my work as a business coach and because of my delaying perfectionism. I told him how much I wanted to be more like him to just put it out there, no matter how good it was. So he challenged me again to publish this episode in 30 days, but it took me 18 whole months!! Oh man!
I guess I owe him and my followers my apologies for taking so long and for keeping this great material all to myself. Shame on me! The truth is that I had to prioritize some other projects before I could come back to this podcast that I love producing. But the good news is that I did it now, rather than never. Right? So enjoy!
We talk about:
* Why Johny “FD"
* the reason he went to Thailand
* the difference between Koh tao and koh lanta for diving
* the many “sides" of him (Fighting, diving, podcasting, coaching, events, drop shipping, udemy courses, amazon books, etc)
* why he shares his income
* experience coaching groups to drop shipping
* instant x perfect
* How he approaches his projects - ex “friday nomad coffees”
* Good Karma
* what is “retirement” for him
* ego
* Nomad Summit evolution - from free event to a few people to 400 people
* CTA for those looking to make a career transition
Quotes:
“I think a lot of people spend too much time focusing on how to do it perfectly versus just getting started”
“Good Karma exists. The easiest way to make 1MM dollars is to help 1MM people”
“not everyone was meant to be an entrepreneur”
"even if I had to start over, I could do this again”
"if you have a job now, spend 2 months mastering it, and if you still don’t like it, change it!"