Live Different Podcast

Cody McLain is the founder of SupportNinja. He started his first business at 15 years old and has since built and sold four companies that have grossed millions in revenue. Cody has been featured in several notable publications including Forbes, Mashable, and Entrepreneur. Today, he blogs regularly on his website CodyMcLain.com. He's also the Executive Chairman at SupportNinja, a service dedicated...

David Spinks is the Founder and CEO of CMX Media . CMX is an association for community managers that provides events, membership, and training for teams and companies on how to launch and scale communities. He started CMX Summit and CMX Hub after he noticed that the thousands of community builders in the world weren't talking to one another. Ultimately, David seeks to help and empower communities...

Chris Hughes is an internet entrepreneur, world traveler, surfer, author, and CPA (Cost per acquisition) expert. Chris has been able to make a living as an internet entrepreneur while traveling the world, but it did not come easy. He's become a successful business owner by using "brute perseverance and force" to get to where he wanted to be. It took Chris 6 years of experimenting and failing befor...

Tim Sykes is a penny stock trader, entrepreneur, and full time teacher who has generated millions of dollars through his investment strategies. Dozens of Tim's students are now earning six figures/year and he's also created several millionaire students. Tim is in a field that is oversaturated with people who misinform and lie. Therefore, he seeks to be a truthful expert in his field and his result...

Leo Babauta is a writer from Guam, who was once deeply in debt, overweight, and a smoker. Within a few short years, he completely eliminated his debt, lost 65 pounds, quit smoking and started Zen Habits which was named Top 25 Blogs by Time Magazine (twice!). Leo has a wide range of accomplishments from writing a best selling productivity e-book , to creating a habit membership program that helps t...

I, Matt Wilson, was officially homeless.   Tamarindo, Costa Rica July 2012 My apartment in New York was packed up, my stuff was thrown out, donated, or put in various friend's attics.  I was free. I had nothing but my Marmot climbing pack on my back. Minimalism had been achieved.   Now it was time to see some shit. My plane landed in the eco-capital of the world-- Costa Rica, where 5% of all the w...

Joe Knoernschild is the co-founder of multi-national apparel giants Hurley and Billabong. He started the companies when he was just 26 years old and on the episode we chat about his love for surfing and adventure. We quickly learn that both surfing and adventure run deep in his DNA. Joe walks us through his story about how he went from making and selling surfboards, to making millions in sales, an...

"Matt Wilson, you want energy before Mountain Hut?" Siggi said to me in his thick Icelandic accent.   Hvolsvollur, Iceland March 2012 "Sure Siggi," I said.  "I'm pretty hungry."   Siggi dug into his mom's refrigerator and pulled out a heaping plate of leftovers.  Mashed potatoes, gravy, and a tender red meat I'd never had before… "Siggi, this is delicious, what is this?" I asked. He glanced down a...

Luz Garcia is a 1,500 Hour Registered Yoga Teacher with 14 years of yoga studies that have consisted of Yoga Works Method, Vinyasa Flow, Yoga Shala Method, Restorative, and Prenatal. Luz is driven by the philosophy that we are students forever and we need to continue learning every day. This philosophy has fueled her to perfect her craft.   Luz battled against depression and anxiety when she was y...

Matt Wilson Iceland March 2012: Becoming a Digital Nomad "Velkomin á Íslandi" I heard as I pried my eyes open getting off the red eye flight. Beautiful blonde Icelandic women with farm working physiques bullied their way gracefully to the overhead compartment.    My mountain guide met me at the terminal.   "Hello I am Siggurdur Bjarni Svienson." (spelling) he said with a long pause.  "But you can...

Diana Stobo is the award-winning author of the healthy lifestyle book Get Naked Fast! A Guide to Stripping Away the Foods that Weigh You Down to Lose Weight Fast . The book serves as a guide that Diana wrote from her own personal experience healing herself from illness, losing 100+ pounds, and changing her life. Diana is an expert on Naked Nourishment and juicing. She is also living proof that a h...

Matt Wilson   Wish you could make money and travel the world?    It starts with focusing on the things that are really important to you.   In today's experimental Live Different Podcast, my focus is minimalism.  This is a beginning of a series I will be releasing on Mondays to give you guys a look into what I've learned traveling the world over the past five years.   You can find the article to ac...

Chris Guillebeau  is a New York Times' Bestselling Author who shares strategies to start your Side Hustle to learn how you can make money on the side and travel. Chris is the author of the new book Side Hustle: From Idea to Income in 27 Days . Five years ago, I remember staying in a hostel on the beach in Nicaragua for $7/night reading Chris' original book The Art of Non-Conformity .  This is a bo...

  Joy Parish is co-host of Girls Gone WOD Podcast and a Licensed Professional Counselor. Joy and I talk about her journey creating a massively successful podcast . We also talk therapy, Crossfit, issues facing modern day society, and everything in between.  I ask her questions about what it's like to be a therapist and in this very casual conversation between friends, she drops some amazing pieces...

Rajiv Nathan is a Indian-American rapper, yoga teacher, pitch consultant, and storyteller… not necessarily in that order. Growing confidence in becoming yourself, growing your influence, confidence, and doing what you really want to pursue in life. Raj and I start off with some deep conversation about becoming the people we want to be, and his journey through adversity, pursuing his passions in a...

Daniel DiPiazza comes on the show for a fun chat about topics ranging from brain health, to becoming a best-selling author.   We talk about my latest exploration in optimal brain wave states, meditation, and neurofeedback.  Matt goes on a rant about eating enough fats, veganism, and Daniel talks about the high price of living in Los Angeles, why he decided to drive a Mercedes Benz, and why he want...

Zen Dudes, Brandon Epstein and Dan Witmer are fresh off their retreat to Costa Rica and are here to raise this planet's collective consciousness. These guys want you to have more fun and live the life you want. Lucky for you, they explain how to do it in this week's episode of the Live Different Podcast. Their tag line "do the thing" means that you have permission to ask yourself "what's my vision...

John Hall, CEO of Influence and Co , and author of the new book, Top of Mind: Use Content to Unleash Your Influence and Engage Those Who Matter to You joins us on the podcast today. We talk about how every person and brand can have an online content strategy and how to do it the right way. John is an expert on building credibility, authority positioning, and humanizing businesses in the online wor...

Nathan Chan of Foundr Magazine told me he found what he was born to do.   Nathan and I chat about travel and how it helped break him out of his comfort zone into a path of self discovery and growth.    Just a few short years later, Nathan has a multi-million dollar operation and has interviewed people like Richard Branson, Gary Vaynerchuk, Tim Ferriss, Daymond John, Arianna Huffington, Tony Robbin...

Tom Bilyeu is the co-founder of Quest Nutrition , creator of Inside Quest , & CEO of Impact Theory . In just five years, Tom helped grow Quest Nutrition into the second fastest growing private company in America. According to Inc. 5000, the company grew by 57,000% in the first three years alone. His podcast has hosted guests like Tim Ferriss, Michael Strahan, Wyclef Jean, and Gary Vaynerchuk to na...

Tim Sanders, New York Times' bestselling author and former Yahoo! Executive tells me, "Learning power is earning power." Are you one of those people who just isn't interested in sales?  In this episode, Tim deconstructs the secret to sales success.  Tim's latest book Dealstorming , "Translates years of experience coaching sales teams into a creativity technique" Tim advises millennials against cha...

Jordan Harbinger is the host of The Art of Charm , a top 50 podcast, with over 3 million monthly downloads, and growing. The Art of Charm helps it's listeners develop deep relationships so that people know, like, and trust you. The show combines human performance skills and psychology to deliver effective and actionable advice. In this episode, Jordan teaches us how to cultivate the skills that wi...

Laura Shin is a writer for Forbes where she focuses on personal finance and teaches people to master the art and business of freelance writing at IdeasWordsEmpires.com .   Laura gives actionable advice on becoming a better writer and how to make money from it.  She is also captivated by financial turnaround stories and has written countless articles for Forbes on people who retired early and have...

Thomas Edwards is the real-life "Hitch" and goes by the name " The Professional Wingman ".  But this episode is not about dating and how to be a pickup artist...    You are about to hear amazing insight on how you can grow confident in yourself and build the life you want.  Thomas was one of my closest friends when we lived in New York and chatting about these strategies regularly, helped me grow...

Colin Wright of Exile Lifestyle has had his blog readers vote on what country he'll move to, every few months for the past seven years!   Colin is one of the pioneers of being a digital nomad and one of the original Gen-Y bloggers.  He was a huge inspiration for us to start Under30CEO.com and a very early contributor to the site.   Colin and I share travel stories about everywhere from Iceland to...