The Derek Loudermilk Show

I'm super excited to have Tamara Jacobi on the podcast today to talk about her new book, life, and business - running an eco lodge in the Mexican Jungle Tamara and I met more than a decade ago in Colorado, and we have been following each other's life and business progress from afar (thanks social media). Tarmara is the founder and CEO of the Tailwind Jungle Lodge and author of Wildpreneurs: A Prac...

In this Friday’s episode, we are going to talk about Steve Jobs' reality distortion field and how you can have one too. I just finished reading Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs and there is a lot in there about the latter’s reality distortion field. Jobs used this to credit for his whole career. People would try to fight against it but will ultimately succumb to this. Basically, he would...

Today’s episode of the Five-Minute Friday is for those who are trying to do something big and exciting in the world. Often, I encounter people who are running in to fear when they are deciding to do something big. When they commit to do a project, fear sets in. It could either be the fear of success or the fear of failure. People try to get past that fear, but they end up staying in a stagnant pla...

Today’s guest on the Art of Adventure podcast is the super enthusiastic, young, and remarkable storyteller, keynote speaker, and best-selling author of The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World’s Most Successful People Launched Their Careers , Alex Banayan. When Alex was in college, before his final exams, he procrastinated and instead, hacked The Price is Right where he won a sailbo...

Today’s guest on the Art of Adventure podcast is a Singapore-based hypnotist, multi-time best-selling author and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Master Practitioner, Lee McKing (first name McKing - in Singapore they reverse the naming order). Named as such because his father believed he was destined for greatness, McKing has his fair share of cool and fascinating stuff. McKing learned NLP becau...

Today’s guest on the Art of Adventure podcast is the CEO of blockchain media company, publisher, and author, Sir John Hargrave. This is the third time John has been with us in this podcast, and this time, he will be talking about the blockchain technology. His latest book, Blockchain for Everyone: How I Learned the Secrets of the New Millionaire Class (And You Can, Too) , explains bitcoins and the...

Today’s guest on the Art of Adventure podcast is the New York Times bestselling author and national award-winning journalist, Alex Hutchinson. Alex primarily focuses on endurance and fitness. In fact, his latest book, ENDURE: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance , explores the science of endurance. Alex began his career as a physicist, with a Ph. D. from the University...

Today’s guest on the Art of Adventure podcast is the author, speaker, and a well-known thought leader on lucid dreaming, Robert Waggoner. Robert wrote the book, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self . For ten years, he has been co-editing the The Lucid Dreaming Experience online magazine. He has been lucid dreaming for over four decades, since the 70’s, with over a thousand lucid dreams logged...

Have you ever been un-motivated? Today, let us talk about that because this is something that happens to everyone, even myself. Motivation is not just a problem where you need to work harder or apply more will power. It is full of information - it is telling you something. Your lack of motivation may be because you are not connected with who you are trying to serve. You are not clear about how you...

Today’s guest on the Art of Adventure podcast is the leader in subconscious self-transformation, Jim Fortin. Jim is a Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) master practitioner. Jim is a well known international sales trainer for 6,7, and 8 figure businesses. He runs the podcast, Transform Your Life from the Inside Out . Jim may be best known for his expertise in transforming businesses to achieve the...

Today’s Five-Minute Friday episode is about the time when I moved my family - my wife and my two little kids - to Portugal, in the spring of 2019. We moved to Portugal for three months were we ended up living in a town called Atouguia Da Baleia, near one of the surfing capitals of Portugal - Peniche. It was pretty close to the beach. We were in this tiny village because it happened to have another...

Today’s guest on the Art of Adventure podcast is one of the best learners in the world, David Wood. David has appeared in our previous episodes and now he’s back with more interesting things to impart. David shares how he is reinventing his coaching business. As if he is not as interesting as he already is, David had, at one point, the world’s largest life coaching business. He was basically numbe...

Ghandi Fasting In the last five years, I have gone about forty days without food, mostly just consuming water. Some of these fasts are short, just two sleeps - basically a day of fasting - some of them are long, having gone for as long as eight days. I started experimenting with fasting when I lived in Bali, because a lot of people do juice fasts there. Bali has a big, healthy-eating culture and I...

The round things are the virus I discovered Some of you may know that I used to be a scientist. I was in grad school, studying viruses in the hot springs of the Yellowstone National Park and I discovered a new species of virus. I recently interviewed my academic mentor and adviser, Mark Young , and he talked about his discoveries. Now, I want to tell you about how it was for me. I was sitting ther...

It's amazing how much overlap there is between parenting and coaching. Half the time, I am coaching high performers, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders. The other half, I'm dealing with a two-year old. Both of them make me become better at the other. So here are the lessons that I learned from my toddler that you can use for your business.   * Feel all of your emotions When you are trying somethin...

My guest in this episode is the Virologist, Mark Young. Mark is a fellow in the American Academy of Microbiologists, an awarded distinguished lecturer, and on the board of the society of virology and many universities and organizations.  His work has been cited over 15,000 times. Mark Young was my academic adviser and mentor when I was a grad student at Montana State University. Together, we desig...

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash Before I coached entrepreneurs, I coached professional athletes and there is a lot of overlap. Here are 10 entrepreneurship lessons that translate from from the world of Pro sports: * Manage your energy. Pro athletes know that the most important thing is recovery. In sports, you can't improve unless you give your body time to rest and adapt. Learn to understand yo...

  Today’s guest on the Art of Adventure podcast is the amazing copywriter and persuasive writer, Chen Lehner. Chen has quickly grown a six-figure business running ad campaigns for other businesses. He teaches people how to write persuasively and write sales copy. He also helps entrepreneurs make money online. Chen considers himself a healer. He helps other people find their passion. He wants to he...

Preparing to ski out the next morning This is the story of the nearly deadly snowstorm It's dusk and I'm clawing my way out of the snow. I have just fallen off of the trail to neck-deep snow and I am using my ski to make stairs so that I could climb out of this pit of snow back onto this narrow trail and I could hardly see where I'm going because it's winter, and Valentine's Day, to add to that. T...

Today’s guest on the Art of Adventure podcast is a great writer, influencer, mentor, and founder of Digital Press , Nicolas Cole. Cole started as one of the top-ranked teenage gamers in the World of Warcraft and had since then found his way through the workings of the internet. He started a blog about gaming and became one of the most read blogs for gamers. Since then, there was no stopping him in...

This is the story of how I came face to face with a mountain lion. It was sunset and I was running on the trails of the Santa Rosa plateau in California. We were staying there for a couple of months with my wife's family and everyday I would go up to this nature preserve with is this amazing trail, much like an African savanna. It had rocky outcrops and grassland. It was a wonderful place to spend...

The guest on today’s podcast is the founder of Citrus and Gold , a marketing, coaching, and consulting business for thought leaders, Akansha Agrawal. As she puts it, Akansha helps purpose-driven brands find their voice & master their messaging to attract their dream customers and to create marketing content that not only sells but also feels good to promote. In this episode, Akansha answers qu...

For my 36th birthday last week, I decided to ride the longest ride I had ever done - 200km.  I had ridden long rides before, including races that were more than 170 km, but this would be just me and the open road. We are living in Portugal for a few months, and there are no mountains here, but there are also no flat places. I could expect just as much uphill as in the mountains. In this episode, I...

"People with privilege have a duty to do good things for the world" - Tommy Joiner Today’s guest on the podcast is one of the co-founders of a seven-figure business, the ContentPros , Tommy Joiner. As a teacher and entrepreneur, Tommy started his freelancing business from nothing. With his skills, creativity, and interest for numbers, his business had grown big after many years and have catered to...

From a free Glamping trip in 2018 Want to know how to get free trips and luxury hotel stays for being an influencer? People get really excited about getting free trips, gear, or luxury hotel stays just by posting on Instagram. And guess what? It's totally possible and probably easier than you think. The biggest thing is learning how to ask for what you want. Sometimes hotels and businesses will fi...