In This Weeks Podcast we show you more of our Jet Set Life bloopers, watch when Rob turns into a diva, take you on our fearful flight to St. Barth’s, show you what Rob looked like 40 pounds heavier and Kim finally concedes that Rob was right!

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In this week’s podcast watch our favorite Jet Set Life bloopers, laugh at Rob’s Fear Factor audition tape, learn how we became the laughing-stock of St. Tropez and uncover Cartagena’s sweetest weapon!

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In this weeks podcast Rob tells you about his NYC rub & tug experience, we replace ourselves for a day hosting Jet Set Life and Kim uncovers the racket of table service in NYC!

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In this weeks podcast we tell you how we accidently got caught in the middle of a bar fight, how we get into a fight with a hotel owner and how our New Years Eve countdown got hijacked.

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In this weeks podcast we tell you how Rob almost got thrown in jail in Buenos Aires, the do’s and don’t’s of flying with kids and one of Rob’s most embarrassing moments that has now become a You Tube sensation.

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BEST N.Y.C. Dinner Spots:

Babo
Lavo
The Darby
Beauty & Essex

Best N.Y.C. After Dinner Lounges:

LAVO Lounge
Gold Bar
Above Allen
Lobby Lounge Mandarin Oriental
Upstairs at Kimberly
Pegu Club

Best N.Y.C. Fun Things To Do

Eataly
Cupcakes at Magnolia Bakery
Spin Ping Pong
Russian Turkish Bath

Best N.Y.C. After Clubbing Burger Joint:
POP Burger

Best N.Y.C. Breakfast Spots:
Norma’s
Pastis
Kitchenette Downtown

Best N.Y.C. Club To Party:

1 OAK

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In our first episode we take you inside our experience at Cave Paradiso in Mykonos this summer for the Tiesto event. We walk our neophyte bodies into a world of music, partying and chaos that we’ve never quite experienced before. Next, we move on the the comical story of Rob “leaving the key up”, suffering the consequences of the Greek-God of Pavement and sticking his big toe into the world of the scooter mafia. Then we’re on to the latest ball-breaking experience of booking a prime table at 1 Oak for New Year’s Eve. Finally Kim treats us to her favorite new, low calorie cocktail that she basically stole from Andy Cohen.

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As most of you know Kim and I super obsessive about finding “in the know” spots around the world. We just got back from an amazing trip to San Diego and I want to share our list of a few of our favs….

BREAKFAST
Americana Restaurant
Crepes and Corks
Pacifica Breeze Cafe

LUNCH- OVERLOOKING OCEAN
George’s On The Cove
Jakes Del Mar
Pacifica Del Mar
The Cottage

LUNCH
Prep Kitchen
Marine Room
Whisk’nladle

DINNER- TO WATCH SUNSET
Flavor Del Mar
Poseidon Restaurant On The Beach
Burlap
Il Fornaio

COCKTAILS- TO WATCH SUNSET
Enoteca del Forneo Italian Wine Bar & Cafe
Waterfall Terrace at Bleu Bar at L’Auberge Hotel

DESSERTS
Babycakes
Cups
Sprinkles

DOWN TOWN (Gas Lamp)
Vin de Syrah
Searsucker
Extraordinary Desserts

Men, have you noticed that as you get older you want to go out and party till the sun comes up less and less? Girls, have you noticed that the responsibilities of work and family have crept in and you don’t get to dance as much as you would like to?

Why is it that in America clubs are for twenty year olds? And, in Europe, you find yourself fist pumping next to a 50 year old? There’s probably lots of reasons and frankly who cares. The point is we tend to get boring as we age over here in North America.

Don’t get me wrong- I’m totally guilty of it myself. But, I decided to change things up in my life. You know…try new experiences. Before we went to Mykonos this summer a friend told me that we should see Tiesto at Cavo Paradiso. I said who’s Tiesto? He said, “dude come on”. I said “really, have no clue”. He said “Google him”.

So begins my journey…..

Turns out this Mr Tiesto guy has -um- 10,018,516- Facebook fans. JEZUZ! Who the hell is this guy? Turns out DJ magazine voted him the worlds best DJ. Fair enough. I’ll give em a listen. I called my favorite hotel front desk girl Eleni and asked her if she would get me some tickets to see him. She called me back and said “all the tables are sold out”. Wait a minute. Sold out? He’s not coming for two months! I don’t want to see the second coming of Elvis. I just want to see a DJ.

Ultimately my Rock Star front desk girl Eleni (read more about her here) was able to score the tickets through some other channels.

Kim and I were told to get there at midnight to secure our VIP table. Tiesto would come on at around 3am. He would play until the sun rose and the first airplane lands at the nearby airport. He did and it did.

Wow. What an experience…

Trying to set this scene is next to impossible. I’ll try. Imagine 4000 people in a club which is built into a bluff and overlooks the Mediterranean. When you first arrive at Cavo Paradiso you completely think that you are inside a club with four walls.

Around 4 am you notice something strange happening to one of the walls. It begins to turn purple. After a few cocktails and being up all night you sort of don’t pay that much attention to it. Until you look again and see that that “purple wall” actually isn’t a wall and has now miraculously been transformed into the Mediterranean ocean. Holy sh*t bawlz. We’re outside!

Before you can say “where’s my glow stick”, Tiesto points out to the horizon from his pulpit, indicating that something is coming. I try and rub the alcohol out of my eyes in vain to make out what’s coming. I see two headlights twinkling in the distant sky which appear to be an airplane. I thought, maybe it was Tiesto space ship coming to pick him up because the gig was over (I later found out he has a Lear Jet for that).

As the twinkling headlights begin to look more like two bright round fireballs hitting their final approach on our dance floor. Tiesto musically scores the landing to classical music which makes you feel as if you and 4000 other people are landing the plane with just the crowds’ combined energy.

I can only imagine what the Captain who just piloted in this overnight flight must be thinking. 4000 people jumping, dancing, screaming and pointing at him as he lands his massive beast of metal at the airport adjacent to Cavo.

After that night I officially became Tiesto Facebook Fan #10,018,517. For me, It’s more then just being a part of good music. It’s about being willing to embrace that dark side we all have inside us. We spend so much of our lives being restrained and contained. Maybe it’s time to take a walk on the dark side. Even if it’s just to party one night until the sun comes up with 4000 of your closest friends.

I wanted (needed) to understand more of what was going on behind the scenes at Cavo Paradiso. So, I asked resident DJ Stathis Lazarides to explain it all. I found him to be an amazing man that is filled with an infectious level of love.

Here’s my interview with him:

Listen as Drew Patterson, the founder of Jetsetter.com tells us more about his invitation-only online community for jet set travelers and how he created this highly successful business.

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In this episode of The Jet Set Insider Show I had the pleasure of interviewing Drew Patterson. He shared his views and plans of action of addressing some of the challenges jet setters experience from other travel sites that don’t do a great job of assisting them to on where to go next. Drew tells us how his business caters to giving jet set travelers around the world a one of a kind travel experience they are looking for.

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• Drew telling us his background before he started his business with Jetsetter.com
• How and why his website attracted an interesting audience of young, affluent and discerning consumers who are looking for new ideas for their travel experiences.
• How Drew and his team of travel correspondents maintain and develop quality control of their travel services for their clients.

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I’ll keep this short and sweet…

Without Steve, Jet Set Life wouldn’t be here. We started our company because we were intrigued by the “new world” of iMovie and video podcasts. We began our journey by sharing our travels as a hobby, now we have a full fledged business. He inspired us to dream bigger and become better. Simply put, Thank You Steve, you have changed our life immeasurably. The following are words to live by…. I mean to TRULY live by. I hope they inspire you as they have inspired us. These  are the three quotes that are huge part of our life and Jet Set Life.

“If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?”   And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.” ~ Steve Jobs

 “You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has   made all the difference in my life.” ~ Steve Jobs

“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.   You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.” ~ Steve Jobs 

Who knew that radio would die a slow death and podcasts would skyrocket? Ummm…I guess Steve Jobs did. He’s a smart f***r. I think he’s going to go places some day :)

Lately, I have become quite the podcast listener. For me, it’s that sweet spot of passively listening during certain activities. Rarely, am I doing nothing and just focused on listening. I’m usually in the car or on the treadmill. I’ve turned into that guy who drives down the road with his ear buds in. Is that legal? I’m not sure.

I digress….

I decided to give you my top picks for the podcasts I listen to. So, in no particular order here we go.

BEST INTERNET/BUSINESS/ENTREPRENEUR PODCASTS

1. The Rise To The Top – This dude, David Siteman Garland, is frickin’ phenomenal. He is the best friend, that I have never actually met. He has a very Larry King interview style. He has you laughing your a** off while your learning medipreneurship (his word).

2. The Smart Passive Income Podcast – This one is hosted by a guy named Pat Flynn. Pat and I were in a program together called Internet business mastery a few years back. He has since created one of the BEST podcast hands down on Internet marketing. He’s kind, smart, honest and ethical.

3. Internet Business Mastery – I started listening to these guys before I created my first website. Their names are Sterling and Jay. They do a solid job explaining the world of online marketing to beginners.

4. The Lifestyle Business Podcast – Dan Andrews does this podcast from wherever he happens to be in the world. Last time I checked he was in Bali. The podcast is essentially about how to run an online business and live the lifestyle design that you read about in The Four Hour Work Week.

5. Mixergy – This is Andrew Warner’s podcast. He has a bit of a reputation of being a bit of a hard news guy. I never actually found him to be that way. The guy absa-frikkin-lutely does his homework though. It’s an interview style podcast with the movers and shakers of the world.

6. 37 Signals – This is a podcast from the people that created Base Camp, Camp Fire and Back Pack. The are super smart people that will teach you how to distill your business down to what works and eliminate what doesn’t.

Another way to be well rounded is to have some fun! If you haven’t tried Party Poker you should! These guys take poker to a whole new level!

BEST FUNNY/INTELLIGENT/PODCASTS

1. Adam Carolla – You may know Adam from Loveline on MTV with Dr. Drew. Adam is a super smart and very quick-witted guy that will keep you laughing AND thinking. He actually holds the Guiness Book of World Records for the highest amount podcast downloads ever.

2. Girl on Guy with Aisha Taylor – This is a very funny chick with a potty mouth. She has been the host of talk soup and been on the TV series 24. She’s extremely versatile and super funny.

3. The Joe Rogan Experience – Joe was the former host of Fear Factor and is a touring comedian. He is very deep, very real and really dark. He has a lot to say about a lot of things.

4. Mohr Stories – Jay Mohr is a comic/actor. Probably best known for either playing an agent in the Jerry Maguire movie or for marrying super hot Nikki Cox (of the TV show Las Vegas). He is really, really funny and gets GREAT guests.

5. The Nerdist – I don’t really know that much about this guy. His name is Chris Anderson and he’s a comedian. I don’t even really know why he calls the podcast “The Nerdist”. I do know that he has great guests and really interesting conversation.

BEST DJ PODCASTS

1. Tiesto’s Club Life – I am a crazy fan of Mr Tiesto. Went to see him live in Greece this year. It was fantastic. He does a weekly podcast where he samples his music and other top DJ’s. It’s my favorite for sure.

2. Above and Beyond – I’m not sure if this is one DJ or two. But, they have an awesome weekly radio show if you like house-music. It’s great background music to write to.

3. Matt Darey Nocturnal Podcast – Matt Darey is a Top 100 DJ who tours the world and does the podcast from wherever he happens to be. He features many different types of club music. I love his style of club music.

4. Sander Van Doorn – Sander is a world class DJ. He’s probably in the top 3 in the world. Love this podcast. Great music and very little talk. Just great beats.

So there you have it. My podcast favorites.

It’s official. Kim and I have drank more cocktails (around the world) than anyone else on the planet. It’s true. We’ve actually done the research.

This coveted distinction makes us total experts in this field.

Soooooooo…….

We decided to create our newest brand – Jet Set Cocktails.

For now they are recipes. Soon they will be real live products that you can get off the shelf.

Our first cocktail is the “Jet Set Mojito”.

This one comes from the beautiful island of Paros, Greece.

It’s called the Jet Set Mojito!

Here’s the recipe:

A Bit Of Background First:
There are really just 5 ingredients: fresh mint, rum, lime, and carbonated water.
Note – Simple Syrup will ruin this cocktail. Only use raw sugar.

What You Will Need:
-Fresh mint
-Limes (one for each drink)
-2 fl oz of Bacardi Superior light (let’s try and keep you lean AND hammered:)
- Club Soda
-2 tablespoons of raw sugar

Step 1
Cut the limes into quarters and pick the mint leaves off of the stems.

Step 2
Get a good “muddler” and a sturdy glass. The cocktail’s success depends on the blending of the lime and mint.

Step 3
Muddle a generous pinch of the mint, three lime wedges and the raw sugar in the bottom of a tall mojito glass.

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Step 3
When the ingredients are well pulverized, add ice to fill the glass.

Step 4
Fill the glass with 2 ounces of rum – with the ice, the glass should appear about 3/4 of the way full.

Step 5
Shake or stir the mixture until fully blended.

Step 6
Fill the remainder of the pint glass with soda water and garnish with a lime wedge, a mint sprig, and a sugar cane swizzle stick.

Kim and I just got back from the beautiful island of Paros Greece. We stopped there on our way to Mykonos to check out a fantastic B&B.

Fun Fact: I’ve never actually stayed at a Bed and Breakfast before.

We just wanted to try something new and see what it was like. The B&B we stayed in was fantastic! No frills. Just cool. It’s in an absolutely perfect location too.

Anyhoooo…..

We shot this video to show you what it’s like:

Oh yeah….

Here’s our Secret List of where to stay, eat and play in Paros (this ones on us:).

Enjoy!

DINNER RESTAURANTS
Siparos-Go early to see the sunset. This restaurant is on the way to Santa Maria which is really nice! Ask them if they have the Sea Urchin cocktail. Romantic waterfront setting, beautifully designed restaurant and good food

Sigi Ihthios (Silence of the Fish)- Beautifully located on the harbor, ideal for a romantic dinner.

Yemeni- A traditional greek good local restaurant

LUNCH RESTAURANTS
Oi Kolimbithres- Great Taverna with views of the sea and the bay. Perfect place to stop for a late lunch or to watch the sunset with a snack. Must have their home made Tyropitakia (cheese pie) its the best on the island

Nava-On Santa Maria Beach Enjoy a beach lunch or a romantic dinner

Tsapinis- local place that fisherman go to octopus hanging.

SUNSET COCKTAILS
Magaya Beach Restaurant Bar – Souvlia Beach, Parikia One of the most relaxing places on Paros. Lulled into a pleasant stupor by soft chill-out music, waving banana fronds and a perfectly mixed Mojitos.

BARS
Fotis
Agosta
Del Mar

DANCING
Linardo-has the best location with windows on the sea
Ranta- mostly Greek music
Kavarnis- 60′s and 70′s),
Sofrano- 60′s-80′s
Nestos- Club for Greek music lovers.

BREAKFAST
Cafe Sante- delicious omelets and all kinds of coffees

BEACHES
Santa Maria- lots of sea-sport facilities and bars with nice music
Kolimbithra
Monastiri

Listen as Dustin Reichman tells us how he created a lifestyle design based on his passion as a marriage adviser to struggling, young, married couples while still continuing a career as an engineer. If you want to do the same, just go to www.getjetsetmoney.com 

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In this episode of The Lifestyle Design Confessions Podcast, we interview Dustin Reichman. He has a successful career as an engineer but also decided to start an internet business on a niche that he and his wife are most passionate about…giving advice to engaged and married couples ranging from financial start ups, good communication, parenting to health and fitness.

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• Dustin explains what his two websites (Fit Marriage and Engaged Marriage) are all about and how he started this particular online business.
• What made Dustin decide to pursue his passion in helping young and busy married couples go through the challenges of marriage while keeping themselves healthy and fit.
• How Dustin balances his married life, family, career as an engineer and his business as an online entrepreneur.
• Dustin’s advice on how others can start with an online business for their chosen niche.

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Rob: Hey everybody! Welcome to another edition of the Lifestyle Design Confessions Podcast. Today we have Dustin Reichman on the line. Dustin along with his wife is the co-creator of the www.fitmarriage.com and www.engagedmarriage.com ; those are two websites and today we’re going to talk to Dustin and find out what that’s all about. So without further ado, Dustin, are you there?

Dustin: I’m here Rob. I’m very excited to be here with you.

Rob: Cool! Did I say your name right?

Dustin: It’s actually Reichman (Rik-man). Everybody gets it wrong so no sweat.

Rob: I should have known better…okay, cool! Alright, so let’s kind of get into it; could you start off a little bit and explain what those 2 websites you have are and what they’re all about.

Dustin: Sure thing, yes. Engaged Marriage is all about helping busy, young couples. So it’s sort of coming from my own perspective you know, young children; I’ve been married 10 years now but kind of looking back into those newly-wed years, the first 5 years of marriage. So it covers everything from how to set up your finances the right way, to good communications, to parenting skills; so it’s really a content-oriented type for busy, young couples. By the way, Engaged Marriage is going on 2 years old.
Fit Marriage is only about 6 months old and it is a site that’s obviously about fitness; same target group though so sort of the same people who I love to serve my niche, these young, busy couples. In this case though we’re bringing in the message of health and fitness, why it’s so important within all the craziness that you experience at this part of your life and then how to make it happen. So that’s the synapses of those 2 sites.

Rob: Okay. So most of the people who are listening to this podcast are people that maybe read The Four Hour Work Week or they know that there’s something out there called the internet and people are making money on it and living a certain, sort of automated lifestyle, they can live anywhere they want in the world while their website is making money, etc. but I want to sort of like “peel the onion” back a little bit and I want to kind of start at the beginning. What was your lifestyle like prior to Fitness Marriage? I know that you have sort of a unique circumstance now where by choice, you’re an engineer and you really liked doing what you do so you’re continuing to do it. But you’ve also set something up where if you one day woke up and said, “I don’t want to do the engineering anymore. I just want to do this.” You have that option so you’re creating…which is a very engineering thing to do by the way (laughs). So tell me a little bit…let’s kind of start from the beginning. What was your lifestyle like prior to Fit Marriage and Engaged Marriage and what has motivated you to go online and create these businesses?

Dustin: Yeah, sure. So it all started with Engaged Marriage. In August 2009, my wife and I were vacationing; at that time we just had one child and we’re away from that child, we’re down in Cancun, along the beach and kind of enjoying that life for at least a week and I was just have this craving to do something a little different, do something creative. I’ve been an engineer all my career, I have a Masters in engineering and that has just been my thing and I’ve always been a left-brain thinker as you could probably tell. And so we’re down there and I’m reading a book called No More Mondays at that time by a guy named Dan Miller who’s a big career coach kind of guy and I haven’t yet found The Four Hour Week although I did later picked that up but the real impetus for Engaged Marriage is I was lying down there thinking, “You know, I want a creative outlet and I want a side income.” And you know, I’m technically savvy enough, I should be able to figure this stuff out and I have heard a little bit about internet business; I didn’t know what a “blog” was, I didn’t know anything specific about it but it made me sit and talk to my wife and I made the decision. And also the reason was Engaged Marriage initially was for 5 years prior to that, really our whole married life we’ve been kind of in a marriage ministry; we’ve been going and talking to engaged couples, doing marriage retreats and we just love interacting with other young couples and kind of sharing their struggles and giving them any advice that we have. So I was like, “You know, I should be able to kind of go ‘new school’ with that advice because so much of it was ‘old school’ through churches and things and let’s do this online.” So that’s really where Engaged Marriage came from. It was intended to be kind of a side business, a creative outlet and a way to further our marriage ministry all at the same time.

Rob: Now when you say ministry, obviously we’re talking spiritual, Christian type of stuff. Is that what you mean?

Dustin: Yes. That’s the context I’m using but then not so much that all I’m in is accept donations on the side. It’s not a ministry in that sense, it’s also a business.

Rob: You know, let’s talk a little bit about the lifestyle design that you guys have set up for yourself, you and your wife; and her name is Bethany, right?

Dustin: Yup.

Rob: Weird question I suppose but what’s it like running a business with your wife? You guys obviously…you’re working as an engineer so you’re at the office and she’s home. Do you guys sort of communicate throughout the day on the website or…how does that work?

Dustin: It’s kind of a mixed bag as well; with Engaged Marriage, I would consider her my business partner. I create the content. I’m more of an entrepreneur at heart, she’s not so much but she is very supportive particularly at that site because the topic is so near and dear to her heart. So her role is a lot more as idea-bouncer-offer, proofreader, she helps spread the word through social media in her own kind of Facebook networks and friends. And so there’s not a lot of active business things going on between her and I and that’s true with Engaged Marriage. Engaged Marriage also, with it being 2 years old, it’s a little more on auto-pilot at this point. We’ll talk I’m sure a bit more of the details…

Rob: We will…yes.

Dustin: Fit Marriage is completely different. At Fit Marriage, again she’s supportive of it but it’s not her thing and I actually have a business partner with Fit Marriage; a guy by the name of Tony DiLorenzo and he’s in San Diego. I’m here in Southern Illinois near St. Louis. So that creates a whole different dynamic where I’m maintaining a 40-hour plus career, I’m doing Engaged Marriage with Bethany and I have Fit Marriage going with Tony and it’s very much in a growth phase so there’s a lot of correspondence between us throughout the day, you know Twitter, direct messages, emails, popping on the phone now and then and it’s a real juggling act but it’s…and people, when I started telling them the things that are going on, they kind of look at me cross-eyed like, “Why do you do this?” And again we can talk about the “why” but you know I really enjoy it; I have a hard time seeing things any other way and I feel like I have found the right boundaries to make it all work.

Rob: You’re in sort of into a unique situation and that you have a job that you like; most people have a job that they hate and they want to get out of it and they try and do something online, create sort of a different lifestyle but you have both so I’d be interested to know what your thoughts are working in a company that you like and running a business online. Obviously there are pros and cons to both but you know, from your perspective, what’s the difference between sort of a brick and mortar, ‘I show up for work 40 hours a week’ versus having an online business?

Dustin: You know I would say lean more to the entrepreneurial side. However, what I do as an engineer…I don’t sit in a cube and crunch numbers; it’s also fairly entrepreneurial. It’s a fairly small company. I’m not the owner of that company, at least not yet but we are a consulting firm and I work a lot with like commercial developers. It’s pretty high at pace. I mean there’s a huge variety at day to day, it’s profit-driven also. You know the setting is obviously different. I have to work with team members there. Most of the things I do aside from working with Tony is pretty solo on the online business side.

Rob: How old are you?

Dustin: I’m 32.

Rob: You’re 32. So do you see yourself sort of as you’re getting older, leaning maybe more towards online or do you see yourself still sort of split? In other words, is there an exit strategy for you?

Dustin: That’s a great question. To exit, I have to get things up to another level online and I really thought Fit Marriage is at potential; in the 6 months it has been around, it’s grown like crazy. I’ve been very happy with that. So that’s the question I ask myself; as you can imagine I’m a real planner…you know with 3 little kids, I’m an engineer and I have all these things going on so I’m always trying to take that long horizon look. Frankly, right now I’m not sure. I mean I’m thinking 5 years I’ll probably still be doing the engineering gig hopefully at the same firm. I really love it and you know, maybe I’ll be in a little different position there. I can see myself going part time engineering or I’m still managing a group but I’m not doing any day to day projects and I’m taking more of that higher level role but on a part time basis, if that becomes feasible and then ramp it up online…it’s a tough question that’s why I still struggle with it so…

Rob: I’ll tell you from a perspective of a guy that’s close to 15 years older than you with now a teenager…

Dustin: Sure! (laughs)

Rob: And I’ll tell you that you know, at 32, what I thought I would be doing at 42 is completely different. So I wrote a great blog post called The Failure Of The 10-year Plan.

Dustin: I loved it.

Rob: And you know you have all these visions…you know I talk to all these 30 year olds, “This is my excel spreadsheet of the next 10 years.” (laughs) you know, and the reality is think about where you were when you were 22. You had no…you weren’t even close…you know what I mean?

Dustin: I do, not even close. And for that matter 2 years ago, I mean like I told you, this whole online world open up to me only 2 years ago with Engaged Marriage. And then Fit Marriage being only 6 months old and then being set up much more from a business standpoint. I’ve seen the power of that but yeah, I mean jeez…when I was 30 I had no idea what I’d be doing at 32. I would have never guessed I had 2 online businesses, one in fitness and one in marriage. I’m at a different firm on the engineering side as I was at that time, we had another child; so yeah, I mean life will do what life is going to do but we try to plan and we try to set things up to be in place when we get there.

Rob: So out of all the online businesses that you could have chosen to go into, you chose to go to the world of fitness. You know, I mean other than how to make money online, I can imagine that there is a more…maybe dog training but I can’t imagine there is a more competitive market. So what are your thoughts on it? Is it super competitive, is it difficult or is it just that you have a big passion for it and you don’t care?

Dustin: You know the way I look at it is, it is obviously a multibillion dollar industry but that’s a good thing to me. It means there’s obviously a need for that particularly in the U.S., I mean with the obesity epidemic and there’s a huge overall problem that needs to be solved. But the way I look at it is I’m not intimidated by the competition because I’m not trying to be the next beach body you know, the mimickers like P90X; I’m not trying to be that next big corporate, sort of everyone kind of company. Our whole mission and goal is to serve this audience that we understand very well which is these married couples, people with young kids who kind of lost that “before baby body” and they want to get it back. You know the guy’s 30 like me, he lost his step in basketball, he’s getting injured and they’re fed up with it and they want to rewind the clock 5 or 10 years on their fitness level. So we’ve defined a very specific niche, you know, very specific group of people and that we want to serve and there aren’t many people serving those folks online so I think we have a unique voice. So despite all the huge craze on fitness particularly online, we’re different and then we serve different clientele and I think that’s been the key to the growth so far.

Rob: So what advice would you give to someone that’s listening to this interview right now and says, “You know, I got an idea. I got an idea for something, I want to go online and I’m working. I may or may not like my job. I’m just kind of concerned about…I don’t know anything. I don’t even know what a ‘blog’ is. I don’t know how to get traffic to my site and I don’t know how to sell anything. This is so overwhelming to me.” What advice would you give to them?

Dustin: A couple of things…I think from the standpoint of an idea for an online business, without getting into the details, it’s very easy to do. It has virtually no barrier to entering. For under100 bucks you could be up and running. You do need some advice. I mean, Jet Set Money is probably a good resource for that. There are other ones out there. There isn’t a shortage of good advice for how to get started. But you kind of look in a little bigger than that…you know I would just make sure it’s something that you’re passionate about. I mean people have some success running little niche sites about products they don’t care about and that’s okay but you have to do a lot of that. For me the choice was more “who are the people I relate to the best and how I can serve them” and I have found two different ways so far to serve the same people. Eventhough it’s online, I mean people can really perceive passion and they can tell if you’re the real deal and that you really care about them just in the way that you conduct your business and that’s going to shine through a lot more than something you actually care about. So bottom line, find something that you actually care about, invest a little bit on training so you can get up and running pretty quickly and then work hard…I mean if you have a day job; I’m going through that still. I get up early, I work in the morning, I get my exercise ahead so I’m not a hypocrite and then I get to the other job and I do some at night. Usually more interviews and things like that. It is hard work and then if you’re married and you have a family, you need to communicate that upfront so your spouse knows what you’re getting into.

Rob: Alright, so we are going to find out the question that everybody wants to know, “How does Dustin make money?” so for now, I want to wrap up the first part of this interview for our podcast listeners and I want to take Dustin over to inside our Jet Set Money Membership to do the second half of our interview. And if anybody would like to become a Jet Set Money member, all you have to do is to go to www.getjetsetmoney.com and sign up. Dustin, if people want to follow you, get a hold of you, check out your website, what’s the best way that they can do it?

Dustin: Naturally I’m all over the place, on Facebook, Twitter and all those things but the easiest way, just come over to www.fitmarriage.com, and my email address is dustin@fitmarriage.com and from there you’ll find everything else.

Rob: Alright Dustin, thanks so much!

Dustin: Sure thing! Thanks for having me on.

Where the hell are my Abs? It seems like I JUST saw them not that long ago. Did somebody steal them? Have I been the victim of some sensless crime? Ok, this isn’t funny. Not only did someone steal my abs, but whoever took them, replaced them with a belly that jiggles everytime I take a step!

Ahhh…if explaining the loss of one’s abs were as easy as pointing the finger at someone else. What really happened to that diced up six pack that I had at 16? Is it gone forever? I went on a search, (no, a mission) to find out. I’m just vein (and annoying) enough to not stop until I find out the answers.

Here’s the strange part. I never really let my self go. I worked out all the time. It was almost like my workouts were failing me. I wasn’t a contestant for the biggest looser or anything. It’s just that I looked kind of soft and mushy. It seemed like all the weightlifting I was doing was making me more muscle-y, and soft and mushy. And, all the cardio I was doing didn’t seem to be helping either. Here’s a pic:

What gives? It’s GOT to be my diet. Right? So, I cut WAY back on what I was eating. I made a HUGE drop in the calories I was taking in and….nothing! No change. Well, maybe a little, but I certainly didn’t see a 6-pack.

This was starting to get REALLY irritating! I had only two choices here. Give up or figure it out. I decided to figure it out. The answers didn’t come fast. There is a lot of crap out there about how to get lean. Most of it is just that, crap and doesn’t work.

I wanted to try a totally different approach. I began my search for answers by stepping into the world of fitness modeling. I thought…who would know better than the people who make their living on staying shredded. I knew it was more than just going to the gym and watching what you eat, because I was already doing that and I didn’t look like anything like this:

Turns out I was right. They did have tricks and none of those tricks were even close to what I was doing. In fact, it was the total OPPOSITE of what I was doing and it was really frickin’ weird! None of it made any sense. Well, it didn’t then, but it does now.

What came out of this one year mission were lots of useful tips, tricks and strategies that I could immediately implement to achieve my goal. I learned how to eat and get lean. I learned how to train to get shredded. Most importantly…. I found those F**** abs I lost. Here’s a current pic (sorry for the whole Zoolander look:)

If you want to know exactly how I did it, I can totally hook you up. I documented every detail of what I’ve learned and we put it all together into one package. It’s called Jet Set Body and it’s frickin’ amazing!

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In this episode of The Lifestyle Design Confessions Podcast, we interview Justin Wright. He was just like any normal citizen who finished college, landed a job that was related to his college degree but then he reached the tipping point of working in a cubicle and decided to make a change. Justin now enjoys traveling everywhere and earning his living as a digital nomad.

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• Justin telling us about his life after college, sending resumes everywhere and finally got a job related to his college degree.
• What made Justin realize and finally decided that his life has to change and there’s more to life than working in a cubicle every day.
• Justin sharing some of his ideas on how anybody can create their own lifestyle design, have the freedom to work from anywhere and enjoy life to the fullest.
• Justin describes what lifestyle design is for him.

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Transcript: Rob’s Interview with Justin

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Justin: Yep

Rob: So without further ado, I want to ask you a few questions. Just by way of background, could you take us from graduating college to the moment when you were sitting in your cubicle and you know, you hit that tipping point.

Justin: Yes. I graduated college and you know, you kind of feel like, “Okay, I finished that whole part of my life.” And now you’re kind of wondering where you’re going to go next; so I didn’t want most people did and started sending resumes everywhere and finally I got a job doing something related to my degree and at that time it paid very well to someone used to doing college-type jobs that the money was definitely something there that kind of attracted me. I took the job, started working there and at first it wasn’t so bad; it’s kind of nice having a real job, you know what people call them anyway and eventually after about 2 years of working in a cubicle, I started to get pretty much anxiety where I go into work and I’m just like, “There’s got to be something else to life.” Besides just sitting in this cube everyday and maybe working an hour or two of actual work every day and then the other 6 hours was just pretending to be busy, you know waiting for the clock to hit 5 so I could finally go home. And it just hit that point where I was like, “Something has to change.”

Rob: And so you made the change. You sort of refer to your lifestyle as a digital nomad. What do you mean by digital nomad?

Justin: To me digital nomad is basically just somebody that can you know, you can do whatever it is you like doing in terms of work but being a digital nomad means that you can bring your work with you regardless of where you are; you know if you want to travel, if you like to move a lot. So it kind of lets you be a nomad but you can use the digital aspect to keep doing whatever it is you enjoy doing and you can kind of move around and not have to be looking for jobs and finding a way to make money. So it’s kind of a term I really…I heard it somewhere; there’s a site like digitalnomad.com I think is where I first heard it and I really liked the phrase “digital nomad” so I try to use it as much as I can on my blog.

Rob: Alright. So now you got the freedom of time and mobility, could you describe what it feels like to have that and you know, how has your life changed as a result? What type of stuff do you get to do now and how many hours a week are you working?

Justin: At first it feels liberating. It feels like I can finally…you know I can do the things I enjoy doing and it’s not like you have a certain schedule where every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday you have to be at work from this time but now I still work a fairly good amount; I probably work about 30 – 40 hours a week just like the other job but I work with clients. You know I help them build websites and stuff and the thing I enjoy is the fact that I can plan according to whatever it is that I want to do. So if I want to go on a backpacking trip for a week, 2 weeks, I can just put my work aside and pick it up when I get back and it just gives me so much more freedom to kind of do the things I enjoy and especially when it comes to moving and that’s one of the things that I’ve always enjoyed is I always have a hard time figuring out where it is that I wanted to live so as soon as I started making an income through the internet, I started moving around a lot. So I kind of moved to Hawaii and then I lived in Arizona and then Texas and now I’m in Florida right now…so it’s kind of nice being able to hop around and just enjoy everything that there is out there

Rob: So you made the decision how long ago to live a sort of a digital nomadic lifestyle? Was that about a year ago?

Justin: It’s been…let’s see, October will be the 2-year anniversary of me quitting my job so…

Rob: Okay, but who’s counting, right? (laughs)

Justin: Yeah (laughs)

Rob: Okay so two years ago and then…part of what you are able to do is you are able to get on a plane and…where are you from originally? Where were you living?

Justin: I am from Wisconsin.

Rob: Alright, so you leave cold Wisconsin and you head out for sunny Hawaii?

Justin: Yep! (laughs)

Rob: How long did you live in Hawaii?

Justin: I lived in Hawaii for about 6, 7 months.

Rob: Okay, so that’s quite a bit of time. Where did you live in Hawaii?

Justin: I lived in Waikiki and then right in the heart of the tourist section of Honolulu.

Rob: Okay. So you pick up, you moved all the way to Waikiki; is there a moment while you’re sitting out there going, “How did I get here?”? I mean like, “I’m a cheese head. How did this happen?” Did you kind of have those moments?

Justin: Yes, I’ve had those moments. You know it seems like every time I move somewhere I’m just like you know, “How did I get to the point where I can be here versus there?” it just doesn’t seem like moving is a big obstacle anymore because it’s so easy now that you know it moves a lot that it’s not like something where I have to plan ahead, you know a year in advance and get everything squared away before I can go.

Rob: When you moved to Hawaii, was there a specific purpose in living in Hawaii? In other words, were you just curious and you said, “You know, I like the weather and I just want to check it out.”?

Justin: Yeah…one of the things I hated about Wisconsin was the cold winters so the first thing that I wanted to do is go somewhere warm and Hawaii just seemed like a great place to start and check it out. At the time, you know I wasn’t really interested so much in moving abroad somewhere else. I was like, “Well I can live all the comforts of the U.S. without actually leaving.” So Hawaii was a really good starting point.

Rob: Was it what you thought it would be?

Justin: Yeah. I mean I really enjoyed it. It’s a little too “touristy” for me but yes, I loved it.

Rob: Okay. So it seems like you sort of following beach locations, is that right?

Justin: (laughs) Yep!

Rob: Is there a theme that I’m noticing in your life here?

Justin: Yeah, I loved Hawaii and I moved to Phoenix for 2 years where there was no water whatsoever and now that I’m in Florida, you know I’m kind of back to the beaches but I already got my next move which is going to be sort of away from the beach so…

Rob: Where is the next spot?

Justin: Portland, Oregon.

Rob: Portland, Oregon. Okay. I just got off the phone with somebody from Portland, Oregon and they absolutely love it. So I want to talk to you a little bit about lifestyle design. Obviously you’ve read The Four Hour Work Week, yeah?

Justin: Yes.

Rob: Alright. And so you’ve heard Tim use that phrase; he’s certainly the one I think who has attributed to it but maybe somebody else did, I don’t know but he’s certainly the one who made it famous. Everybody’s got a little different twist on it. What does it mean to you? How would you describe what lifestyle design is for you?

Justin: For me, I just think lifestyle design is all about making the choices for your life. It doesn’t have to be everybody else’s life. It’s just for you to sit down and really decide what you want out of your life. You know, do you want to open a bakery? Do you want travel a lot? It kind of allows you to kind of really think down deep and figure out what it is you’re looking to get out of life and what your passion is about, what you enjoy doing and more or less you just kind of create a step by step plan that allows you to go out and make your dream life; you know something that’s actually realistic and something that you can actually do. I like the term and I just think it really is nothing more than creating the design for your life.

Rob: Now do you use Tim Ferriss’s actual “dreamline” spreadsheet to map it out?

Justin: I did not use the actual spreadsheet at all.

Rob: So if I were to sort of ask you to give me a snapshot of what your personal lifestyle design looks like; it sounds like you’ve got a change in your life coming up where you’re getting ready to head out to Portland. What’s that look like? Is it to…if you talk about the things you want to have, be or do, obviously you know one of those things to do is to live in Portland. Is there anything specific that you go after when you make these moves?

Justin: Yeah. When I went to Hawaii I did learn surfing; that’s something that I have always dreamed of doing especially with the new stunts you see people surfing and you’re just like, “Oh, that looks lie fun!” and I think the main reason why I decided on Portland is because when I lived there in Phoenix, I really got into the whole backpacking, hiking and outdoors type of stuff and after living in Florida now for about 9 months and I don’t think there’s even a hill more than 100 feet tall.

Rob: (laughs) Right

Justin: I’m just missing the mountains and it just seems like up there in the Pacific Northwest is just one of the places where it’s just wide open and you got a lot of land; you know you can just go backpack for days and get out and enjoy the outdoors.

Rob: So you talk about creating your lifestyle design plan around things that you’re passionate about; do you feel that most people don’t include the passion part in their life? And if yes, then why do you think that is? Why is passion taken out of this equation so often with people that are just stuck in a cubicle?

Justin: I definitely think people do overlook the passion part. They might consider that a little bit but I think they tend to not focus enough on the passion part. And I think the real reason why people do that is because they’ll go out and instead of looking for things that they can enjoy to replace their job or replace their income, they just start looking for how to make money. You know they Google ‘how to make money’ and stuff then usually all it brings up is all these different techniques that people are trying to share and stuff on how to make money; and then instead of focusing so much on what you’re passionate about, you’re just trying to do things because they have the potential to make money but what you kind of realize is that a lot of times that if you’re not passionate about something it’s so hard to keep going until you actually get somewhere because it seems like the first obstacle you hit if you’re really not passionate about what you’re doing you get really stuck and then your motivation level just sinks. So I think passion is something that you really have to have because it keeps you going even when you hit those rough spots; where you wake up one morning and you’re like, “Am I really doing this? Should I really be out looking for jobs instead?” I think passion is just something that will keep you along your path regardless if you hit a lot of road bumps, if it takes longer than you expected and it just keeps you motivated to keep going.

Rob: When you talk about ‘voluntary simplicity’, what do you mean by that exactly?

Justin: I refer to that…it’s basically when you decide that you want to live a simple life; you want to just cut down and you’re choosing to more or less to have less stuff. You’re choosing to do less things, you’re choosing to have less and in exchange for having more time, more freedom to do the things you enjoy.

Rob: So would you say that right now you’re living like you’re retired? In other words, let’s say you move 30 or 40 years into the future and you’re…how old are you now by the way?

Justin: I’m 24.

Rob: Alright, so you’re 24…let’s say that you’re 64 and you’re getting ready to retire. Do you think that your retirement would look much different than your life does right now?

Justin: I don’t think so. I think it’ll probably be fairly similar and I don’t think there will be a lot of changes especially if I still enjoy doing what I’m doing and as long as I’m still capable of doing that which shouldn’t be too hard considering most stuff are done in the computer these days so (laughs)…

Rob: The next question I would ask is, you know you’ve sort of been flirting around with different states within the United States but do you have any plans on going abroad and living this lifestyle internationally?

Justin: I have thought about it, yeah, and I think it’s something that I definitely want to look into some time in the future. I’m not exactly sure where yet but definitely something that I want to get out and try.

Rob: Okay. So, you know so many people say that you could never make an income online to do what you are doing which frankly is the exact reason that we created getjetsetmoney.com to show by interviews like this that there are people who are living this lifestyle so if anybody is listening and wants to become a member so that you can learn how to create the cash, to create your own lifestyle design just like Justin is, just go to www.getjetsetmoney.com. But Justin, if somebody says to you, “You know I can’t do this. I’ve got this job, yes I’m in the cubicle but I don’t see a way out and I mean this is just all I see. I just don’t know what to do. I don’t know how to do this.” What would you tell him?

Justin: I would tell him, “You know, I think the best thing that we can do is get started, trying different things while you still have your job.” You know, while you still have the security of okay, you know where your goal money is coming from. And if you have to go home after work at 5:00 and sit on the computer and read books from 5:00 until 2:00 in the morning to learn a different hobby or a different skill that you can apply to making money online and then that may be what it takes. It’s kind of what I did where I started building my business for almost a year while I was still in the cubicle and you know I just sit there as soon as I got home, I did it in the mornings before work and yes, I worked…it seemed like 20 hours a day but eventually when I hit that point where, “Okay, I can replace the income from my day job and finally quit.” It just felt so liberating. So I think the most important thing is just to get started and don’t focus so much on having to quit your job tomorrow but focus more on, “How can I start making an extra $10.00 a month online?” and then, “How can I make $50.00 online?” and just kind of keep it going like that and just try different things on the side and eventually you’ll hit something that really works for you.

Rob: I know that you put together a book. It’s called Life After The Cubicle. Maybe you can sort of just describe what that book is and how people can actually get it.

Justin: Sure. Life After The Cubicle is a guide that I created mostly because I get a lot of people that would fill up my content for my web blog and then say, “Hey, I really like your blog. I like what you’re doing. How can I do more or less what you’re doing?” so I was like it’s time to put together a book that kind of cover everything. So everything that I did up to the point where I quit my job and then it covers all the different techniques that I’ve personally tried in terms of making money online and then I kind of shared a little bit into those and kind of show you how you can apply them to yourself. And then I also covered some of the escape route, is what I call it and that’s some of the things that I did leading up to finally quitting my job. I was like evaluating my expenses and setting up a nest egg in case things got slow for a little while and I just covered the whole journey that I took so you can kind of follow and do something similar with your own life.

Rob: Well you know what; I cannot thank you enough for taking the time with us today. I know you’ve a lot going on with your life so I don’t want to keep you on the line but if anybody wants to get a hold of you or purchase your book, what’s the best way that they can do it?

Justin: You can go to www.lifeafterthecubicle.com. It’s where you can find my book. Otherwise you can check out my blog at www.lifeofjustin.com.

Rob: Well Justin, thank you so much!

Justin: No problem!