Summary: Welcome to the newest episode of the Hack The System show! You should subscribe to this show on iTunes. The Hack The System Podcast is your access to interviews with the world's foremost experts on blogging, lifestyle design, traveling, and life/system hacking. In short--you're going to learn how to kick ass. In this episode, I sit down with Sean of Location180. I met Sean in Portland a few months ago, and it struck me instantly how similar we are. Sean had decided to quit his job, try traveling the world instead, and see what happened. Along the way, he has had major successes, living all over the world and speaking in at places like TEDxCMU. Sean's new course, Hacking the High Life, launched today. Check it out! Transcript of the Podcast Episode [tweetlock] Don't forget to subscribe to this show on iTunes.Maneesh: Hey guys, this is Maneesh Sethi, your no. 1 Digital Nomad, coming at you live again today from Portland, Oregon. I am here with Sean Ogle from Location 180 and Location Rebel. Sean and I are, this is the first time we’re meeting, but I have been following him for a few years. He is one of the main location and independent professional guys online you have seen these days, one of the four hour peaks of lifestyle. And Sean agreed to be interviewed by me to talk a little bit about his lifestyle and talk about what he is doing in his projects. So Sean, can you go ahead and introduce yourself to my readers? Sean: So, I am Sean Ogle. I run a site, location180.com. Basically 2-years ago I was unhappy with my life so I quit my job almost exactly 2-years ago. And I did not know what else I was going to do so I decided to move to Thailand and actually started doing all of the stuff that I wanted to do in life. Travel, built a business that I have no idea how it was going to happen, but things slowly fell into place and I started learning more skills and here I am now, and I have got number of online businesses, I am able to travel around the world and kind of do whatever I want at the same time. Maneesh: and what took you 2 years? Sean: You know I would say after a year, I was completely self-sustaining.Maneesh: It is amazing. It is really cool to see, like the amount of time it takes for people and the amount of time or the time of like the ways in which the people monetized or figure out the way to finance their lifestyle. And I have noticed that a lot of people have start off by doing some kind of like freelancing and such. But before we jumped into monetization on your blog strategy, let us talk a little about what was your job before you started to turn-around. Sean: So I used to be a Financial Analyst. I work for a small investment firm here in Portland that I sat at a cubicle for 60-hours a week just analyzing stocks and trying to find you know the best things to buy and sell for our clients. I realized very quickly, I was probably the only person in Portland that had to wear a suit and tie to work and that was really just not cool. And so, finally, it took me the better part of the year to actually get up the guts to do it. But it was a trip to Brazil that finally, I used all my vacation time for the year to go to carnival in Brazil. And after that, I was like, something has got to change. Maneesh: Did you go to Rio? Sean: I went to Rio. Maneesh: Nice. Sean: Dance in the carnival parade. And literally the day I got back, I found Chris Guillebeau’s Blog. So that’s what started this whole thing. So I sent him an email and he had just moved to Portland. He agreed to meet me for a cup of coffee and from there, you know, I started my blog, and the rest is history. Maneesh: So where have you been travelling since the last 2 years? Sean: So last 2-years, so I quit my job on October of 2009 and I took off for Bangkok, Thailand where I live for 7 months. Travel around Southeast Asia. I went to Bali then I went to the Philippines, came back, did a bunch of travel around the US to meet up with various,
