Podcast: Interview with Tim Ferriss of The 4-Hour Workweek
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You have likely heard this name circulating all over the web lately - Timothy Ferriss, author of the 4-Hour-Workweek - who I had a chance to interview last week and I deliver today in podcast format for your listening pleasure.
Tim has been popping up on interviews at many blogs and websites, and his book and name are fast becoming standard reference points for anyone looking to break out of the 9-5 working grind and build a flexible and fun lifestyle.
Tim explains how people can live a life of freedom, spend time traveling and doing what they enjoy, and live like a millionaire while earning only a standard salary. Of course Tim didn’t just make this stuff up - he’s been living what his book teaches for years, traveling around the planet and achieving some amazing feats, including:
- First American in history to hold a Guinness World Record in tango
- National Chinese kickboxing champion
- MTV breakdancer in Taiwan
- Hurling competitor in Ireland
- Actor on hit TV series in mainland China and Hong Kong
Tim has done a lot in his 29 years, but what will interest the readers of Entrepreneurs-Journey.com is how he has progressed from working as an employee (and getting fired multiple times), to a true business owner, working ON the business a few hours a week, and not working IN the business for 60 hours a week.
I recently finished reading Tim’s book, The 4-Hour Workweek, and I have to say it’s a fantastic manifesto, especially for entrepreneurs who need to be shown how it is possible to let go and allow others take over aspects of your business, or for employees, who need to learn how to take more control and negotiate an arrangement with your employer where you can provide greater value for the company you work for, but also increase the amount of freedom you have to do other things.
This podcast interview provides a nice introduction to Tim and his concepts, I hope you enjoy it.
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Great podcast. Tim has some good ideas and strategies. I have used some of them in my own businesses.
I really admire to him,I hope I will got the benefit from his idea.
It’s a very good book, lots of great tips and ideas. The readers of this blog will probably know more sophisticated marketing techniques than thoese mentioned in the book.
What Tim has done is set his business up so it is not reliant on him, I think lots of people in the internet marketing world like to keep themself busy rather than invest in creating a business that can run without them. IN order to do that you need to build a team whether locally or virtually.
GAvin Allinson
http://www.OutsourceSuccess.com
Yaro,
Great cast.
Quick question, I’m new to podcasting, where do you put your mp3 files so that it can be read, and multiply shared by users? I have an mp3 on my server, but find that it can only be listened on one player at a time. (ie if I close one instance, the other window that has the player as well, will finally start playing the music)
Help?
Thanks Yaro
Kunal
Yaro, this is absolute *gold*. I’m a huge fan of Tim’s book and it is great to see a podcast like this that shares so many great ideas. Will
Hi Kunal,
I suspect your problem is your computer not being able to play two audios at once. If you have an MP3 on your webserver and you make it available for download and/or streaming, as long as you have bandwidth available you can serve it to many people at once.
Tim’s really an expert in the lifestyle-creation niche. I’ve read his book, all his articles and everything available on his site.
In the meantime I’ve been enjoying the cut down of my workweek from 5 to 3 days, from 10 hours to 5 hours a day and lots more freedom of place. I can now do business everywhere I want, and the whole thing keeps running without me.
Thanks Tim! (And Yaro for doing a great interview)
-Dave
Hi, here’s one more interesting interview of Tim by a Stanford b-school student at iinnovate, a podcast on innovation and entrepreneurship.
http://iinnovate.blogspot.com/2007/07/tim-ferris.html
Min
Great interview with Tim. I loved his book and held a contest several months giving away a copy of it. It is a life changer!
This book is getting passed around the office. I am really looking forward to reading it! Enjoyed the podcast.
I hope it’s OK to comment on an older post … I’ve been looking around your blog, soaking up some of the posts that caught my eye.
I just finished Tim Ferriss’ book, and was very impressed. In terms of lifestyle, I’m not sure that it scales to a life of family, marriage, kids, etc. but his general concepts of freeing up personal bandwidth to concentrate on the important things for your business make a lot of sense.