The OpenWorld Podcast: Live Without Limits

"Work is not a chore; it is a sacred dialogue with the world." -Hide Enomoto Most people spend their lives trying to find the "perfect" career, but today’s guest argues that a calling isn't found—it’s built. Hideyoshi "Hide" Enomoto is a pioneer of the coaching movement in Japan and the author of The True Work. From the corporate heights of Tokyo to the radical simplicity of a Scottish eco-village, Hide has spent his life studying the "invisible" side of success. In this episode, he breaks down his transformative framework for moving beyond "Social Desire" and "Salaryman Dread" into a life of Pure Resonance. Whether you are a founder or a nomad, Hide’s wisdom will help you stop looking for a job and start building a calling. In this interview, Hide shares how to peel back the layers of "Social Desire" to find the work that feels like joy in motion. Whether you’re a digital nomad feeling "pleasant tension" or an entrepreneur trying to lead your team like a symphony, this episode is a blueprint for living true. What You’ll Learn in This Episode: The London Glass: How a childhood trauma involving racism and broken windows became the catalyst for a lifelong mission of deep human connection. The Two Glasses: Why we need to swap the "Survival Lens" (work as a means to an end) for the "Purpose Lens" (work as an expression of the soul). Genuine Desire vs. Social Expectation: How to identify the activities that give you joy "for no reason" and why those are the seeds of your life's work. Resonant Leadership: A new model for entrepreneurs where leadership is defined by "vibration" and collective energy rather than hierarchy and control. The "Invisible Why": How an aspiring astronaut can find the same fulfillment in other fields by identifying the core desire (exploration) behind the title. The Power of Curiosity: Why "listening at the level of the soul" is the ultimate tool for cross-cultural connection in a divided world. Memorable Quotes: "A genuine desire is like a seed. You don’t need discipline for joy; you just need to water the curiosity until it grows into a flower." "Work is a process of exploring and expressing your life purpose. You don't need to wait until the end of your life to figure out why you are here." "If you see every challenge as a future resource, even a bad day for the ego becomes a great day for the soul." Resources Mentioned: Man's Search for Meaning: The work of Viktor Frankl and the concept of Logotherapy. Book: The True Work by Hideyoshi Enomoto. Coaching Philosophy: The Co-Active model and Hide’s work with the Living Well Institute (Yoku Kenusha). Thanks for listening and if you enjoyed this episode, don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts!

Welcome to another exciting episode of the OpenWorld Podcast! In 2016, Palle Bo did what many only dream of: he sold his house, his car, and every piece of furniture he owned to become a "perpetual voyager." An award-winning Danish radio producer, Palle didn't just go on vacation—he launched an epic quest to visit every country on Earth and document the "story behind the story." Known as The Radio Vagabond, Palle has produced over 650 episodes from the road, ranging from the vibrant chaos of Accra to the raw, somber reality of war-torn Ukraine. But this isn't just a travelogue; it's a masterclass in lifestyle design. In this episode, Palle reveals how he maintains a full-time income while navigating border bribes and "sunless" apartments, and why the greatest risk to your freedom isn't a lack of money—it's the paralysis of overthinking. What You’ll Learn in This Episode: The "Burn the Ships" Moment: How Palle transitioned from owning 17 radio stations to living out of a suitcase at age 50. The Ghana Incident: A cautionary (and hilarious) tale of how a missing name on a vaccination card nearly grounded his entire global mission. Storytelling as a Business Asset: How to turn your global experiences into a "storytelling machine" that delivers massive ROI. The "Fork in the Road" Philosophy: Why saying "yes" to the unknown is the ultimate hack for serendipity and success. Productivity for Nomads: Palle’s strategy for using TPN (Task Positive Network) vs. DMN (Default Mode Network) to work in high-intensity sprints so he can be fully present for the adventure. Lessons from Buenos Aires: Why you should discover the best places before you leave (and how to avoid the "Barrio Norte" trap).

What does it take to visit 149 countries while building a global business from your laptop? In this episode, Danny sits down with Orest Zub, a Ukrainian serial entrepreneur, digital nomad pioneer, and the Managing Partner of NomadMania. Orest shares his transition from a law student to a war reporter and, eventually, a leader in the "extreme travel" industry. We dive deep into the philosophy of "intentional travel," the "Wheel of Life" theory for holistic success, and a raw discussion on the importance of mental health even when living a high-performance lifestyle. In This Episode, You’ll Learn: The Pivot to Freedom: How Orest realized a traditional legal career wouldn't offer the geographical freedom he craved and how he launched his first online venture in 2012. Professionalizing Extreme Travel: An inside look at NomadMania, a platform that helps travelers track trips across 1,600+ unique regions and connect with a global community. The Reality of Uzbekistan: Why this Central Asian nation is the "modern Silk Road" and a must-visit for undiscovered culture. The "Wheel of Life": Orest’s framework for balancing physical health (including his 3x weekly tennis metric), career, and relationships. Travel as a Mental Health Tool: A candid discussion on Orest's recent experience with clinical depression and why mental health must be treated with the same urgency as a physical injury. The "Don’t Be an Ahole" Rule:** A profound story from India that illustrates why the world is smaller than you think and why maintaining good relationships is your greatest asset. "Travel is the only expense that makes you richer." Resources Mentioned: NomadMania: The premier platform for tracking your travels and connecting with extreme travelers. Visit NomadMania.com. Bansko Nomad Fest: Where Orest shares his insights on lifestyle design. Connect with Orest: Follow him on Instagram and Facebook. Show Timeline: [00:00] Intro: Who is Orest Zub? [04:57] Life as a war reporter during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. [12:54] Shifting from Law to Digital Entrepreneurship. [16:36] The power of compound interest in your career. [23:50] A lesson in kindness: Reconnecting with a gardener from Barcelona. [34:55] How to finance extensive travel at every stage of life. [54:02] A raw look at mental health and clinical depression.

"Ships do not sink because of the water around them; ships sink because of the water that gets in them." — Freeman Fung Our guest today is Freeman Fung, an international author, speaker, and Mindvalley certified coach who is on a mission to help people adapt in our modern, globalized world. Originally from Hong Kong, Freeman’s life was transformed at age 19 when he left home solo to live in Europe and began a decade-long journey of living, studying, and working in over 30 countries. He is a TEDx speaker, a Shaolin martial artist, a biohacker, and a dedicated lucid dreamer (or "oneironaut") who uses the depths of the mind as a territory for personal growth. We both met in Japan recently where we both spoke at Colive Fukuoka.  In his book, "Travel to Transform," he provides a map for shifting from a local (which he describes as ego-centric) to a "world-centric" mindset, raising our self-awareness and metacognition, by using travel as the ultimate fast-track for personal mastery. Notable Quotes "Global citizenship is not a result; it’s a mindset. It’s a way of seeing, a way of thinking, a way of living—at work or play, travelling or not travelling." "I am not what happens to me; I am who I choose to become." "The world is what we think it is, but there is a world beyond our thinking."

Today I have the pleasure of hosting an insightful interview with my friend and entrepreneur coach, George Katsiouras, as he reveals helpful strategies for us to break through mental barriers and achieve better performance and growth in our lives. One of the characteristics of the most successful and effective people is their speed of implementation. The most effective entrepreneurs have found a way to come to peace with their internal dialogue and reduce their internal resistance so that it doesn’t interfere with their performance. In the interview George shared several helpful ideas and metaphors to help us “reframe” our mindsets and better understand our growth as an individual and an entrepreneur. He explains why we trap ourselves with expectations, and how to feel more optimistic about our lives, standards, and qualities so that we are better equipped to handle the daily challenges that come with the entrepreneur life. He helps us to reassess our measuring stick of success in a way that empowers us and makes us less outcome-oriented. This interview offers an illuminating perspective into George’s system, the Effortless Action Protocol (E.A.P) and we discuss practical techniques to reframe your thinking and how they can translate to real world results. Learn how George has helped entrepreneurs worldwide double their income, secure dream clients, and 10x their productivity. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain a competitive edge and transform your mindset!

Join me in welcoming Christian Petersen (@chrisbuildsbrands) to the podcast! A lifelong traveler who has lived in Australia, Bali, Thailand, and Spain, Christian has become a trusted expert for creators and entrepreneurs who want to show up confidently on camera. With a blend of global experience, storytelling insight and on-camera performance coaching, he helps founders communicate with authenticity and turn their presence into a powerful marketing asset. If you're ready to strengthen your brand and show up more boldly online, then you're going to love this interview. More specifically, we discuss the best ways to work on your business rather than in it, and turn your passion into income. Chris is an expert at helping coaches and creators to turn their personal brand and social media into a sales machine, and he teaches us how to do it! He also shares his technical expertise with us to make your processes more efficient, so you can focus on scaling and growth rather than just putting out fires.

Welcome to another exciting episode of the OpenWorld podcast! We are back again with fresh new content for our you. In this episode, I'm joined by my friend Jonathan, AI futurist and founder of the Collective, a private AI mastermind for seven and eight figure entrepreneurs. Jonathan is a serial entrepreneur himself with over 30 ventures under his belt in technology, education, and e-commerce, with a unique vision for accelerating growth. As the owner of a Public Company, Co-Founder of an AI Startup, and the visionary mind behind A.I., WEB3, & Exponential Tech Lab, he has crafted four million-dollar brands spanning three different industries. His strategic prowess has led to three successful exits, and some notable clients in his portfolio include Audi, Maserati, NOKIA, and other industry giants. He has also worked with politicians, the Secretary of Defense of Mexico, and Fortune 500 companies. In the fast-evolving Digital Age, Jonathan believes in using patterns, social factors, and technology to reap not only monetary rewards but also to support humanity and the world of tomorrow. His mantra is clear: “Creating value out of nothing.” In this exclusive interview, we will discuss: – Strategies for Explosive Growth: Learn firsthand from Jonathan’s track record of creating and scaling million-dollar brands– Global Business Expansion: Understand the intricacies of taking a company to a global scale and successful exits– Clientele Management: Gain insights into client relations and management by delving into Jonathan’s experiences with renowned names like Audi, Maserati, NOKIA, and more.– Multi-Industry Mastery: Explore the dynamics of working across technology, education, and e-commerce sectors.Navigating Political and Fortune 500 Arenas: Hear about Jonathan’s experiences collaborating with political figures and Fortune 500 companies. Understand the strategies for thriving in high-stakes, influential environments.– Business Innovation: Discover strategies to leverage AI, WEB3, and exponential technologies to stay at the forefront of business innovation. Hope you enjoy the interview and thanks for listening! :)

In the last episode, we discussed an important concept in stoicism and how to reprogram the way that we look at failure and our relationship with failure. In this podcast let's learn how to program ourselves for massive success. In order for us to enjoy massive growth and massive success in our careers and in our lives, we have to first develop the capacity within us for massive success. It has to become our natural state of being. We have to normalize it. Anything that you think is impossible, difficult, challenging, needs to become normalized. It needs to become your normal state of being. When you program yourself at a higher level, it can't help but become your natural state of being and all of the success that you want will follow. As far as I know, there are at least four ways I know to program ourselves for massive success and abundance. Words, pictures, feelings, and kindness. Words There are reasons that I listen to guided meditations and affirmations on YouTube. The words that you tell yourself that you program into your mind, are the most important building block for creating the day and ultimately the life that you want. There is simply nothing more powerful. And you have to think about this motivation, this programming as something part of your daily routine just like showering and drinking your morning coffee or tea. If you were a high performance athlete, such as an Olympic athlete, you don't have the luxury of having mediocre thoughts, if you want to win a medal for your country. You can't just go and say I'm just going to give it my best. I'm just happy to be able to compete. You can say that, but if you want to perform your best, and have the best chance of winning, you have to program yourself with the most empowering thoughts possible. And we should do exactly the same, every morning when we wake up we should program ourselves with the most powerful thoughts, the most powerful affirmations so that we are on the level of an Olympic athlete. Muhammad Ali used to tell himself every day, “I am the greatest,” long before he ever was, and then went on to become the greatest. We don't need to compete in professional sports. But we do need to build this capacity for greatness, and we need to make it normal and familiar to us. This is one of the best ways that we do it.  Pictures Using visualization and creating mental pictures and mental movies is another way to expand our capacity for more success and abundance. Can you start to imagine yourself as being the ultra successful, super fulfilled and satisfied person that you see yourself in the future at this very moment? Is it possible to recreate that feeling of success and let it fill your body right now. Just take a minute and imagine everything. Imagine that your business has reached levels of success that you could not even expect. Imagine how you will celebrate. What will you do to celebrate your success? Can you go out and start to celebrate that success now? Can you do the activities that give you that feeling of success? Money visualization The next visualization involves money. I want you to imagine your money worth. However you think of it. It could be your bank balance, it could be your assets, it could be your monthly or annual income.  Whatever it is, imagine that you're looking at that number. Then imagine that it's 50% more than it is right now. Then imagine that it's twice as much as it is right now. Then keep going. Five times, 10 times. Imagine that you reached your destination. Think of everything around you, think of how you feel. Can you feel that way now? Do this, and it will increase your capacity. Visualize energy The last visualization exercise involves energy. Are you holding on to any energy that you don't want? Did someone give you energy which you don't want to hold on to anymore? Holding on to this negative energy is like carrying a backpack full of rocks. I want you to take all of that energy and just put it into a big ball. It can be any color that you want to imagine. And then I want you to just release it, like a balloon. Watch as it just slowly fades away into the distance. Now do the same with all of your fears. These also do not belong to you. So take them all and put them into a ball of energy, a different color than before. Then just release it, and watch it slowly fade away. All of that negative energy and fear from others, of that some external factor forced onto you, no longer belongs to you. It no longer has any influence on you, or any power to weigh you down. Feelings There's a story related by Ken Honda where he talks about when he was walking in the park with Wahei Takeda, Japanese billionaire. Ken was trying to pick his brain to understand the characteristics that make up billionaires. Wahei told him to just take a moment to pause and notice all of the abundance around them. The singing of the birds, the abundance of trees, the magnificence of the sunlight sparkling on the lake. The important lesson, is that there is already abundance everywhere. Chances are, that we are not appreciating the things that we already have to the extent that we could be. When I drink my cup of coffee in the morning, I get the same feeling like a millionaire as I might if I bought something 100,000x more expensive. And that cup of coffee will taste the exact same whether I'm a billionaire or just an average person. In his book, Honda says that "the more you appreciate, the more things appreciate." The more that we appreciate all of the abundance around us, the more capacity we create in our minds to create more abundance. "The more you appreciate, the more things appreciate." Kindness Our brains are chronically in "threat mode." This is a byproduct of outdated evolution. We are naturally fearful creatures, because in the past the most cautious of our human race survived and passed on its genes. This is a problem, because when we start to view our work as a burden, or we start to feel threatened by potential leads or our clients, then we start to run away from what we need to do. We need to run towards challenges. We need to run towards our to-do list, towards our emails, towards putting ourselves"out there." So what I like to do, is to practice daily kindness, daily helping, daily giving value. If I am talking to potential prospects and leads, I will start with brand new ones, and I will perform a helpful gesture or an act of kindness for them as a warm-up before I take on more important sales calls and appointments. This is really powerful, because it takes me out of the threat mode. It breaks down my internal resistance, and the guard of others. It makes me less defensive when I communicate to people, and it programs me to have the capacity for abundance. Einstein told us that the most important question in life is: "Is the universe a friendly place? Because your answer determines whether you build bridges, or you build walls."

Amor Fati – the antidote to anxiety and procrastination Amor fati is a Latin phrase that may be translated as "love of fate" or "love of one's fate". It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary. You need to have the mindset that it is impossible to fail. You need to be able to see what other people call failures as stepping stones to get you to success. Let me ask you a question. If you publish a post then it only gets one likes, how do you feel? If you publish the post and it got a thousand likes, how would you feel? Similarly, if you ran a promotion and it gets one sign up, how do you feel? If you run a promotion and it gets 10,000 signups how do you feel? Is it possible that you can feel the same regardless of whether you get results poor results far your expectations or amazing results that far exceed them? When you become indifferent to the outcome, you have tremendous Jedi level power. Why? Because you can get up every day and grind in ways that people who are emotionally attached cannot. If you had a bad day, if you had a failure, it's so easy to wake up the next day and charge ahead and get right back at it again. Whether something good or bad happens, can you be able to see it as a positive? Can you look at your past experiences to see things that you consider bad, and try to consider how something good might have actually come from it? There's a story of an old Taoist farmer that I want to share with you. On his farm he had one horse. One day, the gate was left open and the horse ran away. All of his friends said, such bad luck! He just replied, "Maybe. We'll see." Then suddenly, the horse came back a few days ago with three more wild mares. His friends once again said, “such good luck!” Again he replied, "Maybe. We'll see." As his son was breaking in one of the wild horses, it threw him from his saddle and he broke his leg. Once more his neighbors came over and said, “such bad luck!” He replied, "Maybe. We'll see.” The next day, military officials from the government came to the town to conscript young men for service in the military. Seeing that the son's leg was broken, they passed him by. Shortly after, almost all of the young men who were drafted perished in a great battle. Once again, the neighbors congratulated the farmer on how well things had turned out and told him “such good luck.” “Maybe,” said the farmer. The winds of fortune are always in flux. We need to arrive at a state of mind where chance does not affect us. Life does not always give us what we want, it gives us what we need. Nothing is good or bad, it simply is.

Today I want to tell you about a very simple exercise that only takes a few minutes. And you can do this anytime that you feel yourself full of doubt about whether you're going to do something, whenever you feel like you're facing something that's impossible.  I'm going to teach you how to make that not only feel less impossible but how to make it's fulfillment inevitable. It's actually very simple: where the body goes, the mind follows. So imagine that there's three types of statements that you could make. One is a true statement like "the sun will rise tomorrow." You know that pretty close to 100% that it is a true statement. It is inevitable. Another one might be a maybe statement, like "I will work out tomorrow." And then the third one is something that would be completely untrue, like "the sun will explode tomorrow." So what do you do next is that whenever you come up with these kinds of statements you want to observe and see where you experience that thought in your body. For each person that can be something different. When I make a true statement, like "the sun will rise tomorrow," I feel that in my chest. It is very close to my heart. That's where my convictions are stored in my body. That is where I feel my truth. A maybe statement like "I will meet my friend for lunch tomorrow," is something that I feel is kind of up in the clouds. It's kind of at the tip of my head, it's kind of a question mark. Then let's take a statement which I know is impossible, like "the sun will sink into a black hole this week." Or, "will be hit by an asteroid tomorrow." It seems kind of farcical and nonsensical and I sort of feel it like in the tips of my limbs, the tips of my toes. So what you do, is whenever you have a statement or a thought which you feel like it's not likely to happen, you can move it from one part of your body to another part of your body. So for example, you can take statements that you think would never happen and start to believe that "well, maybe that could happen." "There might be a possibility that that could happen." Or you can take the statements that are maybe, and move those from up into the clouds to the center where it becomes a conviction. And so, through an exercise like this, you can notice where thoughts are stored in your body, and if it's not serving you you can move it somewhere else. In this way, what you think is very hard, or difficult, or very challenging or even impossible, you can put it somewhere where it becomes inevitable. By the same token, you can reject thoughts and beliefs that you don't wish to have and push them towards a different location so that they feel less true. Remember that visualization is more potent when followed up by action, so the next thing to do is simple. Come up with the immediate step that you're going to take today to physically act upon this impulse.