How To Start a Lifestyle Business with Sean Ogle – Episode 021
Hi there, Daniel here!
And today's episode we talk about Lifestyle Business and how to start one with our special guest Sean Ogle from locationrebel.com
Sean is a long time Lifestyle Entrepreneur and he shares how he started his Lifestyle Business and how you can too!
So, here it is!
Podcast with Sean Ogle
Daniel: Today, I have a very special guest. I am really excited to have him here with us. I am here with Sean Ogle, the owner, and operator of locationrebel.com, and he mainly helps people to build small lifestyle businesses that give you the freedom and flexibility to work from anywhere in the world. Sean has been featured in different places around the web, like Forbes, Entrepreneur on Fire, Huffington Post, the Self Made Man and many more. So, let's continue our conversation about freedom lifestyle with Sean and his approach on lifestyle entrepreneurship so you can live a life with more flexibility, freedom, and of course with passive income. Sean, welcome to the show!
Sean: Thanks for inviting me, man. I'm excited to be here.
Daniel: I’m very happy to have you, Sean. Would you, please, take a few minutes and tell us a little bit more about you, share a little of your story if you could?
Sean: Yeah. So, I had the most average American middle-class upbringing imaginable. You kind of always knew what was next, you always kind of followed the path of least resistance a little bit. Like, when I was in sixth grade, I knew that I was going to go to Oregon State University, I was going to study finance, I was going to live in the dorms with my best friend, which is what ended up happening. Six months before I graduated college, I had a job lined up in Portland Oregon, working as a financial analyst, so it was always just kind of like the path of least resistance. You just kind of followed what was next in the plan, and it was very much kind of American dream. 2.5 kids, white picket fence, like that was the path that things were going down. And unfortunately, I graduated in July of 2007, so obviously, most of us remember that was the peak of the market, that was a terrible time to get into the financial world. And so by February of 2009, the market had completely crashed, the company that I was working for, they weren't doing very well, their clients weren't doing very well, my boss was unhappy, I was unhappy. So what I ended up doing was, I had saved up all of my vacation time for that year, to take a two and a half week trip down to Rio with one of my best friends. And so we went down there, had the absolute time in our lives. We went to Iguazu Falls, one of the seven natural wonders in the world, we went hang gliding over Rio, we danced in the carnival parade. And there's like 8-foot tall ridiculous costumes. And basically, it was kind of on that trip I realized that I should be able to do stuff like this whenever I wanted. I was going to go back to a job in Portland with miserable weather, have no vacation days left, and I wasn't getting closer to either of the two goals I had set for myself when I graduated college, which were to travel the world and to own my own business. To make matters worse, the day I got back from that trip, my boss told me that he was giving me a 20% pay cut and if the whole company was taking a 20% pay cut because of the financial situation, so that kind of was the impetus to make a change. And a couple months later, I started Location Rebel as a way to hold myself accountable to do all the things that I wanted to do in life, and that kind of set the scene for everything that's happened over the last eight years.
Daniel: Wow, that's amazing, Sean. And that's awesome actually, you came back, and probably what somebody will think that is the worst news ever, that your salary is cut like 25%.
Sean: Yes, 20%.
Daniel: Imagine that you come back from the trip after spending I guess a lot of money on your trip,
