The Cubicle Crashing Podcast

I am so excited to interview Amy Scott, who quit her office job to travel the world in 2004 and never looked back. She now keeps a home base in Buenos Aires while she travels the world with her Argentine husband. She's the founder of Nomadtopia, a hub of information, inspiration, community, and support for others who want to live their ideal life, anywhere in the world. Amy also helps nonfiction writers finish their books through her other business, Nomad Editorial.

Meet Kasia Rachfall. A former insurance underwriter who reinvented her career to be an intuitive healer and business mentor.  After she left corporate in 2010, she began homeschooling her two kids and have since built her business around all that comes with the homeschooling lifestyle. I interviewed this modern mama of two because this community loves learning about unconventional ways to bring your family with your location independent dreams. We also spoke about the work she does helping people release old stories and emotions to allow them to bring joy, clarity, and courage into their life. 

This week's interview is with one with Matt Inglot, the founder of Freelance Transformation, where he helps people build freelancing businesses around the life they want to live. Just like the people who are drawn to his website, Matt wanted the freedoms that a corporate job couldn't offer. But it also took him 7 years of feeling stuck and making the wrong moves before figuring out how to transform his business to create the lifestyle and financial freedom to have more time for his family, travel, and of course, the security of a steady income stream.

This week I got to interview Michael Bodekaer, on how you can build an amazing business with like-minded startups and entrepreneurs through coliving and collaboration. He is the founder of Liv.it, a tech startup ecosystem that builds amazing businesses by providing specialist resources, business knowledge, creativity and inspiring spaces to startups. Michael also the creator of Project Getaway , where I got to speak to the participants last year on how to create mobility in their businesses, and I absolutely loved the concept behind coliving and collaboration to build your business. Over a period of 30 days, 20 adventurous entrepreneurs live and work together in an inspiring and luxurious location to combine success, adventure, and a balanced lifestyle.

I have Louise Graham joining me for this episode, who is a creative marketing coach from Glasgow, and currently runs Think Frog Marketing.  She’s also a self professed Personal Development Junkie with a new big idea, which we’ll discuss during this podcast.  Now traveling around SE Asia, and working with international clients, Louise is rediscovering new ways to connect people, share ideas, and build authentic brands for her customers to tell great stories that align with their audience. She is a marketing strategist extraordinaire that has won awards in the UK for her marketing and launch campaigns.  She is also a big advocate for understanding your story to be able to connect to your business audience authentically, but most importantly, stay true to the mission and inspiration your business wants to be a part of.

Monty, who I’ll introduce during the podcast interview, specializes in helping entrepreneurs buy more of their time back, so that they can do the aspects of the business they really enjoy doing, and learn to delegate the rest.  This results in more efficient action, and the ability to build your small business to something larger, if you wish. After talking to Monty, it made me evaluate my own processes with hiring out the many pieces I need to implement in creating my next big project for 2016 - the “Turn my idea into an offer” e-course.  I actually got really excited to start separating what was my role in non negotiable tasks, and what the other tasks were that I could outsource. And you know what?  Even if you don’t currently have a business yet, but you’re building it, this is an amazing episode for you to listen to because there may actually be parts of your launch or business building process that may make sense for you to outsource...so YOU can focus on the

On this week's podcast, I have Andy McLean on the show, a Nomadic Kiwi, former London city corporate turned startup business mentor and seeker of doing social good. Andy is a bankologist at StartupBootcamp in Singapore, a member of Tribewanted, and also leads a special project close to his heart called the Better Bali Project. Andy will be talking more about social entrepreneurship, how one can contribute to the world through their work, and of course how he escaped the financial industry’s cubicle world.

This episode I have Morgan Haines from A Little Creative.  She is a self described former science nerd and a recovering corporate desk jockey, who had worked for years in jobs that felt uninspiring and frustrating. Following the sudden and unexpected death of a friend, Morgan realized what her parents had always been telling her was painfully true: life is short. Now out of corporate prison, she is a brand strategist and designer for heart centered yet sweary ladypreneurs at her business.  She is also a tiny human with a big mouth just like me! We talk about her escape story, but also her advice on how to create authentic branding for heart-centered entrepreneurs.  What are the real focuses you should be paying attention to rather than the aesthetics?  It's time to find out!

I’m so excited about the conversation I get to have with my podcast guest this week, Arthur Carmazzi who founded Directive Communication Psychology, because we get to talk about a two huge topics that I love - FEAR and IMPACT. He is ranked as one of the world's top 10 thought leader gurus in leadership. He has supported over 250 individuals to screw the cubicle with new careers as international trainers and consultants... some who are making in excess of $100,000 per month. Arthur’s message with his work also resonates with mine.  He believes that one person’s footprint can make a huge impact. For him it was a teacher in 8th grade, Mr Bacchus, who literally changed his destiny, and you’ll hear a bit about that on our interview.  The footprint we create during our lifetime can affect the course of history, or not even be noticed. Thanks to his teacher, Arthur has had the privilege of inspiring hundreds of thousands people (and had Lots of Fun Doing It ) who have gone on t

This week, I loved, loved, loved interviewing Pace Smith, who is a Pathfinding coach, a teacher, a speaker, a writer, and many more roles as you’ll hear about during our interview.  I loved how Pace was a multi-passionate person, and allowed herself to use all her passions with her current career now.   Her old career also used to be something completely opposite...and I really enjoyed having a great conversation with Pace about how she dealt with that new shift in direction, how she learned to be more authentic with her life and work, and her amazing wisdom on how to find purpose and follow your heart compassion.  

This episode,  I have Keith Clarke from Life Coach X, where he helps members of Generation X get the most out of their relationships and careers.  Generation X are people that are born somewhat between 1961 - 1981, where Keith believes It’s even more important at their time of life that they don’t settle for what doesn't make them happy. The craving for the freedom to find our passion isn’t limited to a specific age group of people.  In our conversation, we speak about what Generation X are most looking for in terms of fulfillment in their careers, their most common fears, and what they can start doing to overcome that feeling of “is it too late for me”.

This week in my podcast interview, I invited Yasmine Khater, who is a business coach that works with people start and scale businesses to reach that six and seven figure mark.  She is all about systems, and believes that if you develop a great system with your business, you can then spend more time doing the actual work you should be doing it it, rather than reacting to your market as you go, I talk to her about how she went from a high paying corporate executive in an oil and gas company to her career as a strategist and coach today, and her experience that she’ll share with you in building a business successfully.

I'm Lydia Lee of Screw the Cubicle, and welcome to another episode of the Cubicle Crashing Podcast.  Starting a new business isn’t always for the faint of heart, but starting 5 businesses in 4 years?  Sounds impossible or complicated?  It doesn’t have to be. Meet Jeremie Rodger.  He is an entrepreneur living in Ubud, Bali. He owns a successful yoga products line, an outsourcing service company, and is passionate about helping business people scale their companies by using good systems and finding good staff, so that you can actually have a life in your business.  

Today I am speaking to Tomas Laurinavicius, who is a Lithuanian designer, blogger, entrepreneur & digital nomad.   Also the Founder and editor-in-chief at Despreneur and co-author of Mobile Design Book, this 23 year old is gaining momentum fast!  Alright let me tell you a little bit about this week’s guest...Tomas Laurinavicius.  He is a designer and entrepreneur from Lithuania, and founder of Despreneur, an online magazine, geared to help designers develop an entrepreneurial mindset.  And get this...he’s only 24 years old. I’ll tell you what I was doing at 24 years old.  Graduating from college and struggling through shit pay at the bottom of the corporate ladder!  And this guy opted for the alternative route of educating himself, and playing in it adventurously. What I love about interviewing Tomas for this week’s podcast is his resilience on not allowing his environment to dictate his future.  He wasn’t feeling very inspired in his t

Siedah Mitchum helps businesses and one woman shops tap into the essences of who they are and their mission to create a beautiful on-line home for their business that allows them to grow, change lives, and get their message out to the world.   She got my first client as a web designer at the age of 14 years old working part-time for myself.   Three years ago, while she was working for a small business her boss cut her hours due to shortage of income, which was really a blessing in disguise, as it propelled her to start working for herself.  In this episode, I share Siedah’s story about her leap to entrepreneurship, and her tips for YOU, on what you may need to get started on launching your first website.

On the 11th episode of my podcast, I invited Christy Primmer who is a coach, author, and speaker for women who want to finally step up, show up, and share their message with the world.  She helps women ditch the self-sabotage, do the work, regain self-awareness and stop caring what everyone else thinks. Because all that matters? Is that you believe in yourself.

On the 10th episode of my podcast, I got to interview Mona Motwani, a human rights attorney turned entrepreneur.  This episode is very special to me. Though we talk about her transition from non-profit lawyer to entrepreneur, it is her story about survival and perseverance of overcoming lyme disease that took centre stage. Mona was diagnosed with lyme disease in 2008, but her health had already taken a spin for the worst as of 2005. By 2007, she could barely function even to walk to the bathroom, and had to quit her job as a human rights attorney.  Eight years of being bedridden and needing the support of others to help her with basic day to day like eating and  going to the bathroom was a huge change for someone like Mona, whose type A personality never gave her permission to ask for help, as she was the person that dedicated her life at the time to helping others in need with her career.

This week’s guest, I interview Hayley Hogan, who has an incredible story of losing everything, and she shares her experience of how her trust in bigger and better things pushed her from a high positioned career in marketing and events for a film company in Sydney, to pursue her passion to become a fiction writer and editor in Bali.  Hayley’s story is quite amazing, because it involves her being in the verge of being laid off like the rest of the staff in her company, and also losing all her savings in the stock market, and I’m not talking a small amount at all.  It was literally everything she and her partner had to start their new life, and she had to face REALLY starting from scratch.

Today I am joined by Julie Gohring, who is a certified personal trainer, fitness and lifestyle expert who helps women look and feel their absolute best. She believes fitness can be a transformative tool that can help women harness their own personal power. Julie is also the co-creator of Saltwater Fit, an online community of fit & healthy people who believe there is a deeper, more joyous way to being healthy.  These days, you’ll find her working alongside her boyfriend, where they have a fitness outfit on the tropical beaches of Costa Rica.

Jonny Freesh is a man of two passions - Rap Music and Raw Food. He teaches Raw Food Courses to pay the bills and pursues his ultimate dream job of Super Fucking Professional Rapper when he's not in the kitchen. His educational background is in entrepreneurship, which he learned mostly while avoiding the classroom at all costs.