#8 Guest R Michael Anderson. Building Business, Going Nomad and Teaching Leadership Globally

Indie Club Podcast with Tom Kozacinski

Podcast by Tom "Sir FreeLance-A-Lot" Kozacinski, co-founder of Indie Club UK. The podcast focuses on topics of Freelancing, entrepreneurship, careers, business advice, work-life balance, remote work, and various other topics related to self-employed lifestyle and life in general.

Episode guest - R Michael Anderson:
Michael started out his career behind a keyboard pounding out code. Technically adept yet socially awkward, he kept sabotaging his own career growth with his lack of soft skills.

Despite himself, he did manage to climb the corporate ladder and worked as an international director and VP for enterprise software companies in the USA, England, Denmark, and Singapore.

In 2005 he moved back to California and started three software companies over the next 5 years. After almost losing everything in a lawsuit with a business partner, he figured he better quickly learn how to be a leader. He put all his effort into growing personally and professionally, including earning a unique Masters Degree in Spiritual Psychology.

Now he teaches his uplifting and empowering Elevated Leadership to other companies and leaders who want to elevate themselves as well as their teams and do it all from a place of service.

As a best-selling business leadership author, former radio show host, and contributor of entrepreneur.com, he’s spreading his message of positive leadership all over the world.

LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tallmikey
TW: https://twitter.com/RMAElevates
FB: https://www.facebook.com/RMAElevates
WEB: https://rmichaelanderson.com

You can watch the video of the recording session here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDJ0gba-Dnc

SHOW TOPICS:

0:01:10 Selling everything and going nomad.
0:03:40 Starting first company
0:07:30 Raising prices as a consultant
0:08:20 (Tom) Charging as Freelancer - "Tomonomics" :)
0:12:40 Problems with Leadership
0:25:45 Making twice as much as Freelancer
0:34:20 (Tom) Are people turning to freelance due to COVID
0:39:20 Teaching Leadership and writing a book
0:50:15 A bit about Gaming, X-Com2, Tides of Numenera and Witcher

ABOUT THE INDIE CLUB COMMUNITY:

Indie Club - https://www.indie-club.uk/
Is a community founded by Tom Kozacinski and David Odier for independent business owners, bootstrappers and freelancers.

We’ve decided not to follow the classic society framework, roughly named “commuting, working, sleeping”. We have decided to create our own business. And in our own way.

Join our Slack channel, engage the community and continue the conversation:
Slack channel: http://bit.ly/slackAplicationuk1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indieclubuk/

Connect with Tom on Social Networks:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/universeceo/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/universeceo

About Tom:

Tomislav Kozacinski, or Tom for friends. A London based Product Design Consultant, Techstars Mentor and Stand Up Comedian who fancies himself a hyper-organised artist and a problem solver. Tom is a founder of Indie Club, also - Speaker, Entrepreneur, World Traveller, Biker, Gamer, No Bullshit Bro, and some other buzz words as well...

You can find out more on his website: https://www.kozacinski.com/

CREDITS & THANKS:

Stuart De Ville - Background music
Nikola Silic - Intro & Outro Animation
David Odier - for the best support one can ask in a co-founder!