Housesitting ,Travel, Adventure, & Lifestyle Success Leads To The Dream Job With Ian Usher
Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)
Release Date: 12/17/2025
You Don't Need MORE You Just Need To Be BETTER
Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)
You Don't Need MORE You Just Need To Be BETTER On this episode of Join Up Dots, we tackle the belief that “I just need more customers” is the answer to everything. But what if chasing more is actually the thing holding your business back? Instead of obsessing over followers, traffic and bigger numbers, we explore why refining what you already have — your offer, your systems, and your customer experience — creates calmer, stronger and more profitable growth. Sometimes the smartest move isn’t scaling fast, but tightening what’s already working. #JoinUpDots #BusinessGrowth...
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The Introvert Life
Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)
Introducing Aren Deu Aren Deu is today's guest on the Join Up Dots business coaching podcast. He is a man who is on a mission, whilst still working a full-time job as a property investor for wealth & cash-flow. He says "My goal is to empower people by helping them find their voice & improve their overall health. I am on the journey of achieving this through either mentally via my Podcast: Find Your Voice, & physically through my health & fitness knowledge through tips, tricks, blogs, diet & fitness plans! Helping people has been a part of my life ever since I can recall....
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Developing Personal Strengths
Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)
Developing Personal Strengths My guest today, on the Steve Jobs inspired Join Up Dots free podcast interview is a lady from Melbourne Australia who has one belief in life. That all of us are capable of being a bigger, brighter version of ourselves than we give ourselves the opportunity to be. Her official bio states that she is "is a best-selling author, workplace well being teacher and playful change activator" which is of course true but is not something that occurs by magic. Back in 1994, she was working for PR Works as a general manager where she built a profitable IT portfolio, as well as...
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Reclaiming Your Life - Listener Struggles
Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)
Reclaiming Your Life - Listener Struggles In this episode of Join Up Dots, David reads two deeply honest listener letters from people who are doing everything “right” on the outside but quietly struggling on the inside. One is weighed down by constant financial pressure and the fear of falling behind, the other by a slow loss of identity after years of putting everyone else first. Through calm, grounded reflections, the episode explores why overwhelm isn’t failure, why clarity matters more than ambition, and how regaining control often starts with small, unglamorous steps rather than...
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Knowing Your Number Is The FIRST DOT To FREEDOM
Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)
Knowing Your Number Is The FIRST DOT To FREEDOM In this episode of Join Up Dots, we focus on the single number that quietly changes everything. Instead of chasing big income goals or shiny ideas, this episode walks you through how to work out what it actually costs to keep the lights on and why that clarity removes pressure, panic, and bad decisions. When you know your number, money stops being emotional and starts becoming practical. From there, replacing bills one by one with small, sensible income becomes achievable, calm, and sustainable. This episode is about sequence, not speed — and...
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Calmness Leads To SUCCESS - Knowing Your Financial Figures
Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)
Calmness Leads To SUCCESS - Knowing Your Financial Figures In this episode of Join Up Dots, we hear from listeners around the world who’ve finally seen the penny drop. Miguel in Lisbon, Haruki in Tokyo, and Camila in Santiago share how they worked out the exact number they need to keep the lights on, built small incomes to cover those bills, and started quietly creating future income streams without pressure. Discover how removing urgency and focusing on essential steps can bring clarity, calm, and steady progress to your life. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast and leave a review....
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Huge Coke Dealer Turns To The Good
Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)
Huge Coke Dealer Turns To The Good Noa Shaw is todays guest joining us on the Steve Jobs inspired Join Up Dots Podcast Now 14 years sober, Noa Shaw has truly turned his life around. One things for sure his life hasn't been easy, with a drugs and alcohol dependency taking grip at an early age. Throughout his teens and the majority of his adult life his daily routine revolved around selling or taking drugs. But eight years ago his life took a turn for the better when he wandered into a SoulCycle studio that was just opening up in Los Angeles. SoulCycle is a fitness company that is the gold...
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Are You Building A Business Or A Stop Start Machine?
Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)
Are You Building A Business Or A Stop Start Machine? In this episode of Join Up Dots, we tackle one of the most quietly exhausting problems in modern entrepreneurship: building a business that resets to zero every single month. If your income depends entirely on making the next sale, you’re not running a business — you’re stuck on a never-ending hamster wheel. This episode breaks down why one-off sales create pressure, panic, and burnout, and why true financial freedom comes from structure, not hustle. We explore the shift from transactional income to asset-based thinking, showing how...
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Leap Of Faith
Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)
So many people in life, feel that what they do, is what they will do for the rest of their lives. They go into jobs that might inspire at the beginning, but over time, little by little start to become a drag. Every minute feels like an hour, everyday feels like a month. But they put up with it until its time for retirement, when they are free to mow the lawn, walk the dog, and have nice little naps in the afternoon. Well today's guest joining us on Join Up Dots is a former senior Derby police officer, who since 1985 when he joined the force "saw the darkest side of humanity" as he says, while...
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FINANCIAL FREEDOM means doing LESS
Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)
FINANCIAL FREEDOM means doing LESS On this episode of Join Up Dots, we dive into what really happens when you start working for yourself. From extreme burnout to the illusion of doing everything, we explore why chasing every idea or copying others can leave you exhausted and stuck. I share how slowing down, focusing on the right things, and joining the dots has not only reduced my hours but increased my impact and financial success. If you’re starting out, struggling to know what matters, or trying to balance it all, this one’s for you. #JoinUpDots #FocusOnTheRightThings...
info_outlineHousesitting ,Travel, Adventure, & Lifestyle Success Leads To The Dream Job With Ian Usher
Today's guest entrepreneur joining us on the Join Up Dots Steve jobs inspired podcast, has a fascinating story of struggle, acceptance, madness, love and finding the path to a life that he never dreamt possible.
Following on the from his previous appearance on Join Up Dots on episode 138, our guest has built upon amazing, headline making life changes, whereby he suffered a relationship break up, sold his entire life on Ebay, hit the headlines, sold his life story to Disney, bought a tropical island, found love and tackled a bucket list of amazing experiences all within a a period of a few years.
But it is what he has done since these crazy fun times that inspires me more.
You see so many people will do so much, in a short period of time and then start to settle.
They will find themselves back in a routine, where the images of adventures past, haunt them like a character from a Charles Dickens novel.
Our guest today however has done the opposite.
He has saught out opportunities, conversations and experiences across the world and constructed a life that is on his terms.
As he says "I did my last interview with Join Up Dots while I was in Texas, house sitting for a friend there as part of our US RV adventure.
Since then Vanessa and I studied to become English teachers, then spent a year in China working as teachers in a private business, topping up the travel funds.
Since then we have become full-time nomads, using house sitting as our accommodation, and teaching online for a Chinese company as our primary income source. As our accommodation is basically free we only have to work a few hours per week to make ends meet.
It really is the global semi-retired dream lifestyle. We can live absolutely anywhere as long as we have a decent internet connection.
We have become very well known in the house sitting community, and have been very successful in securing some very sought-after luxurious house sits.
So how has he managed to build something from scratch, when right from the very start he was out of his long established comfort zone?
And could he ever go back to a life that was controlled by the decision making of someone else?
Well let's find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots with the one and only Mr Ian Usher