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
LIFESTYLE FREEDOM - The Mindset Shifts (LISTENER EMAILS)
Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)
LIFESTYLE FREEDOM - The Mindset Shifts In this episode of Join Up Dots, we dive into the most common question I’m asked: *“I’d love to quit my job, but I don’t know what I can do.” Rather than chasing big ideas or dramatic leaps, this conversation strips everything back to what really matters first — covering your bills, calming the pressure, and building confidence one step at a time. It’s about stopping the overthinking, realising you don’t need to escape your job, and understanding that entrepreneurship begins quietly, alongside what you’re already doing. When you focus on...
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Lifestyle FREEDOM - The Controlled Way
Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)
Lifestyle FREEDOM - The Controlled Way In this episode of **Join Up Dots**, David Ralph tackles the number one question he hears from listeners: “I’d love to quit my job, but I don’t know what I can do instead.” Rather than chasing big ideas or dramatic leaps, David strips entrepreneurship back to what really matters — covering your bills first and building from there. Drawing on his own experience of jumping too early and feeling the pressure that followed, he explains why the smartest path to freedom is starting small, creating side income alongside your job, and replacing expenses...
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Punching The Hell Out Of Stress
Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)
Punching The Hell Out Of Stress My guest today, on the confidence boosting Join Up Dots free podcast interview is a man who a few years back was disappointed with the current mental health care solutions he was offered after suffering from stress in the workplace. So like so many guests, he didn't accept what he saw and decided to take action, turning to alternative therapies which got him through and beyond this temporary stress. These solutions began forming into a business idea which led him to creating Stressbox in Jan 2014, and he took these learnings into the corporate environment to...
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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)
Housesitting ,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,...
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LISTENER SUCCESS: How to Earn Money Managing People's Inboxes
Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)
LISTENER SUCCESS: How to Earn Money Managing People's Inboxes In this episode, discover how Carol Hinkin, a listener of Join Up Dots, transformed inspiration from the show into a thriving online inbox management service. Hear Carol's journey from understanding the role of an inbox manager, acquiring essential skills, setting up her business, and effectively marketing her services. Learn about her pricing strategies, delivering exceptional service, and scaling her business. Carol's story is a blueprint for anyone looking to start their own venture. Tune in to be inspired and share her success...
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Becoming An Entrepreneur
Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)
What Stage Are You In? In this episode of Join Up Dots, David Ralph takes listeners on a candid, conversational journey through the five major stages of moving from employee to affluent entrepreneur, explaining how awareness, preparation, bold action, steady growth and eventual mastery unfold in real life rather than in textbooks. Blending honest reflection with personal stories — from late-night frustrations at the kitchen table to quiet moments of clarity that sparked change — David shows how freedom, resilience and the courage to evolve shape the path to wealth far more than luck ever...
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How To Eliminate Distractions (TIME)
Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)
How To Eliminate Distractions (TIME) Todays guest joining us on the show is a man who has created something, that as soon as I saw it I thought "Wow, I know many people who could do with this system" It's all down to giving you the ability to focus in on a task, when the world of distractions are flying around your head. You know what its like, you have an important piece of work to finish, but you just need to check Facebook for a second, and then of course the football results, and before you know it that piece of work takes longer and longer. Pressure and stress abounds Well as our guest...
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To Get REALLY RICH You Need A WEALTH Filter
Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)
To Get REALLY RICH You Need A WEALTH Filter In this episode of Join Up Dots, we dive deep into the idea of creating your own personal “wealth filter” — a way of stripping out the noise, the gurus, the hacks, and all the financial overwhelm that keeps you stuck. It’s an honest, conversational look at how simplifying your inputs can massively increase your clarity, reduce stress, and help you finally focus on what genuinely makes you richer in every sense of the word. Using real stories, practical insights, and a calm, grounded approach, the episode helps listeners understand how much...
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The First Lady To Climb Everest By Both Sides
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The First Lady To Climb Everest By Both Sides Todays guest is a lady who could literally be singing "I'm on the top of the world, looking down at the creation"every-time she jumps out of bed.Because since University, she has had a fascination for climbing, and took part in her first mountain expedition,to the Ruwenzori in central Africa at the age of 21.And something clicked in her.Was it the challenge?The camaraderie?Or simply the thrill of doing something that so few people have seen or done before?Whatever it was since that first climb she has tackled mountains across southern and central...
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Easy Biz Ideas To Pay For YOUR Xmas
Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)
Easy Biz Ideas To Pay For YOUR Xmas In this episode of Join Up Dots, we dive into how anyone can fund their entire Christmas without stress, debt, or panic by launching a simple, local, service-based business right in their own neighbourhood. It’s all about tapping into the skills you already have, solving small but meaningful problems for people nearby, and discovering just how quickly local income can flow when you show up, get visible, and offer real value. This episode is a reminder that you don’t need a huge plan, a website, or months of preparation — you just need to start. If...
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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