241: A Life Less Ordinary with Derek Sivers & Tina Tower

Her Empire Builder Show with Tina Tower

You’re listening to my most favourite interview I have ever done on my podcast.

A mega 2.5 hour sit down with incredible author, deep thinker, TED speaker and all round awesome human - Derek Sivers!

He’s my fav all time author and His books 'Anything You Want' & 'Hell Yeah or No' and ‘How to Live’ are the absolute greatest. He’ll be putting out into the world soon, his new book, ‘Useful Not True’.

Every time I read his books, listen to his TED talks or hear him speak, I am reminded to question my own beliefs, to walk my own path and to feel more joy.

We talk entrepreneurship, living a meaningful life, money and chasing joy.

I hope you love this episode as much as I did! what a freaking joy it was to sit down with him for this conversation.

Where to find Derek Sivers:

https://sive.rs/

Email Derek and say hi: https://sive.rs/contact

Where to find Tina Tower:

Her Empire Builder: https://www.herempirebuilder.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tina_tower/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@herempirebuilder

For full show notes visit: https://www.herempirebuilder.com/derek

For the past episodes of the podcast visit https://www.herempirebuilder.com/podcast

Resources mentioned:

How to live book by Derek Sivers

Hell Yeah or No by Derek Sivers

Anything You Want by Derek Sivers

One Life Book by Tina Tower

Million Dollar Micro Business by Tina Tower

Awaken the Giant within book by Anthony Robbins

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman

City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism: Jim Krane

The Magic of Thinking Big: David J. Schwartz

Stumbling on Happiness: Gilbert, Daniel

The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want by Sonja Lyubomirsky

Be Your Future Self Now by Dr Benjamin Hardy

The Tim Ferriss Show interviewing Claire Hughes Johnson on Building Stripe from 160 - 6000+ employees

Lenny’s Podcast - How Netflix Builds a Culture of Excellence with Elizabeth Stone

Erika LeMay

https://www.erikalemay.com/

Notable timestamps:

portugal citizenship in 2014 25:00

malta 800K euro 26:00

What you do daily 34:00

writing a new book 35:15

Shivers.com multi warehouse in Germany 35:48

daily habits 37:32

you cant be a musician without going on tour 38:50

don't just tell me what to do 40:20

how do you stay in highest priority 44:20

chapter in new book (need stubborn inappropriate flirt) 46:53

can you cohabitate? value system for parenting (always do the right thing) 49:15

how you hold your priorities?moved to pacific island 52:25

created environment that would work for me

what does a meaningful life look to you 55:20

anthony robins days (ninja level planning) 56:35

"long term plans are who you were, today's plans are who you are"

"businesses should be short term focused"

do you live in a meaningful/chapter kind of life? 59:30

folder on computer "possible futures" 1:01:15

bangalore or india

Met Stripe creator in SG 1:05:00

Struggle of going too fast all the time (Tina) 1:07:30

How do you discern when enough is enough? 1:08:15

Minimalist things 1:10:00

Awaken The Giant Within book 1:14:49

Useful Not True book 1:15:20

Distribution of books? 1:16:50

What is your #1 goal when you put the book out? 1:17:50

Your Music and People: Creative and Considerate Fame book 1:18:00

Hell Yeah Or No: What's Worth Doing book 1:19:40

How to Live book 1:20:05

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman 1:20:10

Tina will put pictures of the images from Derek's book 1:25:00

Duck or bunny optical illusion 1:27:00

Every book has a different goal 1:29:40

Belief that you challenged or changed while writing the book 1:30:30

City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism: Jim Krane 1:31:25

Movie: Huma romantic comedies 1:33:15

Poor things: Emma stone movie

Jazz playlist mentioned

Interview with Mark Manson: do you get tired of thinking about thinking? 1:34:10

When thinking of successful, who's the first person that come in your mind? 1:36:05

What's your stand on "Money doesn't buy happiness" 1:42:30

Richard Branson | Biography & Facts

The psychological effect of not being desperate 1:52:10

What can you say about "People driven by money" 1:54:05

Do you think Entrepreneurship is for everyone? 1:58:30

How do you balance programming and writing a book 2:01:00

Derek's greatest moment of joy? 2:05:30

Fear of putting overthinking thoughts to the world? 2:06:22

Books Derek recommend? (Booklist on his website) 2:08:55

Fave book? Awaken The Giant Within

The Magic of Thinking Big: David J. Schwartz 2:11:00

Stumbling on Happiness: Gilbert, Daniel 2:11:24

The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want 2:11:30

Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

Best advice for boks (get a collection) 2:13:00

https://www.erikalemay.com/ 2:17:25

Derek's favorite TV show? Poor Things (film) 2:18:00

Do you have a question that you ask people? 2:21:20

Is there a product you can't live without? 2:25:00