

The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd
Paul Millerd
The Pathless Path is hosted by Paul Millerd - a writer, creator, and consultant. He has conversations with freelancers, self-employed entrepreneurs, creators, and vagabonds who share their perspectives on their relationship with work, burnout, bootstrapping, indie hacking, remote work, reinvention, creativity, sabbaticals, leisure, self-employment, unconventional living, and digital nomadism. Past guests include Ali Abdaal, Russ Roberts, Kevin Kelly, Khe Hy, David Senra, Derek Sivers, Joe Hudson, Luke Burgis, Ben Hunt, Dan Vassallo, Steph Smith, Alex Pang, Visakan Veerasamy, Michael Ashcroft, Kyla Scalon, Trung Phan, Justin Welch, and more.
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Aug 31, 2020 • 27min
Amy McMillen - Wandering In Uncertainty & Writing A Book (Mid Pandemic)
I had a great conversation with Amy McMillen via a live group conversation and we talked about her journey of leaving her full-time job WITHOUT a plan, what it felt like, what she learned and how she ended up documenting it in a beautiful book during the pandemic.
Our full conversation, including Q&A can be found here: YouTube Link
Subscribe to Paul's weekly newsletter on work & what matters: Boundless @ Substack
Buy Amy's Book: Reclaiming Control @ Amazon
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May 28, 2020 • 56min
Will Bachman: Building an Independent Consulting Practice With a 5-Decade Success Mindset
Will Bachman, creator of Umbrex and host of the Unleashed podcast, discusses his experience in independent consulting. Topics include the evolution of consulting from 2008 to 2020, community-focused platforms, finding new clients, building a virtual team, and a mindset with a 5-decade time horizon.

Mar 26, 2020 • 46min
Reflection with Andrew Taggart on Work & Life
A conversation and reflection with Andrew Taggart on total work, the role of the human amid our current crisis and an exploration of philosophical questions
For more on Andrew: His Website
Music: Deliberate Thought by Kevin MacLeod
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Mar 18, 2020 • 53min
Laurel Farrer: The Global WFH Experiment & Long-Term Promise Of Remote Work
Laurel and I decided to jump on a video call to talk about the world emerging work-from-home experiment amid the evolving Covid-19 pandemic. We wanted to talk about some of the deeper principles & opportunities that remote work offers and talk about how companies might think about it in the next month and over the next few years. We talk about:
The short-term mindset companies should take in the next few weeks (hint: don't overdo the tools right now)
What the broader opportunity is for remote work over the next 10 years
The role of trust in remote work and what happens when it breaks down
How to think about meetings and how to design your day and re-think productivity
Examples of companies who have been innovating in this space for 10+ years
Experience from Laurel's 10+ years as a remote team leader
As the Founder of Distribute Consulting and the Remote Work Association, Laurel Farrer starts, strengthens, and leverages virtual workforces to solve corporate and socioeconomic concerns. A global thought leader on the topic of remote work, Laurel collaborates with the world's leading businesses and governments to eliminate virtual worker discrimination, prevent policy retraction, increase remote job accessibility, train distributed leaders, and design economic initiatives. Additionally, she also shares her expertise as a Forbes contributor, subject matter expert for business education curriculum, and virtual software product advisor.
More:
Episode Link & Show Notes
5 Tips For Remote Work (Boundless)
CEO of Doist & CEO of Zapier on Remote Work
Laurel on Twitter & LinkedIn
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Jan 8, 2020 • 58min
Imagining A New American Dream (Diania Merriam, Econome Conference)
In 2015, Diania Merriam discovered the Mr. Money Mustache blog about financial independence and reading it was like a refreshing punch in the face. At the time, she was living in NYC and $30k in debt. She got out of that debt in 11 months and started saving 60% of her income. This newfound grip on her finances gave her a huge boost of confidence to pursue goals that previously felt out of reach. In 2017, she moved to Cincinnati after negotiating a remote working arrangement with her employer.
She then took a 2 month unpaid sabbatical to walk the Camino de Santiago (a 500 mile trek across northern Spain). She also bought a house, adopted a dog, and found herself a midwestern gentleman. Diania founded EconoMe, a one day event at the University of Cincinnati on March 7th, 2020, to make the ideas that inspired her more accessible to others.
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Jan 2, 2020 • 31min
Longform Thoughts: Why Organizations Undermine Creativity & Potential
For the re-launch of the Boundless podcast, I'm releasing a previously Patreon-only audio discussion of a piece I wrote - Crisis at Work - which was published in the fall of 2017. *You can read the piece here*: Crisis At WorkI talk through six key reasons why organizational fail to unlock human potential:We're defaulting to the wrong goals (shareholder value)We're mistaking authority for performance (the Tom Brady principle)We aren't providing a connection to purposeWe don't understand how organizations operate (Chaos theory)We aren't giving people autonomyWe're choosing comfort over growthBoundless Links:Subscribe to the newsletterSupport On PatreonJoin The VIP Facebook Group (upcoming book club on Bullshit Jobs in September 2018)
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Dec 10, 2019 • 47min
A Remote Company With 40 Vacation Days?! (Amir Salihefendić, CEO Doist)
Amir Salihefendić is the Founder and CEO of Doist, a fully distributed, remote company that creates productivity tools (Todoist & Twist). We dive into his story of moving from Bosnia to Denmark as a child and how he started Doist while in college. He’s built a growing technology company in a fully remote setting, often experimenting with different ways of working and sharing the thinking behind the decisions as he goes on the doist blog as a major supporter of the remote work movement.
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Dec 2, 2019 • 53min
The Lazy Person's Guide To Freedom, Generosity & Creative Work (Moataz Ahmed)
Moataz Ahmed otherwise known as “motizzy” is a graphic designer, consultant and hand lettering artist. He recently published Part 1 of his book titled, “Lazy Person’s Guide to Freedom” and we talked about his journey and book in this conversation.
We also talk about:
How we naturally started freelancing by helping people
His embrace of the “gift mindset”
How he improved his will-power and motivation
How he thinks about freedom and justice
How freedom should also be about speaking out for other people’s freedom
Learning new languages and the benefit of cross-cultural insight for design work
You can learn more:
Motizzy.com
Lazy Person’s Guide To Freedom ($0+ Gift Pricing)
His great design work on instagram
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Oct 30, 2019 • 1h 16min
Twitter Friends & Threads, Self-Employment & Curiosity (Visakan Veerasamy)
I connected with Visa on twitter, where he’s made many friends over the past several years. I wanted to interview Visa to talk about his leap to self-employment over the past couple of years, but we talked about so much more. We talk about:
What the word “nourish” means to him
His evolution on procrastination and getting started
How to find like-hearted humans on twitter
The “asshole problem”
The curious humans of twitter
How he creates his own work
See the episode notes here
Follow Visa on twitter
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Oct 22, 2019 • 1h 3min
Rest, Leisure, Working Less & The 4-Day Workweek (Alex Pang)
Alex Pang is the author of Rest about how you can do more while working less and is author of the forthcoming Shorter, which shares stories of companies that have shifted to a four day workweek.
Hear about Alex's own sabbatical, how he changed his relationship to rest and what he's learning now.
Read more about Alex and get a copy of his book here
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