Ep 42: Nomads Giving Back To The World with Tarek Kholoussy
Tarek is a social entrepreneur with an MBA from NY University. He comes to the corporate world and worked with world-leading healthcare and financial services organizations such as Goldman Sachs in New York and London.
Throughout his journey, Tarek chased three big dreams to reach before his 40th birthday: to explore 100 countries to fuel his soul, run 25 marathons to challenge his body, and to create a social enterprise to expand his mind as well as his heart.
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Key Podcast Milestones
03:20 – How Tarek became a digital nomad
07:32 – What made Tarek switch to a digital nomad lifestyle
15:09 – How Tarek planned his journey to digital entrepreneurship
18:14 – How Tarek fought the urge to spend and managed to save for backpacking
23:16 – What inspired Tarek to start giving back to the countries he visited
31:35 – Tarek’s thoughts on building a network with other charity groups
40:28 – How can you connect with Tarek’s social enterprise
Top Key Quotes
“When I started to realize that I wasn’t aligned with how I was living my life I decided to take care and cultivate that craving of change in two ways. One is – feed the inspiration with more inspiration. I decided to create my own little inspiration boot camp where I tended the TED talk remotely, I would watch the whole thing in real-time from my apartment on my flat screen. Then I made a list of books about how to become happy and how to make a difference in the world. I decided to filter out things that would normally discourage me. I would reduce the amount of time on people that weren’t so supportive of this kind of thing.”
“In terms of planning sustainability, I just saved up my money, invested it, and decided to reduce my spending drastically. “
“Change is hard, change is also fascinating. I feel like it’s a cliché saying but I couldn’t agree more that life happens outside your comfort zone. That’s where the growth happens. I really challenged myself in various ways.”
“I really believe that you need to inspire yourself first. But once you do and you start to help others then in turn that inspires you to be better”
Resources
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https://wNomads Giving Backww.nomadsgivingback.com/ - Tarek’s social enterprise
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Tarek Kholoussy
NGB’s Facebook page
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