#4 – Jay Topp: Dropping Out, Being a Digital Nomad and the Arctic Circle

Arjun Khemani Podcast

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Oct 01, 2022

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 - Jay is one of the coolest people I’ve met

1:56 - What’s wrong with the school system and how to escape it

5:48 - Growing up in an entrepreneurial family and dropping out

8:18 - Become more valuable by learning high value skills

10:45 - Voids create value / why Jay wants to change the way education is done

13:20 - Digital Nomad and filming a documentary in the Arctic Circle

21:10 - The most profound thing Jay learned from traveling to 57 countries

24:30 - All morality is localized / every idea is open to criticism

29:31 - How you do one thing is how you do everything

30:20 - What “home” means to a digital nomad / I’m a citizen of the world

39:21 - Next steps for Jay

44:00 - Biggest mentors in Jay’s life + books / closing remarks

In this podcast I speak with Jay Topp.

He’s like one of the coolest people I’ve ever met.

Jay is 22 years old from the Gold Coast, Australia.
He’s a Digital Nomad who’s stepped foot in 57 countries. He calls himself a “citizen of the world”.
He dropped out of school when he was 16 at a time when he started earning more than his teachers while helping his family scale their business.
His agency, Lion Social helps scale businesses from ideation to seven figures and has had a couple of great success stories.
He’s an excellent musician.
He’s been working on a documentary on “Digital Nomads living in the Arctic circle” which releases later this year.
His mission is to play a meaningful role in the revolution of education.

WHAT WE TALK ABOUT

We talk about the flaws in the education system and how Jay escaped it.
Jay shares the most profound thing he learned upon traveling to 57 countries.
We explore who digital nomads are and the reasons why Jay is creating a documentary about them situated in a very unique place.
Jay shares what “home” means to him.
And much more.

Jay’s links:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jayt0pp/