Executive Nomad
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Podcast guest

Jamie Sylvian, The Executive Nomad

A founder who co-founded SIRA Utilities, the company that became uSwitch.com and sold for £210m, has lived in 13 countries, and now helps experienced professionals build businesses of their own.

Available worldwide for remote audio and video interviews.

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Jamie Sylvian, podcast guest
30+

years building cross-border businesses

13

countries lived in

£210m

sale of a business Jamie co-founded

10

cities worked from in the last 18 months

Experience is not history. It is infrastructure.

Jamie Sylvian

Your experience belongs to you, not to your employer. Jamie speaks for professional independence after 40, and for the people who build it.

Podcast conversations

Twenty seven conversations worth having with Jamie Sylvian

Executive Nomad sits at the intersection of experience, ownership, AI, international business and personal freedom. These are the conversations Jamie can bring to your podcast.

Twenty seven is a lot. It is also what more than thirty years of experience looks like when you write it down. These conversations come from building businesses over three decades, from running a start-up, and from building a category rather than just a brand. Pick the ones that fit your audience. You do not need to cover them all.

The emerging category

The
Executive
Nomad

Experienced professionals building businesses around what they know, how they want to work and where they choose to live.

01 The central idea

What is an Executive Nomad?

Digital nomadism has usually been associated with younger freelancers, creators and remote workers. Executive Nomad is a different proposition.

It is about experienced professionals turning decades of knowledge, judgement and reputation into businesses they own, while gaining greater control over where and how they live.

Podcast territory

The difference between a digital nomad and an Executive Nomad, why this category is emerging now, and why experienced professionals are uniquely equipped to lead it.

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Your
expertise
Research Marketing Sales Operations Strategy Administration
02 The one-person corporation

AI changes the advantage

For most of the last century, corporations held the advantage because they owned the infrastructure. They had researchers, marketers, sales teams, assistants, strategists and operational support.

AI is making that infrastructure available to individuals. One experienced professional can now build a level of capability that once required an entire organisation.

Podcast territory

Why AI makes experience more valuable, how one person can build corporate-level capability, and where human judgement still matters most.

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Work where you’re valued.
Live where you’re inspired.
Your global
expertise
business
London New York Singapore Limassol Bansko Bangkok
03 The nomad advantage

The business that travels with you

For most of the last century, your career determined where you lived. Executive Nomads reverse that equation.

Experienced professionals can now build global businesses around what they know. Advisory work, workshops, coaching, writing, licensing, speaking, fractional leadership, intellectual property, digital products and specialist services can increasingly be delivered from a laptop.

The result is more than remote work. It is the ability to serve clients internationally while choosing where life happens.

Podcast territory

Building a genuinely portable business, creating international demand, designing work around life, and the difference between flexibility and real freedom.

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30+ Years of experience

Experience is not history.
It is infrastructure.

04 The overlooked asset

Experience is the new infrastructure

Many senior professionals leave corporate life believing their value belonged to the company, the job title or the system around them.

In reality, they carry decades of pattern recognition, commercial judgement, specialist knowledge, relationships and lived experience. Those assets can become the foundation of an independent business.

Podcast territory

Why professionals underestimate what they know, how to extract commercial value from a career, and why starting independently does not mean starting again.

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Your
business
Company Clients Banking Residency
05 Business without borders

Where does a global business live?

A founder can live in one country, operate a company in another, bank elsewhere and serve clients across several continents.

That creates opportunity, but it also requires disciplined thinking about company structure, tax residency, banking, contracts, delivery and the practical realities of running a borderless business.

Podcast territory

International company structure, location strategy, legal tax efficiency, global banking and the operational realities behind a portable business.

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01Rewire
↓
02Repackage
↓
03Repurpose
06 The transformation method

Rewire. Repackage. Repurpose.

The first challenge is psychological. Experienced professionals need to stop seeing themselves only through the lens of a job title or employer.

They can then repackage their experience into clear commercial value and repurpose it through advisory services, coaching, workshops, publishing, fractional roles, licensing and other forms of intellectual property.

Podcast territory

Moving from employee identity to ownership, choosing the right business model, packaging expertise and avoiding the trap of creating another job.

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The Executive Nomad declaration
Work where
you’re valued.
Live where
you’re inspired.
07 The bigger conversation

A different relationship with work

Executive Nomad is ultimately about ownership. Ownership of your expertise, your time, your business model, your geography and the direction of your working life.

It is not retirement, escape or permanent travel. It is a serious professional life designed with greater intention, mobility and personal agency.

Podcast territory

Freedom with responsibility, designing life before location, the future of experienced work and what becomes possible when professionals own the infrastructure around their expertise.

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Six angles. One conversation your audience actually needs.

Pick the angle that fits your listeners. Each one comes with a suggested episode title.

Corporate escape and professional reinvention

Suggested episode title

“You Do Not Need Another Job”

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Turning experience into an independent business

Suggested episode title

“How to Turn Thirty Years of Experience into a Business”

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Executive Nomad freedom and location independence

Suggested episode title

“Location Independence Is Not Just for Twenty Somethings”

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Entrepreneurship after 40

Suggested episode title

“Why 50 May Be the Perfect Age to Start a Business”

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Building authority from expertise

Suggested episode title

“How to Build Authority Without Becoming an Influencer”

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Creating Executive Nomad as a global category

Suggested episode title

“How Do You Turn a Brand into a Category?”

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More angles Jamie can talk about

Not on the list? Jamie is happy to shape an episode around your audience.

Building a category, not a brand

“Why I Stopped Building a Brand and Started Building a Category”

Naming something that already exists, why a category outlasts a brand, and what it takes to get 100,000 people to recognise themselves in it.

Building a remote staff business

“How to Run a Business with a Team You Rarely Meet”

Where to find good people, what to hand over first, and what breaks when nobody is in the same room.

How to build a consulting business

“From Thirty Years of Experience to Your First Five Clients”

What to sell, how to price it, and how to stop trading hours for money.

How to build a coaching business

“You Do Not Need a Certificate to Coach, You Need a Result”

One clear outcome, your first clients, pricing a programme rather than sessions, and why most coaches stall at the client who already knows them.

Consulting, coaching or both?

“Consulting, Coaching or Both? How to Choose Your First Business Model”

Choosing a model that fits your experience and the life you want, using Rewire, Repackage, Repurpose.

Selling a business and what comes after

“What Nobody Tells You About Life After an Exit”

Identity, money and starting again.

Hiring when you are the expert

“How to Delegate the Work You Are Best At”

Letting go of delivery without lowering the standard.

Workshops as a business model

“Why a Live Workshop Beats Another Hour of Consulting”

One session, many buyers.

Pricing your experience

“Why Experienced Professionals Undercharge”

Price as a signal, and why a premium programme can be an easier sell than a cheap one.

Leaving corporate life without a plan

“Should You Quit First or Build First?”

The honest risks and a sensible order of events.

Building in public as a senior professional

“How to Be Visible Without Becoming a Content Machine”

Authority through a podcast, a book and a few strong ideas.

Moving countries for the business

“What Thirteen Countries Taught Me About Where to Live”

Choosing a base for tax, time zone and quality of life.

Why AI helps the experienced most

“AI Does Not Replace Experience. It Multiplies It.”

Using AI for the work around your expertise.

The second half of a career

“Why Your Best Work May Still Be Ahead”

How age becomes an advantage once you work for yourself.

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Executive Nomad is being built as a global category.

Experienced professionals need a shared identity, the infrastructure to work from it, and a worldwide network.

The ambition is to reach 100,000 Executive Nomads.

  • Naming an identity that already exists
  • Building the infrastructure around it
  • Creating a worldwide network
  • Making the category locally relevant

A possible episode

“Can You Deliberately Create a New Global Category of Professional?”

Ten cities in the last 18 months.

Jamie runs his business from wherever the life he wants happens to be.

  • Thessaloniki
  • London
  • Malaga
  • Sofia
  • Paphos
  • Kavala
  • Bath
  • Bansko
  • Valletta
  • Budapest

Hear Jamie before you book

Start here: the free audio programme

A good first listen if you want to hear how Jamie talks about the idea.

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Unscripted: watch or listen

Conversations with Jamie, on video or audio.

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The Executive Nomad podcast

Hear the show Jamie hosts.

Listen on ExecutiveNomad.fm

Watch Jamie

The Executive Nomad Podcast, with Mike Pell from Microsoft
How coaches and consultants can release high-quality videos
Public speaking as an Executive Nomad: your 5K a day superpower
Digital Executive Nomad: living in Thailand while earning London money

Also happy to talk about

  • The Rewire, Repackage, Repurpose framework
  • Life design
  • International entrepreneurship
  • AI-first business ecosystems
  • AI and career decoding
  • Podcasting as intellectual property
  • Professional networks
  • Residencies
  • Licensing
  • Lessons from 30 years in business

Book Jamie for your show

Two easy ways in. Available worldwide for remote audio and video interviews.

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Email: podcasts@executivenomad.com

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