Travel And Learn awam
[search 0]
lebih
Download the App!
show episodes
 
Can travel be more than just a fun thing to do? Could it also provide some benefit and learning experiences later in life? I have always thought this and this is why I have relentlessly travelled the world and now have been to over 80 countries. I have always thought that I was planting the seeds of wisdom while in faraway lands. Through experiences with foreign people, cultures, concepts, and ways of doing things I learned much more than anything I could've done while at home. I interview a ...
  continue reading
 
Loading …
show series
 
Nate Ritter is a failed expat who was unable to live in France. Since then he has founded a company called Room Steals which is a hotel booking search engine which allows you to find wholesale prices of hotels. He has seen savings of many hundred dollars on a single night but savings are often 20%. Use the following Coupon code for 20% off your fir…
  continue reading
 
Francis Tapon rejected his normal Harvard Business school life and instead chose to hike the Appalachian trail and travel in Africa for 5 years. He hosts the Wander Learn podcast where he talks about the benefits of being a wanderer. Top 3 Takeaways: "Sometimes I think the best way to learn is just to forego college and then just go travel the worl…
  continue reading
 
David Axelrod is the author Get Away: Design Your Ideal Trip, Travel with Ease and Reclaim your Freedom about the best way to plan a trip. David has been to over 50 countries and has written other books about the wild situations he found himself in. Top 3 Takeaways: "They, are chasing their whole itinerary and feeling like they're never really in c…
  continue reading
 
Kathleen Peddicord wrote a book "How to Retire Overseas" where she talks about some of the research going into the best places to spend your twilight years. Top 3 Takeaways: "The average social security check right now for an American is about $1,500 a month. And that's enough budget to live well in a lot of places." "The best place to retire overs…
  continue reading
 
Mike Bown is the “most traveled man in the world”. He has written an essay called “Skins of Ill-Shaped Fishes”, where he discusses how his travel across the globe has exposed him to a very wide spectrum of human life and have taught him in detail about the history and current reality of human society. In this episode, Ladan reads this essay and sha…
  continue reading
 
Jake Steiner used to have severe myopia (shortsightedness) and wore glasses with a very extreme refractive power. However, he has overcome his myopia on his own, and he now teaches others how to do so as well. In this episode, he talks about how lenses can actually worsen myopia over time, and how to restore your eyes’ functionality by changing hab…
  continue reading
 
Derek Loudermilk is the host of the Art of Adventure Podcast, a podcast that teaches about leading an adventurous life. In this episode, Derek and Ladan catch up and interview each other about what they’ve been up to recently and what they’ve learned from their adventures. Top three takeaways: When traveling abroad, you not only gain a new set of s…
  continue reading
 
Luca Fantuzzi is an Italian citizen who has recently returned to Italy from the US in light of the coronavirus outbreak. Italy is one of the countries most strongly affected by the outbreak, and Fantuzzi has gone back to be with family. In this episode, he discusses his recent experiences traveling and observing how this outbreak has affected Italy…
  continue reading
 
Inés Ruiz Navarro is a teacher of Spanish language and translation. In this episode, she explains how she uses meditation to help students learn and retain language more effectively and in a more positive way. Top three takeaways: When learning language through meditation, visualize someone you know, keep the image in your head, keep breathing, and…
  continue reading
 
Tamara Marie is a certified language coach who uses songs to teach language. She has developed a course called Spanish Con Salsa, which teaches Spanish through interactive lessons and uses Spanish songs to aid in retention of the learned material. In this episode, she discusses how she came to find music as an effective tool for learning languages,…
  continue reading
 
Lawrence Leyton is a therapist who has helped people overcome fears. In this episode, Ladan interviews Lawrence Leyton and one of his clients, Mark Wein, whom Leyton has helped to overcome his fear of flying. Lawrence Leyton and Mark Wein have since created a course to help people overcome the fear of flying. In this episode, they discuss the fear …
  continue reading
 
In this episode, Ladan discusses his trip to China. He discusses the sights he saw, the experiences he’s had, as well as how China is modernizing. Top three takeaways: A lot of China’s advancements, such as the proliferation of electric vehicles, bullet trains, and more modern ways of paying for goods and services (such as facial recognition) are m…
  continue reading
 
Shawn Paris has spent the last 4 years of his life essentially homeless. He has stayed with around 200 couchsurfing hosts in the US, France and Japan while going around and performing. I hosted him for a few days and we ended up talking about the benefits of living like this. I had done something similar in 2017 and although I got sick of it after …
  continue reading
 
I talk to my friend here in Gainesville, Joe Uong. We met because of his great language ability in German which he had only been learning a few months. His secret was using a service called Lingoda. Here they offer group language lessons in German, French, Spanish, or Business English. You have a teacher and go through specific language lessons wit…
  continue reading
 
I met Tom at a conference last year and we really hit it off because of both of our travels. Turns out he travelled all around the world many decades ago when the world was a different place. He was able to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, and saw India as a different place than it is now. This conversation was very interesting to see how things have chang…
  continue reading
 
It was a pleasure to talk to Casey Fenton, the founder of Couchsurfing again. We had met a year ago in Bali but with a tight schedule and us celebrating his 40th birthday we never ended up recording an episode at that time. Luckily, he is now writing a book about his experiences building my favorite community for travel. Couchsurfing allows you to …
  continue reading
 
Matt Ward is the host of the Disruptors podcast which was formerly Fringe FM. He had built a company to a million dollars within about a year all while maintaining his love for podcasting. Now he is working on a podcast around the future of humanity, scientists, education, healthcare and manned space travel. In this episode we talk about how he sta…
  continue reading
 
Robert Hartline has built several successful businesses and was able to grow it to $100 million in revenue. He now lives in a location independent lifestyle and is able to work whenever and wherever he wants. He thinks of diversity as being more than skin deep but the way that a person thinks and acts. This can come from different life experiences …
  continue reading
 
Sue Hollis must have a butt made of iron to have survived 83 days and 23k kilometers of riding across North America. She was fed up with her entrepreneurial life and wanted to start something new. She considered this the third phase of her life where her first was corporate life.
  continue reading
 
I was very happy to have Jim Rogers on the show since he is a legend in the investment world. I have always kept my eyes open on interesting possibilities to invest in even though I never have while I have travelled. I always thought that have your boots on the ground would give you much more of an insight into what was really going on in a country…
  continue reading
 
This has been a long time coming but we finally have a cryptocurrency themed episode. I have invested in it a few months ago and am really excited about the potentials in it, especially after paying ridiculous sums of money to get cash wired to me when I was in Indonesia earlier this year. Andreas Antonopoulos was kind enough to speak with us and g…
  continue reading
 
After many months of planning and a failed recording attempt, I was finally able to talk to fellow podcaster, Eric Trules. Instead of becoming a doctor he instead became a clown who performed on the street and followed wherever life took him. That ended up taking him to a position as a professor at USC teaching improv classes. Eric sees many parall…
  continue reading
 
It was a pleasure to talk with Peter Sasin of NLP Akademia about his new book "Waves of Magic." I am actually a longtime listener of his podcast which is in Slovak. But now he wrote a book in English about how to use mindset to achieve what you want in life. He has a very motivating and uplifting way of talking which makes you realize what you want…
  continue reading
 
Having gone to the Polyglot Conferences I always heard the name of Ellen Jovin brought up. Since I love learning languages and this show has had so many polyglots I knew that I had to have her on! She was an admin and extremely active in a Facebook group for a number of years and built a reputation. It was a pleasure to talk to her about experience…
  continue reading
 
Eric Hunley is the host of the Unstructured podcast and Facebook page which is a bit of a spinoff of the Mixed Mental Arts Facebook page and podcast. Both of the podcasts take deep dives into ways of thinking and problems that we may have with seeing other people's point of view. People think and act the way they do because of their culture our job…
  continue reading
 
Antesa and I actually had two calls which were merged into one. Usually, I don't like life coaches very much but her message is very close to mine so it resonated very well. Our stories were so similar that I had to have her on again. The first interview I was actually in an In And Out burger, I actually hadn't planned to record it. The second one …
  continue reading
 
I met Tetsu last year at the Polyglot conference in Iceland and I loved his talk about how he was able to teach his children 5 languages. Through a combination fo OPOL (One Person One Language), living in foreign countries, and having au pairs (live in nannies) in the target language the children were able to effortlessly learn all those languages.…
  continue reading
 
I talked to Tofe about his dip into depression and mental health issues. Then one day he decided to run a marathon and then within about 6 months of doing these kinds of events he had pulled himself out of depression. We talk about how travel and doing races are actually very similar things, they both help you get out of the environment causing the…
  continue reading
 
I talk to the founder of Bolt Collective, Dan Pierson, about how their community is redefining group travel. Using collective purchasing power, they're making other inaccessbile trips like boat charters, National Park treasure hunts, and private island takeovers happen. They do about a dozen trips all around the world per year, focused on giving yo…
  continue reading
 
Since I last gave updates on things in my life it has been about 6 months (since I recorded the episode, not since I published it). Lots has happened! I have now gotten a job and moved to Gainesville, Florida. It is a cool project designing injectable brain implants and I am very happy. It was almost 2 years since I finished my Masters in Germany a…
  continue reading
 
Travel Wisdom friend Andrew Miles of Botanical Biohacking talks about how to keep healthy while travelling. Especially long flights can be quite harmful to your sleep, your gut microbiome, and ultimately your health. He infuses some Eastern wisdom explained in a Western way so that you don't become more unhealthy after travelling. The key is to tra…
  continue reading
 
I only had 2 hours to meet Graham while I was passing through London "ok, let's meet at a Chinese all you can eat buffet." We met and in between bites we talked about what Graham was working on, Orchestra of Samples. He and his music partner have travelled to over 30 countries and sampled over 200 musicians over the last few years to be able to put…
  continue reading
 
Andrew Miles of Botanical Biohacking is a friend of the show and he is back to talk about language learning. He has learned Chinese and Szechuanese to a very high level over the many years of his travel there. This is Travel Wisdom so it wouldn't be complete without a language episode! In this episode, Andrew gives some funny advice on how to make …
  continue reading
 
Have you ever gone outside of your country only to return a few years later? Did some things that you used to do or see no longer seem normal to you? This was my experience coming back to the US after 3 years. Everything felt so big and commercialized. It was really strange! There were many things that I didn't like and would ideally get rid of in …
  continue reading
 
Andrew is on the show again because I loved what he talked about last time! I have listened to every episode of his Botanical Biohacking podcast because he has an ability to explain Eastern medicine with Western vocabulary. Maybe you heard things like Chi from Tai Chi which means gas or energy which flows through the body. Turns out, there's someth…
  continue reading
 
2017 was a very interesting year for me! After coming back from being deported to Russia in late 2016 I ended up moving in with an awesome girl. Actually, I only stayed with her half of the time to make sure that I wouldn't have visa problems. So I did odd jobs around Europe and bounced around to prevent border control from getting mad at me! So du…
  continue reading
 
In this last of the series of recordings I have with Mike Bown, the most travelled man in the world. We recorded this in a bar during a storm but it was really interesting so I wanted to publish it. This wide-ranging conversation goes over things such as the Google monopoly, capitalism and feudal society, my theories about phrenology, why US slaver…
  continue reading
 
Kelly spent more than 15 years doing aid work in Latin America and now has written a book which is based on her interviews and experiences in the drug trafficking world of Colombia. She lived in many of these places and went to areas that no tourists go to and conducted thousands of interviews. In this interview, we talk about some tips on how to g…
  continue reading
 
Peter started MyExpatsWorld 5 years ago with some meet ups in Mallorca, Spain when many people said he should do it everywhere! He has now grown it to a network of people helping each other out when people move to a new country. Many times when you move away from your family and friends you need a new support network that can help with small things…
  continue reading
 
When I met Mike in Ukraine in September I was able to record only a few hours out of our 50+ hours of philosophical discussions. This was the first of those. We talk about many things with someone I consider to be the top 5 most intelligent people I have come across (that includes baby Jesus!!). We talk about how when you are in the more interestin…
  continue reading
 
Some volunteer organizations charge thousands of dollars for the privilege of donating your time. Bianca talks about how to avoid this by being a bit smarter and being a more responsible traveller. She talks about this in her Altruistic Traveller blog where you can learn to do things like WorkAway and other things to truly volunteer in an impactful…
  continue reading
 
Ok, so Chase totally doesn't condone this but he was talking about how he was in a low point in his life and decided to do risky things as a subconcious way to commit suicide. He learned to love life in the process and is now very happy. But I had to laugh when I imagined the most crazy way to kill yourself. I came up with attacking a hippo in Keny…
  continue reading
 
Ka Sundance says that true life doesn't end when you have kids but that you can keep travelling even with 8 kids. He sees himself as being a good dad to give the attention and learning experiences to his kids by living this lifestyle. We also debate a bit on whether or not its good that his kids are not going to a traditional school. Learn how he w…
  continue reading
 
Rick Rosner has the 2nd highest IQ in the world at about 199. He is a hobbyist that loves to take intelligence tests and has gotten really good at it. Some of these tests at the very high level are super time consuming, taking dozens of hours to take it. He does say that anyone can improve their IQ by 30 points within a few months, but his question…
  continue reading
 
TRIGGER WARNING! If you are sensitive or do not want to hear viewpoints which you may not like then do not listen to this episode! We take a very objective look at many topics related to the topic of the death of tradition: failures of native cultures, the death of homosexuality, and the death of travel. We look at what has been happening with an o…
  continue reading
 
Hi Adventurers! This is a special bonus episode featuring some of my top travel podcaster friends! You will hear from each host for a couple of minutes so you can get a better feel for what they are like. Immersing yourself in a variety of travel, lifestyle, digital nomad, expat, and adventure podcasts is the best way to accelerate your learning on…
  continue reading
 
Loading …

Panduan Rujukan Pantas

Podcast Teratas