Travel Wisdom Podcast -travel And Learn Languages For Success And Money

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 such as travel

Tom Gose is the host of the Peanut Butter and Passports podcast as well as the author of the book by the same name. In this episode we interview each other on the best places that we have travelled in various categories. 

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.

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. Jim actually did this and set 2 world records where he travelled around the world for many months and years, first on a motorcycle and then in a car. I hope this will be the first of many talks that we will have!   Finally, I want to give a shoutout to the Brave Era 100% Silk Travel Sheet. They sent me their sleeping bag liner and I really enjoyed it. It is very compact and can be used instead of a sleeping bag if you will be sleeping indoors. Check it out!

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 give us a bit of a high level evaluation of what is going in the crypto market nowadays.   Finally, I want to give a shoutout to the Brave Era 100% Silk Travel Sheet. They sent me their sleeping bag liner and I really enjoyed it. It is very compact and can be used instead of a sleeping bag if you will be sleeping indoors. Check it out!

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 parallels with travel and clowning in that it is really important to stay spontaneous and to always say yes!   Finally, I want to give a shoutout to the Brave Era 100% Silk Travel Sheet. They sent me their sleeping bag liner and I really enjoyed it. It is very compact and can be used instead of a sleeping bag if you will be sleeping indoors. Check it out!

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 in life and how to get it.

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 experiences in the community and how she learned the 25 languages she had studied.

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 is to understand their point of view In this episode, we talk about the best way to evaluate arguments, how to listen to people and understand people by understanding their culture, and even a bit of politics. 

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 was in my studio that I had set up a few weeks later. The key takeaways from this episode is that Travel is a form of escapism for most people but the next step is to integrate what you learn into your daily life. We talk about some of our special experiences while travelling to extreme places that you might have experienced as well!

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.  In this episode, we talk about his Pampers to Polyglots Facebook page and his book which helps supports parents or parents to be to have the most multilingual children ever!

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 depression. Both of us had the experience of getting better after about 6 months of moving our ass! So whatever you do, if you feel the pull of depression or mental health issues the first thing you should do is get out of the environment that is causing it. Whether it is running a marathon, going out to travel, or anything else you might want to do - move your ass! So if you like what he talks about then check out his book "Everyone has a plan until Sh!t hits the fan"

 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 you the freedom to explore on your own, with just the right amount of structure from a group. It's a curated group that's designed to attract curious, adventurous, adaptable, really nice people.

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 and it has been a hell of a time finding a job I would be happy in. I am already thinking that I could spend a few years here even though I was skeptical at first. I had broken up with my girlfriend and that has weighed heavily on my heart. I had never been so heartbroken and am hoping that we will get back together someday. I think it may have been for the best because this way we can both follow our dreams before getting back together. Otherwise it is a big transition going from being on the move all the time and living out of one backpack to settling down. I can now get 10 backpacks worth of stuff!!

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 train your body and eat as little as possible before travelling. Then when you arrive you need to get on the same eating schedule (breakfast, lunch, dinner) as the local population as soon as possible. He also notes that there are more important things than health including maintaining strong social contacts.

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 together some really interesting music. These people never met and may have even recorded on other sides of the planet a few years apart. It's really cool stuff and I think if you are listening to this you should think about cool projects like this that you could take a part in!

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 friends that think you speak fluently, which is better than actually speaking fluently!! Tips include speaking with lower class people due to their smaller vocabulary, learning colors early, and having a few really funny colloquial expressions to sprinkle in now and then.

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 the US. It is interesting because I had the exact opposite response a few years earlier. I wanted desperately to go back to the US (to eat Mexican food) after about a year of being away. But now when I came back I realized I like Europe better. Have you had experiences like this? Write me at travelwisdompodcast@gmail.com

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 something called gasotransmitters which send signals throughout the body. They just didn't have the Latin vocabulary for it! Andrew talks about many philosophies behind his book EnlightenWeight, a book I absolutely loved! We talk about bringing your body back into balance based on the environment you are living in as well as the role of gasotransmitters in the body. I really liked this episode which is the first in a series of 3 shows with different topics.

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 during 2017 I lived in England, worked in France, Ukraine and Slovakia, and travelled to Norway, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Czech Republic, Iceland, visiting family in the US before going to India! So many places but many were out of necessity!  Anyways, 2018 will probably have more nomadic times because my girlfriend had quit her job in late 2017 to follow her dream of travelling for 6 months in South Asia. I, of course, would accompany her since I had already been there. After that we might do a documentary in the US before settling there and working in a lab. I hope the travel wisdom will continue and I will always be ready with a