Derek Loudermilk on how parenting is not as hard as it seems
Travel Wisdom Podcast -travel and learn languages for success and money
Release Date: 02/01/2017
Nate Ritter on being a failed expat and his Room Steals booking search engine
Travel Wisdom Podcast -travel and learn languages for success and money
Nate Ritter is a failed expat who was unable to live in France. Since then he has founded a company called 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 first annual fee travelwisdom Top 3 Takeaways: "The night before we left, we were like, what do we do with all this paperwork?We don't need it because we got our visa. And we literally burned all of the paperwork. It was like a book of paperwork that...
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Hiking meditation and travelling all of Africa with Francis Tapon
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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 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 world and spend a few years going traveling around. This probably costs you even less than college." "That is a more important question than how to make a billion dollars is what you do once you have a billion dollars, because once you have a billion dollars, how you spend...
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Planning your perfect 9 day trip with David Axelrod
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is the author 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 control of it. I've heard that story way too many times. And I think what it comes down to is insufficient planning." "Planning enables spontaneity. I think that when you have a plan that's an airtight plan you've earned the freedom to deviate from that plan without suffering" "Even more important than the number of companions is that...
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Kathleen Peddicord on the best places to retire overseas
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wrote a book "" 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 overseas in 2022 is a town called Comporta on the coast of Portugal, about an hour and a half outside Lisbon" The cost of healthcare can be 5-10x cheaper in other countries with even higher quality 1:00 "Do you want to introduce yourself a little bit?" 2:45 "How are you covering retirement...
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Mike Bown’s Essay “Skins of Ill-Shaped Fishes” Details How Human Society and Its Core Values Have Evolved
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Mike Bown is the “most traveled man in the world”. He has written an essay called 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 shares his opinion on it. Top three takeaways: It is a fallacy to assume that if everyone were to have had equal enfranchisement from the dawn of history, that humanity would be better off. In fact, the way out of societal stagnation is industrialization, which is dependent on...
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Jake Steiner Discusses Myopia and How Habit Changes Rather than Lenses Are the Best Way to Overcome It
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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 habits and lifestyle choices. Top three takeaways: The eye will adjust its axial length based on what it sees in the environment. Placing a lens in front of the eye will cause the eye to adjust and change its axial length, which will alter its focal length. In...
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Derek Loudermilk and Ladan Catch Up and Discuss What They’ve Learned in Recent Times From Their Life Adventures
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Derek Loudermilk is the host of the , 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 skills related to independence, but you also understand how the world truly works beyond your hometown. As an example, one may start off as having social or liberal points of view, but may have a different informed opinion upon seeing how those ideologies work in...
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Luca Fantuzzi Discusses His Experience Witnessing the Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak
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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. Top three takeaways: Fantuzzi had some family friends who recently contracted the virus, and it was at this point that he realized the gravity of this situation. You understand best the effects of the outbreak once it affects you or someone in...
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Inés Ruiz Navarro Discusses Using Meditation to Aid in Learning a Language
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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 describe the physical characteristics of the person in the new language. The whole thing has a positive effect since you learn while remaining calm and not worrying about mispronouncing or saying the wrong words. Meditation comes in many distinct forms, but in this...
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Tamara Marie Discusses Learning Languages Through Music
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Tamara Marie is a certified language coach who uses songs to teach language. She has developed a course called , 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, as well as how to best use music to learn more in-depth about a language. Top three takeaways: Using music to aid in learning a language can also expose the learner to the culture, dialect, and various accents a language is spoken in, and can teach a language...
info_outlineIn this interview, Derek first talks about his 7-week old child and how it is actually easier than people say in order to raise it. If you have your own business and can change yours sleep schedule as well. With the help of grandparents and a support group, it makes things even easier.
He then talks about how he has leveraged his successful Art of Adventure podcast in order to get free hotel accommodation in exchange for marketing. He gives some tips on this as I would be interested in this as well. He also talked about his experience making charity birthday parties and raising a few hundred euros for charity while having a party at the same time! If you can convince them to bring an awesome friend you can also use it to meet very interesting people.
Finally, he says that travel allows you to get more confidence in a more general way rather than a domain specific way.