Just Interesting People

Kirill is a super interesting guy with an amazing mindset and high-level of awareness, which was clear throughout the whole conversation.

Kirill was born in Belarus and grew up with good education but experienced the effects of the Cold War including rationed foods. It was during his childhood that Kirill realized he excelled at sciences and developed his interest for technology & creativity.

He now lives in Miami, but his American journey started in North Carolina. He then moved to San Fransisco to attend UC Berkeley to study business. Kirill worked in the corporate world but eventually decided to quit his high-paid job to follow his dreams and start his own business.

Kirill now spends his time working on his businesses 22portraits and Capsul, and his project 22stories.

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Anwar is a documentary photographer based in Nairobi, Kenya. His work focuses on sharing unnoticed and overlook stories in his community. Most of his work is around the neighborhood of Kibera, which is the largest urban slum in Africa.

Through his photographs, he wants to show another side of the people living there, and a different side of his country. Plus show a different side to the African continent which is too often confined to negative stories around poverty, famine, wars, corruption and diseases.

In this episode Anwar shares with us where his passion for photography comes from, the hard work needed to get a camera and start working as a professional photographer. Despite a tumultuous childhood in an unstable home, Anwar stayed motivated and focused on his goals.

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https://sirdartphotography.wixsite.com/anwarsadat

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We are happy to welcome Carlos on the show once again. If you missed our first conversation with him, you can check it out here: https://justinterestingpeople.com/jip-002-carlos-rubio

In this episode, we dive into Carlos' journey on living a true authentic life. Carlos has spent an incredible amount of time, energy and money to grow as a person. His goal is to live as authentically as he can, in alignment with his higher self.

As good as this sound, this is not all unicorns and rainbows. It requires a lot of work, shadow work, to face your own personal struggles. Carlos shares openly and vulnerably about his ups & downs and the challenges he faced (and is still facing) along the way.

Carlos drops a ton of golden nuggets and useful advice which can be implemented in your life to start (or continue) your self-development journey.

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2 years... 104 weeks... 104 episodes. This is WILD!

To celebrate the 2nd anniversary of Just Interesting People, we are happy to announce the launch of our YouTube channel 🥳 For 103 episodes you could only listen to us... from now on you will also be able watch us, and most importantly our amazing guests! Please consider subscribing to the channel 🙏

We are also happy to announce the creation of our membership community through Buy Me a Coffee where you can become a ⭐ Just Interesting Fan ⭐! This serves multiple purposes:

1. By joining, you will be part of our VIP private community where you will get exclusives & behind the scenes content.
2. If you like our show, this is a way to support us. Listening to and watching the episodes is completely free. Plus, we want the podcast to stay ad-free. Through the membership, you will support us and help us continue to run the podcast.
3. As this community grows, we will add more perks in the future and you can be sure that our early fans will always have a special place.

Enjoy this very special episode, and thank you so much for tuning in!

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In today's episode we welcome Oliver, aka Olly aka Rosie's little brother! We kick off the conversation talking about his childhood, and how growing up with a lot of freedom and values such as "do what makes you happy" from a young age impacted his mindset and life choices.

As a child, Olly's parents always took the family away on vacations. Olly kept a strong interest in traveling and went on multiple travels around the world, exploring many countries and creating unforgettable memories. He also shares with us how he dealt with a very tragic accident that happened during one of his travels.

Olly graduated in 2014 with a Masters in Transport Economics and has been enjoying a successful career as a consultant since then. However, Olly always had a strong interest in business and entrepreneurship. For the past few years he had many (many) ideas, explored some more than others and is now working with his wife on Educated Cooking.

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Lorraine's life has been a rollercoaster! She grew up in a working class family in Manchester, England. When she was 19 years old, she met the man who would become her first husband and a few years later moved to Malaysia with him. She created 2 business there, had 2 beautiful children, including our dear friend Jojo (https://justinterestingpeople.com/043), but realized after a while that she wasn't happy and fulfilled in her marriage and her life.

In the early 2000s, when internet came around, she "met" a man from New York who became a friend... and after a tragic family event, she realized life was too short to waste time and be unhappy and she decided to book a one-way ticket to NYC to meet Jimmy in-person. Her plan was to visit New York, see what would happen with this potential relationship, then bring her children over once she was settled and safe.

However things didn't turn out completely as planned... it took 1 year for Michael & Joanne to see their mother again in NYC! Jojo, still being young at this time, stayed in America with her mother while Michael who was older went back to Malaysia.

Lorraine and her husband started a successful business in NYC, and are now living happily in Miami. She is a very up beat person with a go getter personality who says yes to life and love. She is also a very good business woman who has started many profitable and incredible businesses.

Lorraine is such an inspiration and a reminder that life is for living. Make sure you do things that make you happy and "go for it".

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Imagine traveling around the world and living with locals for free in exchange of a few hours of your time. Sounds pretty amazing, right? Well, this is possible thanks to Worldpackers.com.

Ricardo is from Brazil around 2010 was having a very successful career in finance. Successful from a money standpoint, however he was totally unhappy and unfulfilled. That's when he decided to leave everything behind and use his savings to travel the world. Little did he know at the time that he would be traveling for 3 years through Africa, Europe, Asia and North America!

It was during this long trip that he discovered you can volunteer in exchange for accommodation and sometimes even food. In 2013, Ricardo stayed in a hostel in San Diego - a hostel run by Eric and lots of volunteers. That's when Ricardo & Eric decided to create Worldpackers, a platform to connect hostels and travelers who want to volunteer to reduce their expenses and live different experiences. The first version launched in early 2014.

Fast forward to 2022, they have around 50 (fully remote) employees, 7000+ hosts and more than 100,000 travelers volunteered through the platform. Ricardo's purpose is to provide an alternative to traditional travel, to offer unique experiences to travelers and create a community around the world by volunteering. Through multiple online programs, they gave back $1M to the community in 2021 alone!

As you can imagine, the pandemic impacted Worldpackers, but they managed to get through it and the platform and team are now stronger than ever. Despite being a niche market in this huge industry, Ricardo is determined to have an impact.

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For the 100th episode, we are bringing back our very first guest, Alvey Thompson. Alvey published his first book at the end of 2021, "You Can 2: Life Lessons From My Mom's Untimely Death" and we are extremely happy to have him back on the show to dive into the origin and details of the book.

Through 12 chapters, Alvey shares a personal story with his mother, the lesson he learned from this story and how he was able to help a client through a similar situation.

If this conversation inspires you and you want to know more about Alvey, we highly recommend you to dive into the book:

https://tinyurl.com/49kkbh5b

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We had the pleasure of spending 2.5 weeks with Bresly near Oxapampa, in the middle of Peru, through the website Worldpackers (a platform listing volunteering opportunities across the world).

Bresly grew up in Oxapampa, a city founded by Austrian and German settlers in the 19th century. It is surrounded by mountains and forest, and offers an incredible diversity of birds, insects, other wildlife and flora. From a young age Bresly created a special bond and connection with nature which led her to move to Germany to study Forest Sciences & Forest Ecology in University.

After 10 years in Germany, Bresly moved back to Peru to reconnect with her roots and her family. She uses her passion & knowledge for the forest & nature to educate others (tourists like us and children through school programs) about the importance of preserving the ecosystem in the province and ultimately our planet.

We had a fantastic time with Bresly and she is always taking on more volunteers, so if you ever want to spend time immersed in the Peruvian Cloud Forests learning about another culture, tasting new foods, and learning how to live a more simple life, we have left the link below.

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Volunteer with Bresly through Worldpackers:

https://www.worldpackers.com/locations/immersion-travel-oxapampa

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