Today’s
guest on the Art of Adventure podcast is a friend and fellow travel podcaster, Ladan
Jiracek. Ladan hosts the long-time podcast, Travel Wisdom, which brings in
guests and discusses how travelling makes you wiser. He has been to more than a
hundred countries and we met in some of these. We started our podcasts in about
the same time, and in our shows, we interview guests as we learn about their
adventures. This time, Ladan and I decided to interview each other.



In
the first episode from this series, we catch up and give updates on each other’s
lives. Ladan is a laboratory technician in the University of Florida and currently
taking up his Ph.D. He is also the creator of the Neural Implant Podcast, wherein
people from different fields share about the topics and breakthroughs in the field
of brain implants. As he says it, discovery and research are parts of what he must
do in order to stay sane!



Ladan
and I have traded courses together, lived together, and travelled together.
Now, he is slowing down his travelling. We decided to have this hero’s journey
episode and share the reasons why we are slowing down on travelling and the
lessons we learned along the way.  



What
you’ll learn in this episode:



* How
and why we decided on taking up our Ph.D.’s* What
Ladan’s current project is about* What
Ladan’s realizations are after years of travel* The
similar interests Ladan and I share* A
discussion on past lives, dreams, and the subconscious



Quotes:



"I will believe anything you say you have done" - Me to Ladan



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the Adventure:




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Derek and Ladan in Bali - Our 4th Country!