Ladan Jiracek | The Hero Returns With the Treasure | When Travelers Settle Down

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 Continue the Adventure:Travel Wisdom PodcastFacebookTwitter Derek and Ladan in Bali - Our 4th Country!