Travel Wisdom Podcast -travel and learn languages for success and money

Kara Ronin is the founder of Executive Impressions which provides international business etiquette training and consulting to companies, universities and individuals to help them succeed in the international business arena. Her services focus on business etiquette, leadership skills, and executive communication.

In this episode we talk about how she got started in providing tips for international business people because of her having lived on 4 continents. She talks about her experiences speaking and seeming interested in her new home in France. We then talk about the mysterious Indian head wobble and she explains a bit about the differences between showing yes and no. She mentions a video which can be watched here. She then talks about how when you are in a new culture you have to respect their customs. Simply doing what you want to do may not be received too well and could hurt your relationships. Then we talk about my experiences with my boss at my work in India and the way things are different there. Finally she talks about how travel helps you learn about the world and learn about yourself.

Guthrie Chamberlain is the host of the Wisdom Trek podcast where he teaches wisdom and discipline. He helps you understand the insights of the wise, to teach you to live disciplined and successful lives, to help you do what is right, just, and fair. By obtaining this wisdom then you will be able to create a living legacy for today that will live on and be multiplied through the lives of others.

In this episode we talk about how Guthrie grew up in a family of 10 children which has shaped how he looks at the world. We talk about the analogy of life with hiking through the mountains. If you take things slow and know where you are going you will get there before you know it. He then talks about how you can't expect to plant a seed and expect a plant tomorrow. You need to work and harvest fruit in different seasons. It seems he is full of analogies to life and I absolutely love it because it helps clear things up and make it more understandable. He then talks about his grueling schedule making the podcast, spending about 2 hours each day to put the 7 minute podcast together. He then talks about the benefits of taking your children with you while going to conferences or generally travelling for your career.

Dorie Clark is the author of Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future and her most recent book, Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It. She talks about how in order to succeed in today's world you need to have some sort of brand or things you are good at in order to get above the noise. She also consults and speaks for a diverse range of clients, including Google, the World Bank, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Yale University, the Mount Sinai Medical Center, and the National Park Service.

In this episode we talk about her crazy podcast interview schedule having been on about 160 podcasts in the last 9 months. She talks about how she got into this field through the field of politics and a nonprofit. We then talk about a story from Reinventing You who was let go from his passion job as a Rail trail advocate (bike and hiking trails on old railroad tracks). After being laid off he was able to use his creative side by opening a bed and breakfast next to a rail trail and becoming the place to stay for those loving rail trails. Then he got his real estate license and became the rail trail real estate agent. She then talks about how interests and other elements in your background can be brought together in order to make wonderful new things which have never been done before. Finally she talks about how travel can help you 'speak different languages' as well manage different social settings.

Emilie Wapnick runs puttylike which is the home of multipotentialites online. She says that most people have multiple potentials and should not be led to do only one thing in life. In her TED talk she mentions her start as a lawyer and how that has changed to blogging as well as many other passions over the years. She embraces the changes in direction of her life and thinks it is beneficial.

In this episode we talk about her coming trip in a trailer and my experience with ladybugs in camping trailers. She then talks about how she has gone through many careers and how it is ok to explore and jump around. Then she talks about how having these many kinds of backgrounds can be beneficial and can make unexpected combinations that could be very popular. We throw around ideas like scuba diving for historians, laundromats with ice cream, bike shops that are also coffee shops, and other non intuitive businesses that can be surprisingly successful. She has helped people find their passions for the last few years and hopes to do this for the future. We then talk about how being flexible and puttylike is the way to thrive in the new economy. Most jobs existing today did not exist 10 years ago and our current jobs will not exist in 10 years.

Grant Baldwin is a professional public speaker and host of the How Did You Get Into That podcast. He talks about living your life's passion and doing what you were put on this earth to do. He especially likes to give students the confidence to face the real world.

In this episode we talk about why he started his podcast after being asked so many times how he became a professional speaker. He has earned $1k for his first one hour keynote speech and he also teaches how you can do something you love and make a good living at it. He knew that he was always good at it and passionate so he just jumped in and did it as well as made sure to get better at his skill. He also gives some tips on how to book speaking events whether you are experienced or not. He talks about the non-glamorous side of speaking and compares it to his friends who do over 100 events per year. Finally he talks about how travel gets you out of the bubble that you are comfortable with and being able to experience other cultures.

I have now lived in India for over 6 months and even now things seem to shift every week. The travel mindset and sense of wonder goes away a bit and now it is more like I am living here. Travel and living somewhere are different but I think that both are recommended in order to expand your wisdom

Let me know about your experiences living somewhere versus simply travelling there

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Scott Beebe is the proprietor of My Business On Purpose; a multi-broadcast platform that equips, inspires, and mobilizes business professionals to live out their skill set to society. He helps small business owners and organizational decision makers uncover things that they cannot see, and create game-changing strategies so they can take immediate action and live out their life and business with purpose and intentionality.

In this episode we talk about his trips to Nigeria to help businesses there get help. He does coaching and has fallen in love with Nigeria over the last decade because it has so much potential. He does lots of face to face interaction as well as online interviews and helps people find where the business is going. He also hosts Masterminds where people get together to help each other with their problems in business and in life. He talks about how he got connected to the work in Nigeria and why it is so special. We then talk about the benefits of doing a for profit company even if it is in the developing world.

I talk about how when I finish my work here in India I am not really sure what we will do next. Travel has unfortunately opened the door to many options and now it seems we must slowly choose what career path and part of the world to live in. I feel I have left behind good recommendations and know that there is lots of places I could make a good living. However, now it is just a question of where I want to stay and what I want to do.

Have you had any life questions like this? I want to hear about your struggles and how you got through them. Email me at [email protected]

Jonathon OByrne is the founder of Collective Works, the largest coworking space in Singapore. Looking over 90 businesses there, his business has quadrupled in size since he opened it two years ago. This allows small companies or startups to rent office space and have access to people one otherwise wouldn't have access to. It is what hostels are to the business office rental.

He opened this coworking space in isolation and when he opened his he thought he had opened the first one in the world. Seeing a need in Singapore to make it easy for someone to easily rent office space, especially for high performing spouses. Since Singapore attracts a host of high performance people, their high performance spouse usually comes along with nothing to do. This means that they now have something to apply themselves towards. Since the minimum and maximum stays are not really set, a company could stay as long as needed. Many times even corporations and for their regional branches to be held in a coworking space.

We went to Sri Lanka to extend my visa in India. Although we only stayed for 9 days it was a really fun time. Our visa processes took even longer and we were forced to stay in the capitol city of Colombo longer than we would have liked. In the end we only spent one day on the beach but this was enough for me to get an epic sunburn.

I talk about making sure that you have enough time to get administrative stuff done when you travel. We had to jump through many hoops to speed up the visa process by even one day which could have cost us a hundred dollars extra. Luckily I got the visa just an hour before closing and was successful!