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

Derek Loudermilk is the host of the Art of Adventure podcast where he talks about Strategies for Adventure, Learning, and Entrepreneurship. The main themes of the show are personal development and lifestyle design with the idea that you must have your own unique life adventure. He is a current road cycling coach who collects stories and teaches about transitioning from one phase of life to the next and how entrepreneurship can create meaningful expression through the work you do. As a former microbiologist having worked on extremophiles in Yellowstone he also talks about curiosity, exploration, and discovery from science to world travel

On this podcast episode we talk about Derek's progress and route to get to where is right now. I caught him in Bali where he had been living for some weeks. We talk about his change of career plan from being a microbiologist working in a lab to something where he is able to share ideas with people more. We talk about the perks of being a podcast host and how it has helped form business ideas in the form of business retreats he is planning which will teach what he has been learning for the last few years. We talk about what he has learned through travel especially in discovering the value of collaborations with people you work with.

Sandra Tisiot is the founder and president of the Women in Business Conference, an author, barre instructor, and for almost twenty years has helped clients secure the best mortgage for their needs. Additionally she developed a personal data management system called MyLifeLocker that helps everyone manage their important personal information all in one place. She has also appeared on shows like Conscious Millionaire and is a writer for the Huffington Post.

We talk about the genesis of her project, MyLifeLocker, and how the idea came about and what it would be good for. She then talks about the amazing benefit that her previous life as a dancer gave in terms of learning hard work and doing the same thing over and over to achieve a goal. She then talks about her experience with networking and meeting important people in your life which has led to her starting a conference which now has over three hundred people. Starting with a smaller group and growing it eventually by being a connector she was able to provide a great time for all. Finally she talks about how travel gives an appreciation for other people and how it can be the best education especially for young people. It can help you be able to talk about the other countries on a personal level rather than an academic level to learn that we're all one.

Joshua Rivers is the host of the Success Road podcast which talks about examining what it means to have a quality life and sharing simple things to help achieve such a life. It is mostly devoted to personal growth and achieving a quality life. Success is a journey, not a destination. If success were merely achieving an outcome - reaching a goal - there is only momentary satisfaction followed by emptiness. This is the point of this podcast. It's not about the destination, even though the destination is important. It's about the journey to that destination. He also helps with online content creation with his Creative Studio site.

In this show we talk about how Joshua started making websites with all the old themes from the 90's that we now love to hate. He learned to manage website alongside him starting school while having a job and a family. We then talk about the work vs. life balance and how he can manage having kids, being involved in his church, managing his business, and going to school. We talk about how important it is to have more than just goals in life. Goals will just give you a brief period of time where you are happy buy seeing success as a journey can make you much more happy over a longer term. Finally he talks about how an upcoming trip can show his children that the American way of life is not necessarily the best way, that other points of view are possible as well.

His joke: "knock knock, orange, orange who? Orange you glad I didn't say banana?"

Jeff McAllister is an independent travel writer who writes more impactful works that would appear in works like 'National Geographic' rather than '10 things to do in Chiang Mai''

In this episode we talk about how we caught Jeff at a crossroads in him starting a chemical engineering degree in Australia after doing travel writing all over the world, especially island countries. He finds that the places off the beaten path, a too-often used phrase, is the best place to meet people. We then talk about how to get into the travel writing occupation and how to start making money by submitting stories to magazines and other places that will pay for you stories. We talk about the story that he wrote which took about 5 weeks to research in which he got paid about $1500 in a very cool country like Bangladesh while travelling. He then talks about how great Madagascar is and how it is absolutely necessary to go there. Finally, he talks about how travel can be a shortcut to wisdom versus a traditional education. The same way that the hard way to getting in shape would be to not go to the gym ever, the shortcut and harder way also is the faster way to get into shape.

His joke: "One electron falls down and another says to the first, hey, are you ok? Yeah, sure, I'm positive"

Mariza Taillefer is host of A Broad Abroad podcast which talks about the extraordinary and exciting lives of expats. She interviews people who packed up and left everything they knew to embark on the adventure of adapting to a new culture. She shows how to overcome language barriers and culture shock to experience new and exciting lives abroad. Listen to their inspirational stories to get insights on how to live in other countries and make the most out of life! Mariza has lived in Brazil for the last 3 years and has used her MBA experience to teach English in a business setting.

We talk about how she got out of the 9 to 5 life and the politics within it to follow a dream she saw in a movie. We then talk about her route from Bali, to India, to Italy and finally to Brazil where she has lived for the last 3 years. There she has had to learn to deal with the laid back culture and the new way of doing things. She talks about the great mindset of what you can learn from the setbacks instead of getting frustrated. She also talks about how she got her job doing something she knows very much about where she earns about $50/hr.

Her joke: "There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't"

Thai Nguyen is a freelance writer for the Utopian Life which talks about change, growth, & improvement. He has been a 5-Star Chef, International Kickboxer, now is a Writer & Teacher. His family fled Vietnam after the war, grew up in Australia, and completed his BA in Humanities/Theology in Texas. He writes about how to embrace growth, mastering your emotions, and overall becoming a better person on his Huffington Post blog.

We talk about his varied background and how it has all tied together to bring him to where he is now. We then talk about the value of being flexible and being able to have skills in many areas. We then move to talk about how he found value only through his accomplishments and how he has moved more towards simply pursuing his curiosity and passion. He talks about the benefit of immersion, whether it be in learning Thai kickboxing and competing in record time or learning Spanish while being immersed in Peru. Finally we talk about how travelling and living abroad is the equivalent of a University degree.

His joke: "How do you kill a vegetarian vampire? - With a stake to the heart"

Jackie Laulalein is a blogger at the Budget Minded Traveller, the host of the Budget Minded Traveller podcast. She is also the author of The Aspiring Traveler’s Handbook: A preparation guide to international travel which is a handbook for those wanting to get started with travel. She fell in love with being abroad ever since doing a study abroad in Costa Rica in 2003. She has been travelling ever 6 months or so since then by mastering the art of traveling and living on a budget, which is what allows her to continue on this path of consistent travel. Her work is to inspire and equip other Americans to get into the world of travel in a realistic, affordable, and most of all rewarding way.

In this episode we talk about how she got started in travel due to her love of Spanish and how when she got back from her study abroad in Costa Rica she was a different person. This was so influential to her that she would then earn money only to travel. Then with all this experience, people came to her for advice and she later started blogging to give advice to more people. She gives advice for the long term travellers, solo travellers, and women travellers as well. She teaches preparedness so therefore when she shares her worst experience while travelling it is extremely lame. Finally she says that travel can give you a life and help you get outside your comfort zone, in her case she found her calling.

Her joke: "Why didn’t the seagull wanna fly over the bay? Because then it would be a bagel"

Josh Elledge is the Chief Angel at Savings Angel and the host of the 90 Days to Abundance podcast. There they show how to spend less, instantly earning the equivalent of a $3000 – $4000 a year pay raise by saving on groceries! This system is streamlined so that you don't have to dig through coupons. The system has a coupon database that also links with the local sales at stores which can then notify you when you can get things for free.

In this episode we talk about his experience helping people save money on groceries. He says the lazy people simply go to the warehouse clubs to save money and that nobody has enough time to do coupons. He says it is worth it because it is worth $20-40 per hour of printing coupons. He mentions a deal where it was possible to get boxes of cereal for free and how it is even possible to get paid sometimes to buy things. He then talks about how the Savings Angel program does the savings for you to help you find the best deal. In this way you can save $50-100 per month which can add up to over $1000 per year extra money that you would have in your bank. He then talks about how to maximize the service at a hotel you may have booked and how to minimize the cost at the same time. In this way he was able to stay in a $400 room for $60. He teaches a bit about being nice, using properly phrased questions, and being pleasant in order to get things that may be beneficial for you. Finally he talks about how travelling helps you get out of your typical routine and do something new. In this way it can recharge your batteries to get you more energy for the other things in your life.

His joke "Knock knock, who's there? Interrupting cow. Interrupting co --Moo!!"

Vladimir Skultety is a blogger at Forever a Student where he talks about learning languages. He speaks 11 languages fluently and teaches how to do it, especially with the process of learning Chinese. He has lived in Taiwan for 5 years and has been making YouTube videos to help teach the language.

In this episode, after we talk in Slovak for a half hour, we talk about his experience living in Taiwan for many years in English. He talks about how drinking is bad and he is living proof of what can be accomplished when one doesn't wake up hungover ever morning. He talks about his Spartan regiment of many hours per day of learning a base vocabulary. He then talks about the great method of finding patterns and using your languages you already know to help learn faster. He also mentions the importance of culture within language learning and how important it is to know the place more than simply the words. But his biggest tip for learning languages is simply being interested in it. Once you find something you are passionate about, it becomes effortless to work. Finally we talk about how travel gets you to go outside of your friends and helps you meet people with other ways of thinking which can lead to success.

Jason Hartman is the host of the Jet Setter podcast where he talks about a permanent vacation fueled by automatic income and to learn to be a Lifestyle Entrepreneur. He teaches to forget conventional wisdom that tells you to keep your head down, work hard, and maybe stay above water. He is also the host of many other podcasts talking about automatic income from real estate such as in his Creating Wealth podcast.

In this show show we talk about how he has travelled to 74 countries due to his love of travel. He talks about his real estate business and the podcasts he has created in order to teach this. Now with his main show having 500 episodes and the entire media company having 2000 total episodes, he has reached his goal. He talks about how he has been able to hang out with people like Richard Branson of the Virgin group by using a Mastermind group to raise money for a charity. He talks about the benefit of investing in properties with the owner not needing to be in the area. He then talks about how the US is the best place to invest in property due to its unique history in the government supporting housing with various tax breaks. We then talk about the idea that these possessions can end up owning you if you are not careful. Finally we talk about how travel makes you learn passively which enrich you as a person.