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

Tayo Rockson is the publisher and CEO of UYD Magazine, a lifestyle magazine encouraging people all over the world to use their difference to make a difference while celebrating diversity and educating others. He is an avid writer whose work can be seen on the Huffington Post as well as Global Living magazine. He is an authority on Third Culture Kids (TCK) and assimilation into new cultures. He is the author of The Ultimate Guide To TCK Living and though his As Told By Nomads podcast and blog, he is heard and read by thousands of people in over 100 countries. He grew up in four different continents so he considers himself a citizen of the world. He has lived in Sweden, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Vietnam and the United States and his goal is to ultimately leave the world a better place than it was before he came into it. In this interview we talk about his experience with living all over the world and the effect it had on him. How these experiences have opened his mind, gave him an ability to think on his feet, and see things from another point of view. We also talk about how to keep your identity while but also make sure you are different. Finally, we talk about the beauty of building rapport and how this can help you be successful in whatever projects you are working on.

8 years ago I went up to somebody I knew for about 2 months and asked them to Russia with me. That is literally the beginning of a journey for Conner that has taken us to every corner of the world. Although we have now gone our own ways, we recount this first of 3 trips which got us hooked

In this episode, my old tarvel companion Conner recounts the first trip we went on, a nonsensical one which ended up taking us through Russia, Greece, and Western Europe. It was all that we needed to know that we wanted more. Learn about all the weird stuff that happened to us as well as our lessons along the way.

So if you are thinking about doing your first trip, listen to this to hear about our first trip. It probably can't get as bad as this!!!

Richard Simcott has studied languages for over 30 years and has a 16-language video on YouTube although he speaks over 30 languages. He has run the SpeakingFluently blog since 2011 back when the polyglot community was still new. He has been consulted for articles in The Times and Forbes on language learning and was also described as one of the most multilingual people from The United Kingdom by HarperCollins. He is considered to be one of the biggest players in the polyglot community. We talk about the upcoming Polyglot workshop which he will be hosting in Berlin at the end of March. There he helps facilitate language learning and give specific tips to individuals and their sticking points. Although he says most language learning questions are similar, he also says that it can still be reassuring to receive personal advice. Finally he talks about designing your life around language learning and how he speaks 5 languages during daily activities.

I moved to the wonderful country of Germany over 18 months ago and have loved every moment of it. I somehow expected that I would be able to passively learn the language but of course that did not happen. Over the last few months I have really started working hard on it and in a few weeks I will be doing my C1 exam which would put me at an advanced level. It is a bit of a reach and I will have to study hard in order to attain it. But hopefully all that I have learned along the way will help me.

The things that helped me get so far are finishing the Duolingo German course, learning the top 4000 most frequently used words on MemRise, listening to podcasts, speaking with people, and I will now read my first novel in German.

I also talk about my upcoming move from Germany and into India. I am nervous but excited about the whole thing...it's going to be great!

David Nihill is a world traveller as well as the teacher of how to do better public speaking though his course on Udemy with over 4000 learners. Also, he is the founder of FunnyBiz conferences which tries to teach people how to give more effective conference presentations. He learned this after having thrust upon him the hosting position of a charity drive to help out his friend. As a horrible public speaker, he knew he had to learn this quickly. He applied the 80/20 principle and improved his improv comedy and standup comedy skills. Through this he learned what was important in making a good presentation. We talk about his experience with making good presentations along with all the experiences that got him there. As a world traveller who has been to numerous countries and speaks numerous languages, this gave him an advantage in being able to find what was necessary. Finally we talk about his low risk method to write and publish his book without it being a flop.

JV Crum III is the host of the Conscious Millionaire podcast as well as the author of the Conscious Millionaire: grow your business by making a difference. He is a top ranking podcast in 3 categories with his 5 times a week podcast with over 5000 downloads per day. There, he completely flips the idea of having money be a way of using people and a source of personal pleasure but instead argues that you should use money to help people. He has spent many months trying to gain consciousness and find meaning in his life after selling his profitable business. We talk about his travel experiences and the trip across Canada that changed his life. By embracing the moment and being spontaneous rather than having everything planned out he learned to live life in the moment. This was such a good podcast and we went over time so I decided to split in two. Not really separated into themes but very interesting nonetheless.

JV Crum III is the host of the Conscious Millionaire podcast as well as the author of the Conscious Millionaire: grow your business by making a difference. He is a top ranking podcast in 3 categories with his 5 times a week podcast with over 5000 downloads per day. There, he completely flips the idea of having money be a way of using people and a source of personal pleasure but instead argues that you should use money to help people. He has spent many months trying to gain consciousness and find meaning in his life after selling his profitable business. We talk about his travel experiences and the trip across Canada that changed his life. By embracing the moment and being spontaneous rather than having everything planned out he learned to live life in the moment. This was such a good podcast and we went over time so I decided to split in two. Not really separated into themes but very interesting nonetheless.

It has been an honor and a privelege to be able to interview so many people and to share it with the world. It has also been great to hear from you by email at [email protected] where I answer every email at length.

This process has been so good that I want to continue for another 500 episodes!! Another 5 years of podcasting will make us all so much wiser!!! By then we will all be listening to these podcasts in our flying cars...until then, enjoy!!!

I was very sad to find out that my friend Julia Struck passed away some weeks ago. We were good friends ever since she hosted me for a week on the edge of Berlin 3 years ago. She loved showing me her photography and we had fun going to the flea market to sell some of the stuff laying around her house. Ever since moving to Germany we have kept in touch and written every so often. She unexpectedly passed away in February which came as a shock to many as she was under 40 years old.

Julia was an early supporter and fan of the podcast and I tried to help as best I could with travel and relationship advice. But what this taught me is that because life can be taken away from us at any moment, we have to live without regrets. Life is short and things can be over before you know it. Luckily, Julia seemed to have had interesting experiences as a German in the US, Ireland and finally Austrailia. I hope during her short life she was able to see many interesting things, interesting people, and some wisdom.

You will always be in our heart!

Gary McCluskey and I met during the Toki Pona language hackathon in MemRise headquarters in December 2014. I knew that I would meet many crazy people there and Gary was among the quirky few that would attend something like this. He has worked in Vietnam teaching English for amazing wages. He got the equivalent of $70 an hour over there allowing him to work few hours as well as save money to travel and enjoy himself. We talk about his experience in Vietnam as well as the experience of teaching English. Finally we ask if he would recommend teaching English to those interested in having a good life and travelling.