Nolan speaks with Paul Dermody, an online personal trainer, podcaster, and part-time professional writer passionate about travel and languages. Paul shares his tips on achieving your fitness and health goals with a holistic approach that can apply to all aspects of life. You can check out the specific topics below and select which segment of the podcast you want to listen to.

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00:00 - Intro

01:56 - Why Paul Dermody chose to make Spain home. 

05:30 - How travel affects your identity 

11:51 - The problem with travel (and life) no one talks about 

16:45 - Benefits of travel

20:19 - How culture affects health, diets, and fitness

24:38 - How to change your mindset for better health

33:19 - Culture-bound eating disorders

40:49 - Diet culture & woke culture 

51:25 - Paul’s personal training

Nolan Yuma speaks with Dr. Benjamin Cheung, a leading expert in the fields of genetic essentialism, culture and sleep, and acculturation. Benjamin shares his cultural experience as a 1.5 generation Chinese Canadian and how parents of immigrant children can ease the acculturation process. Nolan and Ben also talk about how culture affects the outcomes of drug use, psychedelics, the 4-hour work week, and even how much sleep you need.

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00:00 Intro

01:34 - Generation 1.5 & Third culture kid experiences & parenting advice

17:35 - Cultural adjustment and acculturation strategies

18:37 - Identify & the authentic self

22:14 - Ego death & psychedelics

26:13 - Microdosing, drugs, and how culture & criminalisation affect their positive outcomes

33:24 - Genetic essentialism & how society influences depression

42:03 - How culture influences the 4-hour work week

44:33 - How culture influences how much sleep you need

58: 11 - Conclusion

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Nolan speaks with César,  @SpanishLanguageCoach , about his immigration and acculturation experiences. They discuss the cultural characteristics of England and Spain with a focus on the differences in how people approach political correctness and cancel culture. They also share language learning tips and how the recent social media trends have affected language learning content.

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00:00 - Intro

01:50 - César’s acculturation story (Comparing Spain to England)

07:16 - The Petardos (Firecrackers) & Fallas tradition and its consequences

12:19 - Objectivity, identify politics, and César’s Spanish learning podcast objectives.

17:21 - Political correctness in Spanish vs England 33:57 - Language learning tips

45:08 - Social media trends & how it affects language learning

52:23 - Switching to Substack

Nolan speaks with Daniel Thompson, the CEO of Noma Collective, a business and community that specializes in creating experiences for remote workers. They discuss cultural and individual differences in time perception, life in Merida, negotiation styles, home births, becoming a digital nomad that helps the local culture rather than destroying it, and slowing the hell down.

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0:00 - Intro

01:41 - Growing up in the UK, New Zealand, and the USA

05:43 - A nomadic home birth

08:18 - Life in Merida

12:41 - Living a nomadic life with Noma Collective

20:27 - Perception of time, both in cultures and individuals

28:30 - Task-based vs relationship-based cultures.

31:17 - Music industry & rave culture

35:09 - How to become a digital nomad (even with a family)

42:24 - Noma’s social impact & slow travel

52:00 - Slow travel & returning to the human pace

Coco Hofs uses her business experience and cultural consulting expertise to discuss Erin Meyer's 8 Scales from The Culture Map with Nolan Yuma. They analyze and critique the research from Edward Hall, Geert Hofstede, and Richard E. Nisbett while bringing in some of their personal experiences and stories –– In Nolan's case, that includes why getting drunk can create stronger bonds, which in some cases, relates to what the Japanese call Nomikai 飲み会.

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Coco is of Dutch origin and has lived outside The Netherlands since 2016.

She lives in Peru and runs her own business, 'Cross-cultural Solutions'. With Cross-Cultural Solutions, she helps organizations overcome cultural differences in the international workplace. She helps professionals operating in a global economy understand the impact that our cultural background has when doing business internationally and across cultures.

In her opinion, organizations tend to forget that cultural differences have a significant impact on how smoothly the business goes and how well teams of different cultural backgrounds work together.

She is a cross-cultural trainer, executive coach, and keynote speaker who works with companies from all over the world.

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00:00 - Introduction & Coco Huff's experience that led to cultural consulting

05:04 - Dutch negative feedback & Critique on Erin Meyer's The Culture Map

12:49 - Communication style (high-context to low-context scale)

13:47 - Evaluation (direct to indirect negative feedback scale)

14:50 - Leading styles (egalitarian to hierarchical scale)

15:11 - Deciding (Consensual to top-down scale)

19:17 - Trusting (Task-based to relationship-based scale) & possible anecdotal mistakes

27:56 - Nomunication (Nomikai 飲み会)/drinking to build trust

31:16 - Disagreeing (Confrontational to avoid confrontation scale)

34:38 - Scheduling (Linear time to flexible time scale)

41:08 - Persuading (Application-first to principle first/deductive reasoning to inductive reasoning)

48:08 - Relating Hofstede's indulgence scale to incremental or entity theory

52:52 - Persuasion difference between analytic and holistic thinkers

56: 14 - Coco's immigration story & Conclusion

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@ProfessorWolters  from  @woltersworld  shares his experience and knowledge as a marketing professor and travel enthusiast who obtained YouTube fame. Professor Wolters could quit his job, but he loves teaching and "also loves insurance." His passion and humour come through when he gives Nolan and the listeners advice on becoming successful YouTubers and online creators.

Nolan and Professor Wolters also discuss food culture, distance culture, and their thoughts on "America has no culture."

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00:00 - Intro (Mark Wolter & his work)

06:09 - Sobre mesa and service culture around the world

10:22 - Response to "America has no culture."

16:26 - Distance culture

20:55 - Canadian vs American culture

26:50 - How to approach confrontation and discussion around the world 30:01 - Professor Wolter's business channel & marketing advice

36:46 - Becoming successful on YouTube & social media

54:00 - The do's and don'ts of travel

"Developing nation? Bro. Let's get to the point. We're a poor country," says Aeron.

In this conversation, Aeron DEllosa from  @animmigrantslifepodcast  and Nolan Yuma don't hide the truth with political correctness. Instead, they get right to the point when discussing immigrating to Canada, Filipino culture and psychology, Tagalog, decolonization, and racism.

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00:00 - Intro
01:46 - Montreal vs Vancouver
06:07 - Becoming Canadian and staying Filipino. Individualism vs Collectivism
11:09 - Utang na loob & Corruption
16:19 - Pakikisama & Hiya & cultural differences in confrontation styles in Canada, the Netherlands, and the Philippines
26:12 - Political correctness isn't helping marginalized people
33:54 - Acculturating to Canada & types of racism
41:38 - Is the Philippines a matriarchal society?
52:47 - Decolonisation in Filipino culture
58:41 - How dangerous social media is for understanding culture
1:02:03 - Wrap up

Two close friends from different backgrounds discuss PC language, racism, growing up in a small town, returning to the Muslim faith, spirituality, and marriage.

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00:00 Intro
02:30 - Brown versus white parenting & family dynamics & hierarchies.
13:27 - Testosterone, weight lifting and martial arts.
17:49 - PC Language & Curry Hill
23:36 - Growing up Muslim around Sikh people & Ramadan
29:43 - Culture & Mental Illness
34:21 - Returning to the Muslim faith & spirituality & Lying
47:54 - Arranged vs Love Marriages

Vida shares the differences between living as an asylum-seeker and a refugee in Belgium. She also talks about becoming Bahai, the Green movement (Persian Spring), and how everything she experienced led to self-actualization. Nolan reveals that Maslow saw self-transcendence as the top of the pyramid, not self-actualization.   

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00:00 - Introduction 

00:42 - Life as refugee vs asylum seeker 

13:09 - Bahai religion & beliefs 

22:03 - The Green Movement (Persian Spring) & Revolution 

27:58 - Self-actualisation & self-transcendence

Nolan Yuma and Vida Razavi talk about life in Iran, Eastern Africa, volunteering (and all the corruption involved), intersectionality, growing up in a hierarchical society, how to adjust to high-power and low-power distance cultures, and immigration.

Vida Razavi has lived in 6 different countries and three continents as a refugee, student, volunteer, freelancer, and researcher. Vida studied physics as her undergrad and has master's degrees in sociology and developmental studies. Her passion for social justice and participatory democracy led to various career moves and eventually brought Vida to her current work in an umbrella organization for gender equality.

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00:00 - Introduction

03:20 - Life in Mashhad, Iran

08:40 - Albert Schweitzer influence & Moving to Africa

18:38 - White & “yellow” privilege in Africa

24:16 - Growing up in a hierarchical society * Low and high power distances

34:50 - Gender roles in Eastern Africa & Intersectionality

38:48 - High-context vs. low-context cultures & Theory-first vs. principal-first  cultures.

43:18 - ICT4D, Elon Musk’s Starlink, Mark Zuckerberg Free Internet

47:36 - Charities, the development sector, and their corruption

51:32 - Vida’s experience with immigration bureaucracy