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Wisdom & Wanderlust: Travel Tales & Life Lessons

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Frequency: 1 episode/14d. Total Eps: 13

Wisdom & Wanderlust is a podcast for travelers by travelers. Hosts Michael Bennett and Robyn Goldblatt chat with explorers and experts from around the world to swap travel tales and best practices, share life lessons, and offer inspiration for you to head out on your next adventure with more curiosity, creativity, and courage. Tune in to learn how to travel better ... and how to live a better, more fulfilling, and more mindful life.

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[Live Better] Take a Deep Breath with Hannah Gresser

Episode 13

Tuesday, June 22, 2021 • Duration 56:26

In this episode of the Wisdom & Wanderlust Podcast, Michael and Robyn talk with Hannah Gresser, a soulful, audacious and compassionate traveler. Hannah was struck with wanderlust at the age of 15 during her first international travel experience in Brazil with her father. Since then, she has dedicated her life to transformation and helping people evolve and become the best versions of themselves through plant medicine and most recently, breathwork.

Hannah shares how her lifelong battle with anxiety and depression led her to plant medicine, which then helped her discover the power of breathwork for her healing. She walks us through some simple tricks to calm the mind and body in a few short seconds. She also discusses her new home in Hawaii and the wisdom she is learning from the indigenous cultures there.

"With breath and with creating these really short mini practices, that’s actually creating a more sustainable longer term change like domino effect than these huge breakthrough meditations that go on for a week. Those are great and I have so much fun and I have profound insights that come from them, but it’s the daily practice of breath and the daily practice of yoga and movement that really sinks in to a whole other level of being and embodying." - Hannah Gresser [05:56]

"I realized that breath can do exactly the same thing that all of these medicines can do, but almost… I don’t need to go and reach for anything. All I have to do is *takes a deep breath* and that’s the medicine." - Hannah Gresser [15:53]

"Breath is always available and always possible." - Hannah Gresser [20:13]

"I just want to tell everybody and share this simplicity of what I’ve learned: that it can go as simple or as complex as you like. And at least at this point in my journey, simplicity is what’s been the most helpful." - Hannah Gresser [23:41]

"The Hawaiian culture is deep. This culture is so deep and it’s so rich. And being here even just for the two months that I’ve been here, it’s taking me on this wild journey of realizing how much myth relates to the life." - Hannah Gresser [44:50]

What You Will Learn:

[00:01] Intro
[03:16] How to make it too small to fail
[08:37] Meeting Hannah Gresser
[09:46] Her different adventures and journeys before Hawaii
[13:17] Where her interest in plant medicine came from
[16:50] How breathwork superseded plant medicine to her
[21:35] If there was a breathing technique she had a master
[23:56] The simplest expression of breathing
[32:39] Five qualities or breath
[35:16] How to remember to breath
[40:37] Correlating different personality types with different types of breath
[41:55] Resources to learn more about these practices
[43:38] Where to contact Hannah Gresser
[47:32] How she’s changed her outlook about plant medicine
[52:14] What is Holotropic Breathwork
[55:27] Outro

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[Travel Better/Live Better] Understanding Culture, Astrology, and Life's Purpose with Lena Papadopoulos

Episode 12

Tuesday, June 8, 2021 • Duration 52:24

In this episode of the Wisdom & Wanderlust Podcast, Michael and Robyn talk with Lena Papadopoulos, an award-winning intercultural educator, facilitator, speaker, life transformation coach and aspiring astrologist. Lena’s approach is a unique alchemy of her educational and professional background in sociology, psychology, cultural anthropology, international education, experiential learning and leadership development. Using intercultural learning as a catalyst for self-discovery, she works with her clients to help them break free from cultural conditioning so they can reconnect with themselves, embody their unique potential and make a positive impact in the world.

Lena discusses the intersection of intercultural education and life coaching and how the two complement one another. She talks about Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions and whether people can change from introverted and individualistic tendencies to extroverted and collective tendencies over the course of a lifetime and places lived. She also talks about the differences between our life, soul and right now purposes and how to find these for ourselves.

"All the change that we want to see in the world and in bringing people together and in bridging cultural divides and differences and whatever, it all starts with the self." - Lena Papadopoulos [10:03]

"So many people use difference as this way to reinforce division or some kind of divide, but it’s such an amazing learning opportunity, right? The most innovative things are created when very different types of people come together because they bring different perspectives." - Lena Papadopoulos [16:43]

"I think that our core life purpose, our true truest purpose, is to return to the truth of who we are." - Lena Papadopoulos [40:49]

"Why does that matter to me? Because I was always the weird Greek girl. I was always sort of like I don’t belong here in this place. I don’t make sense here. This place doesn’t make sense to me, and also stuff with my family and things that I experienced at school. Like all these things made me feel othered, made me feel not wanted somehow or too much in some way or not enough in some way, right? So of course, yeah, I want other people to not feel that." - Lena Papadopoulos [43:58]

[Live Better] The Pursuit of Happiness with Maria Baltazzi

Episode 3

Wednesday, February 3, 2021 • Duration 01:18:50

In this episode of Wisdom & Wanderlust, Michael and Robyn chat with Dr. Maria Baltazzi, an Emmy-winning television show producer and a happiness and well-being mentor. Maria discusses how happiness is a state of mind that ultimately starts with a choice to be happy and how the key to happiness is mindfulness. She also explains how mindfulness is like a muscle that you have to keep working on and exercising if you want to get it stronger. Listen as she walks through her journey to happiness and shares her keys to living a more mindful and happier life.

"When I say happiness is a choice and as a state of being, it’s that you have the emotional tools, that skillset, to weather your challenges in the world in a more constructive, more mindful way." - Maria Baltazzi [15:42]

What You Will Learn:

[00:01] Intro
[03:47] How Maria is coping with the COVID-19 pandemic
[06:59] What Maria got from her traveling experiences
[09:53] If these experiences are impacted with what’s going on in the world
[11:38] How much is happiness related to having priorities in order
[12:39] What is happiness and how does it difference from peace
[14:14] What sparked her interest in studying happiness
[19:49] How to build happiness and how mindfulness plays into it
[27:21] How to make meditation a habit
[30:56] How to create more positive thoughts
[38:33] How Maria felt success externally but was missing something internally
[41:15] How she coaches others with similar experiences
[46:52] People that have influenced the direction Maria has gone
[49:55] The role travel has played in her personal growth and development
[51:01] Her most memorable/life-changing travel stories
[57:24] One thing that people can do travel better
[1:01:28] Mediate and be grateful every day
[1:07:18] Rapid fire questions
[1:11:29] Maria’s one piece of advice for the listeners
[1:12:21] Where to contact Maria
[1:16:58] Why Zorba the Greek is her favorite book

[Travel Better] The Art of Transformational Travel with Jake Haupert

Episode 2

Friday, January 22, 2021 • Duration 01:12:18

In this episode of Wisdom & Wanderlust, Michael and Robyn chat with Jake Haupert, co-founder of Explorer X and the Transformational Travel Council. Jake talks about how he met Michael and how they bonded over their shared philosophy of travel. He defines transformational travel and how to keep travel both enjoyable and life-changing at the same time. Listen as he shares the best practices of implementing change once travelers return home from these amazing experiences.

"It really comes down to those encounters and those moments where you connect with another human being. The relationship, the bond that comes from that, the walls that break down between you and within you, that does create that ripple effect of change. It can be small. It can be big, but it puts you on that path of learning and growth." - Jake Haupert [29:17]

What You Will Learn:

[00:01] Intro
[06:13] How Jake end up in the travel industry
[11:50] How Jake and Michael met
[15:37] The journey to help people answer their call and developing Transformational Travel Council (TCC)
[23:20] How Jake defines transformation and keeps transformational travel approachable for all levels and styles of travelers
[29:58] The balance between crafting the experience and leaving space for the organic and spontaneous moments
[30:32] What it means to follow your path and travel with heart
[37:33] Depth over distance
[40:16] Being mindful vs being intentional in traveling and day-to-day living
[43:32] The story behind the “Travel Better, Live Better” slogan and why it’s hard to implement changes back home
[50:56] What are some things Jake and Michael have done to make changes
[59:11] What Jake and Michael have learned in the past 10 years with their work
[1:02:31] Rapid fire questions
[1:08:07] Where to contact Jake and Michael
[1:09:25] Outro

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Welcome to Wisdom & Wanderlust

Episode 1

Tuesday, January 5, 2021 • Duration 34:34

In this episode of “Wisdom & Wanderlust Podcast,” Michael Bennett, Co-founder of Explorer X, and Robyn Goldblatt explain how their separate life journeys influenced their passion for traveling. Michael also talks about how he managed to combine psychology and education with travel, and how this combination ultimately led to Explore X.

Listen to how Explore X can help make your traveling experience life-changing.

"And we got to the idea that transformational travel ... is this idea of bringing more mindfulness, more intentionality, bringing purpose to your experiences so that if you know that you want to create change in your life, travel is the best way to do it." - Michael Bennett, Ed.D. [23:50]

What You Will Hear:

[00:01] Intro
[00:40] Michael’s story: Early interest in travel, college life, and career path
[09:16] Robyn’s story: How her background nurtured her passion for travel
[15:53] Transformational travel
[19:02] The beginnings of Explorer X
[25:02] The philosophy behind Explorer X
[29:20] Wisdom & Wanderlust
[33:53] Outro

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https://www.explorer-x.com/

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