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Ben Collier is General Manager at Incredible Adventures and is a wizard when it comes to organizing itineraries in the United States.  He’s an expert when it comes to US National Parks, camping, and hiking, and has worked in adventure travel for nearly a decade, including five years on the ground as a guide. Complete shownotes and all the links can be found on millennialtravelpodcast.com Ben and I get the chance to talk about USA road trips and where people should travel in fall and winter 2020 while keeping them safe from COVID19.   In this episode we discuss:    How did Ben get started as a traveler and trip leader in the United States?  His experience in Alaska and Hawaii A great itinerary for Portland, Oregon  Crater Lake National Park  Cascade Mountains Where to travel this fall? Fall foliage ideas   Where to travel in the United States during the winter?    Matt’s pick: South Florida, Miami or Fort Lauderdale to the Everglades National Park and Florida Keys Skiing and how social distanci

Michael Puldy is the author of The Millennial’s Guide to Business Travel: Lessons from the Next Generation of Road Warriors.  He has an incredibly impressive resume of travel including visiting all 50 states, 50 countries, has flown 3 million air miles, and is a member of the Circumnavigators Club. Michael knows his stuff when it comes to frequent flier miles and credit card rewards points.  He has achieved status as a 1K Elite Member on United flying over 1.3 million miles, 700K on Delta, & 500K on American.  He is a Diamond VIP at Hilton, achieved Platinum status at Hyatt, and Gold at Marriott and Sheraton.  Michael isn’t just a travel hacker, he is winning at the gamification of travel legitimately!  What you’ll find interesting in today’s Millennial Travel Podcast episode is that Michael is not actually a millennial traveler himself but wanted to write this book for the next generation. In this episode of The Millennial Travel Podcast I ask Michael:  Why he decided to write a book on travel for mill

Craig and Linda Martin are the Kiwi couple behind Indie Travel Podcast and their online publishing business, Indie Travel Media Ltd.  Professionally homeless, they have been travelling around the world non-stop since February 2006. Craig Martin was the president of the Professional Travel Bloggers Association, and they are the couple behind one of the top Indie Travel Podcast, rated as the top travel podcast by Lonely Planet.  Discussed in this episode of The Millennial Travel Podcast:  What being a professional travel blogger is like. The story of how Craig and Linda Martin became travel bloggers How Craig & Linda Martin earn money as travel bloggers How the Indie Travel Podcast found sponsors and a business model  How Craig grew his web development and design business as a digital nomad How Craig & Linda decide where to travel as a couple Tips on finding a romantic partner who loves to travel Why they love hiking El Camino de Santiago How to get started in full time travel In the rapid fire round

Matt Wilson is Co-founder and CEO of the travel company for people ages 21-35 Under30Experiences, and author of The Millennial Travel Guidebook. Under30Experiences has been named number 801 on the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America and number 198 on Financial Times 1000 list of America's Fastest-Growing Companies. Matt was formerly the co-founder of the media site Under30CEO (Acquired 2016) and is the Host of the Live Different Podcast on business, travel, health, and performance. He has interviewed everyone from NBA Legend Kareem Abdul Jabbar to the President of Starbucks. Matt's writing is published in Forbes, Inc. Magazine, and The Huffington Post, and he is part of the invite-only Young Entrepreneurs' Council (YEC) comprised of the world's most successful entrepreneurs 40 and younger. Matt is a shareholder of the Green Bay Packers. He hosts yoga and fitness retreats in his free time and his personal mission is to help people live more adventurous lives.  In today’s episode we turn the

Lydia Dean left her job as an Executive Search Consultant in the year 2000 to pursue a lifelong interest in travel and humanitarian programs. She and her family moved to Provence, France where they lived for 6 years while exploring many developing countries. In 2007, they returned to the US and launched GoPhilanthropic Travel. In 2010 GoPhilanthropic Foundation was formed in order to more actively partner with small grassroots non-profits offering greater access to resources and opportunities. Lydia divides her time between Los Angeles, Provence, and the regions within which GoPhil works.  She is also the author of Jumping the Picket Fence: A Woman's Search for Meaning from the Suburbs to the Slums. Today I’m so excited to welcome Lydia Dean, Founder and Director of GoPhilanthropic Travel, offering travelers the certainty that their support is making a positive impact in local communities.  This interview was conducted pre-COVID19 in the research for The Millennial Travel Guidebook where I sprinkled in tons o

Gabby Beckford is the Gen Z travel blogger, content creator, and marketing strategist behind Packs Light. She helps send her young audience around the world completely free via the funded travel opps she shares in her Young Travelers Network. Her words can be found in pubs such as Lonely Planet, HuffPost, Essence, and Business Insider. Her mission is to empower young people to seek risk, seize opportunity, and see the world. Shownotes can be found on MattWilson.co and MillennialTravelPodcast.com. MTP 6: Socially Distanced USA Road Trips, Diversity, & Being a Gen Z Travel Blogger w/ Gaby Beckford @packslight Gabby Beckford is the Gen Z travel blogger, content creator, and marketing strategist behind Packs Light. She helps send her young audience around the world completely free via the funded travel opps she shares in her Young Travelers Network. Her words can be found in pubs such as Lonely Planet, HuffPost, Essence, and Business Insider. Her mission is to empower young people to seek risk, seize opportun

Shannon Stowell is CEO of the Adventure Travel Trade Association.  We do a deep dive into what it means to travel off the beaten path, how to reduce your carbon footprint, and how to do your part to support companies that promote diversity in the travel industry. Millennial Travel Podcast 5: Off the Grid Adventure Travel with Shannon Stowell CEO of the Adventure Travel Trade Association Get the show notes at millennialtravelpodcast.com. Shannon comes to us from his off the grid cabin in Colorado with no electricity or running water.  We talk about his incredible trip to Kurdistan in northern Iraq.  He wins the award for most off the beaten path travel story, since I spoke to Jordan Harbinger about his trip to North Korea and another time when he was kidnapped. Shannon and I talk about how he has started Tomorrow’s Air the world’s first traveler collective to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it permanently.  We also discuss his involvement in the Adventure Travel Conservation Fund that dire

Nick Ewen is Senior Editor at The Points Guy.  He caught the travel bug at an early age and spent over a decade as a road warrior, earning and redeeming points & miles to visit over 40 countries across six continents. Credit Card Points, Rewards Miles, & Travel Hacking with Nick Ewen of The Points Guy MTP3: How to Optimize your Frequent Flier Miles and Rewards Points to Travel for Free!  I got Nick’s story on how he was able to travel while his wife was still in school and how they did it for free. Nick says, start small, and not worry about signing up for every single points and mileage program in the world, and really helps us focus on what we want out of the travel hacking game.  He gives his recommendations for best travel credit cards, best frequent flier programs, and how optimize rewards points. Nick has 21 open credit cards and claims that there has been no effect on his credit score! We talk about what the top no annual fee cards are and how someone with a small budget can travel frugally w

Dave Lee is the Founder of GoBackpacking.com, a 13-year-old staple website for a lot of backpackers… and his new food blog feastio.com. Dave is a member of the ATTA, the Adventure Travel Tourism Association and someone whose work I’ve followed for a long time… We had the good fortune of meeting at an Austin travel founders event called VoyagerHQ and then again at The Nomadic Network.  Dave and I talk about what travel means to us now that we are no longer under thirty, how we miss expat life in Costa Rica and Colombia respectively, and his new big projects.  Dave lived in Medellin for a long time and ran Medellinliving.com which he sold. I even get some tips on where to eat in Austin, Texas, a big time foodie town. Direct support for The Millennial Travel Podcast comes from The Millennial Travel Guidebook: Escape More, Spend Less, and Make Travel a Priority in Your Life, available for just 99 cents this week! Get the shownotes on millennialtravelpodcast.com.

You can listen to The Millennial Travel Guidebook for free with a 30-day trial of Audible.com. Hey Millennial Travel Podcast listeners, today's episode is a sample of my new audiobook The Millennial Travel Guidebook: Escape More, Spend Less, & Make Travel a Priority in Your Life now available on Amazon! In this chapter I detail: Observing your Money Mindset How to Set Up Your Financial Life for Travel Twelve Cost-Cutting Strategies to Save Money for Travel Why you need a budget How I lived in Central America and paid off my student loans Twelve Ways to Make More Money Now Should you start a business abroad? Eight Things to Know to Make Money as a Freelancer If you found this chapter helpful, I'd love for you to check out the rest of The Millennial Travel Guidebook.  You can also get my chapter on How to Find the Best Deals on Flights absolutely free at MillennialTravelGuidebook.com.

Nomadic Matt has been a nomad for over ten years and is the author of two bestselling books, How to Travel the World on $50 a Day: Third Edition: Travel Cheaper, Longer, Smarter and Ten Years a Nomad: A Traveler's Journey Home, and is the owner of one of the most popular travel blogs on the internet NomadicMatt.com. Millennial Travel Podcast 1: How to Travel the World on $50 a Day: Travel Cheaper, Longer, Smarter in the "New Normal". You can find all the show notes on millennialtravelpodcast.com Today we celebrate the launch of the Millennial Travel Podcast with Nomadic Matt Kepnes to discuss budget travel, how he contracted COVID-19, the future of the travel industry, and The Nomadic Network. I was happy to get an update from Matt who had recently returned from a trip to Asia and fell ill with COVID-19. Now that he made a full recovery, we spoke at length about the future of the travel industry and what we can do as travelers to support the small communities who rely on tourism for their financial well-being

Dr. Steven Gundry MD is an incredible doctor from Loma Linda University, inside one of the world’s Blue Zones, where people regularly live to over 100 years of age. Dr. Gundry is the author of several books including The Plant Paradox, The Longevity Paradox: How to Die Young at a Ripe Old Age, and the brand new Plant Paradox Family Cookbook. He was pre-med at Yale University, has an MD from the Medical College of Georgia and started his surgical residency at the University of Michigan. He has been Professor or Surgery and Pediatrics at Loma Linda University School of Medicine since 1985. I’ve been wanting to talk to Dr. Gundry since my popular interview with Tony Beatuner of National Geographic’s Blue Zones study. Dr. Gundry was full of money-saving tips for eating healthy and even recommends having a drink of alcohol daily due to a cutting edge adaptation called hormesis. It was truly a pleasure to speak with one of my favorite doctors on the planet. He is a true inspiration! ### Direct s

Tara Swart is a neuroscientist, Medical Doctor, Executive Coach, and Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan. She reveals the surprising science that supports the law of attraction in her new book The Source: The Secrets of the Universe, the Science of the Brain. Tara proves some amazing concepts through neuroscience including: Magnetism The law of attraction How your brain changes through neuroplasticity We get into some very specific action items you can take including: Action boards Visualization Meditation Yoga Intention setting Journaling All to prime your brain to attract what you want in life and create your future! We even get into some esoteric subjects that are more difficult to explain but do our best to delineate between “magic” and hard science. We discuss reincarnation, evolutionary biology, the concept of time, and lots of eastern Hindu belief systems.   Resources: The Source: The Secrets of the Universe, the Science of the Brain. Dr. Bruce Lipton’s Biology of Belief

Learn the Traveler's Mindset and Stress-based Mindfulness - Matt Wilson Matt Wilson is the co-founder and CEO of under30experiences, recently ranked on the Forbes 5,000 list. In this episode, Cody and Matt discuss the importance of travel in getting outside of your daily habits, and mindfulness-based practices to calm and reduce stress. Books Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer People Dr. Andrew Hill Dr. Gabor Mate Dr. John Gray   How has travel changed your life? (07:01) How did you go about developing that mindset of openness? (11:19) How does traveling help when you feel you’re stuck in a rut? (20:06) How was meditation beneficial to you? (26:52) The Memory Palace Technique. (36:10) What’s a routine that works for you? (47:16) (47:35) What is the book you are working on that focuses on traveling? (59:41) What message would you like to impart to young people? (01:03:55)   Cody’s podcast with Matt Develop a Limitless Mindset Through Keystone Habits with Cody McLain https://www.under30experiences.c

Corinne Segura is a building biologist who had extreme chemical and mold sensitivities when she first set out to build a chemical-free tiny house. The research and testing of those materials is what sparked the creation of the My Chemical Free House blog. Corinne and I nerd out on how to avoid chemicals that are making you weak in your home, car, RV, etc.!  We want to make sure you stay as healthy as possible and eliminate things that make you weak from your environment.  We talk about some crazy stuff to avoid including:  MOLD Moldy Movie a great (free!) documentary by Dave Asprey What to look out for in home inspections  Cheryl Ceicko is a great resource!  Homebiotic-- a probiotic you can spray on your walls!  Corinne’s recipe for her a probiotic spray she puts on her skin. Mother Dirt the over the counter probiotic spray. Corinne recommends keeping an eye on your humidity with a simple $15 meter.    PLASTICS Arleen Blum is an amazing scientist who you should know!  Matt’s Reverse Osmosis water f

Amber Sears is an international pilates and yoga teacher, holistic nutritionist, former professional dancer and business coach. I’m a sun worshipping environmentalist, and planet romping entreprenuer, She runs wellness retreats around the world, has written 800+ articles on Epicself.com, and does online business coaching with a specialty in womens business coaching.  Her new podcast Soul Powered is set to launch soon. I’ve followed Amber since 2008 when she was living in San Francisco and I was in New York.  I reached out to her to see if she’d be interested in contributing to our newly launched website under30ceo.com. Since then, Amber and I have followed parallel paths.  She moved down to Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica to open a wellness center, and I took her yoga class somewhere around 2013. She lived in the jungle, like I did, where she escaped the madness of life in the states, and not only worked to build a location independent business but went through an incredible spiritual transformation.  We talk a lo

After the tragic passing of NBA Legend Kobe Bryant, I received a text from my friend and 4x Live Different Podcast guest Rajiv Nathan who was just as distraught over our hero’s passing as I was… Today we decided to get together to share some lessons learned from Kobe both on and off the court. Kobe Bryant was not only an Olympic and 5x NBA champion but an incredible ambassador to the game, and responsible for its growth on a global scale.  Beyond basketball, he was an investor, family man, coach, writer, producer, and more. Please enjoy this co-produced podcast with Rajiv Nathan, which also appears on the Startup Hypeman Show.   Known as the Heavyweight Champion of Story, Rajiv 'RajNATION' Nathan is Founder of Startup Hypeman, helping startups not suck at pitching and telling their story so they stand out to customers and investors and stand apart from competitors. He was named an "Agent of Change" by Huffington Post, has given a TED Talk, and been featured in Inc, Forbes, and more. He's also a hip hop artist

Andrew Yang is a serial entrepreneur, author, and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. In 2011, he founded the non-profit Venture for America, with the mission “to create economic opportunity in American cities by mobilizing the next generation of entrepreneurs and equipping them with the skills and resources they need to create jobs.” Andrew who began his career as a corporate attorney also wrote the books Smart People Should Build Things and The War on Normal People. In the latter, he detailed the massive employment crisis that’s already underway and how the shift can affect tens of millions of Americans. He also laid out what he believes is a roadmap to a better future and it starts with the Freedom Dividend, a Universal Basic Income of $1000 a month for every American adult aged 18 to 64. Because of his extensive work and contribution, Yang was named as a Champion of Change by the Obama White House in 2012. In 2015, the Obama White House again acknowledged him as a Presidential Ambassador for Global En

(While eradicating cancer and neurodegenerative disease from our planet!) Teri Cochrane is an integrative practitioner, certified coach, herbologist, function nutritionist, founder of the Cochrane Method, and author of the Wildatarian Diet: Living as Nature Intended. Teri specializes in getting people to their potential and my conversation with Teri will definitely help you get to the next level.  It’s full of both big-picture ideas to make you a better thinker and decision-maker while getting down to actionable steps that you can take to improve your health. We keep this episode very “consumer-friendly” so an everyday person can listen in and find out:  How to become better at systems thinking, decision-making, and become a “solution seeker.”  How Teri’s background managing a billion dollars as a risk manager for a Fortune 50 company led her to produce a systems mindset and create the Cochrane Method.  She even gives tips on how you can become a better systems thinker using your own personal algorithm. Why T

I talked to an eye doctor and she blew my mind. If you are a reasonable person, you probably want to avoid losing your eyesight, have suffered from headaches, or wonder if all this time in front of the computer is affecting our health. Now, I have the answers from Dr. Rani Banik, M.D., a neuro-ophthalmologist, professor at Mount Siani in New York City, who also understands functional medicine! I think the cool kids would call her a unicorn. She gave me a ton of tips on: Getting through our workday without eye strain How to avoid migraines Foods & supplements that can strengthen your eyes Apps to download to can reduce headaches and keep our vision I also talked to her about the dangers of florescent lights, how blue lights affect our sleep, and she shared her 20/20 rule for taking breaks on the computer. She even mentioned how it’s best not to overdo it on eye drops and which fish are best for your retina! PS., did you know there was an oral sunscreen you can take? You can listen to the full episode here