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Former salesperson, Matt Javit decided to shift his career toward traveling, going around the world for 27 months with just one backpack and his wife. In doing so, he learned about various people, cultures, and human relationships, all while volunteering, pursuing photography, and developing projects. In this episode, Matt shares his journey from his job in sales to seeing the globe to settling down in Honduras. We cover everything from language barriers to advice related to travel. Be sure to follow Leading Lights on Instagram and Twitter to stay updated on new episodes: @leadinglights_pod Matt Javit's socials: @mattjavit

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Today's episode is about flashing back to one of our most thought-provoking guests who will prompt you to think about the ways you can fast-forward your life towards more enjoyment. Matt Javit truly knows how to Shock His Potential! A trip of a lifetime...and More! That is how you can describe the 800-day journey Matt Javit and his wife took, that saw them visit 35 countries in five different continents. The countless adventures and personal connections made with strangers who became friends, make for the unforgettable experiences. Having taken a career break (aka Mid-Career Retirement) to pursue the dream of traveling the world in early 2017, Matt began what would become an exciting and adventurous phase of his life. Matt continues to experience the beauty of the world while at the same time documenting his journey, providing tips and hacks to help other travelers have even better experiences. Along with his wife Nikki, Matt now manages many projects including a blog where they share travel tips and advice from around the world; a weekly podcast focusing on travel stories; World Barber Shop Adventures which is a docuseries that showcases the experiences in different barber shops around the world, and more. Matt also showcases the different police officers that he encountered in 60+ cities as he journeyed around the world. Matt's book, POLICE: Brotherhood in Uniform Around the World is not only fun and captivating, but is inspiring as well. To learn more on what Matt is up to, and to follow his adventures, subscribe to his YouTube channel Social media handles and links; https://passportjoy.com/ https://passportjoy.com/topics/podcast/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattjavit/ https://twitter.com/PalmTreeHunter                       https://www.instagram.com/mattjavit/                https://www.youtube.com/c/mattjavit

Traveling The World Doesn't Have To Break Your BankWhile they traveled, they found cheap housing, house-sitting cats for weeks at a time, or just watching over homes of others in the countries they were in to cut their costs. Today, Matt will teach you that it's not as expensive as you may think it is to travel, you can house sit for others and utilize these modes to save on travel costs. Follow up Matt Javit WebsitePassport JoyBooks Mentioned in the showAs a man ThinkethMOVIE: Searching For Sugar ManIf You Enjoy The Show, Be Sure T0 Subscribe Below!

Ever seen the show TRL (Total Request Live) on MTV? Ever heard of Shaquille O'Neal? Wondering what these two have in common? IDGAF…Clothing that is. This well-known acronym became a staple in pop culture and our guest took the concept to the next level. Matt Javit founded and started a clothing line, IDGAF Clothing. Even though he had celebrities like Shaquille O'Neal wearing his brand and recognition on the popular MTV show, Matt walks us through his IDGAF failure to grow the brand as big as its potential. This story is one that inspires us to take a leap of faith and ultimately a risk to reach your full potential. In this episode, we talk about:Importance of taking a leap of faithHaving a choice in the way you look at your failuresLiving out your dreams and reaching your full potentialLearn more about Matt below:Matt is a Five-Time International Sales Award Winner, had 3 Seasons of his Travel Video Series air on Amazon Video after traveling the world full time for 27 months, published a nationally celebrated photography book, and most recently started his own technology consultancy. Click the links to connect with him or follow his travelshttps://passportjoy.com/https://twitter.com/MattJavithttps://www.youtube.com/mattjavit

In this episode, we recap the three January episodes which were episode 100 titled Get Out of Your Comfort Zone with CCS co-founder and former co-host Jared Defore, episode 101 with George Giltner who is the President & CEO of the TechPoint Foundation for Youth, and episode 102 titled Passport Joy & World Barber Shop Adventures with Matt Javit. In this recap, you’ll hear Jason and me talk about some of the general themes of the month that we heard from our guests, about the unique stories that we the three guests told us, and Jason gives us a sneak peak of the February nonprofit interview.

Matt Javit and his wife Nikki left their high paying Executive jobs in the USA to pursue their love of traveling the world and learning what it's like to be true entrepreneurs. Matt talks about what it took to finally make the leap of faith and trust that everything they had planned for over the year was the right decision.Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)

Matt Javit is a former five-time international sales award winner turned  publisher, world traveler, and career gapper who paused his career to travel the world full time with his wife for 27 months from February 2017 through May 2019 with a single backpack each. In this episode, you’ll hear Matt tell us about how he and his wife Nikki made the decision to pause their careers to travel for 2 years straight without returning home during that time, about some of the projects that they took on to document their journey including their blog and podcast named Passport Joy and Matt’s video series on Amazon Prime called World Barber Shop Adventures, and why you deserve to achieve your goals and dreams if you’ve put in the work. LinkedIn: Matt - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattjavit/ Javit Consulting - https://www.linkedin.com/company/javit/about/ PassportJoy.com - https://www.linkedin.com/company/passport-joy/about/ Facebook: PassportJoy - https://www.facebook.com/PassportJoyTravel World Barber Shop Adventures - https://www.facebook.com/worldbarbershopadventures Matt - https://www.facebook.com/matt.javit Instagram:  PassportJoy - https://www.instagram.com/passportjoy/ World Barber Shop Adventures - https://www.instagram.com/worldbarbershopadventures/ Matt - https://www.instagram.com/mattjavit/ Website: https://passportjoy.com/ Website: https://javit.com/ World Barber Shop Adventures on Amazon Prime: https://amzn.to/2Ol2f1q World Barber Shop Adventures YouTube Playlist: http://bit.ly/WBSASeries

About the guest:     Matt Javit is living a life of many chapters; all building on the next. He is a five-time International Sales award winner, host of the Amazon Prime Video show World Barber Shop Adventures, author of POLICE: Brotherhood in Uniform Around the World, and Ambassador of Culture. With his success at a large multi-national company, Matt was awarded trips to exotic locations around the globe to celebrate with his peers. This new exposure opened his eyes to the adventure and opportunity of cultural immersion travel. With a deep desire to understand more about the places and people he had yet to discover, Matt made a difficult decision that few have the confidence to do. He left his high-paying career to travel the world!   In the episode:     With success in his sales job, Matt was able to travel the world and discover his passion for visiting new places and cultures. In this episode, Matt describes how he was able to live his dream of becoming a world traveler and how he came to love visiting barbershops through his travels. By using his network, Matt was able to keep travel costs down because he would stay with his connections or the friends and family of people he knew. 3:17 – Matt tells the story of how his sales job led to his love of travel. 6:01 – Matt describes how his idea for visiting barbershops around the world came to be and why it interests him so much. 10:41 – Matt shares some of his favorite destinations around the world. 13:54 – Matt talks about how COVID-19 has impacted his 2020 travel plans. 14:44 – Matt explains how he uses his network to find families to host him during his travels and to make new connections. 20:57 – Matt lists some of his favorite barbershops he has visited in his travels. 25:16 – Matt shares some tips he would give to barbers. 29:52 – Matt provides a list of some resources that have helped him in his career.   Quote “Barbershops, whether you're in the States or you're traveling, there's just a uniqueness. Whether you speak the language they're speaking or not, it's kind of like when you walk in that door, there's a bonding that goes on.” - Matt Javit, world traveler and publisher at World Barber Shop Adventures   Links: www.mattjavit.com www.passportjoy.com  World Barbershop Adventures: https://www.amazon.com/World-Barber-Shop-Adventures/dp/B07XTRQSSR Society of American Travel Writers: https://satw.org/ Cliff's Barbershop: http://www.cliffsbarbershop.com/ Wolfman Barber Shop, Tokyo, Japan: https://www.wolfmanbarber.com/index_en.html Bali Barber, Bali, Indonesia: https://www.balibarber.com/ Gee's Clippers: http://geesclippers.com/ Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller: https://www.amazon.com/Building-StoryBrand-Clarify-Message-Customers/dp/0718033329 As a Man Thinketh by James Allen: https://www.amazon.com/As-Man-Thinketh-Complete-Original/dp/1523643536 Tony Robbins: https://www.tonyrobbins.com/ Jim Rohn: https://www.jimrohn.com/   Activate the PR Maven® Flash Briefing on your Alexa Device.  Join the PR Maven® Facebook group page.    Looking to connect:           Email: matt@javit.com  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattjavit/ Twitter: @MattJavit Instagram: @worldbarbershopadventures YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/mattjavit/?reload=9&sub_confirmation=1

My first guest, Matt Javit, left his comfortable life in corporate America to strap on his backpack and travel the world full-time with his wife. His journey lasted 27 months and took him to 35 countries. He shares with me what it took to start this adventure, his advice to others on how to make travel a priority, and tells us a lot of amazing travel stories including an overview of his Amazon Prime series "World Barbershop Adventures".___His show: https://www.amazon.com/World-Barber-Shop-Adventures/dp/B07XTRQSSRHis website/podcast: https://passportjoy.com/

Matt Javit travels…A BUNCH. From 2017 to 2019 he travelled full time with his wife with just a single backpack each, visiting 35 countries. He hasn't stopped yet. In this episode he shares with us his transition from being a long term high performing sales executive to travelling. Was it a pursuit for more? What did this mid-career retirement mean? Listen in to find out more on his interesting journeys and his pursuit to live his dream! Subscribe to his YouTube channel to follow his adventures. More on his website and social media handles; https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattjavit/ https://twitter.com/mattjavit    

Often times, we watch others achieving our dreams but for some reason think that those dreams are unreachable for us. Sometimes risk, uncertainty, and the lack of self-confidence stirs our doubt, but once you’ve established your goal, you can change your mindset to allow life to bring the opportunities you desire to you. Today’s guest, Matt Javit, was a Division 1 All American Athlete who went straight from college to achieve major corporate success. He then left his job to go travel the world with his wife for 27 months.    In this conversation, Matt shares what inspired them to finally go after their dreams and how to overcome the fear and doubt that often holds us back. Matt discusses his experiences traveling, transitioning back into daily life, and how you too can shift your mindset to achieve anything you want. Join Danny Bader in this conversation to hear more about Matt’s inspiring and entertaining adventures.    Show Highlights:    Matt shares his childhood, life as an athlete, and then how he was led to corporate America  Matt shares how he and his wife were able to travel full time  Having so much access to information can be overwhelming but if utilized properly can help you cultivate any life opportunity you want   Money is important but finding external factors that fuel you are vital to keep your passion going  Matt shares what the process of transitioning from corporate America to traveling for 27 months looked like  Matt shares strategies to avoid negative thinking and go for your dreams  Setting goals is the first step to put them in motion  Matt discusses what inspired the World Barber Shop Adventures and how it’s grown  What the process of transitioning back into daily life after traveling looks like  Traveling is crucial to expand your horizons and expose you to other cultural differences  Strategies for handling mental and emotional fear of the unknown  Preparation is a crucial element to manage fear  Matt shares what his next endeavor is and how he’s going to continue travel in the future  Getting clear on the what, writing it down, and taking crazy action  Understanding you deserve to achieve your goals is crucial to make them happen      Links:    https://www.dannybader.com   Contact Matt:    https://mattjavit.com   https://passportjoy.com

  Travelling can do so much for us. It opens our sometimes limited lenses, creates opportunity for connection and can help develop who we are as individuals. Today, with most of us stuck in our homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, world traveller Matt Javit joins us to give insights into the kind of growth and perspective shifting we can do from home.   When Matt and his wife Nikki set out on an 800-day journey across 35 countries, they were drawn by their shared desire to experience the world. Looking back, there are a few realizations and lessons they learned along the way that you might find useful, no matter where you are in the world.   Hear Matt's valuable advice about building the types of relationships and resources needed for travel. Find out what surprised him most about new cultures and experiences during his adventure. Also, hear the most valuable things he's learned from travelling that is helping him and Nikki not only make it through the Coronavirus epidemic right now, but thrive through it.   Key Takeaways: How Matt Javit and his wife, Nikki, travelled the world for more than two years. What his biggest lessons were from his experience. Advice for avoiding racist assumptions during the COVID-19 pandemic. If you enjoyed this episode, check out the video show notes and SUBSCRIBE TO THIS PODCAST on Apple Podcasts.   Episode Timeline: 00:01] Intro [00:41] Meet Matt Javitt [03:47] Creating the goal to travel full-time with his wife [08:57] How they prepared to leave their jobs [13:17] Realizations and lessons from the experience [14:39] Storytelling and building relationships [16:41] Cultural lessons from Japan [21:30] Advice for avoiding polarizing Covid-19 reactions [27:25] The importance of goal setting [32:45] The power of thought [34:28] Matt's Advice for people stuck indoors [40:07] Reflecting, marriage and building perspective [42:41] Contacting Matt & Nikki [44:29] Outro Resources Mentioned: Passportjoy.com World Barber Shop Adventures Cathleenmerkel.com   Standout Quotes: “If you've had opportunities to meet enough people in life, you'll know that we're all kind of the same. We all have similar goals; some people just get different breaks in life that get them to a level where they can earn at a high level.” -Matt Javit [15:33] “Take in the input... but you have to be careful because it can be too much input and you just wake up at the end of the week saying what did I really do for my life rather than listen to other people tell me how to live my life.” -Matt Javit [35:49] “If you have all these fake dreams, you're not helping yourself....if you have a dream you're not accomplishing or you're not even setting out to do it- your brain knows. You know that. So that's a failure in your head because you're not taking that risk and that's not a positive thing.” -Matt Javit [38:27]   Connect:   Find | Cathleen Merkel At cathleenmerkel.com On Instagram: @CathleenMerkel On Facebook: @CathleenMerkelCoaching   Find | Matt Javit At passportjoy.com On Instagram: @Matjavit On Twitter: @Mattjavit   SUBSCRIBE TO THIS PODCAST On Apple Podcasts   About Cathleen:     As a Thought Leader in the Mindset & (Self-) Leadership space, Cathleen supports high achieving, but worn-out women create a more content & balanced life without sacrificing their hard-earned success. Following a simple 6 step framework, she helps you not only reconnect with your inner feminine side; Cathleen also supports you to rediscover your REAL YOU!    Cathleen focuses on women who lost their sense of purpose, who feel they are running in a hamster wheel, trying to please everyone but themselves. She helps you to turn your careers, your social connections and personal life around so that you will start feeling fulfilled and excited again about the days to come.      At the end of the process, Cathleen's clients will feel healthier, happier, energised and clear about their future.        With over 15 years of leadership experience in Retail, Media & Broadcasting, Engineering and Property Investment, Cathleen has not only experienced the challenges and opportunities of a female leader herself, she has also been leading and supporting various leadership development initiatives within large, complex, multinational matrix organisations.   Only by deeply experiencing her very personal life challenges – ‘hitting a wall experiences' –Cathleen was able to redefine her own purpose, deciding to bring ease and content to as many women as possible on the planet!   About Matt Javit    Matt Javit is living a life of many chapters; all building on the next. Five-Time International Sales Award Winner, Travel Documentarian with his Amazon Video show World Barber Shop Adventures, Nationally Celebrated Author with his book POLICE: Brotherhood in Uniform Around the World, and an Ambassador of Culture.    With his success at a large multi-national company, Matt was awarded trips to exotic locations around the globe to celebrate with his peers. This new exposure opened his eyes to adventure and opportunities for cultural immersion travel. With a deep desire to understand more about the places and people he had yet to discover, Matt made a difficult decision that few have the confidence to do. He left his high-paying career to travel the world!    He, along with his wife, packed one backpack apiece and headed out for 27-months of travel. Thirty-five countries and endless relationships later, they returned home to share their stories of this epic adventure.    Before the multi-year sales awards, Matt had to work through the difficulties of transitioning careers, building a portfolio, and becoming a trusted advisor for his clients. His humble demeanor, tireless work ethic, and positive spirit made it possible to become a top performer.  As a former Academic All-American D1 athlete and college basketball coach, he also enjoys highlighting sports, mindset, and goal-setting to deliver his message. The discipline, creativity, and self-confidence that is gained from the competition have influenced Matt's life significantly.    Matt lives in Indianapolis with his wife of 14 years, Nikki, where they continue to plan and dream of their next destination; to walk through a chaotic market, meet new and inspiring friends, and dance to local music till the sun comes up. 

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Can you imagine leaving a high-paying career to travel the world for two years? My guest today, Matt Javit and his wife, Nikki, did it! They made that difficult decision that few have the confidence to do. Listen in to find out how their deep desire to understand more about the places and people they had yet to discover led them to a goal of traveling the world for an extended period of time. You will hear all about how they made the trip work financially and logistically, how the experience has changed their lives, and some of the amazing things they saw and did during the 27 months that they visited 35 countries. Matt Javit has had many chapters in his life including playing college basketball at a Division 1 school as well as founding a couple of start-up ventures. He was a top salesperson at a tech company when he first got the travel bug. He is a five-time International sales award winner, travel documentarian with his Amazon Video show World Barber Shop Adventures, and a nationally celebrated author with his book POLICE: Brotherhood in Uniform Around the World. He lives in Indianapolis with his wife of 14 years, Nikki, where they continue to plan and dream of their next destination; to walk through a chaotic market, meet new and inspiring friends, and dance to local music till the sun comes up. “At some point in your life, you’ve got to realize you’re allowed to live out your own dreams.” “At some point, you’ve got to take ownership of your own life and say ‘I’m gonna do what I think I can do and I’m going to make this happen.’” In this episode, you will hear: - How Matt and his wife traveled to 35 countries in 27 months - What they did to prepare and make the trip work financially and logistically - How traveling the world has changed him and why he such an advocate of international travel Thank you so much for listening! Please subscribe to the show, leave a review, and share it with a friend. COACHING GIVEAWAY!!! Follow these steps to be entered into a drawing for a FREE coaching session with me! Share the podcast or an episode on social media. Take a picture or screenshot of your share. Email the picture to rob@robaigner.com with “Coaching Contest” in the subject line. Share 5 or more times and you will be entered in to win a FREE coaching session with me! If you have a guest idea or want to connect with me, please visit my website www.clearchoices.live or find me on Facebook .  I am also available for speaking engagements. Other resources and links mentioned in this episode: https://passportjoy.com/

Have you ever dreamed of leaving it all behind to travel the world? Matt Javit has been traveling the world full time after leaving the United States in February 2017, experiencing over 30 countries and 100 cities since making the difficult decision to leave his career at his peak to discover the beauty of the world. Before his departure, he had a high-achieving, beautiful life in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he was a top-performing sales executive for an international technology consulting company winning 5-straight international sales awards. He loved hanging out with his friends, spending quality time with his family, and making new connections in his vast network. But, he liked to travel and experience new adventures, so he and his wife decided to fulfill their dreams and pack their bags for a 2-3 year adventure around the world. In this episode of the Be Real Show, Matt and Travis open up the show discussing Matt’s inspiration behind his international travels with his wife. Plus, Matt describes how he chose the destinations; they didn’t take winter clothes, so they followed the sun for twenty-seven months. First, they would book the big trips to different continents; in between, they would figure out the logistics to get from country to country. Then, Matt explains how he started Passport Joy – he thinks career gaps will be much more familiar with the next generation. From traveling all around the world, Matt has made lifelong friendships. For instance, Chris Gayle, a world-famous cricket player, invited Matt to his birthday party in Jamaica. Stay tuned to hear Matt answer the top ten questions; Matt reveals the only book that he brought on his travels. Connect Twitter - https://twitter.com/mattjavit?lang=en Passport Joy - https://passportjoy.com LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattjavit/ Podcast – https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/matt-javit/passport-joy-travel-talk-broadcasted-from-around-the-world YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7hJ5nfKTwpTfRZUfVI-sew Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mattjavit/ Weekly Newsletter   Resources Mentioned ExpressVPN - https://www.expressvpn.com As A Man Thinketh   People Mentioned Chris Gayle - @henrygayle David Blaine - @davidblaine Criss Angel - @crissangel  

My co-host for this episode, Matt Javit, recently spent over two years traveling the world with his wife. Besides engaging in lots of 'world barbershop adventures', as he calls them, he discovered a new and deeper level of relationship with his main squeeze. So, what IS a 100/0 relationship, anyway...and what are the key tenets of a powerful, healthy one? Well, for starters it does NOT mean the guy gets run over like some kind of beta 'nice guy'. Not at all. You'll discover what both Matt and I have done right in our respective marriages from the very beginning, making sure the relationship was built on a firm foundation. What's the best way to evaluate whether or not you're going to get along with a woman long-term? How come so many couples can seem to fake their way through marriage? What happens to affect the equation once kids enter the picture? Is there a secret to spending SO much time together as a couple without getting sick of each other? All that, plus barber shops, sumo, basketball and much more in this unique episode. Check out the new Amazon Influencer page, get in on Laser Coaching, tear through the show notes, score the free reports and even schedule a 25 minute call with me for free...all at: http://www.mountaintoppodcast.com === HELP US SEND THE MESSAGE TO GREAT MEN EVERYWHERE === We'll keep the solid, actionable content coming...all for free. If you love what you hear, please give us a 'thumbs up' by rating the show (takes one second) and leaving us a review. As we say here in Texas, we appreciate you!

Freedom is found in taking a leap of faith and maintained through consistently pushing yourself to be brave in the face of new experiences. Matt Javit and his wife left their lives to travel the world. Armed with one backpack each, they left behind their high achieving jobs to realize their dreams of traveling full time. Matt intentionally built his creative skillset through the weekly production of his podcast, documenting his travel experiences via blog and social media channels, and the addition of his web series. Tune in now! SUPPORT US ON PATREON!DETAILED SHOW NOTES HERE.

Twenty-seven months of full-time travel? A mid-career break? Yes, please.  Matt Javit and his wife took off on this adventure- over 25 countries and 100 cities later, they are nearing the end of their travels--and are coming back even better than ever.  Connect: World Barbershop Adventures: https://passportjoy.com/topics/world-barber-shop-adventures/  Website: https://passportjoy.com/author/mattj/ Podcast: https://passportjoy.com/topics/podcast/  Photo Book Kickstarter https://passportjoy.com/police-photo-book/  With your support, POLICE: Brotherhood in Uniform Around the World will be a beautiful coffee table book, full of images of policemen and policewomen photographed during a 27-month journey to 35 countries and 100+ cities.  The photo book will be published in September 2019.  I am not a police officer, but I have a strong respect for the profession. With the help of this campaign, I will celebrate the pride, dedication, and sacrifice of police around the world.  Part of the campaign is the ability to gift a photo book to a US-based police officer who signs up on the 'photo book wish list.' Please let any of your hard-working friends in uniform know about the possibility of receiving a book as a gift. I have over 60 photographs of police from cities around the world including Santiago, Athens, Tokyo, Siem Reap, Warsaw, and Cape Town. I will include photos of the location to help the reader understand the culture.  There will be over 120 photos in the book.  ======================  Request to Join the FREE Meredith Atwood Community & Coaching https://meredith-atwood-coaching.mn.co/ ======================  Buy Meredith’s Books: The Year of No Nonsense https://amzn.to/3su5qWp Triathlon for the Every Woman: https://amzn.to/3nOkjiH =======================   Follow Meredith Atwood & The Podcast on Social: Web: http://www.swimbikemom.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/swimbikemom   =======================  Want to Connect?  Email: same24hourspodcast@gmail.com =======================  Credits: Host & Production: Meredith Atwood Intro: Carl Stover Music Copyright 2017-2020, 2021 All Rights Reserved, Meredith Atwood, LLC

Matt Javit has been traveling the world full time after leaving the United States in February 2017 experiencing over 30 countries and 100 cities since making the difficult decision to leave his career at his peak to discover the beauty of the world.   Before his departure, he had a high-achieving, amazing life in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he was a top performing sales executive for an international Technology consulting company winning 5-straight international sales awards. He loved hanging out with his friends, spending quality time with his family, and making new connections in his vast network. But, he liked to travel and experience new adventures, so he and his wife decided to do what they had been dreaming about and pack their bags for a 2-3 year adventure around the world.   They are checking off bucket list locations like Machu Picchu, Galapagos Islands, The Sistine Chapel, and The Taj Mahal, and creating new exciting lists every week on where they want to explore next. During their stays, they find creative ways to keep down our costs (they are on a budget), get involved in the communities, and network with locals while having a blast!   Matt also spends his time on many creative projects like their weekly podcast discussing their travel and tips they have learned along the way. He also has a YouTube series called World Barber Shop Adventures that documents the difference in cultures and haircuts from their trips to unique locations where he has been named the Anthony Bourdain of Barber Shops.     In this episode, Karen and Matt discuss:         Success Story of Matt         Commit to Get Leads o    You’ve got to build your process for a long enough time, and a sustainable time (the persistence and consistence) and the leads and growth will come.         Consult to Sell o    Make a plan and stick with it but learn how adjust when necessary. Learn how to leverage the tools available to you.         Connect to Build and Grow o    Take advantage of the stage of life you are in and the resources that are available to you.         Success Thinking, Activities and Vision o    There will always be peaks and balances, so find daily things you can do to find your flow and your balance, even in the chaos, while embracing the fun and excitement of the chaos.         Sweet Spot of Success     "You’ve got to have a long-term projection and invest for the long term, and not just think that you’re going to get that break. If the break comes, it’s golden, but if it doesn’t come, you’ve got to understand that it’s through the marketing that’s going to help you grow."- Matt Javit     Connect with Matt Javit:   Website: PassportJoy.com Twitter: @MattJavit Weekly Newsletter: Passport Joy Adventures Newsletter Show: Passport Joy YouTube: Matt Javit Blog: Journey So Far Instagram: @mattjavit     About the Podcast   Join host Karen Briscoe each week to learn how you can achieve success at a higher level by investing just 5 minutes a day! Tune in to hear powerful, inspirational success stories and expert insights from entrepreneurs, business owners, industry leaders, and real estate agents that will transform your business and life. Karen shares a-ha moments that have shaped her career and discusses key concepts from her book Real Estate Success in 5 Minutes a Day: Secrets of a Top Agent Revealed.   Here’s to your success in business and in life!     Connect with Karen Briscoe:   Twitter: @5MinuteSuccess Facebook: 5MinuteSuccess Website: 5MinuteSuccess.com Email: Karen@5MinuteSuccess.com   5 Minute Success Links   Learn more about Karen’s book, Real Estate Success in 5 Minutes a Day   Subscribe to 5 Minute Success Podcast   Spread the love and share the secrets of 5 Minute Success with your friends and colleagues!     Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.

Matt Javit How To Travel The World & Plan Your Own Mini-Retirement EPISODE 31 – January 2019 Today’s episode is with founder of PassPortJoy.com – Matt Javit. Matt & his wife Nikki made the decision to take a leap of faith to travel the world full time, to seek new adventures and opportunities, meet new […]

“It's more than hair; it's an experience.” – Matt Javit Today's guest on the Art of Adventure is the Anthony Bourdain of barber shops, Matt Javit. He is the host and creator of World Barber Shop Adventures and the podcast, which he runs with his wife, The Passport Joy. Matt grew up in a military family, doing a lot of moving around when he was young. He was a corporate salesman before he set on this multi-year travel adventures with his wife. You will definitely enjoy this episode as Matt shares how he started his interest in traveling and how he came up with the idea of visiting barber shops and getting these barbers impart wonderful stories. We find out how he builds rapport and establish connections with these people from different parts of the world. What you'll learn in this episode: How Matt started traveling the world His favorite barber shop stories Also, my favorite barbershop adventures How his experience shaped the way he is traveling now How Matt thinks about meeting someone new - 10 second to build rapport How Matt prepares for his videos Quotes: “It's more than hair; it's an experience.” – Matt Javit "Barbers are craftsmen, and good craftsmanship is hard to replace"– Matt Javit “Your eyes definitely get opened as you travel the world.” – Matt Javit “This world is huge, but sometimes, it can be so tiny.” – Matt Javit “This {travel} is a segment of careers that is going to be around and I think it's going to become more and more appreciated.” – Matt Javit Continue the Adventure: Passport Joy

Matt Javit and his partner Nikki have been traveling the world full-time since leaving the USA in February 2017. During their travels they share with their audience different ways to keep travel costs down, ideas for volunteering in communities, and tips on networking with locals while having a great time. He also stars and produces […] The post CL203: The Anthony Bourdain of Barbershops – Interview with Matt Javit appeared first on James Taylor.

Matt Javit and his wife, Nikki, always dreamed of traveling the world. Instead of putting it off until retirement or putting off careers until they could travel, the couple opted for a mid-career hiatus, with a plan to travel for three years. We talk to Matt about planning and budgeting for the trip, how the couple keep their marriage strong while spending so much time traveling together, where to find some of the world's best coffee and food, and what America's super power is. The couple also have a weekly travel podcast and have recently launched a YouTube series documenting the barber shop experience in the places they visit. This episode is brought to you by Audible. Visit AudibleTrial.com/JKWD for your free audiobook and your free month at Audible. Full show notes at http://jkwdpodcast.com/episode-124-traveling-the-world-with-matt-javit/

Years ago, former Technology Services Sales Executive Matt Javit and his wife created a goal to save enough funds to travel the world!  It's now been years that the two have been galavanting across the world with one backpack each stopping to live among each culture they visit and integrate themselves into the community for a short spell.  Join us as we chat with Matt Javit about what it's been like to leave the stress of his successful life in corporate America in his prime to experience the most amazing adventures traveling the world and living life to its fullest right now.   Matt Javit can be reached through Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/PassportJoyTravel/ or through his website:  https://passportjoy.com Are you ready to live a Life Illuminated? Get ahold of Maggie Kelly at Satsang House and explore what's possible!  Click here for a free Strategy Session with Maggie to help you identify what roadblocks are stopping you and in the way of you living the life you envision NOW. Please be sure to follow us on Facebook at www.satsanghouse.net or connect through our website at www.satsanghouse.net. 

Jeff Haden author of The Motivation Myth spent over 20 years in manufacturing when he realized he really didn't love what he was doing. Over the next few years, he learned different skills to create a job for himself in the ghostwriting arena. Some may ask? What is ghostwriting? Why do people hire a ghostwriter? and where do you find a ghostwriter?   What is Ghostwriting? Ghostwriting is when someone is hired to write literary or journalistic works, speeches, or other texts that are officially credited to another person as the author. Celebrities, executives, and political leaders often hire ghostwriters to draft or edit their autobiographies, memoirs, or a book they have an idea for.   Why Do People Hire A Ghostwriter? In this interview with Jeff Haden, he explains it this way: You get an offer to write a weekly column on a certain subject, but you either don't have the time nor the talent, so you hire someone to write for you, and they sign your name to the work. Often someone is in a field with expertise that everyone wants to hear about. The problem is that you are a terrible writer, but a fantastic expert. You hire a ghostwriter to clean up and polish your idea.   Where Do You Find A Ghostwriter? Jeff Haden and Mikkel Thorup talk opening about where do you find a ghostwriter? It's actually quite simple. Use sites like UpWork, Freelancer and BloggingPro, to name just a few. One of the key takeaways from Jeff Haden was to hire someone that has written before, been paid for it, and does it daily. Jeff has written 70 books as a ghostwriter...I'd say...hire Jeff Haden if you want a book that is professionally written.   The Motivation Myth Jeff Haden's book, The Motivation Myth, overturns the beloved (but false) idea that motivation leads to success, instead, small successes lead to constant motivation - and let you achieve your biggest goals while also having more fun. In short, motivation isn't something you get — motivation is something you create. Listen as Jeff and Mikkel go through several concepts in the book, The Motivation Myth. Jeff breaks down some of his controversial ideas and helps us to understand that what's been drilled into us since we first started in the workforce are actually false.   What is a Serial Achiever Jeff Haden and Mikkel Thorup talk about how we CAN do more than 1 thing in life, and that we LOVE doing more than 1 thing. We spend our early adulthood pursuing a career that we believe we will stay at for the rest of our lives. After 15 years we decide to move on to something different. We go back to school, we learn everything that is required and then we pursue that career. That may happen several times in our life, and that's perfectly fine. In fact, in this Interview with Jeff Haden, he encourages people to add the word 'AND' to your elevator pitch. You don't have to be just one thing; you can be several; like a photographer AND a writer. That's part of life that gives us character and depth.   Check out this podcast to hear about: What's the difference between a Coach and a Pro How to write a book in 1.5 weeks Learning to persevere and work hard is a SKILL! Leadership skills Coping Skills And so much more!   In https://expatmoneyshow.com/matt-javit-leaves-it-all-behind-to-travel-the-world/ (Ep 042: Matt Javit) left his executive job to travel the world. You can be any age when you realize you want something different. Listen in to hear from Matt Javit.   If you would love to hear from other authors, check these two episodes out! https://expatmoneyshow.com/frank-bures-world-renowned-freelance-writer/ (Ep 039: Frank Bures) and https://expatmoneyshow.com/gundi-gabrielle-interview-amazon-bestseller/ (Ep 038: Gundi Gabriel) they are both fantastic interviews!   How to Reach Jeff Haden https://www.inc.com/ (www.inc.com) and search for Jeff Haden... Support this podcast

Rio de Janeiro is one of the most spectacular cities in the world. Buenos Aires is one of the most romantic. And, the Iguazu Falls will have you in awe of the beauty, magnificence, and endless natural splendor. It has been unmatched in our travels around the world. 2.5 times the size of the Niagara falls, its the world’s largest waterfalls system, and rightly named to the New 7 Wonders of Nature List and should be on everyone’s bucket list. This two-week trip was memorable for many reasons. We break down what you should consider while making your way to this remarkable part of the world in this week’s Passport Joy Travel Talk with Nikki and Matt Javit. Main Topics Covered: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Iguazu Falls Buenos Aires, Argentina Links Mentioned in the Episode: Airbnb - The best way to travel anywhere in the world. Get your discount today.  Mizzen and Main - The best pants available for traveling. Versatile, fashionable, and comfortable. Use your coupon today to get the best pants possible.  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is one of the world’s largest cities and definitely one of the most beautiful. Having a private tour guide can really enhance your experience. Our guide took us to a neighborhood to watch a Street Soccer (Futbol) in Rio Brazil We discuss more about the benefits of our guide in Rio Brazil (Top 6 Things to Do) We loved the delicious food at Bar do Mineiro.  The Bip Bip Bar in Rio is one of my favorite bars in the world.  The Iguazu Falls, the world’s largest waterfalls system, are rightly named to the New 7 Wonders of Nature List and should be on everyone’s bucket list. This video of us going into the heart of the Iguazu Falls shows the beauty of this amazing location.  Our post on the Iguazu Falls Brazil & Argentina gives additional insight on the journey with photos.  Tomas was an extraordinary travel guide in Buenos Aires, Argentina and we highly recommend him if you are visiting the area.  Be sure to check the currency situation before arriving in Buenos Aires as it is often changing. Make sure you understand what to pack. Pack Less! Here is a great post on everything we packed in a single backpack.  Sign up for our Newsletter to get the latest tips in Travel and hear about our weekly visits around the world

Visiting Machu Picchu is a bucket list travel location for many travelers. It was absolutely a location that we had to see on our journey. While making your trip to see the historic Inca ruins, you will likely spend time in Cusco, Peru. We think you should visit for more than just a day or two discovering this historic city. With some much to uncover in the city and countless day trips to be had to see Inca ruins nearby, we stayed longer than a week in Cusco. In this episode, we give you the tips and insight that you need to have a good time, from transportation to safety to what foods to expect. Listen to our conversation on Cusco, Peru and discovering the unbelievable Machu Picchu ruins on this week’s Passport Joy Travel Talk with Nikki and Matt Javit. Main Topics Covered: Cusco, Peru Tips Discovery Cusco and the Things to See Top Day Trips around Cusco Machu Picchu (& Huayna Picchu) Links Mentioned in the Episode: Blink - the best way to monitor your home while you are away and to keep an eye on your travel stay Priority Pass - Take advantage of lounges while you travel. It pays for itself pretty quickly.  Cusco, Peru, the former capital of the Inca empire, is used by most, as a layover point for thousands of travelers on their way to Machu Picchu and the Inca Trail. Cusco Peru Guide (Simple tips to save you time, money and keep you safe) is a wonderful post with a great deal of information.  The post gives insight on transportation, food, safety, altitude sickness, accommodations, and markets. Cusco Peru Travel (Ultimate Guide 2018) gives you an idea of the locations within Cusco that we mentioned and the details of what they each offer.  Cusco Peru Day Trips (Top 8 Sites) has the list of epic day trips that we took while in Cusco highlighting our tip 4 locations of Moray, Tipón, Pisac, and Ollantaytambo.  The Best View of Machu Picchu - Climbing Huayna Picchu (An Epic Journey) details the journey up the epic mountain of Huayna Picchu with photos and videos.  Make sure you understand what to pack. Pack Less! Here is a great post on everything we packed in a single backpack.  Sign up for our Newsletter to get the latest tips in Travel and hear about our weekly visits around the world

There is nothing better than going to a foreign country and finding completely unique things to bring home. Sometimes they are articles of clothing, or trinkets, or house decorations. Sometimes they are more unique items, and maybe they do not really appeal to our Western sensibilities. Sometimes they are downright offensive and disgusting… you’ll know what we mean after listening to this sketch. Like the sketch? Check out the conversation that influenced it as well as how we recorded it here!: Sketch Comedy Podcast show is an independent and completely improvised sketch podcast that is based on conversations with interesting people like YOU! We welcome all suggestions, and we are always looking for new and interesting people to have on the podcast. Thank you so much for watching and listening, and please check out our other links for more information, interaction and overall fun! For more episodes, information, and a chance to be on the show, visit: http://sketchcomedypodcastshow.com SOCIAL MEDIA FACEBOOK: http://facebook.com/sketchcomedypodcastshow TWITTER: http://twitter.com/sketchcompod INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/sketchcompod SUBSCRIPTIONS & REVIEWS APPLE: http://bit.ly/SCPSitunes GOOGLE: http://bit.ly/SCPSgplay RSS: https://scps.fireside.fm/rss PODCHASER: https://www.podchaser.com/SketchComedyPodcastShow Sketch Comedy Podcast Show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. © Copyright 2018 Marathon Productions, LLC. Special Guest: Matt Javit | World Traveler.

Matt Javit and his wife Nikki left their high paying Executive jobs in the USA to pursue their love of travelling the world and learning what it's like to be true entrepreneurs. Listen in to hear Matt talk about what it took to finally make the leap of faith and trust that everything they had planned for over the year was the right decision. It's been a year and a half of constant travel and Matt Javit has a lot to discuss.   Leaves it all Behind to Travel the World Matt Javit and Mikkel Thorup discuss what life looks like when you have a great job, lots of family and friends and you decide to do what most people would say is crazy. Some would say, "how could you leave your great job? You won't earn any money, how are you ever going to survive?" Matt shares that those closest to him were extremely supportive, which really was fantastic to hear. Those questions and more are part of this fantastic interview with Matt Javit.   Things to do Before Moving Overseas Matt Javit and Mikkel Thorup really dig deep and discuss all of the things to do before moving overseas. It wasn't a simple pack up and go. They own a home full of furniture; had 2 cars; jobs; friends...well, they had to plan ahead. An exit plan was in order and because everyone is different a well thought out plan was crucial. Matt discusses his exit plan and all the things to do before moving overseas.   Next Came the Guide to Moving Abroad Matt Javit along with his wife Nikki set out the guide to moving abroad. What had to happen for them to make a seamless transition. Where would they go? For how long? Matt talks about how he bought their first one-way ticket to South America...and then their second one-way ticket to Europe. It all started to come together. Matt had to tell his boss...what a great story this is!   Tips for Living Abroad Mikkel and Matt Javit laugh about the lessons they have both learned because of living overseas and their tips for living abroad. They both agree that life is never the same once you leave your safe job, a safe home, and safe friends. Your mind will never be the same. If you have ever wanted to leave your life behind, in this interview you'll get fantastic tips for living abroad.   Topics we Discuss in Depth How to Make friends while you're overseas How you can live the life you've always dreamed of Earning an income and what has to happen for that to be a reality Challenges you face living abroad Documenting your adventures Matts goals Mind expansion!   Re-Entry into the Corporate World A year and a half has passed since leaving Indianapolis, Indiana. Will Matt and Nikki be able to step back into their old jobs? Will they want to after being so independent and free?   Where can we find Matt Javit Matt has a successful podcast himself called: PassportJoy   Go to his website https://passportjoy.com/ (www.PassportJoy.com) and you can see his blogs about their world travels and listen in to hear his podcast!   Matt Javit's Secret to Success Realize that you deserve it! Once you really understand that, your life will never be the same. You can change your life and from there, anything is possible.   Final Thoughts What a fantastic interview I had with Matt. A real honest, down to earth guy. We laughed a lot because we have both have had similar experiences while learning the lessons of life. Matts tips for living abroad and things to do before moving overseas will be so helpful to you, my listeners. I know you'll all enjoy this episode a ton. I hope you get as much value from this interview with Matt Javit as I did… and if you would like to stay up to date with all new content that comes out at https://expatmoneyshow.com/ (The Expat Money Show) make sure you sign up for our Newsletter below. Some of my best stuff comes out by email and I don't want you to miss it! Support this podcast

I envy Matt Javit and his wife, Nikki. They have a passion for traveling and, instead of planning the occasional trip or excursion decided to adopt the lifestyle full-time and now traverse the globe seeing things most people, like myself, can only imagine. They chronicle their travels in their blog at passportjoy.com and talk about all of these incredible things. They also have a podcast, go check it out! Matt and I talk about what it took for them to be able to take off for a couple of years and how you could do it too! We also talk about the wonderful shopping opportunities abroad… it gets interesting. One thing I learned is that the best part of going to another country as a really tall white guy is that everyone treats you like a celebrity… looks like I have to get some taller heels on my shoes! All this AND we record a sketch! Did you find Matt interesting? You might also like to hear the sketch we came up with!: Sketch Comedy Podcast show is an independent and completely improvised sketch podcast that is based on conversations with interesting people like YOU! We welcome all suggestions, and we are always looking for new and interesting people to have on the podcast. Thank you so much for watching and listening, and please check out our other links for more information, interaction and overall fun! For more episodes, information, and a chance to be on the show, visit: http://sketchcomedypodcastshow.com SOCIAL MEDIA FACEBOOK: http://facebook.com/sketchcomedypodcastshow TWITTER: http://twitter.com/sketchcompod INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/sketchcompod SUBSCRIPTIONS & REVIEWS APPLE: http://bit.ly/SCPSitunes GOOGLE: http://bit.ly/SCPSgplay RSS: https://scps.fireside.fm/rss PODCHASER: https://www.podchaser.com/SketchComedyPodcastShow Sketch Comedy Podcast Show is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. © Copyright 2018 Marathon Productions, LLC. Special Guest: Matt Javit | World Traveler.

On today's show we have Matt Javit.A few years back Matt and his wife Nicki got the travel bug, and they didn't get this bug in form of tenuous thought or notion that, “Yeah …. One day, once we have enough money and freedom we'll travel the world.”They got in an, “Okay. What actionable steps do we need to take to make this dream happen kind of way”Those actionable steps included budgeting, making sure they came back home to careers (Money matters mmkay), selling all of their stuff, and then telling all of their loved ones their plans.So if you've ever wanted to know:- Just how much money it costs to travel around the world for a year- How to enjoy yourself despite being in a different culture than you're used to- How to react when faced with a source of constant negativity- How incredibly thoughtful and different the Japanese culture really is ...Then click that download or play button now to listen to this episode of "The Process with Brad Wilson" podcast.Join my email newsletter at: http://www.MentallyInvincible.com/TheProcessFollow @the_process_podcast on InstagramReach out to me directly at brad@mentallyinvincible.com

Today's guest Matt Javit is a former sales executive for an IT company. During his time there Matt received several sales awards. But Matt had this burning desire to travel, so he and his wife did just that. Both left there well paying corporate jobs to travel the world with more than a backpack and motivation.

Today's guest Matt Javit is a former sales executive for an IT company. During his time there Matt received several sales awards. But Matt had this burning desire to travel, so he and his wife did just that. Both left there well paying corporate jobs to travel the world with more than a backpack and motivation.

Matt Javit is the founder of PassportJoy.com. He recently hit pause on his extraordinarily successful career to travel the world full-time with his wife. Useful links: Passport Joy Website Passport Joy Podcast Passport Joy on Facebook As A Man Thinketh (Book on Amazon) Show notes: How he grew up as a child of someone in the military. … Continued

Matt Javit from PassPort Joy is my guest today. Hi motto is: Experiences over things! He's always lived with gratitude and thankfulness being at the center of his life. Matt left a successful career behind to travel the world fulltime. He says that: "None of this would be possible without a strong belief system and gratitude." Matt had some amazing insights to share about gratitude, for me the one visual example about being grateful for our gifts if we want to experience more of them, really hit home.  You can find him at: https://passportjoy.com Become a supporter of this podcast:https://anchor.fm/the-gratitude-podcast/support

Matt Javit was a five-time sales award winner with the international Technology Consulting company that he spent 9 incredible years with but then he left it all behind in February of 2017, along with his vast work network, volunteer efforts, and friends & family, to follow his love of travel with his wife.

In this Launch Episode, we (Nikki and Matt Javit) give a high level of who we are and what we did. We discuss what we plan to cover in our podcast and how we hope to help our listeners. Not only the listeners that wish to travel long term someday but also the listener that wants advice for their weekend getaway or week-long holiday. We talk about our desire to keep it real and keep it fun. Though we are not pros on the mic, we will get better over time. Thanks for checking out our Launch Episode of Passport Joy Travel Talk with Matt and Nikki Javit!

Hi, I am here with Matt Javit. he is living a life of many chapters; all building on the next. Five-Time International Sales Award Winner, Travel Documentarian with his Amazon Video show World Barber Shop Adventures, Nationally Celebrated Author with his book POLICE: Brotherhood in Uniform Around the World, and an Ambassador of Culture.CHECK THIS AMAZING WEBSITE BY MATT JAVIT FOR MORE INFOhttps://mattjavit.com/JOIN NOW!! AND BE PART OF MASTERMIND PROGRAMlearn how to activate yourself for a better future!https://createanewtomorrow.com/master...CHECK THIS LINK FOR A FREE GIFT FOR YOU!https://www.createanewtomorrow.com/giftDO YOU WANT TO BE OUR NEXT SPECIAL GUEST?Book an appointment now and let's create a new world together!https://booking.builderall.com/calend...CHECK THIS OTHER WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION!https://www.CreateAnewtomorrow.comhttps://www.Achievehealthusa.comCreate a fundamental change in the global community from a strictly reactive system of medicine that focuses on symptom and emergency treatment to a proactive system based on whole-being health as well as illness and injury prevention. Personally teach and influence at least one million people.We are a multifaceted Health and Wellness company that specializes in Corporate Wellness and Culture Consulting, Industry Speaking engagements and Continuing education for the industry.We Help corporations by solving the most costly problems they have with Productivity and Health Care while creating a culture that thrives on accomplishment and community.We help organizations think outside of the box and gain tools that allow them to be nimble and strong as tides and markets shift.We Up level the skills and tools of other practitioners by providing them continuing education that actually leads to greater success and standing in the business community.form Around the World, and an Ambassador of Culture.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Matt Javit 0:00  really showed me what humility and kindness and thoughtfulness is like the Japanese people are amazing people, and just how thoughtful they are in every aspect of their life and how they treat people was eye opening. And that's the coolest thing about the travel is you fall in love with these countries. But then when you come home, you also understand the United States and what makes us special. And so that's why I'm such a big advocate of travel is not the idea that you're going somewhere. It's not just the fact you're going somewhere and knowing and understanding more about the world, but you're also appreciating the aspects of your own country as well.

Hi, I am here with Matt Javit. he is living a life of many chapters; all building on the next. Five-Time International Sales Award Winner, Travel Documentarian with his Amazon Video show World Barber Shop Adventures, Nationally Celebrated Author with his book POLICE: Brotherhood in Uniform Around the World, and an Ambassador of Culture.CHECK THIS AMAZING WEBSITE BY MATT JAVIT FOR MORE INFOhttps://mattjavit.com/JOIN NOW!! AND BE PART OF MASTERMIND PROGRAMlearn how to activate yourself for a better future!https://createanewtomorrow.com/master...CHECK THIS LINK FOR A FREE GIFT FOR YOU!https://www.createanewtomorrow.com/giftDO YOU WANT TO BE OUR NEXT SPECIAL GUEST?Book an appointment now and let's create a new world together!https://booking.builderall.com/calend...CHECK THIS OTHER WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION!https://www.CreateAnewtomorrow.comhttps://www.Achievehealthusa.comCreate a fundamental change in the global community from a strictly reactive system of medicine that focuses on symptom and emergency treatment to a proactive system based on whole-being health as well as illness and injury prevention. Personally teach and influence at least one million people.We are a multifaceted Health and Wellness company that specializes in Corporate Wellness and Culture Consulting, Industry Speaking engagements and Continuing education for the industry.We Help corporations by solving the most costly problems they have with Productivity and Health Care while creating a culture that thrives on accomplishment and community.We help organizations think outside of the box and gain tools that allow them to be nimble and strong as tides and markets shift.We Up level the skills and tools of other practitioners by providing them continuing education that actually leads to greater success and standing in the business community.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Ari Gronich 0:00  I'm Ari, Gronich, and this is create a new tomorrow podcast.Welcome back to another episode of create a new tomorrow. I'm your host, Ari Gronich. Remember to Like, Subscribe rate review, comment below so that we can start conversations that create a new tomorrow today. I've got with me Matt javit. And he is an amazing person five time international sales award winner, hosts of amazon prime video show world barber shop adventures, author of police and brotherhood and uniform around the world. He's a culture ambassador. Matt, why don't you tell us a little bit more about your story and how you got to this place of you know, being such a such success with large multinational as well as starting your own companies.Matt Javit 1:04  Yeah, thank you. I guess in that summary, you there's a lot of dreaming going on there and, and living out my dreams started off with in a humble beginning, my parents got pregnant at an early age. And so my dad had to join the Navy at age 17. And which started on my journey around the US as a Navy brat. Once at eight, eight schools, three high schools finished up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. But through that journey as a kid, I was pretty good basketball player and a good athlete which ended up turned into me being a division one basketball player. I finished up my my bachelor's at University of town of Greensboro as a academic, all American. And then I went on to get my master's degree down in Texas, why coach basketball and a junior college and and then started a small company, which brought me back to Indianapolis, Indianapolis was the favorite place for my parents. So when my dad retired from the Navy, they came back to India and it just made sense for me to get back closer to my family in running this this company with my brother, bartending at night hustling during the day, and net led into my wife walking in the door one day as I was bartending, I fell in love instantly. Her not so much. But I convinced her that this is a good idea. And we got engaged eight months later, got married eight months after that just celebrated 15 years. So I keep telling her it was the it was the right call at that time. And then her father helped me make sense that it wasn't a great idea for me to be a bartender and start my marriage with my wife, which led me into the mortgage industry had a great run in the in the mortgage industry before the recession hits. And then that changed everything. And thank God, I was recruited by a technology company to come in and start sales in the technology world, which I knew nothing about, struggled my tail off for two years, but outwork the competition and just just really worked hard to understand it better and yet, improve my skills. And then then hit a hit a hot streak, which led into me winning five international sales awards, working for this amazing global company, based out of France. And the coolest thing about working for an international company is when they do their sales incentive awards for the sales folks, they take us to amazing places. And in this case, we had a chance to go to Istanbul, Turkey, go India, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Cape Town, South Africa. And one year they came to Miami, Florida. And on all those trips, when they take the top 40 sales professionals, we can also bring our wives and our spouses. So Nicky went along with me. And we just, we just fell in love with travel, I was somebody that had a chance to see the United States. Because I grew up in a military home and also playing college hoops. I had a chance to go around the US and play in different college campuses, but never saw international travel. And I was blown away. It was just it just shocked me to the core. And I loved everything about it. And so we started setting huge goals to have a chance because every time we'd fly home on those trips, after 10 or 12 days on vacation like Americans have, I would always be dreaming about the next location, looking at the magazine in the back of the that little that little pant the pamphlets in the back of the airplane, and the seats and I would just sit there and just dream of those next locations. So we started thinking about like, what if we could do this full time? What if this is something that we could set out and pause our careers and just go live it and that's what we did? February of 2017 single backpack apiece. We left for a one way ticket to Santiago, Chile and spent 27 months traveling to 35 countries around the world and really just slipped out that dream and just had an amazing time doing it and it was it was such a blast.Ari Gronich 4:55  Wow. That is that's quite an adventurous You know, adventures story. You know, a lot of people are doing that nomadic traveling these days. And it's interesting to me because I believe that the only way to get out of our own heads and our own mindsets is to go see what the heads and mindsets are of other people, and to explore their culture, but not as, as an American, so to speak, exploring foreign culture, but more as somebody who's an anthropologist almost looking at that culture as something to study and admire and find interesting enough to have conversations with locals and so on. So that's always been an interesting thing. To me, everywhere I've ever gone it, you know, the attempt has been to not blend in, but ask a lot of questions about who they are and why they are the way they are. So, tell me, what was your most fascinating place on this adventure?Unknown Speaker 6:14  Well, it's, it's,Matt Javit 6:15  there's a wide range, because you look at a place like India, where we spent two and a half months, we were lucky enough to do it, I had a strong Indian friend base, before we left, so I had a chance to reach out and say, Hey, guys, I'm going to be in your country for for two and a half months, are there any places or friends or people I should see, and they begin inviting us to, to stay with their friends and family, we attended three weddings, we're just kind of in three weddings. So we had a chance to really dive deep in that culture. Because we were living in the homes a lot of quiet time, just talking in hanging out with people. So India, it was an amazing adventure. And anybody that's ever been into India understands that it's different. It's so much different than America. So it's, it really opens up all your senses. To be driving down the road, I was on the back of a motorcycle on like one situation with my buddy. And he just says, Hey, Matt, do you want to get fish for dinner? I was like, Yeah, that sounds cool. So he just pulls off. And there's a guy, clubbing, fresh fish that they just caught from a lake and skinning them and cutting them up, put them in a bag for you to take home. And that's that was dinner for the night. So things like that, where it's sensory overload on a regular basis. And you're really just getting to have a chance to, to just see things differently and just understand their culture a bit differently. So things like that. We also fell in love with Vietnam. The the, how nice everybody is there, the fact that their infrastructure is very strong, you can have some of the luxuries in the United States, but understand you're in a different culture, and how inviting in kind all those people are was amazing. So we really fell in love with Vietnam. So that was a, that was a star, our trip, six weeks in Japan really showed me what humility and kindness and thoughtfulness is like, the Japanese people are amazing people, and just how thoughtful they are, in every aspect of their life and how they treat people was eye opening. And that's the coolest thing about the travel is you fall in love with these countries. But then when you come home, you also understand the United States and what makes us special. And so that's why I'm such a big advocate of travel is not the idea that you're going somewhere. It's not just the fact you're going somewhere and knowing and understanding more about the world, but you're also appreciating the aspects of your own country as well, that might not be in other parts of the world. So that's, that's why I'm just, I really feel like people. And I know this next generation is going to do things similar to us, I know that they're gonna pause their careers, and go take on these adventures. And that's why that's why I wanted to document a lot of it, and put it down because I know that there's people behind us that understand that doing these experiences, is so much more important than having a fancy car, or having a better couch. Or you know what I mean? They're all these things that this consumerism built into us that we just want to push that, that Buy button so fast, instead of saving a little bit to take that adventure and do something crazy as this might seem.Ari Gronich 9:25  Yeah. I mean, you can't take the car with you. You can't take the house with you. You can't take any of those items with you, but you can take your memories with you and your salon. And, you know, we've gotten as a culture away from traveling because we've decided to create a lifestyle that is 40 to 80 hours a week of working and both partners working typically. So there's no Time in that scenario for these journeys and trips, and I think the US is, on average, two weeks a year of vacation. Yeah. While the rest of the world is more like a month to two months, a year of vacation time, and how is it that we get Americans to start traveling again? And I know, it's weird to say it in this particular time period where everything is shut down? It's a, you know, how do we get people exploring other people's cultures in a way that moves our culture forward as well. So, you know, I remember hearing a story about somebody who went to another culture, so he went to France, and was expecting the French to speak English, and was really upset that, that they weren't speaking English to him, and that they didn't like him because he was expecting them to speak English to them. And I found it interesting to, you know, I think that's probably happens quite a lot that we want them, them, the others, the people and the other places that should only exist for our benefit to, to, to conform to the way that we are, rather than looking at and appreciating and understanding that that culture and finding the beauty in in other people's cultures,Matt Javit 11:45  is that something that we saw brother, yeah, it's one of the most annoying things you can see on travel. And it's, it's for those people that think that way. It's like, why even Why go there, if you want the same thing you're experiencing at home, why even go introduce yourself to another culture, if you're going to, if you're going to require people to act like they do in Des Moines, Iowa, or wherever you're from, you want to become in understand that you go to a Greek dinner, the, they're not going to clear the plates off for three hours, and you're going to sit there with dirty plates on your table, while you have a long conversation over coffee, you know, I mean, and that's the coolest thing about it is you get to see like, while they're there in no rush to kick us out here, where in America, they're trying to flip the table to have somebody else sit in there, okay, with only having a certain amount of people in this in this restaurant at night. And they're not trying to get people in and out. Because they want you to enjoy the dinner and have a long conversation. And it's like, it's those things that you get to understand them and know them. And know like, why isn't the waiter coming back around? It's because the waiters, chillin, just let them relax. They're not like it is in America, wherever things go, go go. And it's when you hear people complaining on the road, when they're traveling. It does get annoying, and it's like, Look, man, you're in another country enjoy what this country is, and what's different than than America about it. And if you give it time, you're gonna fall in love with it. And we would see that quite often. And it when you talked about earlier about like kind of the conforming in fitting in to the culture. Fortunately, unfortunately, I'm six foot six. So I stand out wherever we go. And I look like an American dude. So they know, they know that I'm a foreigner right off the bat, which is great. And those conversations where they if they don't speak English, my first attempt always to break that barrier is to apologize for not speaking their language because I'm in their country. So if I don't speak their language, I'm sorry, I only speak English. Look at me, I'm an ignorant fool. Can you help me work through this? And then a lot of times, even if you try one or two words in their language, they might laugh at you a little bit, but then they'll at least work with you. But if you're somebody that says hey, do you speak English? Right off the bat? It's, it's already you're creating this dynamic of because then if they don't speak English, does that make them dumb? You see, I'm saying, Man, when you're in their country, they might speak Vietnamese first. So So why why would you ask them to speak English first? So it's a it's all how you approach the approach it and and really, just to your point, the idea of like you're in these places, take it in, appreciate the culture understand you're somewhere different. And that's why you book the trip in the first place.Ari Gronich 14:28  Yeah, so what do you think of choice zones versus the places that locals? You know, go I mean, it everywhere I go, anytime I've ever been anywhere. My first thing is I do not want to be where the tourists go. I want to be where the locals go. And so I seek out specifically, somebody who can take me to a local joints or a local place so that I can experience that local culture. But a lot of of Americans, you know, I call it the McDonald's tour, because we go from McDonald's in France to a McDonald's in Europe to a McDonald's in Israel, you know, like, like, how many different ways can we experience the McDonald's? Right. And, and we do that with more than just, you know, we'll go to the Hilton. Well, there's a lot of local kind of hotels that are completely different than say, a minute, I'm not, you know, it could be any of the major chains, but we tend to go to the places that we know, in our minds, how do you think we can, we can, you know, inspire people to experience more of the local kinds of experiences, rather than the tourist experiences that we've kind of set up?Matt Javit 16:03  Yeah, I think the first thing is the fear. Because that was the biggest thing people to ask us, as we were making this trip. Are you safe? Is everything okay? And it's like, Man, look in the mirror a little bit. how safe is your city? how safe is Chicago? I mean, I'll say the St. Louis, how safe is New York. So that safety barrier is always the thing that keeps them on resorts, and keeps people in those in those four walls wherever they are in the foreign country. And for me, it's like being get get through that and not listen to what all the media is trying to tell you. Because mostly what we hear from the media is when something bad happens, a tsunami hits an island. There's some sort of revolt against the government. So we're only hearing like the negative stuff around the world that happens that mainstream media wants to put out there because it'll get the clicks and views that all negative news gets. And so if you if you can, like climb through all that and try to find the truth in what's going on in these places around the world, you're gonna see a lot of beauty and a lot of amazing things happening outside of those resorts. And one of the coolest things that happened to me recently was one of my buddies that watched our journey from afar online. He listened to the bikes that I would give about getting out of the resorts and spending time with the locals. And he said, They recently went to Jamaica. And he said that we had an awesome trip down there. We spent, we spent almost two weeks on there, he said, but our favorite day, by far is when we left the resort, went to a local town and hung out with the locals at the local restaurants. He said, we came back with a bunch of phone numbers, and they're still texting us. And it was the by far the best day. He said, thank you so much for that advice, because it's going to change the way that we travel now going forward. And it's things like that. They're like, yeah, if you get, you can, you can see a beach coastline, anywhere around the world. And you would know, if you were in Thailand, if you were in the Philippines, if you were in Peru, if you just saw the waves coming in at a gorgeous Hilton resort, like you're describing, you wouldn't know where you were. But it's when you get out of that place. And you go walk around the town, and you meet the locals. And you you shop at their markets, you see the things that they're they're eating on a regular basis, how they barter, the idea that America doesn't barter for everything, anything in these places everywhere, everywhere else borders. So just that conversation of bartering. If they say it's $1 say it's, I'll give you 80 cents, and just go through that process. You're gonna learn so much about these places and, and really just fall in love with them even more than just sitting in a hotel or, or just drinking. But here's the thing is, is we have like your tribe in America, we have these two weeks off, right? So a lot of people are like, dude, I don't want to deal with that. I just want to go and sit on a beach and think about anything, and and then go back to the life that I have, where it's chaotic, and I get that. But if you're if you're looking to kind of expand your brain, expand your mind, and see, look at the world in a different way. That's what you and I are describing here. That's, that's what that that's the benefit you'll get out of this. But if you're somebody that's not trying to do those things, you're just trying to get two weeks away. First, they're probably not listen to your podcast. But those those people, they're in that they're in that engine, then never that never stops, they wake up and they're 70 in their life sober and they're they're saying what ifs These are for the people that you want to open your mind to do something different and look at the world a different way. That's what you do you go hang out with the locals and understand the cultural and the better.Ari Gronich 19:31  Cool, yeah, um, you know, part of me thinks that racism is not just ignorant of people, but it's a lack of understanding of other any kind of other right, whether that's an other culture another language another colored, you know, color of a person And it's based solely on fear versus knowledge. Because if you get to know somebody or know about their culture, it's really difficult I've found to dislike those people. You've been in place where, you know, like Turkey, where there is in that middle eastern zone, a lot of conflict. And the conflict that we hear about was not my experience when I was in Israel, for instance, where I went to Jordan and Lebanon. I didn't experience the same kind of difference that we see on the news. I don't know if you went there. I know you went to Turkey. But any, any chance that the differences between the people are not as great as the government's and the agendas and the media want you to think?Matt Javit 21:05  Absolutely. I think I think racism is just lack of exposure. And we we saw, and had conversations about racism all around the world. And it was when we were in Chile, they hated the Peruvians in Argentina, and then we were in Peru, they hated the Colombians, and it's in the Chileans. And then, and then you're in South Africa, as a white guy at the grocery store, the black app, the black checkout lady is looking at us a different way, until we speak, and they understand we're American, they're like, Whoa, you're not the same white guy that's usually here. So they're nicer. We experienced it everywhere. And it's one of those things where if you don't have exposure to a lot of the people in your, the frame of reference is one or two people, you're going to think about those one or two people. And that's why it was so important for me wherever we went was to be the smiling nicest guy in the room. Because I wanted, I never knew if I was going to be the last white American that they met, because a lot of places we went to were off the beaten track. And they weren't typical touristy spots. So if I would meet somebody, thinking, like, I might be the only American they ever ever met, you know, I'm gonna be the last American they ever made. And so if if they meet me, and they're like, that dude is nice. I know how this works. They're going like, all Americans are nice. Matt was awesome. You know, I mean, like, that's, that's literally how we think. So if you don't have if you don't have a lot of exposure, because I've met people, business business owners, that from a different generation, they say, all Indians are so smart. Because the seven Indians that worked for him in in environmental engineering, were wicked, smart people. But I was in India for a long period of time. I know, all Indians aren't smart. So it's like, whatever, if you only expose yourself to a certain group of people, and that is, and that's your exposure. And if you see all of them like that, then that's, that's when racism kicks in. But if you get exposure, you have enough conversations to understand like, Whoa, some people are good, some people are bad, that's across the board. Like all all the races and all the different people around the world, we're gonna have good people, we're gonna have bad people. And the more exposure you get to, to all those different parts of it, you're going to understand that, and most of them are really, really good people. There's just a segment of the population that sucks. And you try to avoid those people, and you hang out with the positive ones that are trying to do right by you. But we saw it everywhere on the globe, where it's like America is this only is the only racist place in the world. It's like, dude, you have no idea how racist The world is the entire world. And it doesn't make it right. It's just ignorance. It's just absolute ignorance. But it's everywhere, as as a human popular as a human species. We're so ignorant, to only to the only the exposure that we get in our little boxes that we live in, that we think that these are the things in it, the media is telling us nothing but negative stuff. And they're putting us in this volatile state all the time. Of course, we're gonna we're gonna see people a different way. And if they're telling you constantly that you're racist, then you're like, maybe I am racist. And then you see I'm saying so it's, it's a, it's a weird dynamic. And the only way you can overcome it is exposure. By by going to places you're not comfortable with getting uncomfortable, meaning people you don't normally meet, and then get your own truth, to understand that, whoa, we're all trying. We're all trying to make a little bit of money, have love in our life, achieve some goals, you know, I mean, and hang out with our families. It's it's the what we're all trying to do is not that different from each other, no matter where you go around the world.Ari Gronich 24:51  Yeah, you know, it's funny. I was in Greece during the 2004 Olympics and Paralympics and You know, we're working, working the athletes out and everywhere you go, it's really controlled. After the Olympics were over. After the Paralympic, sorry, we're over I was I stayed about an extra week or two. Because I, I'm a kind of person when I'm working a thing. I'm like, 16 hours on those athletes there. There wasn't, you know, there wasn't an enjoy. I didn't actually see a single game. When I was there, though. I was literally 16 hours. And then finally when the days that I had off, I was on an island somewhere, but I went for a walk one day in Athens. So you've been to Greece, right? It's one of those. You've been so Athens, you know, Athens. I was staying in a Monia square. Okay. And so I walked to monastiraki and had some breakfast. So that's about a three mile walk.Unknown Speaker 26:09  Okay.Ari Gronich 26:10  And then right up there, and Mona's Rocky is, is the, the National Museum, which used to be, I guess, their parliament. And then they have that museum row. And so I started walking through all the museums. And in this one day, I just, I kept walking, for some reason, I just kept walking. And I start walking up this hill. And it's maybe five hours have gone by, and I'm still just walking and I see all of a sudden I see the this graffiti about the the workers, you know, blood and things like that. And then I start asking some questions, because I wasn't necessarily in the heart of Athens anymore. It turns out, I walked to ilio. Poli, which are really awfully I don't know how to pronounce, pronounce it exactly. But I walked to a whole other city, it was 20 something miles away that I walked that day.Unknown Speaker 27:12  Oh, my God.Ari Gronich 27:14  And all I kept hearing is the Albanians, the Albanians, they're coming in. They're taking our jobs, the Albanians. Yeah. And it just was like, it's like, everybody has their people and take their jobs for less money than they're willing to do it for. And then they complain and complain about people who took their jobs that they're not willing to do. And I just found it so fascinating. I also because it was 2004. We were there during the elections. And the campaigns, so watching the bush Gore, you know, shenanigans, and watching that on CNN, Greece, versus CNN, us, right, very different news. So is, you know, you just keep getting awakened to the idea that what you think, you know, is very controlled, very program, very different than reality. And, you know, just like when I was in Israel, and I watch the Palestinians and the Israelis, and the Jordanians and the Lebanese, and, you know, all pretty much living in a city that's no bigger than Lausanne or as a country, that's no bigger than the county of Los Angeles. And for the most part, completely harmoniously. And you would never guess that by watching any of the news. So, I just find it interesting when I've ever gone to other places. And you spent so much time and went to so many places that you get kind of an idea of different cultures and based on different geographies, I would imagine and so on. So, you know, I'm not going to tell you have you run down the list, but if you were down you did a couple Japan, you know, and, and so on In Vietnam, if you were to run down a list of places, and the expectation that you had and then the difference in the people based on the expectation that would be a really interesting thing for I think people to grasp. This is what I thought happened when I when I went to Vietnam, but this is my experience it with the local, okay, that kind of thing. So do that and also, I just want No, because you're six foot six, how? How much? Do you think that there's an intimidation factor of you in some of those cultures, like in Japan and China, where you're probably towering over every day by quite a lot? You know, do you feel like there's an intimidation factor?Matt Javit 30:23  So I had to overcome that. But it was it was cool, because I'm naturally outgoing. And I attempt to be nice, not now, if you see my resting face, it doesn't, I probably am a little intimidating. So I understand that. So I would try to overcome that by smiling a lot more often making a lot of eye contact, and let people understand that I'm not somebody to fear, but somebody to welcome. So I would, I would attempt to do that, because you're right, when I would walk into a room, Cambodians, Vietnamese, especially Southeast Asia, in and in South America, I would tower over a lot of people. And so instantly, there's there's a little bit of anxiety, but then I would try to overcome that just to make sure that they, they understood that I was there for all the right reasons. And to make it welcoming. So it actually, it helped me because it would have helped me break through walls rather quickly. And then I could get into that comfort zone, where then you're getting invited to places and getting asked to go to lunch and stuff like that. So it got it got it was actually a better for us. And then when it comes to those different cultures that really, really stood out Japan was number one, I had no expectations going to Japan. And just to see how amazing those people were in what's what's wild about Japan, the idea that I that I did stick out, and I experienced parts of Southeast Asia where I would have a lot of these stairs, especially like, if you're taking public transportation, you could tell that there's a lot of eyes on you. In Japan, they would not they would not look at me. Because of just how they how their society works is they knew if they were staring at me that that would be something like they were judging me. So they wouldn't do it. So for me, it was like hard to engage with the Japanese because they're just, they're just so kind of Bible that they wouldn't want to meet the like I was at a place. And they wanted me to feel welcome. So the Japanese really stood out to other good,Ari Gronich 32:17  sorry, do you think that the Japanese have kind of taken on political correctness, too, a whole different kind of experience, because I know that they're very, very careful to be considerate of your feelings of your experience of your have your experience, really, you know, very careful to make sure that you feel comfortable as an insider or an outsider, just in general in relation. Do you think that that's political correctness or just being socially you know, having etiquette?Unknown Speaker 33:04  I think I think so thisMatt Javit 33:05  is, this is an uneducated, uneducated point of view, but the purity of the people where if you're Japanese, or Japanese, I mean, it's an island where the Chinese attempted to invade, but they've, they're pretty pure, on who they are. And I think that that is part of their awareness of a culture that they built upon. And spiritually, the Buddhism and the other forms of religion that they that they have there, in lifestyles they have are very Zen like and, and peaceful. And that's what that's what really stuck out with Asia, in Southeast Asia, is the different religions there, that are very harmonious and harmonious and just like calm and peaceful to see people walk the walk, rather than just talk the talk. And I know this is this is I hate to say that. So full military family. I love America. I'm diehard USA, I love our country. But there's certain things that you see elsewhere, that you're like, Man, I wish we could do that. And that's one of them is the idea that when you're in Asia, and the way that they practice every day, and they walk the walk of peacefulness, and not judging people and being being chilled out and calm. Some of the stuff that within Buddhism that really stand out, you would we would hope that we could do the same here instead of just talking about these subjects, and being holier than thou, but not living them. And it's more just, it's it's all conversational, but when you see people's action, you're like, Whoa, you're not doing it's kind like the whole COVID thing with the hilarity that with the governor's around the around the country like they're saying one thing but they're doing another it's kind of how we are as a culture a lot of times and when you're when you're in some of these other places. And it's really peaceful. And that was the thing about talking to my father on the trip, when we were in Tokyo. I was telling him that you don't know what it's like to be in a peaceful city, like a non violent city, until you're there, your body, your body doesn't understand it. Like, we're in Singapore, and Tokyo, like Tokyo, 30 million people making I walked home one night at like, 130 in the morning in Tokyo. And it's one of the things until, you know, like, you're like, I have no fear, I can walk to these places, and not have a fear to look over my shoulder, and think that somebody's going to get me or try to snatch something from us, your body doesn't understand what that feels like, until you're there. And you're like, Wow, this is so like, peaceful and calm. And I was trying to tell him like, you couldn't do that in any major city in America. You can't You can't walk home at 130 in any major city in America and feel like this is I feel safe right now. Um, and until you're there, it's it's so different. That's, that was just one of the some of the stuff that stuck out to us on this journey is like, people that walked a walk. It's, it's, it's nice. It's, it's calming.Ari Gronich 36:10  Yeah, you know, it's interesting, I was in Israel, and like said, and, and I saw, you know, a nine year old girl walking home. I don't know, it was maybe 10 o'clock at night. And I was thinking to myself, you know, when I was when I was younger, we would go out and ride our bikes all day on, we would go to parks, you know, I could have been 567. And I could have been gone all day, as long as I showed up, at kind of some prescribed times the freedom to move freely, so to speak, in my community. And now I have, you know, I have a seven year old and I wouldn't want him to be out riding or going to parks and places by himself. And it's such a shame that we as a society have allowed that to be the case, we, you know, it's like taking it back to ourselves, we allow everything that happens to happen. Because if we didn't allow it to happen, it wouldn't happen. Right? So if we didn't know how our communities to be so unsafe, they wouldn't be because we would control it. But you know, it's funny, I have this this talk that I'm going to be doing. That's really about bullies. My saying is silence is a bully's best friend. So I'm going to kind of go there on the cultures with you. And where did you find that the bullies were more prevalent, less prevalent in around the world, and how people react to those bullies and to the the systems because as you know, the show is a lot about create, you know, creating a new tomorrow, today, it's about how we can figure out that we made this shit up, and we can make it up better that everything in the world that we see is a construct of our imagination. And we can imagine it different. So when you're traveling around the world, if you if you were to take pieces from each culture, right? Where would you which piece would you take from where and where. And in order to make that jigsaw puzzle of the kind of world that you'd want to have that you'd want to live in?Matt Javit 38:43  That's amazing question. Um, first, I think like, we would we would in a different setting. Maybe you and I would debate over the topic of letting your sick kid play at a playground because the book thankfulness shows that it's safer now than than it's ever been. And it was true sistex would show that this COVID crisis has changed that a little bit because you're starting, you're seeing an uptick in in violent crimes, especially around our country, because I think they're just they're just unrest, people want to get out of their homes. And when that builds, then they do get out crazy stuff happens. So you're starting to see a little bit of that. But prior to that, we were getting safer and safer on the country. And the idea this is that I've got two eight year old seven year old nephews, and I'm kind of preach this to their parents on the reg is the idea that there's so many cell phones, there's so many video cameras out there. So everything you do is on camera now. So I think these these kids are much safer. And there's a fear component out there, but it's just the mainstream media. Go ahead.Ari Gronich 39:46  I have one one thought and I want you to address this one thought about that. Do you think that it's safer because more kids are inside on their computers laptops i write etc not that it's safer just that it's per capita maybe safer because there's less kids actually in the parks and in those places i walk around and i don't see kids on the block playing baseball in the street right i don't i don't see itMatt Javit 40:27  well we're in this we're in this crazy environment where if you're if your six year old kids walking by him him or herself to the grocery store like they do all around the world a parent might say who's where's your parent who you hear with if they're like no i'm just going to the grocery store some some crazy helicopter parent might say well no that is illegal we've got to call the authorities so i think there's like this spirit component and parents that say we can't let our kids do the things that we did because i'm with you man i was just having this conversation with a mom where me and my brother would just disappear on our bikes for the entire day the idea that i had a paper out very young 910 years old like these things that like we had like jobs and they have you seen the movie donut king yep it's an awesome movie yeah but the cambodians that came over and and started the chain of donut donut chains on the on the west coast and you look at those kids they were in the donut shop working at age 567 years old and it's it's this mentality and we saw it all around the world where we'd see it was a seven year old kid in waikiki ecuador ecuador selling roses out of his backpack there was there was kids in india on selling goods at age six and seven with with no parents around them on the streets it was everywhere and then you come to america and kids can go to the their mailbox down the street without some sort of guidance it's insanity and it's i think we're doing our kids an injustice by taking away these freedoms early in life and just not just just building that resourcefulness teach them in a certain way and teach them how to get out of scenarios because they're out there there's there's evil people out there that want to harm children but i think that there's ways that we can do it especially as a community if you're talking to people say hey let my kid do this be aware if you see him or her if anybody's around them and be aware but it's that's a i'm sorry for getting on that tangent i just it honestly as a somebody without kids i understand when i look at things as an uncle and as if i was to look at as a father it probably be so much different than then if i had my own children so that's why i always i know the line that i can't cross but i when we saw the things we did with children around the world you can it's a stark contrast of how we handle kids in america in the freedoms that that in really the hustle because that's what stuck out in that movie the donut king is the hustle that you build in those young kids the desire to work really hard to achieve something and you see you saw that with all the different donut shop owners in that movie that it as they got older in life they achieve amazing things and i think that we build that into our kids that hustle mentality that it helps themAri Gronich 43:18  do you think that the midwest is still doing that with you know so to speak the farmers and their kids still doing the work on the farm versus you know nowadays we have the big agro which requires hazmat suits versus you know straw up in and overalls but you know are there places here in america where that is still happening and you know it's interesting i would want to see a study and say okay places where that's happening in the us here's the success rate and here's the happiness you know factor and here'sMatt Javit 44:01  what all this has happened so fast though you know i mean right it's all because all this is the technology in the last 20 years is what's really it's not only it's i think it's both the mainstream media and the social medias focused on these topics that are beer monitoring people to change how they how they handle their children it's also the idea that kids love to play games and they wouldn't it's much it's it seems to be easier to parent when you give your kid a device or a game to have them go play game for three hours then go take them to the park for three hours so it seems like it's it's both a great babysitter babysitter and extremely entertaining and there's value in gaming i think that i think that we discount the value in gaming quite often especially with what's happening in the future is that we a lot of people tend to just look at gaming as As dumb time wasted were one of those that if they're playing the right games, there's a lot of problem solving involved as well. So what is what can be beneficial? But, but all this happens so fast. So the study, we probably won't know, like how that looks in 1010 years removed, but the Midwest values are still strong. I mean, you still, that's why they call them Midwest values, because it's a hard working, it's definitely different. I had the chance to go out and, and work on it on the west coast, totally different. I mean, our coasts are different regions of the country are way different from each other. And those Midwest values still hold true. And you do, you do see kids here that play and they go to the park and hang out together. And it's it is different than kind of like an urban setting where there's a lot of we go to Chicago visit family in downtown Chicago and you don't see you rarely see kids by themselves. It's always like a kid with a parent nearby. Right? Instead of kids just hustling on their own. Right, but what's your point like the the idea of of culture, take a little piece of everything. If you can take the beauty of New Zealand, just the basic beauty of the country, New Zealand the kindness of the Japanese, probably the the bartering skills and just the gritty hustle of India. I'm trying to think the fun the absolute fun of the Portuguese. We had so much fun in Lisbon, Portugal, and just how they celebrate and they they just take on life and they just love life so much. Take that from the Portuguese. The emotions of the the Italians, we spent, we spent time in Sicily, and just just run around in northern Italy for two and a half weeks in a car. Those people are just amazing. And they're gorgeous. The Sicilians I used to have a list of in my head of the most beautiful people around the world. Sicilians are just gorgeous humans. They're just beautiful people.Ari Gronich 46:57  Really? That's interesting, because animals would have you feel differently. Who's that? Is that the sopranos would have you feel differently?Matt Javit 47:06  Yes, buddy. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, when we're on the island, and you just you'd be in a cafe, and a woman would walk in and you're just like, oh my god, that is just they're just gorgeous, gorgeous people. And then um, yeah, there's so much about the Chileans are beyond fun just so much financially. You know, how much how much fun we had there. But yeah, just take little bits pieces all that and create a create an island and disappear forever? For sure.Ari Gronich 47:34  Yeah, absolutely. So what would you recommend if somebody is thinking, Hey, you know, I'm, I'm, you know, my business is on lock it to travel a little bit I can be nomadic with with my business, you know, what would you suggest for places to go and, and ways for them to engage with the culture there.Matt Javit 47:58  So if we're talking post COVID, and it's the world's a little bit more normal, network normal. Yeah. I would if you've never traveled. And this is like your first opportunity to get out of the US, I would suggest, somewhere like Portugal, or Spain, where it is, it's absolutely different, especially like a place like Lisbon. It's gorgeous. It's hilly, it looks like a San Francisco, but small cobblestone streets, it's everything you would dream of about like a romantic, European city. And then you'll be there and you'll know that you're in a different land. But it's not a stretch, it's not crazy different. As if you were going to take the leap and go to Thailand, where it's the the form of transportation is different, it's the language barriers might be more extreme, you'd have less luxuries than you do at home. Although the entire world is catching up really fast. Now that we're going to 2021 the infrastructure around the world is so much better, the access to Wi Fi is great. They understand the luxuries of nice cafes, the entire world is catching up really fast. So but competitive angle, Americans watch this back a little bit because there's a lot of opportunity out there to go to these other places and live a very similar life than you do in the States at a much cheaper cost. And that's what's appealing about a lot of places if you can, if you can have a digital nomad lifestyle where you're making the US dollar, but you're spending it in places where that you can live like a king in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, some of these amazing places. Albania you mentioned up and a beanie is awesome. Spend time in Albania and the dollar goes real far there. So if you if you can make that money and go there, your eyes will be open like how well you can live there. But you you don't want to if you don't if you don't want to people that want to jump all in and make that trip to to southeast asia where it's super cheap or latin america then a place like portugal southern spain greece croatia croatia is a little bit more expensive but it's gorgeous and nice yeah those that's what that would be my initial step and then once you get comfortable there you meet a lot of other travelers they're talking about colombia or they're talking about bali and bali is a huge digital nomad hub you start to hear about these places and you're ready to take that leap and it's something a little bit different not crazy extreme but it's just it's just different than what we're used to in america then you go there then you're then it's done you'll never come back because those places if you can make good money in those places it's just it's amazing it's so much fun and you'll meet other travelers and that's the coolest part about you meet other travelers but you get into the culture you start to understand the culture but you're meeting people that have that done more than you and have traveled more than than you have and they could tell you about the awesome places around the world then then your list just gets longer and longer of the places you want to go to and then at that point you're you're you're wrapped into the world and it's awesomeAri Gronich 51:07  how would you recommend people approach the local communities when they go their behavior wise and and so onMatt Javit 51:19  so i'm someone that if you have if you know you're staying somewhere for two weeks or more it's great to see a lot of places but i think you'll get more of it if you find a place you're like whether it's a cafe or lunch spot or a dinner spot and you visit once you're like this is like this place so my wife nikki she's a she's a vegan so we'd have to kind of be strategic and some of the places we'd go to i would eat anything but we would for her we'd find like some great spots and once you find that place that clicks for whatever category you're trying to fill go multiple times because the first time they're going to see you as like a customer or a traveler the second time they're gonna stick and recognize you're there they're like okay he must be stamped a little bit and after like the third time they're going to think that like you're you're more of like a local so then you can start to ask other questions of hey where else should i go what other weather weather places in town should i visit and they're going to treat you differently than just your first time in trying to get advice they know that you spent money there three or four times are getting comfortable with you because a lot of these places around the world in these smaller cafe restaurants it's the same owner there every day it's not like they have a staff like in america it's the same guy might be his house upstairs in the shops down in his in his basement or whatever in his in his front of his house and he's just working out of there so they'll get comfortable with you after three visits and then you can start to ask those questions and then they you never know where it could take you they might say well we're having this get together on saturday we would love for you guys to come over and hang out and then once you start getting in with the locals and doing what they do with their music or their their food or their drinks or however they partake and and what they're doing oh then it gets really fun so that's what i would definitely hit that spot find that local spot that you get a rhythm with and always be nice and cordial and tip like an american i think that they'll they'll like that because a lot of these places they don't tip so when you tip like an american they like you a little bit more as wellAri Gronich 53:28  that's awesome yeah i had that experience in greece with the restaurant and i would go there every kind of night after my shift so to speak to eat and eventually you know we would sit and talk for hours as doing greece and it turned out he had lived in boston for a little bit and had a restaurant in there in boston moved back to greece but he would make these like these special dishes that were really for him and because i was there talking to him all the time i literally had a constant supply of food that was his experimental recipes you know this lemon lamb lemon sauce lamb i mean just amazing he would be like he'd come out with a plate say okay we're testing this food let's try this out and we would just sit and talk for four hoursUnknown Speaker 54:30  and what's the best about the culture itAri Gronich 54:31  was pretty cool soMatt Javit 54:33  yeah that's the bestAri Gronich 54:34  that is definitely a thing to do you know what what what's your biggest message the thing that you want people to know the most about culture and diversity and this you know as you say cultural immersion travel what do you want americans to know the most and then what would you suggest just two people who might be coming from outside of the us into the us that would help americans feel more comfortable about the people that are coming to visit us because we obviously have an issue with immigration even though it's been the cornerstone of our country but i know that there are some things that people feel foreigners or foreign travelers are doing wrong or would they would like to see different when when they come to visit us so let's let's take it on both levels because let's get you know our foreign relations back in in the right direction by just understanding each other's culture so let's that both sidesMatt Javit 55:49  yeah i think a lot of it comes to just checking your ego at the door and taking just taking a step back away from political correctness and when you're stepping into these cultures don't see it through the lens of of how media portrays people and just take it on in the most authentic way that you can in judged for yourself what you experience and not with the short lens that you might have going into it and form those new relationships as you can in those in those foreign lands and as you as you're as you're going with a very positive a very fresh ideal of these people are going to say that they're really good people until they show me different and then you're going to have a better experience it's just like anything in life that if you approach it the right way positive will come out of it and then when you're when you're in that don't don't try to push your americanisms on them just just attempt to be in the moment and understand that why they live the way they live because what you got to understand in america is no matter if we are money first we are a money first country all the headlines all the information it's all about economic value to the individual the corporations the government that's what we focus on these other countries around the world are not like that a lot of places are family first their community first there they might be religion first so they're not they don't they don't see it the same way we do when we see a restaurant such an easy example you see a restaurant you're like man they can make so much more money here if they did it this way instead it's like no they have the most fun here because they do it this way and it's that's why it's the families are the restaurants are in a family's name for generations because at the end of the day they make enough to to have a stable income for the family to have this great thing in for their community so just check your ego at the door and when you're when you're going to these places do the best you can to not bring all the baggage with you because that's how you're gonna get the most out of it and you're going to see it a different way and then those those visitors traveling to america i would say the same thing that don't believe everything you see on your news in your foreign lands because when you talk to when we talk to other people and you ask them what do you think about america a lot of that i had one conversation i had do you guys have school shootings all the time like that's what they see that's what they think about and we have school shootings all the time and it's like so they what they're getting a bed from their news because it's the real governments around the world some of which hate the freedoms we have in america so the best way that you could target those freedoms is to show this is what freedom gets you this is how if you have all these freedoms here's here's the baggage that comes with freedoms school shootings this is you want you want guns here's what happens you're gonna have you have killings everywhere we talk to people about oh my gosh should we because a lot of times we want to say we're from indianapolis we'd say chicago because it's easier for them to to understand like oh chicago is so violent they're al capone things like that so that's so if you if you're coming to america check that at the door as well and you understand that we are a kind people and we might not be as inviting as some of the places that you're from but if you ask the right people you make eye contact and you talk to people americans are nice people and we're going to be kind and we're inviting and the other part too is that i do this with i've had friends that like correct me in public settings because the idea that i have traveled and i've had a chance to meet a lot of amazing people around the world i'm pretty good at it understanding where you might be from based on what you look like. And so I'm not afraid to approach somebody and say, Excuse me, I'm just gonna be curious what your heritage is, or what part of the world you're from. And it's turned into some great conversations. Because if I, if I see somebody that if I look, they look Vietnamese to me, and I say, what part of the world you from? And they say, Vietnam is amazing. I spent three months there are, what part of the world and what part of the country are you from? And they say, Well, actually, Iwas, I came over here when I was six, but my parents are from Hanoi, then I can take them down that conversation to have an awesome conversation to get to know each other a little bit, tell my experience their country, and how much fun I had. And I've had people, my friends, say, like, Whoa, dude, that sounds like you're being racist. Like, no, it's not racist. Um, um, everybody likes to talk about where they're from. Like, if you live in the States, you're from Kansas City, you can tell me how good the barbecue is in Kansas City. So So these folks come from a different land. And they're proud of that. Don't be afraid if you approach it the right way. Don't be afraid to have a conversation with somebody about where they're from, because you might actually learn something. And if you're in if you're in a work setting, and somebody is from India, or Poland, or from a different part, and you get to know a little bit about their, their homeland, you might want to take that trip to Warsaw, Poland, because you hear how awesome it is. And so that's what. So my point is, like, if you come here, don't be afraid to tell us where you're from. Because you might meet somebody that's actually traveled there. And then they they're really inviting. And then use use the, because Nikki and I use the technology around the world views work away, where we volunteer our services, for pre bed to stay. And we use trusted house sitters, where we watch the pets in people's home for free place to stay. We things like meetup, where you can get on meetup and find groups that have similar likes and interest, and you can join a meetup and then meet other people that do the same thing. Use it and those are easy ways to, to as you're traveling, meet other people, and then they'd might invite you in. So I would definitely use the technology out there because it might help you get in to like subcultures within the US, and then you can get invited and you're gonna have a more authentic trip as well just like just like we had when we use those technologies in other places. Awesome. What do you think?Ari Gronich 1:02:23  If? What do you think the benefit to in revising for both companies government what, you know, whoever it is that's doing the incentivizing but to incentivize travel to other countries, versus right now what we have is kind of like disincentivizing Yeah, all kinds of things. And I'm not talking about during pandemic, I'm talking about generalized, because the pandemic to me is something that's it will end quarantines will end lockdowns will end at some point, and we'll be able to, you know, move freely about the earth. SoMatt Javit 1:03:04  you're saying, the idea of like, take take Bali, Indonesia, there, the our government would send us there, or their government is inviting us orAri Gronich 1:03:19  government and, you know, companies, I'm not I'm not prescribing a way of incentivizing it specifically, that it becomes an incentivized thing. Versus stay here only know what's in your box. And what's in your office building is, you know, we Americans like to do our 40 to 80 hours a week in one building for 40 to 60 years and and get a gold watch. So we have a limp. You know, we have a history of limiting our perspectives to a very small thing. The other thing, you know, I notice about pretty much, you know, criminals and violence is that it's block oriented, right? If you're on this block, you're in this particular gang, if you're on that block, you're in a different gang, because and you can't go to our block and so we won't go to your block because you're right, so that we limit our perspective, I feel by ghettos and, and communities and blocks. I mean, I remember in Los Angeles, I would talk to somebody in South Central who had never been to the beach. The beach is what five miles away from South Central. So it was like you've never gone outside of this. This really small place. There's been no incentivizing you to leave your little block. And so perspective is only the block. So I'm asking like what would be the benefit for a company companies say to send their employees overseas to go to these other countries, whether it's government, whether it's companies doesn't matter, I'm just saying the benefit to people to be incentivized, so that they feel like traveling to overseas is a doable thing. A lot of people don't even think it's doable.Matt Javit 1:05:23  I think when you're looking at the dynamics of America, where where money is, Trump's all is the idea that it can bring economic value to your company. So because if you understand the hustle in the hard work that goes in to some of these other countries, and you get a chance to live in, walk in and walk through their marketplaces, and see how they, how they sell, and how they interact with their, with their community, you will inspire your employees. So for me, just that the idea that we're Cush here, it's easy, America's easy live, and we have no idea what the hardships that go on around the world. And that's the most eye opening thing I work with an underprivileged community on Indianapolis is Westside. It's not underprivileged, when it looks when you compare it to some of the dire settings around the globe. But in America, it's it sucks. It's It's rough. But so when you go to these other places, and you get to live, and get to see how most of the world interacts, and you're going to come back with a freshness and appreciation of what your

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I've got with me Matt javit. And he is an amazing person five time international sales award winner, hosts of amazon prime video show world barber shop adventures, author of police and brotherhood and uniform around the world is a culture ambassador. Matt, why don't you tell us a little bit more about your story and how you got to this place of you know, being such as such success with large multinational as well as starting your own companies.Matt Javit 0:55  Yeah, thank you. I guess in that summary, you there's a lot of dreaming going on there and, and living out my dreams started off with in a humble beginning, my parents got pregnant at an early age. And so my dad had to join the Navy at age 17. And which started on my journey around the US as a Navy brat, getting my master's degree down in Texas, why coach basketball and a junior college and, and then started a small company, which brought me back to Indianapolis, Indianapolis was the favorite place for my parents. So when my dad retired from the Navy, they came back to India and it just made sense for me to get back closer to my family in running this this company with my brother, bartending at night hustling during the day, and net led into my wife walking in the door one day as I was bartending, I fell in love instantly. Her not so much. But I convinced her that this is a good idea. And we got engaged eight months later, got married eight months after that just celebrated 15 years. So I keep telling her it was the it was the right call at that time. And then her father helped me make sense that it wasn't a great idea for me to be a bartender and start my marriage with my wife, which led me into the mortgage industry had a great run in the in the mortgage industry before the recession hits. And then that changed everything. And thank God, I was recruited by a technology company to come in and start sales in a technology world which I knew nothing about, struggled my tail off for two years, but outwork the competition and just just really worked hard to understand it better and yet, improved my skills. And then then hit a hit a hot streak, which led into me winning five international sales awards, working for this amazing global company, based out of France. And the coolest thing about working for an international company is when they do their sales incentive awards for the sales folks. They take us to amazing places. And in this case, we had a chance to go to Istanbul, Turkey, go India, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Cape Town, South Africa. And when you're the kuna Miami, Florida, and on all those trips, when they take the top 40 sales professionals, we can also bring our wives and our spouses. So Nikki went along with me. February of 2017, single backpack a piece, we left for a one way ticket to Santiago, Chile, and spent 27 months traveling to 35 countries around the world and really just lived out that dream and just had an amazing time doing it. And it was it was such a blast. Wow.Ari Gronich 3:33  That is that's quite an adventurous, you know, adventurous story. You know, a lot of people are doing that nomadic traveling these days. And it's interesting to me because I believe that the only way to get out of our own heads and our own mindsets is to go see what the heads and mindsets are of other people and to explore their culture, and so on. So that's always been an interesting thing. To me, everywhere I've ever gone it you know, the attempt has been to not blend in, but ask a lot of questions about who they are and why they are the way they are. So tell me, what was your most fascinating place on this adventure?Matt Javit 4:29  Well, it's it's, there's a wide range because you look at a place like India, where we spent two and a half months. We were lucky enough to do it. I had a strong Indian friend base before we left so I had a chance to reach out and say, Hey guys, I'm going to be in your country for for two and a half months. Are there any places or friends or people I should see and they've been inviting us to to stay with their friends and family. We attended three weddings were actually kind of In three weddings. So we had a chance to really dive deep in that culture. Because we were living in the homes, a lot of quiet time, just talking in and hanging out with people. So India, it was an amazing adventure. And anybody that's ever been into India understands that it's different. It's so much different than America. So it's, it really opens up all your senses. To be driving down the road, I was on the back of the motorcycle on one one situation with my buddy. And he says, Hey, Matt, do you want to get fish for dinner? I was like, Yeah, that sounds cool. So he just pulls off. And there's a guy, clubbing, fresh fish that they just caught from a lake and skinning them and cutting them up, put them in a bag for you to take home. And that's that was dinner for the night. So things like that, where it's sensory overload on a regular basis. And you're really just getting to have a chance to, to just see things differently and just understand their culture a bit differently.Ari Gronich 5:59  Yeah, I mean, you can't take the car with you, you can't take the house with, you can't take any of those items with you. But you can take your memories with you and your muscle. And, you know, we've gotten as a culture away from traveling, because we've decided to create a lifestyle that is 40 to 80 hours a week of working and both partners working typically. So there's no time in that scenario for these journeys and trips. And I think the US is, on average, two weeks a year of vacation. Yeah. While the rest of the world is more like a month to two months, a year of vacation time. And how is it that we get Americans to start traveling again? And I know, it's weird to say it in this particular time period where everything is shut down? That's it, you know, how do we get people exploring other people's cultures in a way that moves our culture forward as well. So, you know, I remember hearing a story about somebody who went to another culture, so he went to France, and was expecting the French to speak English, and was really upset that, that they weren't speaking English to him, and that they didn't like him because he was expecting them to speak English to them. And I found it interesting to, you know, I think that's probably happens quite a lot that we want them, them, the others, the people and the other places that should only exist for our benefit to, to, to conform to the way that we are rather than looking at and appreciating and understanding that that culture and finding the beauty in in other people's cultures. Is that something that we sawMatt Javit 8:21  brother, yeah, it's one of the most annoying things you can see on travel. And it's, it's for those people that think that way. It's like, why even Why go there, if you want the same thing you're experiencing at home, why even go introduce yourself to another culture, if you're going to, if you're going to require people to act like they do in Des Moines, Iowa, or wherever you're from, you want to become an understand that you go to a Greek dinner, they're not going to clear the plates off for three hours. And you're going to sit there with dirty plates on your table, while you have a long conversation over coffee, you know, I mean, and that's the coolest thing about it is you get to see like, wow, they're they're in no rush to kick us out here, where in America, they're trying to flip the table to have somebody else sit in there, okay, with only having a certain amount of people in this in this restaurant at night. And they're not trying to get people in and out because they want you to enjoy the dinner and have a long conversation.Ari Gronich 9:16  Yeah, so what do you think of chores zones versus the the places that the locals, you know, go I mean, it everywhere I go, anytime I've ever been anywhere, my first thing is I do not want to be where the tourists go, I want to be where the locals go. And so I seek out specifically somebody who can take me to a local joint or a local place so that I can experience that local culture, but a lot of of Americans you know, I call it the McDonald's tour, because We go from McDonald's in France to McDonald's in Europe to a McDonald's in Israel, you know, like, like, how many different ways can we experience the McDonald's? Right. And, and we do that with more than just, you know, we'll go to the Hilton. Well, there's a lot of local kind of hotels that are completely different than, say, a Hilton in it. I'm not, you know, it could be any of the major chains, but we tend to go to the places that we know, in our minds, how do you think we can, we can, you know, inspire people to experience more of the local kinds of experiences rather than the tourist experiences that we've kind of set up?Matt Javit 10:51  Yeah, I think the first thing is the fear. Because that was the biggest thing people to ask us, as we were making this trip. Are you safe? Is everything okay? And it's like, Man, look in the mirror a little bit. how safe is your city? How safe the Chicago. I mean, I'll say the St. Louis, how safe is New York. So that safety barrier is always the thing that keeps them on resorts and keeps people in those in those four walls wherever they are in that foreign country. And for me, it's like being get get through that and not listen to what all the media is trying to tell you. Because mostly what we hear from the media is when something bad happens, a tsunami hits an island. There's some sort of revolt against the government. So we're only hearing like the negative stuff around the world that happens that mainstream media wants to put out there because it'll get the clicks and views that all negative news gets. And so if you if you can, like climb through all that and try to find the truth in what's going on in these places around the world, you're going to see a lot of beauty and a lot of amazing things happening outside of those resorts. And one of the coolest things that happened to me recently was one of my buddies that watched our journey from afar online. He listened to the bikes that I would give about getting out of the resorts and spending time with the locals. And he said, They recently went to Jamaica. And he said, Matt, we had an awesome trip down there. We spent, we spent almost two weeks on air, he said, but our favorite day, by far is when we left the resort, went to a local town and hung out with the locals at the local restaurants. He said we came back with a bunch of phone numbers. And they're they're still texting us. And it was the by far the best day. He said, thank you so much for that advice, because it's going to change the way that we travel now going forward. And it's things like that. They're like, yeah, if you get you can, you can see a beach coastline, anywhere around the world. And you wouldn't know if you were in Thailand, if you were in the Philippines, if you were in Peru, if you just saw the waves coming in at a gorgeous Hilton resort, like you're describing, you wouldn't know where you were. But it's when you get out of that place. And you go walk around the town, and you meet the locals. And you you shop at their markets, you see the things that they're they're eating on a regular basis, how they barter, the idea that America doesn't barter for everything, anything. And these places everywhere, everywhere else borders. So just that conversation of bartering. If they say it's $1 say it's I'll give you 80 cents, and just go through that process. You're gonna learn so much about these places and and really just follow up with them even more than just sitting in a hotel or, or just drinking. Cool. Yeah.Ari Gronich 13:25  You know, part of me thinks that racism is not just ignorant of people, but it's a lack of understanding of other, any kind of other, right, whether that's an other culture, another language, another colored, you know, color of a person. And it's based solely on fear versus knowledge. Because if you get to know somebody or know about their culture, it's really difficult. I've found to dislike those people. You've been in place where, you know, like Turkey where there is in that middle eastern zone, a lot of conflict. And the conflict that we hear about was not my experience when I was in Israel, for instance, where I went to Jordan and Lebanon. I didn't experience the same kind of difference that we see on the news. I don't know if you went there. I know you went to Turkey. But any any chance that the differences between the people are not as great as the government's and the agendas and the media want you to thinkMatt Javit 14:57  absolutely. I think I think races is just lack of exposure. And we we saw and had conversations about racism all around the world. And it was when we were in Chile, they hated the Peruvians in Argentina, and then we were in Peru, they hated the Colombians, and it's in the Chileans. And then, and then you're in South Africa, as a white guy at the grocery store, the black app, the black checkout lady is looking at us a different way, until we speak, and they understand where American they're like, Whoa, you're not the same white guy that's usually here. So they're nicer. We experience it everywhere. And it's one of those things where if you don't have exposure to a lot of the people in your, the frame of reference is one or two people, you're going to think about those one or two people. And that's why it was so important for me wherever we went, was to be the smiling nicest guy in the room. Because I wanted, I never knew if I was going to be the last white American that they met.Ari Gronich 16:05  That's awesome. Thank you so much for being here. If you could leave everybody with with one thought one final thought that is what you'd like, you know, all of these experiences that you've culminated together, you know, one thought that you'd like the audience members to get, what would that one thought be?Matt Javit 16:30  I would say that it's okay to want to live out your dreams. And it's okay to dream big and want to, to work through it and make it happen. Before we took this big adventure, there was no way I could live this out, I'd made every excuse in my mind why it just wasn't for me. And then finally a clip to say like, Hey, I can do this, too. And I'm sure there's there's a listener out there that saying, they've been dreaming about this for a while and thinking it's not. It's not possible for them. But I promise you, you can do it. We did it. And now I've got other dreams that I'm working on. And it's possible for you to do it as well. Awesome.Ari Gronich 17:12  Thank you so much for being here. I know that the audience members have gotten a lot from this. And this is your host Ari Gronich with another episode of create a new tomorrow. Remember to like, subscribe, rate review, comment below so that we can start conversations that change the world. Create a new tomorrow today, and activate our vision for a better world. Thank you for being here. I really appreciate it.Unknown Speaker 17:40  And we're out.