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Today's guest on the Travel Punks Podcast is Tys Sniffens, founder of Idea Mountain and inventor of The Journey Travel Packing System. From a yert on his off-the-grid compound, Tys flips the script and starts interviewing me as we discuss dance-shoe shopping, losing my luggage between Berlin and Stockholm, and the ingenious backpack-within-a-backpack modular design of the Journey, the only luggage a seasoned traveler really needs. You can buy the Journey Travel Packing System at ideamountain.com.

Today’s guest on the Travel Punks Podcast is Lisa Szkatulski, author of Faithful Nomad: Seven Rules for Finding Your Path … When There Is No Destination. We talk about the most impactful country she ever visited, why job benefits are bullshit, and how incurring $115,000 worth of medical bills before the age of 35 changed her outlook on life.

Connect with Lisa on Instagram at @faithfulnomad or check out her story at faithfulnomad.com.

Reneé La Tour is a self-style fancy nomad and a co-founder of Business Finance
Blueprint, a coaching program that teaches aspiring entrepreneurs how to build
a laptop-only business in the lucrative business and equipment finance niche.

In this episode, Paul and Reneé talk about how the COVID-19 pandemic turned
her stay in Malaysia (a country Paul won’t even visit because of a Joaquin
Phoenix movie) from one month to an entire year. They also talk about her
family’s struggles with drug addiction, rideshare adventures in defying local
transit laws, and how massive Malaysia sometimes feels like a little sister to tiny
Singapore.

Connect with Reneé on LinkedIn to check out her free master class on equipment
finance entrepreneurship to see if Business Finance Blueprint is right for you.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/renee-la-tour

Jean Devlin is one of the founders of Austin Body Collective. In this episode Paul and Jean admire the view, discuss crashing a dance festival in Colombia (she has tickets, he does not), and Jean reads Paul’s Human Design chart in front of a live microphone, God help him. Check out her work at austinbodycollective.com or on Instagram at @austinbodycollective.

Dylan Ogline is the founder of Ogline Digital, a seven-figure digital marketing agency. He is also the founder of the digital entrepreneurship training program Agency 2.0. We talk about what it’s like to run his business from the balcony of his condo in Bangkok; shit on boomers for the eleven-millionth time; contemplate the end of the orthodox system of American education; and reminisce about his childhood in rural Pennsylvania, getting drunk in the back of a limo owned by his family friends’ chauffeur company. Learn more about what he has to offer at dylanogline.com

Aran Gharibpour is a teacher of Philosophy born and raised in Tehran, the capital of Iran. We talk about his trip home to Iran during this pandemic; how the Doha Airport seems to have been decorated by a Swiss guy on a bad Walt Disney acid trip; one of several reasons why you shouldn’t go rock climbing on the Iran/Iraq border; and the underground tango scene in a country where dancing is illegal.

Ziad Bader is the founder of ZeeOverSeez. We discuss when the fuck we will be able to travel again. We also solve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and commiserate on the trials and tribulations of the toughest job in the world ... YouTube Travel Blogger. Check out Ziad’s travel stories on Instagram at @zeeoverseez and on Youtube at ZeeOverSeeZ.

Paul and Carson discuss the knife fight in progress between travel credit card issuers, offer woefully inexpert opinions on the coronavirus pandemic, and how we all now look like we’re about to rob every restaurant and retail store we approach for curbside delivery. Follow them at @paulgreenamyer and @creditcarson.

We're going deal hunting this week and who better to lead the way than Jen Yellin from Deals We Like! She joins guest host Ed Pizza this week to chat about maximizing bonus miles on back to school shopping, Amex offers and a recent promotion on purchasing Hyatt points.

Today's Guest

Deals We Like was started in January 2011 by Jennifer Yellin. The blog became part of the well known travel network BoardingArea in June 2011 and became a featured blog just a month later. Almost every post is written by Jen with the occasional guest blogger. In just four years, Deals We Like is now read by over 65,000 people a month across 150 different countries.

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