WanderLearn: Travel to Transform Your Mind & Life

Take a profound and distant journey. Call it Deep Travel, Immersive Travel, Slow Travel, or Vagabonding. Francis Tapon guides you to the intersection of travel, technology, and transformation. The podcast will compel you to go beyond your comfort zone. ftapon.substack.com

WanderLearn: Travel to Transform Your Mind & Life is a society podcast hosted by Francis Tapon, with 414 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 87.

Francis Tapon hosts WanderLearn: Travel to Transform Your Mind & Life, a society show with 414 episodes published.

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  Episode #397

  2 Skeptics Try Earthing & Grounding! Results?

  May 29, 202620 minS0

  <p>Is grounding & earthing BS?</p><p>I interview two skeptical elders: Joan Chan & Sym Blanchard.</p><p>Hear what happened.</p><p>Watch the video!</p><p>Timeline</p><p>00:00 Car accidents</p><p>04:55 Intro to Earthing</p><p>08:00 Placebo effect?</p><p>11:30 The Limits of Grounding</p><p>14:50 How to start</p><p></p><p>What do you think?</p><p>Put your thoughts in the comments.</p><p>Connect</p><p>Send me an anonymous voicemail at SpeakPipe.com/FTapon</p><p>You can post comments, ask questions, and sign up for my Substack newsletter.</p><p>...

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  Episode #396

  The Downsides of Dating a Nomad

  May 22, 202622 minS0

  <p>Sym Blanchard has appeared on many WanderLearn episodes. In this 3-part series, Sym appears with his sweetheart, Joan Chan.</p><p>Both are in their early 70s. I love elders because they usually don’t give a f**k what others think of them. They’re the opposite of teenagers. Elders are genuine, transparent, and wise.</p><p>They’re also human, as this three-part series will reveal. Watch it:</p><p>Timeline</p><p>00:00 How they met</p><p>05:00 First night together</p><p>8:00 First trip</p><p>11:00 Downsides of nomads</p><p>16:00 Relationship management</p><p></p><p></p>...

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  WanderLearn: Travel to Transform Your Mind & Life

  1,000 Subscribers! Thank you!

  May 20, 20260 minS0

  <p>Thank you, Sande, my 1,000th Substack subscriber!</p><p>Naturally, the other 999 of you are equally valuable!</p><p>Thank you to Adam Gasner for being my first Founding Member and Sym Blanchard for being my first paid member!</p><p>When you create content, you often feel like you’re speaking to a wall. Even when you have 1,000 Substack subscribers or 4,500 YouTube subscribers, it’s sometimes a lonely endeavor: crickets. </p><p>Still, I’m grateful for days like today.</p><p>So, thank you!</p><p>Next goal: 2,000 subs by August 2026!</p><p>Francis Tapon</p> <br/><br/>Ge...

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  Episode #395

  Black & White Holes + Galactic Power Plants

  May 14, 202636 minS0

  <p>Dr. Sten Odenwald discusses The Essential Book of Black Holes. See my review of the new book below.</p><p>But first, watch this video in which I interview Dr. Odenwald about his book!</p><p>Timeline</p><p>00:00 Intro</p><p>2:15 Math & Black Holes</p><p>5:00 Holographic universe</p><p>5:50 Hypernova</p><p>9:05 White holes</p><p>14:45 Is our universe in a black hole?</p><p>17:50 Gravity is NOT a force</p><p>25:45 Galactic Power Plant</p><p>Book Review of The Essential Book of Black Holes</p><p>At 159 pages and 12 chapters, The Essential Book of Black...

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  Episode #394

  The World Is Complex. ‘Global South’ Isn’t. Stop saying it.

  May 8, 20262 minS0

  <p>The term “Global South” is doing a lot of heavy lifting for a geographically illiterate phrase. Australia is in the Global South. So is New Zealand. Both are fabulously wealthy, stable democracies with excellent dental care.</p><p>Meanwhile, Afghanistan is in the Global North.</p><p>The “Global South” term was invented by diplomats who needed something that sounded neutral but meant “the countries that got colonized and are still annoyed about it,” which is fair, but the compass metaphor fell apart immediately upon contact with a map.</p><p>“Developing countries” is perhaps the most optimistic euphemism in the history o...

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