Travel for Transformation: The Road is the Guru with Jonathan Legg

The call to travel is analogous to the first stage of the "Hero's Journey". We feel this compulsion to visit a place for reasons we can't fully articulate. We just suspect that there is something we will experience "out there" which is essential. Answering that call (e.g. buying the plane ticket) is the biggest barrier to accessing the wisdom of the road, but the second biggest is yet to come.

The travel industry has long been commodified and its wealth of treasures shrunk down to instagram snapshots. Without conscious intentions, travelers fall into frames that seal them off from the truly life-changing realizations available. My goal is to offer a new lens: Come into a journey with the courage to get low to the street and the openness to hear what it has to tell you.

In The 7 AHAs Every Traveler Should Have, I lay out some of the big epiphanies the road has given me about the nature of life. Whether these resonate or not, my hope is for the listener of our discussion to peruse over their travel memories with this inquiry and to launch off onto their next adventure with this lens.

Jonathan Legg has hosted 5 seasons of The Road Less Traveled, exploring off-the-beaten-path destinations worldwide. He produced and directed Food Relay, and appeared on Fear Island: Fortress of the Bears. When not filming he can be found leading small groups on adventures, flying a paraglider, and helping young men find their own empowering stories and purpose.

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:32 - Expat communities vs the suburbs
3:55 - From shy to outgoing - what happened?
5:25 - How is Road Less Traveled different than other travel shows?
7:07 - Tourism board support
8:05 - Witches in India
17:00 - Scary moment in Bogota
21:09 - Why we like horror movies and rollercoasters
22:17 - How you can access or lose the magic of travel
24:31 - How does a tourist transition to a traveler
25:49 - How to change the story of yourself
28:05 - Punching through loneliness and discomfort
29:20 - Why it's better to slow down than to see more
33:17 - The best way to live a life
35:09 - How every traveler makes an impact
38:31 - How we are more similar than different
39:58 - Almost dying at a mysterious temple and nuclear silos
48:44 - How to embrace misadventure
49:32 - Exorcists and demons in the Philippines
56:10 - How to interact with panhandlers
1:02:15 - The Brad Pitt moment
1:04:20 - Why death should be embraced
1:07:00 - Building community
1:10:22 - If you remember one thing....
1:11:23 - Audience questions

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