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331: From Palestine to Global Impact: The Transformative Power of Cultural Exchange Through Travel with Yazan Badarny
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Learn how volunteering, internships, and
cultural exchanges abroad can transform your life & positively impact the
world.
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Yazan Badarny joins Matt from Haifa and starts off by talking
about his experience growing up in the Palestinian city of Arraba. He describes the racism and second class
citizenship experienced by Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, and explains
how travel and living abroad empowered him to confidently embrace his
Palestinian identity and speak up about the Palestinian struggle around the
world. Yazan takes us on his transformative
journey doing an internship in South Africa, taking one of the world’s highest
bungee jumps, and developing the idea for his company Home Awe. Yazan explains his passion for empowering
other Palestinians to travel the world, both so that they can have personal
growth experiences by connecting with the world and so that they can educate
the world about Palestine. He talks
about his travels from Tanzania to Switzerland, shares life lessons from
learning to ski in the Alps, and explains the importance of ‘starting with why’. Yazan talks about the volunteer and
internship opportunities that Home Awe offers around the world today, from
Brazil to Sri Lanka, and how he grew his Instagram following to over
400,000. Finally, he reflects on the
impact Home Awe has had on its participants, and on what travel means to him
today. FULL SHOW NOTES WITH DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED ARE AVAILABLE
HERE.
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