What Has Been Your Most Impactful Travel Experience?
Jason Campbell highlights some of the most impactful travel experiences he's had while visiting 70 different countries.
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INTERVIEW WITH JASON CAMPBELL
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countries
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i won't ask you what your favorites were
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what were your three most impactful
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countries that you traveled to i'd have
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to say the first one would be thailand
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because that's where i got certified
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for yoga okay and um
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it was a uh
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experience that wasn't traditional at
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all like
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i had to uh climb a 2 000 step
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uh mountain to this buddha uh statue
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as a part of like the culmination of
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this training
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and once i got there i thought it would
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be like this spiritual moment and things
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like that and uh
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uh
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the guy he was just like welcome and now
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it's time for you to climb back down you
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made it i was like what i was expecting
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this ceremony and touch my head and give
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me this
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he's like uh no you made it and so um
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you know but thailand was just a a
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great experience uh overall spiritually
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i would have to say because i'm such a
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history nerd and buff
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um
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uh egypt
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and then more importantly
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going to charm out shake and randomly
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climbing moses mountain
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which was
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interesting uh because we had to have a
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uh
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all americans
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u.s citizens had to have a had to hire a
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paramilitary uh guard to go up into the
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sinai peninsula
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to climb moses mountain
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and so we did that with no trainings
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like a 9 000 foot mountain we started at
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1am
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and uh basically climbed it in the
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equivalent of not even new balances
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would have been great it was like some
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under armour uh
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uh cross trainers it was crazy
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uh but it was an amazing experience and
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we got there uh at uh sunrise and it was
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just super dope
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and then i would have to say uh ghana
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okay uh ghana was just a life-changing i
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went with
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actually went with with josh who started
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switch dreams but it was like all these
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howard folks
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and it was uh it was interesting and one
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of the things that
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happened on that trip
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was really seeing
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the culture for the first time like a
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lot of the things that uh we
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we have in in the states
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that we think are just you know
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colloquialisms and just happenings uh
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are part of our our our lineage and our
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culture i remember um all the ceremonies
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that we had
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uh you know the the the canaans were
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like two three hours late for and i'm a
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stickler for time yeah and so i i had
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the opportunity to meet the santi hanna
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and instead of asking him some deep
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question i was like hey man um
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you know he took a liking to me so i
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felt comfortable asking i was like so
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are you guys on like cp time like
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you know i noticed that y'all like late
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for everything like hours late he was
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like
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listen jason um
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we don't believe in being on time to
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think to things
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we believe that the moment arrives to us
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and we believe that that a moment
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arrives to us when we when the universe
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deems it so
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and so
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we don't believe in being on time to
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things like
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the moment the ceremonies are time comes
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to us
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it comes to us and so that
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was something that i took away
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that was life-changing like
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these moments i could be as prepared as
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i want to be
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walking into nike or
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uh linking up with rich paul or calvin
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andrews or
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uh jerry lorenzo
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but
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the moments arrive when the universe
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deems it so yeah and so those would
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probably be the
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um
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three
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countries that were the most impactful
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yeah and um and then like second would
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probably uh
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the second tier would probably be
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brazil
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um
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tanzania because we
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um
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adopted a school in tanzania tanzania
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the integral
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secondary school and we built them a
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girls dorm as well as a
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um
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a cafeteria so tanzania will always be
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very special
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and we got attacked by an elephant as
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well
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so we went out to tanzania to link up
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with one of my fry brothers uh rashad
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coleman myself and my cousin taki salaam
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so uh yeah those those would those would
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be the
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special