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Alone With Peter

Alone With Peter

By: Peter Kersting
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 Alone with Peter is a podcast for entrepreneurs, artists, digital nomads, and people seeking personal growth. I'm your host, Peter and on this podcast, you're going to hear interviews with people who are actively pursuing their dreams. Each episode shares our guest's journey, how their past forms their present, and how that informs their future. We'll learn what motivates them, how their talents have developed over time, and share actionable, practical tips for you if you decide to take a similar leap of faith. No matter where you are on the journey, thanks for spending some quality time Alone with Peter. Economics Leadership Management & Leadership Personal Development Personal Success Social Sciences Travel Writing & Commentary
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  • 43 Stop Making Excuses. Learn to Prioritize Travel Now with Mari Escobar

    43 Stop Making Excuses. Learn to Prioritize Travel Now with Mari Escobar
    Jul 25 2022
    On the season finale of Alone with Peter, Mari Escobar shares practical tips for travel, useful resources for staying safe, as a female/solo traveler, and good habits for saving money for your next trip so you can stop making excuses and learn how to prioritize travel! Listen on Apple Listen on Spotify Listen on Stitcher Listen on Podchaser Listen on Apple Listen on Spotify Listen on Stitcher Listen on Podchaser This episode of Alone with Peter is brought to you by Sagebrush Coffee Sagebrush is an online coffee roastery with a wide variety of single-origin coffees you can order from the comfort of your home knowing that your coffee is so fresh, it isn’t roasted until after you order. If you’re interested in learning more about the world of coffee, Sagebrush is a great place to start. You can find their website online at Sagebrushcoffee.com and for a limited time from now until August, you can save 10% on your next order of coffee beans by visiting sagebrushcoffee.com/awp10 or by using the promo code awp10 at checkout. Follow Mari Escobar Financial Controller and World Traveler If you want to get in touch with Mari Escobar or see where she's off to next, check out the links below. Instagram: MariMari4 and LinkedIn: maritereescobar 43 Stop Making Excuses. How to Prioritize Travel Now with Mari Escobar *Transcripts may contain a few typos. With interviews ranging from 1-2 hours, it can be difficult to catch minor errors. Peter Kersting: Welcome to Alone with Peter a podcast for entrepreneurs, artists, digital nomads, and people seeking personal growth. We are back for part three of our interview with Mari Escobar and Mari's been through a lot of different accounting jobs right now. She is a financial controller for an indie record label, which I laugh cuz I, the term financial controller sounds so intense to me. but one of the things that I know Mari better for is she's really good at maximizing her travel time, even though she has a nine-to-five job. So if you were someone who was looking for some tips and tricks on how to find a way to travel more while still doing your job and still having your boss be happy with you, Mari's gonna give us some practical tips in this episode about that, about how to travel safely, if you're a female solo traveler and so on and so forth. So thanks for coming back on the show, Mari, and are you ready? Ready to jump into this masterclass? Mari Escobar: Let's do it. My friends have been asking for it for a while. Peter Kersting: What exactly are your friends asking about? Let's start with that. Mari Escobar: They're like, how do you travel everywhere? And don't take that many vacation days or like, how do you do it? Like while working a regular job? So like I mentioned before, I'd say one of my biggest, it's not really a trick, but you know, you gotta take advantage of the holidays any, any day off official day off that doesn't count as vacation, do it and combine it with your vacation. Like if for example, I'm going down to Europe, I'm using Memorial day. It might be a little bit more expensive, but you get more days out of it. You go, yeah. Instead of taking four days, I mean, five days you take four days and you can leave four 10, like I said, before you go like the Friday before you come back the Sunday, midnight before and you multiply the days. Mari Escobar: Don't spend the days sitting at home Peter Kersting: you gotta bookend the weekends too is other thing you're saying? Mari Escobar: Yeah. Mm-hmm sure that's very, that's very big. That's yeah. That's how you maximize the days are these business days, the weekends don't count of course. And then try to leave AF right after work. Don't always wait until the next morning, cuz I mean, those travel hours make a difference. You can be at the destination the next morning instead of like the next night. Peter Kersting: How long are you planning a trip before you go? Cause that seems like that's a pretty key part too. You're looking out ahead. You're like, oh, Memorial day weekend is coming up. Where do I want to go? And what days? Cuz that takes time some time and effort to think through, where am I gonna go? How am I gonna budget for it? What, how is the best way to bookend it? So how far out in advance are you looking for? Where you wanna stay and when you're gonna go, Mari Escobar: Not too far in advance I don't plan more than two, three months before or even less. But that's one thing I know all the holidays by hand and by, especially by through the different jobs, I know which holidays we have and we don't and which ones we don't have available. Most people like don't keep track of that. I'm like, I'm on top of it. I know how many vacation days I've taken. I know how many vacation days I have left and I know the holidays coming up. I'm like, okay, there's Memorial weekend then there's July 4th and labor day. And then I don't have anything until like Thanksgiving. So I kinda like split it up around...
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    49 mins
  • 42 Traveling the World with a 9-to-5 Job – 54 Countries and Counting with Mari Escobar

    42 Traveling the World with a 9-to-5 Job – 54 Countries and Counting with Mari Escobar
    Jul 18 2022
    I can't travel. I've got a normal job It's time to throw out that old excuse. You CAN travel with a normal job. You've just got to find a way to prioritize it. Mari Escobar has been to 54 countries and counting all while working a "normal" 9-to-5 job. How on earth does she do it? Find out in part 2 of our interview, 42 Traveling the World with a 9-to-5 Job - 54 Countries and Counting with Mari Escobar. Listen on Apple Listen on Spotify Listen on Stitcher Listen on Podchaser Listen on Apple Listen on Spotify Listen on Stitcher Listen on Podchaser This episode of Alone with Peter is brought to you by Sagebrush Coffee Sagebrush is an online coffee roastery with a wide variety of single-origin coffees you can order from the comfort of your home knowing that your coffee is so fresh, it isn’t roasted until after you order. If you’re interested in learning more about the world of coffee, Sagebrush is a great place to start. You can find their website online at Sagebrushcoffee.com and for a limited time from now until August, you can save 10% on your next order of coffee beans by visiting sagebrushcoffee.com/awp10 or by using the promo code awp10 at checkout. Follow Mari Escobar Financial Controller and World Traveler If you want to get in touch with Mari Escobar or see where she's off to next, check out the links below. Instagram: MariMari4 and LinkedIn: maritereescobar 42 Traveling the World with a 9-to-5 Job X 54 Countries and Counting with Mari Escobar *Transcripts may contain a few typos. With interviews ranging from 1-2 hours, it can be difficult to catch minor errors. Peter Kersting: Welcome to Alone with Peter a podcast for entrepreneurs, artists, digital nomads, and people seeking personal growth. We are back with Mari Escobar who is going to be talking to us about her experience as a solo traveler and how she maximizes her work to be able to pursue travel more often. If you've been making the excuse that you can't travel because you have a normal job and they don't wanna give you time off. Well, maybe you'll find some tips in this interview about how you negotiate some of that. Bottom line is if travel is important to you, you can find a way to make it happen. That's something I'm excited to talk with Mari Escobar about. In this second part of our interview, Mari will dive a little bit more into some solo travel stories and all the above. Peter Kersting: We ended last week though, talking about your first experience traveling alone, in Paris and how that changed you. Could you touch on some of the things that you really learned about yourself from that experience? You hinted about it a little bit last week. Mari Escobar: Yeah, for sure. I would say the main thing is just like, I was not as shy anymore. And I learned to like talk to anyone around me because I mean, you're on your own. So you have to talk to someone at some point, right? And you have to figure out where you are, you know, you can't rely on anyone. It's all you, the money decisions, like where to go next and like, what happens if something goes wrong or stuff like that. But at the same time, it's like, you can do whatever you want. You don't have to be up to like anybody's schedule. And if you wanna sit here on the sidewalk of the street and ineat your falafel just do it here. Nobody cares. Make friends with the people next to you. Keep walking and stop by the next bench and, you know, take your time to enjoy the scenery nobody's rushing you. It's a whole different experience. I love traveling with my family, with friends, but solo traveling is a whole other world out there. Peter Kersting: What is it about the solo travel that you've found you've enjoyed the most? It seems like I know for me, it's kind of what you're just touching on about, like, you could just eat your falafel and take 15 minutes on the bench if you want, or you could just keep running, you know, mm-hmm I love that you get to set the pace, cuz sometimes when you're with other people, even as not as much as you love being with them, it, you kind of have to just be more like, all right, what do you wanna do? Mari Escobar: Yeah. You don't need to compromise. You just compromise as you, so yeah. Sounds selfish. But you know, it's, you can't enjoy it while you can. And then you also meet, I mean, you have to make this a point you also meet so many people like for like-minded and then you don't spend that much time on your own. Like, people are like, oh my God, you're crazy. Like, where are you going on your own? Like, something's gonna happen. Obviously mom gets worried. And even like all my friends, like, what are you doing? Like who does that? Right. But at some point I'm like, whenever I talk to my mom, when I'm like traveling, she's like, I haven't spent any time on my own. Like I've met so many people and we're all on, on the same page. We always, we all wanna see like this store's attraction or we wanna do like this excursion somewhere. Mari ...
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    42 mins
  • 41 Where to Next? World Travel and Finding a Work-Life Balance with Mari Escobar

    41 Where to Next? World Travel and Finding a Work-Life Balance with Mari Escobar
    Jul 11 2022
    Today, we are joined by a very special friend of mine, Mari Escobar a Financial Controller for an indie record label in Los Angeles, and a world traveler. Mari has been to 54 countries and counting all while working a normal 9-to-5 job. In this interview, we'll talk about how she prioritizes and negotiates travel with her work, where her love of travel came from, and what it was like for her as a Puerto Rican studying in the United States of America. Plus, stick around to learn how Mari, Tanner Combias, (You can listen to that interview here) and I know each other! Listen on Apple Listen on Spotify Listen on Stitcher Listen on Podchaser Listen on Apple Listen on Spotify Listen on Stitcher Listen on Podchaser This episode of Alone with Peter is brought to you by Sagebrush Coffee Sagebrush is an online coffee roastery with a wide variety of single-origin coffees you can order from the comfort of your home knowing that your coffee is so fresh, it isn’t roasted until after you order. If you’re interested in learning more about the world of coffee, Sagebrush is a great place to start. You can find their website online at Sagebrushcoffee.com and for a limited time from now until August, you can save 10% on your next order of coffee beans by visiting sagebrushcoffee.com/awp10 or by using the promo code awp10 at checkout. Mari Escobar Financial Controller and World Traveler If you want to get in touch with Mari Escobar or see where she's off to next, check out the links below. Instagram: MariMari4 LinkedIn: maritereescobar 41 Where to Next? World Travel and Finding a Work-Life Balance with Mari Escobar *Transcripts may contain a few typos. With interviews ranging from 1-2 hours, it can be difficult to catch minor errors. Peter Kersting: Welcome to Alone with Peter a podcast for entrepreneurs, artists, digital nomads, and people seeking personal growth. Today, we are joined by a very special friend of mine, Mari Escobar. And this one's fun because if you have listened to the podcast for a while, you maybe remember I talk with somebody from the Big 4 named Tanner Combias. I met Tanner in Vietnam. Well, guess what? I also met Mari in Vietnam and Mari also worked for one of the Big 4 financial firms. We'll talk about that as we go through this episode, but one thing that I think is really special about Mari is anybody who knows her for long enough will be like, okay, where is she now? Because you're literally always somewhere different. You're always traveling. You're always going on some kind of trip. And I can't wait to dive into what that looks like. How do you prioritize travel? You have a normal nine-to-five-plus job. Right? And I think most people, think that's not possible. So we'll talk about your travel experience, but we'll also talk about what you do for a living. Getting into solo travel a bit, especially as a girl, I think that's gonna be an interesting topic and just catch up on some travel stories and stuff. So, you know, with that in mind, Mari, how, how have things been for you lately? Mari Escobar: Hey, thank you for that introduction. It's very true. Nobody asked me, how are you? It's like, where are you now? where are you going next? So yeah. Yeah. Doing good now in LA I'm kinda, I've been here for a couple of months, but you know, I'm taking off in a couple of weeks. Peter Kersting: nice. Mari Escobar: I gotta keep it going. Peter Kersting: Yeah. Where are you to next? Mari Escobar: I am going to Europe. So I'm doing Paris, Italy, and Dublin. Peter Kersting: Nice. You, you never get tired of it. Do you? Mari Escobar: Of course not. Peter Kersting: Mari Escobar: Never enough. Peter Kersting: Yeah. We're gonna, we're gonna talk a fair amount about these different things, but Alone with Peter, we like to go through different segments. So this is a three-part interview. We're, we're all strapped in for here, and starting in part one, we're gonna be talking a little bit more about your background, right? So I wanna talk about your professional background, your personal background, and also kind of dive into your love for travel. So I wanted to start with where are you from originally? Mari Escobar: Yeah, so I grew up in Puerto Rico and then I left for school, but my father's Panamanian. So that's kind of like, it was always an excuse to travel, to go visit family. So that was part of our, my upbringing, I guess, but yeah, born and raised in Puerto Rico. And I've been in the states let's say on and off like 10 years. Peter Kersting: Yeah. And you mentioned that you mentioned your family has played a pretty big role in why you love traveling so much. Do you mind sharing what traveling, growing up was like for you guys? Mari Escobar: Yeah. vacation was always like very important. We at least would plan like one big trip of like two weeks, somewhere, mostly Europe. And we would usually have that sometimes plus going to Panama, you know, to visit family. So those were like two big ...
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    36 mins
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