Juan Around | Gathering the World's Untold Stories Juan Carlos Gomez

Welcome back, explorer, to another chapter of cultural exploration on Juan Around, your digital passport to untold stories and immersive experiences. In this episode, we embark on a journey to Bulgaria, uncovering a tradition that intricately weaves death, memory, and the soul of small-town streets.

Picture this: sheets of paper delicately scattered across Bulgarian towns, each bearing the weight of printed announcements and the lingering memory of a life lived. These are the enigmatic necrologs, not mere ephemeral tributes but enduring markers that shape the cultural landscape.

Join me as I dive into a conversation with Emiliya Karaboeva, the researcher behind "Death and Memory in the Context of the Contemporary Bulgarian Street-Posted Obituary," exploring the cultural significance and lasting impressions of necrologs.



Seeking more context on necrologs? Check juanaround.com.



As always, I am eager to hear your thoughts—connect with me on social media or leave a comment on my website.



Enjoy the episode!


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Hello and welcome to Juan Around, the podcast where we gather the untold stories of the world talking with people who have amazing stories to share from different cultures and perspectives. I’m Juan, and I’m glad you’re here with me today. Our guest for this episode is Jordan Kocevski, a writer from Ohrid.

Ohrid is a beautiful city in North Macedonia that has a rich history and culture. Jordan writes about these topics and more in his stories, which are full of humor, insight, and emotion. He is also a tour guide who teaches people about his country and its heritage. He is a husband and a father of two kids who inspire him every day.

In this episode, we will learn more about Jordan and his writing journey. We will ask him how he discovered his passion for writing, what challenges he faced along the way, and what he hopes to achieve with his words. We will also hear some of his stories and get a glimpse of his creative process.

I hope you will enjoy listening to Jordan as much as I did. He is a very talented and kind writer, and I’m honored to have him on the show. So please join me as we go around with Jordan Kocevski who lives for writing.

You can listen to Jordan's song in our playlist Around the Music.

If you like this episode, please subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review. You can also share it with your friends who love stories and culture. And don’t forget to check out our website https://juanaround.com where you can find more articles, podcasts, photo stories, vlogs, and video chronicles from our team of nomad journalists. Thank you for listening!




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Welcome to Juan Around the Podcast. Today we go around the talk with Konstantinos Belegratis, who is a grappling champion, wrestler, and mixed martial artist. We talked about:


Training to have a functional body
Soft societies
Fighting and experience
Physical strength vs mental strength vs experience
Innovation in fighting
Bruce Lee
Real fighters avoid fights
Size matters
Wrestling as a job
The risk of fighting sports vs others
Payment for fighters and medical bills
Getting money to be a wrestler
Training
Our instincts
Women in wrestling
Man and woman
Bravely ignorance
being good when you have power
Be a creator
And many other topics

I hope you like the episode.

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You can find the song that Konstantinos Belegratis wants you to remember him with, here: https://open.spotify.com/track/2BSwGHTh4kmckqXQfaCaAp?si=44ebd130f83348d9

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Links are also in my bio and in my page: https://juanaround.start.page

You can find links to the episode on other platforms here:

Anchor: https://anchor.fm/juanaround

YouTube Podcast playlist: https://bit.ly/youtubepodcast-juanaround

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You can also listen to my podcast in Spanish and on other platforms here:

Anchor: https://anchor.fm/juanaroundmexico

YouTube Podcast playlist: https://bit.ly/youtube-juanaroundmexico

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You can also follow my travel chronicles and reflections about my journey at: https://bit.ly/vlog-juanaround

Y en español: https://bit.ly/vlog-juanaround-spanish

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See you around!


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Welcome to Juan Around - the Podcast. Today we went around the talk with Rozana Gjergji, one of the owners of Milingona hostel, where I was working as a volunteer in Tirana, Albania. She is a chess player and a lawyer that lived her childhood during the dictatorship times in her. We talked about:


Working hard
Owning a hostel in Albania
Growing up under a dictatorship
Becoming a teenager chess player for the party
Privileges and traveling thanks to chess
Losing childhood
Softer times nowadays
Becoming a rebel as a teenager
Father child relationship
the pressure of chess
Leaving the game
Relationship with parents
Returning to chess
Getting ready to leave chess for good
How Rozana met her husband
Relations with different religions
God
Religion in Albania through history
Prohibition of religion during communist times
Her work as a council in Rome
Rozana after chess. The lawyer
A legal case against the government
Stand for yourself
And many other topics

I hope you like the episode.

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You can find the song that Rozana Gjergji wants you to remember him with, here: https://open.spotify.com/track/3oEkrIfXfSh9zGnE7eBzSV?si=68b7438484ef4fed

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Links are also in my bio and in my page: https://juanaround.start.page

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You can find links to the episode on other platforms here:

Anchor: https://anchor.fm/juanaround

YouTube Podcast playlist: https://bit.ly/youtubepodcast-juanaround

=====

You can also listen to my podcast in Spanish and on other platforms here:

Anchor: https://anchor.fm/juanaroundmexico

YouTube Podcast playlist: http://bit.ly/youtube-juanaroundmexico

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You can also follow my travel chronicles and reflections about my journey at: https://bit.ly/vlog-juanaround

Y en español: http://bit.ly/vlog-juanaround-spanish

On TikTok, you will find a vlog about my travels and tips for traveling: @juanaround

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You can follow my work on all my social networks as juanaround:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juanaround

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/juanaround

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/juanaround

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Read tips about traveling and articles about local topics and global problems on https://medium.com/@Juanaround

And check my photos: https://500px.com/p/juanaround?view=photos

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You can contribute to my work by following me on my social media or you can support my content here: https://anchor.fm/juanaround/subscribe

In my Patreon account: https://www.patreon.com/juanaround

Or you can buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/juanaround



See you around!


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Welcome to Juan Around the Podcast, today we go around the talk with Finn Begemann, a German friend, traffic engineer, and who is volunteering in Milingona, a hostel in Albania. We talked about:


Why visit Albania
The Balkans from the eyes of a German
Germany and patriotism
Nazis in Germany
World War II memory
Talking about the Holocaust in Germany
Berlin and Freedom
German seriousness
Openness to other cultures
Stereotypes
Passion for maps
His career as a Traffic engineer
Traffic in Albania vs in Germany
Drinking and e-scooters
And many other topics

I hope you like the episode.

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You can find the song that Finn wants you to remember him with, here: https://open.spotify.com/track/27SdWb2rFzO6GWiYDBTD9j?si=663dc17e2c3d46a3

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Links also in my bio

You can find links to the episode on other platforms here:

Anchor: https://anchor.fm/juanaround

YouTube Podcast playlist: https://bit.ly/youtubepodcast-juanaround

=====

You can also listen to my podcast in Spanish and on other platforms here:

Anchor: https://anchor.fm/juanaroundmexico

YouTube Podcast playlist: http://bit.ly/youtube-juanaroundmexico

=====

You can also follow my vlog about my travels at: https://bit.ly/vlog-juanaround

Y en español: http://bit.ly/vlog-juanaround-spanish

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You can follow my work on all my social networks as juanaround:

IGTV: @juanaround

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juanaround

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/juanaround

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/juanaround

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Read tips about traveling and articles about local topics and global problems on https://medium.com/@Juanaround

And check my photos: https://500px.com/p/juanaround?view=photos

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You can contribute to my work by following me on my social media or you can support my content here: https://anchor.fm/juanaround/subscribe

In my Patreon account: https://www.patreon.com/juanaround

Or you can buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/juanaround

See you around!


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Welcome to Juan Around the Podcast, today we go around the talk with Emory Aram Mugalian, who is the drummer for the band Chatrooms, we talk about:


Heritage
Colonization
White privilege
Armenian genocide
Whiteness
Beers
Emory’s path to music
The life of a teenager music star
Peaking as a teenager
Being spelled from a teenager's band
Teenagers in the showbiz
Politeness vs honesty
The right instrument for you
Learning to play an instrument
Bass vs drums
Types of drummers
Whiplash movie
Music and money
Record labels vs streaming services
The injustice of music streaming services
Challenges of unconventional music
The trap of motivation coaches
Los Angeles as the mecca of music
Offer and demand in music
The lack of success and living out of music
Emo music
The structure of music
Skating and California lifestyle
Practicing for being good
Traveling and learning to adapt
Traveling with your girlfriend
And many other topics

I hope you like the episode.

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The song that Emory wants you to remember him with: https://open.spotify.com/track/35UO6dWrEPLmeSVXtAysS4?si=72a19281abfc4505

The playlist of Emory's band, Chatrooms: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2vRq7CJxw71YswK9gDp0L2?si=y0UTKT7RT0K-11hkpqomfA

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Links also in my bio

You can find links to the episode on other platforms here:

Anchor: https://anchor.fm/juanaround

YouTube Podcast playlist: https://bit.ly/youtubepodcast-juanaround

=====

You can also listen to my podcast in Spanish and on other platforms here:

Anchor: https://anchor.fm/juanaroundmexico

YouTube Podcast playlist: http://bit.ly/youtube-juanaroundmexico

=====

You can also follow my vlog about my travels at:

https://bit.ly/vlog-juanaround

Y en español: http://bit.ly/vlog-juanaround-spanish

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You can follow my work on all my social networks as juanaround:

IGTV: @juanaround

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juanaround

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/juanaround

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/juanaround

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Read tips about traveling and articles about local topics and global problems on

https://medium.com/@Juanaround

And check my photos:

https://500px.com/p/juanaround?view=photos

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You can contribute to my work by following me on my social media or you can support my content here: https://anchor.fm/juanaround/subscribe

In my Patreon account:

https://www.patreon.com/juanaround

Or you can buy me a coffee:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/juanaround

See you around!


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