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.

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

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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.

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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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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

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

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See you around!

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

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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: http://bit.ly/youtube-juanaroundmexico

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

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

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

See you around!

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

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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: http://bit.ly/youtube-juanaroundmexico

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

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

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And check my photos:

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

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In my Patreon account:

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Or you can buy me a coffee:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/juanaround

See you around!

Today I talk with Juliette Fradin who studied Antiquity Sciences, which focuses on the Greek and Roman Empires. I met Juliette in a hostel in Pisa, Italy. We started talking and she told me she is particularly interested in mythology. That is why today we talk about:

• Mythology
• New mythology
• Collective personality (called the collective unconscious)
• The continuation of the mythology
• Pisa and multiculturality
• Religion and control over the others and power
• The end of empires and the next empire
• Polytheism vs monotheism
• The next empire
• Favorite God
• Why travel
• Traveling techniques
• Snoring
• And many other topics

Juliette's song: https://open.spotify.com/track/6H3Wa6hWR9DRMzMSd4pZkT?si=889a15cd48f745d4

I hope you enjoy the episode.

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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

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You can also listen to my podcast in Spanish and in 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 vlog about my travels at:

https://bit.ly/vlog-juanaround

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

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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

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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://bit.ly/anchormoney

In my Patreon account:

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Or you can buy me a coffee:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/juanaround

See you around!