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Hi there friends, Thanks for visiting! I'm very excited to share my new YouTube channel (link below) and Podcasting project with you. I've been meaning to do this for years, since I produced the amateur off-the-cuff "Not Your Typical Tourist" videos, which you can find on the YouTube channel's playlists by going to BernieChats.com. There's no time like the present, so here we go. The first few Bernie Chats are now live! On Bernie Chats, we'll engage in casual, interesting conversations with ordinary, and not so ordinary, people who have extraordinary stories about travel, their personal biographies, history, marketing, books, digital marketing, video production, current affairs, international affairs, health, mindfulness, HR, careers and possibly more. And, yes, better mics and set are on the way :-) So far, I have been posting the multi-part chat I had with a career professional as well as chats about the Tiny Home movement and chats about film and book projects about Cube and Mexico. Next, I'll edit and post the recordings of a chat I had with a travel author about his adventures in Russia, Iraq, North Korea (it goes on), and I have plans for a Bernie Chats with a Neuroscientist on his new book about the physiology of mindfulness. I hope you enjoy the chats. Thanks for subscribing, liking, commenting and sharing, if you do. Here's the direct YouTube link: youtube.com/channel/UCV4ZSZuRGuLrB5wHf-HHjMw again, you can also get there by going to BernieChats.com See you on the next Bernie Chats! Bernie PS. Please Subscribe, Like, Share and VISIT my new Website at BernieChats.com. I appreciate your support. Thanks!
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Wednesday Sep 15, 2021
Of Russia, A Year Inside - Bernie Chats with Brent Antonson, Literary Travel Writer
Wednesday Sep 15, 2021
Wednesday Sep 15, 2021
Of Russia, A Year Inside - Bernie Chats with "Not So Typical Tourist" Brent Antonson
Take a journey through the early days of post-Soviet Russia as Brent recounts tales of Trains, Travel, Teaching & Torture and his time teaching ESL at a university in Voronezh, Russia!
Take a historical trip to Russia as Bernie Chats with "Not So Typical Tourist" Brent Antonson about his adventures and his 2008 book entitled "Of Russia, A Year Inside" Brent "Brant" Antonson has seen a Russia few foreigners have.
Indeed, few Russians. This young Canadian ventured to Voronezh, eleven hours south of Moscow by train, to spend a year inside a country torn by strife, fresh into a new century, and struggling with the clash between history and future.
Tasked with teaching English to students at one university, and then a second, his story is riddled with romance and deception and punctuated with near disaster and disappointment. Antonson's candour and insights set Russia on the edge of failure and achievement – much like the students, he educated, filled with a dash of hope and a lump of fear.
His wit did as much to get him in trouble as it did to keep him out of it.
Get the Book: https://www.amazon.ca/Russia-Year-Inside-Brant-Antonson/dp/1425180493 Get more Bernie Chats videos at BenrieChats.com
See the video version (slightly shorter): https://youtu.be/p4PLm_IReoI
Get the Podcast version on iTunes
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The journey was great and fabulous. The conversation is touchable and intellectual.. Best of luck
Friday Sep 17, 2021
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