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Peace Corps Survival Lessons – Friday Flashbacks – Epi-59

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Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this episode from 2011 I was joined by Tom Haile to discuss lessons he learned in two years of service with the Peace Corps.  The reality is the 3rd world exists day in and day out in what we in America would call a “survival situation” so there is much we can learn based on how people in this state adapt and even thrive in spite of it. Today’s episode of Friday Flashbacks was originally published on 10-13-11 and was originally Episode-762- Tom Haile on Serving in the Peace Corps. The show notes for the original episode with all Continue reading →

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0:00.0

There's a better way to do this.

0:07.0

Let me show you a better way.

0:13.0

You don't have to be another face in the crowd. Well, hi folks, this is Jack Spirica with the Survival Podcast.

0:24.7

Welcome to an episode of Friday Flashbacks.

0:27.5

After 15 years and hundreds of interview shows, we decided to run them as flashbacks every Friday.

0:33.2

Beginning with the oldest of them and going forward, there's a tremendous library of wisdom in all the great interviews we've done over the year.

0:40.6

So sit back and enjoy, whether this is your first time or even your second time around with today's episode.

0:47.0

I'm sure you will enjoy it and learn a lot from it.

0:50.5

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0:58.9

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1:05.8

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1:22.0

Now let's get into today's Friday Flashback.

1:25.2

And today, folks, we are flashing back to originally October the 13th, 2011.

1:32.3

This episode was episode 762, and it was Tom Hale on serving in the Peace Corps.

1:39.0

Basically, Peace Corps survival lessons.

1:42.6

A couple of interesting things about this show.

1:44.5

One, the way this show even happened, it was shortly, I'm only about a year into doing interviews, I guess, because for those that are new to the show, the first year and a half of the show, there was almost no interviews because it was just me because I was podcasting from my car every morning.

1:59.9

And you can't really do interviews well

2:01.4

like that anyway on my way to work and but by the time we did this episode I was well established

2:08.5

and had left my former life behind and was you know from studio and we had all the interviews

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