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ADVON.cc is closing its doors after a hard fought 18 months. Check out my post on LinkedIn for a more detailed descripti...
10/03/2023

ADVON.cc is closing its doors after a hard fought 18 months. Check out my post on LinkedIn for a more detailed description of why. Thank you to everyone who supported us! This has been such a rich experience working with such phenomenal people who really put their hearts into this company! The experience has been priceless. Failure isn’t easy and it’s never asked for, but man it is formative. I can honestly say that we put everything we had unto this.

I’m so glad to be married to Courtney Hull Lovelace! She encouraged me the whole way! We were so committed to this, that we didn’t even make a backup plan. It’s been fun spending the last few days coming up with new dreams together and exploring what could possibly be next. Life is a journey. A chance is a chance worth taking. I’ll strive to take the ADVON.cc mantra with me for the rest of my life: Be expeditionary!

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Fund your travel. Join epic adventures. Challenge yourself by leaving your comfort zone and exploring the world. Experience the trip of a lifetime every time. Design or select from a wide variety of adventures: trekking, sailing, climbing, camping, backpacking, diving, snorkeling, vagabonding, langu

Leave home… return changed. Travel epic. The Hero’s Journey - it is literally in the title - JOURNEY. They leave home, t...
09/06/2023

Leave home… return changed. Travel epic.

The Hero’s Journey - it is literally in the title - JOURNEY. They leave home, their comfort zone, or even their belief system/framework of normal. This departure into an unknown is an ACTUAL ingredient in the transformation process. Frodo Baggins (The Lord of the Rings), Walter Mitty (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty), and just about every other protagonist that experiences meteoric growth…

If you wrote your arc, how would you picture the series of smaller challenges that bring you home vastly different than you currently are? Going back a step, what is the critical decision point where you decide to GO?

Push against all of the varieties of “luxury”. The difference between The Hero’s Journey and a story never told is that when faced with the opportunity to take the leap (Walter Mitty literally jumping onto the helicopter, Frodo volunteering to go to Mordor, etc) those who don’t go often never get the chance to see themselves a hero, or to be a part of legendary teams. Part I of the Hero's arc.

Expedition 001 - COMPLETE! 27:37 - “A tour guide is going to be an expert of the contextual knowledge [of a location] - ...
08/28/2023

Expedition 001 - COMPLETE!

27:37 - “A tour guide is going to be an expert of the contextual knowledge [of a location] - an Expedition Leader is an expert in adventure… and at designing REAL experiences…”

We conquered Hadrian’s Wall. Check out a few highlights:

1. Mind-over-body experiences are necessary to build mental, emotional, and physical resiliency and fitness. Some of our daily “trials” at home really don’t seem so bad when your feet hurt from walking 20 miles in a day, your clothes are soaking wet after getting rained on for those 20 miles, you’re tired, your pack is heavy, and bugs are crawling over you while you sleep. If you’ve been there before - its important to re-engage and do it again, get another rep in.

2. Distance from our normal lives is required to see the bigger picture when it comes to ways to improve our lives. Time on the trail provided key ingredients (time, stimulation, distance) to work on big ideas and formulate goals that you normally wouldn’t have time to think about.

3. Boredom, ironically, is an amplifier for creativity. Jared has been working on a novel for 3 years. Normally, he has too many other ways to entertain himself when a moment of free time arises, but on the trail he was able to dive into the details of his book and progress the plot.

4. Adventure cannot coexist with scripted and choreographed travel plans that are designed to provide a guaranteed experience and manage every minute of your day. Expeditionary Travel requires thoughtful planning and preparation, but the mission is not to accomplish the plan. The plan was created to accomplish the mission. President Eisenhower (also Supreme Allied Commander during WWII) said: “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”

Ep.2 Expedition Review & The difference between Tour Guide and Expedition Leader
https://open.spotify.com/show/53WfigW1ph6RhevkhcIS4c

Find a quest that was made for YOU. The concept of leveling up isn't new (almost every video game ever has this built in...
08/07/2023

Find a quest that was made for YOU.

The concept of leveling up isn't new (almost every video game ever has this built in - and for a reason - it's rewarding).

'Leveling up' in life can be less straightforward - but it doesn't have to be. We just need to adopt the same attitude of always looking for the next opportunity/adventure.

This is important enough that we can't leave it to chance... In real life we can engineer and tailor our 'quests' to result in desired skills or attributes.

Enter the concept of MISOGI - as described by Michael Easter (The Comfort Crisis) and Charles Bethea's New Yorker article highlighting Kyle Korver and Marcus Elliot.

Jesse Itzler framed it this way - "The notion around the misogi is you do something so hard one time a year that it has an impact the other 364 days of the year."

MISOGI basics -

1. Make it really hard (50/50 chance of success)
2. Don't Die
3. Make it unique, uncommon, quirky even
4. Don't post about it - ultimately this is for you - "Misogi's are inward-facing"

The prospect of this ' quest' or challenge should be exciting - even a little terrifying (keep rule #2 in mind and have adequate safety where needed).

ADVON Challenge 002 - Plan A Challenge

Develop a personal quest or MISOGI. This challenge is about coming up with the idea.
Here's a few approaches to consider when developing your challenge...

-If you wrote yourself an intro like in A Knight's Tale - how would it go? ("In Greece he spent a year in silence just to better understand the sound of a whisper" - you probably don't need to go that long though)

-What is a challenge you have wanted to do but haven't because youre afraid - can you tailor that framework to make it more your own?

More to come in our newsletter! We'd love to hear how you're approaching this challenge

Make travel moments echo through eternity (or at least your lifetime) A core quality of catching a moment and impressing...
08/07/2023

Make travel moments echo through eternity (or at least your lifetime)

A core quality of catching a moment and impressing it on your memory is focus. How you direct your attention.

Here are some techniques to avoid distraction and amplify focus.

1. Record audio - ambient sounds of the location and your experience in it. It's insane how hearing a recording of your trip can take you back in ways video or photos cannot. Think of how that album from the artist you couldn't get enough of in 2013 takes you back (feelings, senses, etc).
2. Limit photos - either go full analog and shoot 35mm or just make your digital photography much more focused/limited. You will remember taking them and they will mean more - I took 9 photos at The Great Pyramids on 35mm film... this works.
3. Sketch - with pen/pencil or with words. Doesn't matter if you suck, its the practice of observation that makes the difference.

Try combining these or adapting them to parallel activities you enjoy. It's also good for everyday stuff - try it out, record a day at work with these 3 approaches. If you post it, tag us, we want to see it.

Develop the skills to “Figure it out”We have lots of Army acronyms for that - if you know… you know. Check out this podc...
08/04/2023

Develop the skills to “Figure it out”

We have lots of Army acronyms for that - if you know… you know.

Check out this podcast style info session to hear a bit more about how we plan to add value to your life.

A few big ideas we discuss in this episode -

1) The benefits of a self-directed challenge
2) Back to the basics and why old school expeditions rock
3) Who we are and why we care about travel, helping veterans find purpose, and "the crew" (to include the community we are building)

Check it out.

Listen to ADVON.CC on Spotify. Live a more adventurous life. Travel, challenge, and new frontiers.

Most people yearn to travel, but we are a unique breed of adventurer that blazes new trails, seeks growth-stimulating ch...
07/04/2023

Most people yearn to travel, but we are a unique breed of adventurer that blazes new trails, seeks growth-stimulating challenges, and embraces discomfort.

Put yourself to the test and create your own expedition today. You won't know what you're made of until you try.

https://www.advon.cc/

06/30/2023

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