A2H #12 | Finding Your Authentic Way of Learning with Tanin Kayvan

Have you ever been afraid of going out and traveling around the world? Does leaving the comfort, safety, and the familiarity of home cause you anxiety to travel? Do you believe widespread media when it tells you that traveling anywhere outside of North America is automatically dangerous? Tanin Kayvan is someone who used to have major anxiety about her safety abroad, but ultimately had an insatiable thirst to explore the hidden, forgotten, and sometimes, neglected parts of the world. I met Tanin during COVID in Alex Banayan’s zoom mentor sessions. He is the author of The Third Door, which is a life-changing book that helped me redefine what was possible for my life. She was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada and studied anthropology at the University of Victoria. A formal college education wasn’t enough for her, so she took her learning into her own hands and traveled the world as a photojournalist to places like Peru, Mongolia, Iran, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, India, Turkey, and counting where she could experience and capture moments of what other cultures in the world are like. Her efforts helped her get published by UNESCO and her work was exhibited at their headquarters in Paris. She has also recently had her work published on CNN, and is now focusing her efforts on creating TikTok videos to bring a pocket of the beauty and magic of our world to your screen. In this episode, we talk about specific tools she used to reconcile with her anxiety so that she can live this life and explore it to the fullest. We also explore her incredible talent of photography and content creating, as she gives her audience windows into what life is like in other countries and cultures to help bring more appreciation to other ways of living. We also talk about the many ways that photography and poetry interlap and how the creative processes are so similar. We explore the link between creativity and spirituality, and how these experiences might be influenced by the presence, or absence, of religion. Tanin also shares advice she received from Mike Posner about what it means to be an artist, and expectations that artists need to release in order to embrace their unique talent and passion. We also share how some of the most unique experiences we’ve had on our travels hold a much bigger fingerprint in our lives than we expected. Connect with TaninInstagram : @taninkayvan TikTok: @taninkayvan Facebook: @taninkayvan Website: https://taninkayvan.com/________________________________________Enjoy the podcast?Please subscribe and leave a review here!Follow the PodInstagram: @art2heart.podcastWebsite: art2heart.lifeDavid’s Instagram: @mor.intune________________________________________Podcast artwork by Holly Pelletier ClarkInstagram: @themoonstorybook