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Globinar YGL Frank Epitropoulos Takes a Year Off and Travels the World

Date: April 30 - May 1, 2025
Location: 
Zoom Virtual
Contact: Global Chamber
 
Globinar YGL Frank Epitropoulos Takes a Year Off and Travels the World
  • Wednesday, April 30th at 4pm PT / 7pm ET / 11pm Accra
  • Thursday, May 1st at 12am London / 1am CET / 2am Tel Aviv + Kiev + Nairobi + Istanbul / 3am Dubai 4:30am Mumbai / 7am Singapore + Taiwan / 8am Seoul + Tokyo / 9am Sydney 


Young Global Leader Frank Epitropoulos decided to take a hiatus from his career and capture some special personal time on a life sabbatical trip. He departed the U.S. in April, 2024. Now a year later he's still trekking through Southeast Asia, Nepal, India, Taiwan, Singapore and more. He'll join us from Taiwan to share his decision, the experience after one year plus, and what's next.
 
Speaker: 
 
Frank (FT) Epitropoulos - Business Professional & Global Traveler

Business Professional (Sinclair, Inc., Gray Media, most recently FOX) with 10 years of collective experience. Born and raised in Columbus, Ohio. Graduate of the University of Cincinnati with a BBA in International Business and Marketing. Has held professional stints in Manhattan, San Francisco, France, Ohio, and Arizona. Most recently, Frank lived and worked at FOX based out of Phoenix, AZ, since August 2019.

In early 2024, Frank made the bold decision to step away from his career, completely move out of his apartment, put all his belongings into storage, live out of a 20kg backpack, and pursue a life sabbatical trip around the world. The goal was to refocus himself, make up for "lost time" due to circumstances leading up to the decision (pandemic, family matters, personal life, etc.), take advantage of a window of opportunity in his life, and return with a renewed professional hunger. What started as an initially planned 5-month sabbatical turned into a (current) 13.5-month boomerang quest around the world.

So far, Frank has traveled to 32 different countries.

Started in March 2024 (in order):

  • Philippines

  • Singapore

  • Jakarta (Indonesia)

  • Malaysia

  • Vietnam

  • Cambodia

  • Laos

  • Thailand

  • Netherlands

  • Germany

  • Czech Republic

  • Slovakia

  • Austria

  • Hungary

  • Slovenia

  • Croatia

  • Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • Serbia

  • Montenegro

  • Albania

  • Kosovo

  • North Macedonia

  • Greece

  • Bulgaria

  • Romania

  • Turkey

  • Nepal

  • India

  • Sri Lanka

  • Indonesia (again, for an Indonesian wedding)

  • Australia

  • New Zealand

  • Philippines (again)

(Currently in Taiwan)

Next (final) stops after Taiwan:

  • Singapore (again, this time looking for a job in person)

  • Hong Kong

  • Japan

 

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