Latif can feel the strength of a hand-built platform full of hives and persuades Pascoe, terrified by its rickety look, up there to hear the motorway of bees buzzing atop it. They head to Cappadocia, a unique landscape formed from volcanic mud that has been eroded to create staggering rock formations. Latif won the 2005 Outstanding Young Business Entrepreneur of the World and Outstanding Young Person of the UK, both awarded by the Junior Chamber International;[citation needed] the 2006 One Vision Man of the Year;[16] and the University of Strathclyde's 2006 Alumnus of the Year award. But blindness changed me. After going blind at an age when his peers lives were starting to expand, he fought off the depression that threatened to consume him by deciding he would start saying yes to everything. The worst part was that I eventually started to believe them. Closing More Sales from the Inside enlists a variety of interactive adult learning technologies. It was still an odd-couple pairing, but one we hadnt seen before and which soon began to make use of its potential to explore new emotional and psychological territory. Closing More Sales from the Inside will enable your inside team to unleash their selling power by implementing the best practices of the most successful wholesalers. Ive challenged Turkish oil-wrestlers on Travelling Blindand delved to the depths of some of Yorkshires hidden canyons forRiver Walks, and Ive even been lucky enough to deliver my very own TedX Talk back in my hometown of Glasgow, all in the name of challenging ideas about what blind people can and cant do. An air date has not yet been announced. Wholesalers will be introduced to the Value-First Selling System, a state-of-the-art sales process designed specifically for todays inside wholesaler selling in todays unique financial marketplace. And she plans to describe it so well that it creates a new visual palate in his imagination. And it is. You know the drill. Travelling Blind offers an insight into what it is to travel as a blind person and as a guide. Sales segmentation was extremely valuable., Practical, relevant and state-of-the-art training., Invaluable techniques for qualifying and working effectively with the inside team!, Powerful group sharing and a goldmine of strategies to improve sales results., Introduction to Value-First Selling Program, How to Establish Profitable Sales Relationships, Scripting: The Path to Duplicable Success, Highly engaging, fast-paced sessions generated timely solutions., Numerous tactical ideas were discussed that we leveraged into our business., Learning from my peers was one of many highlights., Fantastic formatGreat cutting-edge ideas I can use!. I learned so much about myself what I could still do, what the world still had to offer me and I ended up infected with the travel bug in a major way. Amar opens up of how he went blind, and the impact it had one his teenage life. I know that you dont need sight to see how beautiful our planet is, and I hope that I caninspireyou to come and explore it with me. Travelling Blind demonstrates a completely unique way of travel, as Sara uses her sight to guide and describe the world around, creating a mental picture of the places we visit together. Not that watching oil wrestlers all in black rubber trousers, trying to reach the handles inside them and flip each other over doesnt present a challenge. Company legal name and Company registration no: Traveleyes Ltd/ 05093967. But her brilliant descriptions of the sights the pair encounter are just what youd want if you couldnt see them. If you'd like to get in touch with Amar (whether it's to discuss a broadcast or public speaking appearance or just to say hi!) But she must slow down so her companion can experience everything around him. By the end of their transformational journey they have both learnt a huge amount from each other and how we interact with the world around us. Latif had to ford swollen rivers, cut through dense jungle, cross waterfalls, climb a 5,000 ft. active volcano and navigate the second largest lake in Latin America. [12], From 2017 to 2018, Latif and Anna Richardson co-presented the Channel 4 show How to Get Fit Fast, which aired for two series. Amars unique way of embracing the world provides for a refreshing new take on the travel format and not only helps Sara see the world differently, but also encourages us all to think about how we interact with the world around us, said Emily Smith, BBC commissioning editor of documentaries, in a statement. See production, box office & company info, British Broadcasting Corporation (United Kingdom). Unfortunately, much of this potential is never realized because the inside sales team has not been properly trained and coached. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. She can tell him that the bull he hears passing them on an alpine farm has testicles the size of your head. In a refreshing new travel format for BBC Two, blind world-traveller Amar Latif sets off on an adventure with comedian Sara Pascoe. Kirby Jones Management 2015 | Site Map | Privacy. Traveleyes has opened the holiday travel industry to millions of blind and partially sighted people around the world, giving them the opportunity to walk with lions in Africa, sail the Ionian Sea and ski down Europes highest mountains. Traditional communities still live here and have a long history of summer festivities. For me, it was great to see Saras journey as she learns what it is to guide and I teach her how you can experience so much of a destination using other senses. Copyright Spun Gold TV Ltd 2021. Because I cant see the sights, it heightens my curiosity more so when I travel I make sure that I get my sighted companion to describe whats before me and I often end up with a more vivid idea than if a sighted person was to just glance at something, take a picture and move on. Wholesalersbootcamp.com | All Rights Reserved.| powered by thecodifiers. This is something that I hope to get across in my latest venture, a travel TV show alongside the wonderfully funny comedian, Sara Pascoe. He has travelled extensively, visiting over a hundred countries and taken up skydiving, bungee jumping and skiing. Our website uses Cookies to help improve your experience. Most recently, Amar Latif took part in Celebrity MasterChef, their first blind contestant, reaching the semi-final and the final six of the competition, attracting a legion of fans along the way. I also found myself encouraging Sara to be a bit more adventurous and not let fear hold her back, creating a complimentary partnership. Paul Karasik, a leading authority in the financial industry, has devoted 18 years to helping financial industry professionals achieve their goals. In 2005 Latif was a participant in the first series of the BBC Two documentary Beyond Boundaries,[8] as one of a group of travellers with various disabilities on a trek of 220 miles (350km) from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts of Nicaragua. The following organizations have participated in Wholesaler Institute events: This program will be conducted virtually via Zoom meetings, Getting call backs and through gatekeepers, Handling objections and closing on next step, Copyright 2021. Additionally, Pascoe, as well as viewers, get to learn about blindness along the way. Comedian Sara Pascoe joins him on a tr Amar Latif hasn't let his lack of sight stop him from travelling the world, he has visited more than 100 countries with the help of sighted companions. By entering your details, you are agreeing to our terms and conditions and privacy policy. Through sheer determination, he has managed to turn an unpromising tale of loss, into one of inspirational achievement. Amar and Sara travel in completely different ways: Sara is an introvert, preferring to stand back and observe, avoiding talking to strangers. Images that were once familiar in his imagination - clouds, birds, his mothers face - are fading. For myself, I truly enjoyed encouraging, a sometimes hesitant, Sara to use her other senses more. As is the moment when they are present at a mountain sunset and he says: These are the moments when its shit being blind. He notes that it has been so long since he saw a sunset that, like the faces of his parents, it is beginning to slip from his memory. [5] On leaving university, he trained as an accountant,[6] eventually becoming Head of Commercial Finance for British Telecom. Each participant takes an active role in this powerful learning experience. Their time in the mountains also gives Amar and Sara time to understand each other better. The interaction between those with sight and blind travellers enables both sides to experience travel from another perspective and, in turn, take away a lot more than they would have before. He has spoken for audiences from around the world, from Goldman Sachs and Lloyds Banking to the United Nations. However, his lack of sight hasnt prevented him from experiencing the world. And then, suddenly, as the pair touched down in Istanbul, the programme seemed to find a different and much better groove. Amar had to ford swollen rivers, climb a 5,000 ft. active volcano and navigate the second largest lake in Latin America. Amar Latif hasn't let his lack of sight stop him from travelling the world, he has visited more than 100 countries with the help of sighted companions. My names Amar Latif and Im the blind guy who wants to show you the world! But whenever Amar travels he relies on a sighted companion to guide him. Paul is the author of eight business classics, including Mastering the Art of Wholesaling, and 22 Keys to Sales Success: How to Make It Big in Financial Services, published by Bloomberg Press. The film follows Amar Latif (pictured, left), a blind traveler, as takes a trip through Turkey with comedian Sara Pascoe (right). Amar Latif is a blind traveller, entrepreneur and television presenter with an astonishing track record of facing up to major challenges. [13], In 2019, Latif and Sara Pascoe featured in the BBC Two documentary Travelling Blind, in which they explored Istanbul's Grand Bazaar, remote Black Sea-bordering mountains, traditional summer oil wrestling festivities, traditional alpine cattle and bee farming methods and Cappadocia rock formations. Due to an incurable eye condition, Amar lost 95% of his sight by the age of 18. Their relationship frank, funny, fond is strengthened as they go. Fresh new look, redesigned programme hub, richer content, Try 12 issues for 1 today - never miss an issue. Amar Latif is blind but that has never prevented him from travelling the world, having now visited more than a hundred countries and taken up skydiving, bungee jumping and skiing. Amar, wearing a white polo shirt, stood with Sara, in a red t-shirt, in Cappadocia. Once she knows, she applies herself wholeheartedly to the job and as you might expect from someone who depends on making her audience see the joke for a living she is able to evoke the various weird and wonderful activities and landscapes they come across so that Latif can understand what surrounds him. All the pitfalls were sidestepped. To me, travel is just as much about what you feel, as what you see. In 2004, Amar founded Traveleyes, the worlds first commercial tour operator to specialise in holidays for blind as well as sighted travellers. Please, whitelist realscreen.com in your ad blocker and refresh your browser. Participants will receive a roadmap for success with a comprehensive, strategic, and tactical approach to inside wholesaling. Comedian Sara Pascoe joins him on a trip exploring Turkey. Being blind doesnt limit me, but instead it opens up a world of other senses that I might not have paid attention to before. Fuelled by a mix of wanderlust and teenage stubbornness, I boarded that plane with nothing but my newly acquired blindness and a suitcase full of thermals, and flew off to have the best year of my life. I feel almost the same about the programme. Amar overcame his depression by deciding to say yes to everything and becoming an immensely positive person. It is Saras first lesson in guiding - if you are blind then things need to be experienced, or else they dont really exist. Grab the last of the sunshine and enjoy visiting less crowded destinations this September and October. Amar works with schools around the world taking students on a wide range of travel adventures whilst having them describe the sights to other blind travellers. 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We had the statutory opening shots emphasising their differences: him selecting and immaculately packing his holiday wardrobe and enthusing about the coming journey; her clambering over her unmade bed wondering what she should take. He is the founder of the American Seminar Leaders Association and is a popular presenter at national meetings and conferences, including the Million Dollar Round Table. Acting as his guide, Sara begins to see the world differently as she spends time describing whats going on around them through bazaars, ancient sites, traditional communities and incredible landscapes. One of these is oil wrestling a sport Amar has heard about but never witnessed. Latif directed the 2007 Channel 4 documentary Sightseeing Blind. They learned from each other, but it didnt feel like life lessons were constructed for the camera. Blind traveller Amar Latif sets off to explore Turkey with the comedian Sara Pascoe as his sighted guide. During our journey, Sara told me that when you have sight you dont have to build an image from the ground up to the sky of whats going on around, and shed taken that for granted before we started our trip. But Amar is completely fearless, going off the beaten track and needing to be in the thick of things smelling, listening and touching everything to get a real impression of his surroundings in the absence of being able to see. Read about our approach to external linking. Traveleyes has opened the holiday travel industry to millions of blind and partially sighted people around the world, giving them the opportunity to walk with lions in Africa, sail the Ionian Sea and ski down Europes highest mountains. She is risk-averse to the point of self-parody (Other cultures scare me, she whimpers), and convinced every stranger is a murderer. He founded the company Traveleyes which, as here, pairs sighted with non-sighted travellers for group holidays, when he realised there was nothing out there that could meet his needs. For his entrepreneurial achievements, Latif received The Outstanding Young Person of the World accolade (Business / Entrepreneurial category) from the Chamber of Commerce International and the prestigious Stelios Disabled Entrepreneur Award, presented by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou. Pascoe watches anxiously as he picks up and sniffs fruit (Im so afraid of being told off Hes hands and nose straight in) and gradually learns, as a sighted person who doesnt have to build from ground to sky to know whats going on, how much detail she needs to provide for Latif to add the physical world to what he can smell, hear and taste. Or any of the other infuriating ills that such setups are generally heir to. Most recently, Amar took part in Celebrity MasterChef, their first blind contestant, reaching the semi-final and the final six of the competition, attracting a legion of fans along the way. However, after 25 years of blindness, Amar is now beginning to forget what things look like. In 2004, Latif founded Traveleyes, the worlds first commercial tour operator to specialise in holidays for blind as well as sighted travellers. Amar was told that blind people couldnt be accountants but he defied that, studying Maths and Finance at Strathclyde University. And sometime she can tell him that a place is so beautiful she doesnt have words for it. Because if I dont keep moving, Im going to end up back in that dark place, and I dont want to go there. It is a tearful, honest, underplayed confession and deeply touching. Screened worldwide, this was a gruelling 220-mile trek on foot across the rugged interior of Nicaragua, from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. 2019 saw him team up with comedian Sara Pascoe in Travelling Blind to lead this BBC documentary through some of Turkeys most famous attractions, all in the name of showing Sara (and the hundreds of thousands of viewers who tuned in to join them) exactly how much there is to be gained by stepping out of your comfort zone and opening yourself up to new ways of seeing the world. accountability, and value add programs., The Wholesaler Bootcamp provided me with the strategies needed to maximize my sales.. With Pascoe serving as Latifs sighted guide, the two learn from each others very different travel styles: she is an introvert, while he is a bold explorer. Amar explains to Sara how becoming blind as a child changed his philosophy on life and desire to experience the world. [9] He has had minor acting roles in the BBC Three comedy series It's Adam and Shelley,[10] and the BBC One drama series Love Soup. Screened worldwide, this was a gruelling 220-mile trek on foot across the rugged interior of Nicaragua, from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Check out Travelling Blind on Thursday 7th March, 8pm, on BBC2 and let me know your thoughts! I wish you could see it.. Travelling Blind demonstrates something I have known for a very long time, that sight is not the most important thing to truly see the world. [19], In July 2020 Latif was appointed as one of the first two celebrity patrons of SeeAbility, a charity working with people with learning disabilities, autism and sight loss.[20]. Ive challenged Turkish oil-wrestlers on. It didnt feel like a disability was being exploited or patronised (helped greatly by Latif being the kind of presence you just want to up and follow as an abject devotee wherever it leads), or used to say: Hey, theyre not different from us! Or that someones suffering was being pressed into the service of self-improvement for another. I think this new show highlights how sighted people can sometimes focus too much on the visuals and getting the perfect Instagram image, so they arent so present in the moment and then miss out on the multisensory experience that travel, for me, is all about.. By Heres a lovely one-off programme, the most original TV travel show in years. The beautiful relationship between blind entrepreneur Amar Latif and his sighted guide, comedian Sara Pascoe, elevates this frank and funny travelogue. Amar became known to millions through the groundbreaking BBC2 reality series, Beyond Boundaries, a jungle endurance expedition across Central America. For me, the answer is easy. Technology session was huge, as well as implementing sound and repeatable processes., Best place for me to get ideas that drive my business!, Roadmap for wholesaling success! In return he opens their eyes and their senses to a different way of travelling. Their journey through Turkey becomes as much about their relationship with each other, as it is about the country. Travelling Blind is heart-warming, insightful and emotional and takes travel shows in a new direction. Whenever Amar travels he relies on someone sighted to guide him. Sara must describe the complexities of large men in leather trousers covering themselves in olive oil and throwing each other onto the ground and she rises to the challenge. If you continue to use this site, you are agreeing to our use of Cookies. This trend is not likely to end in the near future. Here we both put our heads close to the hives and took in the magnificent sounds of thousands of buzzing bees, something Sara said she would never have done alone or with sighted friends. Together, they journey across Turkey and witness an oil-wrestling festival (Have you ever seen frogs mating?), idyllic mountain meadows, and weird rock formations (A huge Stonehenge of willies). Participants will learn the blocking and tackling skills needed to close more sales from the inside by asking smart questions, actively listening, and handling objections. In return he opens their eyes and all their senses to a completely different way of travelling. 2019 saw him team up with comedian Sara Pascoe in Travelling Blind to lead this BBC documentary through some of Turkey's most famous attractions, all in the name of showing Sara (and the hundreds of thousands of viewers who tuned in to join them) exactly how much there is to be gained by stepping out of your comfort zone and opening yourself up to new ways of seeing the world. Amar Latif (born December 1974)[1] is a Scottish entrepreneur, television personality and professional traveller.

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