Dr. Aaron Rollins

Dr Aaron Rollins RKSTravProminent laser liposuction specialist Dr. Aaron Rollins is known amongst his industry peers as deeply committed to a continued focus on innovation. To his patients, Dr. Aaron Rollins is known as a caring and compassionate doctor who takes a thoughtful approach to patient care with the goal of ensuring the greatest level of comfort and the greatest possible outcome while also minimizing the amount of downtime needed during the recovery process.

Dr. Rollins, the founder of Elite Body Sculpture, has worked diligently over the years to strike the kind of balance necessary to provide an exceptional level of patient care while also devoting time to the research and development of new and innovative practices designed to move the industry ever forward.

Exclusively focusing on laser liposuction procedures, Dr. Rollins and Elite Body Sculpture own a sterling reputation that has led to such significant demand that the practice has expanded its base of operations to include offices in Beverly Hills, Houston, New York, and Sacramento. Despite the continually increasing demand, Dr. Rollins has gone to great lengths to ensure that patients of Elite Body Sculpture continue to benefit from a highly individualized approach and receive the compassionate care that Dr. Rollins and his practice are known for providing.

Often featured as a medical expert on a wide array of platforms that include local, national, and international media, Dr. Rollins has been asked to appear on Good Day LA, Good Morning America, Extra, RTL, and Nova TV, with the latter two being stations based out of Europe. A graduate of the McGill University Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Rollins completed his surgical residencies at the University of California at San Francisco and the University of Miami before going on to found Elite Body Sculpture, a medical practice that has earned widespread acclaim and has succeeded in helping thousands of patients thus far.

1. What is your favorite thing about traveling?

I’m fascinated by fine art and culture, and traveling provides a unique opportunity to experience firsthand the most fundamentally important and truly breathtaking artistic creations.

2. Is traveling a hobby or a lifestyle for you? How did you get started?

It’s a lifestyle, especially since I spend so much time traveling between Beverly Hills, Sacramento, Houston, and New York.

3. What is the most beautiful place you’ve been to?

Venice, Italy.

4. Do you have any exciting travel dates planned for the future?

I’m hoping to return to Italy soon, as I’d like to again visit the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

5. What are some travel tips you’d give to someone inexperienced?

When I travel for recreation, I choose a destination with a very specific focus — usually related to art and art history. I think travelers should make sure to adopt a similarly purposeful approach when selecting a travel destination.

6. Where would you like to go?

Basel, Switzerland, especially during Art Basel.

7. Where would you like to revisit?

I’m quite fond of Italy, but I also had a wonderful experience in San Miguel de Allende in Mexico.

8. Do you travel alone? Why?

I’m comfortable traveling alone or with a big group, so it is really just a matter of who is available to travel and for how long.

9. If you could pick the top 3 places every person should go, what would they be?

In no particular order, I’d pick:

1. Florence, Italy

2. San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

3. Basel, Switzerland

10. Do you travel light or do you pack up the house?

Even when I am planning a long trip I prefer to feel unburdened by baggage, so I mostly travel very light.

Jon Giaan

Jon Giaan RKSTrav

An investor, educator, and travel enthusiast, Jon Giaan’s remarkable career is the direct result of his complete dedication to the belief that any goal is within reach through educational preparation and a supportive environment. When Mr. Giaan founded Knowledge Source in 2000, his goal was to make these conditions available to anyone seeking a new path toward financial prosperity by utilizing an approach focused on the establishment of highly profitable property investment portfolios. Drawing on his own experience as a self-taught property investor, Mr. Giaan created a comprehensive educational resource and recruited the most knowledgeable and most successful investors in Australia to contribute their insight and expertise to this endeavor.

Inspired to help others after achieving such immense success as a property investor, Mr. Giaan was keenly interested in removing the obstacles that had hindered him when he first began learning about and investing in real estate with the goal of creating a consistent and substantial source of wealth. Looking back on his own experience, Mr. Giaan recalled the rigorous research and the countless hours of in-depth study that ultimately illuminated the path he would take to achieve the status of self-made multimillionaire. Mr. Giaan then worked to ensure that each of these aspects would be incorporated in the Knowledge Source platform in order to help aspiring investors create their own substantial source of wealth.

With a $35-million property investment portfolio established from scratch, Mr. Giaan is particularly adept at assisting investors with no previous experience and no formal training in experiencing a feeling of financial freedom through property investment. Although he continues to manage his own portfolio while also serving as the managing director of Knowledge Source, Mr. Giaan still has ample time to travel the globe, both for business and for pleasure. The longtime travel enthusiast is often asked to speak about his experience as an investor at events all over the world and is always interested in visiting a new destination.

1. What is your favorite thing about traveling?

Traveling is one of the best ways to educate oneself, so I enjoy the unique learning opportunities it affords.

2. Is traveling a hobby or a lifestyle for you? How did you get started?

I began traveling more frequently after founding Knowledge Source, so it is more of a lifestyle for me.

3. What is the most beautiful place you’ve been to?

Athens, Greece.

4. Do you have any exciting travel dates planned for the future?

Yes, I plan on taking an extended tour of the Mediterranean quite soon.

5. What are some travel tips you’d give to someone inexperienced?

Try to begin by traveling to places that are meaningful to you on a personal level, that way each subsequent trip can be experienced with a greater degree of depth.

6. Where would you like to go?

I have yet to visit the Swiss Alps, and it looks so lovely that I am not sure why I have not made plans to travel there.

7. Where would you like to revisit?

I would like to visit Greece with much greater frequency.

8. Do you travel alone? Why?

I have traveled with my family often, but it is sometimes necessary that I travel alone if it is a short trip for business purposes.

9. If you could pick the top 3 places every person should go, what would they be?

1. Athens, Greece

2. Auckland, New Zealand

3. The Galapagos Islands

10. Do you travel light or do you pack up the house?

I try to travel with as little as possible as often as possible. My goal is to never have to stand around waiting for the luggage carousel, so I usually bring a carry-on bag and nothing else.

Dymphna Boholt

Dymphna Boholt RKSTrav

Learning the value of investing at a very early age while working on a cattle station in Central Queensland, Dymphna Boholt has come a long way since the days when a single cow was her sole asset. Ms. Boholt — then just four years old — began building an asset portfolio by breeding her cow with other cattle until she had a herd of her own. Cashing on her investment, Ms. Boholt reinvested her earnings in education, using the profits from her herd to finance her accounting and economics degrees from Canberra University.

Ms. Boholt’s academic success led to ample professional opportunities, including an offer to join Coopers & Lybrand, one of the most prominent accountancy firms in all of Australia and indeed all of the world. Ms. Boholt accepted the offer and moved to Sydney, ultimately gaining professional experience in a wide range of industries that include finance, mining, liquor, and stockbroking. While Ms. Boholt naturally excelled in each of her roles, she eventually decided to pursue an entrepreneurial endeavor, founding Active Financial Answers, an accountancy practice that she ran until making the decision to pursue even greater prosperity through property investing.

After conducting a great deal of research on real estate and property investing, Ms. Boholt found inspiration from Dr. Dolf de Roos, a property investment expert known the world over for his exceptional approach to investing. Following a single year in which Ms. Boholt built an international property investment portfolio worth $3.5 million with $1.5 million in equity, Ms. Boholt was featured in Dr. de Roos’ popular book, “Secrets of Property Millionaires Exposed,” which ultimately led to Ms. Boholt’s next professional endeavor.

Having enjoyed immense success as a property investor, Ms. Boholt founded I Love Real Estate with the goal of sharing her vast property investment expertise with others looking to build a real estate property investment portfolio of their own. She has also written several books on a number of relevant subjects, including “Protect Your Assets.”

1. What is your favorite thing about traveling?

Traveling reminds me how important it is to make sure you have time that is all your own so you can explore new places and visit friends and family wherever they may be.

2. Is traveling a hobby or a lifestyle for you? How did you get started?

It’s probably most accurate to say that traveling falls somewhere in the middle of hobby and lifestyle, and I first got the travel bug after traveling to — and then living in — downtown Bangkok for a spell.

3. What is the most beautiful place you’ve been to?

Aside from my home on the Sunshine Coast of Australia, Tanzania is the most beautiful place I have ever been to.

4. Do you have any exciting travel dates planned for the future?

My family and I still have to nail down our plans, but we have discussed going to Bali, Hawaii or Madagascar.

5. What are some travel tips you’d give to someone inexperienced?

Take the time to really research potential locations before making a final decision so you can plan accordingly and feel comfortable in a place that might otherwise feel unfamiliar.

6. Where would you like to go?

I’m hoping that our next trip is to Hawaii, but I’m leaving the final decision up to the rest of the family.

7. Where would you like to revisit?

I’d like to go back to Bangkok, if only to visit some of the close friends I made during my time living there.

8. Do you travel alone? Why?

There was a time when I preferred to travel alone, but I love having my family with me wherever we happen to go.

9. If you could pick the top 3 places every person should go, what would they be?

East Africa is beautiful if you don’t mind a bit of rugged travel, and I would add Hawaii and Bali to the top three without hesitation.

10. Do you travel light or do you pack up the house?

I habitually over-pack, even while consciously trying to pack nothing but necessities.

Sam Ovens

OVENS International founder Sam Ovens delights in telling the story of how he so thoroughly disrupted the marketing industry when he first implemented his innovative marketing approach through his still-new digital marketing consulting firm. After transforming a number of clients in New Zealand and Australia into immediately recognizable and wildly profitable brands, Mr. Ovens decided to focus on sharing with others his newly developed and highly effective approach to consulting through the creation of e-learning programs detailing the strategies he used to earn more than $10 million over a four-year period.

As Mr. Ovens transitioned the focus of OVENS International from marketing consulting to e-learning programs, he also began an entirely new venture called SnapInspect. This new concept developed by Mr. Ovens revolved around a digital application capable of streamlining the process of property inspection to such a degree that the time needed to complete the inspection was reduced by 75 percent. The application quickly became popular and expanded its reach into 16 countries with a total user base exceeding 2,000 individual customers, allowing Mr. Ovens to sell the company for quite a tidy sum and for substantially more than he invested in it.

Mr. Ovens, who was born in New Zealand and grew up in Auckland, now resides in New York City, which is also the location of OVENS International’s primary offices. As a result of being so far from the country in which he was raised — not to mention the overwhelming success of his entrepreneurial ventures — Mr. Ovens has traveled extensively and visited some of the most remarkable destinations throughout both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Traveling for both business and pleasure, Mr. Ovens often points out his great fortune in being able to work from any location that happens to strike his fancy, citing one of the many benefits of building a business from the ground up and relying on nothing more than a sharp instinct for entrepreneurship.

1. What is your favorite thing about traveling?

It all depends on the purpose of the trip. Sometimes traveling allows me to visit family and friends, and other times it allows me to explore incomparable coral reefs while scuba diving.

2. Is traveling a hobby or a lifestyle for you? How did you get started?

I’d say it is definitely a lifestyle for me. I got started after I began securing clients in countries outside of New Zealand, and I began to travel with greater frequency once the business really took off and became so exceptionally profitable.

3. What is the most beautiful place you’ve been to?

Aitutaki — located in the Cook Islands — is the most beautiful place I have ever been to.

4. Do you have any exciting travel dates planned for the future?

I try to fly back to New Zealand a few times per year, and I’m due for a return trip fairly soon. It’s always exciting to head home for a visit.

5. What are some travel tips you’d give to someone inexperienced?

It is not always necessary to spend more than you can afford to have an enjoyable vacation. Even though I have the means to spend as much as I’d like, I can recall plenty of wonderful travel experiences in which I hardly spent a dime.

6. Where would you like to go?

I’d like to go to Egypt to see the pyramids, but it may be quite some time before I plan a trip to that region.

7. Where would you like to revisit?

I love to go swimming, fishing and diving in the Cook Islands, and I would like to visit there again.

8. Do you travel alone? Why?

I only travel alone when it is for business, and even then I sometimes bring a few friends along.

9. If you could pick the top 3 places every person should go, what would they be?

The two places I’ve called home — Auckland and New York City — are definitely must-see destinations. As for a third, I believe everyone should see the Amazon Rainforest or the Andean Mountain Range at least once in their life.

10. Do you travel light or do you pack up the house?

I travel very light simply to avoid the inconvenience of lugging so much stuff around. I’d rather just pick up whatever I need once I get to my destination.