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Submit ReviewToday, I’m revisiting one of my favorite episodes of The Travelers, #183, an interview with Jonathan and Quinn Button from Life out of the Box, a company that takes the Tom’s shoes model — but instead of shoes, it’s local artiisanal crafts, such as bracelets and apparel, handmade by locals — and for each sale, a portion of the proceeds goes towards providing supplies to teachers in that very same local area. And I love this, not only because education is the most important cause, in my opinion, and so their mission is very close to my heart, but also that they literally followed Holocene’s 8-stage process to transform themselves from aspiring entrepreneurs to successful, world travelers and thought leaders in their field. They’ve found success and fulfillment in who they transformed themselves into using Curiosity and Creativity to find transformation. This is Holocene. So I’m really excited to delve back into this case study from episode 183, so you can see how this transformative experience framework works.
Here's a short episode - a story about how Creativity, inspired by Travel, changed my life. And how it can open world's of possibility for you, as it has for all of the guests on this show.
Creativity is the forgotten third act of transformative experience.
This is Season 3, Part 7 of 12, in which we move into the final part of every transformative story: Creativity. Despite how seemingly transformational a travel experience might be, why is it that most people never change after their travels and instead return back to living the same life and being the same person? It's because the most overlooked part of every transformational travel experience is also the hardest. What do we do when we get home? How do we hold onto the sense of self, our travel self, that we reconnected with on the road? How do we convert the inspiration to change into actual lasting change? This episode answers all of that and more.
Did Curiosity kill the cat? Maybe, but not in the way you think.
This is Season 3, Part 6 of 12, in which we wrap up our deep dive on Curiosity by diving into its potential for infinite personal growth and also destructiveness in our lives. Learn how to use Curiosity in your life, why you need a guide, and how to avoid the pitfalls of Curiosity.
Welcome to Episode 5 of The Travelers Season 3 where we’re exploring the 4 stages of Transformative Travel, in 3 episodes each. Right now we’re on Stage 2, which is Curiosity. And it’s a big one. It’s where travel happens. Transformative Travel is about using travel find personal growth or transformation, so Curiosity is fundamental in the transformative process. In this episode we’re going to break down a conversation from episode 95 with Candace Rose Rardon, a travel artist and writer, whose journey is one of my absolute favorite examples of the potential for curiosity.
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We’re going to explore the next stage in Holocene’s transformative experience framework: Curiosity. First, we’ll explore what Curiosity is, some of its benefits, and why it’s so important. Then in the next episode, we’ll explore a Curiosity-driven-life of travel, and then I’ll go into how to avoid the pitfalls of Curiosity and how to apply it to your life so that you can benefit in the same ways.
This episode is part 3 in a 12 part exploration of Transformational Travel. On this episode, we're talking about STORIES. Namely, how to begin to rewrite the story we tell ourselves, why it’s so important that we consider doing this for our mental health, and how travel can help us do that. If you're feeling trapped by any negative thoughts, limiting beliefs, self doubt or the doubt from others, then this is absolutely your episode.
Lauren Juliff from Never Ending Footsteps travel blog and author of How Not to Travel the World is a perfect example of someone who overcame immense RESISTANCE to find personal transformation.
Growing up, Lauren always had a calling to travel. Unfortunately, she also had paralyzing anxiety, suffering from up to five panic attacks every day.
Despite this debilitating condition, along with the lack of support from friends and family, and her own self-confidence, Lauren still found a way to answer her calling.
Listen to her story and learn how to use Curiosity to Overcome Resistance.
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Alex Crevar is the travel editor at Paste Magazine and a freelance journalist, specializing on international travel - with bylines in The New York Times, Men’s Journal, Outside, National Geographic Traveler, and Time Out. Alex brings to his work and life over 2 decades of focus on the Balkans - a region of the world I’m itching to see, particularly Macedonia, Bosnia, and Serbia and the Via Dinarica, a trek across 8 balkan countries.
Alex found a parallel in a time of transition between himself and the Balkans, a region of the world that has undergone rapid changes and an ongoing rebranding, over the past couple decades. Today, he is one of the world’s foremost authorities on the Balkans. He’s the travel editor at Paste Magazine and a freelance journalist, a career he found that he found purpose and creative expression from pursuing.
This episode is perfect for anyone who might feel stuck in their surroundings, or looking for a way to approach their travels to find inspiration from gaining a better sense of self.
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Rachel's Bio: If you want to know what it's like to climb Kilimanjaro, paraglide with a hawk (a.k.a. "parahawk"), ice climb while simultaneously shooting a PBS show, or SCUBA dive the continental divide in Iceland, Rachel's the woman to ask.
Rachel has always been an explorer, from the days of youth running barefoot through Ohio's forests, to the present day scouring the globe for stories that need telling.
This episode is perfect for: Anyone looking to do anything that's bigger than them, or seeking transformation from their curiosity and the world.
Kirsten Alana is a former nomad turned New York based travel photographer, entrepreneur, consultant, writer, blogger and digital influencer and the creative mind behind Aviators and a Camera, where she posts about her adventures, luxury travel assignments, creative pursuits and life in general.
The compelling thing about Kirsten is not just the many hats she wears, or that what she does is unusual but how she does it so well, and with such a thoughtful style. At the very least, you should check out her work on Instagram. She is exactly the sort of person brands want to work with because she makes them look good, and smart.
This episode is ideal for anyone looking for change, a pathway to transformation in work and life, and who is considering traveling but letting something in a structured life hold them back from pursuing who they're meant to become.
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Elena Paschinger is the author of The Creative Travelers Handbook, the first - and I think only - travel guide for creative travel.
What is creative travel? You might be asking. We’ll get into that.
Elena is a multi-lingual Austrian travel writer, consultant, and speaker with a career in tourism management. A year spent living in New Zealand triggered an awareness for the potential creative travel has in this world, and she began to pursue a consultancy around it - to help destinations cultivate their creative offerings to travelers.
She speaks 7 languages, paints, and you can explore her work and travel writing over at creativeelena.com
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14 years ago, on January 1st 2002, a book by a first time author was released onto shelves. This book became a runaway hit that, at the very least, changed the perspective of independent travel to a generation hungry for a little more adventure in life.
The book was called Vagabonding. It’s author, Rolf Potts is sitting down with us today — he’s the mind behind two books, the other is called Marco Polo Didn’t Go There, a collection of short stories from a life spent embracing "the ragged edge" of travel. He’s an essayist and writer who’s work you can find in publications like National Geographic Traveler, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Travel Channel, The Atlantic, and so many more. Nowadays, he’s a teacher and enthusiast for world travel, and vagabonding — his own term that describes a certain philosophical ethos around long term travel as a lifestyle, and not simply a flash in the pan experience for people in their 20s. Instead, travel can become a wider experience that a creative person might integrate and alternate between parts of their life. A life that begins the moment you stop making excuses.
This episode is perfect to reboot The Travelers podcast (formerly The Daily Travel Podcast) and an ideal listen for anyone looking to get a stronger understanding of travel's relationship to finding your career, fulfillment, and actualizing your best self.
*2015 marks the 25th anniversary of Halloween Horror Nights here at Universal Studios in Orlando. Every year since 1991, this event has grown not only at this park, but at other Universal Studios Theme Parks all around the world. Together, my wife and I got to experience the whole event as a part of a VIP press event, which included touring 9 elaborately designed haunted mazes and multiple outdoor “scare zones”. They’ve basically turned the entire theme park and nine of the professional sound stages into one enormous haunted environment. It was, hands down, the most incredible and surreal outdoor atmosphere and immersive theater experience I’ve ever wandered through.
Interested in attending Halloween Horror Nights 25? This is the perfect year to go for the first time or return and re-immerse yourself in the 25 years of Horror Night homage. Get your tickets information here. And be sure to check out these posts from friends of the show for everything you need to know:
Halloween Horror Nights: A Hauntingly Good Time by Mary Jo Manzanares at Traveling with MJ
Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios by Cailin O'Neil from Travel Yourself
Universal Orlando Halloween Horror Nights 2015: Private Media Event, Houses and Tips by Krista Thompson at The Fairytale Traveler Become a Friend of the Show: Please subscribe and review! It just takes a second and you can help the show increase its rankings on iTunes just by this simple and quick gesture. We’d be grateful for a review. Leave one here. If you do, click here to let me know so I can personally thank you!
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Jason Will is the Founder and CEO behind Zipkick, a startup determined to personalize the travel booking process. With brand ambassador Scott Eddy behind the wheel, I jumped onboard the Zipkick roadtrip - a cross-country tour to build hype around the launch of the Zipkick smartphone apps.
Growing up playing competitive hockey left Jason with little chance to travel as a kid but plenty of competitive drive to be a champion. In this conversation, we delve into that inner-fuel and what it takes to launch and run a startup in the tech and travel industries.
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Today’s guest is a photographer, filmmaker, blogger, and social entrepreneur.
And she’s also new to international travel, but she’s also just 17, which means she’s getting quite a headstart at building a life of travel, exploring her curiosity and creativity through The Global Sunrise Project, a documentary film project she’s building. Through this project, and her travels, Kasha Slavner explores the emotional value exposing yourself at a young age to difference, and why it’s so important to become what’s widely known as a global citizen.
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“We think we know the plan, right? But the plan always tends to change on us. I had no idea. But I knew that something needed to change. I grew up in the city as a teenager. I always had this intrinsic feeling that at some point I wanted to get out and to see the world. I didn’t know how that was going to happen. But there was this golden thread that was consistent. It was maybe a little buried. There were doubts and there were fears. There were other pressures, that were like ‘Stay in Toronto!’ ‘Be like everyone else!’ but hey. Sometimes you just need to go with your gut.” - Christophe Cappon Christophe Cappon is a Canadian who’s uprooted his life to move to Chiang Mai, Thailand, where he founded Thailand Yoga Holidays — an atypical yoga school that integrates the surroundings of Northern Thailand — it’s life, it’s food, and culture - into a series of retreats. Christophe's decision to move to Chiang Mai was not an easy one and was quickly followed by a bout of Dengue Fever. Through this struggle, which he describes as an organic process, Christophe unlocked a love of the people and lifestyle of Thailand. He planted roots and built a school that now is "rolling really well," in his words. To me, his story is an example of the benefit of being open to being unplanned, being challenged, and being receptive to new experience. I’m excited to sit down and explore his decision to build a life around his desire to see the world and explore his interests, rather than let these things remain hobbies and past-times.
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The idea that you need to give up your travels in order to see the world is a common belief, but one that Edna has somehow dispelled along the way. At 18, Edna Zhou moved to Shanghai to work her way around the world. At 21, she left with almost nothing to live in Singapore — inadvertently jumpstarting an international career in sports journalism, eventually leading to one of travel writing. From there, she’d never look back - and I’m excited to bring her on the show to explore HOW someone’s able to perpetually travel while still growing a career, as we might define one to be. Today, you can see her work and follow her adventures at ExpatEdna.com.
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In this very special, and first-ever, live interview I sit down with creative agency founder and travel media producer Kristen Kellogg to explore her journey from bartender leading the wrong life to embracing the life waiting for her in travel.
Today, Kristen is the talent behind Border Free Travels, a boutique video and social marketing agency for brands and destinations through which she's reconstructed her lifestyle around a passion to see the world and capture her experiences in a personal way.
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“I tell stories of the unsung heroes, the champions of humanity, giving hope to those in need of a quick pick-me-up. Through inspirational messaging and conscious action, I believe media has the power to motivate viewers to occupy their hearts.” - Britt Hysen Today we get to sit down with the Founder and Editor in Chief of Millennial Magazine, a digital publication focused on the potential of the Millennial generations as change agents. In it’s own words, it’s “Forbes meets Life magazine with a social impact twist.”
Along with her team of photographers and writers, Britt produces monthly digital issues featuring stories across news, culture, profiles of Millennials making an impact and spotlights topics across the board, shining a light on the potential for a generation that up until recently has been more at the butt end of criticism than a tour de force generation that is coming into its own.
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Today’s guest is one I had the pleasure of meeting in one of the many places he considers home, Bangkok. He took me to a cigar and whiskey bar in which they were projecting Buster Keaton on the brick wall and had a jazz singer in the corner. After a day spent on Khao San Road, and the backpacker scene there, this was a whole different side of Bangkok. The whole place felt a lot more New York than it did back alley Thailand. And that’s how where I got to know Scott Eddy, a former stockbroker turned world traveling digital marketing consultant and public speaker. More recently, he’s added digital nomad to list of descriptors. But travel wasn’t always there for Scott, and we’re going to get into the direction he’s taken his career, how and why. Above all things, I’ve noticed Scott to be an opportunist in the best of ways — he never passes the opportunity to make a new connection, visit a new place, meet a new audience, or just say hello and be curious.
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Adina Pease is a creative wanderer — her term, that I wish I thought of — and when she’s not documenting her travels in paint or film, through her company Dog on a Boat Studios, she’s running her new startup RambleGood, making and selling handmade travel goods for a good cause, products designed for the curious, the travelers, and those with an insatiable wanderlust for the world. Does that sound like you? Because I’m pretty sure that describes me. She’s worked with National Geographic, Travel Oregon, and Matador Network, to name just a few, on various creative storytelling projects.
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"What's another place that's kind of a black hole in people's imagination? Does it stretch me a little? So I go there open endedly... I'm just relying on good luck and chance encounters." - Naomi Duguid, on finding her next travel and creative project.
Naomi Duguid is a former-lawyer turned award winning cookbook writer, author, photographer and traveler. She’s the author of Hot Sour Salty Sweet, a culinary journey through Southeast Asia, and the person behind her website Immerse Through and presently working on her next book called Caucasia, an exploration of culture through food in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran and Iraqi Kurdistan. In this in depth conversation we dive right into the good stuff to explore what motivates Naomi's creative endeavors and drives her travels to the lesser known parts of the globe and how she built a life of travel having abandoned a more conventional career in the law.
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Can travel break you away from shyness and naiveté? I think I know the answer to this, and so does today’s guest — who spent a year on the road searching for purpose and personal growth. Nithin Coca is a freelance writer and social activist, as well as the author of the book Traveling Softly and Quietly, a young man’s journey for meaning on and off the beaten path - which you can pick up now. Nithin is an Indian American from Southern California with a lifelong travel bug — and his works been featured in many international and online publications. He's even spent time as a Couchsurfing ambassador, something that might lend a hint to his belief on overcoming shyness through travel.
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Get the Paradise Pack here and let me know! We'll sit down for an hour long trip planning consultation or help setting up a location independent business.
The Paradise Pack is a collection of tools and resources designed to help you break down the barriers between where you are and where you want to be. Whether that's traveling more or building a location independent lifestyle business, this pack contains items made by 11 guests from The Daily Travel Podcast AND more! In short, it's over $2000 worth of high quality resources for $197. And it's only on sale for 7 days (June 1-8).
In this episode, we explore what it's all about, and what Jason Moore and Travis Sherry have been up to for the last year building and living their location independent lifestyles.
I'm proud to promote this because I respect the two guys putting it out. Jason runs the website Zero To Travel and the top rated travel podcast by the same name. Travis is the mind behind Extra Pack of Peanuts, also a travel resource website and top rated podcast. Plus, 10% of sales goes directly to the incredible organization Pencils of Promise to help build a school in developing countries.
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"Good people greatly outnumber nasty people, worldwide. There is a network that existed long before facebook, and it is the network of persons of good will, who will introduce and pass you to other persons of good will, such that you can take a friendly look around a town, a nation or the world, as you like. There is no similar network among nasty people, they are on their own, and if you know what is good for you, leave them alone." – Mike Spencer Bown
23 years of adventures spent wandering the world has led Michael Bown to visiting every country and every region on Earth, from war-torn Mogadishu to living with pygmies in the Congo, all of this giving him credence to lay claim to the title of the world’s most travelled person in human history. This is not simple. Hitchhiking, multiple arrests in foreign countries, multiple bouts of malaria. But that’s the point. It’s the willingness to endure challenge, and the kindness of the strangest of strangers that delivers the story we’re looking for.
And today we get to know Mike Spencer Bown. In this piece, we explore the time Mike's spent in solitude living in the woods and how this has prepared and conditioned him for a life of perpetual travel to everywhere on this planet.
In this episode, we get into Mike's time spent in solitude living in the woods and how that experience conditioned him to become a perpetual traveler capable of going to everywhere in the world.
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Jacqueline Kehoe is a travel writer and the author behind The Strange and New, a name taken from a poem that ends with a couplet which I grabbed from her website: "...But they're always tired of the things that are
and they want the strange and new." I believe those two lines describe people like us, certainly me and perhaps you. In Jacqueline's words, those lines are meant "for those who have their traveling paint set in hand, who globe-trot to become, and who yearn for experiences that are really just a series of interesting guesses."
A single trip to Viet Nam lasted longer than this midwestern girl expected and today, from North Carolina, she's channeling a love of travel into narrative style prose. I'm excited in this episode to get into who Jacqueline is, where that perspective comes from, what happened in Viet Nam, her backstory and travels and how theater, like travel, might offer a glimpse into how it feels to try on different masks.
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Beth Whitman is the editor and mind behind Wanderlust and Lipstick, where she bills herself as a contemporary wanderer and women’s travel expert, leading women-only and coed adventure tours that go from places like Santa Fe to Bhutan and New Guinea.
Once upon a time, Beth took a 3 month trip around the US at age 20, an experience that would catalyze her career in travel and a desire to venture further into the world.
Today, she is no stranger to adventure having completed the Snowman Trek in Bhutan, ridden a motorcycle from the Pacific Northwest to Panama, and backpacked all over Asia and Oceania. Beth and I met briefly at The White House Summit for Study Abroad and Global Citizenship and in this episode, you'll get to know her further.
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After nine years as a celebrity gossip columnist in New York City, Kelly Will sold everything she owned to cross all 50 of the United States for one year — a social experiment she undertook to try to find more connection and build community into her life. Today, she’s gearing up to launch her book, Willful, and a new company to help others find connection and purpose from the things they do. I’m excited to explore Kelly’s reasons for taking such a trip — and broadcasting it in the way that she did, and the effects that the experience have had on her life and person.
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In 2013, Mike Margolies had all the things you’re supposed to want to make you happy, but it wasn’t enough. He left his corporate job as an engineer to see if the world had something else to offer that might fulfill him. The risks were minimal - to take a career break in your 20s is not completely unheard of. I did it and it changed me. What Mike found did change the direction of his life, his definition of a career, the limits of his curiosity, and creativity, and today’s he’s exploring the travel lifestyle on his podcast, Walking the Earth. I’m curious to get into who Mike is, what he’s exploring through the podcast, what his definition of ‘the travel lifestyle’ is, and his stories from his travels.
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“I remember thinking, ‘What am I doing?’ I had a great husband, I had a great house, I had all this safety — this big safety net — and I’ve just taken myself out of it. Am I doing the right thing? What is this going to lead to? It was really difficult. And there were moments on the road when I was just distraught and confused but I think once you take that giant leap of faith, the only way is forward. And it’s only natural to want to go back to something that’s really safe. To go back to your old life but if you just keep going forward, then you learn to trust, in whatever it is you learn to trust in. For me, it’s the universe. I trusted that everything will be okay. And since then doors have opened. I don’t regret that at all. I’m definitely living the right life for me now.” Lisa Eldridge is an author and journalist, whose works been published by Insight Guides, Sunday Times Travel, and Real Travel magazine. With a background in the travel industry, she set out at twenty one to live and work in numerous countries, totalling 85 — about half of which she visited on her own. But it was in Eastern Asia that she found the inspiration to create something from her curiosity, and her site site Girl About the Globe was born — an ethical travel resource for women who want to travel, and might need to do so on their own. She recently successfully Kickstarted her own book, A Female Guide to Solo Travel. Solo-female travel is a topic we get into a lot on this show — and we’ll be exploring a little this month (April 2015). I wanted to chat with Lisa at a deeper level about the complexities and differences of being a woman on the road, and why it is harder for women to find the same transformative experience on the road as I did, and continue to do, in my travels.
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Jonny Blair is the Northern Irishman behind the site Don't Stop Living, a blog "covering the lifestyle of travel," which he defines as being always on the move - even when employed. Jonny's backpacked to 99 countries and on the cusp of hitting #100 - while studying in England, China, Australia and Uruguay.
In this episode, we get into how Jonny defines the travel lifestyle for himself, what motivates that, and how he makes this work for himself.
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Mark van der Heijden is a creative copywriter from Amsterdam who just last year, left his job to travel the world with an unique goal. He calls himself The Backpacker Intern and is leveraging his talents as a creative copywriter to land internships around the world in the fields of content marketing, advertising, and production in exchange for (get this) only food and somewhere to sleep.
This quest has led him to the TEDx stage in New York, The White House where we met, among the top 100 digital media influencers in travel, and most recently, Antarctica - which he’s just returned from and I can’t wait to hear all about.
Love what Mark’s doing and the extremely savvy and unique approach to using his travels to help others and perpetuate this idea that travel isn’t detrimental to your career. In fact, it makes you more desirable to employers.
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Marina Janeiko is a digital nomad with a particular skill-set with which she’s been supporting a lifestyle of travel and creative wandering, while building a career for herself that allows her to live and work from anywhere. As a User Experience Designer, she’s been working on What’s It Like — a web platform that focuses on travel by asking when should you go, rather than where — which is an idea I absolutely love. And for the past 5 years, Marina’s been living the digital nomad lifestyle with her husband, traveling from country to country, exploring the earth while building a location independent career for herself.
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"For every alleyway out there, there's an alleyway inside of you."
This is part 2 of my conversation with Don George. Listen to part 1. Don George is the Editor at Large for National Geographic Traveler, as well as a Special Features Editor for Gadling. He’s the former editor of the San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle. the founder and former editor of the Wanderlust section of Salon.com, and the Global Travel Editor at Lonely Planet. He’s the author of the lonely planet guide to travel writing and most recently the editor of An Innocent Abroad, Lonely Planet’s most recent collection of travel stories from some amazing people, some of whom I’m lucky enough to call friends. In this two-part conversation, Don shares his beginnings as an aspiring poet, a pilgrimage to Paris to follow in the footsteps of great writers, and his transformation into a travel writer. In it, we explore what it means to live profoundly, how travel can make that easier to achieve, and how to uncover the stories that are waiting for you to tell.
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Don George is the Editor at Large for National Geographic Traveler, as well as a Special Features Editor for Gadling. He's the former editor of the San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle. the founder and former editor of the Wanderlust section of Salon.com, and the Global Travel Editor at Lonely Planet. He’s the author of the lonely planet guide to travel writing and most recently the editor of An Innocent Abroad, Lonely Planet’s most recent collection of travel stories from some amazing people, some of whom I’m lucky enough to call friends. In this two-part conversation, Don shares his beginnings as an aspiring poet, a pilgrimage to Paris to follow in the footsteps of great writers, and his transformation into a travel writer. In it, we explore what it means to live profoundly, how travel can make that easier to achieve, and how to uncover the stories that are waiting for you to tell.
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In 2006, today’s guest first appeared way back in episode 86 and 87, where we talked about how to travel longterm in a financially sustainable way and how to find free accommodation anywhere.
Nora Dunn left a career in financial planning to embrace the desire of perpetual travel, which she has been doing for the past 8 years — and since then has been helping others accomplish the same through her blog, The Professional Hobo. She’s released two books, How to Get Free Accommodation Around the World, and for any train journey lovers like me — Tales of Trains: Where the Journey is the Destination.
And now she’s released her third from Unconventional Guides, Live and Work from Anywhere — Transplant your Career, Job, or Business to the Global Location of Your Choice. In this episode, we explore the changes in Nora's life over the past year, finding balance in the lifestyle of work and travel, and how Nora's new book can help you find the right path toward location independence.
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Get Nora's book, Live and Work from Anywhere The Professional Hobo, where you can follow Nora's travels and learn from her expertise Check out Nora's column on CreditWalk.ca
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This is part 2 of my conversation with John Marshall, author of Wide Open World. Listen to part 1. Wide Open World is a new memoir by John Marshall, a 9-time Emmy Award winning producer from Portland, Maine. This book is more of an opus to experience and a richly told account of likely the most beautiful thing John Marshall has ever done for himself, his family, and everyone they helped and were helped by along the way to finding whatever it was that they found waiting for them out there on the road. And we’ll hear all about what that was. Before the trip, John’s marriage was struggling and he was becoming increasingly disconnected from his teenage kids. The trip was to be a change agent. And since the trip, John’s been committing time to helping orphans around the world, and I’m sure we’ll explore when and where this fire kindled inside of him, and from where the inspiration for the trip and book came.
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JohnMarshall.com Get John's book, Wide Open World on Amazon Learn about and donate to Orphan School on IndieGogo John's charity, New Orphanage
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Wide Open World is a new memoir by John Marshall, a 9-time Emmy Award winning producer from Portland, Maine. This book is more of an opus to experience and a richly told account of likely the most beautiful thing John Marshall has ever done for himself, his family, and everyone they helped and were helped by along the way to finding whatever it was that they found waiting for them out there on the road. And we’ll hear all about what that was. Before the trip, John’s marriage was struggling and he was becoming increasingly disconnected from his teenage kids. The trip was to be a change agent. And since the trip, John’s been committing time to helping orphans around the world, and I’m sure we’ll explore when and where this fire kindled inside of him, and from where the inspiration for the trip and book came.
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JohnMarshall.com Get John's book, Wide Open World on Amazon Learn about and donate to Orphan School on IndieGogo John's charity, New Orphanage
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This is part 2 of my conversation with Erik Paquet from The Abroaders. Listen to part 1. As just a hobbyist, today's guest has redeemed over one million points and frequent flyer miles for at least $30,000 in free travel. Nowadays, Erik Paquet runs the international travel consultancy The Abroaders, helping people around the world travel for as close to free as it gets. As a result, Erik’s created a location independent business for himself and his partners, coaching friends, family and his clients on how to leverage their credit to dramatically reduce the cost of travel.
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As just a hobbyist, today's guest has redeemed over one million points and frequent flyer miles for at least $30,000 in free travel. Nowadays, Erik Paquet runs the international travel consultancy The Abroaders, helping people around the world travel for as close to free as it gets. As a result, Erik’s created a location independent business for himself and his partners, coaching friends, family and his clients on how to leverage their credit to dramatically reduce the cost of travel.
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The Abroaders ErikPaquet on Twitter Flyer Talk
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Hey Explorers! Danny was kind enough to give us all a free audio version of his new book, Buy Your Own Island: The Ultimate Guide to Breaking Free and Making Your Dreams Reality. You can download the audiobook here. After struggling to find employment out of college, Danny Flood instead decided to travel the world - and pursue a list of dreams that he’d written down on a piece of paper. Five years later he’s still traveling and living overseas and Danny’s ready to tell his story — and I’m excited to explore exactly where this decision has taken him, and the work that he’s become inspired to produce. Among a handful of his project, Danny is the founder of Open World Magazine, an online resource for travel, entrepreneurship and life hacking. And now he’s the author of his first book, Buy Your Own Island — the ultimate guide to breaking free and making your dreams reality.
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Open World Magazine Buy Your Own Island, Danny's new book
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Max Breckbill is an American in Germany, and together with his partner, Marcus Meurer, they’ve been embedding themselves into the entrepreneurial scene there in Berlin. Marcus founded DNX Global - The Digital Nomad Conference, which is happening on July 31st 2015, featuring a number of digital nomad speakers who have been on this show. In Berlin, Max runs series entrepreneurial community activities among aspiring and successful independent people in Berlin seeking support, help, and to spend time with like-minded people. So many travel shows focus on what people call location independence and lifestyle entrepreneurship - and while I cover these topics, as well as respect and practice them myself — I say this a lot on this show — entrepreneurship may not be for everyone, but travel should be. And in this episode, we explore who these two guys are, and what the creative scene in Berlin might be like, particularly for digit and the role they see themselves filling in their lives there.
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Max Breckbill on about.me The Digital Nomad Conference Markus and Felicia's travel blog, Travelicia
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Megan Jerrard is the mind behind the award winning travel blog and extremely helpful resource Mapping Megan. Meg and her husband Mike have been covering their own adrenalin-fueled travels for 8 years — since way back in 2007. Together they seek to let their own dreams inspire others to pursue their own — to get out there and explore, and become a better version of yourself.
Adventure is the departure from your comfort zone, and in this episode we get into what it is that compels Megan to constantly do this, and keep doing this, for over 8 years now.
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Jenna Davis is a travel blogger and freelance writer from Ontario who, since 2012, has been choosing a life of travel over the status quo. I’m going to quote something she wrote about herself that I can entirely relate to: “To be honest, I had no idea where I wanted to be in the future, I just knew I couldn’t be average. I couldn’t put myself into a position where I would go to bed every day unsatisfied with my life and worrying about the problems I have on my plate for the next day at the office. Life is so much bigger than that and I felt so sheltered living in this life I hated.” Now you can find her writing at Give for Granted where she focuses on meaningful adventure and giving back through sustainable travel — making a change in her life through dedication to the service of others.
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Life Out of the Box
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I met Alex Montoya in December of 2014 at The White House Travel Blogger Summit on Study Abroad and Global Citizenship. He was the only student we heard from at the event. All being participants of study abroad and travel programs ourselves, this was okay but the reason was obvious: He was a recipient of the Gilman Scholarship, which helps connect underserved populations that might not have the opportunity to afford or find programs to study abroad with the ability to actually go and participate in internships and learning abroad. With encouragement from a professor, Alex found the guidance to discover the opportunities out there to study abroad, what it means to study abroad, and how to make it happen. In this episode, we explore his story, the transformation, and how it felt to be speaking on stage, at The White House, with the biggest names in travel and government.
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"Losing everything, as shocking as it was at the time, kind of sets you free because suddenly you know what it is to lose everything. So you don't fear failure and loss quite as much because you've already experienced it." Justin Tyers and his wife Linda lost everything they had in the middle of the night. But instead of letting this devestate their lives, they chose to see this as an opportunity to pursue the life they'd always dreamed of. Without any experience, they set sail to live on a boat to sail across the coasts of Ireland and Scotland. What happened at home in the middle of the night, well I'll let Justin tell that story...
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Justin Tyers website Canvas Flying, Seagulls Crying, Justin's latest book
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Life Out of the Box, according to founders Jonathan and Quinn, started with a dream to travel the world, live their ideal lives and make the world a better place. Of all the many things that we talk about on this show, this is the story I’m most interested in: How to see the world and make a lasting impact?
Quinn and Jonathon left California for Nicaragua with nothing but a bag on their back and a desire to make something. While there, they worked with local educational non-profits and artisans to launch a project they were calling Life Out of the Box, a lifestyle brand of clothing and accessories.
For every product sold, Quinn and Jonathan give school supplies to a child in need. The customers even gets to see the exact child they’ve helped after a purchase has been made through the website.
Since launching in November 2012, Life Out of the Box has taken them to Nicaragua, Guatemala and Morocco and brought thousands of school supplies to kids in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico, Morocco and Kenya.
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Life Out of the Box
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Today I get to sit down with a friend, who holds one of the most coveted gigs in the travel business as editor in chief of Yahoo Travel. Among the many hats worn over at Yahoo, Paula hosts A Broad Abroad, a must-watch travel series exploring the less expected stories hidden in places very few people think to go, like skiing in Afghanistan. Who knew? Before this gig, she was the deputy editor of the gossip column for the New York Post, authored multiple books and been featured in Vanity Fair, Glamour, the Post and many more. Here’s why I love Paula: From the second I met her at a party in Mexico, then again in Athens, she’s been high energy, enthusiastic, helpful, kind, and fun. And I wanted to bring all of that to this show today.
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Yahoo! Travel A Broad Abroad @pfro on Twitter
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Suffering from a perpetual case of self-described sedentary life-a-phobia, Nikki and Jason move every 7-10 days. They do this with ease because they live in a RV. Jason and Nikki Wynn are documenting the journey as they live out of their RV in an effort to integrate just a bit more adventure and exploration into their daily lives. At 28 years old, they packed up and left Dallas and haven’t looked back for 4 years. You can follow this perpetual adventure at GonewiththeWynns.com where they go off the grid - both in destination and lifestyle, even with their 2 cats.
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"It's an incredible experience to go to Thailand for a month and sit on a beach... It's an entirely different experience if you build something in addition to that." - Ric Gazarian
Fellow Boston-native turned world traveler and humanitarian, Ric Gazarian has visited 85 countries across all 7 continents. He documents his travels on his site GlobalGaz.com and most recently is the author of the book and documentary film, Hit the Road India: a road rally, and travel photo journal, through the heart of India. Anyone who listens to this show regularly has heard stories of the Rickshaw Challenge, a freelance adventure across India (run by The Travel Scientists) in nothing more than a small 2-seater with no doors and, if you’re lucky, an engine strong enough to get you there. This is not a safe thing to do but it sure sounds legendary. Ric let his curiosity of his ethnic background as an Armenian-American motivate him to begin traveling. After a few experiences overseas, Ric was hooked and began challenging himself further. When he was laid off from a miserable, well-paying job in corporate finance after the market crashed in 2008, he was compelled to try traveling full time -- eventually letting his newfound curiosity drive his creativity and fuel his transformation into a filmmaker, photo-journalist, and world-traveler.
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Global Gaz Hit the Road: India Hit the Road India: The Book 7000 KM To Go, Ric's first book on the Caucasian Challenge The Adventurists The Travel Scientists
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Brad Bernard is a former-corporate-consultant-turned-writer by day, and extreme experience junkie by night — Brad is the guy behind My Wanderlist, a travel blog documenting his extreme travel experiences — such as dancing with corpses, eating tarantula, hitchhiking across Saudi Arabia, living with sea gypsies, and being arrested in Oman, as one does right?
The world is a full of adventure and Brad is pushing the boundaries of what you might believe to be possible in the interest of genuinely interesting story.
And that’s why I had to have Brad come on the show - because not only is he, quite extremely, doing the stuff of legend, but taking a journalists eye to craft the stories he’s telling in a compelling style on his blog.
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My Wanderlist, Brad's travel blog
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Today’s guest turned a 20-month trip around the world into a new career as a blogger, author, and entrepreneur. He’s traveled to more than 50 countries across six continents, founded two popular travel blogs, Go Backpacking and Medellín Living, written several books on the subjects, and on top of all that, most notably he created Travel Blog Success, the leading community for travel bloggers and media producers that want to earn a living from their blog, or at the very least, get their vacations paid for by doing work they love. But most recently, David’s just released his first app - Medellín Guide (download on iTunes), aggregating all of the best curated content from his blog into a single app. Right now, it’s free — so I’ve downloaded it and we’re going to do a sort of on-air breakdown of the app, while David takes us through what most consider to be Colombia’s most beautiful city.
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When you're buying a flight, do you ever feel that twinge of stress when you're about to click the "purchase now" button? How do you know the price won't just drop tomorrow? Or maybe you found a great price but you're worried the price will jump before you have a chance to run it by your travel companions? The airline's definitely not giving you any assurances. It's too bad you can't use a crystal ball while buying airfare. Or can you? Alexander Mans is the CEO and founder of Flyr, a new website that predicts for you whether or not a the price of a flight might go up or down, to help you feel more confident about knowing whether or not to do what just about every guest on this show says: Buy that ticket! Alexander was born in the Netherlands and has been a computer programmer from childhood. So when the time came for him to move overseas to San Francisco to try his hand in the startup world, it felt like a natural step. Three years ago he started on Flyr and today it’s live and ready for you to use. I’ve been a fan of this tool all throughout its beta, so I asked Alexander to come on the show and discuss his background, travel, and how Flyr can alleviate the stress of purchasing airfare.
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Flyr, forecast your airfare before you book.
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Today’s guest quit her job to travel the world.
But unlike the common narrative you might have heard from many of the guests on this show, Lauren wasn’t just escaping the mundanity of routine for new experience. She was suffering from frequent anxiety attacks and had just had her heart broken. For a 6-month period, Lauren wouldn't even go outside. Listen to her share her story and explain the immense value that travel has had on her and the personal exploration she's discovered simply by embracing the decision to book a one-way flight away from home and live nomadically.
Since then she’s created her own life on the road as the senior writer and editor for two publications, the student travel expert for About.com, and the founder of her own website, NeverEndingFootsteps.com, which chronicles her travels, and especially her stories, challenges, and incidents from her adventures.
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Today I’m sitting down with a former broker from London who escaped the dull nagging ache of routine to answer for himself the question that so many guests on this show are compelled to explore: What else is there out there?
In doing so, Leon Logotheetis has become a proponent for your inner rebel, a global adventurer, filmmaker, motivational speaker, television host on National Geographic and an author of two books.
He’s been through over 90 countries across all 7 continents, completed the Mongol Rally, and hosts the National Geographic Channel’s Amazing Adventures of a Nobody, and completed a global circumnavigation on a little yellow motorbike for his new show, The Kind Way Around and his new book The Kindness Diaries - in case you’re looking for a healthy dose of inspiration to kick off 2015.
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This is part 5 of a 5 part series on The White House Travel Blogging Summit. Start from part 1. On December 9th, 2015, The White House hosted the top 100 bloggers and digital media influencers in travel to hold a conversation about their study abroad initiatives to foster global citizenship. In the room were some of the biggest names in travel, from online to television, along with senior White House administration officials, including the Chief of Staff. I still can’t believe I was included. I want to be able to share the entire summit experience with you so I created a 5-part podcast miniseries designed to bring you with me to the event. In it we’ll cover why The White House did this, what it was like to be there, and dive into the ideas and thoughts around the topic of study abroad and travel in general. But above those things, my goal is simple. I want this show to inspire just one person to study abroad. To go from thinking, “That’s something I’d like to do” to actually taking the steps to applying or booking that experience.
Putting out these episodes all by myself is a lot of work! Thanks for your patience. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the episode, studying abroad, the summit itself, or anything else in the comments or on Facebook. I’ll also be including a round up post of all the episodes and information to help you explore this event or find the right opportunity to study abroad. Credits
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This is part 4 of a 5 part series on The White House Travel Blogging Summit. Start from part 1. On December 9th, 2015, The White House hosted the top 100 bloggers and digital media influencers in travel to hold a conversation about their study abroad initiatives to foster global citizenship. In the room were some of the biggest names in travel, from online to television, along with senior White House administration officials, including the Chief of Staff. I still can’t believe I was included. I want to be able to share the entire summit experience with you so I created a 5-part podcast miniseries designed to bring you with me to the event. In it we’ll cover why The White House did this, what it was like to be there, and dive into the ideas and thoughts around the topic of study abroad and travel in general. But above those things, my goal is simple. I want this show to inspire just one person to study abroad. To go from thinking, “That’s something I’d like to do” to actually taking the steps to applying or booking that experience.
Putting out these episodes all by myself is a lot of work! Thanks for your patience. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the episode, studying abroad, the summit itself, or anything else in the comments or on Facebook. I’ll also be including a round up post of all the episodes and information to help you explore this event or find the right opportunity to study abroad. Credits
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This is part 3 of a 5 part series on The White House Travel Blogging Summit. Start from part 1. On December 9th, 2015, The White House hosted the top 100 bloggers and digital media influencers in travel to hold a conversation about their study abroad initiatives to foster global citizenship. In the room were some of the biggest names in travel, from online to television, along with senior White House administration officials, including the Chief of Staff. I still can’t believe I was included. I want to be able to share the entire summit experience with you so I created a 5-part podcast miniseries designed to bring you with me to the event. In it we’ll cover why The White House did this, what it was like to be there, and dive into the ideas and thoughts around the topic of study abroad and travel in general. But above those things, my goal is simple. I want this show to inspire just one person to study abroad. To go from thinking, “That’s something I’d like to do” to actually taking the steps to applying or booking that experience.
Putting out these episodes all by myself is a lot of work! Thanks for your patience. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the episode, studying abroad, the summit itself, or anything else in the comments or on Facebook. I’ll also be including a round up post of all the episodes and information to help you explore this event or find the right opportunity to study abroad. Credits
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This is part 2 of a 5 part series on The White House Travel Blogging Summit. Listen to part 1.
On December 9th, 2015, The White House hosted the top 100 bloggers and digital media influencers in travel to hold a conversation about their study abroad initiatives to foster global citizenship. In the room were some of the biggest names in travel, from online to television, along with senior White House administration officials, including the Chief of Staff. I still can't believe I was included.
I want to be able to share the entire summit experience with you so I created a 5-part podcast miniseries designed to bring you with me to the event. In it we'll cover why The White House did this, what it was like to be there, and dive into the ideas and thoughts around the topic of study abroad and travel in general. But above those things, my goal is simple. I want this show to inspire just one person to study abroad. To go from thinking, "That's something I'd like to do" to actually taking the steps to applying or booking that experience.
Putting out these episodes all by myself is a lot of work! Thanks for your patience. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the episode, studying abroad, the summit itself, or anything else in the comments or on Facebook. I'll also be including a round up post of all the episodes and information to help you explore this event or find the right opportunity to study abroad. Credits
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This is part 1 of a 5 part series on The White House Travel Blogging Summit.
On December 9th, 2015, The White House hosted the top 100 bloggers and digital media influencers in travel to hold a conversation about their study abroad initiatives to foster global citizenship. In the room were some of the biggest names in travel, from online to television, along with senior White House administration officials, including the Chief of Staff. I still can't believe I was included.
I want to be able to share the entire summit experience with you so I created a 5-part podcast miniseries designed to bring you with me to the event. In it we'll cover why The White House did this, what it was like to be there, and dive into the ideas and thoughts around the topic of study abroad and travel in general. But above those things, my goal is simple. I want this show to inspire just one person to study abroad. To go from thinking, "That's something I'd like to do" to actually taking the steps to applying or booking that experience.
Putting out these episodes all by myself is a lot of work! Thanks for your patience. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the episode, studying abroad, the summit itself, or anything else in the comments or on Facebook. I'll also be including a round up post of all the episodes and information to help you explore this event or find the right opportunity to study abroad. Credits
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Nellie Huang is an independent journalist and editor with a love for the unknown and an eye for adventure, who’s work has been featured in National Geographic Intelligent Traveler, CNN Go, International Business Times, and more. And her travels have led her to climbing an active volcano in Guatemala to rebuilding a school in Tanzania, she’s seen the Galapagos and dived in Borneo - which some people say is the world’s best diving - and lived in Singapore, London, Madrid, and Seville.
Nowadays you can find her writing about her latest adventures at Wild Junket, her travel blog which describes itself as “a roller-coaster ride of adventures in extreme corners of the world.”
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Tayo Rockson just launched his podcast, As Told by Nomads — which you can find under places and travel, among other categories on iTunes. But it has a different angle. Tayo is exploring this pre-existing concept known as Third Culture Kids, or TCKs. Which are essentially kids who have grown up outside of their parents culture. This creates an interesting person who’s able to connect with outside cultures, while never claiming ownership to just one. I’m curious about what Tayo’s up to with this project, and his perspective on TCKs, and how exposure to other global cultures - particularly at a young age - can effect the mindset of a person and how they live their life.
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As Told by Nomads, podcast by Tayo Rockson UYD Mag, Tayo's online magazine @tayorockson on Twitter
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After trying on a handful of different careers and lives, Marysia Maciocha found the only way to encompass all of these interests was through travel - and the many roles it lets us play. This support was all she needed to fall in love with travel, which she writes about on her blog, My Travel Affairs. Since then, she’s made a life of travel her own and one I’m excited to explore, while also learning a thing or two about her home country of Poland, from which a number of my relatives came to America generations ago. And yet I’ve still never been.
In this episode, Marysia explains how she made the decision to travel, how she affords it and why she considers herself the luckiest person, what she's found and how these discoveries about herself have influenced her future.
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"I was afraid of getting stuck so I made a kind-of-random decision to leave home... I didn't know what I wanted to do, just that I didn't want to be here. And there was no real reason for that other than I'd been here my whole life." Alana Morgan left life in Seattle to see what might be waiting for her in Chiang Mai, Thailand — where she taught english and established for herself a freelance writing career through her blog, Paper Planes — on it you can find writings about her bigger adventures and a smaller focus on day to day life in Thailand. I was lucky enough to meet Alana in Greece asked her to come on the show because she not only took the deliberate step to quit her 9-to-5 to make travel a bigger priority in her life, but used it as a tool to find purpose - or at least, enjoyment through exploration and seeing what creating a life for herself might be like abroad.
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Mike Wendeland is a trained journalist who in 2012, bought a recreation vehicle or motor home, and while on the road, began covering the beat of the people and experiences they found along the way on his blog, RoadTreking.com. Mike used to be a traveling journalist for the Detroit News and his curiosity as a reporter has carried over into his retirement, which he’s not taking lying down — but instead, on the road — in his RV, a mobile new media studio, from which he blogs and podcasts on his new show, Roadtreking: The RV Podcast. As a result of this new project, Mike has attracted an enormous audience of RV enthusiasts to help perpetuate his travels, and who he now inspires to follow in his very unique footsteps.
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At 19 years old, Jake Ducey - a teenage surfer in california - abandoned a drug-addled college education to find out what else, what more, might be waiting for him out there. What it was that waiting was a book he would go on to write called Into the Wind: My Six Month Journey Wandering the World for Life’s Purpose. The travel experience effected him so deeply that he promptly returned to raise funds for an orphanage and school in Guatemala, and launch a motivational speaking career to help young people find self-reliance in an increasingly connected society and world. Now he’s just released, his latest book The Purpose Principles, all about drawing more meaning into your life. With travel at the core of Jake’s message, I thought I’d bring him on the show to discuss how you can take your curiosity and creativity and find transformation in life, on the road, and off.
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Travel helped Jake find a purpose to give up a scholarship and overcome a background in drug addiction. A potentially near-death experience while hiking with locals in Lombok, Indonesia gave Jake the epiphany he needed. The role a shaman played in his life while living in Guatemala and the inspiration Jake draws from his example.
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JakeDucey.com Jake's new book, The Purpose Principles
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At just 23, Felicity Aston left the UK to spend three years living and working in the Antarctic as a meteorologist with the British Antarctic Survey familiarizing herself with the conditions down there. While there, she was part of the first all-female team to complete the Polar challenge, which is a 360-mile endurance race across the Canadian Arctic. And a year later, Felicity led the first British women's crossing of the Greenland ice-sheet. Since then she has gone on to lead numerous expeditions including the Kaspersky Lab Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition, the largest and most international women's expedition ever to ski to the South Pole. In 2012 she became the first woman in the world to ski across Antarctica alone.
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What life is like working as a research scientist in Antarctica, and what it feels like to move there. Antarctica is twice the size of Australia, to give you a sense of its enormity. How her experiences prepared her to complete the ski journey across Antarctica alone. What inspired the decision to go for it. What the journey itself was like for Felicity, how long it took, and what it’s like to be out in the Antarctic wilderness alone. How she managed her fear and emotions, how they helped her, and what she learned about her physical and emotional limits. What it felt like to reach the end. Why do adventurers downplay their accomplishments?
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“You can have whatever kind of travel experience you want to have no matter what your budget is.” Stephanie Zito’s travels have taken her to over 100 countries. She is a wanderer, humanitarian, storyteller, business founder, evangelist for good, and all around beauty-seeker whose love of travel and involvement in relief and development have taken her to far flung places where she’s found purpose in helping the people of the world - which if you listen to this podcast, then you probably know that’s where I believe all the best stories happen. She’s lived in Cambodia, where she founded Cloud Color Hammocks, a beautifully colorful line of hammocks, volunteers to help children. But now she's also the creator of Upgrade Unlocked, a course on travel hacking to redeem for luxury travel experiences. Stephanie knows more than almost anyone I know about earning and redeeming points and miles, so I asked her to come back on and explore her new work and mindblowing personal travel experiences in redeeming for things like first class suites on Etihad Airways. If you want to learn more and pick up her course to get started traveling for as close to free as possible, check out Upgrade Unlocked.
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How you can begin to redeem for enormous value by focusing on a goal. How do you get into lounges? How do you get upgrades? Stephanie flew in a first class suite on Etihad, stayed in a $900 Park Hyatt in Abu Dhabi and the St. Regis and it cost her close to $400. Does travel hacking at any level require opening credit cards?
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Upgrade Unlocked The Travel Hacking Cartel
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"If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be." - Joseph Campbell
Mariellen Ward is an award winning travel writer, content marketing and social media consultant and the founder of Breathe Dream Go, one of the leading travel blogs about India. At one of the lowest points of her life, Mariellen heard a call to adventure and in 2004 and, in an attempt to overcome a bout of depression and an unfulfilling career, took a trip to India that would change her life. Today, she lives and writes from Toronto and Delhi, exploring the themes of meaningful adventure travel -- and if you listen to this show, then you know that we share that passion in common.
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Coming soon!
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Breathe Dream Go @breathedreamgo on Twitter Read more of Mariellen's story
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After being laid off in 2012, Candice Walsh took the opportunity to jump into a life of travel - along the way figuring out how to start her own location independent career as a freelance travel, copy, and creative writer and editor. She writes about this journey on her website, Candice Does the World. Nowadays she’s made travel a bigger part of and priority in her life, which is now stationed out of Newfoundland, and I’m excited to explore all things Candice, how she’s created the life she has and why this matters.
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How Candice let a lay off from an uncreative position as a technical writer become one of the best things that’s ever happened to her. What prevented her from quitting her job and then what scared her most about traveling. Candice's plan to transition from work to travel writing. How Candice carved out a niche for herself by writing about Newfoundland, a destination without enough coverage. Travel has helped Candice develop an appreciation for home, and writing about Newfoundland has exposed her to her own backyard in a way she'd never mentioned. Candice's recommendations for experiencing Newfoundland.
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Candice Does the World @candicewalsh on Twitter
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In your travels, do you ever feel like you're somebody else? Like you might be stepping temporarily into someone else's shoes? And if so, who is this fleeting person? How are they different from you? Or more importantly, how are they the same? What can you take home from this persona to fold into your own identity? What can we learn about ourselves? How can we grow?
Christopher Staudinger and Tawny Clark met while summiting Mount Kilimanjaro — he from Washington, and her from Hawaii. Together they form the prodigious minds behind Captain and Clark, media producers and award winning travel bloggers.
They’ve worked with Matador TV, Marriot, The New York Times, Lonely Planet, and more. Currently they’re serving as members of Expedia’s Viewfinder program.
They bring an aspect of performance and thoughtfulness, plus humor and energy, to their work - and travels - that I thought was artistically interesting and also fun, two things that - for me - comprise the spirit of travel.
Today, we’ll dive into their story: Who are these two? Where are they going? And why?
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Chris’ first travel memory and how it relates to imagination. How Chris and Tawny’s distinctly different travel lives complimented each other. How they fell into professional travel blogging by winning a video competition that sent them on a road trip across the country. The ways in which they incorporate playfulness into their brand. What is The Maverick Expedition?
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Diving back into Family travel today — but for anyone listening who doesn’t have kids, or doesn’t see the family “obstacle” on the horizon, what I like about these conversations is that if you can realize that kids are just a mindset change, just like everything else, than you can get past any self-imposed barrier - you just have to change the thought.
Today I’m sitting down with Kathrin Spaccarelli, from Portland Oregon - PDX - who spent the past year with her family of 4, ever since September 2013, on a round the world trip.
Their route is in fact around the world, visiting 4 of the 7 continents - or 5, if you include the United States. And what I love about this is how she helps to crush the belief that travel - especially adventure - has to end with kids.
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How a trip to Japan in high school fostered a love of travel and new experience for Kathrin, that she carried into her marriage and, later, family. Where they went what they did as a family. The effect Kathrin has seen travel has had on her children.
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Taking the Big Break
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Bret Love and Green Travel Media are partnering with over 120 bloggers to move just one rhinoceros from South Africa, where poaching is a huge problem, to Botswana, where it will be safer. To promote this, he's giving away over $30,000 in amazing travel prizes. Learn more and get involved here! In this episode, get to know the founder and mind behind Green Global Travel, and Green Travel Media — two services helping brands and destinations raise awareness of their green initiatives and to build up a vibrant community of writers and organizations working together in tandem to giveEcotourism a broader, more prominent international platform. Bret Love is a music journalist and travel writer — who along with his wife launched Green Global Travel to pursue a passion around eco-tourism.
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What Bret’s doing these days with Green Global Travel, what it is and why it’s made him happier. What is JustOneRhino, and how you can get involved, donate, and be entered to win some amazing prizes.
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Green Global Travel Green Global Media TravelersBuildingChange.org Culturated.com, Bret's website on music and culture @GreenGlobalTrvl on Twitter
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“A lot of people… hear the word “eco-tourism” and they think it’s just about protecting the environment. But to me, “eco” stands for ecology but it also stands for economy. And eco-tourism is not responsible unless the local communities benefit from the preservation of the eco-system. If they don’t benefit economically from it, then it has no hope.” - Bret Love
In this episode, get to know the founder and mind behind Green Global Travel, and Green Travel Media — two services helping brands and destinations raise awareness of their green initiatives and to build up a vibrant community of writers and organizations working together in tandem to give Ecotourism a broader, more prominent international platform.
Bret Love is a music journalist and travel writer — who along with his wife launched Green Global Travel to pursue a passion around eco-tourism.
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How a single transformational experience with an elephant while on safari changed the trajectory of Bret’s entire life from music journalism to travel media. Why blogging seemed like the right platform after mulling over the idea for 10 years. Where the idea for Green Global Travel came from as a media entity. Why Bret developed a love of a more connected, transformational experience to get more from life. How ecotourism is almost like a wealth re-distribution industry - “spending your money responsibly in a way that protects instead of exploits.” Exactly what Bret’s doing to help connect travelers and brands through transformational, green travel experiences. How you can help save rhinos from poaching.
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Green Global Travel Green Global Media TravelersBuildingChange.org
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On this episode, I'm sitting down with the founder and CEO of Travel Dudes, an award winning travel site inspired by other trips and locals, written by travelers for an enormous audience of travelers. Today's guest, Melvin Böcher has over 200,000 Twitter followers, created #ttot (travel talk on Twitter).
Today we get into the details behind professional travel blogging, what's worked for him and his partners at iAmbassador, how to approach your travel blog, and what he sees to be the future of travel blogging.
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How a former travel agent started one of the internet’s biggest travel communities. What is #ttot? And how does it reach hundreds of millions of people. How do you measure impressions and do they even matter? Melvin says impressions are opportunities to get a message seen. His perspective on the future of travel blogging and media.
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Travel Dudes iAmbassador @traveldudes on Twitter #ttot on Twitter
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Tim Leffel is a writer, author, editor and publisher of travel and business books, and multiple websites — including The Cheapest Destinations Blog, and his upcoming book A Better Life of Half the Price, all about setting up your life abroad for less. Tim’s also published The World’s Cheapest Destinations: 21 Countries Where Your Money is Worth a Fortune, Make Your Travel Dollars Worth a Fortune: The Contrarian Traveler's Guide to Getting More for Less, and Travel Writing 2.0: Earning Money from Your Travels in the New Media Landscape. Clearly Tim is a man with an acumen for budget and the knowledge to help you build a life abroad, for half the price. In this episode, we explore how he's done it, what family life is like in Mexico - where he lives now - and the role travel's played in Tim's life.
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Today’s guest is a travel expert and writer, speaker, a former spokesperson and US Travel Editor for Lonely Planet. He’s appeared on The Today Show, CNN Headline News, MSNBC, NPR, PRI, and more. Now he’s the Digital Nomad for National Geographic - a job he calls the world’s greatest - in which he seeks the why and hows behind how and why we experience the world.
What I love about Robert Reid and why I’m excited to have him on the show is that he eschews top 10 lists, which he used to write, in the interest of fun and playfulness. Which you can find in his proudly offbeat and DIY 76-Second Travel Show videos.
He says, “Don’t just go to see things, but to see what happens when you do things.”
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What are the things you already like? What are you naturally drawn to? What questions do you have about these interests? And how can you incorporate some of that into your travels? What would your 11-year old self's bucket list look like? Travel is the business of curiosity. There’s a benefit of appointing yourself a quest in your trips. Why travel is destination-agnostic. “It doesn’t matter where you go, as long as you think about it and approach it in a unique way that you’re interested in.” How hard is okay to push others towards a more immersive travel, or just more travel? How travel can be a fountain of youth. How to take the curious mindset of an explorer into everything you do. What the role of Digital Nomad at National Geographic is and means to Robert Reid. Don't travel like a local. Travel with a local.
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Reid on Travel The 76 Second Travel Show Before Sunrise, a film by Richard Linklater National Geographic Intelligent Travel's Digital Nomad
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Today we’re talking about something that is all the rage in Asia, particularly Japan and Korea, but not so popular here in the United States — Karaoke!
In the malls of Japan, right next to the stores or food courts, they have karaoke booths — think a photo booth, except it’s people screaming Journey in a tiny room.
And I’ve brought Harvey Silikovitz, a travel writer and blogger who’s done karaoke in over 35 countries and counting — onto the show to discuss what is up with karaoke, where his passion for it comes from, and where this quest for international karaoke has come from.
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HBomb's Karaoke World Tour
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Having spent a life learning to sail, Behan Gifford lives on a 47 foot sailboat with her husband Jamie and 3 kids, since 2008 when they left their home on Bainbridge Island, one of the 2 residential islands off Seattle.
Currently, the Gifford family is cruising Southeast Asia after enjoying Mexico, the South Pacific, Australia, and Papua New Guinea.
If it’s not already apparent, the Giffords home-school on the boat, while also giving their kids the greatest education there is: travel.
And for anyone interested in sailing, homeschooling, or traveling more with a family, Behan writes about their experiences in a helpful way on her blog SailingTotem.com, which is full of resources and guides to create a life of travel in this particular style: At sea.
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Sonja Lischynski lives in Ottawa with her husband, Stefan, and a small chihuahua named Montecristo - who, and this is what Sonja explores in her work — travels internationally with Sonja and does not impede her travel style much at all.
And that’s the point of her website, montecristotravels.com — written by montecristo — okay from his perspective— and helping dog owners avoid the pitfall of believing they can’t travel the world and have a dog at the same time. And she also has a series of children’s books on the way about Monte and his travels.
So this will be a fun topic for anyone who loves dogs but also has that wanderlust and doesn’t want to feel like they’re trapped by that decision.
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How Sonja got started traveling as the daughter of a diplomat and storyteller, who took her on these amazing adventures. How Sonja kept traveling regularly even after she got a dog, and what she found by traveling with a dog. The trip to Tuscany that convinced Sonja she loves traveling with her dog. How traveling with a dog makes people think you’re a local. Sonja’s top 3 destinations to travel with a dog.
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Montecristo Travels
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“If you want to be a digital nomad, if you want to be a full time adventurist, all you have to do is sit there and take a look at which ones of your skills are going to help you get there and then just chase them.” Annette O'Neil is a writer, journalist, producer, adventurer, and compulsive sharer. She's also a former Hollywood commercial producer turned digital nomad and thrill-seeking adventurist, writing from coffee shops and base jumping around the world.
But Annette's life wasn't always so unconventional and on this episode, we explore how and why she took the plunge to leave her job in television to pursue a more passionate story and challenging existence.
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How Annette got into adventure sports by racing motorcycles in Los Angeles and base jumping in South Africa. Our mutual love of skydiving and how adventure travel works as a metaphor for Annette’s desire for a greater taste of life. Annette road to location independence, and how you can get there too.
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Trevor Thomas always loved extreme sports. This love, however, was threatened when, in 2005, when at the age of 36, Trevor began to lose his sense of sight. And eventually, he went completely blind. But this didn’t stop Trevor from doing something that I am dreaming to do someday — and even doubt my ability to finish — which is planning and completing a thru hike of the Appalachian Trail. All 2175 miles. He’s gone on to complete the Pacific Crest Trail, the Tahoe Rim, and founded Team FarSight, to challenge societal misconceptions about the blind and visually impaired, and to show that it’s not the insurmountable disability that most believe it is.
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Where Trevor learned a love of extreme sports. How he lost his sight. The change that allowed him to change his mindset and rediscover his identity. Why he chose to get started by taking on the Appalachian Trail. What he gets from these experiences, and how people - who once thought he was crazy - see him today.
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TrevorThomas.com Team FarSight
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We’re over 150 episodes into the Daily Travel Podcast, and today, the day before Thanksgiving in America - our busiest travel day - I wanted to just quickly say thank you for listening, for reaching out and sharing with me how much you like the show. Giving thanks is the whole point of the holiday, so I only thought it was fitting to say it again.
And now for something completely different. This is my first solo-episode and I'm a little nervous putting it out there. But I think the time is right and I've been encouraged to do more solo-episodes.
As you'll hear, I wrote and recorded these thoughts after the school shootings in Portland, Oregon, earlier this year - and a couple days ago, there were ongoing riots in Ferguson, Missouri that just made everyone I know very, very sad. And maybe I shouldn’t even bring up Ferguson. But in the darker days of our country, when we can’t help but look at the problems, it’s easy to forget how much we have to be thankful for in society. And even when we take a moment to reflect on that, it’s just as easy to overlook how amazing everything actually is.
What do you think? Do you agree with this idea that everything's getting better? Or do you think it's getting harder to feel safe?
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Lynn O’Rourke Hayes is a world traveling writer, photographer, consultant, founder and editor of FamilyTravel.com and columnist with the Dallas Morning News. Her writing has been published by The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA TODAY, and more and she’s appeared on CNN, NBC, The Today Show, and stood before the US Congress (which I do ask her about!).
She’s taken her degree in Journalism with her to over 100 countries on 6 continents, and has still managed to raise three sons, which is impressive.
She, like me, believes deeply in the transformational potential of travel experience, and holds her own retreats, appropriately called Transformational Travel Retreats, which in 2015 are going to Italy and Santa Fe.
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I’m sitting down on this episode with a travel and wellness writer, teacher, strategist, and cancer survivor, Elena Sonnino to talk about chasing dreams and finding wellness in your travels — and exactly what that word means.
Elena's the founder of LiveDoGrow, which helps others find everyday wellness in far-flung places as well as your own backyard.
So let’s break this down: Do you ever feel stuck? In life, in health, in your mentality or attitude about life? Wellness goes well beyond your physical health, fitness and diet. And we’re going to have an upbeat chat about how travel affords you the opportunity to either make a change in your life, or meet your goals.
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LiveDoGrow, Elena's website LiveDoGrow on Facebook
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Dana Freeman Howard is the Founder and Editor of FindandGoSeek.net - a hyperlocal destination website for families to discover what to see and do in their community.
She is originally from New York City but has been living in Vermont for the last 14 years. And while she is always looking for insider tips on Family Fun in Vermont, she also writes a travel blog providing hotel and destination reviews in Vermont and beyond. Dana pens a weekly column for the Burlington Free Press and curates a morning show piece for Star 92.9 FM.
She has appeared on Huffington Post Live, contributes to the Forbes Travel Guide and has written for Homeaway, Minitime, Ciao Bambino! and Yucatan Holidays. She is the Family Travel Expert for Hotel Vermont as well as an Ambassador for Ski Vermont's Family Ski & Ride Guide – The All Mountain Mamas.
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Thai Nguyen is the founder of The Utopian Life, which describes itself as "practical wisdom for personal evolution." Thai is living in Cusco, Peru, where he’s working on his first book all about mastering internal dialogues and the stories that shape our lives.
He was born in Vietnam and grew up a refugee living in Australia after the war, studied Theology in Texas - and has since gone on to develop a love of entrepreneurship and exploration, of both ideas and the world.
Thai loves to focus on the things that hold us back, and whether it’s taking that trip, making travel a bigger priority, or somehow figuring out that travel lifestyle, I’m excited to dive into Thai’s perspective on these topics and how it is he’s found himself in Peru, writing a book.
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What Thai is doing down in Peru, living not far from Macchu Piccu, in the mountains. How his varied background has led him down the path to explore life’s bigger questions. What it was like growing up as a Vietnamese refugee and how that effected his sense of self-identity. How travel gave Thai the outlet he needed to discover himself and escape a youth spent not fitting into society and rebellious behavior. Why Thai believes where he's landed, after several reinventions, is a place he feels confident in for the first time. Plus the one question he asks himself to know.
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The Utopian Life, Thai's website @ThaiWins on Twitter
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“I never knew if I was going to make it but I just wanted to know. I wanted to set out.” - Laura Dekker
Today’s guest did something that no other person her age has ever done before.
At age 14, Laura Dekker set out to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the planet singlehandedly. And at 16, she completed that journey by sailboat. And while it’s an understatement to call that world record amazing, what I love most about it is that she took her time to complete it — exposing herself to the world, meeting people and finding stories waiting for her, one port at at time. She’s the subject of the documentary film, Maidentrip, given a TEDx Talk in Auckland, and the author of a new book called One Girl, One Dream — an autobiographical account of her epic adventure. In this episode, we explore Laura’s journey and the person she’s become today.
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How Laura's early years spent sailing helped her to see life as a series of challenges. What happens to time when you're alone at sea for weeks. Why Laura took 2 years to complete the circumnavigation, which could be done in 7 months.
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LauraDekker.nl Laura's book One Girl, One Dream Maidentrip by Laura Dekker on Netflix, on DVD
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Alicia Sherrin has lived in Togo since July 2012 — and if you’re wondering where Togo is, it’s a tiny country between Ghana and Benin, in western Africa. Way back on episode 38, I mentioned someone was listening to the show in Togo, how little I knew about that place, and how amazing I thought it was that someone might be listening from there (the show was only 2 months old at this point!). Alicia was that someone and she reached out to me as a listener to see if I wanted to learn more about Togo. Alicia’s been embedded there with the Peace Corp for 2 years, but recently left to travel across Africa and into the Middle East, and western Europe before returning home to California. So I’m taking her up on her offer to come on and teach me something about Togo, the Peace Corp as an opportunity for others to experience the world, and her travels across these amazing continents.
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What exactly is The Peace Corp and why did Alicia decide to participate as a volunteer with them. Where is Togo and why Alicia felt compelled to revisit West Africa after visiting there briefly on Semester at Sea. What was her life like while living in Sola, a small village in northeastern Togo, and why the people there accepted her into their daily lives. Togo is the size of West Virginia with over 40 different ethnic groups. How travel gives us a reminder and appreciation for
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Today's guest walked across America and lived to tell a TED Talk about it. Nate Damm took seven months to walk across fourteen states, clear across the continent of North America, and in this conversation today I cannot wait to ask him, "Why? Why would you do this?"
And what came out of the experience? Including a book, Life on Foot: A Walk Across America. And a guide, How to Walk Across America for anyone who dares to follow in his literal footsteps.
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What compelled Nate Damm to walk across the country The most trying experiences and best stories that he encoutered How he felt when he accomplished
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NateDamm.com Nate's guide, How To Walk Across America Life on Foot, Nate's book
Nate's talk at World Domination Summit in Portland:
Nate Damm on Walking Across America: A World Domination Summit 2012 Attendee Story from Chris Guillebeau on Vimeo. Nate's TEDx Talk
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Katja Gaskell has been published by Lonely Planet, Mr & Mrs Smith, and many other travel publications. She's moved with her husband and two kids to Mexico City, after living previously in Australia and India - while visiting Sri Lanka, Nepal, New Zealand, Fiji, the United States and much of Europe. Through all of this she’s become the co-founder and editor of GlobeTotting.com, a web platform, publication, and purveyor of adventurous escapes for families. Maybe you’ve always dreamed of living with nomads in Mongolia or sleeping in the remote hill villages of Vietnam — Globetotting finds and shares the ways you can do this with kids, which can redefine the way you see your travel opportunities should you wake one day with a couple kids running around the house, believing your best travel days are behind you.
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Katja's background as a career travel writer and how having kids unexpectedly changed her travel life. Where the idea for Globetotting came from after many adventures with her own kids.
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GlobeTotting.com @globetotting on Twitter @KatjaGaskell on Twitter
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Music credit: Intrepid Journey, by Aaron Static
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"How many people trudge off to work dreading the day ahead? How many people do you know who feel trapped in their jobs, working just to pay the mortgage, instead of pursuing their life's ambition because they just can't afford to take a risk? I can't, but I'm doing it anyway."
Today’s guest wrote this, 3 years ago — on her kickstarter page, which launched a dream that changed her life.
Jean Ellen Whatley is a writer who after experiencing a few deaths in her life successfully ran a kickstarter in 2011 to quit her job, hit the road, and pursue her dream of writing her first book, Off the Leash — which chronicled her eventual road trip with her dog, 8,400 miles across the country to meet her half brother for the very first time.
Identity - who we are and the ways we relate to a world, where we fit — these questions play such a large role in travel. And Jean stopped letting these questions go unanswered. By making the simple realization that the obstacles preventing her from leaving were almost entirely self-imposed.
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How Jean’s dog made her realize that her barriers to travel the world and experience life were entirely self-imposed. The stories that came from the people she found waiting for her on the road. How losing one brother led her to meeting another. Recognize that the barriers preventing you from traveling might be self-imposed.
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Jean Ellen Whatley's website Her book, a memoir about the roadtrip, Off the Leash
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This is part 2 of my conversation with Akshay Nanavati from Existing2Living. Listen to Part 1 in which we talk about his battles with addiction, war, and PTSD. Today’s guest is on a lifelong quest to traverse every country in the world, on foot, while raising a million dollars for his own non-profit foundation, Fearvana, which will partner with other for-purpose organizations to assist the global family with healing, both financially and spiritually. Before that, Akshay Nanavati was born in India, spent time as a firefighter, he’s a veteran of the US Marines spending time in Iraq. He’s a journalist and photographer, and a mountaineer — clearly he’s an explorer curious about many things. On his website, he wrote something that I can’t possibly do better than, so I’m just going to put it here: “I began the latest chapter of my life within the purity of nature. It will continue in the realm of humanity’s relationship to each other and the land beneath our feet. By exploring different cultures, engaging planet earth, and venturing into the depth’s of our capacity for evil, and good, I push forward in my endless quest to understand the human experience. “
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Akshay's long term and short term goals with his impossible quest to run across every country. The logistics of running across a country, in terms of food and sleep. Where someone who wants to run across a country might be able to do so.
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Existing2Living, Akshay’s website Existing2Living
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This episode is part of a wider campaign for Veterans Day 2014 called Voices for Vets, in which more than 40+ podcasters have dedicated an episode of their show to interview a veteran or discuss veteran issues. Learn more.
“The symptoms [of PTSD] don’t have to equal ‘disorder.’ These symptoms are just human symptoms in response to war. But they can also lead to growth.” - Akshay Nanavati
Today’s guest is on a lifelong quest to traverse every country in the world, on foot, while raising a million dollars for his own non-profit foundation, Fearvana, which will partner with other for-purpose organizations to assist the global family with healing, both financially and spiritually. Before that, Akshay Nanavati was born in India, spent time as a firefighter, he’s a veteran of the US Marines spending time in Iraq. He’s a journalist and photographer, and a mountaineer — clearly he’s an explorer curious about many things. On his website, he wrote something that I can’t possibly do better than, so I’m just going to put it here: “I began the latest chapter of my life within the purity of nature. It will continue in the realm of humanity’s relationship to each other and the land beneath our feet. By exploring different cultures, engaging planet earth, and venturing into the depth’s of our capacity for evil, and good, I push forward in my endless quest to understand the human experience. “
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Akshay's background growing up, battling addiction and finding a place of belonging on perspective. His experience in the Iraq War and his perspective of why Veterans become addicted to war. His thoughts and feelings on being diagnosed with PTSD and why he neither believes that he has it nor that it's a "disorder." How travel provided a space for recovery and a purpose in life.
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Existing2Living, Akshay's website Existing2Living
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Lauren Salisbury is the founder of Something In Her Ramblings, a travel blog aimed at inspiring women and solo travelers to explore the open road. A California native, she has found the best way to get to know a region of the world is to live there, and with that in mind has worked in four countries.
While earning a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland, she wrote for NBC News and spent six months living in Melbourne, Australia. After graduating, she moved to Florida to work in Public Affairs at Walt Disney World Resort. In 2013 she took a leap of faith and left her settled existence in the United States behind to teach English in Madrid. During this year she fulfilled her goal of visiting 25 countries in her 25th year of life.
Lauren’s next adventure takes place in Costa Rica, where she is currently living in the rainforest and working as Social Media & Marketing Manager for Outward Bound.
What We Cover:
Lauren got her start traveling with her family, road tripping across the country. How travel changed Lauren, giving her - a self-described introvert - a desire for connection with other people and opening her mind to the possibility that she can live abroad whenever she wants. How Lauren finds housing when she arrives in the places she wants to live, like Melbourne and Madrid. Why Lauren went to Spain to begin with, and wound up living as the only girl with people she didn’t know. How she went to 25 countries in 1 year, and how taking on this quest led her to find life-changing experiences and create an amazing legend for herself.
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Something In Her Ramblings, Lauren's website. @LaurenSalisbury on Twitter
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“One of the things I admire most about travelers is how independent and confident they are. Those are qualities I never had growing up.” Today’s guest left a life in California to spend 4 years on the road with friends before settling, broke, in Thailand to study Muay Thai kickboxing and try his hand at entrepreneurship. He is the host of the Travel like a Boss podcast, where he interviews location independent entrepreneurs and wantrepreneurs about their 4-hour work week style businesses, many of whom are living and working in Southeast Asia.
I’m happy to welcome Johnny on the show today to share his stories and explore his relationship to travel, as well as the entrepreneurial scene there in Chiang Mai, Thailand - what that’s like, and what Johnny’s working on.
What We Cover:
How travel, and discovering a love of diving, helped Johnny come to the realization that he wanted to invest in experiences rather than things. Why he considers slow travel to foreign places to be “real travel”, as opposed to quick stays within comfort zone-oriented places like Las Vegas or Tijuana. How family helped encourage his decision to quit his job and travel in the midst of a financial recession while also having an offer for a promotion and raise on the table at his job. How Johnny broke down his living expenses in Thailand to $600 per month. Why his goal is now to make enough money online to be able to do more, travel to Europe and spend the whole summer, next year, there with his girlfriend. Johnny's time in the Caribbean, and how that helped him solidify his love of Thailand. How Johnny makes money nowadays to support his location independent lifestyle.
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JohnnyFD.com His book, 12 Weeks in Thailand and Life Changes Quick
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"Travel can transform communities and lives around the world... Imagine if we got to a place where people can go on holidays as their way of giving back." - Bruce Poon Tip I’m excited to bring on the show a figurehead in the world of travel whose passion — which is not unlike mine, or many of the prevailing motifs of this show has actually influenced the global perspective of what’s possible through the act of travel. Bruce Poon Tip is the CEO of G Adventures, the world's largest independent tour operator — doing over 1,000 small group experiences for over 100,000 travelers a year across all seven continents. They’ve been named by National Geographic Adventures as the best ‘Do It All Outfitter’ on Earth, and are among the Top 100 Employers and 50 Best Managed Companies. They’re also champions of sustainable and responsible tourism which I’m sure we’ll get into. More importantly, perhaps — is what they believe about the importance of travel. On their website, it says — “If you share a lust of life and have an insatiable curiosity about truly experiencing the world we live in, then join us and embark on a quest for the extraordinary.”
What we cover:
How an independent trans-Asia trip inspired the idea for a travel business that eventually became GAdventures. How Bruce realized the opportunity for a new form of travel, over “tourism”, back in 1990. What Bruce thinks will be the future of travel, and his dream for the travel industry to aid global poverty Bruce’s perspective on purpose-driven travel. What Bruce’s book on business, Looptail is about. Why GAdventures waited 22 years to launch tours in Australia.
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GAdventures Bruce Poon Tip on Twitter
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