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Fiction ScienceBonus: Talking fiction with Nathaniel RichNathaniel Rich, author of "Second Nature," "Losing Earth" and the sci-fi novel "Odds Against Tomorrow," discusses the state of contemporary fiction with Fiction Science co-hosts Dominica Phetteplace and Alan Boyle.
2024-03-1317 min
Playing FavoritesSophie BoyleSharp and talented actress, artist, and music conversationalist Sophie Boyle joins us tonight, to discuss everything from plane food to silent discos to the multiple Fringe runs we have worked on together to the private life and musical brilliance of Kendrick Lamar! It's Playing Favorites!
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2021-04-2730 min
Pubcast Worldwide014: Nathaniel Boyle: Transformative Travel Expert at Holocene.io – Live from Cellarmaker in San Francisco, CANathaniel Boyle is all-things travel. He is the founder of the online creative travel community Holocene, the host of “The Travelers” podcast, and named by the White House as one of the Top 100 Influencers in travel. Now that I’ve said “travel” enough, let’s talk beer! In this episode, Nathaniel stopped through San Francisco on his recent Transformative Travel Tour, and as a fellow beer enthusiast, we met up at San Francisco’s Cellarmaker Brewing for a sampling of West Coast IPA’s. Amidst the brews, we chatted about this newfound concept of “transformative travel,” his drinking stories fro...
2017-06-3000 min
Live Different Podcast#51 The Human Journey: Embrace Your Calling and Use Travel as a Way to Catalyze Transformation w/ Nathaniel Boyle of The Travelers Podcast Nathaniel Boyle is Host of The Travelers Podcast which has been downloaded over 400,000 times, was named by The White House as one of the Top 100 Influencers in Travel and the Founder of the travel community Holocene. "Is your paycheck paying your emotional bills?” this week’s guest asks me... Are you listening to your call to fully embrace the human journey? Do you need motivation to push yourself outside of your comfort zone? Start being comfortable with being uncomfortable and learn the following formula: Curiosity + Creativity = Transformation Not only is this a great philosophical conversation, but you’ll learn how Nathaniel Boyle...
2016-07-281h 02
The Travelers222 - REFLECTION with Alex CrevarLinks from today’s episode: Holocene - Join a tribe of travelers transforming their lives. Paste Magazine's Travel Section • Follow Alex Crevar on Twitter 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 acros...
2016-07-1956 min
The Travelers221: FEARLESSNESS with Rachel RudwallCheck out more at http://holocene.io 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 tr...
2016-06-061h 02
The Travelers220: CHANGE with Kirsten Alana“I think you can choose to be happy, and choose to explore, and choose to be fulfilled by life or you can choose to sit back and let life overwhelm you and be unhappy. But for me, the easiest happy life has been through travel because it’s continually evolving and changing and I’m continually discovering new things. And I just found very quickly that that suits me very well.” 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...
2016-05-1341 min
Backpack DigitalS1E12: Nathaniel Boyle - 'Becoming an Explorer''Take the road less traveled'. We've all heard it. But what does it mean? Why should we? Wouldn't we be better off on the safe route that we know is going to end well. Well, that's one way to look at it, sure, but can you name an adventure you've had on your way to the office? Or in line at the post office? Adventure comes in all shapes and sizes. To some people, adventure is going into the ocean for the first time- taking that first step in and conquering both land and water. For others, it's hiking s...
2016-05-0927 min
The Travelers219: CREATE with Elena PaschingerJoin Holocene,
a transformative travel community for the curious and creative.
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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 th...
2016-04-2937 min
The TravelersPOSSIBILITY with Rolf PottsJoin Holocene, a transformative travel community for the curious and creative.
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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...
2016-04-2249 min
Ian RobinsonNathaniel Boyle - Host of The Daily Travel PodcastThe host of The Daily Travel Podcast.
Nathaniel Boyle tells us about his love for travel from a young age.
To pursue this passion he left his job in the United States and began living his life long dream.
Check out this episode of Love Affair Travel with Nathaniel Boyle.
2016-02-2648 min
JUMP with Traveling JackieBMT 057: Connecting People Through the Transformative Power of Travel with Nathaniel BoyleJoin us as I chat with Nathaniel Boyle from the Daily Travel Podcast in this last of our series of interviews with awesome people who have started businesses out of their passion for travel. Nathaniel took his first trip overseas at just 5 years old! And today he shares with us how that planted a seed in him that grew into a love for travel, and eventually a podcast, and some other exciting ventures...Take a leap with Jackie IRL - join us in Greece and Norway in 2025 at JUMPadventures.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.c...
2015-11-3049 min
The Travelers217: Halloween Horror Nights 25, An Immersive Theater Experience*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 atmosp...
2015-10-0616 min
The Travelers216: Building a Travel Startup with Zipkick’s Jason WillJason 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.
Hit...
2015-09-2225 min
The Travelers215: Show the World to Itself with Kasha SlavnerToday’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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2015-09-0734 min
The Travelers214: Sharing a Love for Thailand with Christophe Cappon“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 ev...
2015-08-2836 min
The Travelers213: Keeping a Career While Traveling with Edna ZhouThe 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...
2015-08-2135 min
The Travelers212: Rebuilding Life for Travel with Kristen KelloggPhoto by Justin Hackworth.
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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2015-08-0737 min
The Travelers211: Millennials and Travel with Britt Hysen“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...
2015-08-0335 min
The Travelers210: Ten Years in Thailand with Scott EddyToday’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 stoc...
2015-07-2741 min
The Travelers209: Traveling to Make Things with Adina PeaseAdina 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 sto...
2015-07-0630 min
The Travelers208: Deciphering Culture Through Food with Naomi Duguid"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 Ge...
2015-06-2652 min
The Travelers207: What You’re Seeking is Actually Everywhere with Nithin CocaCan 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...
2015-06-1240 min
The Travelers206: Live Your Dream Lifestyle Now with The Paradise PackGet 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...
2015-06-0245 min
The Travelers205: Being the Most Traveled Person with Mike Spencer Bown"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 vis...
2015-05-2257 min
The Travelers204: Change Your Role in Life with Jacqueline KehoeJacqueline 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 g...
2015-05-1533 min
The Travelers203: Building a Travel Career with Beth WhitmanBeth 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...
2015-05-0844 min
CofferNathaniel Boyle: Host of The Daily Travel PodcastThe host of The Daily Travel Podcast. Nathaniel Boyle tells us about his love for travel from a young age. To pursue this passion he left his job in the United States. His first stop, New Zealand. He rode the Trans-Siberian Railway and met a wide variety of people. Introducing, Nathaniel Boyle. “Travel really does have this …
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2015-05-0148 minThree Favorite BooksNathaniel Boyle: Host of The Daily Travel PodcastThe host of The Daily Travel Podcast. Nathaniel Boyle tells us about his love for travel from a young age. To pursue this passion he left his job in the United States. His first stop, New Zealand. He rode the Trans-Siberian Railway and met a wide variety of people. Introducing, Nathaniel Boyle. “Travel really does have this … Continue reading "Nathaniel Boyle: Host of The Daily Travel Podcast"
2015-05-0148 min
The Travelers202: 50 States in 365 Days with Kelly WillAfter 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 experien...
2015-05-0150 min
The Travelers201: Shamans & Psychedelics, Ayahuasca in Peru with Mike MargoliesIn 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 l...
2015-04-2446 min
The Travelers200: Finding the Right Life with Lisa Eldridge“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...
2015-04-1738 min
The Travelers199: 100 Countries with Jonny BlairJonny 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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2015-03-0935 min
The Travelers198: Travel to Accelerate Your Career with Mark van der HeijdenMark 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 h...
2015-02-2731 min
The Travelers197: Realities of the Digital Nomad Lifestyle with Marina JaneikoMarina 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 whi...
2015-02-1837 min
The Travelers196: Travel is a Mirror with Don George (Part 2)"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 P...
2015-02-1720 min
The Travelers195: Living Profoundly with Don George (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 conver...
2015-02-1631 min
The Travelers194: Working on the Road with Nora DunnIn 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 th...
2015-02-1333 min
The Travelers193: A Family’s Year of Service Around the World with John Marshall (Part 2)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...
2015-02-1333 min
The Travelers192: A Family’s Year of Service Around the World with John Marshall (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 discon...
2015-02-1131 min
The Travelers191: Travel Hacking with Erik Paquet (Part 2)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.
Explore...
2015-02-1028 min
The Travelers190: Travel Hacking with Erik Paquet (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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2015-02-0933 min
The Travelers189: Finding Balance in Freedom with Danny FloodHey 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...
2015-02-0732 min
The Travelers188: Digital Nomads in Berlin with DNX GlobalMax 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 c...
2015-02-0539 min
The Travelers187: Travel Blogging 101 with Mapping MeganMegan 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.
...
2015-02-0434 min
The Travelers186: Choose the Unconventional Life with Jenna DavisJenna 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 offi...
2015-02-0333 min
The Travelers185: Study Abroad is for Everyone with Alex MontoyaI 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 t...
2015-02-0231 min
The Travelers184: Rebuilding Your Life at Sea with Justin Tyers"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 a...
2015-01-3037 min
The Travelers183: Finding Purpose From Your Travels with Jonathan and QuinnLife 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 we...
2015-01-2932 min
The Travelers182: Let Travel Be Your Guide with Paula FroelichToday 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.
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2015-01-2831 min
The Travelers181: The Unconventional RV Lifestyle with Nikki and Jason WynnSuffering 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 th...
2015-01-2736 min
The Travelers180: Filming the Rickshaw Challenge with Ric Gazarian"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...
2015-01-2629 min
The Travelers179: Extreme Travel Stories with Brad BernardBrad 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 on...
2015-01-2331 min
The Travelers178: Your Guide to Life in Medellín with David LeeToday’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 re...
2015-01-2238 min
The Travelers177: Take the Stress Out of Airfare with Flyr’s Alexander MansWhen 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 w...
2015-01-2127 min
The Travelers176: Make the Life You Want with Lauren JuliffToday’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...
2015-01-2033 min
The Travelers175: Letting Your Dreams Inspire Others with Leon LogothetisToday 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 Nobo...
2015-01-2032 min
The TravelersThe White House Travel Blogger Summit (5 of 5)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-p...
2015-01-1614 min
The TravelersThe White House Travel Blogger Summit (4 of 5)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-p...
2015-01-1510 min
The TravelersThe White House Travel Blogger Summit (3 of 5)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...
2015-01-1411 min
The TravelersThe White House Travel Blogger Summit (2 of 5)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 cr...
2015-01-1311 min
The TravelersThe White House Travel Blogger Summit (1 of 5)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 po...
2015-01-1211 min
The Travelers169: The Transformational Power of Travel with Nellie HuangNellie 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...
2015-01-0932 min
The Travelers168: Third Culture Kids Explained with Tayo RocksonTayo 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...
2015-01-0836 min
The Travelers167: Explore Your Many Selves with Marysia MaciochaAfter 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...
2015-01-0835 min
The Travelers166: Get Unstuck with Alana Morgan"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 d...
2015-01-0637 min
The Travelers165: Finding the Right Questions with Mike WendlandMike 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 resul...
2015-01-0534 min
The Travelers164: Scared to Life with Jake DuceyAt 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 so...
2015-01-0235 min
As Told By Nomads028: Nathaniel Boyle I The Different Ways You Can Discover Yourself with TravelNathaniel Boyle is an explorer addicted to new things, travel optimist, and frequent flyer mile collector who’s circumnavigated the globe and been chased by dogs in only four different countries. He loves hunting for well-crafted coffee and beer, and street food. He also loves design, filmmaking, writing novels, and stories of every kind. Travel, for him, is about exercising imagination, creating stories, and building one's legend.He has been to thirty countries across five continents, lived and worked in New Zealand, ridden the Transsiberian, stayed with nomads in Mongolia, jumped out of airplanes and swam with sharks. But he feels li...
2014-12-3036 min
The Travelers163: Ski Across Antarctica with Felicity AstonAt 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...
2014-12-2337 min
The Travelers162: Luxury Travel on Any Budget with Stephanie Zito“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...
2014-12-2332 min
The Travelers161: Overcoming Loss in India with Mariellen Ward"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...
2014-12-1935 min
The Travelers160: Travel to Find a Love for Home with Candice WalshAfter 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.
A quick previe...
2014-12-1836 min
The Travelers159: Who Can You Be? with Captain and ClarkIn 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 awa...
2014-12-1839 min
The Travelers158: Round the World Family Travel with Kathrin SpaccarelliDiving 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 rout...
2014-12-1725 min
The Travelers157: Let’s Save #JustOneRhino with Bret Love – Part 2Bret 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 p...
2014-12-1523 min
The Travelers156: Travel to Build Change with Bret Love – Part 1
“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 com...
2014-12-1325 min
The Travelers155: A Travel Writing Military Wife with Nancy ParodeWe're a little backed up this week. Show notes coming soon! Check back here. Thanks for your patience. :) - Nathaniel
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2014-12-1127 min
The Travelers154: Professional Travel Blogging with Melvin BöcherOn 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.
A Quick Preview
How a former travel agent s...
2014-12-1029 min
The Travelers153: A Better Life, Half the Price with Tim LeffelTim 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...
2014-12-0935 min
The Travelers152: What’s Your 11 Year Old Bucket List? with Robert ReidToday’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...
2014-12-0838 min
The Travelers151: A Karaoke Quest to 35 Countries with Harvey SilikovitzToday 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...
2014-12-0521 min
The Travelers150: Setting Sail with a Family of Five with Behan GiffordHaving 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 ab...
2014-12-0432 min
The Travelers149: Can You Travel with Your Dog? Ask Sonja LishchynsliSonja 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.
2014-12-0426 min
The Travelers148: Jump Into Location Independence with Annette O’Neil“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 s...
2014-12-0334 min
The Travelers147: The Blind Hiker with Trevor ThomasTrevor 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 s...
2014-12-0233 min
The Travelers146: Travel and the Decline of ViolenceWe’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...
2014-11-2711 min
The Travelers145: Travel’s Transformational Power with Lynn O’Rourke HayesLynn 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 transfo...
2014-11-2537 min
The Travelers144: From Cancer Survivor to Marathon Runner with Elena SonninoI’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 upbea...
2014-11-2436 min
The Travelers143: The Gift of Travel with Dana Howard FreemanDana 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...
2014-11-2240 min
The Travelers142: Exploring Self-Identity in Peru with Thai NguyenThai 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 wh...
2014-11-2137 min
The Travelers141: Around the World Alone at 16 with Laura Dekker“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 pe...
2014-11-2027 min
The Travelers140: Two Years in Togo with Alicia SherrinAlicia 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...
2014-11-1934 min
The Travelers139: Walking Across the United States with Nate DammToday'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.
A Quick Preview:
What compelled Nate Damm to walk across th...
2014-11-1730 min
The Travelers138: Finding Adventure Even After You Have Kids with Katja GaskellKatja 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...
2014-11-1439 min
The Travelers137: Unleash Yourself with Jean Ellen Whatley"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 r...
2014-11-1344 min
The Travelers136: Running Across Every Country with Akshay Nanavati – Part 2This 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’...
2014-11-1225 min
Listen Money Matters - Free your inner financial badass. All the stuff you should know about personal finance.Finding Cheap Flights with Nathaniel BoyleWish you could travel more but think it’s too expensive? Nathaniel Boyle has devoted his life to travel and will school us on finding cheap flights.
There are so many air travel booking sites now, Expedia, Travelocity, Hipmunk however the prices are all about the same. Nathaniel recommends booking directly through the airlines. It’s often cheaper and can offer more protection than booking through a third party. It’s much easier if you need to make a change to your itinerary and some low cost carriers like Southwest only offer direct sale.
The most impo...
2014-10-2054 min
Listen Money Matters - Free your inner financial badass. All the stuff you should know about personal finance.Finding Cheap Flights with Nathaniel BoyleWish you could travel more but think it’s too expensive? Nathaniel Boyle has devoted his life to travel and will school us on finding cheap flights.
There are so many air travel booking sites now, Expedia, Travelocity, Hipmunk however the prices are all about the same. Nathaniel recommends booking directly through the airlines. It’s often cheaper and can offer more protection than booking through a third party. It’s much easier if you need to make a change to your itinerary and some low cost carriers like Southwest only offer direct sale.
The most important thing when buying a cheap t...
2014-10-2054 min
The Travelers38: A Quick Thank YouIn this short update, I just want to say thank you! Thank you for listening. Thank you for subscribing, and leaving a review on iTunes. I’m thrilled to have you as a founding member of a community of explorers.
With all of you listening, I’m humbled - but I’d love to hear from you. Why are you listening? What do you love? What would you like to hear about? I want this show to get better. To help you more. So please let me know how I can help by emailing me directly at nathaniel@dailyt...
2014-06-2707 min