This Week in Travel News episode 1 on The Millennial Travel Podcast with Matt Wilson: Happy Cyber Week Millennial Travel Podcast listeners! A big part of my job as CEO of Under30Experiences is reading the travel news and analyzing where the industry is going, so I'm here to bring you all the top stories. Updates from Under30Experiences: - Over30Experiences launch! Group travel in your 30s and 40s! - Digital Nomad Trips ! 2-4 week co-working adventures. Let's kick it off with Black Friday and Cyb...
Nov 26, 2022•13 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Dr. Anne Desrosiers is an entrepreneur, educator, and philanthropist from Brooklyn, New York. Anne is someone who I'm lucky enough to call a friend. She is an OG Under30Experiences traveler who I got to know on our trip to Iceland. Anne is Chief Experiences Officer at The Voluptuary Travel . She writes a fantastic blog and always keeps it real with her readers... the true Brooklyn way! She is founder of The World is Your Oyster, TWIYO's (pronounced Twee-yo) mission is to inform and transform urb...
May 09, 2022•52 min
Jeff Jenkins is an award-winning content creator and travel journalist, also Founder of Chubby Diaries and Co-founder of Black Travel Alliance, and has sat on The Points Guy Advisory Panel. He has created a community that encourages and motivates plus-size people to travel the world. Jeff is helping plus-size people and Black people feel represented in the travel industry. In this episode, we talk about his blog, Chubby Diaries, and his three pillars of inclusion including accessibility, comfort...
Aug 13, 2021•55 min
Mike Schibel was born and raised in Pacific Palisades, California, and was exposed to stunning travel destinations from my crib! When he was five, his Grandparents gushed about a recent trip to Egypt and after seeing those Pyramids, he knew I had to travel! As a Junior at the University of Arizona, Mike was ready for something new. He spent a semester abroad in London, exploring Europe, Scandinavia, and North Africa. Mike stepped way outside my comfort zone and tried new things. All roads led ba...
Aug 03, 2021•52 min
Jill 8pK9nwhyuxDlKt6VsA47Johnson grew up in North Jersey and began camping with her parents before she could walk. After receiving her Master’s in Special Education she moved to California and explored all it has to offer: deserts, sequoias, mountains, beaches, valleys, and SUNSETS. Jill has since backpacked Central America and the Pacific Northwest along with various other national parks. If you don’t find her in the forest she will likely be swimming in the ocean, stretched on a yoga mat, or s...
Jul 21, 2021•30 min
Scott Keyes is a two time Millennial Travel Podcast guest and needs no introduction as the founder of Scott’s Cheap Flights. Today, he comes back to chat about his new book Take More Vacations: How to Search Better, Book Cheaper, and Travel the World . In case you don’t know Scott… Scott Keyes is the founder of Scott’s Cheap Flights, a travel platform with over two million members around the world. It’s been called “the travel world’s best-kept secret” by Thrillist and received praise in The New...
Apr 30, 2021•50 min
David McNeill is the founder of Expat Empire. He is focused on inspiring people to move abroad and showing them how to do it. In addition to producing books, podcasts, blog posts, meetup events, and more, Expat Empire offers personalized consulting services to give everyone the opportunity to achieve their international dreams. David started Expat Empire because he has a genuine passion for living abroad. He left the United States in 2014 and has since lived in Tokyo, Berlin, and Porto. In this ...
Apr 16, 2021•57 min
Matt Wilson is Co-founder and CEO of Under30Experiences, and the author of The Millennial Travel Guidebook . Today Matt shares his experience traveling the world for the last decade in MTP24: Solo Travel Guide to Asia. Read the full article: https://www.under30experiences.com/blog/solo-travel-destinations-in-asia Reach out to Matt on Instagram: @ mattwilsontv
Mar 24, 2021•57 min
Matt Wilson is Co-founder and CEO of Under30Experiences, and the author of The Millennial Travel Guidebook . Today Matt shares his experience traveling the world for the last decade in MTP23: Solo Travel Guide to Europe. Read the full article: https://www.under30experiences.com/blog/solo-travel-destinations-in-south-america Reach out to Matt on Instagram: @ mattwilsontv...
Mar 09, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Matt Wilson is Co-founder and CEO of Under30Experiences, and the author of The Millennial Travel Guidebook. Today Matt shares his experience traveling the world for the lsat decaide in MTP22: Solo Travel Destinations in South America. Read the full article: https://www.under30experiences.com/blog/solo-travel-destinations-in-south-america Reach out to Matt on Instagram: @mattwilsontv
Feb 25, 2021•53 min
Matt Wilson is Co-founder and CEO of Under30Experiences, and the author of The Millennial Travel Guidebook. Today Matt shares his experience traveling the world for the last decade in MTP21: Solo Travel Destinations in Mexico, Central America, & the Caribbean. Matt lived in Central America between 2012 and 2019. Read the full article: https://www.under30experiences.com/blog/solo-travel-destinations-in-mexico-central-america-the-caribbean Follow Matt on Instagram @mattwilsontv...
Feb 15, 2021•42 min
Matt Wilson, is Co-founder and CEO of Under30Experiences, and author of The Millennial Travel Guidebook. Today Matt shares his experience seeing all 50 states in the USA as he explains the top solo travel destinations in the United States! Read the full article: https://www.under30experiences.com/blog/the-top-solo-travel-destinations-in-the-united-states Follow Matt: instagram.com/mattwilsontv...
Feb 02, 2021•1 hr 23 min
Hannah Pinkerton is a full-time vanlifer, blogger at Destined for Adventure, Spanish teacher at Speak Better Spanish, and Community Manager and Trip Leader at Under30Experiences. She’s been location independent since 2015 and traveling outside the United States since 2018. Hannah also is a Location Independence Coach helping others do the same. She lives with her 4 cats and 5 dogs in her converted camper van as a solo female traveler in Mexico! Hannah gives me everything I need to know about how...
Jan 22, 2021•56 min
Matt Wilson, is Co-founder and CEO of Under30Experiences, and author of The Millennial Travel Podcast. Today Matt shares his experience traveling the world for the last decade in the Ultimate Guide to Solo Travel. Read the full article: https://www.under30experiences.com/blog/solo-travel-guide Follow Matt on Instagram @mattwilsontv.
Jan 12, 2021•1 hr 23 min
Mark Peacock is the host of the TravelCommons podcast, one of the longest running travel radio shows on the internet. Mark has been a frequent business traveler for more than 30 years. He travels all over the world for high-tech companies and management consultancies. Mark Peacock’s first TravelCommons podcast was recorded in May 2005 in the bathroom of the Wardman Park Marriott in Washington, DC. Originally, TravelCommons was going to be travel blog, but Mark turned out producing the “Voice of ...
Dec 11, 2020•1 hr
Casey Fenton is the founder of Couchsurfing, a global travel community, especially great for solo travelers. Casey helped to spearhead the sharing economy & grow the platform to over 20 million users worldwide. I consider the platform to be one of the best domestic and international travel hacks and for solo travel on a budget. Casey is also co-founder of Upstock, a cloud-based platform to give employee equity in the company they work for. If you don’t know the meaning of “couch surfing” it’...
Dec 02, 2020•58 min
Scott Keyes is the founder and CEO of Scott’s Cheap Flights. In 2013, he found a flight deal he just can’t pass out on—a $130 round trip ticket from New York City to Milan. When he returned home, his friends and colleagues asked him to let them know the next time he finds a great deal. In a nutshell, that’s how Scott’s Cheap Flights came about. Scott’s Cheap Flights newsletter aims to enable people to travel and see and experience the world. Unlike automated flight deals and alerts sent out by w...
Nov 18, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Rolf Potts is a legendary travel writer, who’s book Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel has been a classic piece of travel writing for many years. Rolf’s writing has appeared in National Geographic, The Guardian, Outside, The New Yorker, and Sports Illustrated. Potts has been part of creative writing workshops and/or taught classes at places like Paris American University, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University. In addition to travel writing and his Vagab...
Nov 11, 2020•55 min
Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott are the husband-and-wife storytelling team behind Uncornered Market Adventurers, world travelers, adventurers, storytellers, and tourism advisors from the US and based in Berlin. They have been to over 90 countries and are two of my very favorite people in tourism. Their goal is to create a movement of respectful travelers and organizations who live at the intersection of adventure, deep travel experiences, and caring for our planet and its people. We hope not just t...
Nov 03, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Mike Corey never backs away from an adventure, no matter how strange it may be. As a Canadian adventure travel YouTuber and BBC television host , Mike has been traveling the world for eight years. He is on a global quest to challenge fear by seeking unique experiences in weird and wonderful destinations around the world. Mike aims to inspire others to fight their fears by plunging headfirst into beautiful, unknown locations and participating in undocumented cultural celebrations. With a degree i...
Oct 29, 2020•52 min
Ben Collier is General Manager at Incredible Adventures and is a wizard when it comes to organizing itineraries in the United States. He’s an expert when it comes to US National Parks, camping, and hiking, and has worked in adventure travel for nearly a decade, including five years on the ground as a guide. Complete shownotes and all the links can be found on millennialtravelpodcast.com Ben and I get the chance to talk about USA road trips and where people should travel in fall and winter 2020 w...
Oct 14, 2020•1 hr 7 min
Michael Puldy is the author of The Millennial’s Guide to Business Travel: Lessons from the Next Generation of Road Warriors . He has an incredibly impressive resume of travel including visiting all 50 states, 50 countries, has flown 3 million air miles, and is a member of the Circumnavigators Club. Michael knows his stuff when it comes to frequent flier miles and credit card rewards points. He has achieved status as a 1K Elite Member on United flying over 1.3 million miles, 700K on Delta, & ...
Oct 06, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Craig and Linda Martin are the Kiwi couple behind Indie Travel Podcast and their online publishing business, Indie Travel Media Ltd. Professionally homeless, they have been travelling around the world non-stop since February 2006. Craig Martin was the president of the Professional Travel Bloggers Association, and they are the couple behind one of the top Indie Travel Podcast, rated as the top travel podcast by Lonely Planet. Discussed in this episode of The Millennial Travel Podcast: What being ...
Sep 30, 2020•1 hr
Matt Wilson is Co-founder and CEO of the travel company for people ages 21-35 Under30Experiences, and author of The Millennial Travel Guidebook . Under30Experiences has been named number 801 on the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America and number 198 on Financial Times 1000 list of America's Fastest-Growing Companies. Matt was formerly the co-founder of the media site Under30CEO (Acquired 2016) and is the Host of the Live Different Podcast on business, travel, health, and perfor...
Sep 22, 2020•56 min
Lydia Dean left her job as an Executive Search Consultant in the year 2000 to pursue a lifelong interest in travel and humanitarian programs. She and her family moved to Provence, France where they lived for 6 years while exploring many developing countries. In 2007, they returned to the US and launched GoPhilanthropic Travel. In 2010 GoPhilanthropic Foundation was formed in order to more actively partner with small grassroots non-profits offering greater access to resources and opportunities. L...
Sep 15, 2020•57 min
Gabby Beckford is the Gen Z travel blogger, content creator, and marketing strategist behind Packs Light. She helps send her young audience around the world completely free via the funded travel opps she shares in her Young Travelers Network. Her words can be found in pubs such as Lonely Planet, HuffPost, Essence, and Business Insider. Her mission is to empower young people to seek risk, seize opportunity, and see the world. Shownotes can be found on MattWilson.co and MillennialTravelPodcast.com...
Sep 08, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Shannon Stowell is CEO of the Adventure Travel Trade Association. We do a deep dive into what it means to travel off the beaten path, how to reduce your carbon footprint, and how to do your part to support companies that promote diversity in the travel industry. Millennial Travel Podcast 5: Off the Grid Adventure Travel with Shannon Stowell CEO of the Adventure Travel Trade Association Get the show notes at millennialtravelpodcast.com . Shannon comes to us from his off the grid cabin in Colorado...
Sep 01, 2020•1 hr 21 min
Nick Ewen is Senior Editor at The Points Guy. He caught the travel bug at an early age and spent over a decade as a road warrior, earning and redeeming points & miles to visit over 40 countries across six continents. Credit Card Points, Rewards Miles, & Travel Hacking with Nick Ewen of The Points Guy MTP3: How to Optimize your Frequent Flier Miles and Rewards Points to Travel for Free! I got Nick’s story on how he was able to travel while his wife was still in school and how they did it ...
Aug 25, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Dave Lee is the Founder of GoBackpacking.com, a 13-year-old staple website for a lot of backpackers… and his new food blog feastio.com. Dave is a member of the ATTA, the Adventure Travel Tourism Association and someone whose work I’ve followed for a long time… We had the good fortune of meeting at an Austin travel founders event called VoyagerHQ and then again at The Nomadic Network. Dave and I talk about what travel means to us now that we are no longer under thirty, how we miss expat life in C...
Aug 18, 2020•1 hr 1 min
You can listen to The Millennial Travel Guidebook for free with a 30-day trial of Audible.com. Hey Millennial Travel Podcast listeners, today's episode is a sample of my new audiobook The Millennial Travel Guidebook: Escape More, Spend Less, & Make Travel a Priority in Your Life now available on Amazon! In this chapter I detail: Observing your Money Mindset How to Set Up Your Financial Life for Travel Twelve Cost-Cutting Strategies to Save Money for Travel Why you need a budget How I lived i...
Aug 13, 2020•34 min
