At the age of 24, Eric visited his last UN country beating Guinness World Record Holder, James Asquith. Eric grew up in northern California, the son of Vietnamese immigrants. He had the opportunity of international travel with his family growing up. But his travel began in earnest when he went backpacking in East and Southeast Asia when he was just 18. He was inspired to visit every country in the world and attempt to break the world record for three reasons. First, Eric was inspired by world tr...
Jul 06, 2017•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Dustin balanced his career as a dentist while completing all 193 UN countries and then some. Dustin grew up in small town America yet ended up living in Singapore working as a dentist. Despite a childhood of limited travel, he spread his travel wings after settling in Singapore and began to discover the region. Dustin shares with us an amazing collection of travel stories. He crossed the border into Syria from Lebanon as an invited guest of Syria. Dustin was the keynote speaker at a medical conf...
Jun 22, 2017•1 hr 37 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Thomas grew up behind the Iron Curtain, joined the military to travel, and now lives in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Thomas was raised in in East Germany in modest circumstances, with virtually no travel in his life. He joined the military for 12 years which allowed him the opportunity to travel. During that time he traveled to hotspots like Afghanistan and Kosovo. After the military, he settled in Saudi Arabia with a career that allowed him to continue traveling. Thomas keeps an aggressive trav...
Jun 08, 2017•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Thanos is on a quest to visit every country in the world and has already visited 146 UN countries. Thanos initial focus in life was education and business, not travel. In fact, one of his first overseas trips was a basic package trip to Sri Lanka. After completing his doctorate in theoretical physics and starting his own business in India his life eventually transitioned into a life of travel. Now adventures include summiting the seven summits with three already completed. Thanos also enjoys roa...
May 11, 2017•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Audrey is a member of an elite club of female travelers who have traveled to all 193 UN countries. I thought it was important to have a member of this club to speak on the podcast in regard to the media’s claim that is the first woman to travel to every country in the world. This false narrative has been embraced by the public. During the podcast, we speak about this controversy and Audrey shares her perspective on being a woman who has accomplished this feat. Audrey’s first international foray ...
Apr 27, 2017•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Gary sold his house and all of his belongings in 2007 and began his life of travel. Gary over his 10 years of travel has established himself as an elite travel blogger with an expertise in photography. Gary shares with us many tales from the road. Gary, single handedly, changed the visa rules for the Pacific Island of Kiribati with one email. He tells us why his motorbike driver pulled his gun as they made their way to the contested Temple of Preah Vihear at the Cambodian/Thai border. And Gary a...
Apr 13, 2017•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Lee has led an incredible life, traveling to all 193 countries and being the youngest American to accomplish this feat at that time. And he is only 6 territories away from completing the Travelers Century Club. Lee travels in style whether it is entering his 193rd country under a hail of gunfire or hanging out with Prince Harry in Antarctica. Lee grew up in modest circumstances and began his travel with a semester abroad in London. This trip and the loss of his friends on 9/11 sparked his intere...
Mar 30, 2017•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 28
João is a quintuple threat. He is a professor, an entrepreneur, a father of seven, a romantic, and a believer in all of the world’s religions. The professor shares his amazing stories of traveling the world. As a romantic he has married his wife eight times in different ceremonies around the world, including their first in Addis Ababa with a honeymoon in South Sudan. He spent time in a Yemeni jail cell that conveniently included wifi allowing for some Facebook updates. He avoided being strip sea...
Mar 16, 2017•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 27
Sepp left his family farm in Austria in 1985, and he did not see his family until 1995, when he returned after visiting every country in the world. Sepp is a vagabond at heart as he traveled the world with his guitar. He traveled non-stop for 19 years as he traveled to every country in the world at that time (190 countries). He nearly lost his life on more than one occasion, as he battled gun wielding attackers in Nigeria, and hepatitis in Angola. He was both drugged and arrested in China prior ...
Mar 02, 2017•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Dave’s travel and life has morphed into one collective. He began his travel career after graduation with the start of his travel blog, and has been travelling ever since. Over the past 20 years Dave has managed to visit 140 UN recognized countries in a quest to discover and experience true travel. He does not have a specific stated goal of visiting every country, but through his desire to discover the world he has already managed to visit 140 countries, with a target of visiting ten plus new cou...
Feb 16, 2017•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 25
David is traveling to every country and sending home a postcard! David has a passion for stamps and postcards. The first has helped him finance some of his travels while he has sent a postcard home from every country and territory he has traveled to. He started traveling as an intrepid teenager on a solo trip to the Pacific Islands after saving money for three years. Today, his travel adventures have spanned five different decades with no end in sight. He has traveled to some of the most remote ...
Feb 02, 2017•1 hr 35 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Lawrence is on a quest to travel to every country in the world while honoring his uncle, by spreading his ashes in every country. Uncle James was a free spirit and travel pioneer who inspired Lawrence to travel even more. Lawrence lost his uncle to cancer and wanted to honor his memory. Lawrence is now traveling to every country in the world as well as the 325 regions noted in Travelers' Century Club to spread his ashes. Lawrence has braved the streets of Mogadishu and has been detained by North...
Jan 20, 2017•1 hr 37 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Don has traveled to 851 places of the 875 places listed on the Most Traveled People list. He is number one on the list, making him the most traveled person using this benchmark. Don has been traveling and discovering the world since the 1960s when he worked in a factory in Germany on an exchange program. He has an incredible passion for history and connecting events and people throughout time. He has traveled to the Soviet Union in the 1960s as well as traveling to each 83 political subdivisions...
Jan 03, 2017•2 hr 52 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Rick has managed to travel the world while raising a family heading an international marketing firm! Rick was inspired to travel by his globe-trotting grandmother and a visit to the World Expo as a child. He spent over a month in Bucharest during Ceaușescu reign in the early 1980s. And during a 6 month backpacking trip through Europe he crossed Checkpoint Charlie and toured Tito’s Yugoslavia. He also shares some of his favorite travel experiences in the Galapagos and on safari. He is an avid run...
Dec 13, 2016•53 min•Season 1Ep. 21
An intrepid traveller who has travelled to over 100 countries and has a special place in her heart for the continent of Africa. Lillie is a Peruvian native who arrived in the US as an exchange student. Avoiding the violence of the Shining Path in her home country she opted for a new life in America. She began her international travels with a group bus trip across Europe and quickly graduated to more challenging adventures. She toured multiple countries in South America on the back of a motorcycl...
Nov 29, 2016•54 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Stefan has been able to strike a great balance between life and travel. Stefan has a full time job and is married, yet still has managed to travel to 186 countries. Stefan’s passion for the Chinese language in school led him to studying, working, and living in China for eight years. He also managed to visit every province in the country. With detailed planning and with an expertise in travel hacking, Stefan has managed to live a life of travel and exploration. Despite working full time has has m...
Nov 15, 2016•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Sal has travel in his blood. He was born to an Italian father and German mother who began a quest to visit every state in the US when he was a kid. And Sal attended a boarding school with fellow students from 80 different countries. Sal is only 26 but has already traveled to 151 countries and has 193 in his sites. If he continues traveling at this fast pace, he might be the youngest American to travel to every country. He attended a true global high school where visiting a friend entailed a long...
Nov 01, 2016•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Savannah left a comfortable life in Vancouver as a young teenager to backpack the world with her family and at 18 years of age had already traveled to 80 countries. Savannah, as a 14 year old, and her family were shaken out of their comfort zone in Canada. With her mother, older brother and sister, she embarked on a four year journey across the world. They traveled and lived as locals on a very tight budget. The family was audacious, not shying away from the more challenging corners of the globe...
Oct 18, 2016•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Michael Runkel has traveled the world as a professional photographer taking over one million photos, including over 600 UNESCO World Heritage sites! Michael has traveled to 176 countries and on his journeys has collected some amazing travel experiences. He stayed with a powerful sheik in his palace in Yemen as war was declared. He survived a powerful earthquake in Bam, Iran that claimed the lives of thousands. This experience changed his life as he dedicated his time to build a school and orphan...
Sep 27, 2016•51 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Anna is on a quest to travel to every country in the world. Anna is an adventurous, solo female traveler who couchsurfed on her own in Afghanistan and then some! Anna’s youth was spent as a citizen of the USSR effectively cut off from over half of the world. She dreamed of travel and exploration. As the Soviet Union collapsed, her travel opportunities expanded. She began by visiting her neighbors in Europe. Overtime, she stretched her wings and started exploring more challenging countries such a...
Sep 20, 2016•41 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Anthony is on a quest to visit all 193 countries in the world. And he plans to accomplish this goal as the first person in a wheelchair. Anthony is an incredibly impressive individual who has not let physical disabilities dictate his life. Despite being in a wheelchair he has managed to travel to 20% of the world’s countries on his quest to visit all 193. He shares with us the challenges of being disabled in developing countries with two heartfelt stories. What stands out most is his positive an...
Sep 13, 2016•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 14
At the young age of only 23, William has made his way to over three quarters of the world’s countries! William began traveling at a young age with his family, including a 6 week cruise from the UK through Australia via the Suez Canal. He took his first independent trip to Scotland via train. He has only 39 countries until he visits every country in the world. William has also created a list of approximately 12,000 places in the world. He plans and hopes to visit these places over his lifetime. W...
Sep 06, 2016•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 13
A true global citizen who was inspired to country count after an impulsive wager with a friend. Mario has lived on 3 continents in 7 different countries. He has had a 30 year career in travel and in IT. Mario on a bet with a childhood friend began his quest to travel the world. I joined Mario at his office at the Pacific Asia Travel Association in Bangkok where he serves as the Chief Executive Officer. In his role, he is able to mix business and leisure travel to explore the world. More about Ma...
Aug 30, 2016•49 min•Season 1Ep. 12
On an improbable quest to visit every country in the world without ever taking a single flight. Thor is on a multi-year journey to visit every country in the world without ever taking a single airplane flight. Thor has overcome malaria, corrupt Central African border officials, and incredible logistical challenges. He is a representative of the Danish Red Cross and has been rewarded with serendipitous encounters with people throughout the world. More about Thor Pedersen: Born in: The Kingdom of ...
Aug 23, 2016•1 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Johnny has been collecting amazing travel experiences as he travels to every country in the world. Johnny started his travel adventures straight out of university on an incredibly low budget. He shares with us his stories of illegally entering China via the Mekong River on a Chinese cargo boat to backpacking in Africa for months on $15 a day. Over time, he created a million dollar business as he nears completing his goal of traveling to all 193 countries. More about Johnny Ward: Born in: Galway,...
Aug 16, 2016•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Markus is a Swedish diplomat who has traveled to every country in the world and now is focussing on the Travelers’ Century Club which divides the world into 325 places. Markus has been posted to countries such as Nigeria and China during his career as a Swedish diplomat. Markus has a strong desire to travel as he demonstrated when he ventured as a 15 year old to China with a group of strangers he met via a newspaper advertisement. Markus has traveled to the far corners of the earth from places s...
Aug 09, 2016•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 9
April is approaching her century mark and is on a quest to travel to every country in the world! April is the first Filipino female to travel to all seven continents in one calendar year. She is also on a mission to visit all 193 countries in the world She is closing in on her 100th country, and she is doing this while working on this quest as a pharmacist in Chicago. More about April Peregrino: Born in: Chicago, IL, USA Passports from: USA and Philippines Favorite travel book: "" by Alex Garlan...
Aug 02, 2016•57 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Henrik Jeppesen completed his quest of traveling to every country in the world at the age of 27. Henrik was laser focused on completing his goal at all cost. Henrik has traveled to all 193 countries at the age of 27. On a limited budget, Henrik was determined to visit every corner of the globe. If needed he would walk 20 km to the airport to save money on the bus fare. Yet, through sponsorships he has also stayed at dozens of luxurious resorts. More about Henrik Jeppesen: Born in: Denmark Passpo...
Jul 26, 2016•1 hr 53 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Anthony accomplished the amazing goal of traveling to every country in the world, but even more impressive, he taught children in all 193 countries of the world. Anthony through his foundation, Art In All Of Us, has dedicated his life to traveling to every country to teach and inspire the children of the world. Listen in as he shares the secret to accomplishing this quest through practicing the 5 P’s. This is truly an uplifting story of determination and perseverance. More about Anthony Asael: B...
Jul 18, 2016•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Erick Prince overcame challenges as a youth and changed his life perspective through global travel. Erick Prince is on a mission to become the first African-American to visit every country in the world. Along the way, Erick strives to inspire peoples from low socioeconomic backgrounds, like his own, to change their global perspective through travel. Through this pursuit he hopes to inspire a new generation of global citizens from all socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds. More about Erick Prince:...
Jul 11, 2016•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 5
