In this episode of the FLY BROTHER RADIO SHOW, Ernest chats with celebrity chef and entrepreneur Chef Bri. Born and raised in The Bahamas, Chef Bri started her career in Canada and is now internationally-known, having won the “Culinary Clash of Chefs” competition. Through her company, Authentique Delights, Chef Bri has whipped up delicious delectables for celebrities such as 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes, Kim Fields, Mike Epps, NBA and CFL athletes, and corporate clients such as Netflix, TD Bank, Pinter...
Aug 11, 2025•35 min•Season 3Ep. 8
In this episode of the FLY BROTHER RADIO SHOW, Ernest chats with journalist and explorer Shebs Alom. Shebs is a broadcaster, writer, and editor based in the UK. His work has been featured in the BBC, The Express, Daily Mirror, Travel Weekly , and more. Shebs also runs Voyagers Voice magazine and hosts the podcast Take a Wander with Shebs . We talk about Shebs’ long-term obsession with travel, the magic of life, representation in the media, expanding from influencer to journalist, Halal travel, e...
Jul 27, 2025•42 min•Season 3Ep. 7
In this episode of the FLY BROTHER RADIO SHOW, Ernest chats with travel entrepreneur and fellow fly brother, Aaron Jones. A native of Michigan, military veteran, and passionate proponent of travel and connectivity, Aaron has parlayed his love of life and experiences into a multiplatform travel business, Travel Jones. Including travel consulting and personalized itineraries for new and not-so-new travelers, video and written storytelling from exotic locales around the world, and collaborative opp...
Jul 13, 2025•50 min•Season 3Ep. 6
In this episode of the FLY BROTHER RADIO SHOW, Ernest chats with Jazzmine Douse, fly sister, fellow Scorpio, and Senior Director of National Accounts for luxury river cruise company, AmaWaterways. Jazzmine is known for thoughtful leadership, trusted partnerships, and an unwavering commitment to championing diversity in the luxury travel space. As a founding member of NorthStar Travel Group’s Black Travel Advisory Board, Jazzmine advocates for greater inclusivity in the industry and has led the d...
Jun 28, 2025•22 min•Season 3Ep. 5
In this episode of the FLY BROTHER RADIO SHOW, Ernest chats with Matthew Kepnes, better known as Nomadic Matt, founder and CEO of the popular travel portal NomadicMatt.com, and best-selling author of Ten Years a Nomad and How to Travel the World on $75 a Day . Matthew has traveled to nearly 100 countries and territories, flown hundreds of thousands of miles, slept in all sorts of places, tried weird food (including fried maggots), made life long friends, learned multiple languages, and, most imp...
May 31, 2025•37 min•Season 3Ep. 4
In this episode of the FLY BROTHER RADIO SHOW, Ernest chats with Beth Santos, entrepreneur, community builder, author, and founder of Wanderful, an international collective of travelers and travel content creators on a mission to make travel better for all women. On this mission, Beth created the WITS Travel Creator Summit, a leading event for women and gender diverse travel creators, the annual Bessie Awards to honor women of impact in travel, and the first major outdoor travel festival by and ...
May 03, 2025•53 min•Season 3Ep. 3
In this episode of the FLY BROTHER RADIO SHOW, Ernest chats with Dalton Richardson, brilliant and engaging aquarist at the world-renowned Monterey Bay Aquarium. Dalton has been an aquarist at Monterey Bay, along the ruff and rugged coast of California just south of San Francisco, since 2019. From cleaning the windows of the aquarium to feeding the fish, he absolutely loves his work. They talk about the highs and lows of aquarium life, his personal journey from island to inland, the beauty of the...
Apr 19, 2025•28 min•Season 3Ep. 2
In this episode of the FLY BROTHER RADIO SHOW, Ernest chats with award-winning actor, director, producer, and entrepreneur Kim Fields. Having started in television at the age of 7, Kim has brought joy and inspiration through storytelling on multiple hit series and movies, including The Facts of Life , Living Single , and The Upshaws , and many more. In addition to her expansive career in film and television, Kim has created a health and wellness space called Refresh by KF, which helps people cre...
Apr 05, 2025•37 min•Season 3Ep. 1
In this episode of the FLY BROTHER RADIO SHOW, Ernest chats with international bestselling author and multi-hyphenate travel maven Lola Akinmade. Born in Nigeria and based in Sweden, Lola is an award-winning visual storyteller and entrepreneur, having dispatched from over 80 countries, and having been featured in National Geographic, New York Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, and many, many, many more. Lola’s five published books—spanning photography, travel narrative, and fiction—include h...
Jan 14, 2024•38 min•Season 2Ep. 10
In this episode of the FLY BROTHER RADIO SHOW, Ernest chats with global relationship mentor and matchmaker Joy Nordenstrom, who has dedicated her career to helping people connect deeply across background and boundary. Joy's community-building skills include guiding individuals to be their personal best in partnership, to find and maintain love, make friends, and create amazing, fulfilling relationships. As founder of Joy of Romance, Inc. and host of the "Intelligent Love" vodcast, Joy guides sin...
Jan 06, 2024•39 min•Season 2Ep. 9
In this episode of the FLY BROTHER RADIO SHOW, Ernest chats with Luis Gramajo and Hans Schrei, co-founders of The Sunday Afternoon Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a sense of belonging through shared stories. Their journey in the United States started in 2019, when they moved from their home country of Guatemala to Austin, Texas, and grew a farmers’ market stand to an astounding five million dollar business by 2021. Though they eventually left the company behind, the lesso...
Jan 06, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 8
In this episode of the FLY BROTHER RADIO SHOW, Ernest White II chats with Rafael Norat, wealth-builder, real estate investor, and mindset master who helps people create financial freedom, one of the essential elements of a traveling lifestyle. Rafael served as an engineer for the Army for over 17 years before establishing a real estate rental portfolio which allowed him to leave his job and help create the Real Estate Wealth Institute, which is now a national real estate network of over 45,000 l...
Dec 10, 2023•40 min•Season 2Ep. 7
In this episode of the FLY BROTHER RADIO SHOW, Ernest White II chats with Amanda Powers, an advertising professional-turned-transformational travel creator dedicated to helping people create their own epic journeys. Over the years, Amanda realized that true happiness comes from blending skill with passion. This insight led her to her own transformative experience in Northern Spain, where she walked 500 miles along the famous Camino de Santiago. Her Camino journey helped her slow down, find clari...
Nov 25, 2023•50 min•Season 2Ep. 6
In this episode of the FLY BROTHER RADIO SHOW, Ernest White II chats with Justin “JC” Collins, a body and mindset transformation specialist who has assisted in helping over 2,000 clients and counting achieve their weight loss/weight gain, fitness, mindset, and health goals in his Fitness by JC Program. An athlete, model, actor, and motivational speaker, JC has helped Ernest create lasting habits and a healthier lifestyle, no matter where he is in the world. They talk about transforming your hear...
Nov 11, 2023•45 min•Season 2Ep. 5
In this episode of the FLY BROTHER RADIO SHOW, Ernest White II chats with Scott Brills, international entrepreneur and adventure capitalist, currently focused on making his mark in the travel and tourism space. Having started his adventure and business career at the age of 19 in the field of technology, he has since traveled to nearly 100 countries and has started companies in six of them along the way. He is currently focused on culinary and adventure tourism in Japan and Tanzania. They talk ab...
Oct 28, 2023•40 min•Season 2Ep. 4
In this episode of the FLY BROTHER RADIO SHOW, Ernest White II chats with Kim Haas, Executive Producer, Host & Creator of public television travel series Afro-Latino Travels with Kim Haas. Kim has been active in Afro-Latino issues for more than a decade and is founder of losafrolatinos.com, a blog celebrating Afro-Latino culture. Afro-Latino Travels with Kim Haas is in its second season, this time featuring the culture and people of Colombia, and viewers get to learn about Colombia's Afro-de...
Oct 21, 2023•40 min•Season 2Ep. 3
In this episode of the FLY BROTHER RADIO SHOW, host Ernest White II chats with his friend Alissa Sanders, a singer, writer, and traveler extraordinaire. Born in Hollywood, California, she has spent much of the past two decades in Brazil, studying voice with mentors such as Wagner Barbosa, Adriana Godoy, and Neto Costa. Alissa sings a multilingual mix of jazz and Brazilian music. Alissa has performed in many major jazz festivals and appeared on NBC’s "Carson Daly Show." Throughout their discussio...
Feb 13, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 1
On this episode, I talk with Greg Gross, journalist and explorer who spent four decades writing for publications such as the San Francisco Examiner, the Associated Press, and the San Diego Union-Tribune. Greg started his blog I’m Black and I Travel in 2009 and runs Trips by Greg, which connects intrepid travelers with the countries and cultures of Africa. We talk about traveling cross-country by car in the 1960s, connecting across cultures, multilingualism, travel history, Canada, the Gambia, an...
Sep 14, 2019•57 min•Season 1Ep. 12
On this episode, I talk with Faraz Arif Ansari, gifted writer and filmmaker from India who worked with several acclaimed directors in film and television since beginning his career a few years ago. His recent film, Sisak, is India’s first silent queer love story. The beautiful 20-minute short film is traveling to film festivals around the world, winning many, many jury and audience awards. When not working behind the camera, Faraz conducts cinema and theater sessions for underprivileged children...
Sep 07, 2019•51 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Today, on the Fly Brother Radio Show, I talk to Kimberly Ramsawak, travel career strategist and founder of Professional Jetsetter. Kimberly helps ambitious professional women land their travel dream jobs so that they can travel the world more, make money while doing it, and enjoy the global lifestyle they’ve always dreamed of without sacrificing their stable income. Kimberly believes that you don’t have to choose between travel, having a successful career, and your life, and she outlines some of...
Aug 31, 2019•45 min•Season 1Ep. 10
On this episode, I talk with Brandon Collier, American startup entrepreneur, strategic alliances professional, and overall cool brother living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Working in the corporate sector for over 8 years, he established and managed critical partnerships throughout the Americas in industries such as engineering and construction, oil and gas, telecom, finance, retail, IT, government, and health care, before deciding to move to Brazil full-time and work for himself. Considering that ...
Aug 24, 2019•48 min•Season 1Ep. 9
On this episode, I talk with Sophie Ibbotson, British entrepreneur, traveler, writer, and lover of wild places. Sophie runs her own consultancy business, Maximum Exposure Ltd, is the author of five Bradt Travel Guides, and has worked in dozens of countries, from Afghanistan to Sudan. We’ll talk all about languages, guidebook writing, and travel to some of the world’s least-likely tourism destinations. Tune in and let's fly!
Aug 17, 2019•55 min•Season 1Ep. 8
On this episode, I talk with Dr. Yvette McQueen, emergency medicine physician currently working as a traveling physician across the United States. She teaches healthcare providers and speaks to the general public about various health topics, and she’s an active organizer and participant in international medical missions to many countries around the world. As evidenced on her website, yvettemcqueenmd.com, Dr. McQueen has mixed her passions of medicine and travel to educate the public about how to...
Aug 10, 2019•42 min•Season 1Ep. 7
On this episode, I talk with Michael Carter, talent manager, entertainer, entrepreneur, retired soldier, and native of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Michael completed 22 years of military service and traveled to 45 states and 14 countries around the world. During his time in the military, Michael performed as part of the traveling US Army Soldier Show and, after retiring, appeared in the award-winning short film Some Fun Tonight and started his own talent agency, Carterboyz Entertainment. We talk ab...
Aug 10, 2019•47 min•Season 1Ep. 6
On this episode, I talk with Lillie Marshall educator, traveler and blogger. Lillie created travel blog AroundTheWorldL in 2009 to feature her own stories, and TeachingTraveling in 2010 to feature other "Teacher-Travelers." A public school teacher in Boston since 2003, Lillie has two young and mischievous (but very cute) children. We’ll talk all about the importance of travel in education, balancing career and family, and a whole lot more. Tune in and let's fly!
Jul 27, 2019•46 min•Season 1Ep. 5
On this week's show, I'm interviewing my good friend and fly sister Oneika Raymond, aka Oneika the Traveller, direct from New York City. Oneika is a freelance writer and travel media maven who's been to over 90 countries and worked in several, including Hong Kong, Mexico, and the UK. We laugh and talk life and, obviously, travel on the Fly Brother Radio Show. Tune in and let's fly!
Jul 20, 2019•28 min•Season 1Ep. 4
On this episode, I talk with Ronnell Perry explorer and entrepreneur who pursues black-centered travel experiences throughout Latin America. Ronnell is the founder of AfroBuenaventura, a travel portal inspired by communities descended from enslaved Africans that disembarked at ports throughout the Americas. Before starting a career in the corporate sector, Ronnell served in the US Peace Corps where he was placed in rural communities in Paraguay and Costa Rica. We’ll talk all about volunteering i...
Jul 14, 2019•49 min•Season 1Ep. 3
On this episode, I talk with Scott Brills, international entrepreneur, explorer, and philanthropist, who travels the world in search of adventure and business opportunities. Often on the road ten months of every year, Scott carries his office with him, running his web development firm and African safari company 100% remotely. In his off-time he enjoys going on ludicrous trips in foreign lands, such as driving a junk car from England to Mongolia, circumnavigating India in an auto-rickshaw, or run...
Jul 07, 2019•50 min•Season 1Ep. 2
On this episode, I talk with Sienna Brown, expat, entrepreneur, speaker, and optimist. As the founder of international lifestyle portal Las Morenas de España, Sienna is redefining the conversation about what it means to be living and thriving abroad as a person of color. In her recent TEDx talk and Now This News, she conveys the themes of shared stories and implements the resources of her mission to help people create lives that they truly love. We’ll talk all about travel, Spain, everyday life ...
Jun 30, 2019•44 min•Season 1Ep. 1
