Karima was born and raised in Morocco, and has solo traveled throughout the country. Here are her thoughts about living and traveling to this incredible country! we chat about: - best places to visit in Morocco - things you should know before coming - is Morocco safe for a solo female traveler? - and much more! connect with Karima! ✨ Insta: https://www.instagram.com/oufkirkarima7?igsh=NTQ5bDk0aGp6bjVo connect with Juan! ✨ Insta: https://www.instagram.com/juan.arcidiacono?igsh=MXIxbG9qOGdrbjBscg=...
Nov 24, 2024•18 min•Season 4Ep. 6
genuine first impressions and cultural shocks after moving to Spain 🇪🇸 from the United States 🇺🇸
Nov 15, 2024•15 min•Season 4Ep. 5
motivational talk to do something that scares you!
Nov 13, 2024•4 min•Season 4Ep. 4
falling in love with life in Madrid 😌 🌹
Nov 13, 2024•6 min•Season 4Ep. 3
there is no “arriving” to your dream life; the path is the goal. ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ EXPLORE MORE HERE :) Instagram: ✨ @gottacaseofwanderlust https://www.instagram.com/gottacaseofwanderlust/ ✨ @lydiaschultzz https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz Travel Blog: ✨ gottacaseofwanderlust.com ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━...
Nov 13, 2024•4 min•Season 4Ep. 2
what I wish I knew before moving abroad solo for the first time after spending 1-month in Madrid, Spain 🇪🇸 part 1: a letter to myself from myself part 2 (04:21): extended reflections from Sardinia Italy ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ MY SOCIALS :) Instagram: ✨ @gottacaseofwanderlust https://www.instagram.com/gottacaseofwanderlust/ ✨ @lydiaschultzz https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz Travel Blog: ✨ gottacaseofwanderlust.com ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━...
Nov 06, 2024•12 min•Season 4Ep. 1
a very overdue new edition of conversations with strangers (aka talking with random people) with the good people of New York City in Washington Square Park :) topic: joy
Oct 28, 2024•10 min•Season 3Ep. 5
on this episode, we talk about: - moving abroad - Lelia’s experience living in France vs Canada - advice on transitioning to a new country ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ connect with Lelia: ✨ insta: https://www.instagram.com/lelia_dek?igsh=bnN4d2dlbzFxdWQ4 ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ MY SOCIALS :) Instagram: ✨ @lydiaschultzz https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ Travel Blog: ✨ gottacaseofwanderlust.com ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━...
Jun 21, 2024•27 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Vinicius Costa Vinicius is a senior lead travel writer for Travel Off Path who has written over 750 articles during his journalism career, with a focus on off-the-beaten-path experiences and destinations! ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ connect with Vini: ✨ insta: https://www.instagram.com/vinigoesglobal?igsh=MWFtYXdteW5wZW9nbA== ✨ articles: Travel Off Path ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ MY SOCIALS :) Instagram: ✨ @lydiaschultzz https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ Travel Blog: ✨ gottacaseofwanderlust.com ━━━━━━━━...
Jun 21, 2024•30 min•Season 3Ep. 3
more work exchange need to know info!!! on this episode, Ellie and I chat about: - work exchange tips and expert advice - favorite Workaway experiences - making friends as a solo traveler Connect with Ellie: ✨ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ellie__larkins?igsh=MWEzcWdrbjN2MnRz 💖 MY INSTAGRAM:) https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz?igsh=YzQ2dnJ3MG1qenJy&utm_source=qr
Apr 24, 2024•36 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Welcome to Season 3 🤩 I’m backkkk and so excited to dive back into the world of travel with conversations with new (and possibly old) special guests !! On this episode, I talk with Gabby Boucher about: - work exchanges 101 - budget travel - her travel experiences; most notably, her recent trip to Indonesia! Check out Gabby's story on my blog: Gabby Boucher on Traveling Without Money or a Plan ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ Connect with Gabby: ✨ blog: https://budgettravelwithgabby.com ✨ Instagram: https://...
Apr 14, 2024•37 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Whether you are a lover of museums, food, and/or architecture, this city has something for everyone. I grew up within reach of Chicago, where I currently live. It is the first city I fell in love with, and I am passionate about conveying my local insights to visitors. Here is the ultimate guide of the 10 best things to do for first-time visitors to Chicago. For the complete list/shownotes, check out the article I wrote here:
Mar 15, 2024•8 min•Season 2Ep. 23
happy Women’s History Month 🌕
Feb 25, 2024•10 min•Season 2Ep. 22
A trip to Chicago is not complete without an exploration of at least one of its diverse neighborhoods — and as a Chinese American, Chinatown is my personal favorite. ———————————- Places mentioned: - Nine Dragon Wall - Chiu Quon Bakery - Chinese American Museum of Chicago - Sweet Cafe - Mango Mango - Ping Tom Memorial Park - 88 Marketplace
Feb 12, 2024•6 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Life is too short to settle for a mediocre loaf — here’s a list of the top 5 bakeries in Chicago (from a self-professed bakery addict) As mentioned: * La Fournette, Old Town https://www.lafournette.com * Publican Quality Bread, West Loop https://www.publicanqualitybread.com * Verzenay Chicago, Lincoln Park https://www.verzenaychicago.com * Hendrickx Belgian Bread Crafter, The Loop http://hendrickxbakery.com * Sweet Rabbit, Roscoe Village https://www.sweet-rabbit.com Happy bread eating!
Jan 27, 2024•6 min•Season 2Ep. 20
part 2 of washington square park interviews!
Nov 28, 2023•14 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Maria is the host of the Recipe to the Road podcast, a podcast that shares travel stories and information from people of all over the world. On this episode, we talk about: Misconceptions about travel and safety Why the media can be problematic for tourism Maria’s experience/advice as solo female travelers questions: What sparked your wanderlust? Was there a specific experience or conversation that made you realize the inequities that many people face when traveling? What has been the most impac...
Sep 15, 2023•28 min•Season 2Ep. 18
lessons from that trip, what I wish I knew before, and takeaways looking back at it now…
Aug 20, 2023•14 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Tangible tips to be a better traveler from transport, to food and accommodations!
Jul 29, 2023•22 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Stevie is the host of the “Destinations Beyond Expectations” podcast that he’s been running for over 3 years now and the show has had a ton of fantastic guests with stories all about travel. On this episode, we talk about: Being a student of travel What it takes to run a podcast How to start a podcast Questions: What is a student of travel? What has travel taught you? Can you you recall a certain experience that has particularly impacted you? How can we become better students of travel? Students...
Jul 21, 2023•29 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Jonathan Otero is the chief executive officer and co-host of the Globetrotters podcast, a travel podcast that aims to inspire everyday people from all backgrounds to look beyond their own borders, even with limited resources. On this episode, we talk about: - breaking down the barriers of travel - why Americans could benefit from traveling more - how travel teaches us to get out of our comfort zones - inspiration behind the Globetrotters podcast ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ Connect with Jonathan: Globetr...
Jul 14, 2023•47 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Urmi has worked several years in the financial industry and is passionate about empowering women in their finances. On this episode, we talk about: * how to get the money to travel * planning your trip budget * Urmi’s tips to save money when traveling ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ 1. How can we be more financially savvy and use this to travel more? 2. How do we create a travel budget? 3. How can we make budgeting more manageable/“fun”? 4. How did you manage budgeting on your most recent trip to the U.K. 5...
Jun 30, 2023•24 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Lauren McLachlan is from Scotland and is a level 3 Hatha Yoga Instructor and founder of her own yoga company Ebb & Flo Yoga. ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ On this episode, we talk about: Life and travel in Scotland Why yoga is healing for anyone in life Lauren’s yoga business and personal yoga journey ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ What sparked your wanderlust? (0:34) How is your life like in Scotland? (2:22) What aspects of life in Scotland do you cherish most and which aspects would you like to change? (6:42) ...
Jun 24, 2023•42 min•Season 2Ep. 12
#mindfultourism Jeremiah is a California-based award winning photographer and travel writer whose work has been published internationally. He’s also the author of 4 books about his photography and travel experiences as well as a mathematics professor at San Bernardino Valley College. On this episode, we talk about: Traveling to lesser-known destinations How to find more local experiences Jeremiah’s travel memories after being to almost 100 countries! Questions: What sparked your wanderlust? (00:...
Jun 20, 2023•29 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Erin is a Canadian travel writer of “Pina travels” and host of the “Curious Tourism: Responsible Travel” podcast who tackles big issues within tourism and emphasizes ethical traveling throughout her work. ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ On this episode, we talk about: - How to not be THAT tourist - Ways we can travel more responsibly - The problems with budget travel - Recognizing travel privileges and our impact as travelers ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ 1. What sparked your wanderlust for travel? (0:34) 2. When did...
Jun 16, 2023•36 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Antonio Gutierrez is from Grenada Spain and helps run the regenerative educational program called Celei, an organization that organizes study abroad programs and educational services about topics of sustainability for students. I participated on one of their programs to Cuba this spring with Antonio and his friend, Arturo, and it was a life-changing experience. On this episode, we talk about: - What it means to be a traveler versus a tourist and why it is important to have the most meaningful tr...
Jun 09, 2023•47 min•Season 2Ep. 9
#mindfultourism Bri is a travel blogger, photographer, writer, and now podcaster of the show “Slomad Stories” who aims to promote more responsible, slow and mindful travel. ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ This is PART 1 of the #mindfultourism series that I am SO excited to begin sharing with you. Traveling is a privilege and we must be mindful of the footprints that we imprint upon a destination — on a journey that is ours, but on land that is not. ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ Shownotes: 1. What do you think sparked...
Jun 02, 2023•46 min•Season 2Ep. 8
the beauty of life ft: random strangers in chicago
May 28, 2023•7 min•Season 2Ep. 7
conversations with strangers pt. 2 question: “what are you excited about in life?”
May 21, 2023•8 min•Season 2Ep. 6
asking strangers at a farmers market to share a “recent life lesson they’ve learned” — listen to their amazing responses
May 17, 2023•7 min•Season 2Ep. 5
