I had the pleasure of talking to travel influencer, Carolina Jiménez. Carolina is from Colombia, and she discussed with me why she leapt to leave her job in a profession where she obtained a bachelors and masters degree. We went into detail about how she first fell in love with travelling and why she wanted to continue writing that narrative. You will see from our discussion that Carolina was in love with a guy she thought she would be travelling the world together. It turned out to be all so di...
Sep 20, 2021•34 min•Season 2021Ep. 53
I sat down and spoke to the host of one of the longest-running travel podcasts, Megan Chapa. Megan hosts the show, Travel Radio Podcast. We went into detail about how she first fell in love with travelling and why she wanted to continue writing that narrative. We talked about why she started the podcast and sustained the show for more than four years. Megan and I discussed what she has done to keep the show fresh over the years. We talked about what is required to start a podcast and what qualit...
Sep 06, 2021•34 min•Season 2021Ep. 52
I sat down and spoke to the founder of ecomadic, Jaclyn Yost. Ecomadic is a sustainable travel platform company, launching in the autumn of 2021 to challenge significant travel booking platforms. Jaclyn spoke passionately about beaming light on environmental and social sustainability issues through travel in this discussion. I spoke in detail with Jaclyn about how she first fell in love with travelling. Jaclyn also talked to me about living in different countries and what she learnt from those e...
Aug 23, 2021•38 min•Season 2021Ep. 51
I had the pleasure of talking to entrepreneur, globetrotter and travel host, Scott Eddy. One of our most significant discussions was on how to run a business that incorporates travel into your work and lifestyle and how anyone can do it at the highest standard. Scott and I spoke about his early life, working in the corporate world as a stockbroker. We talked about why he left that field and what made him fall in love with travel. My main focus point with Scott was looking at how people want to b...
Aug 09, 2021•52 min•Season 2021Ep. 50
I had the honour and pleasure to talk to actress, producer, director, host, and documentary maker, Drea Castro. Our main topic of discussion was based on Drea's career and how she manages to incorporate travel with her busy work life. Born in the Philippines, Drea moved across to the United States at the age of 4. She talked to me about visiting the Philippines every summer to stay in touch with her Filipino routes. I spoke to her about what it was like getting the best of both American and Fili...
Jul 26, 2021•48 min•Season 2021Ep. 49
I had the honour and pleasure to talk to travel journalist, documentary maker and broadcaster, Ash Bhardwaj. Our main topic of discussion was based on how South Asian travellers, journalists, content creators can be seen and heard more in the media. We discussed what obstacles are being faced and the short-term and long-term solutions to improve south Asian diversity within the sector. Ash and I also discussed how he first got into writing and journalism. And what was it that made him stand out?...
Jul 12, 2021•38 min•Season 2021Ep. 48
Anniversary special What a year! A pandemic year. A year in which I have pretty much distanced myself from everyone. Much like everyone else has! But there was one thing that I was proud to have started during 2020. That was my travel podcast, Take a Wander with Shebs. And what better way to celebrate the first anniversary than to interview the man who has produced consecutive weekly episodes and has pioneered the show. An interview inspired by the state of the current climate. An interview with...
Jun 28, 2021•12 min•Season 2021Ep. 47
I sat down with Alex Schnee to talk about her travel blogging career and how she has managed to make that a success with her blog, Alex on the Map. This was the third time I had spoken to Alex about her journey to date as I had conducted an Instagram Live with her back in April 2020. The talk unfortunately disappeared due to Instagram not giving the option to save the video at that time. This is part 2; part 1 is about food & travel and was technically my second chat with her. In this discus...
Jun 14, 2021•48 min•Season 2021Ep. 46
I had the pleasure of speaking to Ernest White II on June 8th, 2020, Live on my Instagram about Ernest's life, career, and the state of diversity within the travel industry. Ernest and I discussed his journey as a blogger, and when he started, the world of blogging was all so new. I discussed the transition he made in making that blog into a television docuseries called Fly Brother with Ernest White II. We spoke about the locations he filmed in and what he gained from those experiences, the plan...
Jun 13, 2021•34 min•Season 2021Ep. 44
I spoke to Alaa live on my Instagram on the 29th of September about his life journey and what took him to where he is now in Turkey. Alaa is a businessman and owns a restaurant in downtown San Fransisco called Elixiria. His business has featured in Hoodline and Timeout and has had a lot of great success. Unfortunately, it closed during the pandemic, and he does state he is unsure of the future. Alaa talked to me about being born in Jerusalem and moving across to America with his parents at two y...
Jun 13, 2021•40 min•Season 2021Ep. 30
German came on my Instagram live on the 22nd of June 2020 to speak to me about his business, NananTravel. We also talked about Africa's beauty and why we should think about travelling there after getting back to some normality. I spoke to German about where his passion for travel started. I talked to him about his upbringing in Peru, and how he got started in modelling. You will find out his modelling took him around the world. After living in quite a few different countries worldwide, German ev...
Jun 13, 2021•45 min•Season 2021Ep. 27
Alex Thompson and I spoke about his life, career, his travels, and the reason he founded, Legaroo, a law firm that aims to help travellers worldwide. Alex spoke to me about his early stages, where his passion for travel started. He was sent off to Canada at 17 years old to study for a year, where his curiosity for wanting to see the world first started. I went into detail about Legaroo, based in Costa Rica, where he is the Founder and CEO, and spoke to Alex about what the company can do to help ...
Jun 13, 2021•38 min•Season 2021Ep. 35
I spoke to Natasha live on Instagram on the 22nd May 2020 about her life, travels, and whether you can find love whilst your love is travel. Natasha is a Flight Attendant, Freelance Travel Writer, aspiring Actress, and Author. She is also the founder of Single Passport, where her aim is to get singles who travel into a loving relationship. We spoke in-depth about why it has been difficult for some to find a companion whilst travelling during our talk. Whether we are overwhelmed by the thought of...
Jun 13, 2021•28 min•Season 2021Ep. 31
I sat down and spoke to Pharmacist and Travel Blogger, Dr Nabila Ismail about how she first fell in love with travelling and why she wants to make that a part of her life going forward in her professional career. Growing up in the United States of America, Nabila talked to me about her first experience of travelling abroad. Before starting university, she spent time as an Au pair in Spain which she feels was one of her most significant transformative travel moment. Nabila went and trained as a P...
Jun 13, 2021•33 min•Season 2021Ep. 38
I had the pleasure of speaking to Avital Andrews about her success as an editor, writer and journalist. We spoke about how Avital initially fell in love with travelling and how her curiosity was enhanced from her early adventures to explore more in the subsequent years. Avital explains to me how her writing and journalism career started. She puts it down to being bilingual and not speaking the native language of English until she went to school in the United States of America. We talked about wh...
Jun 13, 2021•30 min•Season 2021Ep. 37
I had the pleasure of sitting down and talking to Italian travel blogger, Diana Bancale. Diana and I discussed her initial love for travel and how it all started for her in the travel blogging world. We discussed Diana's education and when she moved to Miami to learn English. When she returned to Italy, we spoke about how working in an office environment was the catalyst for her decision to pursue her passion for travel. Having studied journalism in school, Diana had an eye for writing. Hence wh...
Jun 13, 2021•45 min•Season 2021Ep. 40
Chloe Ennis appeared on my Instagram live on the 1st of June 2020, to talk to me about her life and travel experiences. We also spoke about her condition, which has affected her life as she was diagnosed with, fibromyalgia. Chloe spoke to me about where her love for travel initially started from. We talked about how that initial experience moulded her into the person that she is now. We also spoke about her life in general growing up and her struggles. The discussion involved getting liked and r...
Jun 13, 2021•37 min•Season 2021Ep. 28
I had the pleasure of sitting down and speaking to entrepreneur and TV personality, Paris Norriss. In our discussion, we talked about his education, work, travel and becoming a host of his own travel show, Guy in Dubai. Paris discussed with me what it was like growing up and having a few family holidays. This left him wanting to travel more. He went through to university, studying Business studies and focused on finance. He explained why he went down the financial route. When he graduated, Paris...
Jun 13, 2021•54 min•Season 2021Ep. 41
What is it like to talk to someone who has conquered all 7 continents and not even turned 30 yet? Well, I got the chance to speak to Hope Weaver, someone who had embarked on a boat to Antarctica a day before her 27th birthday to complete this achievement. Hope is someone I travelled with all over Morocco back in March 2016, as we met on a group tour. Since then, we have remained friends, and I thought it was time she shared her remarkable journey in her life with the world. Hope and I discussed ...
Jun 13, 2021•39 min•Season 2021Ep. 33
I had the honour and pleasure to sit down and speak to photographer, Roberta Marroquin, about how she got into photography, travelling, and her secret of sustaining her long career. Coming from Monterrey, Mexico, we discussed what it was like growing up in Mexico. We discussed her education and why photography was such a passion for her from an early age. Roberta discussed going to university and studying in England and France, of all places, to learn her trade. Roberta talked to me about gradua...
Jun 13, 2021•42 min•Season 2021Ep. 42
I spoke to Ravi Prabhu live on May 16th 2020 on my Instagram about his ambition to conquer every country in the world. Ravi spoke to me about his early life in India before getting the opportunity to move to the United States of America. He talked to me about his education and his early desire to travel. We spoke about the travel industry and the impact the 2020 pandemic has had on the travel industry. We talked about what airlines, hotels and hostels may do going forward. We also discussed pote...
Jun 13, 2021•44 min•Season 2021Ep. 29
Mike and I sat down and talked about the year, which was 2020. We discussed what took place for Mike on a creative level, his journey in the travel space and what he has installed for 2021. Mike and I met through a panel we were both involved in at the end of 2020. During that discussion, we spoke about the importance of diverse storytelling within the travel industry. During our one to one talk, we went in-depth about where Mike's love for travel came from, and what led him to form 'Travel with...
Jun 13, 2021•46 min•Season 2021Ep. 25
I had the honour and privilege to sit down and talk to, Ryan Pyle. Ryan and I had a comprehensive chat about his life and career up to the present date. Ryan spoke to me about how he initially fell in love with travelling. He told me that his mother was a travel agent, and his household always had magazines such as National Geographic, which got him curious about travelling at a young age. Ryan spoke to me about going off to university and studying International politics at the University of Tor...
Jun 13, 2021•1 hr•Season 2021Ep. 32
Stephanie and I spoke about her life and career up to the present day. Stephanie worked as a television reporter for nearly a decade covering the news and being a weekend anchor until she decided to leave the role in September 2020. We spoke about where her initial love for travel came from. Stephanie became fluent in Spanish and then went on to live in the Dominican Republic and Colombia. She also lived in Colombia while participating in a Fulbright Programme. We spoke about her book 'Blacktrek...
Jun 13, 2021•27 min•Season 2021Ep. 24
Katherine spoke to me Live on the 21st of September 2020 on my Instagram about how she started off her writing career, and how she became successful within a couple of years. I discussed where the initial love for travel started with Katherine, and I spoke to her about some of her transformative travel experiences. Katherine used to be based in New York but moved across to Wyoming during the lockdown. She does state it was temporary. Even though she couldn't travel internationally after March 20...
Jun 13, 2021•44 min•Season 2021Ep. 26
Jules Hatfield and Christine Williams spoke to me about how they started a successful blog, Don't forget to move, a podcast, Not So Bon Voyage together, and evolved into brilliant entrepreneurs. Jules is from Melbourne, Australia, and Christine is from San Fransisco, California, USA. They both now live in San Fransisco. I asked them where their initial love for travelling started and how that led them to the lives they have now. We discussed how they first met. They stumbled across one another i...
Jun 13, 2021•44 min•Season 2021Ep. 34
I had the pleasure of speaking to Mad Nomad, adventurer, writer and author, Elias Vrohidis. Elias and I discussed how he fell in love with travelling and what drove him to want to explore the world on a motorcycle. We started the discussion on his education and what degree he obtained. From there, he realised when he began working in front of a computer that this was a life he did not want to continue living. Elias talked to me about the decision he made to travel at the age of 23, and this was ...
Jun 13, 2021•31 min•Season 2021Ep. 43
I spoke to Alex Live on my Instagram on May 25th, 2020 at 11pm BST/6pm EDT. Alex decided to cook us all ratatouille. This show aimed to discuss what types of food we both have eaten on our travels and why we love to try different cuisines worldwide. Food is a big part of my travels and this talk will serve up an appetite. This was the second talk I had with Alex as our first talk was also live on Instagram. Unfortunately, I don't have access to that footage due to Instagram not having the option...
Jun 13, 2021•36 min•Season 2021Ep. 45
I sat down and spoke to Shane Dallas, a keynote speaker, conference director, social media expert and photographer. We discussed how he fell in love with travelling at a young age and how his career started in the travel industry. One of the topics we talked about was his photography. Shane got noticed because he took photos of places on the road less travelled, which not many did back in the early 2000s or do so today. We talked about why he travels the road less travelled and the meaning behin...
Jun 13, 2021•36 min•Season 2021Ep. 39
Simon Parker is a Telegraph travel writer, columnist and BBC broadcaster. His show, Earth Cycle, airs on Amazon Prime worldwide. I had the honour and privilege to sit down and talk to Simon about his life and career up to the present date. Simon spoke to me about how he initially fell in love with travelling. Growing up in north Oxfordshire, he said there were no shops, no pubs, and not much to do, making him eager to get away as he got older. He didn't do much travelling during his early life a...
Jun 13, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 2021Ep. 36
