Today’s guest is on an open-ended trip around the world with his family and covering his adventures on National Geographic and The Huffington Post. Back in 1994, he founded the internet’s first business travel website, and in 1996, he started blogging before it was even called blogging. He became ABCNews.com's first travel columnist in 1997, when he founded his consumer advocacy company to empower travelers to solve their service problems. His writing has been published by National Geographic Tr...
Jul 16, 2014•35 min
Kevin Le is a travel hacking expert. He’s traveled to over 20 countries as well as over 40 cities, priding himself on the fact that as a child of refugee parents fleeing Vietnam in the 80s, he’s come and gone a long way. Today, he’s a former corporate salesperson who now hosts his own show, The Travel Hacking Podcast which is helping his listeners travel smart, save money, and see the world in style. On this episode, we explore how travel provides Kevin with the ability to search for who he is i...
Jul 15, 2014•42 min
Today we’re bringing you the man who owns the word polyglot. He wasn’t raised multilingual - he spoke English, but after 10 years spent in a life of travel, he now speaks 12 languages fluently. After working as a freelance translator, he started his youtube channel and successful blog and created a business for himself that supports his travel lifestyle while helping others learn languages and actually have fun doing so. He has a course called Speak in a Week, and recently he published his book,...
Jul 14, 2014•30 min
“No matter where you go, make sure you go for at least a year.” After receiving that advice from another traveler, Jackie Laulainen took off for Costa Rica to spend an academic year abroad at just 18. She was immediately enamored with the country and experience, and the effect travel had on her. Today, she is the host of The Budget Minded Traveler’s Podcast, which is helping you to travel more for less. Jackie studied abroad when she was 18, and got hooked on travel as a teenager. She’s lived in...
Jul 11, 2014•40 min
What are the downsides to housesitting? "There are none!" says Dani from GlobetrotterGirls.com. In today's episode, it's a deep dive into Housesitting. What is it, how does it work, why is it safe, and how can it open up a world of free, authentic travel opportunities? We cover everything you need to know to get started. Dani Heinrich started her website to chronicle her travels at GlobetrotterGirls.com when she left her life in London back in 2010 to find a new one that embraced travel as a muc...
Jul 10, 2014•36 min
This is part 2 of my conversation with Gary Bembridge. Listen to part 1 in which we discuss unusual cruise experiences. Today, I change up the show a little to bring on Gary Bembridge and pick his brain on what travel bloggers can do to create a better resource for their readers. We also discuss the future of travel media and whether a podcast or web video series might be a better choice of format for tomorrow's audiences. Gary has been traveling every month of every year for the past 20+ years....
Jul 09, 2014•29 min
Gary Bembridge has been traveling every month of every year for the past 20+ years. It used to be as a business traveler, doing global marketing. Nowadays, he’s a independent consultant. For the past 9 years, he’s been running tipsfortravelers.com, a website and podcast to share his best advice from his travels. The man is an expert on cruises, and he’s the author of The Cruise Traveler's Handbook, which provides advice & tips on finding and having unforgettable cruise vacations. And a coupl...
Jul 08, 2014•21 min
"That is the basic motif of the hero journey: leaving one condition, finding the source of life to bring you forth in a richer condition." - Joseph Campbell From his time spent as a Boy Scout growing up in Boston, Jason Karas got an early start to becoming an explorer. While exploring the outdoors, he developed a sense of curiosity about the small things in life, the things hidden in our daily routine that most people don't notice. Acknowledging this curiosity led to a fascination with curiosity...
Jul 07, 2014•34 min
When Matt Long was a little kid, he memorized the geography sections of the world from the old Peanuts encyclopedia. He had the flag of Scotland hanging on his wall. Flash forward to 2010, and Matt was miserable as a lobbiest for a non-profit in Washington DC. He started his blog, Landlopers.com and two years later, he reached a point where he could take the blog full time. Within a short time, he found out what he wanted to do in life and how to make it happen: A life that makes travel a bigger...
Jul 04, 2014•28 min
Food can provide you a sort of cultural topography of a place through the people living there and the stories behind the things they produce. Food, whether specialty products or a homecooked meal, is an expression not only of a culture, but of the individual preparing it for you. Food is not only a component of travel, but a journey in itself - and one that can be as adventurous as you want. And travel can provide you a context with which to connect your food with certain memories, or touchstone...
Jul 03, 2014•38 min
This is part 2 of my conversation with Mike Corey. Listen to part 1. Mike Corey is a host, travel blogger, videographer, photographer, breakdancer, and enthusiastic world explorer. He’s currently serving as the first travel brand ambassador for Skype, which Skype calls Moment Makers, and Mike definitely is that. His videos include him eating all kinds of weird foods and participating in rich, life-changing experiences — like shark diving, the worlds biggest tomato food fight festival, or sleepin...
Jul 02, 2014•28 min
"The cool thing about life is that the more you open yourself up to life, the more life opens itself up to you." Mike Corey is a host, travel blogger, videographer, photographer, breakdancer, and enthusiastic world explorer. He’s currently serving as the first travel brand ambassador for Skype, which Skype calls Moment Makers, and Mike definitely is that. His videos include him eating all kinds of weird foods and participating in rich, life-changing experiences — like shark diving, the worlds bi...
Jul 01, 2014•28 min
After building a lot of frequent flyer miles from his business-related travel, Chris McGinnis applied his skills as a consultant to teach his coworkers about maximizing their experience. When he realized this was something he could do full time, he jumped at the opportunity. He wrote for local news outlets before picking up a regular gig with CNN, which cemented his expertise as a business travel expert. Today, he is one of the leading authorities on business travel as the director the Travel Sk...
Jun 30, 2014•44 min
In this short update, I just want to say thank you! Thank you for listening. Thank you for subscribing, and leaving a review on iTunes. I’m thrilled to have you as a founding member of a community of explorers. With all of you listening, I’m humbled - but I’d love to hear from you. Why are you listening? What do you love? What would you like to hear about? I want this show to get better. To help you more. So please let me know how I can help by emailing me directly at nathaniel@dailytravelpodcas...
Jun 27, 2014•8 min
Michael Turtle is an explorer and writer. Like me, Michael quit his job as a TV producer at age 30 to create a life of travel, to finally experience the complexity of the world at his own pace. On his website, Time Travel Turtle, he invites you to explore the people, culture and stories that happen to him on the road. That is, until he gets bored — which I’m predicting will never happen. In his own words, his posts “are the stories behind the brochures. They tell the tales of the history and the...
Jun 26, 2014•40 min
The desire to travel independently is a feeling that stirs within a lot of us. It's a big step that not everyone will take. But at 19, Alexandra Baackes wanted it badly enough to make it a reality. She cobbled together a "DIY Summer Abroad" to volunteer and backpack in South East Asia. Along the way, she met a collection of folks living a life of travel, working on the road to support themselves. She knew then that was how she wanted to live her life as well. Like me, Alex spent time bartending ...
Jun 25, 2014•29 min
"Some people have the idea that if you travel nonstop you must be a trust fund baby with endless funds or a travel blogger making money from that and in reality, there are so many ways that people can make money online now," says today's guest, Billy Taylor, the Senior Editor of Travel Longer magazine, "The benefit of starting the magazine was hearing all of these different, diverse ways that people are able to perpetuate their travel." Equal parts journalist and photographer, Billy has been tra...
Jun 24, 2014•44 min
Michael Hodson quit his career as a lawyer in Arkansas to seek fulfillment on the road. His goal? To circle the globe without using an airplane and write about it. He completed it in 16 months. Starting his blog to document his journey, he returned and took up the blog as a way to continue building a life of freewheeling travel. His travels include an overland trek from Cape Town to Cairo, from Lisbon to Saigon by train in a month, the Middle East, South America, across Europe... "A little bit o...
Jun 23, 2014•41 min
In episode 32, we discussed how Elisa left her job and went from never living outside the state of Maine to running her own freelance writing agency out of Bali, Indonesia. And how she didn't let a debilitating motorbike wreck stop her from continuing her journey, so for anyone interested in traveling more and becoming an Explorer, Elisa is an example of how to do so. Have a listen to part one or sit back and enjoy part two of our conversation. Elisa Doucette is a location independent entreprene...
Jun 20, 2014•30 min
How does a small-town, girl-next-door working in Maine as an insurance salesperson become a digital nomad, living in Thailand, visiting friends and clients in Saigon, and freelancing to support her freedom? Her adventures weren’t always as seductive. Almost immediately upon arrival in Bali, she was involved in a harrowing motorbike wreck that left her hospitalized in Indonesia and nearly having her leg amputated. After overcoming a trauma, four surgeries and the biggest challenge of not only her...
Jun 19, 2014•41 min
Today's guest is a sought after speaker and thought leader on lifestyle freedom, Ryan Moran. He specializes in helping others build lifestyle businesses for themselves, and for those unfamiliar, lifestyle business has become the term for a business that supports the lifestyle you want to live rather than one demanded by the business. So, there's a natural relationship there for travelers aspiring to build a business that supports a lifestyle of travel. This is a business heavy episode, but liste...
Jun 18, 2014•38 min
Today’s guest is an online entrepreneur, the host of two business podcasts - Mobile Mixed, and more recently Leaving Corporate - and he’s not known for his travels. But, Greg Hickman is without a doubt in my mind, an explorer and lifelong learner. I know this because of the nature of his podcast. Right out of college, he went on a whirlwind tour backpacking Europe for 3-months. That’s less extreme than some of the guests we have on here, but perhaps more of a reality for most people who want to ...
Jun 17, 2014•33 min
"We must let go of the life we have planned so as to accept the one that is waiting for us." - Joseph Campbell Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Soundcloud or TuneIn Do you feel you've earned the right to travel? Are you willing to give yourself the permission to go? Can doing so help you make a more informed decision about what you want to do with your life? Ask a guy who tried four different career tracks -- including the military, law, corporate finance, and real estate -- before discoveri...
Jun 16, 2014•28 min
Sherry Ott is calling from the other side, where adventure lies, to show you that it’s not that scary, it’s not too uncomfortable, and it’s not a bad career move to take a career break for long term travel. But before she became this explorer of an amazing world, Sherry Ott was living, working, and earning six-figures in New York for three years. But when she was 30, she took a vacation and met other travelers who asked her a question that would change her life. In this episode, you’ll hear how ...
Jun 13, 2014•30 min
Sherry Ott was burned out. But rather than to go on vacation, she decided to do something a bit more radical. She quit her six-figure job as an IT director and project manager to spend a year traveling around the world. Having only started traveling internationally at 30 years old, with only a few trips under her belt, she was new to this challenge. But she quickly became addicted to the new. In this episode, you'll hear how Sherry viewed an extended career break as a challenge, took it on, plan...
Jun 12, 2014•24 min
“A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.” ― Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel Antrese Wood is painting her way across Argentina. A native of Pasadena, California, Antrese is a former artist with Disney Studios, currently living in Argentina where, after running a successful Kickstarter campaign, she is working on a series of paintings titled A Po...
Jun 11, 2014•32 min
Did you like what Scott Mackenzie had to say in this episode about earning and redeeming points and miles? If you'd like to get started with points and miles, then you can check out my book The Beginners Guide to Points and Miles. And be sure to follow his blog, Hack My Trip. Photo by: Nick Ciorogan Before Scott Mackenzie mastered earning points and miles, he was earning his Ph.D in neuroscience. He launched his travel hacking blog, Hack My Trip, while he was still in school. It was flying to in...
Jun 10, 2014•36 min
In 1999, Earl Baron graduated college and took what was supposed to be a 3-month trip to Asia. Today, that trip has yet to end. It was within a week that he discovered a new version of himself, meeting people, all the new experiences, and everything he was learning every day. He knew he couldn't go home to a career that could ever be as rewarding to him as these experiences. Sitting on a stone wall during a festival at Angkor Wat in Cambodia, sitting on a stone wall watching an amazing world unf...
Jun 09, 2014•42 min
It was over egg rolls and stir fry, when her Aunt Judy unexpectedly shared her travel stories with her teenage niece. Captivated and enthralled by her aunt's own personal legend, Regina Busse knew instantly that she wanted the same, to be more adventurous and have these stories of her own to share, just like her aunt. "The life she had lead and continued to lead sparked a fire inside me," says Regina. And so a 16-year old midwestern girl from Omaha, a small city in the heart of the state of Nebr...
Jun 06, 2014•32 min
This is part 2 of my conversation with Jason Moore. Listen to part 1, From Zero to Travel with Jason Moore. Jason Moore has this concept he calls "Wanderliving." And for 15 years, he's been making full time travel a reality for himself. Today, he's helping his audience do the same on his website and podcast, Zero to Travel. When I had the idea for this show, Jason was the guy who was already out there doing it, in his own way, focusing on practical ideas, concrete resources, and actionable advic...
Jun 05, 2014•18 min
