In 2008, Shannon O'Donnell took off a year off from her career in to go around the world, supporting herself with her SEO, and make a travel a bigger priority in her life. Today, she's been on the road for five and a half years, and helps others get started doing the same at her blog A Little Adrift, while supporting herself along the way as an independent consultant, writer, and photographer. She is also the author of The Volunteer Traveler's Handbook and as such is a foremost expert online and...
Aug 27, 2014•35 min
In 2007, Becki Enright left her career in Public Relations and set out from her home in England for her first solo-female travel experience to Vietnam. Seven years later, she has yet to stop. She’s been through China, Mongolia. India, Kenya, Magadgascar, the United States, Israel and the West Bank, Taiwan and the less visited places like Myanmar and North Korea. She's even lived in Cambodia and is on her way to see Iran. All of this by herself. Today she’s an expert in not just South East Asian ...
Aug 26, 2014•37 min
After two decades, today’s guest left his sales career, working for massive tech corporations like Symantic and McAfee, to pursue his own thing in a different place. That place was Singapore where he started his sales and marketing automation company, Linchpin. Damian Thompson is what you might call a digital nomad, and he’s here to talk about that lifestyle - He recently left the Philippines to go nomadic, and I’m excited to have him on to chat about the places he’s lived, and in his own way, h...
Aug 25, 2014•38 min
Noah Lederman was the grandson of Holocaust survivors who, as you might imagine and is often the case, were never keen to share their stories with those who have followed them in time. However, through his travels, he became more curious about these secrets, and set out on a physical journey to uncover the truth. Doing so led him to a life of travel and writing to explore some of humanities darker truths, and learn a lot about himself and people, and why stories matter, in the process. While in ...
Aug 22, 2014•37 min
Stephanie Zito’s travels have taken her to over 100 countries. She is a wanderer, humanitarian, storyteller, business founder, evangelist for good, and all around beauty-seeker whose love of travel and involvement in relief and development have taken her to far flung places where she’s found purpose in helping the people of the world - which if you listen to this podcast, then you probably know that’s where I believe all the best stories happen. She’s lived in Cambodia, where she founded Cloud C...
Aug 21, 2014•29 min
This is part 2 of my conversation with Uncornered Market. Listen to Part 1! Audrey Scott and Daniel Noll are husband-and-wife-adventure travelers and storytellers, writers and speakers, who took a creative sabbatical to Prague that wound up being the springboard they didn’t expect into a life of travel. Today, they’ve been the road for over 12 years to 80 countries, which is truly the stuff of legend. In their work, they like to cover so many of the things like to discuss and explore on this sho...
Aug 20, 2014•33 min
Audrey Scott and Daniel Noll are husband-and-wife-adventure travelers and storytellers, writers and speakers, who took a creative sabbatical to Prague that wound up being the springboard they didn't expect into a life of travel. Today, they've been the road for over 12 years to 80 countries, which is truly the stuff of legend. In their work, they like to cover so many of the things like to discuss and explore on this show. That's why I'm so excited to have them on, coming from Berlin, Germany: T...
Aug 19, 2014•29 min
This is part two of my conversation with Natalie Sisson. Listen to part 1! Special heads up! If you want to be one of the first to know about Natalie’s Freedom Plan, then join the list! This show is about building your legend, and how travel provides you the opportunity to do so. And today’s guest is a shining example of what I mean when I say this. Natalie Sisson goes by the superhero moniker of The Suitcase Entrepreneur, as which she flies around the world saving people from the dull nagging a...
Aug 18, 2014•19 min
Special heads up! If you want to be one of the first to know about Natalie's Freedom Plan, then join the list! This show is about building your legend, and how travel provides you the opportunity to do so. And today’s guest is a shining example of what I mean when I say this. Natalie Sisson goes by the superhero moniker of The Suitcase Entrepreneur, as which she flies around the world saving people from the dull nagging ache of routine, that I talk about a lot on this show, by helping them to - ...
Aug 15, 2014•26 min
Sabrina Taylor is a former flight attendant turned accidental entrepreneur. After spending years working as a flight attendant, a job that took her all over the world, she needed a break from all the travel. So, she moved to Thailand where she, with no business experience and no creative skills, applied her talents as a writer to help a friend’s business. As a result, she fell into her own business. Today, despite the naysayers, and to her own surprise, she's a digital nomad having stepped into ...
Aug 14, 2014•39 min
This is part 2 of my conversation with Jill and Josh Stanton from Screw the Nine to Five. Listen to Part 1. Jill and Josh Stanton are the digitally nomadic couple behind Screw the Nine to Five, where they are helping you devise an escape plan to move closer to new possibility and adventure in your daily life. These two quit their 9-5s for a life that made travel a bigger priority, and moved to an island in Thailand for a couple months to design a new lifestyle that would help them create work th...
Aug 13, 2014•20 min
Jill and Josh Stanton are the digitally nomadic couple behind Screw the Nine to Five, where they are helping you devise an escape plan to move closer to new possibility and adventure in your daily life. These two quit their 9-5s for a life that made travel a bigger priority, and moved to an island in Thailand for a couple months to design a new lifestyle that would help them create work that would support a life they wanted, rather than hold dearly on to a job that dictates their routine at the ...
Aug 12, 2014•24 min
"More people will choose unhappiness to uncertainty." - Tim Ferris In the world of living and working anywhere, Sean Ogle is top of mind. He’s also one of the most eloquent teachers on the topic. 5 years ago in 2009, after being laid off, he launched Location 180, to explore what it meant to be location independent - to fold travel into his life in a greater capacity. Today he hones in on exactly what it takes to create a location independent lifestyle, whatever that means for you. For me, it me...
Aug 11, 2014•40 min
Lillie Marshall is from my hometown of Boston where she taught high school English while spending her summers volunteering in Latin America. In 2012, she took a 9-month career break to finally get out and take that trip to see the world. She went to 8 countries on 3 continents to make travel a bigger priority in her life. She returned from the experience a changed person and now folds travel into her life wherever possible. She takes students on group trips and participates in teacher tours, whi...
Aug 08, 2014•41 min
Caz Makepeace is one of the preeminent voices on creating a life of travel, along with her husband Craig, over at Y Travel Blog. Together, Caz and Craig describe themselves as serial travelers, adventurers of the outdoors, and lovers of sports and mojitos. They hold onto these titles with their two young girls, and that's part of why I love so much what they do. They dispel so many preconceived notions about the impossibility of travel with children. Y Travel Blog is one of the biggest travel bl...
Aug 07, 2014•30 min
David McKeegan, and his wife Carrie, are both from New York — but for the past 12 years, they’ve been traveling the road, starting a family, running a tax preparation business for ex-pat entrepreneurs, and not letting that hold them back from seeing the things they want to see, doing the things they want to do, and living the life they once dreamed of living. They got their start in Europe before taking the plunge to go nomadic - and clearly they prove the point that a life of travel can extend ...
Aug 06, 2014•40 min
Josh Bender and his high school sweetheart did something on their 10th anniversary that a lot of us ask ourselves everyday why we're not doing. They sold their cars, packed up their family of four, and moved to a nature hut in Bali to give their kids and themselves an amazing opportunity to explore the world. This was in 2012, and today you can follow their adventures at Travel with Bender where they post about living the dream of a travel life. This year, they're off to 15 more countries across...
Aug 05, 2014•39 min
Erik Hemingway is the host of the Family Adventure Podcast which makes him the perfect fit for Family Week at the Daily Travel Podcast, in which I'm out to crush the mindset that having kids means you can't travel, or even that life is no longer interesting or sexy. In fact, it's the complete opposite. Having already interviewed dozens of families out to explore the world together, Erik is the perfect person to help shine some light on what sort of travel is possible with kids in tow. In 2002, E...
Aug 04, 2014•40 min
Libby Tucker is a proponent of finding ways to live and work anywhere and helps others do exactly that. Understanding the value of travel and life, Libby has studied ways to stay on her toes, travel more often, and live an adventurous lifestyle. She got started traveling abroad and hasn't looked back since. Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Soundcloud or TuneIn What We Cover How Libby overcame a fear of leaving home in the mid-west United States to take a trip to Spain to study abroad and bec...
Aug 01, 2014•32 min
For four and a half years, Justin Cooke has lived in Davao City, in the Philippines, and hosts his own podcast, Empire Flippers while running his own outsourcing company. How he landed in the Philippines was an accident. He is consciously taking steps towards creating a life of travel, even more so than he already lives from the Philippines in which the rest of Southeast Asia is just a short, inexpensive flight away. Previously, he was working for an SEO company - and visited the Philippines as ...
Jul 31, 2014•36 min
“I draw a parallel to Paris during its literary golden age, when everyone went there to write their great novel. A lot of people are coming to this particular city to work on their next great startup.” Today’s guest continues our exploration into the reality of what it means to be location independent, or a digital nomad, which is different for each of the people we bring on the show who are living and working anywhere they choose. Jon Myers is a User Interface designer - which is a nuanced vers...
Jul 30, 2014•31 min
Caleb Wojcik is a DIY video expert, filmmaker, and the brains behind the incredibly successful and entertaining online business training platform that is Fizzle.co, which provides people with honest business advice — so if you’re interested in developing the skills to support a life to travel, your first month only costs $1. So check it out — I have Caleb on the show to just chat about his travels — and get his stories. A while back he started a website called Pocket Changed which was about impr...
Jul 29, 2014•33 min
“I think people can uncover this secret virtual world underneath everything simply by engaging more creatively with the photos they take.” Today we sit down with Trey Ratcliff, a futurist, photographer, filmmaker, and the man behind the world’s number one travel photography site, StuckInCustoms.com, where Trey focuses on not only the imaginatively realistic travel photos he takes and shares daily, but the stories behind them. He’s overcome blindness in one eye to become an astoundingly talented ...
Jul 28, 2014•37 min
Today’s guests are a Canadian couple who, after suffering multiple tragedies in their lives, sold it all to travel South America for 7 months. They left with no plan, no skills, and no solid travel experience. To get started, they went to volunteer, not expecting to inadvertently create a life of travel for themselves. Upon returning, they knew they couldn’t just sit still at home after having done the things they did. Now, they’re perpetually on the road, living and working from their laptops -...
Jul 25, 2014•41 min
Erin McNeaney and Simon Fairbairn sold it all to travel indefinitely. In 2008, they took a year to go to travel around India, South East Asia, Australia, the South Pacific and the US, and after seeing and doing so much in just a year, they couldn’t stand to return to their lives in the UK. So, rather than put off travel for someday, they made that day March 1, 2010, and left to spend a year in South America, with just carry-on backpacks and no end in sight. Together they’ve defined what living m...
Jul 24, 2014•33 min
Today’s guests I had the fortune of meeting in person back in November while exploring Newgrange, a medieval relic north of Dublin. Like most backpackers, they were approachable and looking to meet new people. When I heard about the trip they had planned, and their plans for their website - I knew I had to bring them on the show. Since then, their journey has become something far more challenging, and affirming of their love for travel. Cassie Kramer and Oren Lieberman left their jobs in Philade...
Jul 23, 2014•40 min
I often profess that traveling feeds a curiosity that only gets hungrier the more you feed it. But what constitutes a curious person? Do we need to be curious about everything or might it be enough to be curious about just the few things, or one thing, that interests us? Tyler speaks eloquently about not having to be a jack of all trades, knowledgeable about everything, to be considered 'interesting' or 'curious.' Exploring the world could just be about that one thing that compels you, as long a...
Jul 22, 2014•35 min
“Someone who is ‘unstuckable’ is someone who is not going to accept what they’ve been told or what everyone else has been doing but they’re really going to take the to discover what they want from life?” Stephen Warley spent four months living in Spain, shedding his old identity to create a new one in isolation, away from his routine, intentionally breaking his habits so that he could be more creative. Today, he's the host of Unstuckable -- a podcast and business helping people get unstuck in th...
Jul 21, 2014•30 min
Katie is a New Jersey-native turned ex-pat Roman food writer and culturist, curator, and beverage educator. Compelled to visit her homeland and explore a place that's resonated with her, Katie moved to Rome after graduating from Yale. After the romantic connection faded, her interest with the city's complexities, cultural expressions, and people remained. And so did she. There she began to build a life as a writer, where archeology and food navigated the direction of her career. She studied Ital...
Jul 18, 2014•35 min
Craig Martin and his wife Linda graduated school in 2006 and both had the idea to leave and teach English in foreign countries. Along the way, they started the Indie Travel Podcast before anyone knew what podcasts were. 8 years later, they haven't stopped and today, while she continues to teach, he runs a travel media company, Indie Travel Media - which does hosting, management, and production for companies, mainly travel brands. Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Soundcloud or TuneIn Explorer...
Jul 17, 2014•31 min
