This is part 2 of a 5 part series on The White House Travel Blogging Summit. Listen to part 1. On December 9th, 2015, The White House hosted the top 100 bloggers and digital media influencers in travel to hold a conversation about their study abroad initiatives to foster global citizenship. In the room were some of the biggest names in travel, from online to television, along with senior White House administration officials, including the Chief of Staff. I still can't believe I was included. I w...
Jan 13, 2015•11 min
This is part 1 of a 5 part series on The White House Travel Blogging Summit. On December 9th, 2015, The White House hosted the top 100 bloggers and digital media influencers in travel to hold a conversation about their study abroad initiatives to foster global citizenship. In the room were some of the biggest names in travel, from online to television, along with senior White House administration officials, including the Chief of Staff. I still can't believe I was included. I want to be able to ...
Jan 12, 2015•12 min
Nellie Huang is an independent journalist and editor with a love for the unknown and an eye for adventure, who’s work has been featured in National Geographic Intelligent Traveler, CNN Go, International Business Times, and more. And her travels have led her to climbing an active volcano in Guatemala to rebuilding a school in Tanzania, she’s seen the Galapagos and dived in Borneo - which some people say is the world’s best diving - and lived in Singapore, London, Madrid, and Seville. Nowadays you...
Jan 09, 2015•33 min
Tayo Rockson just launched his podcast, As Told by Nomads — which you can find under places and travel, among other categories on iTunes. But it has a different angle. Tayo is exploring this pre-existing concept known as Third Culture Kids, or TCKs. Which are essentially kids who have grown up outside of their parents culture. This creates an interesting person who’s able to connect with outside cultures, while never claiming ownership to just one. I’m curious about what Tayo’s up to with this p...
Jan 08, 2015•37 min
After trying on a handful of different careers and lives, Marysia Maciocha found the only way to encompass all of these interests was through travel - and the many roles it lets us play. This support was all she needed to fall in love with travel, which she writes about on her blog, My Travel Affairs. Since then, she’s made a life of travel her own and one I’m excited to explore, while also learning a thing or two about her home country of Poland, from which a number of my relatives came to Amer...
Jan 08, 2015•35 min
"I was afraid of getting stuck so I made a kind-of-random decision to leave home... I didn't know what I wanted to do, just that I didn't want to be here. And there was no real reason for that other than I'd been here my whole life." Alana Morgan left life in Seattle to see what might be waiting for her in Chiang Mai, Thailand — where she taught english and established for herself a freelance writing career through her blog, Paper Planes — on it you can find writings about her bigger adventures ...
Jan 06, 2015•38 min
Mike Wendeland is a trained journalist who in 2012, bought a recreation vehicle or motor home, and while on the road, began covering the beat of the people and experiences they found along the way on his blog, RoadTreking.com. Mike used to be a traveling journalist for the Detroit News and his curiosity as a reporter has carried over into his retirement, which he’s not taking lying down — but instead, on the road — in his RV, a mobile new media studio, from which he blogs and podcasts on his new...
Jan 05, 2015•35 min
At 19 years old, Jake Ducey - a teenage surfer in california - abandoned a drug-addled college education to find out what else, what more, might be waiting for him out there. What it was that waiting was a book he would go on to write called Into the Wind: My Six Month Journey Wandering the World for Life’s Purpose. The travel experience effected him so deeply that he promptly returned to raise funds for an orphanage and school in Guatemala, and launch a motivational speaking career to help youn...
Jan 02, 2015•36 min
At just 23, Felicity Aston left the UK to spend three years living and working in the Antarctic as a meteorologist with the British Antarctic Survey familiarizing herself with the conditions down there. While there, she was part of the first all-female team to complete the Polar challenge, which is a 360-mile endurance race across the Canadian Arctic. And a year later, Felicity led the first British women's crossing of the Greenland ice-sheet. Since then she has gone on to lead numerous expediti...
Dec 23, 2014•37 min
“You can have whatever kind of travel experience you want to have no matter what your budget is.” 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...
Dec 23, 2014•33 min
"If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be." - Joseph Campbell Mariellen Ward is an award winning travel writer, content marketing and social media consultant and the founder of Breathe Dream Go, one of the leading travel blogs about India. At one of the lowes...
Dec 19, 2014•36 min
After being laid off in 2012, Candice Walsh took the opportunity to jump into a life of travel - along the way figuring out how to start her own location independent career as a freelance travel, copy, and creative writer and editor. She writes about this journey on her website, Candice Does the World. Nowadays she’s made travel a bigger part of and priority in her life, which is now stationed out of Newfoundland, and I’m excited to explore all things Candice, how she’s created the life she has ...
Dec 18, 2014•36 min
In your travels, do you ever feel like you're somebody else? Like you might be stepping temporarily into someone else's shoes? And if so, who is this fleeting person? How are they different from you? Or more importantly, how are they the same? What can you take home from this persona to fold into your own identity? What can we learn about ourselves? How can we grow? Christopher Staudinger and Tawny Clark met while summiting Mount Kilimanjaro — he from Washington, and her from Hawaii. Together th...
Dec 18, 2014•40 min
Diving back into Family travel today — but for anyone listening who doesn’t have kids, or doesn’t see the family “obstacle” on the horizon, what I like about these conversations is that if you can realize that kids are just a mindset change, just like everything else, than you can get past any self-imposed barrier - you just have to change the thought. Today I’m sitting down with Kathrin Spaccarelli, from Portland Oregon - PDX - who spent the past year with her family of 4, ever since September ...
Dec 17, 2014•25 min
Bret Love and Green Travel Media are partnering with over 120 bloggers to move just one rhinoceros from South Africa, where poaching is a huge problem, to Botswana, where it will be safer. To promote this, he's giving away over $30,000 in amazing travel prizes. Learn more and get involved here! In this episode, get to know the founder and mind behind Green Global Travel, and Green Travel Media — two services helping brands and destinations raise awareness of their green initiatives and to build ...
Dec 15, 2014•23 min
“A lot of people… hear the word “eco-tourism” and they think it’s just about protecting the environment. But to me, “eco” stands for ecology but it also stands for economy. And eco-tourism is not responsible unless the local communities benefit from the preservation of the eco-system. If they don’t benefit economically from it, then it has no hope.” - Bret Love In this episode, get to know the founder and mind behind Green Global Travel, and Green Travel Media — two services helping brands and d...
Dec 13, 2014•25 min
We're a little backed up this week. Show notes coming soon! Check back here. Thanks for your patience. :) - Nathaniel Credits Music credit: Intrepid Journey, by Aaron Static Become a Friend of the Show: Please subscribe and review! It just takes a second and you can help the show increase its rankings on iTunes just by this simple and quick gesture. We’d be grateful for a review. Leave one here. If you do, click here to let me know so I can personally thank you! Your Feedback If you have an idea...
Dec 11, 2014•28 min
On this episode, I'm sitting down with the founder and CEO of Travel Dudes, an award winning travel site inspired by other trips and locals, written by travelers for an enormous audience of travelers. Today's guest, Melvin Böcher has over 200,000 Twitter followers, created #ttot (travel talk on Twitter). Today we get into the details behind professional travel blogging, what's worked for him and his partners at iAmbassador, how to approach your travel blog, and what he sees to be the future of t...
Dec 10, 2014•29 min
Tim Leffel is a writer, author, editor and publisher of travel and business books, and multiple websites — including The Cheapest Destinations Blog, and his upcoming book A Better Life of Half the Price, all about setting up your life abroad for less. Tim’s also published The World’s Cheapest Destinations: 21 Countries Where Your Money is Worth a Fortune, Make Your Travel Dollars Worth a Fortune: The Contrarian Traveler's Guide to Getting More for Less, and Travel Writing 2.0: Earning Money from...
Dec 09, 2014•35 min
Today’s guest is a travel expert and writer, speaker, a former spokesperson and US Travel Editor for Lonely Planet. He’s appeared on The Today Show, CNN Headline News, MSNBC, NPR, PRI, and more. Now he’s the Digital Nomad for National Geographic - a job he calls the world’s greatest - in which he seeks the why and hows behind how and why we experience the world. What I love about Robert Reid and why I’m excited to have him on the show is that he eschews top 10 lists, which he used to write, in t...
Dec 08, 2014•38 min
Today we’re talking about something that is all the rage in Asia, particularly Japan and Korea, but not so popular here in the United States — Karaoke! In the malls of Japan, right next to the stores or food courts, they have karaoke booths — think a photo booth, except it’s people screaming Journey in a tiny room. And I’ve brought Harvey Silikovitz, a travel writer and blogger who’s done karaoke in over 35 countries and counting — onto the show to discuss what is up with karaoke, where his pass...
Dec 05, 2014•22 min
Having spent a life learning to sail, Behan Gifford lives on a 47 foot sailboat with her husband Jamie and 3 kids, since 2008 when they left their home on Bainbridge Island, one of the 2 residential islands off Seattle. Currently, the Gifford family is cruising Southeast Asia after enjoying Mexico, the South Pacific, Australia, and Papua New Guinea. If it’s not already apparent, the Giffords home-school on the boat, while also giving their kids the greatest education there is: travel. And for an...
Dec 04, 2014•33 min
Sonja Lischynski lives in Ottawa with her husband, Stefan, and a small chihuahua named Montecristo - who, and this is what Sonja explores in her work — travels internationally with Sonja and does not impede her travel style much at all. And that’s the point of her website, montecristotravels.com — written by montecristo — okay from his perspective— and helping dog owners avoid the pitfall of believing they can’t travel the world and have a dog at the same time. And she also has a series of child...
Dec 04, 2014•26 min
“If you want to be a digital nomad, if you want to be a full time adventurist, all you have to do is sit there and take a look at which ones of your skills are going to help you get there and then just chase them.” Annette O'Neil is a writer, journalist, producer, adventurer, and compulsive sharer. She's also a former Hollywood commercial producer turned digital nomad and thrill-seeking adventurist, writing from coffee shops and base jumping around the world. But Annette's life wasn't always so ...
Dec 03, 2014•34 min
Trevor Thomas always loved extreme sports. This love, however, was threatened when, in 2005, when at the age of 36, Trevor began to lose his sense of sight. And eventually, he went completely blind. But this didn’t stop Trevor from doing something that I am dreaming to do someday — and even doubt my ability to finish — which is planning and completing a thru hike of the Appalachian Trail. All 2175 miles. He’s gone on to complete the Pacific Crest Trail, the Tahoe Rim, and founded Team FarSight, ...
Dec 02, 2014•34 min
We’re over 150 episodes into the Daily Travel Podcast, and today, the day before Thanksgiving in America - our busiest travel day - I wanted to just quickly say thank you for listening, for reaching out and sharing with me how much you like the show. Giving thanks is the whole point of the holiday, so I only thought it was fitting to say it again. And now for something completely different. This is my first solo-episode and I'm a little nervous putting it out there. But I think the time is right...
Nov 27, 2014•12 min
Lynn O’Rourke Hayes is a world traveling writer, photographer, consultant, founder and editor of FamilyTravel.com and columnist with the Dallas Morning News. Her writing has been published by The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA TODAY, and more and she’s appeared on CNN, NBC, The Today Show, and stood before the US Congress (which I do ask her about!). She’s taken her degree in Journalism with her to over 100 countries on 6 continents, and has still managed to raise three sons, which is ...
Nov 25, 2014•38 min
I’m sitting down on this episode with a travel and wellness writer, teacher, strategist, and cancer survivor, Elena Sonnino to talk about chasing dreams and finding wellness in your travels — and exactly what that word means. Elena's the founder of LiveDoGrow, which helps others find everyday wellness in far-flung places as well as your own backyard. So let’s break this down: Do you ever feel stuck? In life, in health, in your mentality or attitude about life? Wellness goes well beyond your phys...
Nov 24, 2014•36 min
Dana Freeman Howard is the Founder and Editor of FindandGoSeek.net - a hyperlocal destination website for families to discover what to see and do in their community. She is originally from New York City but has been living in Vermont for the last 14 years. And while she is always looking for insider tips on Family Fun in Vermont, she also writes a travel blog providing hotel and destination reviews in Vermont and beyond. Dana pens a weekly column for the Burlington Free Press and curates a morni...
Nov 22, 2014•40 min
Thai Nguyen is the founder of The Utopian Life, which describes itself as "practical wisdom for personal evolution." Thai is living in Cusco, Peru, where he’s working on his first book all about mastering internal dialogues and the stories that shape our lives. He was born in Vietnam and grew up a refugee living in Australia after the war, studied Theology in Texas - and has since gone on to develop a love of entrepreneurship and exploration, of both ideas and the world. Thai loves to focus on t...
Nov 21, 2014•37 min
