- 1 hour 8 minutesA Spontaneous Road Trip from Serbia to Vietnam + the Benefits of Unplanned Travel with Mia Kercher
Why would anyone choose to travel across two continents alone, with nothing but a cat and no real plan?
Mia Kercher is a copywriter, marketing strategist, and hypnotist who traveled overland from Serbia to Vietnam as a solo female traveler. She crossed twelve countries by car, foot, bicycle, and tuktuk, all with her cat, Cleo, by her side. Prior to this trip, Mia spent two and a half years backpacking through Europe, eventually settling in Serbia, where she built her energetic copywriting business, Evoke Writing. She recently finished writing a book about her journey.
In this episode, I talk with Mia about her journey, including the weeks she spent in Afghanistan, and how she kept her business running while living off-grid.
This conversation is about what happens when you choose curiosity over a plan. Mia's approach to travel has never been about research or certainty, and that mindset gets tested in a big way on this journey. We talk about the discomfort of being an outsider, the surprising kindness that can meet you in the most unexpected places, and how solo travel builds a kind of trust in yourself that is hard to find any other way. It is also a conversation about intuition, and how tuning into your subconscious mind can change the way you make decisions, both on the road and in business.
What would it take for you to say yes to an adventure with no plan and no idea how it would turn out? I'd love to hear your thoughts, and I hope you'll share by sending me an audio message.
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Why Mia decided to leave her expat life behind and drive across two continents
What it means to travel by "chaotic order" instead of a plan
The single overlooked document that completely rerouted her entire trip
How she prepared to enter a country most of her friends begged her not to visit
What changed the moment she stopped fearing the attention she was getting everywhere she went
The stranger who gave her a private tour most tourists never get to see
A roadside encounter that turned from friendly to alarming in seconds
How one man's dream of becoming an actor led to an unexpected fundraiser
Her strategy for traveling with a pet without drawing a crowd, and when it backfired
Mia's business strategy for making money on the road when she knows she's going to be off-grid or without wifi for a while
And so much more
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25 August 2026, 10:00 am - 1 hour 17 minutesBelonging to the World: Turning Grief Into a Global Quest to Visit Every Country with Barry Hoffner
What would it take to visit every country in the world, and could a journey like that actually help you heal from unimaginable loss?
Following the sudden loss of his wife Jackie in Botswana in 2017, Barry Hoffner set out to visit every country in the world, a journey that became the basis for his memoir, Belonging to the World. He has since traveled to 192 of the 193 UN member countries, an experience that included exploring his own heritage as an Iraqi Jew who grew up in the United States. Barry also founded Caravan to Class, a nonprofit that provides access to education for young women across West Africa through the Bourse Jackie scholarship program, named in her honor.
In this episode, Barry shares how grief led him to a global quest to visit every country in the world, and what he learned about identity, connection, and healing along the way.
This conversation is a reminder that grief doesn't follow a straight line, and that the way we choose to move through it can shape everything that comes after. There's a lot of honesty here about what it means to rebuild an identity from the ground up after everything familiar is gone. And there's a genuine sense of wonder in hearing how one goal, however unlikely it seemed at the start, can turn into a life fully lived.
What might it look like for you to begin again from year zero? I'd love to hear your thoughts, and I hope you'll share by sending me an audio message.
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Why one spontaneous coin flip during high school set the course for a lifetime of travel
How an early scam abroad taught a hard lesson about travel awareness
Why working overseas early in his finance career reshaped his approach to life and work
What it was like to survive a real plane hijacking
How exploring his family's Middle Eastern heritage as an adult changed his sense of identity
Advice for processing grief and using travel intentionally as part of healing
Why he calls the period after his loss "year zero" and what that mindset can offer anyone starting over
How a chance encounter with a stranger became one of the most meaningful moments of his journey
Why the goal of visiting every country mattered less in the end than what he discovered along the way
Advice on transitioning from decades of nomadic living to putting down roots in one place
And so much more
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18 August 2026, 10:00 am - 55 minutes 9 secondsExploring Namibia: The Ultimate Road Trip, Uncrowded Safaris, and a Slower Pace of Life with Tuta Nangolo
What makes Namibia feel less like a destination and more like an escape from everywhere else?
Tuta Nangolo is the founder of Kamatjona, a coliving space and safari company based in Windhoek, Namibia. Founded in 2020, Kamatjona blends long-stay coliving for digital nomads with community-driven, self-drive safaris across the country. Tuta's approach to hospitality was shaped in part by years spent working in a backpacker hostel in London, an experience that inspired him to bring that same sense of connection back home.
Tuta joins the show to talk about what makes Namibia's culture and landscapes so distinct, and he walks through a self-drive road trip itinerary connecting the country's desert, coastal, and wildlife regions.
Namibia doesn't behave the way most people expect a safari destination to. This conversation captures a country defined by space, silence, and a slower pace of life, where the wild feels genuinely wild because so few people are around to interrupt it. There's a real sense of discovery running through this one, the kind that comes from a place still largely untouched by mass tourism. It's also a look at what it takes to build a sense of community in a country that's historically catered to a very different kind of traveler.
Have you ever shown up somewhere expecting one thing and found the complete opposite? I'd love to hear your thoughts, and I hope you'll share by sending me an audio message.
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Why Namibia surprises most visitors expecting a typical African destination
How population density shapes the pace of life and the travel experience
Advice for planning a multi-day self-drive road trip through the country
Why safaris here feel different from more crowded destinations elsewhere in Africa
What inspired the shift from working at a hostel abroad to building a coliving space back home
How local culture blends European influence with African tradition
What to know about weather and timing before planning a visit
Budget-friendly tips for food, accommodation, and getting around
The role of community in shaping a more meaningful travel experience
And so much more
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11 August 2026, 10:00 am - 1 hour 13 minutesUnplugged Travel, Trekking Nepal, and Pushing Past Your Comfort Zone with Tony Fletcher
What happens when you plan a trip with one goal: to disappear from your phone, your inbox, and the news for as long as you can stand it?
Tony Fletcher is a British music journalist and the author of seven books, including the bestselling Keith Moon biography Moon and the definitive R.E.M. biography Remarks Remade. He started the fanzine Jamming! as a teenager in London and has spent decades interviewing artists across the music world. He now lives in New York's Catskill Mountains, where he writes about music, travel, and running.
Tony just got back from a solo month in Nepal, where a big part of the trip was a deliberate digital detox: two weeks completely offline, no email, no social media, no news. He joins me to talk through how he planned it, what it actually felt like to disconnect, and the unconventional route he took into the mountains.
This is a conversation about what happens when you actually let go, not just of your phone, but of the need to always know what's going on. Tony went in with real doubts about whether he could pull it off, and those doubts followed him further into the trip than he expected. What came back out the other side surprised even him, touching habits and instincts he wasn't trying to change. There's also a quieter thread running through it about choosing the harder, lonelier path on purpose, and what that choice does to how you experience a place.
Have you ever taken a real break from your phone or the news while traveling, and what did you notice about yourself in the quiet? I'd love to hear your thoughts, and I hope you'll share by sending me an audio message.
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How he prepared mentally in the week beforehand, and how many times he nearly talked himself out of it
Advice for planning a trek that starts right from your hotel room instead of taking transport to the trailhead
Why he chose a quieter route over the two most popular options
How trekking solo and unsupported changed the pace of each day
What quitting coffee and alcohol on the trail taught him about resetting his habits
How stepping away from his phone opened up more conversations with strangers
Why he gave himself an extra week away from the news even after getting back online
Advice on budgeting, accommodation, and food costs on a multi-week trek
The story of nearly losing his phone for good, and what it says about staying present
And so much more
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4 August 2026, 10:00 am - 1 hour 47 secondsHow to Be Norwegian (Cultural Concepts Worth Stealing) with Lorelou Desjardins
Why does a tiny Nordic nation with just 5.5 million people feel impossible to summarize in a single sentence?
Lorelou Desjardins has been writing about Norwegian culture since 2013 at her blog and publishing house, A Frog in the Fjord. She has published six books in Norway and internationally, along with 250 articles in mainstream media including Norway's largest newspaper. Her latest book, How to Be Norwegian, offers a crash course into 55 essential Norwegian cultural quirks. She lives in Oslo and is now a Norwegian citizen.
In this episode, Lorelou and I dig into Norwegian culture and what makes this country so unique, covering the surprising scale of Norway's geography, the country's cabin culture, social dynamics among Norwegians, food and drink customs, the quirks of Norwegian English, and a Norwegian concept worth stealing for your own life.
Norway can feel like a country of contradictions: vast and remote in parts, intensely social in others, shaped by long winters and short summers that flip the whole rhythm of daily life. This conversation moves between practical travel insight and a more personal look at what it is actually like to live here long-term, even after becoming a citizen. Whether you are planning a trip, exploring your own Norwegian roots, or just drawn to borrowing a little wisdom from another culture, there is something here for you.
What is one custom or tradition from somewhere else in the world that you have brought into your own life? I'd love to hear your thoughts, and I hope you'll share by sending me an audio message.
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How long Norway actually is, and which European capital it would touch if you spun it on its southern tip
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Why a growing wave of travelers are choosing Norway over traditionally hot summer destinations
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What Norway's "freedom to roam" law actually allows you to do
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How cabin culture works, and how travelers can access cabins most visitors never think to look for
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Why Norwegians have a reputation for being emotionally cold, and the bus ride that put that reputation to the test for me
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Why Norwegians are so eager to talk about their own cultural identity with outsiders
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The surprising history behind Norway's strict modern alcohol laws
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Why frozen pizza and Friday tacos became beloved national traditions
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The Norwegian concept that's similar to hygge, but with its own colder, deeper edge
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And so much more
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28 July 2026, 10:00 am -
- 1 hour 25 minutesManifesting Your Ideal Lifestyle (Practical Tools and No BS) with Heath Armstrong
What would it look like to build a life that reflects exactly who you are and where you want to go?
Heath Armstrong is an entrepreneur, author, and co-founder of Rage Create, a company known for its unconventional affirmation and oracle card decks that have raised over $200,000 through crowdfunding. He spent years living and working nomadically, including a period traveling full-time in a self-built van across the United States. He now runs Deck Creators, a community for people who want to create and launch their own card decks, from his farmhouse in the mountains of North Carolina.
In this episode, Heath and I catch up on his journey from the early days of location independence to the businesses he's building now. We get into his approach to freedom lifestyle design, what it actually means to take inspired versus forced action, and the daily practices he's used to move from vision to reality.
This is one of those conversations that works on multiple levels. On the surface, it's about entrepreneurship and building a life around your values. But underneath that is something more personal: how to recognize when you're operating from fear versus genuine alignment, and what it takes to keep moving in the right direction even when things get hard.
Heath's been through real darkness, real financial uncertainty, and real pivots, and he's thought deeply about all of it. Whether you're designing a lifestyle business, mapping out your next travel chapter, or just trying to figure out what you actually want, there's something in here for you.
What's one thing you could do this week to move closer to the version of your life you actually want to be living? I'd love to hear your thoughts, and I hope you'll share by sending me an audio message.
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Why Heath draws a sharp line between inspired action and forced action, and why that distinction changed everything for him
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How the note card practice he started years ago still shapes his daily routine today
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Why visualizing your goals in the present tense only works if you actually believe them, and what to do if you don't
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How to tell the difference between resistance and intuition when they can feel nearly identical
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What Heath's "totem pole" framework looks like in practice, and why it brings long-term vision and daily action into alignment
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Why your environment and the people around you matter more than most productivity advice will tell you
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Lessons from van life that Heath still carries with him, including why nature and isolation sharpened his business instincts
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What Heath did when a tariff crisis threatened to sink a shipment, and why he frames problems like video game bosses
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Why Heath thinks moving toward the life you want and being happy in the present moment are actually the same thing
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Hidden gem destinations that left a real mark on Heath, including a spot in Oregon most people have never heard of
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And so much more
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The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale
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Love Money, Money Loves You by Sarah McCrum
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21 July 2026, 10:00 am -
- 56 minutes 9 secondsTop 7 Uganda Hidden Gems with Lynett Nakamanya
What if one of Africa's most diverse and rewarding destinations has been hiding in plain sight — and most travelers only ever see a fraction of what it has to offer?
Lynett Nakamanya is a tourism professional and Kampala native who has worked across the East African travel industry for over a decade. She holds a master's degree in management science with a focus on project monitoring and evaluation in tourism, and is affiliated with the Uganda Tourism Board. She also runs her own trip-planning platform focused on sustainable and meaningful experiences across the region.
In this episode, Lynett shares her list of Uganda hidden gems and travel recommendations, the state of tourism in Uganda today, and the real impact that responsible travel can have on local communities.
Lynett brings a perspective that's hard to find — someone who grew up in Uganda, has spent her career inside the tourism industry there, and thinks seriously about what travel can and should do for local communities. She makes a compelling case for doing a little research before you arrive, because the gap between a standard itinerary and a genuinely memorable one often comes down to simply knowing what to ask for. She also shares a Ugandan saying about travel at the end of this one that's worth sticking around for.
What experience from this episode most surprised you, and has it changed how you think about where you want to go next? I'd love to hear your thoughts, and I hope you'll share by sending me an audio message.
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Why a beautiful crater lake just 20 minutes from Uganda's most famous attraction is almost never visited — and why it's worth the detour
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How one of East Africa's most rewarding mountaineering experiences sits in Uganda, largely off the radar of international visitors
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Why Uganda's 56 tribes make cultural immersion more rewarding when you focus on just one or two
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What one of Uganda's most historically significant religious sites reveals about the country's layered cultural past
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How a massive collection of islands right next to the airport offers everything from white sand beaches to wildlife encounters that most visitors drive straight past
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Why one eastern Uganda destination pairs three waterfalls with some of the world's highest-graded Arabica coffee
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Why doing your own research before a trip is the single best way to unlock experiences that never make the standard itinerary
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How responsible travel creates a ripple effect through local families and communities that most visitors never see
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What cultural mistake tourists commonly make in Uganda that creates more harm than help
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And so much more
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14 July 2026, 10:00 am -
- 1 hour 21 minutesReconnecting to Nature with Adventure, Purpose, Fun, and Travelers’ Curiosity with Alastair Humphreys
What if the travel mindset you bring to far-off places is exactly what's needed right where you live?
Alastair Humphreys is a British adventurer, bestselling author, and speaker named National Geographic Adventurer of the Year. He spent four years cycling 46,000 miles around the world and has since canoed 500 miles down the Yukon River, rowed across the Atlantic, walked the length of India's Kaveri River, and crossed Iceland on foot and pack raft. In recent years he has become one of the most well-known advocates for microadventures and local exploration, and his newest book is Unwilded: Finding Our Way Back to Nature.
Alastair joins me to unpack the ideas in his book, including why our growing disconnection from nature matters personally and planetarily, and how a travel mindset and nature connection can be tools for changing both.
Alastair has made this case before on the show, but Unwilded takes it somewhere new. This isn't just a conversation about microadventures or getting outside more. It's about a specific kind of blindness that builds slowly across generations, and what it costs us without anyone quite noticing. Alastair brings the same practical, adventure-first framing he always does, but this time it's in service of something bigger: a way to take the traveler's curiosity you feel on the road and put it to work where you actually live. The episode ends with a surprisingly simple exercise that can help you turn the world's overwhelming problems into something personal, actionable, and genuinely fun to pursue.
What's one small thing in your immediate environment that you've stopped really noticing? I'd love to hear your thoughts, and I hope you'll share by sending me an audio message.
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Why the traveler's curious, enthusiastic mindset is exactly what's needed at home, and why most of us leave it at the border
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What "shifting baseline syndrome" is and why understanding it changes the way you see the world around you
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How two apps transformed Alastair's relationship with his daily run, and how to try the same thing
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Why spending 15 minutes in nature daily is harder than it sounds, and why that's actually the problem
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How connecting with even a tiny patch of local nature can deliver the same buzz as a far-off adventure
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What the Overton window has to do with how we approach climate change, travel, and everyday behavior
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Why Alastair stopped flying and moved to a vegan diet, and the surprisingly positive effect it had on his life
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What the 5-25 exercise is, and how it can help you identify the issues closest to your heart and take action without burning out
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How the Netherlands transformed its streets in a generation, and what that says about what's actually possible
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The vision Alastair wrote for the world 25 years from now, and why it's closer to reality than it might seem
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And so much more
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7 July 2026, 10:00 am -
- 1 hour 11 minutesAdventure Filmmaking for YouTube, the Art of Storytelling, and Life on the Road with Molly McDonald
Molly McDonald is a London-based YouTube producer and founder of Blue Door Productions, a YouTube-first content agency that brings broadcast-level production to digital storytelling. She studied journalism at Boston University and later earned a master's in Irish studies from NYU before building her career in television production in New York City. Her client list includes Red Bull, BBC, and National Geographic, and her films have accumulated over 200 million views on YouTube.
This episode covers Molly's journey from Irish-American New Yorker to YouTube travel documentary producer, including her work on some of the most extreme human endurance expeditions ever filmed and what she learned along the way.
Travel has a funny way of dismantling the stories we tell ourselves about the world, and Molly McDonald has lived that firsthand, from the pubs her family built in Manhattan to the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan. She grew up straddling two cultures, and that dual identity turns out to be the exact foundation for the kind of storytelling she now does for a living: finding the human truth inside extreme, unpredictable adventures. There's a real conversation in here about what it means to travel to places that scare you, why the media often gets destinations wrong, and how following a story you can't fully control is actually what makes it worth watching.
What place have you avoided visiting because of how it's been portrayed in the media, and has anything ever changed your mind? I'd love to hear your thoughts, and I hope you'll share by sending me an audio message.
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Why growing up Irish-American in New York shaped Molly's approach to storytelling and travel
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How Blue Door Productions brings TV-level production quality to the "wild west" of YouTube
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What it was actually like to cross into Iraq during a live expedition, and what happened to all the fear
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Why Kurdistan challenged everything Molly thought she knew about the region
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How to capture authentic moments on camera when you can't predict what's coming next
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Advice for aspiring YouTubers on what to cut, what to keep, and why most people share too much
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Why the title and thumbnail of a YouTube video matter more than people realize
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How to think about storytelling structure even when the story is still unfolding in front of you
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What the concept of "soul places" reveals about how travel changes you over time
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Why starting from zero on YouTube is actually an advantage, and what consistency really means
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And so much more
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30 June 2026, 10:00 am -
- 40 minutes 55 secondsY We Travel Podcast: To Meet The Neighbours (Bonus Episode!)
This week, I'm sharing a bonus episode from a brand new podcast called Y We Travel, co-hosted by my friend Eric Weiner, who has joined me on the show a few times over the years. Eric is a New York Times bestselling author and former foreign correspondent, and his co-host Erica Vella is an award-winning podcaster and former broadcast journalist.
There's no shortage of travel advice out there — who can save us a buck, what to do, when's the best time to go, where to go. But one fundamental question often gets left behind: why?
Born from an award-winning magazine series of the same name, Y We Travel explores the deeper motivations behind our journeys. The show unpacks the emotions, discoveries, and purpose that give travel its meaning.
In this episode, Eric and Erica discuss the origins of the series and their own motivations for travelling. Eric interviews author and Y We Travel essayist Pico Iyer, trading travel anecdotes from Japan to California to North Korea and discussing themes from Pico's piece in The Walrus magazine, which argued that we should travel to meet our neighbours. Erica continues the conversation with a selection of Toronto Pearson passengers, asking: "Why are you travelling today?"
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25 June 2026, 10:00 am -
- 1 hour 18 minutes7 Travel Tech Trends Worth Knowing in 2026 + 3 Emerging Hot Spots to Spend Quality Time with Matt Gray
Matt Gray is the founder and CEO of Pangea, a free social travel app built to help people coordinate travel plans, share recommendations, and connect with their network around the world. After a decade in product development and corporate M&A at a global fintech company, he left the corporate world in 2023 to become a full-time digital nomad and build Pangea full-time. He is on a personal mission to visit every country in the world.
In this episode, we get into seven travel tech trends shaping how people plan, book, and experience travel, including why most travel apps fail, the rise of social travel, and what AI can and can't do for travelers right now. We also dig into destination recommendations, advice for running a remote business on the road, and what it means to bridge the nomad bubble.
These are genuinely fascinating times to be a traveler and a builder in the travel space, and Matt sits at the center of both worlds. He's thinking seriously about why travel tech has such a high failure rate, and what it would actually take to crack the code, and he brings a perspective that is grounded in years of on-the-ground experience across dozens of countries and travel styles. There is a real conversation here about the gap between wanting to travel and actually doing it, and I think it will stick with you. The travel tech trends for digital nomads piece is insightful, but the human thread running through it all is what makes this one worth your time.
Have you ever had a piece of technology genuinely change how you travel or connect with people on the road? I'd love to hear your thoughts, and I hope you'll share by sending me an audio message.
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- Why so many travel apps are built to solve a single problem, and why that almost always leads to failure
- How being a "multifaceted traveler" is reshaping what a useful travel platform actually needs to do
- Why AI wrappers on ChatGPT are not the same as AI-powered travel tools, and how to tell the difference
- How social travel is changing the reason people book trips in the first place
- Why off-the-beaten-path destinations benefit most from the rise of connected travel communities
- How to break out of the nomad bubble and go deeper in the places you visit
- Why the people you travel with may matter more than the places you go
- Destination recommendations for regions quietly gaining traction in the nomad world
- Advice for running a remote team while living a location-independent life
- What it looks like to bring urgency to travel, not just talk about it
- And so much more
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- From Expat to Digital Nomad: Finding Your Travel Rhythm, Balancing Burnout, and the Digital Nomad Lifestyle with Kristin Wilson
- The World's Most Traveled Person on the Ethics of Gamifying Travel, Best Regions in the World, and Why To Keep Traveling With Harry Mitsidis of NomadMania
- Top 5 Reasons For "Slomading" + The Benefits Of Boredom With Tim Marting From Citizen Remote
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