Zero To Travel Podcast

A Personal Evolution Through Travel + Creating Your Own Path with Nikki Vargas


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Today, I’m joined by Nikki Vargas to explore how her relationship with travel has developed and changed over the years and the impact it’s made on the trajectory of her life. 

Nikki is the senior editor at Fodor's Travel, a bestselling author, and a public speaker. Her recent book, Call You When I Land, whisks readers away through the countries that brought her new love, self-discovery, and the inspiration to launch the first feminist travel publication, Unearth Women. 

In this episode, Nikki talks about her new memoir, that time she called off her wedding two weeks before the big day (and the consequences), and how she’s built a career as a travel journalist. She shares her experience in reconnecting with her Columbian roots, advice for making tough decisions and living a life of travel, creating your own path to break into an industry, and much more.

How has travel influenced making hard decisions in your life? I'd love to hear your thoughts and hope you’ll share them by sending me an audio message.

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Tune In To Learn:

  • The creative process of writing her memoir and how it was a cathartic experience
  • Making the choice to do what’s right for your life and the ripple effect of calling off her wedding
  • Why travel was essential to the evolution of who she wanted to become
  • What makes travel both escapism and realism and the defining moment that set her course as a writer
  • Why she chooses to make her heritage a prominent part of her work
  • Her love/hate relationship with travel blogging and why it made her feel empty
  • Advice for bridging the gap between where you are and where you want to be (and doing it your way)
  • Why you should never underestimate your impact no matter your follower count
  • What she learned from launching (and killing) the first feminist travel publication 
  • The value in revisiting places you’ve already been
  • And so much more
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