At Denver's 11th Ave Hostel, Bailey and friends share first-gen roots, the family dinners that shaped them, and how hostel community becomes chosen family. They also get honest about microaggressions and why acceptance starts with respect. If you've felt in-between cultures—or found "home" on the road—this conversation belongs to you.
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Bailey once struggled with severe anxiety. Now, after traveling from Omaha to Denver, he's found confidence, community, and a calling to help others. In this episode of the BHostel Podcast, host Bryant Perkins sits down with Bailey to discuss hostel life at 11th Avenue Hostel, Denver nightlife, and how travel friendships can be as powerful as family ties.

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Berlin’s first hostel stay in Denver at 11th Avenue Hostel leads to solo travel, Red Rocks, Reiki, and radical self-love –a BHostel story about choosing community, courage, and new beginnings.

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Before he was scooping butter pecan on Colfax, he was moving the room with bass.

Tullie Bailey once ran five of the biggest nightclubs in Denver—packed dance floors, late nights, neon lights, and all the chaos that came with it. But somewhere between headlining DJs and backdoor exits, something shifted. He got sober. He chose stillness. And he started building something softer—something that healed instead of hyped.

Today, Tullie co-owns Colfax and Cream, a culturally rooted ice cream café in the lobby of 11th Avenue Hostel. It's hip-hop meets hospitality. Punk meets parenting. Eritrean recipes meet energy drinks. And underneath the scoops and smiles is a former promoter who now moves people with empathy instead of beats.

In this episode, host Bryant Perkins sits down with Tullie to unpack his journey—from growing up hard, to touring globally as a hip-hop artist, to managing nightclubs, and now building a family, a business, and a message that speaks to a new kind of movement.

This isn't a story about quitting nightlife.
It's about changing the frequency—and staying long enough to build something real.

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Some kids run away to rebel. Sarah ran to survive.

By 16, she had lived in homeless shelters, watched her mother spiral through addiction, been adopted into a deeply abusive household, and slept in a garage while her brothers got bedrooms. When she asked to be placed back into foster care, she was denied. So she packed up her life, lied about her age, and disappeared.

In this episode of BHostel, host Bryant Perkins sits down with Sarah Burris—who at the time of this interview in 2021 was 20 years old and working at a hostel in Austin, Texas—to unpack a harrowing but astonishing story of trauma, flight, survival, and redefinition. From escaping the man who tried to groom her in a corporate job, to reuniting with her mother in a moment that feels too cinematic to be real, Sarah's story isn't about being found.

It's about finding her way out.

This conversation pulls back the curtain on what it means to wake up in a world where every adult failed you—and still choose to keep going. Sarah is funny. Fierce. Grateful. And above all, real.

This episode contains themes of abuse, neglect, and survival. Listener discretion is advised.

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🎙️ Recorded inside 11th Ave Hostel, Denver, CO
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When Christy Balduf's world shattered with the loss of her 8-year-old daughter, she faced an unthinkable question: How do you keep living when the center of your life is gone? In this deeply human, unfiltered conversation recorded inside Austin's iconic Drifter Jack's Hostel, Christy shares her path from single motherhood and unimaginable grief to rediscovering herself through travel, community, and the unexpected sanctuary of hostel life.

We unpack her journey from Tyler, Texas, to the drum circles, hiking trails, and creative spaces that helped her stay alive—and the promise she made to her daughter that keeps her moving forward.

If you've ever faced loss, wrestled with depression, or wondered how travel can be more than just movement—it can be survival—this episode will stay with you long after it ends.

 Listen now for real hostel stories, raw traveler truths, and uncut lessons from the road and as always, trust the process and YOU B THE STORYTELLER!

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Welcome back! Your concierge and host, Bryant Perkins, has another exciting hostel guest travel story for you. Two childhood best friends, John and Evan, stop by Firehouse Hostel in Austin, TX, on a double motorcycle trek across the globe from California to Australia! Tune in to hear how they plan on pulling off this massive BHOSTEL adventure while learning life-changing lessons about friendship, loss, and perseverance along the way!


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Welcome back, hostel guests! Tune in for a first-hand account of what leaving home and experiencing foreign lands was like for Claire, a small-town girl turned experienced world-traveling woman on this episode of BHOSTEL!   


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Welcome back to the front deck hostel guests and weary travelers! For some, the best thing about traveling is having a travel buddy, and it's even better when that travel buddy is as cool, cultured, and unique as Lauren! So, sit back, relax, and listen to her story because you might just learn something on this episode of BHostel!

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If you haven't fought with it yourself -- we all might know of someone who's gone through the fire with an addiction. Will is staying at Firehouse Hostel in Austin, TX, addiction is part of his story, but it's by far not his whole story. Tune in to find out more about this incredibly driven and talented hostel guest on this episode of BHOSTEL! 



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