Going Places

Today is our final episode of this season! Thank you so much for staying with us, listening to us, sharing your words of encouragement with me, and spreading the word about our show.

For two years now, I have been asking every guest who comes on the podcast two questions: What gives you hope? And which place are you going to next?

I started asking the hope question because I needed to find that hope myself. And boy did our guests deliver!

So I thought it would be a beautiful way to close out this season with a collective, crowdsourced answer to that question.

What gives you hope?

We also asked our community members to send in their answers to these two questions. Thank you to everyone who participated: Carrie, Siham, Alice, Maxim, and Ami!

18 guests. 5 of our community members. The answer is in this episode.

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Thanks to our Founding Members:

• RISE Travel Institute, a nonprofit with a mission to create a more just and equitable world through travel education
• Radostina Boseva, a film wedding photographer with an editorial flair based in San Francisco

• 02:38 Our community's answers
• 07:04 Storyteller & Educator Justine Abigail Yu
• 10:54 Climate Activist Arto Sivonen
• 14:05 Palestine Rights Activist & Podcaster Matt Bowles
• 15:22 Stockholm Archipelago's Marie Östblom
• 16:16 Runner & Writer Joe Baur
• 20:08 Hostel Owner & Solo Biker Alex Reynolds
• 21:02 Author Natasha Hakimi Zapata
• 22:55 Saudi Photographer Tasneem Alsultan
• 24:43 CCCL's Founder Farah Cherif D'Ouezzan
• 30:45 Sororal CEO Megan Ryder-Burbidge
• 31:16 Hybrid Tours' Sibu Szymanowska and Hira Aftab
• 33:54 Condé Nast Traveler's Editor Lale Arikoglu
• 35:08 Author Tharik Hussain
• 39:31 Author Lindsey Danis
• 41:13 Journalist Mitti Hicks
• 44:01 Baraka Destinations' Muna Haddad
• 47:21 Porter Rights Activist Marinel de Jesus
• 49:48 Author & Educator Dr. Anu Taranath

Going Places is a reader-supported platform. Get membership perks like a monthly group call with Yulia at goingplacesmedia.com!

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Going Places with Yulia Denisyuk is a show that sparks a better understanding of people and places near and far by fostering a space for real conversations to occur. Each week, we sit down with travelers, journalists, creators, and people living and working in destinations around the world. Hosted by Yulia Denisyuk, an award-winning travel journalist, photographer, and writer who's worked with National Geographic, The New York Times, BBC Travel, and more. 

Learn more about our show at goingplacesmedia.com.

Today, we’re speaking with Lindsey Danis, a queer writer of fiction and essays whose writing has appeared in AFAR, Fodor’s Travel, Condé Nast Traveler, Longreads and more.

Lindsey’s book (Out) On the Road: The Radical Joy of Queer Travel is out this month. In it, Lindsey weaves personal experience with data and interviews, and offers readers a framework for planning travel, navigating risks, and becoming self-reliant.

Lindsey is also the founder of the LGBTQ+ travel platform, Queer Adventurers, that focuses on queer women and nonbinary people. Her work is all about empowering LGBTQ+ travelers to understand and advocate for their needs so that they can plan incredible adventures.

We are an audience-supported platform. Become a paid member to support our work and get our many perks.

Visit us at goingplacesmedia.com to learn more.

Thanks to our Founding Members:

• RISE Travel Institute, a nonprofit with a mission to create a more just and equitable world through travel education
• Radostina Boseva, a film wedding photographer with an editorial flair based in San Francisco

• The "how" of writing a book and securing an agent
• The concept of queer joy
• Writing for LGBTQ+ audiences through a liberatory framework
• Why queer stories aren't just for queer travelers, but for anyone interested in a more expansive and inclusive world
• What mainstream travel advice often gets wrong about the queer experience
• How we can use our spending power to advocate for change
• Practical insights on how to be an ally to a queer traveler

• Read (Out) On the Road: The Radical Joy of Queer Travel
• Learn more about Lindsey's work
• Follow Lindsey on Instagram: @lindsey.danis.writer
• Connect with Lindsey on LinkedIn
• Check out Lindsey's platform, Queer Adventures
• Get Lindsey's book proposal worksheet
• Get Lindsey's allyship guide for travelers
• Read Lindsey's piece for Eater about the restaurant industry
• Check out the Everywhere is Queer app

Going Places is a reader-supported platform. Get membership perks like a monthly group call with Yulia at goingplacesmedia.com!

For more BTS of this podcast follow @goingplacesmedia on Instagram and check out our videos on YouTube!

Please head over to Apple Podcasts and SUBSCRIBE to the show. If you enjoy this conversation, please share it with others on social and don’t forget to tag us @goingplacesmedia!

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Going Places with Yulia Denisyuk is a show that sparks a better understanding of people and places near and far by fostering a space for real conversations to occur. Each week, we sit down with travelers, journalists, creators, and people living and working in destinations around the world. Hosted by Yulia Denisyuk, an award-winning travel journalist, photographer, and writer who's worked with National Geographic, The New York Times, BBC Travel, and more. 

Learn more about our show at goingplacesmedia.com.

Did you know that only 15% of African safaris are Black-owned?

Since their colonial origins in the late 19th century, the safari operations on the continent have largely been headed by white men, with local communities rarely seeing the benefits.

(This extends beyond safaris to luxury tourism in Africa, which has been linked to extractive practices and degradation of local habitats.)

Mitti Hicks is a travel writer and former broadcast journalist who first reported on this issue for Travel Noire.

In this episode, Mitti will share how you can choose to do safari differently, seeing wild animals while supporting local communities AND black owner operators instead.

We are an audience-supported platform. Become a paid member to support our work and get our many perks.

Visit us at goingplacesmedia.com to learn more.

Thanks to our Founding Members:

• RISE Travel Institute, a nonprofit with a mission to create a more just and equitable world through travel education
• Radostina Boseva, a film wedding photographer with an editorial flair based in San Francisco

• How Mitti went from broadcast journalism to travel writing
• What traveling in Jordan and Sierra Leone was like for Mitti
• Connecting with Jordan's Black community
• How you can support Black-owned safaris in Africa
• Why Mitti seeks out Black stories wherever she goes

• Follow Mitti on Instagram: @mitti_megan
• Connect with Mitti on LinkedIn
• Read Mitti's story on Black-owned safaris
• Read Mitti's story on Sierra Leone

Going Places is a reader-supported platform. Get membership perks like a monthly group call with Yulia at goingplacesmedia.com!

For more BTS of this podcast follow @goingplacesmedia on Instagram and check out our videos on YouTube!

Please head over to Apple Podcasts and SUBSCRIBE to the show. If you enjoy this conversation, please share it with others on social and don’t forget to tag us @goingplacesmedia!

And show us some love, if you have a minute, by rating Going Places or leaving us a review wherever you listen. You’ll be helping us to bend the arc of algorithms towards our community — thank you!

Going Places with Yulia Denisyuk is a show that sparks a better understanding of people and places near and far by fostering a space for real conversations to occur. Each week, we sit down with travelers, journalists, creators, and people living and working in destinations around the world. Hosted by Yulia Denisyuk, an award-winning travel journalist, photographer, and writer who's worked with National Geographic, The New York Times, BBC Travel, and more. 

Learn more about our show at goingplacesmedia.com.

Marinel de Jesus is a social entrepreneur and former human rights lawyer who advocates for justice in the mountain-trekking industry.

Nearly a decade ago, she left the courtroom to imagine what it would take to travel through the lens of equity and dignity.

In 2024, Marinel spent over 100 days walking the Great Himalaya Trail with Mingmar Dolma Sherpa, the first Nepali woman to guide 100 days on the commercial sections of this legendary trail.

Marinel’s documentary, KM 82: The Porter Voices of Peru’s Camino Inca, tells the story of the Indigenous Quechua porters on the Inca Trail through their own voices.

Marinel, the porters, and her team received many threats for telling this story.

Our first-ever member drive ends soon!

Join us as a paid member by Friday, May 1st, to get these limited-time member drive perks:

• Free 1:1 Call: Every new member (at any level) gets a free 15-minute 1:1 call with me to brainstorm or chat.
• The Masterclass ($79 Value): Join as an Annual Member and get "free forever" access to my Travel Media Masterclass Video Series, featuring pitch templates and industry deep-dives.

Become a paid member, so that we can continue doing this work in the months to come.

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Thanks to our Founding Members:

• RISE Travel Institute, a nonprofit with a mission to create a more just and equitable world through travel education
• Radostina Boseva, a film wedding photographer with an editorial flair based in San Francisco

• The dark side of tourism no one talks about
• Marinel’s origins as a Filipina and an immigrant to the U.S.
• The status of porters and other "invisible people" in the travel service industry
• Advocating for women and Indigenous communities in mountain tourism
• Trekking in Peru, Nepal, and Mongolia

• Follow Marinel on Instagram: @browngaltrekker
• Connect with Marinel on LinkedIn
• Learn more about Marinel's work on her site
• Check out Porter Voice Collective
• Follow The Porter Voice Collective on Instagram
• Join Marinel's Equity Global Treks
• Check out Khusvegi Nomadic Camp in Mongolia

Going Places is a reader-supported platform. Get membership perks like a monthly group call with Yulia at goingplacesmedia.com!

For more BTS of this podcast follow @goingplacesmedia on Instagram and check out our videos on YouTube!

Please head over to Apple Podcasts and SUBSCRIBE to the show. If you enjoy this conversation, please share it with others on social and don’t forget to tag us @goingplacesmedia!

And show us some love, if you have a minute, by rating Going Places or leaving us a review wherever you listen. You’ll be helping us to bend the arc of algorithms towards our community — thank you!

Going Places with Yulia Denisyuk is a show that sparks a better understanding of people and places near and far by fostering a space for real conversations to occur. Each week, we sit down with travelers, journalists, creators, and people living and working in destinations around the world. Hosted by Yulia Denisyuk, an award-winning travel journalist, photographer, and writer who's worked with National Geographic, The New York Times, BBC Travel, and more. 

Learn more about our show at goingplacesmedia.com.

We're celebrating a very special milestone this week: Going Places turns one!

We're building a home for decolonial storytelling, a place where we travel through a lens of equity, justice, and humanity and ask hard questions about who gets to tell the story of a place and who benefits from the traveler's presence there.

We have ambitious goals for Going Places, and we need you. That's why we're running our first Annual Membership Drive for new paid members to join our cause.

Join us for as little as $6 a month and get access to our NEW membership perk: now everyone, even at our lowest membership level, can tune into regular, quarterly Zoom check-ins with me. Our first one is this Friday, April 24th!

PLUS, for the duration of this drive, we're offering two very special perks:

1. Learn from Yulia: every annual member gets access to our Travel Media Masterclass Video Series. (A $79 value!) Understand how the travel media industry works with sessions that cover working with tourism boards and publications, demystify the entire pitching process, and share real earnings you can expect in this industry.
2. Connect with Yulia: everyone who joins us during this membership drive also gets a free 15-min 1:1 call with me. Use it however you like!

Join us at any level by Friday, May 1st, to get these perks.

Thanks to our Founding Members:

• RISE Travel Institute, a nonprofit with a mission to create a more just and equitable world through travel education
• Radostina Boseva, a film wedding photographer with an editorial flair based in San Francisco

Mentioned on the show: this Talk Easy episode on AI.

Going Places is a reader-supported platform. Get membership perks like a monthly group call with Yulia at goingplacesmedia.com!

For more BTS of this podcast follow @goingplacesmedia on Instagram and check out our videos on YouTube!

Please head over to Apple Podcasts and SUBSCRIBE to the show. If you enjoy this conversation, please share it with others on social and don’t forget to tag us @goingplacesmedia!

And show us some love, if you have a minute, by rating Going Places or leaving us a review wherever you listen. You’ll be helping us to bend the arc of algorithms towards our community — thank you!

Going Places with Yulia Denisyuk is a show that sparks a better understanding of people and places near and far by fostering a space for real conversations to occur. Each week, we sit down with travelers, journalists, creators, and people living and working in destinations around the world. Hosted by Yulia Denisyuk, an award-winning travel journalist, photographer, and writer who's worked with National Geographic, The New York Times, BBC Travel, and more. 

Learn more about our show at goingplacesmedia.com.

The narratives that claim Muslims are "new" to Europe are in part fueling the Islamophobia we see on the continent and across the globe today. But what if we knew and celebrated the fact that Muslim people have always been an integral part of the European story?

In Part 2 of our conversation, Tharik Hussain—an award-winning author, historian, and journalist—returns to help us dismantle the long-standing myth of Jews versus Muslims always fighting each other. We’ll meet the Red-haired sultans of Europe, cover the Jewish and the Muslim Golden Age, and look at these 1,400 years of Muslim rule in Europe through its biggest context: that of co-existence.

This season, we want to hear from you!

Send us a short note with your name, where you’re calling in from, and an answer to two questions:

1. What gives YOU hope in this moment in time
2. Which place you are going to next

We’ll run your answers at the end of the season in our Community Voices episode! To participate, fill out this form OR send us a short audio clip (an iPhone voice recording is just fine!) to [email protected] by Monday, April 27.

Going Places is an audience-supported platform. Today, I want to invite you to become a paid member, so that we can continue doing this work in the months to come.

Join us for as little as $6 a month and get access to our membership perks. We just added a new one: now everyone, even at our lowest membership level, can tune into regular, quarterly Zoom check-ins with me. Our first one is in April.

Visit us at goingplacesmedia.com to learn more.

Thanks to our Founding Members:

• RISE Travel Institute, a nonprofit with a mission to create a more just and equitable world through travel education
• Radostina Boseva, a film wedding photographer with an editorial flair based in San Francisco

• The role of Cyprus in Muslim Europe
• The World's first Muslim navy
• Why the Muslim Empire was often Muslim in name only
• Dismantling the myth of eternal conflict through the lens of the Jewish and Muslim Golden Ages
• Why did King William II of Sicily call himself Sultan Musta’iz
• Maimonides of Cordoba: What the life of this Arabized Jewish scholar teaches us about coexistence
• Why a synagogue in Manchester mirrors a mosque in Cordoba
• What gives Tharik hope today

• Follow Tharik on Instagram: @tharik_hussain
• Connect with Tharik on LinkedIn
• Learn more about Tharik's work on his site
• Read Minarets in the Mountains: A Journey into Muslim Europe
• Check out Tharik's latest book, Muslim Europe: A Journey in Search of a 1,400-Year History
• Learn about Britain’s first Muslim heritage trail, created by Tharik

Going Places is a reader-supported platform. Get membership perks like a monthly group call with Yulia at goingplacesmedia.com!

For more BTS of this podcast follow @goingplacesmedia on Instagram and check out our videos on YouTube!

Please head over to Apple Podcasts and SUBSCRIBE to the show. If you enjoy this conversation, please share it with others on social and don’t forget to tag us @goingplacesmedia!

And show us some love, if you have a minute, by rating Going Places or leaving us a review wherever you listen. You’ll be helping us to bend the arc of algorithms towards our community — thank you!

Going Places with Yulia Denisyuk is a show that sparks a better understanding of people and places near and far by fostering a space for real conversations to occur. Each week, we sit down with travelers, journalists, creators, and people living and working in destinations around the world. Hosted by Yulia Denisyuk, an award-winning travel journalist, photographer, and writer who's worked with National Geographic, The New York Times, BBC Travel, and more. 

Learn more about our show at goingplacesmedia.com.

For over 1,400 years, Muslims have been an integral part of Europe’s story, yet their contributions to the continent’s development and history have been pushed to the margins or erased altogether.

Today's guest is bringing some of these forgotten stories back to the forefront. Tharik Hussain is an award-winning author, historian, and journalist based in the UK who specialises in global Muslim heritage and culture.

He’s written a book on Islam in the Western Balkans, Minarets in the Mountains, and his latest book, Muslim Europe: A Journey in Search of a 1,400-Year History, reveals the ancient, long-forgotten roots of Islam on the continent and how deeply interconnected the story of Muslims is with the story of Europe.

Our conversation was so monumental that we broke it down into two parts. Catch Part 2 of our conversation next week!

This season, we want to hear from you!

Send us a short note with your name, where you’re calling in from, and an answer to two questions:

1. What gives YOU hope in this moment in time
2. Which place you are going to next

We’ll run your answers at the end of the season in our Community Voices episode! To participate, fill out this form OR send us a short audio clip (an iPhone voice recording is just fine!) to [email protected] by Monday, April 27.

Going Places is an audience-supported platform. Today, I want to invite you to become a paid member, so that we can continue doing this work in the months to come.

Join us for as little as $6 a month and get access to our membership perks. We just added a new one: now everyone, even at our lowest membership level, can tune into regular, quarterly Zoom check-ins with me. Our first one is in April.

Visit us at goingplacesmedia.com to learn more.

Thanks to our Founding Members:

• RISE Travel Institute, a nonprofit with a mission to create a more just and equitable world through travel education
• Radostina Boseva, a film wedding photographer with an editorial flair based in San Francisco

• How a layover in Cyprus led Tharik on this path
• Muslim rule in the Mediterranean: Cordoba, Palermo, Toledo, & Cyprus
• Where in Europe is the aunt of Prophet Muhammad buried
• Red-haired sultans and Arabic-speaking Christian kings
• The story of Cordoban Mezquita
• Was Alhambra really a pleasure palace?
• The Islamic roots of the European Renaissance
• The myths of Matamoros and the 100-virgin tribute
• Why the history of Islam in Europe is barely known today

• Follow Tharik on Instagram: @tharik_hussain
• Connect with Tharik on LinkedIn
• Learn more about Tharik's work on his site
• Read Minarets in the Mountains: A Journey into Muslim Europe
• Check out Tharik's latest book, Muslim Europe: A Journey in Search of a 1,400-Year History
• Learn about Britain’s first Muslim heritage trail, created by Tharik

Going Places is a reader-supported platform. Get membership perks like a monthly group call with Yulia at goingplacesmedia.com!

For more BTS of this podcast follow @goingplacesmedia on Instagram and check out our videos on YouTube!

Please head over to Apple Podcasts and SUBSCRIBE to the show. If you enjoy this conversation, please share it with others on social and don’t forget to tag us @goingplacesmedia!

And show us some love, if you have a minute, by rating Going Places or leaving us a review wherever you listen. You’ll be helping us to bend the arc of algorithms towards our community — thank you!

Going Places with Yulia Denisyuk is a show that sparks a better understanding of people and places near and far by fostering a space for real conversations to occur. Each week, we sit down with travelers, journalists, creators, and people living and working in destinations around the world. Hosted by Yulia Denisyuk, an award-winning travel journalist, photographer, and writer who's worked with National Geographic, The New York Times, BBC Travel, and more. 

Learn more about our show at goingplacesmedia.com.

Travel is a tool for validation, a way to say "I see you, I hear you, and your story matters." Today's guest, Muna Haddad, has built her long career in tourism around this principle.

Muna is a powerful maker of change in the world of travel and someone I admire deeply. She is the founder of Baraka Destinations, an organization creating tourism experiences in Jordan’s secondary, forgotten locations that center local narratives and give power back to where it belongs: local communities.

Muna spent nearly two decades working in sustainable tourism. She founded the Jordan Trail Association, which promotes the 400-mile hiking trail that runs across the country, and helped create the Meaningful Travel Map of Jordan.

This season, we want to hear from you!

Send us a short note with your name, where you’re calling in from, and an answer to two questions:

1. What gives YOU hope in this moment in time
2. Which place you are going to next

We’ll run your answers at the end of the season in our Community Voices episode! To participate, fill out this form OR send us a short audio clip (an iPhone voice recording is just fine!) to [email protected] by Monday, April 27.

Going Places is an audience-supported platform. Today, I want to invite you to become a paid member, so that we can continue doing this work in the months to come.

Join us for as little as $6 a month and get access to our membership perks. We just added a new one: now everyone, even at our lowest membership level, can tune into regular, quarterly Zoom check-ins with me. Our first one is in April.

Visit us at goingplacesmedia.com to learn more.

Thanks to our Founding Members:

• RISE Travel Institute, a nonprofit with a mission to create a more just and equitable world through travel education
• Radostina Boseva, a film wedding photographer with an editorial flair based in San Francisco

• How a trip to Cambodia led Muna down this path
• Asking 'who benefits?' and 'who gets to tell the story of a place?'
• How Baraka's work transformed the village of Umm Qais in northern Jordan
• Why the model Muna started is a revolution needed everywhere in travel
• What makes Baraka's new tour in Amman extraordinary
• Words matter: why terms 'Middle East' and 'Levant' are a colonial legacy
• Unpacking Orientalism

• Follow Muna on Instagram: @munahaddad
• Follow Baraka Destinations on Instagram: @barakadestinations
• Learn more about Baraka Destinations
• Check out the newly-launched Amman City Tour by Baraka
• Read about Muna in the 2026 Power List by Condé Nast Traveler
• Learn more about Edward Said and his seminal work, Orientalism

Going Places is a reader-supported platform. Get membership perks like a monthly group call with Yulia at goingplacesmedia.com!

For more BTS of this podcast follow @goingplacesmedia on Instagram and check out our videos on YouTube!

Please head over to Apple Podcasts and SUBSCRIBE to the show. If you enjoy this conversation, please share it with others on social and don’t forget to tag us @goingplacesmedia!

And show us some love, if you have a minute, by rating Going Places or leaving us a review wherever you listen. You’ll be helping us to bend the arc of algorithms towards our community — thank you!

Going Places with Yulia Denisyuk is a show that sparks a better understanding of people and places near and far by fostering a space for real conversations to occur. Each week, we sit down with travelers, journalists, creators, and people living and working in destinations around the world. Hosted by Yulia Denisyuk, an award-winning travel journalist, photographer, and writer who's worked with National Geographic, The New York Times, BBC Travel, and more. 

Learn more about our show at goingplacesmedia.com.

Our first guest this season is Lale Arikoglu, the Director of Special Projects at Condé Nast Traveler and host of the award-winning Women Who Travel podcast.

Lale has been working as Condé Nast Traveler editor for the past ten years, and her reporting has taken her from horseback riding in Patagonia and hiking in the Andes to sailing down the Amazon River, chasing the Iditarod in Alaska, and clubbing in Kosovo.

If you’re interested in working with Condé Nast, don’t miss this episode: Lale gives tips on how to pitch her, what she looks for in the pitch, and how the current moment informs the types of stories she’s looking to champion at the magazine.

This season, we want to hear from you!

Send us a short note with your name, where you’re calling in from, and an answer to two questions:

1. What gives YOU hope in this moment in time
2. Which place you are going to next

We’ll run your answers at the end of the season in our Community Voices episode! To participate, fill out this form OR send us a short audio clip (an iPhone voice recording is just fine!) to [email protected] by Monday, April 27.

Going Places is an audience-supported platform. Today, I want to invite you to become a paid member, so that we can continue doing this work in the months to come.

Join us for as little as $6 a month and get the perks like getting on a group call with Yulia every month to ask questions, get advice, and be in community with each other.

Visit us at goingplacesmedia.com to learn more.

Thanks to our Founding Members:

• RISE Travel Institute, a nonprofit with a mission to create a more just and equitable world through travel education
• Radostina Boseva, a film wedding photographer with an editorial flair based in San Francisco

• What fuels Lale's reporting right now
• What it was like for Lale crossing borders with her Turkish father
• What our show’s concept (travel through a decolonial lens) means to Lale
• Discussions inside the editors' room: borders, visa equity, and the privilege of travel
• What Lale learned from interviewing women like Tracee Ellis Ross & Brooke Shields
• Lale's tips on how to pitch Condé Nast Traveler
• Lale answers our listeners' questions

• Follow Lale on Instagram: @lalehannah
• Read Lale's Istanbul article, In Charismatic Istanbul, the Past Still Shapes the Present
• Read Yulia's article edited by Lale, In Okinawa, the Enduring Legacy of Bingata Textiles
• Listen to the Women Who Travel podcast
• Check out this Brooke Shields episode, this Antarctica episode with Preet Chandhi, and this episode where Lale interviewed Yulia
• Check out CNT pitching guidelines

Going Places is a reader-supported platform. Get membership perks like a monthly group call with Yulia at goingplacesmedia.com!

For more BTS of this podcast follow @goingplacesmedia on Instagram and check out our videos on YouTube!

Please head over to Apple Podcasts and SUBSCRIBE to the show. If you enjoy this conversation, please share it with others on social and don’t forget to tag us @goingplacesmedia!

And show us some love, if you have a minute, by rating Going Places or leaving us a review wherever you listen. You’ll be helping us to bend the arc of algorithms towards our community — thank you!

Going Places with Yulia Denisyuk is a show that sparks a better understanding of people and places near and far by fostering a space for real conversations to occur. Each week, we sit down with travelers, journalists, creators, and people living and working in destinations around the world. Hosted by Yulia Denisyuk, an award-winning travel journalist, photographer, and writer who's worked with National Geographic, The New York Times, BBC Travel, and more. 

Learn more about our show at goingplacesmedia.com.

Welcome back to the new season of the Going Places show!

This season of Going Places is all about changing narratives. From who gets to tell the story of a place to revealing the hidden history of Muslim Europe and elevating the people who serve as the backbone of the trekking industry, you'll hear voices, perspectives, and stories that will provide a deeper understanding of places and cultures around the world.

Here's a preview of who you're going to meet:

1. Muna Haddad, founder and CEO of Baraka Destinations in Jordan
2. Lale Arikoglu, a longtime editor at Condé Nast Traveler and host of the Women Who Travel podcast
3. Marinel de Jesus, advocate for porters in the trekking industry and the founder of the Porter Voice Collective
4. and many more

This season, we want to hear from you!

Send us a short note with your name, where you’re calling in from, and an answer to two questions:

1. What gives YOU hope in this moment in time
2. Which place you are going to next

We’ll run your answers at the end of the season in our Community Voices episode! To participate, fill out this form OR send us a short audio clip (an iPhone voice recording is just fine!) to [email protected] by Monday, April 27.

Going Places is an audience-supported platform. Today, I want to invite you to become a paid member, so that we can continue doing this work in the months to come.

Join us for as little as $6 a month and get the perks like getting on a group call with Yulia every month to ask questions, get advice, and be in community with each other.

Visit us at goingplacesmedia.com to learn more.

Thanks to our Founding Members:

1. RISE Travel Institute, a nonprofit with a mission to create a more just and equitable world through travel education
2. Radostina Boseva, a film wedding photographer with an editorial flair based in San Francisco

Going Places is a reader-supported platform. Get membership perks like a monthly group call with Yulia at goingplacesmedia.com!

For more BTS of this podcast follow @goingplacesmedia on Instagram and check out our videos on YouTube!

Please head over to Apple Podcasts and SUBSCRIBE to the show. If you enjoy this conversation, please share it with others on social and don’t forget to tag us @goingplacesmedia!

And show us some love, if you have a minute, by rating Going Places or leaving us a review wherever you listen. You’ll be helping us to bend the arc of algorithms towards our community — thank you!

Going Places with Yulia Denisyuk is a show that sparks a better understanding of people and places near and far by fostering a space for real conversations to occur. Each week, we sit down with travelers, journalists, creators, and people living and working in destinations around the world. Hosted by Yulia Denisyuk, an award-winning travel journalist, photographer, and writer who's worked with National Geographic, The New York Times, BBC Travel, and more. 

Learn more about our show at goingplacesmedia.com.