Issue No. 15 | Building Hello West AfricaA trip in the Wayback Machine to understand why I'm building Hello West Africa

Links mentioned in this episode:

Goals for Peace → LINKTransformative Travel Can Be Designed, PDF → LINK

Someone reached out this week after reading one of my LinkedIn posts and told me he could finally put a name to the experiences that had been shaping him. His words brought tears to my eyes and sent me all the way back to the beginning.

In this episode, I'm sharing the origin story of Hello West Africa: growing up in Fairbanks, hosting exchange students from Ecuador and Russia, hearing all the warnings before Namibia, joining the Peace Corps, and eventually landing in Benin. It's the story of how I came to believe, really believe, that people are just people, and why I want others to experience that too.

I'm also talking about the Goals for Peace soccer tournament D'Aquin is organizing this December in the Dassa-Zoumé region of Benin, what's been happening with the business, and why the World Cup has me feeling like it really might be time for Africa.

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