Jetlagged

Haley Wickman, President and CEO of AIESEC in the United States, shares how her childhood in California instilled in her an insatiable curiosity which led her to lead AIESEC, an organization that facilitates life changing experiences abroad for young people. We discuss how travel is a conscious choice, regardless of where you are. Listen to tales of Hailey's remarkable travels from Costa Rica to Turkey and what her generation is looking for when they travel. 

Steve Clemons, Editor-at-Large of The Hill, host of The Bottom Line on Al Jazeera English and a globally renowned writer, speaker and thinker, shares how travel has profoundly shaped his life and career. Travel was always a part of Steve's life from a very early age due to his family's military ties. From those initial transitions to a shocking event in Germany, he shares how adversity led him to singularly focus on depth and moments that matter. We also get to hear tales of travelling with former and current Presidents and how jetlag leads to new ways of thinking about foreign policy. You won't want to miss this one. 

Michael Gill, Executive Director of the Air Transport Action Group, Director of Environment at the International Air Transport Association and soon to be ICAO's Director of Legal Affairs and External Relations, speaks about the pushes and pulls of expat life, shares how a profound study abroad experience changed his future path, how travel can create a greater empathy necessary for dealing with global crises like the ones facing us now, and what we can learn about life living a la francaise. Have a listen.

Welcome to Jetlagged. When we talk about travel, we often talk about where we went, or what we did, but we don’t always get into how travel can change our lives by giving us new perspectives and ideas – or greater clarity on our own individual challenges. It’s part of the larger question of what happens when we take ourselves out of our comfort zone. In the fogginess brought on by being jetlagged, what do we discover about ourselves and the world around us?

Katt Cullen, the bold, brilliant and beautiful director of World Radio Switzerland takes us through what travel has meant for her life - from South Africa to Switzerland via Thailand - and how it all started with a dangly tooth. She shares with us how traveling taught her the power of vulnerability and the ability to live in ambiguity. Have a listen.