From growing up in California discovering her backyard, to falling in love with Argentina and becoming an expat living in Bueno Aires for 2 years and counting. Nidia Verdugo is full of positive energy and this episode provides a glimpse into her adventures in Argentina, USA, Cuba, Brazil, and Uruguay.

Learn more about Nidia:

Instagram: @touristyaf

Blog: http://www.touristyaf.com/explore

Recalling it as one of the best decisions she has ever made. Sky Diaz worked up the courage, took a leap of faith and made the bold decision to quit her job to travel solo a year ago. She returned to the motherland and made her way to Peru hiking the Colca Canyon and trekking up to Machu Picchu. She also recounts her experience of being nearly detained in the middle of the desert, being trapped in La Paz for two weeks in lockdown, mountain biking death road, and road-tripping down to Santiago de Chile.

Learn more about Sky:

Instagram: @earthto_sky

Grecia Erives has an incredible dream of sailing the world. She grew up in Cozumel island but packed up her things and began traveling the world at the age of 18. In this episode, she reveals her current unorthodox lifestyle of the van life, passion for sailing and insane story of a near-death experience caught in a violent storm while sailing.

Learn more about Grecia:

Instagram: @greciaerives

Imagine going from a career in managing money on Wall Street to solo traveling the world. This was a risk that Kerry Botensten took 4 years ago and has not looked back since. She has been to over 55 countries and half of them more than once. This episode covers an abundance of fascinating stories from balling her eyes out crying in Portugal, her experience in South Africa staying 2 months more than expected, raising money and helping victims in tiny villages of the 2017 flood in Sri Lanka, emergency exit out of Bolivia when the president got ousted, a peek into the other side of India, leading trips in Iceland, to the untouched Faroe Islands.

Learn more about Kerry:

Instagram: @botesonthego

Also, find her as Head of Trips at https://www.tripsha.com/

Selena Lu broke through the norms of the life, friends circle, culture that surrounded her and discovered solo travel by accident. Ever since that day, she fell in love with solo travel. This episode covers her stories almost getting kidnapped in Mexico and challenging her physical limits when learning freediving. From Mayan ruins hidden in the jungle of Calakmul to meeting incredible people and eating steaks daily in Argentina, tune in for some awesome stories.

Learn more about Selena:

Instagram: @selenaluuu

Taylor Taverna is the true definition of a world traveler. She has been to over 65 countries filled with crazy travel stories. Radiating of positive energy and eloquent storytelling, her journey began when she was 8 years old, going to Germany every summer horseback riding. She moved abroad to Italy by herself right after high school to study Italian where a twist of fate led her to volunteering in Guatemala. She solo traveled to Asia in 2015, from staying with a family in the rural mountains of China, to getting mugged in Vietnam, to taking a leap of faith at the border of Cambodia, to swimming with gorgeous mandarins in Indonesia before a cliff jumping incident led to her landing on her spine that sent her to the hospital, and finishing the podcast with her experience catching Malaria in Ghana.

Learn more about Taylor:

Instagram: @tavernatravels

Website: https://tavernatravels.com/

Lama Yatim is a free-spirited adventure seeker who aims to become a world traveler. Solo travel gave her the ultimate freedom and infinite space of possibility in which she started discovering herself. Cambodia played host to her first solo travel trip where she left her heart and changed in a wonderful way. Told through her amazing tales, from preconceived notions to questioning her version of a good life to living in temples with monks.

Learn more about Lama:

Instagram: @lamayatim

Nayem Alam left his friends, home, and comfort for the first time in 2019 when he left to live and work in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for 4 months. It was not all rainbows and sunshine; he paid his dues in his first month abroad. He recounts the whirlwind of feelings and thoughts that englobed him and how he overcame it to have one of the best experiences of his life.

Learn more about Nayem:

Instagram: @nayem_wizdom

Website: https://nayemalam.com

42 countries in 1 year! This insane trajectory was backpacked by David Ludlow, an avid adventurer. In this episode, we cover his adventures in 4 continents. A natural storyteller, he shares his fondest memories from his travels, including hidden local gems like hiking the majestic Nakasendo mountain.

Learn more about David:

Instagram: @davidludlow1

It took a lot of courage to choose the untouched and isolated region of Tibet as her first solo travel destination. She was looking for adventure, to explore new ways of seeing and experiencing life. In this episode, Lina Fievet talks about cultural differences, confidence, personal growth, mindfulness and lessons learned during her travels through China, Southeast Asia and Australia.

Learn more about Lina:

Instagram: @lina_fievet

Blog: https://linafievet.com