In this episode, Edna shares her experience returning to Barcelona after living and studying abroad in Australia.

Although it has been a few years since her time in Australia, Edna talks about the lasting impact her experience abroad had on her as she transitioned back to life in Barcelona.

It's an insightful and honest take on the difficulty of returning when you find a piece of home elsewhere.

Edna is currently on a backpacking trip in Southeast Asia.

Follow her adventures here ➡️ @ednionfilm

Episode 9 is with Maritza, a travel blogger and the creator of Travel Notes and Things. This is one of my personal favorites because of the topic we discuss, transformative travel. In the episode, Maritza explains what is transformative travel and how to implement it in big trips like moving abroad and shorter trips.

IG: @travelnotesandthings

Website: https://www.travelnotesandthings.com/

Resources Referenced:

Blogpost + The Transformative Travel Pre & Post Journal Prompts

How to Reflect on your Travels + Questions to Ask Yourself Video

Travel Reflection Journal Prompts

En este episodio de NLA converso con mi amigo Gabriel, periodista y viajero de mi lugar favorito, Chile. Hablamos sobre viajar y vivir en el extranjero con diabetes.

Gabriel comparte:

• cómo es viajar y vivir en el extranjero con diabetes, dificultades y como se preparó

• consejos para personas que viven con una condición médica y quieren viajar

• cómo le ha cambiado la experiencia de vivir en el extranjero

Sigue a Gabo aquí ⬇️

https://www.instagram.com/gavobundo_dt1/

https://www.instagram.com/gavobundo/

In today’s episode, I chat with my friend Raquel, a travel journalist from Brasil and the creator of Solonomundo. In this episode, Raquel shares

• how she balanced working at National Geographic, studying, and living abroad in Barcelona.

• how she has changed over the course of living in Barcelona

• a powerful and inspiring message that applies to anyone anywhere who is Navigating Life.

IG: @Solanomundo

Blog: https://solanomundo.com.br/

In today's episode, I will chat with Flavia, the creator behind Latina Traveler. Flavia lived in Barcelona for three years. She shares her vast experience and knowledge about navigating life abroad in our conversation. Flavia shares why she decided to move to Barcelona, tips on making friends, things that surprised her about, tips on dealing with loneliness and when did she finally find her rhythm living abroad.

Make sure to grab Flavia's Barcelona: Off the Beaten Path Guide, which is a great resource for anyone traveling to or moving to Barcelona.

Follow Flavia:

IG: @latinatraveler

YouTube: Latina Traveler

Website: https://latinatraveller.com/

Episode 5 is in Spanish (and a little bit of Spanglish)! In this episode, I chat with my friend Victoria, whom I met in Barcelona. Victoria is a journalist and traveler from Brasil. We chat about our dream of living in Spain, a dream that was years in the making, completing that dream and the dreaded but unavoidable question of what comes next.

ESP: El episodio 5 está en español (y un poco de spanglish)! En este episodio, charlo con mi amiga Victoria, a quien conocí en Barcelona. Victoria es una periodista y viajera de Brasil. Charlamos sobre nuestro sueño de vivir en España, nuestra conexión con Madrid, completar ese sueño y esa pregunta inevitable, que viene después.

Travel has the power to transform us. In this episode, I share my journey into the world of transformative travel and reflect on one of my experiences living abroad that changed me. Throughout the episode, I answered 10 questions I came up with as a means to process that experience. Those ten questions could be used as journal prompts and can be downloaded here. One of my videos inspired this episode, and you can see the shorter visual version on my YouTube channel. If you want to see what the experience I was reflecting on was like, check out this playlist.

In this episode, I chat with my best friend and travel buddy. We lived abroad together in Chile, and now we are both living abroad in Europe, she in Ireland, and I in Spain. Tiffany shares what she is doing in Dublin, how our time in Chile prepared her for moving abroad to Dublin and life, and how to make friends abroad.

In this episode, we will chat with my friend Dr. Jose about his time in Kenya and South Sudan and what it was like to return after those mission trips. Jose and I met in 2017 when we were both interns at an NGO in NYC. Jose went on medical mission trips through the NGO in Kenya and South Sudan. Currently, he is completing his master's program in Cyprus and was previously living in Oviedo, Spain. We chat about life abroad, cultural preparation, routines, and more.