Hear highlights from digital nomading around Africa & the power of travel in learning about struggles against injustice.

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In Part 2 of this interview Janessa Klatt talks about her experience working remotely while traveling through Africa for 7 consecutive months.  She explains why Nairobi, Kenya won her heart, why her first safari in Tanzania was so magical, and why Cape Town, South Africa is now one of her favorite cities.  She also talks about her travels in Namibia, why the landscape is so uniquely spectacular, how she learned about the genocide that the German government committed there in 1907, and how travel has impacted her politics and worldview overall.  She then talks about co-hosting the “Remote Roundup” segment on the Zero to Travel podcast,

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Janessa Klatt joins Matt from Winnipeg, Canada over a bottle of wine and tells the story of her Grandparents’ experience immigrating to Canada from Germany, and then talks about her experience growing up in Winnipeg.  She gives her recommendations for visiting Canada, and talks about the role of sports in her life and how that started to pique her interest in world travel. Janessa then tells the story of her first solo back-packing trip through New Zealand, her study abroad experience in Melbourne, Australia, and learning to scuba dive at the Great Barrier

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Hear from the author of my most recommended book for travelers: Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World.

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Learn about Indian-American identity, the value of critical pedagogy, and making meaningful connections in West Africa.

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Dr. Anu Taranath joins Matt from Seattle and they reflect on their time together in NYC at the WITS Travel Creator Summit, including Anu’s keynote panel that centered the genocide in Palestine and got a standing ovation from 600 people. Anu then talks about her experience navigating racism while growing up in an Indian immigrant home in Houston.  She

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Matt Bowles is interviewed by Yulia Denisyuk about Palestine and action items you can take to help stop the genocide. _____________________________

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In this special episode, The Maverick Show host Matt Bowles is interviewed on the Going Places podcast about his 25 years of Palestine solidarity work. He shares his own activist trajectory and  reflects on the

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Learn what you can do to combat environmental destruction and human rights abuses in the coffee industry staring today.

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In part 2 of this interview, Etelle Higonnet explains how human rights abuses and environmental destruction are intertwined and breaks down the main causes and industries harming the environment today.  She then

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Hear stories about standing up for human rights around the world and struggling for truth, accountability and justice.

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Etelle Higonnet joins Matt for a wine night from Copenhagen, and begins by talking about her role as a founding member of the Sustainable Wine Round table.  She then describes her family background, her experience moving around growing up, and how her passion for social justice developed.  Etelle talks about her college experience at Yale and what compelled her to move to Guatemala to work with refugees and displaced people.  She describes a scary encounter there with masked gunmen and her eventual publication a book on the U.S.-backed genocide in Guatemala.  Etelle then talks about spending time in Chiapas, Mexico, supporting a lawsuit brought by indigenous women, and attending a speech by Subcommandante Marcos, the spokesperson of the Zapatista

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Learn about traveling the world as a deafblind Latina—salsa dancing, sumo-wrestling and becoming a disability advocate.

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Catarina joins Matt and talks about growing up in the U.S. in an immigrant home with Puerto Rican and Cuban heritage. She reflects on what those identities mean to her as well as her deafblind disability journey with Usher syndrome.  Catarina debunks common misconceptions people have about deafblind people and offers tips on non-disabled people can be better allies to disabled travelers.  She then reflects on how her interest in world travel developed and tells stories from a family trip to Spain in high school and more immersive trips to rural Kentucky, Argentina and Korea in college.  Next, Catarina talks about her first solo-trip with the white cane to Montreal, her love for Salsa dancing around the world, and her recent trip to Japan where she had epic tea experiences and got to try sumo-wrestling.  She then talks about the trip she led to Portugal for disable travelers and reflects and the power and impact of that experience.  Catarina next takes us on her journey of becoming an intersectional activist and building a fully remote company to smash disability stigmas. She explains how she designs her travel lifestyle and offers trips for disabled travelers as well as those traveling with a relationship partner.  And finally Catarina reflects on how traveling to nearly 40 countries has impacted her as a person.  FULL SHOW NOTES INCLUDING DIRECT

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Hear stories from visiting the occupied West Bank, being sexually harassed in Guatemala &  founding the “Queen of Trips”

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In Part 2 of this interview, Mari Monsalve talks about her experience visiting the occupied Palestinian West Bank and reflects on anti-colonial solidarity. She then opens up about her trip to Guatemala where she was sexually harassed by a hotel employee.  Mari reflects on solo-female travel safety and offers suggestions for how men can be better allies to women travelers.  She then talks about founding the “Queen of Trips” platform to empower Latinas to confidently explore the world through solo travel, and what type of content she is putting out via her blog, newsletter, and social media. Finally, Mari reflects on the impact all of this travel has had on her as a person.   FULL SHOW NOTES INCLUDING DIRECT LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED ARE AVAILABLE HERE.

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Hear about living in Escobar-Era Medellin, Surviving Cancer & Leaving an Abusive Relationship to Solo-Travel the World.

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Mari Monsalve starts off talking about her involvement with two empowering travel events: The WITS Travel Creator Summit and Latino Travel Fest.  She then reflects on her grandparents experience immigrating to Florida in the 1960s during Jim Crow segregation.  Mari tells the story of growing up in Miami and then moving back to Medellin during the Pablo Escobar era and what it was like to live there during that time.  She then talks about moving back to the U.S. as an adult, developing her interest in world travel, and organizing a transformative trip to Iceland.  Next, Mari opens up about leaving an abusive relationship to travel the world solo, being diagnosed with cancer, and choosing to use travel as a tool to recover from cancer.  She shares stories at different points in her cancer journey from Paris, Morocco and Thailand.  Finally, Mari

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