S1, Ep 4:


American 'serial expat' and work-abroad expert, Kat Smith, is this week’s guest. 

She tells us what is meant by a “serial expat”, how she and her husband met and the realities of being a travel couple, why getting a job abroad can be easier than you think - even in a remote village in Ecuador you’ve never heard of, and how to convince your significant other to go travelling if they’re not so adventurous.

All of that and more from Kat, who’s been travelling for 8  years and she’s Zooming me from Tennessee having just moved home from Vietnam.

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British Documentary producer-director, Bella Falk, has been travelling the world for 17 years making history and science programmes for the biggest TV channels.


From diamond mines in Namibia to eating ant eggs for dinner in Mexico, she’s experienced some extraordinary things on her travels - and that’s just her day job.

When Bella isn't travelling  making TV shows, she's, well, travelling (probably at a more leisurely pace) and populating her blog with stunning photographs and her travel tales.

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Laura speaks to award-winning travel photographer and writer, Yulia Denisyuk, who turned her back on a six-figure salary in the corporate world to pursue her dreams of becoming a travel photographer. It was a big risk, but one which paid off.


Yulia reveals what it's really like to work as a travel photographer and writer, her favourite assignments, and how you have to make things happen, you can't "wait to be discovered", if you want to make it in the industry.


Yulia also talks about the problematic behaviours of many journalists in the travel industry, who subject local communities to the Western gaze and "come, take and leave" without so much as a "hello".  It's Yulia's strong morals and her "humble approach" to locals that gained her the trust of and access to a nomadic community in Jordan.
 

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S1, Ep1:


Travel and mental health, pulling a sickie from half way across the world, being a national newspaper columnist but not being able to afford the bus, and the healing powers of El Camino de Santiago. Financial services consultant turned travel writer Paul Thomas Bell is this week's guest.


Laura speaks to fellow broadcaster and travel writer, Paul Thomas Bell.  He talks pulling a sickie from the other side of the world, trekking twice across El Camino de Santiago, and how travel has been with him during some of the darker periods in his life.


You can also expect to hear about the irony of having a national newspaper column but being broke, the unexpected people you can expect to work with in a call centre, and Paul's plan to give the lesser known destinations the spotlight they deserve.


During this episode, Laura asks the question: "Do some use travel as a way of 'escaping' their mental health issues - and is that necessarily a bad thing?" Find out what Paul has to say about that and so much more.


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