Welcome to Tips and Trips, your podcast guide to travel tips on the fly. I’m your host Abbey Zartman, and each episode I sit down and talk with experts, local guides, or travel enthusiasts answering all of your travel questions along the way.

On today’s episode, I’m joined by Susan Roberts, the Executive Director of the American Red Cross of Rhode Island.

This is part one of our conversation. We discuss how we can prepare for hurricanes, what Susan's experience with Hurricane Harvey was, and how empathy can help with relief work.

If you're interested in volunteering with your local chapter of the American Red Cross, visit their them at www.redcross.org/volunteer/become-a-volunteer.html for more information.

Special thanks to www.insuremytrip.com/ for sponsoring this podcast, Julie Loffredi for production assistance and Brittany Janae who created our logo. This episode was recorded onsite at InsureMyTrip in Warwick, RI.