Recorded live on air on April 8, 2018, Matthew talks with production designer and manager Jesper Luth. Jesper has designed and managed big-name concert tours all over the world, starting his career at the ripe young age of just fifteen years old. He has worked with Hall and Oates, Tears for Fears, System of a Down, Michael McDonald, Nick Jonas—and even Barack Obama. Jesper will tell us what goes into designing a concert stage, what life’s like on the road, and how he has grown professionally and personally over his long, successful career.

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Matthew talks with photographer and author Lone Mørch about the hows, whys, and discovery, healing, and transformation that has resulted from her photography, as featured in her beautiful, powerful new book, Embody: Intimate Photographic Encounters with Women. Lone has lived and worked in Europe, Asia and the United States. Her essays have been published in Danish, American and Nepalese newspapers, anthologies, and magazines, including InStyle, Cosmopolitan, People, the SF Chronicle, and the Huffington Post. Recorded live on air on May 27, 2018.

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In this episode, which also appears in his Travelers on Travel podcast, Matthew talks with award-winning author, filmmaker, and LitWings founder Erin Byrne about someplace Matthew himself know well: ¡España! From leading fellow writers in search of Lorca’s duende to her own profound spiritual experiences to the film she’s currently producing there, Erin has lots to say about Spain—and writing and travel and so much more. Erin is the author of Wings: Gifts of Art, Life, and Travel in France, and the editor of two Vignettes & Postcards anthologies. She was just named Travel Writing curator for The Creative Process Exhibition. Recorded live on air on May 27, 2018.

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Not to be outdone by Don George singing in Japanese on a previous episode, Outside magazine founding editor and legendary travel writer Tim Cahill wowed the show by telling a moving story about penguins in the Barcelona zoo—en español! Tim also shared his 25-year battle with malaria, going deep while writing, and why dying didn’t change much. Recorded live on air on July 15, 2018.

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Recorded live on air on July 8, 2018, Matthew talked with award-winning artist and writer Paul Madonna about the joys and lingering challenges of a trip to France, how his All Over Coffee series and novel Close Enough for the Angels deconstructed then rethought the relationship between words and images, and his new series in the Nob Hill Gazette, Quotable City.

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In this episode, which also appears in his Travelers on Travel podcast, Matthew talked with one of the world’s most successful photographers, Robert Holmes. Bob has worked for National Geographic, Geo, Wine Spectator, and many more over his 35-year career. He and Matthew discussed his friendship with Ansel Adams, running for his life from captors in the Himalaya, and dressing inappropriately for the Queen of England. Recorded live on air on March 4, 2018.

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Recorded live on air on March 18, 2018, Matthew talked with New York Times best-selling author Jasmin Darznik about her novel, Song of a Captive Bird, a fictional account of Iran’s trailblazing woman poet, Forugh Farrokhzad.

Jasmin, who was born in Teheran, Iran and came to the United States when she was five years old, is also the author of The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times.

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