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ABOUT THE SHOW
Do you want to fill your life with more travel than you ever thought possible? Whether you're a travel newbie dying to figure out how to explore the world, an occasional traveler longing to make your holiday every day, or an experienced globetrotter seeking unique ways to keep traveling full-time, you're in the right place.
Since 2013, "Travel Ambassador" Jason Moore from zerototravel.com has been picking the brains of adventurous people living life on the road so you can discover new ways to travel endlessly.
Along the way, you'll get actionable advice, life-changing perspectives, and key resources that will improve your life AND help you travel as we get down and dirty on topics like; starting and running an online business from anywhere, the best off-the-beaten path destinations to visit, travel and work opportunities, gutsy budget travel strategies, surprising ways to earn free travel, the digital nomad life, unconventional travel based lifestyles, fun travel jobs, how to plan epic adventures, backpacking, remote work, how to take a gap year or a career break, 4-hour work week inspired topics, ex-pat life, slow travel, travel hacking, sustainable travel, human powered adventures, trips worth planning, and everything in between.
Host Bio: Jason wandered the planet as a nomad for over a decade and spent 15+ years on the road as a tour manager in events/music, a seasonal adventure travel tour guide, and a digital nomad. Originally from the USA, he is now a dual citizen (Norway/USA) based in Oslo. He is obsessed with helping YOU explore our planet on your terms, regardless of your current situation or experience.
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Greatest Hits: Around America and Beyond With Renata Chlumska (+ How to Meet More People While Traveling)
We're pulling past episodes from the archives to highlight Women's History Month! This episode was originally published in April 2016.
Renata Chlumska is a Swedish and Czech adventurer with a long and impressive list of expeditions, including:
Bicycling from Nepal to Sweden
Summiting a mountain over 8,000 meters without supplemental oxygen
A motorcycle trip from India to Sweden
Climbing Mt. Everest and finishing the Seven Summits
Completing her "Around America Adventure" (439 days, 11,300 miles by kayak and bicycle solo)
In this episode, Renata and I discuss solo travel, planning big adventures, and how she turned her adventure into a career (and how you can, too!). She also shares how travel can be a way to process tragedy and why your exotic place as a traveler is just around somebody else's corner.
Plus! At the end of the episode, I share my five tips to help you meet more people when traveling.
What would be your ultimate adventure? I'd love to hear your thoughts and hope you'll share them by sending me an audio message.
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Why your travel experience is all relative to your mindset
The best ways to prepare and plan for a big trip
Why it's important to maximize life and make the most of it
What she took away from her expedition across America
How she became a professional adventurer and advice for designing your life
Her plans to adventure into the final frontier (and how you can do it, too!)
Insight into opening yourself to new possibilities and perspectives
The best advice for a budding adventurer
And much more!
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The Only Woman To Walk Around The World: Inspiring Female Adventurers Series with Polly Letofsky
Solo Adventure Cycling Around The World: Epic Bike Rides With Shirine Taylor
Only $50 and a Dream: Biking Across the USA Solo with Zero Experience with Jasmine Reese
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Trapped at Sea: Surviving a Shipwreck, Spending 10 Years Sailing the World (Against Her Will) With Suzanne Heywood
What happens when one person’s dream adventure is forced onto their family? Today’s episode is, in many ways, a cautionary tale to remind us of the importance of considering your travel companions' needs, especially when they’re children.
At seven years old, Suzanne Heywood’s father took their family on a dangerous sailing expedition, recreating Captain Cook's perilous third voyage around the world. While it was supposed to last three years, it ended up taking 10.
In her memoir Wavewalker: Breaking Free, she shares her experience of growing up at sea, being unable to receive an education, surviving a shipwreck, and eventually making it back to the UK and to university.
In this episode, Suzanne shares a captivating story of resilience. We talk about some of the traumatic experiences she faced, including the shipwreck that led to severe head injuries just six months into their voyage (with no medical care on board). We talk about why she feels she was denied a childhood and the implications of this journey on her life and family.
Have you been planning a family or group adventure? What did you take away from this conversation? I'd love to hear your thoughts and hope you’ll share them by sending me an audio message.
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The problem with over-romanticizing taking children on extreme journeys
Why her parents didn’t want her to share her experience and how the book has been liberating
How she survived a shipwreck and why she considers “the wave” a defining moment for the trip
How her experience was significantly different than her brother’s
Why she was denied an education and how her family relationships deteriorated
What led to her finally being able to break free from her situation
How you can make a huge difference in someone’s life through small actions
How the experience has affected her parenting and career
What you need to consider when setting off on an adventure with others
And so much more
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The Paradise Pack Sessions: Sean Keener of BootsnAll on Traveling with a Family
How To Live Your Nomad Dream : One Family’s Epic Bike Ride
Moving To Guatemala To Learn About Giving (With 5 Kids and Minimal Savings), Living Outside Of Your Comfort Zone, and Finding Community w/ Owen and Christina Dargatz from The Giving Experiment
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Greatest Hits: Reviving History’s Forgotten Female Adventurers With Elise Wortley
We're pulling past episodes from the archives to highlight Women's History Month! This episode was originally published in October 2022.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel like a great historical adventurer? Today, I'm joined by Elise Wortley, a journalist on a mission to, quite literally, walk in the shoes of some of history's most fierce female explorers.
After reading Alexandra David-Néel's book My Journey to Lhasa at age 16 (and again at 28), Elise was left with many questions about the trials and tribulations Alexandra must have faced being a female traveler in the early 1900s. In search of answers, she set off to India to follow in the author's footsteps, using only items that would have been available during the original journey - a yak wool coat and wooden backpack.
This trip has snowballed into multiple adventures sprinkled throughout the globe, bringing history to life and giving these past explorers the recognition they deserve.
Elise shares epic stories from her travels (like traveling through the Valley of the Assasins) and describes what it was like to travel without modern luxuries. She talks about what it took to get started on her first journey, the important lessons she's learned along the way, and so much more.
Which modern technology do you think would be the hardest to give up when traveling? I'd love to hear your thoughts and hope you will share them by sending me an audio message.
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Tune In To Learn:
Why female adventurers lack the same recognition as their male counterparts
How Elise conducts her research
How she found her passion and inspiration for her first adventure
What it felt like to wear historical clothing and how others reacted
How traveling without technology will change your relationship with your phone
Why adventure is for anyone and everyone and why you should embrace your weirdness
Highlights from traveling through the Valley of The Assasins in Iran
Advice for anyone who is looking to do something different with their lives
How Elise’s projects help fund charities and what’s next
And so much more
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Independent Travel as a Female in Afghanistan, Hitchhiking Iraq, and Ex-Pat Life in Sudan with Jacquelyn Kunz
A Race Around the World, Meeting Strangers Abroad, and Storytelling With Adrien Behn
The Only Woman To Walk Around The World: Inspiring Female Adventurers Series with Polly Letofsky
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7 Bike Rides of a Lifetime With National Geographic’s Roff Smith
Author and adventurer Roff Smith joins me to share his top seven favorite bike routes from his National Geographic book 100 Bike Rides of a Lifetime: The World's Ultimate Cycling Experiences.
Roff has cycled all over the world and is most known for his 10,000-mile solo trek through the Australian outback, the story of which became a three-part series in National Geographic. He’s explored Zanzibar by bike, rode from London to Istanbul, followed the Danube, and pedaled the length and breadth of Britain - to name a few!
Roff’s list is packed with incredible options for cyclists of all kinds, from family-friendly trails to a few that are not for the faint of heart. He shares plenty of stories from his bike tours throughout the world, advice and insight into the challenges, and how you can build your life around travel.
What trail are you most excited to explore for yourself? I'd love to hear your thoughts and hope you’ll share them by sending me an audio message.
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How traveling abroad on a bicycle can allow for the most serendipitous moments
The most spectacular experience in the USA (if you survive!)
An east-coast trail where you can ride straight through American history
A beautiful, family-friendly route along the French canals (one of my top choices!)
The tropical south-Pacific trail Roff nearly discovered by accident
Why this Australian “right of passage” is the perfect expedition (if you’re up for the challenge!)
The Welsh route that literally coined the term “picturesque”
Why he says this popular path along the European countryside is an idyllic, achievable adventure
How to look at your home with fresh eyes and travel without going anywhere
What drives him to explore and how that led to working with National Geographic
And so much more
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100 Bike Rides of a Lifetime
Cold Beer and Crocodiles
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Solo Adventure Cycling Around The World: Epic Bike Rides With Shirine Taylor
Transition to Travel: From 9-5 to Biking the USA With Joe Ferrara
Lessons from Coaching Olympians, Traveling to 150+ Countries, and 30,000+ KM of Human-Powered Travel with Antonio Cala
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Greatest Hits: Cruise Ship Jobs 101
We're pulling past episodes from the archives to highlight travel jobs this month! This episode was originally published in April 2017.
If you work onboard a cruise ship, you’re guaranteed to get paid to travel the world - but is it all it's cracked up to be? How can you find the best cruise ship jobs without experience, and how can you stand out from the stacks of resumes?
Amanda Hathorn-Geary is a cruise ship employment specialist who spent a decade working on board before moving into human resources and cruise ship recruitment. As someone with firsthand experience on both sides of cruise ship employment, she’s here to answer all those questions and help you decide if life at sea is right for you.
Explore the pros and cons of cruise ship jobs, get a breakdown of the various positions (plus the top five entry-level roles), learn how to stand out and nail the interview, hear about the different travel experiences you can have, and much more.
Would you work on a cruise ship after listening to this episode? I'd love to hear your thoughts and hope you’ll share them by sending me an audio message.
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The #1 reason to work on a cruise ship
What opportunities are available and how much money you can expect to earn
Why working on a cruise ship is a great way to save for travel (even if you have an entry-level role)
How cruise ship work can lead to longer-term career opportunities
Which jobs can give you the most amount of time for travel
How you can leverage cruise ship jobs to accomplish your bucket list items
What day-to-day life is like
How to stand out on your resume
How NOT to answer interview questions
And so much more
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How To Travel The World Working On A Yacht (Travel Job Series)
How To Create A Life Of Travel By Being Open w/ Joe Esten
Jobs That Require Travel: Work For An NGO
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How a Quest Can Improve Your Life (And Travels), Metaphysics, Letting Go of Beliefs That No Longer Serve With Derek Loudermilk
Derek Loudermilk is a professional adventurer and quantum business coach who “helps people do things that have never been done before and makes their lives the most amazing adventure possible.”
He recently completed an 8-year quest to learn 100+ metaphysical, spiritual, esoteric, and healing techniques while traveling all over the globe – from things like laughing yoga, reiki, and plant medicine to telepathy, moldavite magic, telekinesis, astral projection, and more.
You’ll definitely want to go into today’s episode with an open mind!
Derek shares why going on a quest can significantly improve your life and travel experiences. He talks about the experimental approach to his quest, and we get into some of his most profound experiences. We also have a bigger conversation around the importance of curiosity and letting go of the stories you’ve been told so you can become more connected to yourself and the world around you.
What kind of quest would you want to go on? I'd love to hear your thoughts and hope you’ll share them by sending me an audio message.
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What a metaphysical practice is and how he blends this into his business and entrepreneurial pursuits
How deprogramming your mind can allow you to become more open and aware
The value in learning to trust your intuition ahead of your rationality
His scientific approach to these practices and his experiment with crystal elixirs
What happens when you die
A way you can train your body and voice to change how you create your reality
Why everyone has telepathic abilities (yes, even you!)
Why more time isn’t the answer and ways to experiment with time-bending
How you can use dreams to enhance your daily life
And so much more
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How To Become The Hero In Your Own Life w/ Derek Loudermilk
How To Find Your Power Places Using Astrolocality
Using Intuition to Make Tough Decisions, Learning to Surrender, Discovering Purpose, and Living Your Best Life with Amrit Sandhu from Inspired Evolution
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