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listen to how my travel opinions have changed since I first began solo traveling :)*this is PART TWO of two episodes read the full article version here:https://gottacaseofwanderlust.com/2025/05/02/how-my-mindsets-about-travel-have-shifted-since-the-beginning/welcome back and let's kick off SEASON FIVE !!I re-listened to my older podcast episodes and realized I don't hold entirely the same opinions as I used to… so I'm calling out my past self and sharing what I think about travel now. let me know your thoughts and I'm so excited to share this new podcast season with you !mentioned:* TripBFF* NomadHer━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me here :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨ @gottacaseofwanderusthttps://www.instagram.com/gottacaseofwanderlust?igsh=MTJjZ2p6bWZpdXBrYw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr✨Travel Blog:gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨Travel Guides:https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust

listen to how my travel opinions have changed since I first began solo traveling :)*this is PART ONE of two episodes read the full article version here:https://gottacaseofwanderlust.com/2025/05/02/how-my-mindsets-about-travel-have-shifted-since-the-beginning/welcome back and let's kick off SEASON FIVE !!I re-listened to my older podcast episodes and realized I don't hold entirely the same opinions as I used to… so I'm calling out my past self and sharing what I think about travel now. let me know your thoughts and I'm so excited to share this new podcast season with you !mentioned:* TripBFF* NomadHer━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me here :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨ @gottacaseofwanderusthttps://www.instagram.com/gottacaseofwanderlust?igsh=MTJjZ2p6bWZpdXBrYw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr✨Travel Blog:gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨Travel Guides:https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust

joy is your birthright !! it's NOT cringey to express your happiness — let's feel every emotion to the fullest

Gi Shieh is a travel content creator known for her travel brand “The Sensible Fay” online. Gi is a Taiwanese American passionate about mindful living, slow travel, outdoor adventures, and sustainable fashion, who is alternates between New York City and Taiwan for her home base. on this episode, we chat about:- Gi's favorite places in Vietnam, Thailand, Taiwan and Italy - benefits of slow travel - how can we ensure we are shopping sustainably?- and much more!!featured questions:1. On your blog, you feature 4 countries with jam-packed insider information for travelers — which are Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand and Italy. Which country left the biggest impact on you? 2. Is there anything you wish you would've done differently on your trips?3. Of the places you visited, where were the best beaches?4. How has your traveling style and mindset changed since your first trips until now?5. Why and how do you practice slow living in your travels?6. Why is sustainable fashion such a huge passion for you and how does it leak into your travel experiences? 7. Do you think traveling is subversive or supportive to capitalism? ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━sustainable fashion database name:https://directory.goodonyou.ecoconnect with Gi here!✨ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/thesensiblefay?igsh=d2hkOXBzeDJsNG41✨ Travel blog:https://thesensiblefay.com/destinations━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me here :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨ @gottacaseofwanderusthttps://www.instagram.com/gottacaseofwanderlust?igsh=MTJjZ2p6bWZpdXBrYw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr✨Travel Blog:gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

Sequoia Armstrong is a conscious travel consultant and entrepreneur who is the founder of the travel planning organization Puebla York, and host of the Soul Wanderer podcast. Puebla York designs custom travel experiences in Japan and Mexico centered around the principles of cultural connection, environmental sustainability, and conscious travel. on this episode, we chat about: - what is “conscious travel” and how do we implement it into our traveling?- the true value of traveling solo, especially for women!featured questions:1. When did you become more intentional about “conscious travel,” and what exactly is it?2. Have you always wanted to become a travel consultant? What was the inspiration behind “Puebla York” and can you share a little bit about the process of creating it?3. What about Mexico and Japan specifically makes you want to devote your company around only these 2 countries? 4. How do we fight the feeling of FOMO when traveling? 5. Do you have any advice for “getting off the beaten path” in popular destinations? 6. If there's 1 piece of actionable advice you'd like all travelers to implement into their experiences to make their trips more “conscious”, what would it be?━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with Sequoia here!✨ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/pueblayorkinc?igsh=MWd4ODQ5eG45cGd6dQ==✨ Puebla York:https://www.pueblayorkinc.com✨Soul Wanderer podcast https://www.pueblayorkinc.com/podcast━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me here :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨ @gottacaseofwanderusthttps://www.instagram.com/gottacaseofwanderlust?igsh=MTJjZ2p6bWZpdXBrYw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr✨Travel Blog:gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

Shania Stewart, who also goes by Kya, who was born in South Africa but raised in Switzerland. Kya started backpacking when she was 18 after deciding to take a gap year before university. Since then, she has solo traveled to dozens of countries — Scotland being one of her favorites. on this episode, we chat about:- the value of taking a gap year - travel tips before visiting to Scotland - meeting people while solo traveling featured questions:1. What would you say to those hesitant about taking a gap year?2. How did you spend your gap years and what were some of your favorite involvements?3. For first time travelers to Scotland, where are the best places to visit and what should they know beforehand? ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━name of hostels mentioned: connect with Kya here!✨ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/shaniatstewart?igsh=MWF6bXEwY3QxMW5keA==✨ Travel guides:https://www.thatch.co/@shaniastewart━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me here :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨ @gottacaseofwanderusthttps://www.instagram.com/gottacaseofwanderlust?igsh=MTJjZ2p6bWZpdXBrYw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr✨Travel Blog:gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

Ola is a solo female traveler from Poland but has been living abroad for the past 6 years in places like Germany and Denmark. Ola has solo backpacked on the continents of South America, Europe and Asia and prioritizes off-the-beaten track places that sometimes Google Maps can't even find. on this episode, we chat about:- hiking advice and safety tips for solo female travelers - what to know before traveling to Patagonia - Ola's personal favorite hikes - and much more! featured questions:1. You've hiked one of the most sought after hiking spots in the world — Patagonia, which I know is a dream for many. Can you share to other interested travelers any advice they should know beforehand?2. What are some general safety tips for hiking off-the-beaten-path? 3. Do you have any advice specifically for solo female hikers? 4. Rapid fire round- hiking addition ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━name of one of Ola's favorite hiking trails as mentioned:Huayhuash, Perúother trails mentioned:- The highest mountain in Germany - Zugspitze- Famous trek in Patagonia - W-trek in the National Park of Torres del Paine- Patagonia logo mountain - Fitz Royconnect with Ola here!✨ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/olaexploradora?igsh=dmp6MWo3OWlja2p5✨ Travel guides:https://www.thatch.co/@olaexploradora━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me here :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨ @gottacaseofwanderusthttps://www.instagram.com/gottacaseofwanderlust?igsh=MTJjZ2p6bWZpdXBrYw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr✨Travel Blog:gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

Ems is from the Philippines who is currently an international student in Estonia. Ems is also a travel content creator with expertise in Southeast Asia, solo travel, and remote work.on this episode, we chat about:- shocks from living abroad in Estonia- Estonian culture compared to other European countries - Ems' favorite countries in Asia- and much more! featured questions:1. Why did you decide to study abroad in Estonia?2. What is life like there? Were there any culture shocks or things that surprised you when you first arrived?3. What is your favorite part about living abroad and the most challenging part? 4. What are the similarities and differences between Estonia and other Northern European countries? 5. What are your favorite places in Asia? ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with Ems here!✨ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/emselsewhere?igsh=NXlobWczcDY5Nzlp✨ Travel blog:https://emselsewhere.my.canva.site/ugc#about✨ Travel guides https://www.thatch.co/@emselsewhere━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me here :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨ @gottacaseofwanderusthttps://www.instagram.com/gottacaseofwanderlust?igsh=MTJjZ2p6bWZpdXBrYw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr✨Travel Blog:gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

Taylor Alissa spontaneously moved from the U.S. to Japan and is here to talk about her experience living abroad and solo traveling to other countries in Asia. on this episode, we chat about:- living abroad in Japan- solo traveling to other Asian countries- the surprising relation between Jamaica and Japan featured questions:1. Did you experience any cultural shocks in Japan?2. How did you adjust to life in Japan?3. Favorite foods in Japan? 4. Did your identity as a Jamaican American affect your experience?━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with Taylor here!✨ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theworldxtay?igsh=MXd4dmdoanZlbmE0bA==✨ Travel guides:https://www.thatch.co/@tayyalissa━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me here :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz ✨Travel Blog:gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

Kiran was raised in Kolkata, located on the Eastern side of India, and completed her MBA in Mumbai, one of India's largest cities, on the west coast. Kiran is now living and working  in Bengaluru, in southern India. on this episode, we chat about:- Kiran's advice for solo travelers in India- Cultural norms to be aware of in India- India's gastronomy: from the must-try dishes, street food, and regional differences - and much more!featured questions:​ 1. Would you say solo traveling in India is any different from solo traveling to other countries? Are there any extra things we should be aware of? ​ 2. What are the best cities to visit for first time travelers to India?​ 3. What are some cultural norms travelers should know in India?4. ​ What's your advice for navigating the street food scene in India?​ 5. Do you have any insight about traveling to India for yoga?━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with Kiran here!✨ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/kiranroy18?igsh=d2t2cTRnOGZnbXhp✨ Travel guides:https://www.thatch.co/@travelwthki━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me here :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz ✨Travel Blog:gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨Travel Guides:https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

the day of love on all forms… most importantly self-love

Carolyn and I chat about our first year doing NALCAP (North American Language and Culture Assistant Program) in Madrid. “Do it for the plot — but know your Spanish phrases.” - Carolyn Parmer, English language aux 24-25

Margherita Cara is a solo female traveler and also psychologist from Milan, Italy. Margherita prioritizes slow, cultural based travel and has backpacked through Latin America, Southeast Asia and Europe. on this episode, we chat about:- Margherita's solo travels in Latin America - solo female travel safety advice - traveling responsibly and ethically - and much more!!featured questions:1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using the term “solo female travel”?2. How do you balance protecting your safety with being open in a new destination?3. How can we step out of a consumerist/colonialist mindset when traveling? ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with Margherita here!✨ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/duamima_?igsh=dWp4ZWEzM2VtOWoy✨ Travel guides:https://www.thatch.co/@margheritacara━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me here :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨Travel Blog:gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

Nicole Figura is a solo female budget traveler originally from the Philippines, but has also lived in Saudi Arabia and Canada. Nicole has traversed big cities from New York City and London to villages throughout South East Asia — and is currently working in food marketing. on this episode, we chat about:- budget travel advice- must try foods in Southeast Asia- food shocks in SE Asia - and more!featured questions:1. How do you go about finding where to eat when you travel?2. What are some of your favorite foods you've had in each Asian country?3. Where's the best street-food country for carb-lovers?━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━Hawker stall in Singapore mentioned: Keng Heng Whampoa Teochew Lor Meeconnect with Nicole here!✨Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/nicolefiqura?igsh=ZXBxNTg3Nnlwajcz✨ Travel guides:https://www.thatch.co/@nicolefiqura━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me here :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz ✨Travel Blog:gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

Lucie grew up in the Czech Republic and has traveled throughout Europe via Erasmus as well as through various work exchanges. on this episode, we chat about:- how Lucie travels the world on a budget - her favorite place she's traveled to as an Erasmus student - the best food in the Czech Republic - and more!featured questions:1. What are some of your favorite things about living and growing up in the Czech Republic?2. Can you share how you're able to travel so much?3. Can you explain how the Erasmus program works? 4. Which city did you have the best Erasmus experience? 5. What is your favorite destination for food?━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with Lucie here!✨ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/_slivkovaal_?igsh=YXNucjR4Nnl1bTJo✨ Travel guides:https://www.thatch.co/@lucieslivkova━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me here :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz ✨Travel Blog:gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

Darja Karstens, originally from Germany, has been living in Lyon France as an expat for 4 years. Daria has worked for as a travel tour guide and shares her insights from this experience as well as living abroad.on this episode, we chat about:- tips for adjusting to life in a new country - finding friends in a new place - advice for aspiring tour guides - and more!featured questions: What were some of the initial cultural differences between France and Germany? ​ What was the most difficult part about adjusting to life abroad in Lyon? ​ For those interested in being travel tour guides, what advice have you learned in your experience that you wish you would've known before you started leading tours? ​ What was the most difficult part about being a tour guide? ​ How did you balance enjoying the tour and navigating the stresses of leading? ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with Darja here!✨ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/flying_awaay?igsh=MW5jMjRxbThhZ2poZA==✨ Travel guides:https://www.thatch.co/@darja━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me here :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz ✨Travel Blog:gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨Travel Guides:https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

Joanne Fan is a Taiwanese American social media travel influencer extremely knowledgeable about Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. on this episode, we chat about:- how Joanne moved to Seoul, South Korea- expectations vs. reality about living abroad - working as a content creator on social media featured questions:1. What were some of the initial biggest challenges you faced when adjusting to life abroad?2. What advice would you wish you would've known beforehand?3. If you had to choose, what's your favorite and least favorite part about living in Seoul?━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with Joanne here!✨ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/joanneffan?igsh=b2w5cnlmYmFhbDl1✨ Travel guides:https://www.thatch.co/@justjoanne━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me here :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz ✨Travel Blog:gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

As someone who was born, raised and currently living in Egypt in the coastal city of Alexandria, Farah is an expert on Egypt and shares her advice for traveling to this amazing country. on this episode, we chat about- solo traveling in Egypt - cultural do's and don't's in Egypt - must try food in Egypt - and much more!featured questions:​ What should solo female travelers know before visiting?​ What are some cultural “do's and don't's” when traveling in Egypt?​ Must visit cities or experiences?​ What are your favorite foods?━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with Farah here!https://www.theegyptiantraveler.com/post/debunking-myths-about-traveling-to-egypt✨ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theegyptiantravelerblog?igsh=MnpxNGo1Ymw5Zzdw✨ Travel blog:━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me here :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz ✨Travel Blog:gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨Travel Guides:https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

Faatimah is a solo female traveler passionate about local cultures, photography, and travel planning for Muslims. on this episode, we chat about: - advice for Muslim solo female travelers- Faatimah's favorite destination - Faatimah's experience getting scuba certified - and more!Featured questions: 1. What advice would you give to those wanting to solo travel?2. Can you describe how traveling as a Muslim woman may look different than non-Muslim women? 3. Which destination was particularly memorable as a Muslim traveler? 4. What is your favorite neighborhood in New York City to photograph? 5. Why was scuba diving a life-changing experience?━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with Faatimah here!✨ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/faatimah_travels?igsh=MWhzbnZxNzF0bml1ag==✨ Travel guides:https://www.thatch.co/@faatimah━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me here :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz ✨Travel Blog:gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

Petra was born and raised in Thailand and now works as a digital nomad in the United States. Petra also has cultural-based travel expertise in South Korea and Brazil.On this episode, we chat about:- what it was like for Petra growing up in Thailand - the gastronomy of Thailand and South Korea (must eats!)- how to have more local cultural experiences - and much more!Featured questions:1. As someone who grew up in Thailand, can you share any aspects of the culture you appreciate?2. What recommendations do you have for those wanting to travel to Thailand? 3. If you had to pick your favorite Korean and Thai dishes, what would they be?4. Does South Korea or Thailand have better street food?5. What were some cultural shocks you experienced when moving to Brazil?━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with Petra here!✨ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/polyglotpetra2.0?igsh=cDdoZWsyam5ueWNx✨ Travel blog:https://polyglotpetra.com✨Homestays in Thailand:━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me here :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz ✨Travel Blog:gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

Sivan advocates for responsible and cultural travel, imperfect sustainability, and vegan-friendly foods. If you're interested in being a better traveler, this episode is for you!  on this episode, we chat about: - actionable advice to be a better traveler  - does “supporting local” actually make a difference? - the difference between sustainable vs. regenerative travel  - and much more!! highlights:  1. What sparked your wanderlust? (00:58) 2. How do you define sustainable travel? (03:31) 3. What's the difference between all these different travel terms, such as sustainable vs. regenerative travel? (05:55) 4. Was there a specific trip or experience that made you more invested in being a responsible traveler? (08:39) 5. Everyone's always talking about the importance of “supporting local businesses”. but why is it actually important to buy local? (11:04) 6. Staying at guesthouses and homestays to be more sustainable (12:59) 7. How do you find guesthouses/homestays and how do you make sure locals actually run them? (14:48) 8. Unconventional tips or advice for travelers wanting to be more sustainable and responsible (17:31) 9. Rapid fire questions (24:15) 10. Where to connect with Sivan (28:01)━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with Sivan:✨ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/sivan_travelsgreen?igsh=M2tid3EwazF4Y3Jz✨ travel guides: https://www.thatch.co/@sivan_travelsgreen━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me! :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz ✨ Travel Blog:gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨ Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust 

Vandana is a digital marketing specialist and travel expert in Sri Lanka.on this episode, we chat about:- traveling to Sri Lanka- cultural differences between Sri Lanka and India - Vandana's experiences living abroad in Pakistan, Sweden and Denmark- and much more!━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with Vandana!✨ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vandiihettii?igsh=djM1c21vM3Rma3Nx✨Travel guides: https://www.thatch.co/@ResponsibleRoamer━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me! :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz Travel Blog:✨ gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨ Thatch Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust

Aditi is a solo female traveler who prioritizes slow, immersive travel off the tourist trail. Aditi's travel content focuses on South and Southeast Asia, and most recently, the gorgeous Seychelles Island off East Africa. on this episode, we chat about: - Aditi's advice for those wanting to slow travel - travel in the Seychelles islands- pros and cons of remote working- and more!!━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with Aditi here!✨ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/the.beachybitch?igsh=Z2JzOHh6dzdmNzht✨ Travel guides:https://www.thatch.co/@adititipnis━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me here :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz ✨Travel Blog:gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

Sonja is a seasoned Nepal trekking specialist who was born and raised in the Netherlands. Sonja has been to Nepal over a dozen times and now partners with a Sherpa Trekking company in Nepal that prioritizes responsible tourism. on this conversation, we chat about: - what travelers should know before going to Nepal - how Nepal captured Sonja's heart - best places, trails, and foods to try in Nepal - and more!! highlights:  What sparked your wanderlust? (0:33) Can you recall any cultural shocks you experienced on your first trip to Nepal? (01:23)  Is Nepal a pretty affordable place to travel to? (04:57) Food and food safety in Nepal (06:28)  Best places to visit in Nepal (11:14)  Sonja's advice for hiking in Nepal (14:13) Responsible tourism practices to know before coming to Nepal (16:31) Sonja's local trekking organization recommendation (19:23) Rapid fire questions (19:43)   ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ connect with Sonja! ✨ Travel guides: https://www.thatch.co/@sonjakorevaar ✨ Nepal trekking organization, “Sherpa Heritage Trails”: https://sherpaheritagetrails.com/ https://www.sherpa-trekking.com/ ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ connect with me! :) Instagram: ✨ @lydiaschultzz https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz Travel Blog: ✨ gottacaseofwanderlust.com ✨ Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust

Maia grew up in New Jersey and now lives in Tasmania Australia. Learn about how she did it and her advice for you!on this episode, we talk about:- the logistics of moving abroad - cultural shocks coming from the USA to Australia - how Americans can work in Australia - and more! shownotes: 1. 00:31 You have been living in Australia for 3 years now. But you're originally from New Jersey and went to school in Rhode Island. Can you tell us how you needed up where you are now? 2. 04:06 Would you say it's difficult for an American to move to Australia?3. 06:32 Cultural shocks coming from the U.S. to Australia 4. 09:43 adjusting and making friends 5. 12:44 How are the people like in Australia? 6. 14:29 What's your favorite side of Australia?7. 16:28 Do you have any advice for people wanting to move to Australia?8. 18:23 Do you plan on staying in Australia?9. 20:42 Did you ever picture yourself where you are now?10. 22:38 Rapid fire questions connect with Maia!✨ insta: https://www.instagram.com/onmaiaway?igsh=MTFyd3B1ZTdoN3llbg== ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me! :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz Travel Blog:✨ gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨ Thatch Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

reading poetry on a beautiful sunny day in La Rosaleda, Retiro Park

“How do I responsibly travel but also how do I responsibly engage with the culture?” - Mark FedoronkoMark is a professional travel planner with expertise in Northern Africa and the Middle East. on this episode, we chat about:- Mark's lessons learned with travel and itinerary planning - best resources for researching a destination's safety before going- how to have more meaningful travel experiences - and much more!━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with Mark!✨Thatch Page:https://www.thatch.co/@markfedoronko✨ website: https://markstravelrecs.wordpress.com/about/━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me! :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz Travel Blog:✨ gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨ Thatch Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust

you don't have to always be “polite”.

Karima was born and raised in Morocco, and has solo traveled throughout the country. Here are her thoughts about living and traveling to this incredible country! we chat about:- best places to visit in Morocco - things you should know before coming - is Morocco safe for a solo female traveler? - and much more! connect with Karima!✨ Insta: https://www.instagram.com/oufkirkarima7?igsh=NTQ5bDk0aGp6bjVoconnect with Juan!✨ Insta: https://www.instagram.com/juan.arcidiacono?igsh=MXIxbG9qOGdrbjBscg==━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me! :)✨ my Thatch Travel Guides in Morocco:https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz Travel Blog:✨ gottacaseofwanderlust.com━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

genuine first impressions and cultural shocks after moving to Spain

motivational talk to do something that scares you!

falling in love with life in Madrid

there is no “arriving” to your dream life; the path is the goal. ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━EXPLORE MORE HERE :)Instagram:✨ @gottacaseofwanderlusthttps://www.instagram.com/gottacaseofwanderlust/✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz Travel Blog:✨ gottacaseofwanderlust.com━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

what I wish I knew before moving abroad solo for the first time after spending 1-month in Madrid, Spain

a very overdue new edition of conversations with strangers (aka talking with random people) with the good people of New York City in Washington Square Park :)topic: joy

on this episode, we talk about: * moving abroad * Lelia's experience living in France vs Canada * advice on transitioning to a new country connect with Lelia: ✨ insta: https://www.instagram.com/lelia_dek?igsh=bnN4d2dlbzFxdWQ4 ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ MY SOCIALS :) Instagram: ✨ @gottacaseofwanderlust https://www.instagram.com/gottacaseofwanderlust/ ✨ @lydiaschultzz https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ Travel Blog: ✨ gottacaseofwanderlust.com ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

Vinicius Costa Vinicius is a senior lead travel writer for Travel Off Path who has written over 750 articles during his journalism career, with a focus on off the beaten path experiences and destinations! connect with Vini: ✨ insta: https://www.instagram.com/vinigoesglobal?igsh=MWFtYXdteW5wZW9nbA== ✨ articles: About Us - Travel Off Path ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ MY SOCIALS :) Instagram: ✨ @gottacaseofwanderlust https://www.instagram.com/gottacaseofwanderlust/ ✨ @lydiaschultzz https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ Travel Blog: ✨ gottacaseofwanderlust.com ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

more work exchange need to know info!!! on this episode, Ellie and I chat about: - work exchange tips and expert advice - favorite Workaway experiences - making friends as a solo traveler Connect with Ellie: ✨ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ellie__larkins?igsh=MWEzcWdrbjN2MnRz

Welcome to Season 3

Whether you are a lover of museums, food, and/or architecture, this city has something for everyone. I grew up within reach of Chicago, where I currently live. It is the first city I fell in love with, and I am passionate about conveying my local insights to visitors. Here is the ultimate guide of the 10 best things to do for first-time visitors to Chicago. For the complete list/shownotes, check out the article I wrote here:

happy Women's History Month

A trip to Chicago is not complete without an exploration of at least one of its diverse neighborhoods — and as a Chinese American, Chinatown is my personal favorite. ———————————- Places mentioned: - Nine Dragon Wall - Chiu Quon Bakery - Chinese American Museum of Chicago - Sweet Cafe - Mango Mango - Ping Tom Memorial Park - 88 Marketplace

Life is too short to settle for a mediocre loaf — here's a list of the top 5 bakeries in Chicago (from a self-professed bakery addict) As mentioned: * La Fournette, Old Town https://www.lafournette.com * Publican Quality Bread, West Loop https://www.publicanqualitybread.com * Verzenay Chicago, Lincoln Park https://www.verzenaychicago.com * Hendrickx Belgian Bread Crafter, The Loop http://hendrickxbakery.com * Sweet Rabbit, Roscoe Village  https://www.sweet-rabbit.com Happy bread eating! 

part 2 of washington square park interviews!

Maria is the host of the Recipe to the Road podcast, a podcast that shares travel stories and information from people of all over the world. On this episode, we talk about: Misconceptions about travel and safety Why the media can be problematic for tourism Maria's experience/advice as solo female travelers  questions:  What sparked your wanderlust?  Was there a specific experience or conversation that made you realize the inequities that many people face when traveling?  What has been the most impactful travel experience or trip for you?  How has travel shaped your views of the world? What are some of the biggest misconceptions about traveling that you've learned through your travel experiences or based off of your conversations from your podcast?  Do you have any advice for female travelers? Rapid fire questions  Outro ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ Recipe to the Road podcast:  Listen: https://lnk.bio/recipetotheroad  @recipetotheroad Insta https://www.instagram.com/recipetotheroad/  ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ MY SOCIALS :) Instagram: ✨ @gottacaseofwanderlust https://www.instagram.com/gottacaseofwanderlust/ ✨ @lydiaschultzz https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ Travel Blog: ✨ gottacaseofwanderlust.com ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

lessons from that trip, what I wish I knew before, and takeaways looking back at it now…

Tangible tips to be a better traveler from transport, to food and accommodations!

#mindfultourism Stevie is the host of the “Destinations Beyond Expectations” podcast that he's been running for over 3 years now and the show has had a ton of fantastic guests with stories all about travel! ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ On this episode, we talk about: Being a student of travel What it takes to run a podcast  How to start a podcast  ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ What is a student of travel?  What has travel taught you?  Can you you recall a certain experience that has particularly impacted you?  How can we become better students of travel?  Students of life Why did you start your podcast?  What would you say to someone  who wants to start their own podcast? What's the first someone needs to take to begin a podcast? What is the most difficult part of running your podcast? How can you be a great host of a podcast? Responsible tourism in Orlando Rapid fire questions  ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ Connect with Stevie: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/destinationsbeyondexpectations/  Podcast: https://dbetravel.com/wonderful-things-to-see-and-do-in-lyon/  ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ MY SOCIALS :) Instagram: ✨ @gottacaseofwanderlust https://www.instagram.com/gottacaseofwanderlust/ ✨ @lydiaschultzz https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ Travel Blog: ✨ gottacaseofwanderlust.com ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

#mindfultourism Jonathan Otero is the chief executive officer and co-host of the Globetrotters podcast, a travel podcast that aims to inspire everyday people from all backgrounds to look beyond their own borders, even with limited resources. On this episode, we talk about: - breaking down the barriers of travel - why Americans could benefit from traveling more - how travel teaches us to get out of our comfort zones - inspiration behind the Globetrotters podcast ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ Connect with Jonathan: Globetrotters Podcast: https://www.gtspodcast.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/globetrotterspodcast?igshid=YmM0MjE2YWMzOA== ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ MY SOCIALS :) Instagram: ✨ @gottacaseofwanderlust https://www.instagram.com/gottacaseofwanderlust/ ✨ @lydiaschultzz https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ Travel Blog: ✨ gottacaseofwanderlust.com

Urmi has worked several years in the financial industry and is passionate about empowering women in their finances. On this episode, we talk about: * how to get the money to travel * planning your trip budget * Urmi's tips to save money when traveling ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ 1. How can we be more financially savvy and use this to travel more? 2. How do we create a travel budget? 3. How can we make budgeting more manageable/“fun”? 4. How did you manage budgeting on your most recent trip to the U.K. 5. What are your favorite ways to save money when you travel? 6. Rapid fire questions ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ Connect with Urmi: insta: https://instagram.com/urmamio 7 Ways to be Financially Empowered: https://maisolifoundation.medium.com/7-ways-to-be-financially-empowered-6d758635972e ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ MY SOCIALS :) Instagram: ✨ @gottacaseofwanderlust https://www.instagram.com/gottacaseofwanderlust/ ✨ @lydiaschultzz https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ Travel Blog: ✨ gottacaseofwanderlust.com

Lauren McLachlan is from Scotland and is a level 3 Hatha Yoga Instructor and founder of her own yoga company Ebb & Flo Yoga. ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ On this episode, we talk about:  Life and travel in Scotland  Why yoga is healing for anyone in life Lauren's yoga business and personal yoga journey  ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ What sparked your wanderlust? (0:34)  How is your life like in Scotland? (2:22)  What aspects of life in Scotland do you cherish most and which aspects would you like to change? (6:42) What should visitors to Scotland know or prepare for beforehand? (10:50)  What inspired you to begin your yoga journey? (14:24)  What's the most important lesson that yoga has taught you? (18:19)  What would you say to a beginner who is hesitant to try yoga? (20:10)  What attracted you to become a yoga teacher and start Ebb & Flow Yoga? (22:23)  How do you incorporate yoga into your travels? (25:47)  How would you compare your experiences doing your own yoga practices and teaching yoga to others? (28:39)  What is your long term vision with Ebb & Flow? (32:54)  Wrap-up questions (36:09) ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ Connect with Lauren: Insta: https://www.instagram.com/laurenzo.m/  Ebb & Flow Yoga: https://ebbfloyoga.com/  ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ MY SOCIALS :) Instagram: ✨ @gottacaseofwanderlust https://www.instagram.com/gottacaseofwanderlust/ ✨ @lydiaschultzz https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ Travel Blog: ✨ gottacaseofwanderlust.com ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━