Unfiltered Adventures

This week, on Unfiltered Adventures, we are bringing you along with us to Japan! We visited 3 main hotspots in Japan including Tokyo, Mt. Fuji, and Kyoto, and discuss what it is like getting around Japan, food tasting, culture, and more. This episode is our last podcast for Season 2 of Unfiltered Adventures, and is for you if you are interested in visiting Japan!

This week on Unfiltered Adventures, we are talking about our experience cruising for 12 days from New Zealand to Australia. We have been on four cruises the past 2 years, and they have become one of the most fun ways to travel! This episode is for you if you have been thinking about going on a cruise, are looking for the pros and cons of traveling on a cruise, or interested in visiting Australia and New Zealand.

This week, on Unfiltered Adventures, we are bringing you along with us to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia! We had the opportunity to get scuba certified, fly over the most famous reef in the world, explore one of the wonders of the world, and chat with some of the most incredible Australians we have ever met. This episode is for you if you are looking to visit Australia, interested in Scuba Diving, or love beautiful beaches!

This week on Unfiltered Adventures, we are talking with Christina from @macs_explore to discuss what it is like slow traveling around the world with kids! Her family traveled full time for 2.5 years while her kids were 10 and 13 years old. This episode is for you if you have a family, are looking to start slow traveling through countries, interested in remote working, or are looking to travel full time.

This week on Unfiltered Adventures, we invited our mentor Dani to talk about her experience going from full time content creator to now being a full time coach. Dani was one of the top Travel Creators we looked up to when we started, and we attribute her Sponsored Bootcamp course to our early success in the travel industry, so we are really excited to break down her experience in the creator space. This episode is for you if you have experienced burn out, are looking to pivot your niche, or are thinking about being a travel creator.

This week on Unfiltered Adventures, we are talking about our experience chasing the Northern Lights in Finland. Our goal this year was to do one bucket list item every month for the whole year, and for January we wanted to visit the Arctic Circle in hopes of seeing the aurora. Our trip to Finland was a once in a lifetime experience, but with every trip we go on, there were a few bumps on the way. This episode is for you if you are going to chase the Northern Lights, looking to visit Finland, or are interested in the Arctic Circle.

This week, on Unfiltered Adventures, we invited Adam and Kathryn, A+K Adventures, who are full-time travelers on their way to visiting every single National Park and State in the US! Their goal is to help other people plan trips, so they can spend more time adventuring and less time researching places to go. They focus on budget travel and have turned their passion into their career. This episode is for you if you are looking to start doing van life, learning to make passive income while traveling, love tacos and dogs, and want to learn more about living on the road!

This week, on Unfiltered Adventures, we invited Hudson and Emily, who are on their way to becoming the youngest couple to travel to every country in the world! Did you know that there are more people that travel into space than have traveled to every country in the world? Their story about going from having a master's degree in marketing, to living in an RV as they road trip around the US, to now living out of a suitcase is inspiring and exhilarating!

This week, on Unfiltered Adventures, we invited the Wandering Queen, Michelle Stelly, to the podcast to talk about how she has made blogging her full time job! Michelle was born in Panama, then lived in Texas for over 30 years before moving to Seattle, Washington, where she created the brand called The Wandering Queen. This is episode is for you if you are looking to start blogging about your travels and learn how to make passive income on your travels. Michelle's story is incredibly inspiring, and we are so excited to have her on the show!

This week, on Unfiltered Adventures, we invited the Iceland Queen, Kyana Powers, to the podcast to talk about what it is really like living in Iceland! She quit her job, sold everything she had, and moved to Iceland after the beautiful country stole her heart. This episode is for you if you want to move abroad, travel to Iceland, and know the behind-the-scenes of getting a working Visa!

This week, on Unfiltered Adventures, we invited our good friend Chris Meugniot on to talk about how he makes a full time living on photography/videography with less than 3,000 followers. He has been in the industry for over 8 years, and has worked with hundreds of different brands from high-end car brands like Lamborghini and Aston Martin, to huge companies like Adidas. This episode is for you if you are looking to pursue photography and videography as a career in 2023!

This week, on Unfiltered Adventures, we are talking about how much we made from being a Content Creator in 2022! We created 12 streams of income this year, all from our Social Media Accounts and marketing ourselves! One of our biggest questions we get is how much we make and how we make money, so we hope this helps answer questions as we finish 2022. Have a great Holiday Season and cheers to another year of adventures in 2023!

This week, on Unfiltered Adventures, we are talking about our “icks” with each other! We travel together, work together, and basically are together 24/7, which comes with fun moments as well as moments where we get frustrated with each other! The past week we saw the “ick” trend going around, so we thought it would be the perfect podcast episode! This episode is for you if you travel with a family member, friend, or significant other and want to learn more about the behind the scenes of The Lovers Passport!

This week, on Unfiltered Adventures, we are bringing you with us to our first “influencer” event and exploring Art Basel! Visiting Miami Art Week was not at the top of our bucket list, but it was so interesting to see where modern art is going, and what the hype behind the huge worldwide event is. This episode is for you if you are interested in Virtual Reality, Art, Travel, and want to hear more about our experience at such a big event!

This week on Unfiltered Adventures, we are ranking the states that we visited the past 2 years that most people do not visit! These places are not your usual vacation to a coastal city or tropical destination, but are the hidden gems in the US. We go through our list of states and rank either Underrated, Justified, or Overrated. This episode is for you if you are looking to start road tripping through the US or looking for some hidden gems off the beaten path!

This week on Unfiltered Adventures, we have Mahna, aka @mahnatravel, as our special guest! She used to work the 9-5 as a corporate employee, and now travels the world as a Solo Female to over 30 different countries! In this episode, we talk about her favorite and least favorite country, travel hacks, fear of being judged, and more! This episode is for you if you are looking to start solo traveling, but nervous about not meeting anyone along the way.

This week on Unfiltered Adventures, we are talking about our trip to Switzerland and how I proposed to Giselle! We talk about the planning process, the travel mishaps, how nothing about the proposal went according to plan, and how magical everything turned out. This episode is one that is very special to us, and we hope you enjoy some of the behind the scenes moments from our favorite trip of all time.

This week on Unfiltered Adventures, we have Helene, aka @heleneinbetween as our special guest! She gets over 250,000 hits on her travel blog monthly, and has over 200 followers on Instagram and TikTok! In this episode, we talk about what it is like being a travel blogger, traveling with dogs, moving abroad, and behind the scenes moments with Helene! This episode is for you if you enjoy traveling as much as you love your dog, if you love fall as much as you love European castles, and if you want to start a side hustle in content creation!

This week on Unfiltered Adventures, we are discussing everything about fall! From Halloween, to leaf peeping, to Pumpkin Spice Lattes, fall is our favorite time of the year! We are so excited to deep dive into our favorite places to go in the Fall, as well as how it is the best time to really grow your social media accounts. ITS FALL YALL

This week on Unfiltered Adventures, we are discussing how we got to the point we are today! Both of us went from working the 9-5 office job to now owning a multi six-figure business, traveling the world, and working with huge clients! Giselle and Stephen talk about their backgrounds in school, photography, how they came up with the idea, and what steps they took to reach their dream of becoming Professional Travel Content Creators. This episode is perfect for you if you are looking to start your own side hustle and turn traveling into a career!

This week on Unfiltered Adventures, we are discussing how we travel so much on the weekends! We started weekend road trips 3 years ago and has now turned into our full time job! In this episode we discuss budgeting hacks, how we plan our trips, energy tips to not get burned out, and how we make travelling a priority in our life! This is our last episode of Season 1 before we take our break for summer!

This week on Unfiltered Adventures, we are discussing our top 5 and bottom 5 National Parks that we have been to! Together we have been to 20 different National Parks throughout the US and visited during multiple seasons, so we are saying what we like about our favorites and the things that we did not like. This episode is perfect for you if you are looking to visit a few new National Parks this summer.

This week on Unfiltered Adventures, we are talking about the behind the scenes realities of being a Content Creator or “Influencer” in 2022. We started our account in 2020 when COVID happened, and now have an audience of over 500k across platforms, but with that comes the crazy part of running a freelance business. From online hate comments, to negotiation tactics, to being known as an influencer or a content creator, and so much more, this episode is one of our favorites so far!

This week on Unfilitered Adventures, we bring on @colinringas and @karlieplace to talk about airport stereotypes! Together we have gone on over 200 flights and experienced some crazy moments at the airport from missing flights, flight attendants spilling food on us, kids throwing soda on us, laptops breaking, and more! Every time we go to an airport we see a lot of different type of people and broke them down into 10 different categories!

This week on Unfiltered Adventures, we are interviewing Janelle from @Janelleonajet about Travel Hacking! She has traveled all over the world by finding cheap flights, visiting the best airport lounges, and finding ways to “travel hack” while working a full time job. In this episode, we will be helping you save thousands on travel through her tips and tricks!

This week on Unfiltered Adventures, we are bringing you to the Middle East! We have visited Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Jordan and have experienced a wide spectrum of people and places. From staying in a $10,000 hotel room, waiting for 3 hours for our luggage, meeting the prince of Saudi Arabia, and more, the Middle East opened up our eyes to so much. After listening, we want to know, is the Middle East on now your bucket list?

This week on Unfiltered Adventures, we are bringing you along on a week-long adventure in Guatemala! From standing on top of a volcano, being attacked by insects, getting lost in the jungle, getting less than 1 hour of sleep, and traveling 9 hours just for 1 picture, this episode takes you behind the scenes on our crazy trip. After listening we want to know, is Guatemala on your bucket list now?

This week on Unfiltered Adventures, we are talking about our worst backpacking trip, road trip, and travel mishaps on our adventures! This ranges from losing thousands of dollars in gear, ending up 9 hours away from the location we are looking for, things falling off the back of our car, and hitchhiking across an island! We have had so many great experiences while traveling, but here are a few of those BTS moments when things go wrong!

This week on Unfiltered Adventures, we are breaking down what we are calling “The Creativity Crisis.” With TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts pushing “trending” music and videos, it is forcing creators to copy each other in order to be successful. We will be discussing what it is really like being a creator in 2022 with copy culture being encouraged and the switch from photography to short form video.

This week on Unfiltered Adventures, we are interviewing one of the creators that inspired us to start our account! Renne Hahnel has visited every National Park in the US and has grown her social following to over 1 million across platforms! We are going to be diving into behind the scenes moments and what it is like being one of the OG Outdoor Content Creators.

This week on Unfiltered Adventures, we are taking you to Sedona, Arizona and discussing the popular tourist destination! We break down our favorite trails, the best time to go, our experience with our past visits, and rating each location. Between the vortexes, history, crowds, and beauty in Sedona, this is one place that has stolen our heart every time we visited.

This week on Unfiltered Adventures, we bring on Ian and Ana from a successful YouTube Channel The Other Side Vlog, They are full time travel YouTubers that explore the world in search of the next bucket list item! Today we chat about the BTS of being a YouTuber, van life struggles, meeting people on the road, crazy travel experiences, and so much more! From being robbed on a Volcano to meeting a potential Serial Killer, this is one episode you are not going to want to skip through!

This is our first guest on Unfiltered Adventures! We invited Chasity Hobbs to come on and talk about her experience as a full-time content creator. Chas was a huge inspiration to us when we first started our account and helps hundreds of people grow their content creator business. In this episode, we learn the story behind through.the.llyns, Work/Life Boundaries, Knowing Your Worth when it comes to brand deals, Working with your significant other, and how she became a full time content creator with under 3000 followers!

This is our experience on our first trip to Iceland! It is our favorite place we have ever travelled to, but there was so much that went wrong from the moment we left the house to when we finally returned home. From crazy flight delays, lost luggage, all night drives, sheep attacks, and climbing a volcano, this trip was one we will never forget.

This is our first episode of Unfiltered Adventures! Today we are going to talk about why we are starting this podcast and what we hope to achieve. Instagram gets a bad rap sometimes, but we really love the community aspect of the platform. It is honestly like online dating because you can meet someone and know so much about them just from following them and their life on an app. In this episode, we talk about Instagram Stereotypes and how cool it is meeting someone that you have looked up to for so long on the platform and being able to become peers and friends with them.

Welcome to The Lovers Passport! We are Giselle and Stephen, a couple of California natives with a HUGE passion for outdoor adventure & travel! We thrive on exploring everywhere from the beach to the backcountry, and we just can't get enough of it! From backpacking and camping to traveling abroad, we've got your couple's travel inspo covered!