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Bonus Catch-up with Giddi Oteo

Nomads at the Intersections - May 03, 2021 21:00 - 31 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
Catch-up with Giddi Oteo, a former full-time road traveler turned incredible businesswoman. Giddi was last on the podcast in its previous format just as the world shut down. NATI Season 1 co-host Anaïs chats with Giddi about what it was like as a restaurant owner during the pandemic, how she mad...

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Bonus Catch-up with Maggie Lam

Nomads at the Intersections - March 29, 2021 17:59 - 34 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
Catch-up with Maggie Lam of @bitesizetravels. It’s been a while since Maggie was on this show in its previous format. A lot has changed since then -- navigating two pandemics, a rise in racial violence against AAPI, and major changes in the road travel landscape. Noami chats with Maggie about wh...

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Bonus: Catch-up with Maggie Lam

Nomads at the Intersections - March 29, 2021 17:59 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
Catch-up with Maggie Lam of @bitesizetravels. It’s been a while since Maggie was on this show in its previous format. A lot has changed since then -- navigating two pandemics, a rise in racial violence against AAPI, and major changes in the road travel landscape. Noami chats with Maggie about wh...

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Home vs. Homeostasis

Nomads at the Intersections - March 19, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - Video ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
Raena Rice is a U.S. based flight attendant and the creator of stationary brand IAL365. Her high vibrational rituals and intentions are infused in her creative work as well as her cabin crew work. Raena and NATI co-host Anaïs discuss the trials of attending the airways, protecting safe & inclusi...

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Bonus Catch-up with Brittany Newson

Nomads at the Intersections - March 02, 2021 01:15 - 32 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
Catch-up with Brittany Newson of @whereis_brittany. It’s been a while since Brittany was on the show in its previous format, and while a lot has changed, it hasn’t slowed her down! Listen in as NATI Season 1 co-host Anaïs chats with Brittany on Instagram Live. Brittany talks about how, even thro...

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Creative Black Resistance

Nomads at the Intersections - February 19, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - Video ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
What was it like to travel in an era where there were little “Black Wall Streets'' all over the U.S. in the midst of dangerous Jim Crow laws? Alvin Hall, award-winning television and radio broadcaster, best-selling author, and renowned financial educator, transports us into that historic realm. ...

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Bonus: Catch-up & Journaling with Denise Meeker

Nomads at the Intersections - February 01, 2021 22:12 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
Catch-up with Denise Meeker of @wayfaretowellness. Noami chats with Denise on IG Live about what life’s brought her since the last time, how she’s coped through 2020 as a Black woman and vanlifer, and more. They also journal around this prompt: What does acknowledging the Indigenous people of th...

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Bonus Catch-up and Journaling with Denise Meeker

Nomads at the Intersections - February 01, 2021 22:12 - 24 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
Catch-up with Denise Meeker of @wayfaretowellness. It’s been a while since Denise was on the show in its previous format, and a lot has changed since then! Noami chats with Denise on Instagram Live about what life’s brought her since the last time, how she’s coped through 2020 as a Black woman a...

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Reimagining Environmentalism

Nomads at the Intersections - January 22, 2021 07:05 - 1 hour - Video ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
Leah Thomas is an intersectional environmental activist on a mission to dismantle systems of oppression in the environmental movement. Her personal platform @greengirlleah was born out of a space that lacked representation of Black people in the outdoors and spoke to her passion of getting peopl...

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Reimagining Environmentalism (with Leah Thomas)

Nomads at the Intersections - January 22, 2021 07:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
Leah Thomas is an intersectional environmental activist on a mission to dismantle systems of oppression in the environmental movement. Her personal platform @greengirlleah was born out of a space that lacked representation of Black people in the outdoors and spoke to her passion of getting peopl...

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Normalize Unlearning (with Bree Contreras)

Nomads at the Intersections - December 18, 2020 07:05 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
Bree (they/them) is a 20-something-year-old Black Queer non-binary nomad. In 2020, they cut their corporate strings to begin a life centered on having full autonomy of their time and purpose. Hottie, their renovated vintage RV, is now home to Bree and their two giant dogs. Aside from imagining a...

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Normalize Unlearning

Nomads at the Intersections - December 18, 2020 07:05 - 58 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
Bree (they/them) is a 20-something-year-old Black Queer non-binary nomad. In 2020, they cut their corporate strings to begin a life centered on having full autonomy of their time and purpose. Hottie, their renovated vintage RV, is now home to Bree and their two giant dogs. Aside from imagining a...

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Reclaiming Indigenous Sovereignty (with Wynne Weddell)

Nomads at the Intersections - November 20, 2020 07:05 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
Our first guest on Nomads at the Intersections podcast is Wynne Weddell, Native American of the Yankton Sioux Tribe. A hiker, nomad, and full-time beadwork artist - Wynne joins our host, Noami, for this in-person interview from the traditional lands of the Pascua Yaqui and Tohono O’odham in the ...

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Reclaiming Indigenous Sovereignty

Nomads at the Intersections - November 20, 2020 07:05 - 44 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
Our first guest on Nomads at the Intersections podcast is Wynne Weddell, Native American of the Yankton Sioux Tribe. A hiker, nomad, and full-time beadwork artist - Wynne joins our host, Noami, for this in-person interview from the traditional lands of the Pascua Yaqui and Tohono O’odham in the ...

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The Pilot

Nomads at the Intersections - October 23, 2020 06:05 - 45 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
This heavy year has brought host Noami Grevemberg and season 1 co-host Anaïs Monique incredible growth, with insightful breakthroughs, profound solidarity and an expanding BIPOC nomadic community. This year has also brought us to tears with violence, microaggressions and burn-out.  In our pilot...

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Welcome to Nomads at the Intersections Podcast

Nomads at the Intersections - October 02, 2020 10:28 - 2 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
Welcome to Nomads at the Intersections podcast! Our hope is that this podcast will inspire us all to shift our perspectives on what road travel looks like, by exploring the stories and experiences of people from different walks of life.  We’ll dive into topics from the margins. Topics, both big...

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Nomads at the Intersections: The Trailer

Nomads at the Intersections - September 25, 2020 06:05 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
Do you want to diversify your perspective on road travel?   Host Noami Grevemberg dives deep into the stories and weaves through the challenges, journeys and inspirations of the diverse voices who, often unheard, make the nomadic community great. Noami is a Black woman and a nomad who has been ...

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Where To Next?: Series Finale

Nomads at the Intersections - September 18, 2020 06:05 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
This is the last episode of Women on the Road, but by no means the end of our community. In fact, we are incredibly excited and honored that Noami Grevemberg and her team at Diversify Vanlife will be helping to evolve the podcast you hear on this channel moving forward, with a total reboot takin...

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What We Carry in the Passenger Seat: Kathy Karlo

Nomads at the Intersections - September 11, 2020 06:05 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
For some of us, what got us in the car in the first place are the things we’re running from-- but no matter how many miles we drive, those things end up in the passenger seat, along for the ride with us. Kathy Karlo, a climber, writer, Director of No Man’s Land Film Festival, and host and creato...

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Big News: We’re Making Some Changes!

Nomads at the Intersections - September 04, 2020 06:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
This platform as you know it started several years ago in response to the lack of representation of female road travelers in the media we consume. After over 100 written interviews published online, followed by more than 100 episodes of the WOTR podcast and the growth of this tight-knit online c...

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Qualified: Laura Edmondson

Nomads at the Intersections - August 28, 2020 06:05 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
Whether on or off the road, it can be easy to tell yourself you can’t do new things. That you’re too inexperienced. That you don’t have the skills. That you’re not qualified. If that’s been you, then this episode is just what you need to hear. Because Laura Edmondson-- a road traveler, digital ...

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A Recipe for Life Lessons - Anna Tedesco

Nomads at the Intersections - August 14, 2020 05:56 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
Nobody ever said living on the road was easy, but it definitely teaches us life lessons. In this episode, van dweller Anna Tedesco shares what she's learned from over two years of solo road travel, how it's helped her navigate the mental and emotional challenges a pandemic can bring abo...

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A Recipe for Life Lessons: Anna Tedesco

Nomads at the Intersections - August 14, 2020 05:56 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
Nobody ever said living on the road was easy, but it definitely teaches us life lessons. In this episode, van dweller Anna Tedesco shares what she's learned from over two years of solo road travel, how it's helped her navigate the mental and emotional challenges a pandemic can bring about, and t...

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Nature Mama Reads: Alessandra Hurt

Nomads at the Intersections - July 31, 2020 06:30 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
For many reasons, many of us have been traveling less and reading more right now, which is why hearing from mother, outdoor adventurer, Licensed Nursing Assistant, and book reviewer Alessandra Hurt is especially important right now. Because what we can learn from stillness, BIPOC authors, access...

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Listen to This: Let’s Talk Mental Health

Nomads at the Intersections - July 24, 2020 18:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
Grizel is a Latinx mental health therapist, former van dweller, writer, thru hiker, photographer, and host of our team’s latest show, Underneath It All-- a series that dives deep into the spaces where the outdoors and mental health intersect. More than ever, we’ve seen the overt and profound nee...

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The Other Side of Fear: Adventure Travel Journalist Kellee Edwards

Nomads at the Intersections - July 17, 2020 06:05 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
It feels more important than ever to re-think our role models. And adventure travel journalist, pilot, and deep water diver Kellee Edwards is someone who’s been paving a path on the road, in the air, and around the globe for years. It’s not just her passion to take herself to new heights that we...

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Trust Your Gut, Know Your Head: Natasha Seitz & Beth Luby

Nomads at the Intersections - July 10, 2020 06:23 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
As a queer couple, Natasha Seitz and Beth Luby challenge the notion we hear often online from white, straight couples: that the road always feels safe and strangers always seem welcoming. Because the reality is that safety also equates to privilege, and it shows up in the ways you camp, where yo...

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Coming Home to Herself: Denise Meeker

Nomads at the Intersections - July 03, 2020 06:05 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
We didn't ask, but we bet if we had, traveler Denise Meeker would say that coming home to yourself isn't a one-time act. It's personal, on-going, and sometimes shows up in ways you don't expect. It also can include hard, internal work. But we're really thankful to get to hear her story of coming...

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From Celebrity Dinners to Camper Conversions: Chef Manouschka Guerrier

Nomads at the Intersections - June 26, 2020 06:05 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
Chef Manouschka Guerrier is known for a lot of things-- like dancing, acting, and her culinary skills on the reality TV show Private Chefs of Beverly Hills-- but being on the road is her newest adventure. From solo travel to RV fires and more, Manouschka learned a lot about herself through hitti...

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Off The Grid With A Kid: Where Are They Now?

Nomads at the Intersections - June 19, 2020 06:10 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 405 ratings
As we all know, a lot can change in a couple of years: especially when you’re a mom, and  especially when you live on the road. So we were so excited to bring Bionca Smith-- a full-time traveler, professional speaker and author, and mother to her 11-year-old son Carter-- back onto the show after...

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