Latest Women travelers Podcast Episodes
A Recipe for Life Lessons: Anna Tedesco
On the Road, Our Way - August 14, 2020 04:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsNobody 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...
Nature Mama Reads: Alessandra Hurt
On the Road, Our Way - July 31, 2020 04:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsFor 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...
The Other Side of Fear: Adventure Travel Journalist Kellee Edwards
On the Road, Our Way - July 17, 2020 04:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsIt 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...
Trust Your Gut, Know Your Head: Natasha Seitz & Beth Luby
On the Road, Our Way - July 10, 2020 04:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsAs 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...
Coming Home to Herself: Denise Meeker
On the Road, Our Way - July 03, 2020 04:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe 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...
From Celebrity Dinners to Camper Conversions: Chef Manouschka Guerrier
On the Road, Our Way - June 26, 2020 04:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsChef 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...
Off The Grid With A Kid: Where Are They Now?
On the Road, Our Way - June 19, 2020 04:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsAs 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...
White Women of #Vanlife, We Need to Talk
On the Road, Our Way - June 12, 2020 04:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe truth is this: as white women on the road, we’ve taken up a lot of space within the #vanlife movement. And it’s long past time to unpack how white women’s presence in popular road travel negatively impacts the Black traveler community. So in this episode, we spend some dedicated time address...
Expect the Unexpected: Alexandra Keeling
On the Road, Our Way - June 05, 2020 04:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsRoad travel can take many forms. And Alexandra Keeling knows this better than most-- because she's done a lot of them. From RV life, to towing a small trailer, to sleeping out of the back of a car, Alex's journeys on the road so far have shown that no matter how you travel, it all counts. Becaus...
Navigating Responsible Travel During COVID-19
On the Road, Our Way - May 29, 2020 04:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsCan we hit the road responsibly during a pandemic? As someone planning to car camp or take a drive into the wilderness, you might not feel like you alone could make a huge impact on this pandemic-- but the reality is that travel can lead to transmission-- which means that travelers have the capa...
Change of Plans: Skyler Thomas
On the Road, Our Way - May 22, 2020 04:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsSkyler Thomas is good at working with a change of plans. In fact, it’s something that she’s navigated time and time again-- right up to present day as she pivoted the direction of her business, SugarSky, amid pandemic-related public health concerns. But whether it’s founding her company, embraci...
My Mom’s 3,000 Mile Drive: Jackie Hughes
On the Road, Our Way - May 08, 2020 04:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsThis episode honors the mom figures in our lives who inspire or encourage dreams of road travel by paying tribute to one mom in particular: our host Laura Borichevsky’s mom, Jackie Hughes. Before #vanlife… before Instagram… before she could even drive: Laura’s belief in her ability to do road t...
A (Road) Trip Down Memory Lane
On the Road, Our Way - May 01, 2020 04:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn this episode, we asked you to share your favorite road travel stories. The landscapes, destinations, trials, and motivations, like this community, are wide-ranging-- from reminders of your own strength and resilience, to particularly sweet memories with loved ones, to formative times you’re h...
Foraging, Family, & Fixing Your Vehicle: Amanda Shale
On the Road, Our Way - April 24, 2020 04:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsSelf-sufficiency is always an important set of skills to hone-- in life, and especially on the road. But even the most independently-minded travelers require community and resources to learn and grow. That’s why Amanda Shale joins this episode to talk about how over the years she’s learned the e...
The Search for Alice: Britany Freeman
On the Road, Our Way - April 17, 2020 04:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsBritany Freeman’s had a problem for a few years. She wanted this one van. And not just one kind of van. But this one van, which she named Alice years before it was even hers. Alice has slipped through Britany’s fingers more than a couple times, and through it all, she could easily have given up....
Pushing Through: Becca Foss
On the Road, Our Way - April 10, 2020 04:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsBecca Foss, long-term road traveler and outdoor guide, knows firsthand through the loss of her husband that sometimes you just have to find ways to push yourself through. It might be climbing a steep hill on a loaded up bike, sending a rock wall, or facing unexpected tragedy and learning how to ...
You're Doing Your Best: Grizel Williams
On the Road, Our Way - April 03, 2020 04:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsMental health is something we've talked about before on the show, but never before has it felt more important to dive in. That's why this week, we took some time to focus on what challenges, resources, and tips this community has and needs. Whether you're a full-time traveler and your shelter is...
We Can Still Find Beauty: Giddi Oteo
On the Road, Our Way - March 27, 2020 04:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsGiddi Oteo, former full-time road traveler, has an inherent knack for holding both the real, transparent truth and the beauty around her. You’ll hear it from her as she shares about pregnancy and motherhood on the road, starting her travels with nearly no money, and building a business from scra...
COVID-19 and Travel
On the Road, Our Way - March 17, 2020 04:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsA timely episode for travelers out there wondering about what decisions to make in light of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus that has caused a global pandemic in recent weeks. Through the voices of two experts-- Registered Nurse Emily Scott and public health emergency planner Kate Pifer-- we navi...
Driving New Chapters: Brittany Newson
On the Road, Our Way - February 21, 2020 05:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsBrittany Newson, an Air Force veteran, current student, and recently married female traveler knows that the road can be an incredible facilitator of new life chapters. But she also helps us to see in this episode that travel on its own doesn’t create the changes for us: it’s what we do with it w...
Love Stories from the Road
On the Road, Our Way - February 14, 2020 05:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe usually aim to show the sides of road travel that aren’t over-romanticized, but for this episode we wanted to gush a little. So we asked for voice submissions while we were off the air, with one simple intention: tell us your love stories. And wow-- did you all deliver! So in this episode, we...
Just What the Travel Nurse Ordered: Em Cheng
On the Road, Our Way - December 06, 2019 05:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsTravel nursing is an incredible career that enables you to both help others and get to see new places. But just like any job or form of travel, there are always aspects that can get over-romanticized, and travel nursing is no exception. Em Cheng, a travel nurse currently exploring the West Coast...
Finding Family
On the Road, Our Way - November 29, 2019 05:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhether it’s for the holidays you celebrate, the time you spend reflecting, or the gifts you exchange out of love or habit-- the year’s end is full of reminders of family. And family is complicated for a lot of us out there, especially when travel is also a big part of our lives. We know that t...
Dream Big, Plan Small: Veronica Castillo
On the Road, Our Way - November 22, 2019 05:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsChoosing to move into a campervan doesn’t come without making plans. Just ask Veronica Castillo, who lives in a 2018 Dodge Promaster with her husband Miguel while working full-time at stationary jobs. With popular travel media prescribing why people live on the road, Veronica digs into the reali...
Chasing Down Her Fears: Aubrey Hancock
On the Road, Our Way - November 15, 2019 05:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsSolo traveler Aubrey Hancock is intimately familiar with her fears. And as you’ll hear, there’s a lot wrapped up inside those feelings. It’s all human, and it’s all valid to feel this way. But Aubrey knew, even at a time she was the most vulnerable and scared, that expanding her horizons would b...
Greetings from the Desert: WOTR Campout
On the Road, Our Way - November 08, 2019 05:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe heard a lot of insights, new experiences, and beautiful sentiments the weekend of the Women on the Road Campout last month— and if you know us, you know we couldn’t keep it all to ourselves, so we wanted to share a piece of the experience with you. That’s exactly why our team took a mic arou...
Standing in Her Power: Anaïs Monique
On the Road, Our Way - November 01, 2019 04:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsAnaïs Monique is a flight attendant and is currently on the path to completing her own converted camper van from a step truck. But be it in the air or on the road-- from DEI to the business of natural beauty to standing in her own power-- she’s following her passions at every turn. Other resou...
The Happy Lands: Carrie Starbuck
On the Road, Our Way - October 25, 2019 04:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsCarrie Starbuck is on a mission-- a research mission-- to uncover what makes communities happy. And she’s starting in a place a lot of us wouldn’t expect a solo female road traveler to begin. She’s starting with dissecting masculinity in different countries. In this episode, you’ll hear: Why C...
Small Gestures: Maggie Lam
On the Road, Our Way - October 18, 2019 04:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhen we first connected with part-time van traveler Maggie Lam, it was about a post she had written and we reshared on social media. And it was about small gestures Maggie has experienced during her travels, why they you might not know that they are in fact microaggressions, and why representati...
Solo Travel on 4 Wheels: Sylvia Longmire
On the Road, Our Way - September 27, 2019 04:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratingsSylvia Longmire is a writer, Air Force Veteran, mother of two boys, longtime world adventurer, and recently became a wheelchair user. To date, Sylvia has visited 54 countries, 43 of those as a wheelchair user and 34 of those by herself. Sylvia uses her talent for writing to share resources with ...
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