The Maverick Show: Global Travel Stories & Life Beyond Borders

Learn how to coordinate your travel plans with friends, exchange recommendations & connect around the world with Pangea. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE Matt Gray starts off describing what he loves about Cape Town and tells...

Hear about living in China, Malaysia, Poland and Mexico as a Black Muslim woman & raising her son in multiple countries. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE In part 2 of this interview Imani talks about her experience living in...

Learn about being a Black Muslim activist in the U.S., meeting Malcolm X’s daughter, moving abroad and living in Cairo. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE Imani Bashir joins Matt in Washington, DC and they reflect on their Keyn...

Hear highlights from digital nomading around Africa & the power of travel in learning about struggles against injustice. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE In Part 2 of this interview Janessa Klatt talks about her experience wo...

Learn how to leave your 9-5 job and build a fulfilling life of long-term world travel rooted in a supportive community. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE Janessa Klatt joins Matt from Winnipeg, Canada over a bottle of wine and...

Hear from the author of my most recommended book for travelers: Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE In part 2 of this interview, Dr. Anu Taranath talks about her motives fo...

Learn about Indian-American identity, the value of critical pedagogy, and making meaningful connections in West Africa. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE Dr. Anu Taranath joins Matt from Seattle and they reflect on their time...

Matt Bowles is interviewed by Yulia Denisyuk about Palestine and action items you can take to help stop the genocide. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE In this special episode, The Maverick Show host Matt Bowles is interviewed...

Learn what you can do to combat environmental destruction and human rights abuses in the coffee industry staring today. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE In part 2 of this interview, Etelle Higonnet explains how human rights a...

Hear stories about standing up for human rights around the world and struggling for truth, accountability and justice. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE Etelle Higonnet joins Matt for a wine night from Copenhagen, and begins b...

Learn about traveling the world as a deafblind Latina—salsa dancing, sumo-wrestling and becoming a disability advocate. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE Catarina joins Matt and talks about growing up in the U.S. in an immigra...

Hear stories from visiting the occupied West Bank, being sexually harassed in Guatemala &  founding the “Queen of Trips” ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE In Part 2 of this interview, Mari Monsalve talks about her experience v...

Hear about living in Escobar-Era Medellin, Surviving Cancer & Leaving an Abusive Relationship to Solo-Travel the World. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE Mari Monsalve starts off talking about her involvement with two empoweri...

Hear stories from Brazil, Japan, Serbia and get tips on budget travel, minimalist packing, and monetizing travel content. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE In Part 2 of this interview Chris talks about building her remote free...

Hear Latina-solo-travel stories from Guatemala, Sweden, Colombia, Easter Island, Bolivia, Madagascar, Spain and Vietnam. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE Chris Davila joins Matt for a virtual wine night and starts off reflect...

Learn about the similarities between Colombian and Botswana culture, and how to take a life-changing camping safari. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE Paula Gean joins Matt for a wine night and talks about her experience being...

Learn about the largest festival in human history that happens once every 144 years, and how to become a remote writer. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE In Part 2 of this episode, Lolly Spindler talks about her personal growt...

Hear stories from traveling the world, living in Mexico, and how losing a job led to building a thriving remote business. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE Lolly joins Matt from CDMX and explains how she fell in love with Mexi...

Hear stories of underwater mailboxes, treehouse hotels, volcano boarding & meeting a 98-year-old Filipina tattoo artist. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE In Part 2 of this interview Jimena Serfaty talks about her experience e...

Learn about growing up in Argentina during the 2001 economic collapse and then traveling the world solo since 2009. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE Jimena Serfaty joins Matt and they begin talking about meeting at the Extrao...

In part 2 of this interview Elsie Paulino starts off describing what she loves about Puerto Escondido and Guanajuato, Mexico, before giving tips on what to eat in New York City. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE She then talks...

Hear an Afro-Dominican perspective on Sicily, Vienna, Sri Lanka, India, Strasbourg, the Paris Olympics, Mexico & Vietnam. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE Elsie Paulino joins Matt in person in New York City for this conversat...

Hear stories of the best scuba dive in the world, the most beautiful city in Africa & over-the-top kindness in Pakistan. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE In Part 2 of this interview Phil Marcus tells the story of the incredib...

Hear unique stories from traveling to 190 countries including Cameroon, Iran, China, India, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE Phil Marcus joins Matt and starts off talking about his adventure tryi...

Learn how to transition from a 9-to-5 office job to a full-time travel content creator so you can travel the world. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE Jordan Campbell tells the story of her transition from an office job to a fu...