Happy Women Travel More

I tend to have very smooth vacations where everything goes as planned. I rarely have flight or airport snafus. My luggage has never been lost. I stay healthy and uninjured. But I recently broke that streak with a very imperfect vacation. Tune in as I dish the raw and real parts of my trip that sucked, from airport chaos to a perfect-day-turned-sour (literally), along with my reflections on how cra...

It's time to give geography the space it deserves on a travel podcast because we would be [literally] lost without its guiding light when planning a vacation.  From choosing a place to stay in the best part of the city, to leaving yourself enough time to get from Fun Activity A to Relaxing Activity B, to really knowing how much you're going to be walking on your trip, geography is the glue of your...

Getting freaked out by staying alone in an AirBnB. Worrying that no one has your back or knows exactly where you are. Wondering if you'll feel lonely or bored. Unsure that you have it in you to get around all by yourself. There's definitely a lot of iffy parts to traveling alone that can make us give it a lot of thought before deciding to go for it (and rightly so). So should you do it? I say, YES...

You know my mission is to help you travel more, but how do you go from just talking about it to actually doing it? The answer is actually pretty simple, but it requires a bit of tough love, which I am happy to dish to you on today's milestone 100th episode. ;) Because I am done with you talking about taking that big vacation, and then delaying for years. I want you to achieve those traveling dream...

Join me for a special BONUS episode in celebration of hitting 100 episodes on the podcast! I'm dishing the most and least downloaded episodes on the podcast by category, and sharing lots of exciting personal things that have been happening in my life lately. Let's catch up! Connect w/ Angela on Instagram: https://instagram.com/wildhairtravels

National Parks get a lot of love on social media because they are the most beautiful places in the country. The photos of these wild and wonderful places may be enough to make you click 'book', but hold your horses and tune in to this episode before you do! The sheer amount of planning and logistics required to visit a National Park should not be underestimated, so I'm keeping it real on this epis...

Do you struggle with those post-vacay blues? I know I did for years. I would start planning my next vacation while I was still in the middle of my current one because of how much I dreaded going back to work. But these days, even though I am just as obsessed with travel as ever, I actually look forward to coming back home once the vacation is over! If you want to quit living your life for the next...

Do you know just how impressive you are?! I've found that we, as women, don't give ourselves enough credit for all of the things we do, manage, and achieve in a day. Because it's so easy to focus on what isn't getting done or what's left on our to-do lists. So I'm sharing a little mindset hack that I'm obsessed with that keeps me going when times are feeling tough. This short episode is full of po...

When I approach packing for a vacation, I like to plan ahead and make sure that I bring everything I could possibly need along with me. Because I don't want to be wasting time on vacation searching for an item, washing clothes, or just not having something I need. But all of this packing prep does causes me to spend a lot of time and headspace on packing for every vacation…and it just feels so har...

Have you been thinking that you might like my help to plan your next vacation? Amazing! But do you have #allofthequestions? No problem. I've got all of the deets on this episode about what the Wild Hair approach to vacation planning is like from before our first conversation, through the nitty gritty planning, and up until your stress-free departure. Have a listen to learn what to expect from the...

"Travel is unlike anything else." "Travel is transformative." "Travel changes you for life." We've all heard the sayings, but do you actually know what that means? Have you had a deep and impactful experience where you've experienced this? It's actually pretty difficult to go beyond a surface level experience on a vacation, but it's not impossible if you know what to look out for (and plan for). I...

Remember when vacation planning felt FUN? Yeah, me too. But nowadays the to-do list just to get the vacation planned tends to sabotage the giddiness and fun that we should be experiencing. Even though all of the Googling and mapping and decision-making kinda sucks, there is one MAIN reason that vacation planning feels like a chore these days. Join me as we talk about what this is, and I walk you t...

Take a peek at the title of this podcast: it doesn't say travel more and then you'll be a happier woman. But why not? I sure as heck thought this was the case for years - because I'm super happy when I'm on vacation, right? But one day I realized that I was living my life FOR the next vacation, and putting all of my happiness eggs in my vacation basket. Of course I want you to travel more, but I w...

So you've finally decided where you want to go on your next vacation, but then you're met with the super hard next step of figuring out specifically where to go in that destination and which city to make your "home base". This might be the toughest part about planning a vacation, which is why I see so many people defaulting back to the obvious choice of staying in the capital city of the destinati...

This episode is a MUST-LISTEN for so many reasons. We're diving into a topic that is the backbone for the entire podcast and uncovering the REAL thing that's holding you back from traveling as much as you'd like. (Hint: it's not the fact that plane tickets and rental cars are crazy expensive right now. Or that your workload is INSANE. Or that you have 2 tiny humans that need mama all-day-everyday....

Culinary and wine vacations. Multi-Gen Family vacations. Safari & Adventure vacations. Sightseeing vacations. Themed vacation packages or itineraries are the travel industry's best attempt at categorizing experiences to travelers with a similar interest or a similar travel group. But especially for women who like to dip their toe into all kinds of experiences on their vacations, it can be hard to...

When you're healthy, you're happy. But things like fitting in a workout, creating healthy meal plans, and staying consistent can be so dang hard. If you're finding yourself wishing you felt better, energized, and stronger, this conversation with Certified Trainer and Nutrition Coach Megan Dahlman is your guiding light to getting back to a healthier (+happier) version of you. Megan covers how to st...

Let me guess: your heart has been longing for Europe. You want to spend your days wandering down idyllic cobblestone streets, feeling like you've stepped back in time in your surroundings, and let's be honest, you're really looking forward to people watching at streetside cafes. But let me also guess: your heart is longing for the sea and beach and the great outdoors, too. Can you have both in a v...

We are busy. And planning a vacation is a lot of work. So anything that makes planning and booking the vacation easier is a good thing, right? Usually, yes. But just using the filter of "easy to plan and book" for our vacation doesn't always give us the experience that we had in mind. Let's chat about some of the things to consider before you let that "easy booking" lure you in! Get Angela's help...

Usually the thought of taking a vacation sounds amazing, but sometimes it just sounds easier to NOT take one. From delegating tasks and getting ahead on your workload to making sure that your pets and your garden are cared for while you're away, the sheer amount of prep work that it takes to step away from your career and home life is staggering. And when you start to consider what the vacation wi...

Traveling with a big group of people across Europe? Not really a fan. It's one those things that sounds fun in theory, but the reality is more often anything but that idyllic vacation you had in mind. Before you agree to take that big family trip with you parents, aunt, cousins, your cousin's random new boyfriend, your sister, brother-in-law, and toddler nephew, listen to this episode! ;) Connect...

I took a Caribbean vacation with just my hubby when my baby boy was 8 months old, and I had a LOT of feelings to process before the trip about the decision to leave him at home with grandma. Once we got on the trip, I had even more feelings to process, which were different than expected, and now that it's been a couple of months since the trip, I can really reflect back on these feelings in a more...

There is just something about a girls' trip that is so special. Full of belly laughs and wine, long conversations and shenanigans in a foreign country, and getting to feel a little more carefree than usual, a girls' trip can be just what the doctor ordered. Join me in this chat where I lay out 4 telltale signs that it's time for a girls' trip, and of course give you that nudge you need to decide t...

I often see one piece of our vacation cost being forgotten about more than any other. But this piece can be just as much of a big deal as flights and lodging, and budgeting for it upfront is crucial to not being surprised with a big "bill" towards the end of the planning process. So let's talk about it so you never forget about it again! Connect w/ Angela on Instagram: https://instagram.com/wildha...

Is your soul craving a big adventure? Then a vacation to the wild and scenic island of New Zealand might be just what you need. From the mystical fjords and ridiculously blue lakes to the cheeky Kea birds and adorable penguins to the wide open spaces where you can truly breathe fresh air and feel alive – it's a place to reset your soul and get back in touch with nature. And because it's way down t...