Makin Moves with Matt Podcast

Ayyyy welcome back to your fave travel podcast. Thanks for tuning in and getting yourself ready to make some MOVES with me. Let's get it! Episode 6 features Ally, who is originally from Madison, Wisconsin, but more recently considers herself a Viguesa as she’s spent the last three years living in Vigo, Galicia, Spain. She’s often asked why Vigo? And although she couldn’t locate the city on a m...

Ayyyy welcome back to your fave travel podcast. Thanks for tuning in and getting yourself ready to make some MOVES with me. Let's get it! We back with Episode 5 yah heard! Our next episode features Angie, a nurse from Carroll County, Maryland. From the DMV (not the Department of Motor Vehicles, IYKYK), to Seattle and back, nursing has opened so many doors for this cat mom; Angie’s gotten to ex...

Ayyyy welcome back to your fave travel podcast. Thanks for tuning in and getting yourself ready to make some MOVES with me. Let's get it! Our next episode features the incredible Mila Reva, an internationally travelled yoga teacher from Latvia with over 20 years experience both practicing and teaching yoga since first learning the art itself from her mother aged 12. Based in the beautiful back...

Ayyyy welcome back to your fave travel podcast. Thanks for tuning in and getting yourself ready to make some MOVES with me. Let's get it! On Episode 3, I am joined by Evelina calling in from Busan, South Korea. Evelina was born in the heart of Central Asia, Uzbekistan, and having spent six exciting years in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, she developed a profound love for the road less traveled. Her time...

Ayyyy welcome back to your fave travel podcast. Thanks for tuning in and getting yourself ready to make some MOVES with me. Let's get it! Today, I am joined by Rebecca Nour calling from Incheon, South Korea. Rebecca is a Lebanese-American who was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and was raised in Orlando, Florida. She has been living in South Korea for 6 years now as she has transitioned from being a...

Ayyyy welcome back to your fave travel podcast. Thanks for tuning in and getting yourself ready to make some MOVES with me. Let's get it! Y’all really THOUGHT this was a one and done kinda thing. Nah, we BACK! Today on this episode, I talk with none other than the person who pushed me to fulfil my dream of having a travel podcast who also doubles as my roommate and partner in crime, Perlie Yan...

Today we talk with Kady, a through and through Chicago girl that loves to find good eats! Growing up, she spent most of her summers in her mom’s hometown of Guangzhou, China. This led her to realizing that a home can be found anywhere as long as you have the right mindset. While she’s settled back in Chicago now, she’ll always be looking for her next adventure! Tune in today! For questions about K...

Welcome to Episode 7 of your favorite travel podcast! Today I chat with my good friend, Sam, from across the pond. Sam is a teacher from the U.K. who uses the perks of teacher vacations to travel as often as possible, hitting 23 countries and with the 24th already booked. After spending two months in South America between the end of his degree and the start of his PGCE, he got bitten by the travel...

AYYOOO welcome to Episode 6 of your favorite travel podcast! Today we talk with Kylie, an avid traveler from Hawai’i who’s been to 14 countries and counting! After getting a taste of international travel during a high school trip to Europe, she set out to teach English in Thailand post-grad and has since continued to feed that travel bug. But to Kylie, traveling goes beyond admiring landmarks or g...

Welcome to Episode 5 of the Makin Moves with Matt Podcast. Today we talk to KaiLi, a 29-year old from Kansas City who has lived in two countries on two different continents with her loyal dog, Pebbles. In 2019, KaiLi had grown sick of the US always working and never enjoying life, so that year she got her TEFL certification and got a job teaching in Spain. She brought Pebbles and two bags with her...

Alexia is a 30-year old Black woman from Toronto, Canada with a knack for creating and slow travel. When she was in high school, she first heard about the possibility of teaching English in South Korea. Her interest was peaked at the possibility of combining work with her love for travel. After graduating from university, she found herself at a crossroad between finding a job in her field of studi...

Welcome to Episode 3 of the Makin Moves Podcast! Today, I chat with one of the most interesting people I've ever met, my friend Dario. Dario is a 28 year old from San Francisco currently living in New Zealand. He’s always loved traveling, but after leaving a job in tech in 2018 he went on a three month trip through Africa which inspired him to travel even more. Since then he’s lived in Austral...

The wait has come to and end and finally we get to hear what the one and only has to say about picking up and moving across the Atlantic to her favorite country in the world…who knew that a trip from studying abroad would have allowed us to cross paths. From meeting in Barcelona, New York and Athens— it’s safe to say the friends you meet traveling last a life time! Christina was born in Tokyo and...

Welcome to my first podcast episode with one of my fave person, Perlie. Perlie is 26 years old from LA and has been to 27 countries and has lived abroad in 3 countries— England, Korea, & Turkey! She'd like to say that she has put a lot of thought behind her decisions of living abroad, but they have honestly all been executed on a whim. In 2018, she last-minute changed her study abroad appl...