Pride Nomad Unleashed

Some people lose everything and disappear. Andres Camilo lost everything and picked up a paintbrush. The home. The studio. The marriage. The identity he'd spent decades building. All of it. Gone. This episode is about what happens after that. Not the motivational poster version. The real one. The one where you're sitting in the wreckage and you don't know who you are anymore… and you have to figur...

There's a question that lives underneath every trip a queer person takes. Should I go? Not "can I afford it." Not "do I have the PTO." Should I go… there. As myself. Visibly. TJ Chernick has spent years thinking about this question. And their answer isn't simple — which is exactly why this conversation matters. In this episode, TJ gets into what it actually means to travel as a political act. Not...

There's a version of digital nomad life that looks like a laptop on a beach. And then there's the version that actually works long-term. Jeremy Tran has been living the second one. And in this episode, he gets into what sustainable nomadism in Asia really looks like — not the Instagram version, not the "quit your job and figure it out" version, but the one where you've actually built systems that...

Here's something that'll bother you once you know it. Hotels and restaurants throw away an almost obscene amount of food. Every day. Everywhere you travel. And you're paying full price for the stuff that doesn't get thrown away. Ben Liegey looked at that equation and built BetterTable — a platform that connects travelers with surplus food from restaurants and hotels at a fraction of the retail pri...

Puerto Vallarta keeps coming up. In every queer expat Facebook group. In every "where should I move?" conversation. In every daydream you're having at your desk right now. Shasta Townsend actually did it. Moved there. Built a life. And in this episode, she gives you the version the Instagram accounts won't. The real one. Not the "paradise found" version. Not the "don't come, it's terrible" version...

Nobody tells you about the math. Not the money math. The other math. The one where you're standing in a hotel lobby with your kids, scanning the room, calculating how visible you are. Whether the front desk person clocked your family structure. Whether this is going to be one of the easy places or one of the hard ones. Kari Payne and Scott Bishop Falcone know that math by heart. In this episode, t...

Most travel is about seeing things. Francesco Mevoli builds trips about feeling things. Gay Up Travel started with a radical premise: that travel — real travel, not the checklist-and-selfie kind — is one of the most powerful tools for queer liberation and connection that exists. And he built it in Italy. Which is both the most obvious and the most complicated choice he could have made. Because Ita...

Quick question. When's the last time you saw a queer person in an outdoor adventure ad? Not a Pride Month Instagram post from a gear company. An actual ad. For an actual trip. With an actual queer person doing the thing. Yeah. Chris Smith noticed that too. So he built Pride Adventure Travel — and spent years proving something the outdoor industry apparently needed proof of: that queer people belon...

Here's a question nobody in luxury travel wants to answer honestly: Does spending more money make you safer as a queer traveler? Duncan Greenfield-Turk has been sitting with that question for years. And his answer is more complicated — and more useful — than you'd expect. As one of the leading voices in LGBTQ+ luxury travel, Duncan lives at the intersection of high-end experiences and the very rea...

There's a version of the West Village that exists on Instagram. Cute cafés. Brownstones. Maybe a rainbow crosswalk. And then there's the version Michael Venturiello knows. The one with blood on the sidewalks. The one where people died — of violence, of neglect, of a plague the government pretended wasn't happening. The one where a community built itself out of nothing, in the face of everything, o...

Paris has always been romantic. But according to Queer Tours France , it has also always been a lot more queer than your history books admitted. In this episode of Pride Nomad Unleashed , Ken sits down with the fabulous trio behind Queer Tours France : Charlotte, Alex, and Doina —three licensed guides who decided they were done letting queer people be treated like footnotes in French history. Toge...

What happens when you sell everything, leave the traditional life behind, and decide the world is home? In this episode of Pride Nomad Unleashed , Ken sits down with Tom and Mike of Take Time To Travel , a Canadian couple who did exactly that. In the middle of COVID, they made a decision most people only fantasize about: they got rid of nearly all their possessions and began traveling full-time. A...

What do superheroes, democracy, queer visibility, political rage, yoga, gratitude, and Battlestar Galactica have in common? Apparently… David Reddish . In this episode of Pride Nomad Unleashed , Ken sits down with David Reddish —journalist, novelist, political commentator, creative force, and one of the sharp voices behind the Occupy Democrats YouTube channel—for a conversation that goes far beyon...

What if the thing keeping you from your dream life isn’t money itself—but the story you’ve attached to it? In this episode of Pride Nomad Unleashed , Ken sits down with David and John, the Debt Free Guys and hosts of the Queer Money Podcast , for a brutally honest, funny, and deeply necessary conversation about money, shame, status, debt, and the very queer pressure to look fabulous even when your...

What if the safest place to be yourself… wasn’t on land? In this episode of Pride Nomad Unleashed , Ken sits down with Greg Hamman , the force behind Undersea Expeditions , a global LGBTQ+ dive travel company that’s been quietly building something far more powerful than vacations: community, safety, and belonging—underwater. This isn’t just about scuba. It’s about: 🌈 Why LGBTQ+ travelers still ne...

What happens when a Harvard MBA and founder of Turo trades boardrooms for bamboo? You get Jungle Gayborhood —a soul-charged retreat center in the Costa Rican jungle where queer people come not just to relax, but to reconnect. In this episode of Pride Nomad Unleashed , Ken goes deep with Shelby Clark , the Silicon Valley disruptor turned spiritual entrepreneur. Once the brains behind Turo (the “Air...

He rescues stranded hikers. He leads LGBTQ+ groups up Kilimanjaro. He teaches mountaineering by day and climbs remote peaks by sunrise. Meet Nick Read , founder of Pride Expeditions —a rare breed of adventure guide who’s smashing stereotypes while scaling summits. Whether it’s the snow-capped Andes, the deserts of Morocco, or a tea-house trek in Nepal, Nick’s trips aren’t just about adrenaline—the...

Ever had someone make history so juicy, you forgot you were learning? That’s Dr. Andrew Lear —Harvard professor turned museum renegade and the mastermind behind Oscar Wilde Tours the first travel company to boldly say: “Forget tourist traps. Let’s take queer people to where their history actually happened.” From ancient Greek love stories to Renaissance scandals, from Call Me By Your Name landscap...

What happens when a former law partner ditches the courtroom for cruise decks—and turns travel into a full-blown LGBTQ+ mission? You get Jonathan Geen , founder of Purple Light Vacations , one of the most seasoned, passionate, and fabulously informed LGBTQ+ travel advisors in the business. In this episode of Pride Nomad Unleashed , Jonathan joins Ken for a lively, globe-hopping convo about: His pi...

Ever wondered what it's really like living the luxe life on the French Riviera? Forget the postcards; we're diving deep with Jameson Farn , the guy who went from bathhouses to bougie estates – seriously! In this episode, we're catching up with Jameson, the mastermind behind the "Gay French Riviera" guide and a total insider on all things Riviera fabulousness. We're talking sun, sea, and secrets, f...

Let's be honest about gay cruises for a second. Most of them were built for a very specific person. And if you didn't fit that mold — if you were older, or queer but not a gay man, or just someone who didn't want a floating circuit party — you were kind of out of luck. Brian Miller looked at that and said: we can do better. So he built VACAYA. Not a gay cruise with a few inclusive touches bolted o...

You know that thing where you stare at your lease renewal… Or your mortgage payment… Or just the walls of your apartment… And think: "What if I just… didn't?" Daniel Milks actually did it. He figured out how to live and work from anywhere — legally, affordably, and without the kind of logistical nightmare that keeps most people stuck. In this episode, Daniel walks through the surprisingly un-scary...

Here's something nobody talks about in the LGBTQ+ travel space. Most of it wasn't built for queer women. Vivian Perez noticed. And instead of waiting for someone else to fix it… she built Ladies Touch Events & Travel from scratch. What started with a feather boa moment — literally — turned into a company that's taken thousands of LGBTQ+ women around the world. Not "women-friendly" trips tacked ont...

The startup world has a diversity problem. You already knew that. What you might NOT know is that a gay venture capitalist has been quietly rewiring the system from the inside… and making a killing doing it. Ben Stokes founded Gaingels — one of the most powerful LGBTQ+ investor networks on the planet. And the thesis is deceptively simple: when queer people have access to capital, and when queer fo...

Jim Fielding spent decades running the show at Disney, Gap, and DreamWorks. Corner offices. Global teams. The whole machine. Then he walked away from it. Not because he failed. Because he finally got honest about what success was actually costing him. In this conversation, Jim gets into the stuff most executives would never say out loud. Like how "authentic leadership" is mostly a buzzword… until...