Soul of Travel: Women's Wisdom and Mindful Travel

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Season 2 of the Soul of Travel - Voices of Women. In this season, we turn to women in the travel industry to elevate their voices and hear their stories. In this episode, we meet Laura Grier - she is a storyteller, adventure travel photojournalist, and entrepreneur. She and Christine talk about the impact of supporting and elevating fair trade artisans, the power of res...

Send us Fan Mail Malia Asfour's job is to "build bridges between people throughout the world." As you listen to this episode, you'll hear her clarity around treating this responsibility with the utmost care and passion. She and Christine talk about the value of leaving what you know and exploring the world in a new context, the beauty of sharing space over traveling to "fi...

Send us Fan Mail "We transform in experience." In this expansive conversation, Suzanne Hanna draws us directly into the somatic experience of the aliveness of travel. She asks us: How does your learning change when you upheave your environment? She points to the physicality of it, and when we stay present to the physical, we have the potential to do deep healing work. She pierces the hea...

Send us Fan Mail "Business, like life, is a lot of lessons and course correcting along the way. Ultimately, if you go back to basics and passion, that will inevitably get you further, because people are drawn to passion." In the final episode of this first season, Christine sits down with Nikki Vargas to discuss all things journalism, feminism, and storytelling. Nikki is a freelance jour...

Send us Fan Mail Transformational travel starts with intention and ends in mindful action. It is "intentionally traveling to stretch, learn, and grow into new ways of being and engaging with the world." This is the ethos of the Transformational Travel Council, and in this episode, Christine and TTC Co-Founder Jake Haupert leave no stone unturned in the conversation around transformation...

Send us Fan Mail Rodrigo Esponda knows tourism .  As the current Managing Director of Los Cabos Tourism Board, and with 16 additional years working for the Mexican Tourism Board in North America, his experience and perspective of tourism are expansive and illuminating. Rodrigo and Christine discuss the beauty of small group experiences and how to truly steep oneself in the culture, food, and art o...

Send us Fan Mail Lydia Dean wants to think about international philanthropy in a different way, and our current global situation provides the perfect space for this reimagining. She's experienced how travel as a process can support us in learning how to take bigger and bigger leaps in our lives and generously invites us into this world of transformation through travel. This wonderfully rich c...

Send us Fan Mail Gabriella Stowell has always had a love of nature, from early in her childhood and studying ecology to her current endeavor: the Latin American Director for the Adventure Travel Trade Association, the largest global network of adventure travel leaders. In this episode, Gabi and Christine talk about the importance of soaking in the culture of the places we travel, and what it does...

Send us Fan Mail After a 30-year internal conflict in Guatemala, more people were dying from hunger and poverty than from the war. When Maria spent time in these communities asking how she could help, the women of the communities said, "Maria, we need a source of income." This is a special conversation between Christine and her mentor, Maria Pacheco. Maria's story is fascinating; sh...

Send us Fan Mail Rob Holmes has the dream job: professional traveling storyteller. He is the Chief Strategist at GLP Films , a full-service content marketing agency dedicated to authentic storytelling for the travel industry. He generously shares the way his life has been punctuated by travel, and the possibility of nature- and community-based travel. How will travel change once the pandemic lifts...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Season 1 of Soul of Travel: Tourism Rising! In this episode, Christine shares where her love of travel originated and how she wove her passion for people- and culture-oriented travel into her profession. Now, she's landed here, as your illustrious host for the Soul of Travel podcast. It's no secret: the global pandemic has severely impacted the travel industry...