The Maverick Show: Global Travel Stories & Life Beyond Borders

Learn the impact of cultural and language immersion while living abroad, and how soccer can open doors while traveling. ============================ 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 Akua Sencherey starts off talking about her parents’ background growing...

Learn about growing up as a Palestinian-American, traveling to Gaza as a kid, and how you can 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 Rasha joins Matt from Dahab, Egypt, and starts by haring what she loves ab...

Learn how to help stop the genocide in Palestine, unpack Orientalism, and improve your travel writing and photography. ============================ 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 my interview with Yulia Denisyuk, she starts off by talking...

Learn how to transition into travel journalism, and seek out people-centric stories and experiences around 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 Yulia Denisyuk joins Matt for a virtual wine night and starts off talking...

Learn how to overcome distraction, overwhelm, and disempowerment to become more present, creative, courageous, and wild. ============================ 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 Dom Francks joins Matt from a van in the Western U.S. for a virtual win...

Learn about black community building across geography & language, challenging the gender binary & decolonizing ourselves. ============================ 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 Shayla Lawson joins Matt for a wine night and starts off talking about...

Learn the real nuances of travel safety, develop a personal risk profile, leave your comfort zone, and travel better. ============================ 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 Beth Santos returns to The Maverick Show and starts off talking about the...

Learn how NomadMania’s free platform helps you to design, plan, track, measure, and visualize your travels over time. ============================ 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 my interview with Harry Mitsidis, we start off talking about...

Hear travel stories and lessons from 1 of only 3 people on the planet who has visited every country in the world twice. ============================ 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 Harry Mitsidis joins Matt for a wide-ranging discussion of his extensive...

Learn tips for traveling the world with a toddler, eating vegan, and reflections on travel safety as a Black woman. ============================ 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 Cara Celeste West joins Matt to talk about her decision to slow travel the w...

Learn tips for Queer travelers, Queer dating in the digital nomad lifestyle, and being in solidarity with Palestine. ============================ 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 This is Part 2 of Matt and Dianni’s afternoon wine sesh. Dianni shares trav...

Hear Dianni’s stories and reflections as a Queer Latina slow-traveling through India, Spain, Vietnam, Greece and Brazil. ============================ 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 Dianni joins Matt for an afternoon wine sesh. They start talking about...

Learn how Vanessa Fondeur is diversifying the face of travel and empowering the Latino community to 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 Vanessa Fondeur joins Matt for a wine night and they start off reminiscing...

Learn how to stop ‘traveling to escape’ and instead how to create an exciting life of travel with meaning and purpose. ============================ 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, Geleen talks about moving to Chicago and wha...

Learn how to create impactful travel experiences rooted in personal transformation, authentic connection, and play. ============================ 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 Geleen Antonio joins Matt from the Philippines. She starts off reflecting on...

Learn about burlesque, Afro-diasporic dance, telling Black stories, and whether BIPOC travelers can be colonizers too. ============================ 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 Janna Zinzi joins Matt from New Orleans and they talk about meeting at No...

Learn where to find some of the world’s most beautiful landscapes and most extraordinary hiking and diving experiences. ============================ 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 Sandi Oluoch shares her experience growing up in Kenya and Tanzania, the...

Learn how to travel the world inexpensively, make meaningful connections across cultures quickly, and find nomadic love. ============================ 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 Juky Lee joins Matt in person in Salvador, Brazil. She talks about her...

Learn how to create travel content more ethically, amplify marginalized narratives, and support communities in struggle. ============================ 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, travel journalist Joel Balsam explains how...

Learn about some of the world’s most interesting (and little-known) stories documented by travel journalist Joel Balsam. ============================ 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 Travel journalist and full-time digital nomad Joel Balsam joins Matt ov...

Learn the self-growth potential of solo travel for women, and how to do it consciously, thoughtfully, and ethically. ============================ 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 Delia Colantuono joins Matt over a bottle of wine on the Nomad Cruise and s...

Learn how to become a travel writer, pursue what you desire, downsize to carry-on luggage & design your dream lifestyle. ============================ 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 Rosie Bell joins Matt in Tenerife in the Canary Islands to discuss her...

Learn about the beauty and magic of Panama, Brazil, Mexico, Bonaire, Buenos Aires and building a life of world travel. ============================ 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 Rosie Bell joins Matt in Tenerife in the Canary Islands to record this in...

Learn about Afro-Mexican history, culture and how you can go on an immersive small group trip to experience it yourself. ============================ 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 Diva Green starts off talking about her Panamanian background, growing...

Learn about Doctors Without Borders, Seeing the World through the Lens of a Culture Kid, and Visiting Sudan & Uzbekistan. ============================ 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, Roshni talks about her experience growing...