Travel Minded

Tyson Sadler is an explorer, traveller and award-winning filmmaker. He has directed documentaries for The New York Times, Associated Press, and The Huffington Post. His films have been screened at festivals around the world including Tribeca Film Festival, South by Southwest, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the Toronto International Film Festival. An early pioneer in virtual reality documentaries, he has used cutting edge technology to tell stories that build empathy around causes such as climate change, forced migration, and human rights. Sadler has worked with Sierra Club, Pencils Of Promise, World Vision, Save The Children, and Global Citizen. He is also the founder of Waterborn Expeditions, a responsible travel company committed to ethical ocean exploration. Travel is at a tipping point. Tourists are unintentionally destroying the very things they have come to see. Overtourism has magnified its impact on the environment, wildlife, and vulnerable communities around the globe. Filmed in over 15 countries and guided by the world’s leading tourism and conservation visionaries, THE LAST TOURIST reveals the real conditions and consequences of one of the largest industries worldwide through the forgotten voices of those working in its shadow. The role of the modern tourist is on trial.https://tysonsadler.com/https://thelasttouristfilm.com/

Alastair Humphreys is a British Adventurer and Author. He spent over 4 years cycling round the world, a journey of 46,000 miles through 60 countries and 5 continents.More recently Alastair has walked across southern India, rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, run six marathons through the Sahara desert, completed a crossing of Iceland, busked through Spain and participated in an expedition in the Arctic, close to the magnetic North Pole. He has trekked 1000 miles across the Empty Quarter desert and 120 miles round the M25 – one of his pioneering microadventures. He was named as one of National Geographic’s Adventurers of the year for 2012. In 2023, The Royal Geographical Society gave Alastair the Ness Award for ‘his long-standing contributions to promoting a greater understanding of our world and wider public engagement with the outdoors.After years of expeditions all over the world, adventurer Alastair Humphreys spends a year exploring the detailed local map around his home.Can this unassuming landscape, marked by the glow of city lights and the hum of busy roads, hold any surprises for the world traveller or satisfy his wanderlust? Could a single map provide a lifetime of exploration?Discovering more about the natural world than in all his years in remote environments, he learns the value of truly getting to know his neighbourhood.An ode to slowing down, Local is a celebration of curiosity and time spent outdoors, as well as a rallying cry to protect the wild places on our doorstep.https://alastairhumphreys.comhttps://alastairhumphreys.com/local

Jade is a model turned actor and influencer who encourages fitness for all sizes. She has been fortunate enough to travel for work and live in different countries, but also loves to travel for her own mental health and wellbeing and just experience what the world has to offer.https://www.instagram.com/jadeseabrook/

Samuel Walker is a British table tennis player. He competed for England in the men's team event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where he won a silver medal and went on to being a part of the England team at the World Team Championships in 2016.In June 2016, Walker was called up to the Team GB table tennis squad for the Rio Olympic Games.In 2021, Walker became the first English player to win a doubles title on the international circuit since the advent of the ITTF World Tour in 1996, when he and Sweden's Truls Moregard won the men's doubles at the Czech Open.On the episode we discuss his career and how it's taken him across the world.Linkshttps://www.instagram.com/samwalker_tt/

Elli & Flo AKA TheLeFamily began a TikTok channel sharing their adventures and life as a couple. The channel has over 240,000 followers and they've gained over 7 million views for their videos. Emma sits down with them to talk about travelling as a couple and to share their favourite travel memories.Social media links - https://www.youtube.com/@its_thelefamilyhttps://www.tiktok.com/@_thelefamilyhttps://www.instagram.com/its_thelefamily/reels/

 Brooke Martin, Founder of The Brooke Blend, has turned her passion for wine into a thriving business where she shares that passion with others through content creation, wine tastings and storytelling through her blog. Brooke’s goal is to keep things light, fun and approachable. She is a certified sommelier through the WSET, level 3, and has a continued focus on learning and studying all things wine. In her free time, Brooke enjoys spending time with her family, staying active with running, loves being in her garden and on the weekends, she is likely at a sports event or watching one at home with a glass of wine in hand.  On the episode we discuss her career The Brooke Blend and travelling to wineries across the world.https://www.thebrookeblend.com/https://www.instagram.com/thebrookeblend/reels/

Bettina Campolucci Bordi is an acclaimed plant-based chef, is a fervent advocate for plant foods. With her Danish-Tanzanian-Bulgarian roots, she uses local and seasonal produce to create dishes that nourish the body and soul.Bettina has carved a niche in recipe development for high-profile brands and the hospitality industry, focusing on maximizing the potential of plant foods. Her culinary talents are showcased in her three well-received cookbooks: Happy Food, 7 Day Vegan Challenge, and Celebrate. The latter book, as the name implies, is a joyous collection of plant-based recipes that everyone can enjoy.Her passion for food can be traced back to her multicultural childhood. Bettina fondlyremembers haggling for the freshest produce in Tanzania's markets and being enamoured by the culinary skills of her relatives in Bulgaria, Sweden and Norway. She's drawn from these experiences and her extensive travels to infuse her dishes with a global touch.Beyond cookbooks, Bettina endeavours span food and mindfulness retreats, plant-based cooking workshops, pop ups, food writing, and her widely popular Retreat Chef Academy. A consistent thread in all her work is her unwavering belief in eating seasonally, locally, and waste-free. Bettina’s mission is to dispel the misconception that plant-based eating is dull, pricey, or inconvenient. Her goal is to inspire more people to embrace a plant-rich diet and to celebrate food, life, and camaraderie.https://www.bettinaskitchen.com/https://www.instagram.com/bettinas_Kitchen/

Mimi Labesa is a luxury fashion and lifestyle creator as well as being mum to Kadima and Zanang.Mimi worked across various FMCG companies and most recently The University of Manchester as an Analytical Chemist before quitting to pursue a full time digital creator role.Fashion has always been Mimi's passion since she was a young girl and nowadays, she spends her time travelling and creating fashion & lifestyle content with her daughters. On the episode we discuss travelling the world with her daughters and share travel stories.You can find more information about her work on her website - http://mimilabesa.com/https://www.instagram.com/mimilabesa/

Charlotte Holmes is a qualified PT & group fitness instructor with a love of the physical elements of yoga paired with the desire to delve deeper.  She's worked in the health & fitness industry for over 10 years as a movement coach, fitness model & brand ambassador. She has worked across some of the top London fitness boutiques, internationally on fitness retreats, as a founding instructor on the FiiT app, as a PT on MTV’s Beach Body SOS & more recently as Head of Yoga for Virgin Active UK.On the episode we discuss her love of yoga, where it's taken her and her adventures across the world.You can find more information about her work on her website - https://www.misscharholmes.com/https://www.instagram.com/misscharholmes/

On today's episode we are joined by Nila who is an adventurous travel creator dedicated to seeing the world. She's a 27 year old with a passion for exploring, who loves to encourage other young people to follow their dreams, and live their most exciting and authentic lives.  On the episode we discuss how volunteering can take you to some incredible places and her experiences. https://www.tiktok.com/@nila.marino

We sit down with ex Love Island star Matthew MacNabb to talk about moving abroad and his travel experiences. 

Emma is joined by Fatima AlMattar (Arabic: فاطمة المطر),a Kuwaiti travel influencer and an entrepreneur.After graduating from IE Business School in Madrid, Spain Fatima pursued her dreams of travelling the world and found lucrative business in her passions. She now makes the world a smaller place for her travellers through her company Hello Explorer Travel Consulting. You can find Fatima here - https://www.instagram.com/hello965/https://www.helloexplorer.com/https://www.hello965.com/

Shani is one of the UK's most influential disabled people and BBC's 100 Women laureate of 2020. She helps businesses and brands break barriers and become more inclusive and accessible for their disabled employees and customers.As a South Asian woman who experiences disability, Shani has taken the change she wants to create in the world into her own hands. Her intersectional activism has led to challenging social inequality globally through entrepreneurship, and she is the founder of Diversability, the Asian Woman Festival and the Asian Disability Network.   @shanidhanda 

In this episode Emma sits down with TikTok famous Valeria Shashenok. Valeria is a 21 years old Ukrainian activist. She is spreading information with videos and photos on her social media platforms about world issues. At the beginning of the full Russian invasion she lived in a bomb shelter (her dad’s office) and recorded video in TikTok about war life.  Her social media accounts are:https://www.tiktok.com/@valerissshhttps://www.instagram.com/Valerisssh/You can purchase her book here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Things-that-sense-shelter-Library/dp/3903715255

Luana and Fred are former helicopter Pilots and now luxury travel content creators.With a background in hospitality management and customer service, and knowing that the younger generation of luxury consumers expect and demand transparency, they base their content and social media on these two important pillars.

Joanna Kenny is all about channeling that big sis energy - creating the content she needed to see growing up. Join us as we talk with the former esthetician as we discuss how she challenges the unrealistic beauty standards with the #poresnotflaws movement and how her work has taken her across the globe.

We are joined by award-winning journalist whose words, photos, and videos have appeared in print or online for The Los Angeles Times, Travel + Leisure, Departures, Tripadvisor and more. In the episode we discuss how Stacey's career has taken her to incredible places and how you too can get into travel writing.

We talk to Love Island start Hugo Hammond about how his love of cricket has taken him overseas to Australia and about his travel memories.

Emma is joined by Sophie Morgan, who was paralysed from the chest down in a car crash when she was a teenager, is a TV presenter and consultant. She is an award-winning campaigner and passionate advocate for inclusion, working as an ambassador for multiple global brands and charities. She is also one of the first female wheelchair users to front her own travel-based television series (“Living Wild; How to Change your Life” Channel 4). Her book, a memoir, Driving Forwards, is out now.