Author: strangersabroad
Stage 13: Healed
Healed The Episode Trigger Warning: This episode does contain thoughts of suicide. It is easy to ignore the ailments that were born at home. We think that our anxiety, our shortness of breath, our weakness is just how we are. Sometimes we don’t even know we are sick until we have left our homes. But…
Stage 12: Humbled
Humbled The Episode Traveling is one of the few times we see how tiny we are. Our ego bubble bursts, and we are forced to look at people who are coexisting with us but have their own complex worlds. They have their own lives. Their own dreams and desires. Their own problems and pains that…
Stage 11: Coincidences
Stage 11: Coincidence The Episode “What are the chances?” is how it always starts. We bump into a middle school friend in Prague, book the same hotel as a high school friend in Argentina, or end up sitting next to someone from home on a bus in Ireland. When we travel, we sometimes find ourselves…
Stage 10: Strangers
Strangers The Episode Strangers are an inevitable part of our trip. Their presence is like oxygen: invisible but breathes life into our trips. These random interactions Being pointed in the right direction ( or often wrong) by someone sitting next to you on the bus. Sharing a dessert with someone you met on a tour…
Stage 9: Worried
Worried The Episode It isn’t safe for women to travel alone. You need to be EXTRA careful. Whatever you do, DON’T talk to strangers! Never carry around too much cash on you. Don’t leave your drink unattended! Shouldn’t you just wait for a man to go with you? There are common fears that orbit the…
Stage 8: Transit
Transit The Episode It isn’t about the destination, it’s about the journey is one of the most overused, cliche, eye-roll sayings around travel. However, it should be used as a reminder of all the parts that bring us to our destination. The buses, the planes, the cars, the trains, the conductors and all of the…
Stage 7: Amore
Amore The Episode It always happens when you least expect it. An eye glance or whiff of someone’s pheromones. The way they hold their body or the sound of their voice. Whatever it is, attraction has a way of consuming us. Of making us do irrational things for love and affection. Falling in love is…
Creative Coaching
Creative Coaching Is it hard for you to sleep? Are you SO excited to get your ideas out that they keep you up at night? Let me guess: when the time comes to put them to paper, you’re stuck. You’re like, “Where did all that mania go? I thought I was going to be a…
Storytelling for Instagram
Storytelling for Instagram Afternoon Intensive Think of some of your favorite instagrammers- the Keiko Lynns, the Chinae Alexandreas, the Asymany Gold ( ok theses are my favs * looks up from phone and blushes*). Their photos are STUNNING. Their lives look INCREDIBLE. And they have INSANE FOLLOWERS. But they didn’t get that following just from…
Creative Extroverts Creative Community
Creative Extroverts Creative Community 5-Weeks to Rewrite Your Creative Process Hey good lookin’, Are you a creative extrovert? You make your best ideas when you are talking them out loud. You LOVE having a conversation around feedback instead of squinting at an email trying to interpret someone’s half baked comments and strange suggestions? However, do…