Smriti Shankar and Travelling Boots: connections with the whole world

Hey folks.... if you love what you're hearing with us, consider a monthly subscription to Journey of an Aesthete Podcast and receive bonus content, perks, free tickets to live tapings, events and our deepest appreciation!  Your monthly subscription helps us continue to bring you our very best content and one of kind guests. Link to subscribe here:  https://www.patreon.com/journeyofanaesthete About this episode: Smriti Shankar is a woman who got the idea of seeing the entire world by traveling alone - one village, city, town, hamlet or plot of land at a time. Then she reports on her discoveries - which are always most interesting and enriching. Lots of people often talk of freedom, liberty, independence and the like but fewer perhaps put those ideals into a practice. I know precious few people in this life who are more fearless and courageous than she. Currently her project includes extensive travel in her own native country of India.  Smriti brings genuine beauty and love to every place she goes and one of the many reasons I invited her to discuss her travels on my show was that, in addition to her many stories, she might be an inspiration for others to reach outside of their own comfort zones, however those could be defined. Check back with us for live updates with Smriti on the road about her travels in some live episodes soon! Links to Smriti's project : https://www.instagram.com/travellingboots/ http://travellingboots.in/media-kit/ https://www.facebook.com/TravellingBoots/ A deeper look : Inside the Episode with Mitch: Back when I was living in Boston, which proved to be my home for most of my adult life since it was close to thirty years, I enjoyed the daily ritual of the Peets Coffee in Harvard Square. A lot of international travelers would came through that particular coffeehouse, if not actual students at Tufts, Harvard or MTI and so on, then visiting professors, families, and random business and leisure travelers. A serendipitous meeting with Smriti Shankar proved to be most illuminating since I became aware of her extraordinary Traveling Boots project. Smriti is a married woman who got the idea of seeing the entire world by traveling alone - one village, city, town, hamlet or plot of land at a time. Then she reports on her discoveries - which are always most interesting and enriching. People often talk of freedom, liberty, independence and the like but fewer perhaps put those ideals into a practice. I know precious few people in this life who are more fearless and courageous than she. Currently her project includes extensive travel in her own native country of India, the updates of which can be linked to here.  Smriti brings genuine beauty and love to every place she goes and one of the many reasons I invited her to discuss her travels on my show was that, in addition to her many stories, to put it simply, she might be an inspiration for others to reach outside of their own comfort zones, however those could be defined. Her project is very much in keeping with the theme and spirit of Journey OF an Aesthete, perhaps even in the most literal sense of those words.  Welcome to Journey Of an Aesthete, Smriti Shankar.