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Kindred Roads Podcast
by Mary Goggin
congratulations! you finally found the community of adventurers, travelers, and change makers to validate your unconventional life plans… You’ve got a bucket list a mile long and have most likely already jumped out of an airplane (and maybe felt way too much joy doing it). Maybe you’re a travel filmmaker, scuba diver, mountain climber, surfer, or van lifer. Or maybe you’re a creator, entrepreneur, artist, or builder chasing a vision that doesn’t fit inside a traditional box. Or maybe you’re just dreaming of your next adventure, whether that’s sailing around Australia, competing on The Amazing Race, or finally choosing a life that feels aligned. Well, you’re in good company here. Our guests are right there with you, living fully, unapologetically, and with purpose.
Episodes
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The Woman Walking the Length of the Earth...
What does it take to walk the entire length of the Earth, alone, as a woman? Lucy is an Australian adventurer on the final stretch of an almost decade long walk from the southern tip of Argentina to the top of Alaska. She started in 2017 with basically zero through hiking experience, her longest...
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She Went Viral Two Days After Almost Dying at Sea...
Quinn Abigail grew up on a farm in rural Pennsylvania as the oldest of six kids, and now lives a fully nomadic lifestyle between sailboats and a backpack. In the last few years she's lived off grid in Hawaii, worked as an underwater photographer for a dolphin tour company, sailed from Hawaii to...
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How to Survive 90 Days Completely Alone in the Ocean
Cyril Derreumaux holds three Guinness World Records. In 2016, he and a crew of three other men set a record for the fastest ocean rowing crossing from California to Hawaii, finishing in 39 days. In 2022, he went back completely alone in a kayak he built himself and became the first person to…
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Inside the High-Stakes Job of Being the First to Spot a Wildfire...
What happens when the person responsible for spotting the next wildfire is 100 feet in the air, completely alone, and just got struck by lightning for the fourth time? If you're Trina Moyles, you climb back up the tower the next day anyway. Trina is an award-winning environmental journalist and...
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He Spent 21 Days at Sea, Worked in the Amazon for 30p an Hour, and Slept in the Same Room as the Taliban… | Part 2
Matt was riding a horse over a mountain pass above 3,000 meters when the weather turned and he ended up stuck in a snowstorm. What do you do when there's nowhere to turn back to? This is Part 2 of Matt Whitley's episode. If you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, go back and start there first, you'll...
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He Spent 21 Days at Sea, Worked in the Amazon for 30p an Hour, and Slept in the Same Room as the Taliban... | Part 1.
What do you do when the only way out of the country during a pandemic is to advertise yourself on a Facebook sailing group and hope someone takes you? If you're Matt Whitley, you pack your bags, fly to Spain, and spend 21 days crossing the Atlantic with a family you'd met on one 20 minute call....
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How He Started a Successful Surf Camp at 23 With No Money or Experience… (& How You Can Too)
What happens when a 23-year-old, unemployed and fresh out of university during Portugal's worst financial crisis, decides to start his own surf camp anyway? In this episode, David Moore shares the story of building Surf Cascais from the ground up into one of Portugal's most loved surf schools…
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They Invited a Homeless Man to Live With Them. Here's What Happened…
What happens when two friends invite a man they met outside a Little Caesars to come live with them, and all three of their lives change forever? This one is a little different from our usual episodes, but it might be the most important kind of story this podcast was made for. In this episode…
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What Happens When a Solo Woman Cycles Across the World...
What happens when a solo woman decides to cross continents by bicycle, trusting the kindness of strangers along the way? In this episode, Claire Wyatt shares the story of cycling across some of the most remote places on earth. From riding thousands of miles across Mongolia to cycling from Asia to...
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From Quitting Her 9 to 5 to Photographing Wimbledon’s Fashion Icon…
What happens when you leave a stable 9 to 5 and decide to build a career around your passions instead? In this episode, Olivia Chenery, a London based events, hotel, fashion, and brand photographer, shares how she walked away from corporate life and built a photography career. What started as…
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What Walking 1100 Miles Through the Middle East After 9/11 Was Actually Like…
What happens when two travelers leave everything familiar behind and cross the Middle East on foot and by camel, following a path few Westerners have ever taken? In this episode, Wells Jones shares the story of a 1,100 mile trek across Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Syria, retracing the route of T.E....
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The Sailor Who Caught On Fire in the Middle of the Atlantic...
Max Campbell is sailing around the world on a 50 year old Swan 37 named Elixir, a boat he rebuilt by hand and turned into a fully functioning home at sea. Over the past few years, he has sailed from the UK to New Zealand with an ever changing crew, navigating open ocean crossings, remote...
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She Traveled the World Alone as a Female for 20 Months… (And How You Can Too)
Natalie Ng is a videographer and writer from Perth, Australia who spent 20 months traveling the world alone. She did not leave with everything figured out. She left with questions, curiosity, and a willingness to learn as she went. In this episode, Natalie talks honestly about what it was like to...
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The Air Force Colonel Who Became a NASA Astronaut and Commanded the International Space Station…
Colonel Terry Virts is a retired U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, test pilot, NASA astronaut, and former Commander of the International Space Station. He has flown 45 combat missions, piloted the Space Shuttle Endeavour, and spent more than 200 days in space, including three spacewalks. In this...
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From Working for the National Park Service to Being Woken Up by a Bear
Julio Campis Díaz is a 24-year-old Puerto Rican ecologist and PhD student whose career took a dramatic turn the day he stepped into El Yunque National Rainforest. What began as a required research assignment led him from freshwater shrimp studies to working inside Great Smoky Mountains and…
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How She Unexpectedly Became a Writer for National Geographic…
Jamie Edwards didn’t plan to become a travel writer, and she definitely didn’t plan on writing for National Geographic. But after moving from New York to Tokyo, her world opened up in ways she couldn’t have imagined. What began as a small blog turned into a thriving platform called I Am Lost and...
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The Man Who Climbed the Highest Volcano on Every Continent…
Ricardo Kaljouw is a Dutch mountaineer, author, and Royal Dutch Navy veteran whose life has been built around pushing beyond limits. He has visited 117 countries, climbed 75 high-altitude peaks, and stood on 45 volcanoes around the world. He’s one of only about fifty people on earth to complete…
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She Sailed Around the World With 170 Strangers…
At 25, filmmaker and surfer Meredith Rodgers found herself sailing across every ocean on Earth, filming one of the most intense races in the world. It all started with one cold email that somehow turned into a dream job she didn’t even know existed. For almost a year, she lived on a 70-foot...
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What It’s Like to Perform Surgery on Animals in a War Zone
There are few people who live their calling as boldly as Dr. Clifford Redford. He is a veterinarian, documentary filmmaker, and lifelong animal advocate whose work has taken him far beyond the walls of his busy clinic in Canada. From rescuing street dogs in Jamaica to saving wildlife in India and...
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From Teaching Yoga in Thailand to Backpacking Solo Across Seventeen Countries
Emily Corinne is a yoga teacher who has lived in Thailand, taught abroad, and spent nine months backpacking through 17 countries. Along the way she moved between classrooms and retreat spaces, traded city rush for sunrise meditations, and learned how to build simple routines in unfamiliar places....
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How an 18-Year-Old Flew Around the World…Alone
Lachie Smart was just 18 years old when he became the youngest person to fly solo around the world in a single-engine aircraft. What started as a wild idea with no money, no flying experience, and a stack of rejection letters turned into a 54-day journey across 45,000 kilometers and 24 countries....
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Why So Many of Us Stay Silent on Climate Change…
Lauren Bash is a storyteller, climate activist, and TED speaker who was named to Harvard’s Climate Creators to Watch list. She has been featured on BuzzFeed, The New York Times, and more, inspiring ordinary people to join the climate movement through storytelling in an approachable, optimistic…
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He Rode the Most Dangerous Train on Earth...
Eli Snyder is a travel content creator with a community of over 500 thousand people across platforms. He’s traveled to 105 countries proving that if you look past the headlines and trust humanity, travel can be safer and more meaningful, while still staying smart. In this episode, we dive into…
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From Growing Up in a Russian Orphanage to SpaceX Artist
Aisha Makara is a world traveler who’s explored over 60 countries and a Mongolian artist, engineer, entrepreneur, and author of the Joyful Living Guidebook. She spent her earliest years in a Soviet-era Russian orphanage before hitchhiking across Central Asia, earning an engineering degree in...
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Roadtripping Solo from California to Argentina Is Not What You’d Expect…
Fletcher Cox spent seven months driving the Pan-American Highway from Lake Tahoe to Ushuaia, Argentina with nothing but his husky mix, Dune, and his Audi sedan… In this episode, Fletcher tells the story of crossing a cartoonish bridge in Peru under the watch of a “toll troll,” galloping through a...
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From Solo Hiking the Length of Iceland to Bikepacking From Canada to China to Teaching Yoga Abroad and life as a Full time Trail Running Guide…
Kara Folkerts has done it all. She solo-hiked the length of Iceland at 21 and shortly after co-led her first Costa Rica trail running tour. By 22, she’d bike-packed 10,500 km from Canada through Alaska, Russia, Mongolia, and China, moved to Japan, then studied yoga in India before helping run…
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How She Went From $0 in Cambodia to Becoming a Full-Time Writer on the Road
Karmen Wiid is a South African solo traveler, writer, and host of The Lost & Found Podcast. She published her first book at 12, studied philosophy and literature in university, and now works remotely while moving through the world with curiosity and creativity. She’s currently based in India, and...
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What No One Tells You About Being a Wingsuit Skydiver, BASE Jumper and Helicopter Pilot…
Braden Roseborough is a wingsuit skydiver,, BASE jumper, helicopter pilot, and instructor with over 3,000 jumps, certifications in tandem, AFF and wingsuit flight, and a full-time career as a software engineer. In this episode, Braden takes us from packing parachutes to teaching wingsuit flights,...
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How These Freediving Instructors Shot an Award-Winning Underwater Film in 48 Hours…
Miki Bonny & Carlo Gava are award-winning filmmakers, certified freediving & scuba instructors, and founders of B & G Expeditions. They’ve built an online following of hundreds of thousands by sharing their freediving and scuba adventures. On top of that, they host immersive group trips, teach...
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How He Became National Geographic Adventurer of the Year…
Gavin McClurg is a professional paraglider, the first American to finish the Red Bull X-Alps, and National Geographic Adventurer of the Year. He’s a two-time round-the-world sailor and record-holding foot-launch pilot. In this episode, we trace his path from ski racing in Tahoe to thirteen years…
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He Solo Camped For 40 Days Through 24 National Parks…
Chase Reichenbach is a photographer and filmmaker based in Seattle. He has been featured on Good Morning America, ABC News, and other major platforms for his viral travel and storytelling work. He’s traveled to over 30 national parks, documented stories across the U.S. and Europe, and built a...
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From Battling a Brain Tumor to Serving in the Peace Corps
Risa Josephine, a ski resort dispatcher and adventure sports enthusiast, battled a brain tumor from age seven until her life-changing surgery at eighteen. She graduated from the University of Georgia, volunteered at the Jodie O’Shea Orphanage in Bali and then spent two years as a Peace Corps...
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She Left College & Became a World-Traveling Entrepreneur by 22
Today on the podcast, I spoke with Emma Wilson, a 22 year old solo travel coach and content creator who’s lived and worked in over ten countries across Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean. Originally from Oregon, Emma grew up with a traditional mindset and had never even considered…
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How Does a Captain Run a 191-Foot Luxury Superyacht for the Ultra-Wealthy?
Ever wondered what it’s like to captain a 191-foot superyacht through some of the most remote and pristine places on Earth? Captain Liam Devlin takes Wall Street elites, Russian oligarchs, actors, and more on adventures around the world! He has spent over 25 years navigating the world’s oceans,...
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How She Started a Business While Living in Her Car
Today on the podcast, I sat down with photographer and agency owner Madison Olivia Brown in Charleston, SC. Madison built her first online business from scratch while traveling the country in her sedan. She later rebranded it as Vienna & Co, a creative marketing agency focused on luxury and...
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What It’s Like to Surf in Great White Shark Territory
McHenry Jackson grew up in Folly Beach, South Carolina, surfing every chance he got. Now, he spends months at a time living on boats as a seafloor mapper, exploring the ocean for work and surfing whenever he can. When he’s not working, he’s surfing in places like South Africa, Panama, and Hawaii....
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How the American Dream Makes Life Harder Than It Should Be…
Teju Ravilochan is a Forbes 30 Under 30 social entrepreneur and TEDx speaker. He co-founded Uncharted and later started GatherFor out of a desire to intentionally create a mutual support system for people experiencing poverty. Growing up, Teju was struck by the extreme gap between wealth and...
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Marine Conservation Through the Eyes of a PADI Master Diver
Today, I’m talking with Francheska Krysiak, also known as Franny, a marine conservationist, scientific rebreather diver, and PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer, who has spent the last 10 years working to protect our oceans. Franny supports conservation and restoration work for various organizations,...
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What It's Like to Be One of the First Skiers in Antarctica...
Ever wondered what it’s like to ski in Antarctica before anyone else that season? Or what goes into filming backcountry skiers, adaptive athletes, and even couples getting married in some of the most remote places on Earth? Award-winning photographer and filmmaker Tamara Šuša has done it all.…
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The Truth About The Amazing Race
What’s The Amazing Race actually like? Redmond Ramos, former Navy corpsman, motivational speaker, and Amazing Race Season 29 contestant, gives us the inside scoop. From picking a random teammate on day one to navigating wild travel challenges on zero sleep, he shares what happens behind the…
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How One Man Biked The World… By Accident
Today, I’m sitting down with Andrew, whose two-week biking trip turned into a journey spanning 27,461 miles across 37 countries. Since his travels, he’s raised over $20,000 for the Trevor Project, helping prevent LGBTQ+ youth suicide. Along the way, he faced a slew of wild challenges, including...
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From Escaping Two Wars to Becoming a Peace Ambassador
Zoya Miari, a Palestinian-Ukrainian peace ambassador, grew up in a refugee camp in Lebanon amid violence and ongoing conflicts. By 22, she had survived two wars and rebuilt her life in Switzerland, founding Waves to Home, a global movement empowering displaced people through storytelling. Zoya...
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Being Denied Entry at the Norway Border
Today I’m talking with one of my best friends, Siena Muscianisi, a talented freelance photographer, filmmaker, and designer. During her gap year, Siena spent six weeks each in Paris, Costa Rica, and Stockholm, and also traveled through the Galápagos Islands and Ecuador. She later completed a...
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The Realities of Pursuing a Twitch Career
In today’s episode, I’m sitting down in Central Park in New York City with Jordan Williams, who’s not just a talented Twitch streamer but also like family to me. Jordan has faced significant challenges in his life—he lost his mom to breast cancer at a young age and, later, his grandmother.…
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The 80-Year-Old Mountain Man Who Survives Winters Alone with His Horse
Simon Felber is a documentary filmmaker and the founder of Changeweys, a platform dedicated to telling stories that inspire positive change. His work has taken him across the globe, from the mines of Bolivia, where he explored the harsh conditions miners face, to the Sahara Desert in Algeria…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
congratulations!
you finally found the community of adventurers, travelers, and change makers to validate your unconventional life plans…
You’ve got a bucket list a mile long and have most likely already jumped out of an airplane (and maybe felt way too much joy doing it). Maybe you’re a travel filmmaker, scuba diver, mountain climber, surfer, or van lifer. Or maybe you’re a creator, entrepreneur, artist, or builder chasing a vision that doesn’t fit inside a traditional box. Or maybe you’re just dreaming of your next adventure, whether that’s sailing around Australia, competing on The Amazing Race, or finally choosing a life that feels aligned.
Well, you’re in good company here. Our guests are right there with you, living fully, unapologetically, and with purpose.
HOSTED BY
Mary Goggin
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