In-depth conversations with today’s most interesting world travelers, remote entrepreneurs, and digital nomads.
Learn how to travel more responsibly, engage with the experiences of refugees, and merge human rights with tourism. Sibu Szymanowska joins Matt over a bottle of wine and shares her experience growing up in Costa Rica before moving to China at age 17. Sibu reflects on attending University in China, learning fluent Mandarin, and starting...
The tables and turned so you can hear Matt Bowles interviewed about his own digital nomad journey by Ric Gazarian.In this special episode, The Maverick Show host Matt Bowles is the one being interviewed by Ric Gazarian in an episode that originally aired on the Counting Countries podcast. Ric goes deep with Matt about his...
Hear Ric’s stories from Afghanistan, Burundi, Chad, Eretria, Mauritania, Papua New Guinea, Abkhazia and Transnistria. In Part 2 of this interview, Ric Gazarian talks about his decision to pursue the goal of traveling to all 193 UN recognized countries. He shares stories of watching the sport of Buzkashi in Afghanistan, getting a private performance by...
Learn about traveling through Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, and what it’s like to travel across a country by Tuk-Tuk. Ric Gazarian starts off talking about his family’s history escaping the Armenian Genocide in 1915 and eventually making their way to Boston, Massachusetts where he grew up. He reflects on his first visit to Armenia and how his...
In Part 3 of this interview, Javier talks about his role as the Race and Sport Post-Doctoral Associate at Duke University, and the class he teaches on the History of Duke Men’s Basketball. He tells the story of C.B. Claiborne, the first Black player on the Duke Men’s Basketball team in the 1960s, who was...
In Part 2 of this interview, Javier talks about the impact of anti-Blackness and class inequality on sports, both in Panama and in the diaspora. He explains the political economic dynamics that give rise to the transnational human trafficking of vulnerable youth, particularly through high school basketball networks in the U.S.. Javier shares his experience...
Hear Javier’s stories of navigating his intersectional Afro-Panamanian-American experience in both the U.S. and Panama. Dr. Javier Wallace starts off talking about his mother’s family history in Texas and his father’s family history in Panama before migrating to the U.S. He shares his reflections on growing up in a bi-cultural home, playing football in Texas, attending...
Learn about traveling to Togo, Benin, The Gambia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and building a successful travel company. Ashley Company starts off talking about founding Jelani Gives and how that led to founding her company Jelani Travel. Ashley reflects on running her company for over a decade, including the healing impact she has seen when taking...
Learn how immersive trips to the Dominican Republic, Kenya and backpacking through South America can be life-changing. Ashley Company starts off by talking about her experiences traveling the world for wine, and why the South African wine region is so unique and special. She then talks about her experience growing up in the U.S., traveling...
310: Visiting Socotra, Syria, Afghanistan, and Traveling Across Africa on Public Transportation with Sibu Szymanowska
Learn what Afghanistan is like now, how to become fluent in 5 languages & get tips on being a more ethical traveler. In Part 2 of this interview Sibu Szymanowska shares her journey becoming a digital nomad and founding “Go Global with Sibu”. She tells stories from her journey traveling overland across 9 countries in...