Conversations for Curious Travelers
Conversations for Curious Travelers
Podcast Description
Travel is one of life’s greatest teachers. Join host Erica Forrest, Trip Scholars founder, published author, and internationally certified travel education coach for inspiring stories, thoughtful conversations, and practical tips to enhance your own travel experiences. In each episode, we explore how travel helps us learn more about the world-- and ourselves. This is the show for curious travelers who want to learn more, experience deeper, and travel better.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes such as personal growth through travel, educational travel experiences, and mindfulness in exploration, with episodes exploring the transformative power of solo travel and how to cultivate moments of awe, such as the episode featuring Tracy Smyth discussing awe and wellbeing.
Travel is one of life’s greatest teachers. Join host Erica Forrest, Trip Scholars founder, published author, and internationally certified travel education coach for inspiring stories, thoughtful conversations, and practical tips to enhance your own travel experiences. In each episode, we explore how travel helps us learn more about the world– and ourselves. This is the show for curious travelers who want to learn more, experience deeper, and travel better.
Travel with Gratitude · Gratitude Travel Tips · Gratitude and Travel Stories
In this special episode, I explore how gratitude transforms our travel experiences and our lives. I share personal stories from Costa Rica, practical tools , and science-backed benefits of gratitude that can help you navigate both holiday travel stress and life’s bigger challenges.
Episode Highlights:
- How gratitude can reframe even the hardest travel moments.
- Simple, science-backed practices you can use before, during, and after travel.
- The surprising ways gratitude improves health, relationships, and resilience.
- Insights from Costa Rica’s culture of Pura Vida and everyday gratitude.
Next Step:
Try shifting one I have to into an I get to every day this week.
Reflection:
“The root of joy is gratefulness…It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.” — Brother David Steindl-Rast
Links & Resources:
Trip Scholars Post: Cultivating a Heart of Gratitude for Better Travel
The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley: The Science of Gratitude
Gratitude increases empathy and reduces aggression
Gratitude helps build connections
Gratitude enhances health, brings happiness — and may even lengthen lives
Costa Rica Happier Lives Institute
”Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”– Will
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