Learn tips for traveling the world with a toddler, eating vegan, and reflections on travel safety as a Black woman. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE Cara Celeste West joins Matt to talk about her decision to slow travel the world full-time with her husband and toddler. She explains the concept of “world schooling” and describes how it has worked in practice for her two-year-old daughter. Cara talks about the company “Boundless Life” which provides turnkey solutions to help families slow travel the world by providing accommodations, education and social interaction for kids, workspace access for the parents, and local cultural immersion events. She describes what she and her family loved about living in Portugal, living on the Greek Island of Syros, and she gives tips for eating vegan while traveling the world. Cara also reflects on travel safety as a Black woman and gives tips on nomading full-time with a toddler. She then talks about her journey to becoming a professional content creator and gives tips for growing a social media audience, monetizing your content, and building multiple streams of income. Cara then talks about her choice to use her platform to raise awareness about injustice and talks about her personal journey learning about the Palestinian struggle and taking a stand against the genocide. Finally, she reflects on the impact travel has had on her as a person, on her marriage, and on her daughter. → Full show notes with direct links to everything discussed are available here. ============================ FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU: See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ============================ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram and DM Matt to continue the conversation Please leave a rating and review — it really helps the show and I read each one personally You can buy me a coffee — espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

276: Slow Traveling the World as a Vegan Family and Being a Digital Nomad Mom with Cara Celeste West

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Learn tips for traveling the world with a toddler, eating vegan, and reflections on travel safety as a Black woman.  ============================  Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds.  ============================  ON THIS EPISODE  Cara Celeste West joins Matt to talk about her decision to slow travel the world full-time with her husband and toddler. She explains the concept of “world schooling” and describes how it has worked in practice for her two-year-old daughter. Cara talks about the company “Boundless Life” which provides turnkey solutions to help families slow travel the world by providing accommodations, education and social interaction for kids, workspace access for the parents, and local cultural immersion events. She describes what she and her family loved about living in Portugal, living on the Greek Island of Syros, and she gives tips for eating vegan while traveling the world. Cara also reflects on travel safety as a Black woman and gives tips on nomading full-time with a toddler. She then talks about her journey to becoming a professional content creator and gives tips for growing a social media audience, monetizing your content, and building multiple streams of income. Cara then talks about her choice to use her platform to raise awareness about injustice and talks about her personal journey learning about the Palestinian struggle and taking a stand against the genocide. Finally, she reflects on the impact travel has had on her as a person, on her marriage, and on her daughter.  → Full show notes with direct links to everything discussed are available here.  ============================  FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU:  See my Top 10 Apps For Digital Nomads  See my Top 10 Books For Digital Nomads  See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual)  Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn  See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend  See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use)  ============================  ENJOYING THE SHOW?  Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram and DM Matt to continue the conversation  Please leave a rating and review — it really helps the show and I read each one personally  You can buy me a coffee — espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes! :)

The Maverick Show is a global travel podcast about what really happens when people cross borders and build lives across cultures. Hosted by full-time world traveler Matt Bowles, each episode features intimate, unfiltered conversations (often over a bottle of wine) exploring the human stories behind global travel and what the journey teaches us about the world and ourselves.  Guests include expats, digital nomads, women and diaspora storytellers, worldschooling families, and human rights advocates, all sharing travel stories that are funny, moving, and deeply human.  In addition to hearing about extraordinary places and the people who live there, you’ll learn what it’s really like to move abroad, build an expat life, or travel long-term, as guests open up about their personal journeys navigating culture, race, power, identity, and belonging in an unequal world. If you’ve ever felt that travel changes you in ways no one talks about, you’re in the right place.  The Maverick Show hit the Top 100 on Apple Podcasts (including #1 in Places & Travel), was ranked in the Top 1% of podcasts globally by Listen Notes, and was named the #1 Digital Nomad Podcast and #1 Remote Work Podcast by Million Podcasts — with hundreds of five-star listener reviews.

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