Episode 9 features Brittany who grew up in a small town in small Vermont (yes, it’s a state 😜) to a big move to Florida for college. Got a big-girl environmental government job directly post graduation and decided she wasn’t quite ready to settle down in life yet. Brittany quit to move to Spain for “6 months” without ever having been here or speaking Spanish, and never looked back… well, she has thought about going back, but she’s still here! Teaching English both online and in person at a...

Episode 8 features Miguel- a Kentucky native who decided to see the world and live on his own terms. Miguel has traveled to 22 countries, lived in 4 Cambodia, Turkey, Croatia, and France. Cambodia was such an amazing and life changing experience. Cambodia will forever and always hold a special place in Miguel’s heart. He’s never experienced so much genuine love, compassion, and overall happiness in any other country. Being a flight attendant was definitely an incredible experience from the...

Ayyyyoooo back at it with Season 2, Episode 7 of your fave travel podcast. Episode 7 features Nicole who was born and raised in Baltimore and is happily still living in Charm City. She loves living close to family and friends and paying affordable rent so she can travel more! Nicole works in software sales (from home) and has two dogs that love to interrupt her calls. When Nicole was in college, she studied abroad, and fell in love with getting lost in new cities. She’ll never get sick of...

Episode 6 features Ally, who is originally from Madison, Wisconsin, but more recently considers herself a Viguesa as she’s spent the last three years living in Vigo, Galicia, Spain. She’s often asked why Vigo? And although she couldn’t locate the city on a map prior to moving here, she now can’t imagine her life anywhere else. Apart from travel, she love grabbing drinks and some tapas with friends while spending hours catching up. You can often find her cooking, reading non-fiction, and...

Ayyyy welcome back to Season 2 of your fave travel podcast! We back with Episode 5 yah heard! Our next episode features Angie, a nurse from Carroll County, Maryland. From the DMV (not the Department of Motor Vehicles, IYKYK), to Seattle and back, nursing has opened so many doors for this cat mom; Angie’s gotten to experience cross country travel, achieving financial freedom, and having met some awesome people from all over. Angie is a former travel nurse currently located in Virginia living...

Ayyyyy welcome to Episode 4 of Season 2 of your fave travel podcast! Our next episode features the incredible Mila Reva, an internationally travelled yoga teacher from Latvia with over 20 years experience both practicing and teaching yoga since first learning the art itself from her mother aged 12. Based in the beautiful backdrop of Prague in Central Europe, Mila takes us on a journey through the world of yoga from Europe to India with some exciting pitstops at music festivals along the way....

Ayyyyoooo welcome back to Season 2 of your fave travel podcast! Today, I am joined by Evelina calling in from Busan, South Korea. Evelina was born in the heart of Central Asia, Uzbekistan, and having spent six exciting years in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, she developed a profound love for the road less traveled. Her time there has not only been about crossing borders but also about exploring the rich tapestry of cultures, cuisines, and untold stories that each place offers. With a passion for...

Welcome back to Season 2 of your fave travel podcast! Today, I am joined by Rebecca Nour calling from Incheon, South Korea. Rebecca is a Lebanese-American who was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and was raised in Orlando, Florida. She has been living in South Korea for 6 years now as she has transitioned from being an English teacher to currently a model and influencer navigating the cutthroat Korean beauty industry. Come listen and get some insight about how to make it in the world of modeling in...

Ayyyyyyyy! Welcome back to your FAVE travel podcast. Y’all really THOUGHT this was a one and done kinda thing. Nah, we BACK! Today on this episode, I talk with none other than the person who pushed me to fulfil my dream of having a travel podcast who also doubles as my roommate and partner in crime, Perlie Yang. In the summer of 2022, Perlie and I began our one year adventure as English teachers in Istanbul, Türkiye. Come listen as we talk all things Türkiye from impressions to must sees and...

Welcome to Episode 7 of your favorite travel podcast! Today I chat with my good friend, Sam, from across the pond. Sam is a teacher from the U.K. who uses the perks of teacher vacations to travel as often as possible, hitting 23 countries and with the 24th already booked. After spending two months in South America between the end of his degree and the start of his PGCE, he got bitten by the travel bug pretty hard and is always looking for that next adventure, hitting a number of European...

AYYOOO welcome to Episode 6 of your favorite travel podcast! Today we talk with Kylie, an avid traveler from Hawai’i who’s been to 14 countries and counting! After getting a taste of international travel during a high school trip to Europe, she set out to teach English in Thailand post-grad and has since continued to feed that travel bug. But to Kylie, traveling goes beyond admiring landmarks or getting those Instagram pics; it’s about expanding your worldview, challenging your mindset, and...

Welcome to Episode 5 of the Makin Moves with Matt Podcast. Today we talk to KaiLi, a 29-year old from Kansas City who has lived in two countries on two different continents with her loyal dog, Pebbles. In 2019, KaiLi had grown sick of the US always working and never enjoying life, so that year she got her TEFL certification and got a job teaching in Spain. She brought Pebbles and two bags with her and moved across the pond only to find COVID hitting her in the face 3 months later. KaiLi...

Alexia is a 30-year old Black woman from Toronto, Canada with a knack for creating and slow travel. When she was in high school, she first heard about the possibility of teaching English in South Korea. Her interest was peaked at the possibility of combining work with her love for travel. After graduating from university, she found herself at a crossroad between finding a job in her field of studies - Communications and journalism - or pursuing a dream she had tucked away since high school....

Welcome to Episode 3 of the Makin Moves Podcast! Today, I chat with one of the most interesting people I've ever met, my friend Dario. Dario is a 28 year old from San Francisco currently living in New Zealand. He’s always loved traveling, but after leaving a job in tech in 2018 he went on a three month trip through Africa which inspired him to travel even more. Since then he’s lived in Australia, South Korea and now New Zealand. This podcast mostly covers his 2022 trip from Mexico to...

The wait has come to and end and finally we get to hear what the one and only has to say about picking up and moving across the Atlantic to her favorite country in the world…who knew that a trip from studying abroad would have allowed us to cross paths. From meeting in Barcelona, New York and Athens— it’s safe to say the friends you meet traveling last a life time! Christina was born in Tokyo and is 100% Greek. She was raised in New Jersey and was quite literally born with a travel bug. She...

Welcome to my first podcast episode with one of my fave person, Perlie. Perlie is 26 years old from LA and has been to 27 countries and has lived abroad in 3 countries— England, Korea, & Turkey! She'd like to say that she has put a lot of thought behind her decisions of living abroad, but they have honestly all been executed on a whim. In 2018, she last-minute changed her study abroad application from Wollongong, Australia, to Leicester, England, because she found out the school year...