Global Travel Stories & Life Beyond Borders

Travelers of Color

Explore podcast episodes featuring travelers of color sharing experiences of living abroad, long-term travel, and navigating identity across cultures. These conversations highlight cross-cultural travel, global perspectives, and the realities of moving through the world across borders.

Travel experiences are shaped by culture, history, and identity across borders. This collection from The Maverick Show brings together travel stories from travelers of color navigating living abroad, long-term travel, and building lives overseas. These conversations feature Black, Latinx, Desi, Muslim, and East and Southeast Asian travelers sharing perspectives on cross-cultural travel, identity abroad, and finding belonging between cultures. Guests reflect on migration experiences, community building, and the realities of moving through global spaces shaped by history and power. Explore the curated collections below to dive deeper into specific communities and discover stories of global travel, identity, and life between cultures.

362: Stories of Traveling Across Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean as a Jamaican-Chinese New Yorker with Darren Chew

Hear stories from visiting Nubia, the slums of Nairobi, rural villages in Zambia & going volcano-boarding in Nicaragua. Darren Chew (“Chew”) joins Matt and starts off talking about his Jamaican and Chinese heritage and shares the story of how his parents met in Jamaica and immigrated to New York. He then talks about his experience…

359: Traveling the World as a Black Muslim Digital Nomad, Giving Birth in Poland, and Raising Globally Conscious Kids with Imani Bashir

Hear about living in China, Malaysia, Poland and Mexico as a Black Muslim woman & raising her son in multiple countries. In part 2 of this interview Imani talks about her experience living in China, Poland, Malaysia and Mexico. She tells stories about how many of these places defied stereotypes and how warmly she was…

350: Full-Time World Travel as a Deafblind Latina and Smashing Disability Stigma Through Storytelling, Advocacy and Education with Catarina Rivera

Learn about traveling the world as a deafblind Latina—salsa dancing, sumo-wrestling and becoming a disability advocate. Catarina joins Matt and talks about growing up in the U.S. in an immigrant home with Puerto Rican and Cuban heritage. She reflects on what those identities mean to her as well as her deafblind disability journey with Usher…

303: Navigating Anti-Blackness in Panama, Centering Marginalized Stories, and Co-Founding “AfroLatinx Travel” with Javier Wallace

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,

302: Organizing 500 Trips to Africa, Becoming a Citizen of Sierra Leone, and Building Jelani Travel with Ashley Company

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…

179: Nomading in China, NFT Galas in Ghana, and Founding the Wander Women DAO with Ivy Xu

Ivy Xu reflects on her cultural identity growing up in Canada and spending every summer in China. She shares her favorite things about China and offers her recommendations for working remotely and nomading in China. Ivy also reflects on lessons from being a competitive figure skater how they relate to her current approach to business.

142: Fear of a Muslim Planet, Global Islamophobia and the Top 10 Hip Hop MCs of All Time with Arsalan Iftikhar

Arsalan Iftikhar reflects on growing up in a Pakistani immigrant family in Chicago, experiencing racism, and being inspired to pursue a life of anti-racist advocacy work. He talks about his Punjabi cultural heritage, makes Bhangra music recommendations, and shares tips for traveling to Pakistan. He then talks about his experience in South Africa and the…

138: Transnational Solidarity Against Israeli Apartheid and Founding the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library with Vivien Sansour

Vivien Sansour reflects on growing up in Bethlehem, Palestine, under Israeli military occupation, and connecting with the Palestinian land and the nature as a child. She then opens up about her experience immigrating to the U.S. at age 10 and navigating anti-Arab racism in North Carolina. Vivien reflects on the humiliation deeply ingrained in the…

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