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Family Travel & Worldschooling

Explore podcast episodes about family travel, worldschooling, and raising children while living abroad and traveling long-term. Hear how families create global lifestyles and educate their kids through cross-cultural experiences around the world.

What happens when families choose long-term travel and global living as a way of life? In these conversations from The Maverick Show, parents share how they travel the world with their children while building lives abroad. These episodes explore family travel, worldschooling, and raising globally minded kids through cross-cultural experiences. Guests discuss educational options from local schooling to homeschooling and reflect as well as the dynamics of building community overseas and helping children develop global perspectives. For families interested in slow travel, living abroad with kids, or raising global citizens, these stories offer practical insight and inspiration.

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367: Digital Nomad Motherhood: Raising Conscious Kids, Cultivating Empathy & Building The Village Abroad with Courtney Orgias

Learn about parenting with political awareness & building diaspora connections and political solidarity across borders. In Part 2 of Matt’s conversation with Courtney Orgias—recorded in Rio, where her family is currently based—they dive deeper into the political, ethical, and emotional dimensions of digital nomad motherhood. Courtney explains how she talks to her young children about…

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366: Raising Global Citizens: Worldschooling, Ethical Travel & Family Life Across Continents with Courtney Orgias

Learn about leaving the U.S. to become a digital nomad family—how to raise kids and build community all over the world. Courtney Orgias sits down with Matt in Rio, where her and her family are currently based, and they talk about attending the Black Travel Summit and why Courtney feels Rio is a great place…

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290: Black Family Travel and Reflections on Being a Digital Nomad Dad with Justin Orgias

Learn tips for slow-traveling the world as a Black family with no permanent base, and raising kids around the world. Justin Orgias joins Matt from Mexico City, and starts off talking about his parents’ heritage from Granada and his experience growing up in a Caribbean immigrant community in Toronto. He then shares his experience moving

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

Cara Celeste West joins Matt to talk about her decision to 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…

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141: Nomading with a Family of 5 and Traveling to Over 100 Countries with Chantal Patton

Chantal Patton talks about growing up in Canada, starting to travel internationally, generating location-independent income, meeting her digital nomad husband, and choosing to travel the world together with their 3 daughters. She explains about how she structures her family’s lifestyle, travel cadence, and why she chooses to maintain a home base. Chantal then shares her…

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119: Family Travel to 35 Countries on 6 Continents and Making the World into a Classroom for Your Kids with Monet Hambrick

Monet Hambrick takes us on her journey growing up in south Florida in a Jamaican immigrant home, developing her passion for travel while growing up, and continuing her world-traveling lifestyle with her family after getting married and having kids. Monet explains how she took both of her daughters on international flights before the age of…

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93: Long-Term World Travel with Kids and Building the “Wandering Moms” Community with Libryia Jones

Librya Jones shares her experience traveling to Ghana with her daughter in 2019 for “The Year of Return” and discusses her (and her daughter’s) reflections on Ghanaian culture, learning the history of the West African slave trade, and the feeling of being in a Black-majority country. Libryia then opens up about her upbringing in Tallahassee,…