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East & SE Asian Travelers

Explore podcast episodes featuring East and Southeast Asian travelers sharing experiences of living abroad, long-term travel, and exploring the world across cultures. Hear perspectives from both Asia-based travelers and the global diaspora on identity, community, and life across borders.

Travelers from East and Southeast Asian backgrounds bring diverse perspectives shaped by culture, migration, and global mobility across the region and its diaspora. In this collection from The Maverick Show, guests share stories of living abroad, long-term travel, and navigating life across cultures—from travelers born and raised in Asia to members of the global diaspora building lives around the world. These conversations reflect experiences shaped by language, identity, and mobility, including navigating travel on different passports and moving between cultural expectations. Together, these episodes explore cross-cultural travel, identity abroad, and the realities of finding community and belonging while living between cultures.

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242: Traveling the World for Surfing, Hosting the Wanderlover Podcast, and the Keys to Building a Fully Remote Business with Danielle Hu

Danielle Hu starts off by talking about her passion for surfing, and how it drives much of her lifestyle and travel decisions. She then takes us all the way back and shares her parents immigration story coming to the U.S. from China, her journey growing up in New York and navigating her Chinese and American…

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176: Fine Dining in the Basque Country, Wine Tasting in Rioja, and Founding Selva Vida Lodge & Retreat Center in the Amazon with Dr. Kristina Liu

Kristina Liu shares her journey growing up on 3 continents, working her way up in the corporate world, and then deciding to leave her job to travel the world and build a location-independent coaching business. She also shares her journey in learning to appreciate wine. Matt and Kristina reminisce about their experience traveling together in…

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195: Influencer Marketing, the Feral Cats of Istanbul, and the Importance of Financial Freedom for Women with Sally Yeo

Sally Yeo takes us on her journey growing up in Singapore, starting off on a traditional path and then deviating to become a travel influencer, location-independent business owner, and digital nomad. She explains how she built her personal brand to over 400K followers on social media and shares some hacks from when she was first…

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197: How to Pick Dividend-Paying Stocks, the Beauty of Andalusia, and Understanding Financial Markets with May Ling Lai

May Ling Lai returns to the Maverick Show and starts off by talking to Matt about wine and travel experiences in Italy, France, Spain, Colombia and Vietnam. She then performs a Spanish language song acapella. Next the conversation turns to May Ling’s YouTube Show “Markets with May”. She discusses Matt’s appearance on “Markets with May”…

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198: Traveling the World on a Philippines Passport and Helping Digital Nomads Relocate to Montenegro with Kach Umandap

Kach Umandap takes us on her journey growing up in the Philippines, moving to the Middle East to work in Kuwait and Iraq, and then starting to travel the world full time. She shares her reflections on “passport privilege” and her experience traveling to 173 countries and territories on a Philippines passport. Kach also shares…

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214: Becoming The #1 All-Around Female Free Diver in the World and Connecting with Nature and Wild Animals Through Travel with Jessea Lu

Jessea Lu and Matt chat in person over a bottle of wine in Nairobi Kenya. Jessea begins by sharing her recent experience on Lamu Island, then reflects on her first trip to Africa, and also talks about her travel priorities around connecting with nature and wild animals. She then shares the upcoming horseback safari through…

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252: Phallus Worship in Bhutan, Ice Climbing in New Zealand, and Using SEO to Skyrocket Your Website Traffic with Isabel Leong

Isabel Leong takes us on her journey growing up in Singapore, studying abroad in France, and then transitioning out of the corporate world to become a full time travel blogger and digital nomad. She shares her experiences ice-climbing in New Zealand, rock climbing in Colombia, going through the salt flats in Bolivia, seeing the Tigers…

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311: Financial Planning for Digital Nomads with Michael Kim

Learn how to improve your money mindset, set financial goals & avoid the biggest financial mistake digital nomads make. Michael Kim starts off talking about his family’s immigration story of how his parents got to Canada, his experience growing up in Toronto, and how is interest in travel started to develop. He shares his experience…

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