Episode #271: Transformative Travel with Geleen Antonio

Episode Summary

Geleen Antonio joins Matt from the Philippines. She starts off reflecting on her experience coming up in California and navigating her Filipina-American identity. Geleen talks about growing up in an immigrant home, the impact of a study abroad experience, her path to self-empowerment, and how she started to travel the world. She then explains how she used to travel to escape, but how she is now intentional about designing transformative travel experiences and teaching other women how to do the same. Geleen shares some of her most epic adventures from skydiving to paragliding to white-water rafting around the world. She explains how they have impacted her, and why she uses skydiving as a metaphor for coaching other women on how to chart a path to self-empowerment and create a life of travel that they truly love. FULL SHOW NOTES AVAILABLE AT: www.TheMaverickShow.com

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What You'll Learn

How to Design Transformative Travel Experiences
How to Take Control Of Your Life And Chart a Path to Self-Empowerment
The Impact and Significance of Skydiving and Other Forms of Adventure Travel

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Time Stamped Show Notes

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[2:20] Introducing Geleen Antonio

[3:54] The WITS Travel Creator Summit

[6:35] Growing up in California and Navigating Her Filipina-American Identity

[12:05] Starting to Travel the World

[14:37] The Impact that Studying Abroad in Rome had on Geleen

[19:18] Geleen’s Path to Self-Empowerment

[22:22] Traveling to Escape vs. Transformative Travel

[27:41] Designing Transformative Travel Experiences

[29:40] Geleen’s First Sky Diving Experience

[33:52] Skydiving as a Metaphor for Solo-Female World Travel

[34:59] Paragliding in Colombia

[39:45] Adventure Travel in Costa Rica

[44:54] Preparing to do Base Jumping in Utah

About the Guest

Geleen Antonio

Geleen Antonio is the founder of “Travel Not to Escape”—a holistic solo-travel empowerment platform which helps women to live lives they are genuinely excited about. Geleen empowers women to create intentional, conscious and impactful travel experiences that are rooted in personal transformation, authentic connection, and play. She helps women redesign their lives, transcend borders, and connect with themselves, others, and the world in a way that is deeply meaningful and joyful. Born in the Philippines and raised mostly in California, Geleen now travels the world as a full-time digital nomad and has been to nearly 40 countries.