Meet Céline Cousteau, who comes from a lineage of explorers, and as a humanitarian and environmental activist she works with a variety of mediums that range from documentaries to art, from consulting with corporations and foundations to public speaking. 

Céline’s goal throughout her work is reconnecting people to themselves, each other, and to Nature. As a documentary director and producer, Céline created CauseCentric Productions to focus on cause focused media content. 

Extending her family legacy and her expertise, Céline co-founded The Outdoor Film Fellowship, a nonprofit program whose mission is to empower the next generation of filmmakers, creatives, and activists to inspire change through leadership, film, and the arts. Céline is ambassador for the TreadRight Foundation and on the board of directors of the National Aquarium in Baltimore. 

Tribes on the Edge is Céline’s first full feature documentary, the result of a request from the Indigenous Peoples of the Vale do Javari, Brazilian Amazon, to tell their story to the world.

In this episode, you will hear Céline’s story of how the film was made and the many challenges that the tribes of the Javari region are facing today and what you can do to help them.

Your host, Anne Gordon spent 15 years married into the Emberá tribe of Panama who are very similar in looks, culture and way of life to those of the Javari. In this unique conversation Céline and Anne compare notes and share the insights, experiences and wisdom they gained by spending time with these beautiful tribes of the rainforests of Brazil and Panama.

Watch Céline’s film Tribes on the Edge on Amazon Prime or iTunes.

Learn more and watch a trailer of Tribes on the Edge on Céline’s website: TribesontheEdge.com

To learn more about visiting the Emberá tribe in Panama go to EmberaVillageTours.com
 

Meet Molly Mandelberg, the Founder of Wild Hearts Rise Up and Creator of Magnetic Influencer Collective. As a tech-savvy strategist, Molly supports coaches, healers, and emerging thought-leaders to expand their outreach, so they can connect with more people, and make more money with less time spent. She runs her 6-figure business while traveling full time in her self-converted sprinter van and has been nomadic for most of the last 13 years. 

In this episode Molly shares how to find the magic that lies in between formal scheduled travel. She encourages you to relax into the travel to allow for the magic moments to unfold organically as you travel, and how those moments can bring about the most powerful transformations of all.

She shares how travel as a young adult was an escape from a destructive path she was on and along the way, she got curious about and found herself in a whole new way, that would have never happened if she stayed at home, in a routine life.  In her words, she "found herself in travel."

Molly talks about the importance of stepping outside of your comfort zone to discover who you truly are, whether that is traveling to Thailand or visiting local sites near your home that you have never been to before.

Molly has been living in her self-built Sprinter van and running her own 6 figure business and tells us how even though she is a digital nomad, going with the flow in her travels, she creates structure for herself to be the most productive and efficient in her nomadic lifestyle.

Get Molly's free gift, take her quiz, quiz for thought leaders to discover where they are on their journey: What Level of Thought Leader Are You?

Meet Jonathan Rivera, a conversational activist who starts conversations with people that he disagrees with and who disagree with him,  they don’t like him,  they don’t understand him so that he can learn from them and find commonality. He uses his anonymity as a super power as a tool to change the world every day. He has very few followers,  and he likes it that way. That’s how he has been able to change the world.

This has been one of the most powerful and poignant conversations yet on the Transformational Travel podcast. Jonathan is a true role model for us all, teaching and modeling for us how to listen without expectations or agenda.  Even without needing or wanting to change the mind of the person he is conversing with. Something very rare in today's world.

Jonathan is clearly a deep thinker who loves his fellow humans from any and all walks of life. He is a humble man who seeks no publicity, fanfare and has a very low profile in the world, yet he is making a profound impact on each and every person he has a conversation with, your host included.

Jonathan challenges us all, but his quiet activism, to be better humans. To be quiet, open and listen to those around us, especially those we don't agree with or understand, to find the commonalities that exist between all people. 

He quietly inspires all who hear his mission and opens the hearts of so many people around the world, one conversation at a time.

We encourage you to have your own activist conversations with those you may not agree with and we would love to hear your experiences. Send them to us at Anne@WhaleWisdomRetreats.com

 

Meet Wendy Rose Williams, MBA, Hypnotherapist/ Reiki Master Energy Healer and Certified Spiritual Teacher.  As a Past Life Adventure Guide, Wendy Rose Williams helps adults from around the world who are struggling to release pain, anxiety and depression. 

Through the techniques she's learned working with some of the world’s most renowned hypnotherapy experts including Dr. Brian Weiss, Wendy is able to lead clients through a healing process. People are able to finally start living this life with joy and purpose when they release the energy that does not serve them."

In this episode, Wendy shares about several day trips she has taken to locations she felt a strong pull and connection to. She recounts how while in these places she has spontaneous past life 'visions', seeing in her mind's eye, what happened in the exact same location in a previous life. Often involving her friends who were traveling with her now and then!

Your host, Anne Gordon, also shares a spontaneous past life as a Buffalo Caller in a Native American village in Montana and a powerful trigger that literally froze her in her tracks after watching a movie to find out years later that she had lived out exactly what had been portrayed in the movie with her husband in this life. 

Wendy shares how you too, can remember your own past life memories and take a past life pilgimage to visit these places in your cellular memory to reveal more details, validate them and possibly even heal and release any painful baggage or karma you may still be unconsciously carrying around with you today.

Get your free gift from Wendy, contact her at WendyRoseWilliams.com  and mention you heard her on the Transformational Travel podcast to get a copy of one of her books on Audible.

Or go to Amazon for Wendy's books:

Regression Healing I: The Huntsman, the Lord High Mayor and the World War II Soldier

and The Flow I: The Plimouth Plantation

Katie Rampen is a Wellness Empowerment Coach who is dedicated to creating a thriving world through healthier living as well as a breast cancer recovery advocate, helping women navigate a breast cancer diagnosis and avoid recurrence.

Eight years ago and then again this past March she was diagnosed with breast cancer. As a mother of two children, she knew it was time to spring into action to reclaim her health and her life. Not only for herself but for her kids and family. Katie embarked upon a quest to learn more deeply about cancer and health in general. As a result, she uncovered a lot of eye-opening, little known information that made her realize we each need - herself included - to start taking greater responsibility for our health. 

In this episode, Katie shares how she traveled as a caregiver for her ailing father to Kauai, Hawaii as she was recovering from her second bout of breast cancer surgery. What she soon realized was how powerful the healing energies of the island and beautiful nature all around them was.

Katie shares how a chance encounter with a rare Hawaiian Monk seal showed her how to be calm and at peace despite preparing for an impending hurricane.  A beautiful lesson about how to be present with what is happening at the moment, not what may or may not happen in the future.

She tells us about having sea turtles visit her little beach every day and how one sea turtle was struggling and how she felt moved to reach out to find help for the suffering turtle, despite others telling her she could not make a difference.  She learned to trust herself, be persistant and as a result saving the life of the sea turtle and giving back to the nature that had provided so much healing and wisdom to both her and her father.

You can connect with Katie in her Healthy Families Facebook Page

and her Kicking Cancer with Katie Facebook Group

Get Katie's free gift here:  7 Simple Steps to a Healthier You

and her free guide: Three Things You Need to Know to Prevent Breast Cancer

Stasha Washburn is The Period Coach, the bloody kind not the grammar kind. A dancer, chef, sword fighter,  tai chi practicing, speaker, author, skateboarder, INTJ, foul mouthed, football loving, digital nomad. Basically pinning her down is nearly impossible.  She’ll go anywhere as long as there’s a tea kettle and WiFi. 

A Certified Holistic Health Coach, and 20+ years of research have fueled her passion to reconnect women to the power in their period. Stasha is leading the bloody revolution to end the taboo of menstruation world wide. No longer whispers in bathrooms, she’s leading powerful public discussions.

In this episode, Stasha shares how she has been overcome with a deep sense of gratitude and a sense of accomplishment and perspective at pivotal moments in her travels. She talks about her mission to change the world by having open conversations about the natural functions of the female body with cultures around the world. 

Stasha is a rebel with the sweetest giggle ever. Her passion for empowering women and how simple it can be to ensure girls everywhere have the knowledge and supplies they need to take care of their bodies during menstruation so  it does not prevent them from the most basic rights, like education.

Stasha shares some simple and easy travel tips to make long flights more comfortable and to feel refreshed and ready to explore the minute the plane lands in a new and exciting location.

Get Stasha's free gift,  Click here for her Mandala Flow Chart

Click here to get a sample chapter from Stasha's book: The Revolution will be Bloody

Check out Stasha's website:  ThePeriodCoach.com

Sarah Tucker is a travel journalist, broadcaster and author.  She teaches yoga in schools and clubs in South West London and Surrey.   She’s won awards for her writing and broadcasting, and written best-selling novels, produced TV, radio and newspaper reports on her travels around the world, and written novels on events which make an impression on her – not usually a good impression. But she always sees the funny side.

She’s presented reports for the BBC Holiday Programme, anchor for ITV day time travel shows and done numerous travel expert slots with bonkers haircuts and bad make-up. 

She devised, presented and co-produced her own travel series on Jazz Fm, with her one-year-old sitting in the corner, who she then proceeded to travel with until he was eighteen.  She’s reported for Classic Fm, co-presented the Share Radio Travel Guide with Simon Rose on Share Radio and is travel editor of the Richmond magazine and Radio Gorgeous.  She writes regularly for Om Yoga magazine and Top Sante. 

In this episode Sarah shares some of her amazing stories, like taking her young son tiger trekking in India, encountering a bear in the Canadian wilderness, visiting a potato museum  and attending a church service in rural Senegal.  Through it all, she talks about the value of talking with the locals to learn what is most important to them and by doing so leaving a deep impact on her life. 

Sarah talks about how to travel with the eyes of a journalist, going beyond what the tourist books  recommend to meet amazing people, learn about how they live and what they are passionate about to come away with so much more than great photos and fun memories, but with an expanded way of thinking and a powerful insight into other cultures.

To find out more about and contact Sarah go to her website:  SarahTucker.info

Check  out Sarah's books: 

The A to Zen of Travel

The Redundant Travel Journalist

The Witches of Richmond

Lee has been helping business owners grow their businesses for more than a decade. Her mission is to positively and profitably impact 13,800 small business owners by December 31st, 2020. As of 2018, she has done just this with 9,483 businesses. 

Profit Zen is a state of being, and this is the foundational program that is the result of working with so many overwhelmed, or stuck entrepreneurs who may even shut down at the thought of doing anything else because it will be “more work” and “more stress”. Lee helps you breaks that cycle.

Lee loves numbers in all ways – math, numerology, astrology, sacred geometry, musical herz, and more. She believes basically everything boils down to a number, and numbers always tell the truth (Like it or not). Lee says “when you make peace with the 5 key numbers in your business, it becomes easier, simpler, and consistent. You can grow it, integrate that growth, all without stress and overwhelm, and feeling like you are working endless hours for naught.”

Step on the path to “Profit Zen”. Let Lee teach you the “left-brained” business activities in a “right-brained” way. Where you are now is just fine, however, once you really understand where you are, only then can you walk in peace to your place of Profit Zen…and from there, so far beyond. 

In this episode, hear how Lee had a love for travel from a very early age. She signed up for a semester abroad in Spain, having only taken one basic Spanish course.  She lived with a local family and jumped in with both feet to fully immerse herself, not only in the language, but the culture as well. 

What she learned was how to open her mind, heart and soul to see and understand how other people lived and thrived in a world very different from hers.  She found that one semester was the foundation from which she was able to excel in the international corporate world as well as in her own business, as she was able to meet her associates and clients at their level, with a deep respect she learned as a  naive American college girl spending a few months in Spain.

Contact Lee about attending her Business Bliss Retreat.