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Hosted by Yulia Denisyuk · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 200 episodes
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Stories of people and places near and far hosted by Yulia Denisyuk, an award-winning travel journalist, photographer, and writer who’s worked with National Geographic, The New York Times, BBC Travel, and more. Each week, we sit down with travelers, journalists, creators, and people living and working in destinations around the world. Guided by Yulia’s years of working in the travel media industry, we meet the people living in the Middle Eastern deserts, culture writers in Hong Kong, street artists in Chicago, and more.
Yulia Denisyuk hosts Going Places, a society show with 200 episodes published.
Today is our final episode of this season! Thank you so much for staying with us, listening to us, sharing your words of encouragement with me, and spreading the word about our show. For two years now, I have been asking
Today, we’re speaking with Lindsey Danis, a queer writer of fiction and essays whose writing has appeared in AFAR, Fodor’s Travel, Condé Nast Traveler, Longreads and more. Lindsey’s book (Out) On the Road: The Radical Jo
Did you know that only 15% of African safaris are Black-owned? Since their colonial origins in the late 19th century, the safari operations on the continent have largely been headed by white men, with local communities r
Marinel de Jesus is a social entrepreneur and former human rights lawyer who advocates for justice in the mountain-trekking industry. Nearly a decade ago, she left the courtroom to imagine what it would take to travel th
We're celebrating a very special milestone this week: Going Places turns one ! We're building a home for decolonial storytelling, a place where we travel through a lens of equity, justice, and humanity and ask hard quest
The narratives that claim Muslims are "new" to Europe are in part fueling the Islamophobia we see on the continent and across the globe today. But what if we knew and celebrated the fact that Muslim people have always be
For over 1,400 years, Muslims have been an integral part of Europe’s story, yet their contributions to the continent’s development and history have been pushed to the margins or erased altogether. Today's guest is bringi
Travel is a tool for validation, a way to say "I see you, I hear you, and your story matters." Today's guest, Muna Haddad, has built her long career in tourism around this principle. Muna is a powerful maker of change in
Our first guest this season is Lale Arikoglu, the Director of Special Projects at Condé Nast Traveler and host of the award-winning Women Who Travel podcast. Lale has been working as Condé Nast Traveler editor for the pa
Welcome back to the new season of the Going Places show! This season of Going Places is all about changing narratives. From who gets to tell the story of a place to revealing the hidden history of Muslim Europe and eleva
Happy New Year! Today, we're speaking with Dr. Anu Taranath, a speaker, facilitator, and faculty member at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she teaches about global literature, race, and equity, and directs
How do a nomadic Costa Rican-Polish-American and a British-Pakistani raised in Saudi Arabia start a travel company together? Today, we're going to find out. We're speaking with Sibu Szymanowska and Hira Aftab, co-founder
Today, we're speaking with Vanessa Abbe, a travel advisor who joined me on my last group trip to Jordan. Travel to Jordan has dropped 90% in some cases in the last two years. In this conversation, I wanted to hear Vaness
Today, we travel to my favorite place on the planet: the desert of Wadi Rum in southern Jordan, to meet Ahmad Mara'yeh, a Bedouin man and co-founder of Rum Planet Camp. We are returning to Jordan next June! Join us June
One in three women worldwide has experienced physical or sexual violence (that’s according to UN Women). Yet, this rarely gets discussed outside of specialized circles. Today, we’re going to fix that. We're speaking with
If there is one episode you listen to this season, let it be this one. It revolves around these questions: how do we heal the world? How do we practice love? Today, we're speaking with Hadar Cohen, an Arab Jewish scholar
Today, we're sharing a preview of the kinds of conversations we have during our monthly First Fridays group calls inside our paid Going Places members' community. You’ll hear from our paid members Dr. Anu Taranath, a Uni
Today, we’re flipping the script and bringing you a conversation I recorded with a dear friend of mine, a longtime Palestinian activist Matt Bowles, for his podcast, The Maverick Show . On his podcast, Matt interviews pe
Today, we're speaking with Farah Cherif D'Ouezzan, an intercultural educator and founder of the Rabat, Morocco-based Center for Cross-Cultural Learning, which has been bringing groups of students and adult learners to Mo
Today, we're speaking with Tasneem Alsultan, a Saudi-American photographer known for her work on gender and social issues in Saudi Arabia and the region. Tasneem is the first Arab woman to become a Canon ambassador. She
Tharik Hussain
travel writer turned historian
2 appearances on this show
Hadar Cohen
Arab Jewish scholar, mystic, and artist
1 appearance on this show
Matt Bowles
Maverick Investor Group
2 appearances on this show
Lola Akinmade Åkerström
Speaker, Photographer, Travel Storyteller, Author
2 appearances on this show
Aziz Abu Sarah
Palestinian peace activist and author · InterAct International
1 appearance on this show
Shannon Stowell
CEO · The Adventure Travel Trade Association
1 appearance on this show
Jen Ruiz
travel writer, bestselling author, TEDx speaker · Jen on a Jet Plane
2 appearances on this show
Sarah Khan
Infectious Disease Specialist, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics · Condé Nast Traveller Middle East
3 appearances on this show
Jen Roberts
Senior Director of Integrated Marketing · Point Loma High School
1 appearance on this show
Beth Santos
Author of Wander Woman · She Shapes History NYC
1 appearance on this show
JoAnna Haugen
Founder · Rooted Storytelling
1 appearance on this show
Marie Ostblom
Stockholm Archipelago
1 appearance on this show
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