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The Travelers is a weekly show about the inward journey of travel. Episodes explore themes such as curiosity, creativity, career, possibility, clarity, awe, wonder, space, and time. Nathaniel Boyle is an explorer of travel, storyteller, speaker, and the founder of Holocene, a community for creative people seeking to use travel to change or reclaim their life. Whether you're heading out or struggling to find your place in the world, this is a show about all of us, the Travelers.

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The Travelers is a weekly show about the inward journey of travel. Episodes explore themes such as curiosity, creativity, career, possibility, clarity, awe, wonder, space, and time. Nathaniel Boyle is an explorer of travel, storyteller, speaker, and the founder of Holocene, a community for creative people seeking to use travel to change or reclaim their life. Whether you're heading out or struggling to find your place in the world, this is a show about all of us, the Travelers.

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English


Episodes

How the Holocene Framework Works, a case study

6/7/2022
Today, I’m revisiting one of my favorite episodes of The Travelers, #183, an interview with Jonathan and Quinn Button from Life out of the Box, a company that takes the Tom’s shoes model — but instead of shoes, it’s local artiisanal crafts, such as bracelets and apparel, handmade by locals — and for each sale, a portion of the proceeds goes towards providing supplies to teachers in that very same local area. And I love this, not only because education is the most important cause, in my...

Duration:00:22:50

How Travel + Creativity Changed My Life

6/1/2022
Here's a short episode - a story about how Creativity, inspired by Travel, changed my life. And how it can open world's of possibility for you, as it has for all of the guests on this show.

Duration:00:16:06

Why Most People Never Change After Travel

12/21/2021
Creativity is the forgotten third act of transformative experience. This is Season 3, Part 7 of 12, in which we move into the final part of every transformative story: Creativity. Despite how seemingly transformational a travel experience might be, why is it that most people never change after their travels and instead return back to living the same life and being the same person? It's because the most overlooked part of every transformational travel experience is also the hardest. What do...

Duration:00:21:16

How to Avoid the Dangers of Curiosity

11/12/2021
Did Curiosity kill the cat? Maybe, but not in the way you think. This is Season 3, Part 6 of 12, in which we wrap up our deep dive on Curiosity by diving into its potential for infinite personal growth and also destructiveness in our lives. Learn how to use Curiosity in your life, why you need a guide, and how to avoid the pitfalls of Curiosity.

Duration:00:30:19

How to Use Curiosity to Find Purpose, Passion and Inspiration

10/22/2021
Welcome to Episode 5 of The Travelers Season 3 where we’re exploring the 4 stages of Transformative Travel, in 3 episodes each. Right now we’re on Stage 2, which is Curiosity. And it’s a big one. It’s where travel happens. Transformative Travel is about using travel find personal growth or transformation, so Curiosity is fundamental in the transformative process. In this episode we’re going to break down a conversation from episode 95 with Candace Rose Rardon, a travel artist and writer,...

Duration:00:36:08

What is Curiosity and How Wonder Changes Us

10/2/2021
We’re going to explore the next stage in Holocene’s transformative experience framework: Curiosity. First, we’ll explore what Curiosity is, some of its benefits, and why it’s so important. Then in the next episode, we’ll explore a Curiosity-driven-life of travel, and then I’ll go into how to avoid the pitfalls of Curiosity and how to apply it to your life so that you can benefit in the same ways.

Duration:00:20:32

How to Rewrite the Stories We Tell Ourselves using Transformative Travel

9/21/2021
This episode is part 3 in a 12 part exploration of Transformational Travel. On this episode, we're talking about STORIES. Namely, how to begin to rewrite the story we tell ourselves, why it’s so important that we consider doing this for our mental health, and how travel can help us do that. If you're feeling trapped by any negative thoughts, limiting beliefs, self doubt or the doubt from others, then this is absolutely your episode.

Duration:00:26:27

Overcome Your Anxiety and Resistance to Travel

9/7/2021
Lauren Juliff from Never Ending Footsteps travel blog and author of How Not to Travel the World is a perfect example of someone who overcame immense RESISTANCE to find personal transformation. Growing up, Lauren always had a calling to travel. Unfortunately, she also had paralyzing anxiety, suffering from up to five panic attacks every day. Despite this debilitating condition, along with the lack of support from friends and family, and her own self-confidence, Lauren still found a way to...

Duration:00:24:19

223 - How to Use Wonder to Overcome Resistance

8/27/2021

Duration:00:25:36

222 - REFLECTION with Alex Crevar

7/19/2016
Links from today’s episode: Holocene - Join a tribe of travelers transforming their lives. Paste Magazine's Travel Section • Follow Alex Crevar on Twitter Alex Crevar is the travel editor at Paste Magazine and a freelance journalist, specializing on international travel - with bylines in The New York Times, Men’s Journal, Outside, National Geographic Traveler, and Time Out. Alex brings to his work and life over 2 decades of focus on the Balkans - a region of the world I’m itching to see,...

Duration:00:56:05

221: FEARLESSNESS with Rachel Rudwall

6/6/2016
Check out more at http://holocene.io Rachel's Bio: If you want to know what it's like to climb Kilimanjaro, paraglide with a hawk (a.k.a. "parahawk"), ice climb while simultaneously shooting a PBS show, or SCUBA dive the continental divide in Iceland, Rachel's the woman to ask. Rachel has always been an explorer, from the days of youth running barefoot through Ohio's forests, to the present day scouring the globe for stories that need telling. This episode is perfect for: Anyone looking...

Duration:01:02:47

220: CHANGE with Kirsten Alana

5/13/2016
“I think you can choose to be happy, and choose to explore, and choose to be fulfilled by life or you can choose to sit back and let life overwhelm you and be unhappy. But for me, the easiest happy life has been through travel because it’s continually evolving and changing and I’m continually discovering new things. And I just found very quickly that that suits me very well.” Kirsten Alana is a former nomad turned New York based travel photographer, entrepreneur, consultant, writer, blogger...

Duration:00:41:13

219: CREATE with Elena Paschinger

4/29/2016
Join Holocene, a transformative travel community for the curious and creative. See this episode on Holocene Listen to more episodes Elena Paschinger is the author of The Creative Travelers Handbook, the first - and I think only - travel guide for creative travel. What is creative travel? You might be asking. We’ll get into that. Elena is a multi-lingual Austrian travel writer, consultant, and speaker with a career in tourism management. A year spent living in New Zealand triggered an...

Duration:00:37:07

POSSIBILITY with Rolf Potts

4/22/2016
Join Holocene, a transformative travel community for the curious and creative. See this episode on Holocene Listen to more episodes 14 years ago, on January 1st 2002, a book by a first time author was released onto shelves. This book became a runaway hit that, at the very least, changed the perspective of independent travel to a generation hungry for a little more adventure in life. The book was called Vagabonding. It’s author, Rolf Potts is sitting down with us today — he’s the mind...

Duration:00:49:55

217: Halloween Horror Nights 25, An Immersive Theater Experience

10/6/2015
*2015 marks the 25th anniversary of Halloween Horror Nights here at Universal Studios in Orlando. Every year since 1991, this event has grown not only at this park, but at other Universal Studios Theme Parks all around the world. Together, my wife and I got to experience the whole event as a part of a VIP press event, which included touring 9 elaborately designed haunted mazes and multiple outdoor “scare zones”. They’ve basically turned the entire theme park and nine of the professional...

Duration:00:16:48

216: Building a Travel Startup with Zipkick’s Jason Will

9/22/2015
Jason Will is the Founder and CEO behind Zipkick, a startup determined to personalize the travel booking process. With brand ambassador Scott Eddy behind the wheel, I jumped onboard the Zipkick roadtrip - a cross-country tour to build hype around the launch of the Zipkick smartphone apps. Growing up playing competitive hockey left Jason with little chance to travel as a kid but plenty of competitive drive to be a champion. In this conversation, we delve into that inner-fuel and what it...

Duration:00:25:18

215: Show the World to Itself with Kasha Slavner

9/7/2015
Today’s guest is a photographer, filmmaker, blogger, and social entrepreneur. And she’s also new to international travel, but she’s also just 17, which means she’s getting quite a headstart at building a life of travel, exploring her curiosity and creativity through The Global Sunrise Project, a documentary film project she’s building. Through this project, and her travels, Kasha Slavner explores the emotional value exposing yourself at a young age to difference, and why it’s so important...

Duration:00:34:45

214: Sharing a Love for Thailand with Christophe Cappon

8/28/2015
“We think we know the plan, right? But the plan always tends to change on us. I had no idea. But I knew that something needed to change. I grew up in the city as a teenager. I always had this intrinsic feeling that at some point I wanted to get out and to see the world. I didn’t know how that was going to happen. But there was this golden thread that was consistent. It was maybe a little buried. There were doubts and there were fears. There were other pressures, that were like ‘Stay in...

Duration:00:36:38

213: Keeping a Career While Traveling with Edna Zhou

8/21/2015
The idea that you need to give up your travels in order to see the world is a common belief, but one that Edna has somehow dispelled along the way. At 18, Edna Zhou moved to Shanghai to work her way around the world. At 21, she left with almost nothing to live in Singapore — inadvertently jumpstarting an international career in sports journalism, eventually leading to one of travel writing. From there, she’d never look back - and I’m excited to bring her on the show to explore HOW...

Duration:00:35:28

212: Rebuilding Life for Travel with Kristen Kellogg

8/7/2015
Photo by Justin Hackworth. In this very special, and first-ever, live interview I sit down with creative agency founder and travel media producer Kristen Kellogg to explore her journey from bartender leading the wrong life to embracing the life waiting for her in travel. Today, Kristen is the talent behind Border Free Travels, a boutique video and social marketing agency for brands and destinations through which she's reconstructed her lifestyle around a passion to see the world and...

Duration:00:37:51