Speaking of Travel
Each week, Speaking of Travel host Marilyn Ball shares her guests’ unique travel experiences that are inspiring, uplifting, enriching and informative. Sit back and be carried away to places from around the world and right here in our own backyard.
Episodes
June 19, 2022 • 42 min
Mark Collins, Partnerships Manager with Romantic Asheville, is at the center of creating successful partnerships in the travel and tourism industry and shares how cooperation and partnerships are used to achieve business and community goals.
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June 11, 2022 • 45 min
Diana Ralston is the founder and Executive Director of Can’d Aid, a national nonprofit that is creating a movement rallying people to become catalysts for change in their own communities through an unconventional approach to giving back.
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June 4, 2022 • 45 min
Dayna Reggero of the Climate Listening Project is collaborating with Gulf Coast locals to help protect the place they love from oil and gas development through filming and making art to lift up the truth tellers.
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May 28, 2022 • 43 min
Richard Crawford, host of the Amazon Prime TV show, Leave No Trace, shares his recent journey to Australia, addresses some of the challenges for sustainable tourism, and provides tips for becoming a more mindful traveler.
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May 21, 2022 • 45 min
At 15, Hilde Lysiak believes you can accomplish anything, regardless of age or gender. When she was seven she launched a newspaper and realized kids can plunge into the world and take action. Today she feels like her own world is just beginning.
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May 15, 2022 • 47 min
Sonya and Frank DiPalma recently spent time in Sardinia as part of Sonya’s research for a book about the Homeless European Land Project which provided refuge for about a dozen displaced persons in the late 1950s.
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May 8, 2022 • 43 min
Born in Sienna, Italy, a small medieval city in the heart of Tuscany, Marco Caratelli paints traditional Sienese art reprographics, replicating the work of the Sienese painters of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
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May 1, 2022 • 44 min
Georgette Blau, founder of On Location Tours, offers the only TV and movie-themed bus and walking tours in NYC and Boston. Discover why her tours are a unique part of tourism and the phenomenon of TV and movie tours.
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April 24, 2022 • 47 min
oby Brown, the U.S. partner, director of marketing, and head safari coordinator at Outdoor Africa, describes how traveling to this special place of the world provides an amazing and life-changing experience.
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April 17, 2022 • 42 min
Richard Crawford blends adventure with a conscious effort to use his TV show as a platform to raise awareness for the environment and sustainability. His recent adventures to Belize and Fogo Island are epic.
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April 11, 2022 • 88 min
It's post-Masters weekend on The Sports Freaks... what do we talk about now?
Asheville's favorite Freaks Brian Hall and Mike Morgan are joined by special guests:
Steve Forbes (Head coach, Wake Forest Men's Basketball);
Demp Bradford (President, Asheville Buncombe Regional Sports Commission);
Brett Friedlander (Reporter, North State Journal);
and Richard Walker (Founder, CarolinaSportsHub.com)
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April 10, 2022 • 47 min
Michael Gouge, editor of Blue Ridge Motorcycling Magazine and senior lecturer of mass communication at UNC Asheville, shares how motorcycling is a stress reliever and a confidence builder and helps boost your wellbeing.
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April 4, 2022 • 87 min
The final Monday of Madness is tinted blue with tonight's men's basketball national championship between Kansas and North Carolina. Sports Freak In Chief Brian Hall and special guest cohost Stan Pamfilis welcome special guests: Wes Moore (head coach, NC State women's basketball); Mike Morrell (head coach, UNC-Asheville men's basketball); and Pete McDaniel (contributor, Golf Digest/PGA expert)
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Katie Wilson, Director and CEO of Grow Abroad Asheville, is a born teacher and life-long learner with a purpose to connect people, places and ideas. Grow Abroad Asheville helps create future agents of change and global citizens.
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March 26, 2022 • 45 min
Jenny Cressman is an author and travel agent living in Canada who specializes in Cuba. Jenny shares how her recent trip provided an insider’s look at the resourcefulness and resiliency of the Cuban people.
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March 20, 2022 • 49 min
Dayna Reggero, a documentary film director and founder of the Climate Listening Project, partners with Kelly Sheehan, Director of Energy Campaigns for the Sierra Club, to create the Gulf Climate Listening Project.
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March 12, 2022 • 48 min
The Speaking of Travel + Leave No Trace Series continues with Richard Crawford, host of the Amazon Prime series, Leave No Trace. Richard reviews principles of ecotourism and provides knowledge on how to create a sustainable way to travel.
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March 6, 2022 • 45 min
James Parton is a photographer and filmmaker and is creating a movie about ecology and the connectedness of global ecosystems. The project focuses on less-known issues and brings them into the spotlight to help provide solutions.
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February 27, 2022 • 44 min
Juan Carlos Zuniga is a biologist and the program manager of the Costa Rico site for Ecology Project International. He shares how their hands-on, science-focused programs around the world are life-changing.
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February 20, 2022 • 50 min
Chiara and Federico, based in Rome, Italy, created Ideas 4 Travellers to offer authentic Italian walking tour experiences that uncover a different Rome. Explore the Eternal City with people who love to share.
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