BHostel
BHostel is the storytelling podcast that captures unforgettable hostel moments from real travelers around the world. Hosted by journalist and former hostel employee, Bryant Perkins, each episode features raw, immersive stories of connection, chaos, and personal growth—told by the people who lived them. From chance encounters and culture shock to heartbreak, friendship, and self-discovery, these are the true stories that make travel unforgettable. Whether you're a backpacker, digital nomad, or simply hostel-curious, BHostel brings you into the shared rooms where everything changes. BHOSTEL, where strangers become storytellers! Explore more at bhostelpod.com or contact hello@bhostelpod.com. Watch Here: https://www.youtube.com/@bhostelpod
Episodes
A flood left Zack Reed without a place to live in 2022. So he started working in hostels, and it changed how he sees the world.
In this episode of BHostel, recorded at Ember Hostel in Denver, Zack tells the whole story. It starts with his first hostel job at the International Travelers House in San Diego. It ends with a book about his life inside American hostels. Along the way, he shares how the front desk taught him to set boundar...
One year. Four losses. Her job, her cat, her relationship, and her mother.
Then Jemelle opened a Pokémon pack, and everything started to change.
In this episode of BHostel, recorded at Ember Hostel in Denver, Jemelle shares how the Pokémon TCG helped her rebuild after the hardest year of her life. After a layoff from the video game industry, she paid off her credit card debt through budgeting and real sacrifice. She found community i...
One year. Four losses. Her job, her cat, her relationship, and her mother.
Then Jemelle opened a Pokémon pack, and everything started to change.
In this episode of BHostel, recorded at Ember Hostel in Denver, Jemelle shares how the Pokémon TCG helped her rebuild after the hardest year of her life. After a layoff from the video game industry, she paid off her credit card debt through budgeting and real sacrifice. She found community i...
Chelsea runs bookings, marketing, and community at NW Portland Hostel, a 200-guest space in Portland, Oregon.
We get into the unwritten code of hostel life, the public café and free event space, cultural exchange, sustainability, and how the place adapted to survive the pandemic.
Two college students. One firehouse turned hostel—a conversation about identity, immigrant families, and rewriting the story you were handed.
Some interviews you steer. This one you just hold on to.
We pulled up, back in 2021, to Firehouse Hostel in downtown Austin, just off the 36, and found two travelers who feed off each other's energy like a current. Andrea Rivera is 20, from Dallas by way of Honduras. Abby Botta is 19, fro...
Season 4 of the BHostel podcast opens inside Northwest Portland Hostel, where backpackers, neighbors, and strangers become something closer to family. Through late-night conversations, quiet moments of vulnerability, and a deep love for hospitality, this episode captures what happens when the people who run a hostel care as much as the people who stay in one.
This is the audio track from "Stay," the documentary series by BHostel, ex...
FROM THE VAULT: We are reaching back into the BHostel archive to bring you one of the conversations that shaped the direction of this entire show.
Two best friends quit their careers, sold everything they owned, and rode Honda Africa Twin motorcycles from Southern California to a hostel bar in Austin, Texas. This episode was originally recorded live at Firehouse Hostel on Sixth Street, and it is one of the most honest conversa...
A shadow on the wall. Cold air in a closed room. Or just a bunkmate?
In our first Halloween special, we share spooky hostel moments, producer stories (Patrick Star, Hammerhead, Perry the Platypus!), and the heart behind BHostel: community. Hear Bryant and the team trade real hostel tales, from Firehouse Hostel's late-night "orbs" to solo travel romance in Ecuador, and why we keep telling stories between seasons.
If you love hostel li...
At Denver's 11th Ave Hostel, Bailey and friends share first-gen roots, the family dinners that shaped them, and how hostel community becomes chosen family. They also get honest about microaggressions and why acceptance starts with respect. If you've felt in-between cultures—or found "home" on the road—this conversation belongs to you.
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Bailey once struggled with severe anxiety. Now, after traveling from Omaha to Denver, he's found confidence, community, and a calling to help others. In this episode of the BHostel Podcast, host Bryant Perkins sits down with Bailey to discuss hostel life at 11th Avenue Hostel, Denver nightlife, and how travel friendships can be as powerful as family ties.
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Berlin’s first hostel stay in Denver at 11th Avenue Hostel leads to solo travel, Red Rocks, Reiki, and radical self-love –a BHostel story about choosing community, courage, and new beginnings.
Got a hostel story of your own? Visit BHostelPod.com and send it in—we may feature your journey next.
Before he was scooping butter pecan on Colfax, he was moving the room with bass.
Tullie Bailey once ran five of the biggest nightclubs in Denver—packed dance floors, late nights, neon lights, and all the chaos that came with it. But somewhere between headlining DJs and backdoor exits, something shifted. He got sober. He chose stillness. And he started building something softer—something that healed instead of hyped.
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Some kids run away to rebel. Sarah ran to survive.
By 16, she had lived in homeless shelters, watched her mother spiral through addiction, been adopted into a deeply abusive household, and slept in a garage while her brothers got bedrooms. When she asked to be placed back into foster care, she was denied. So she packed up her life, lied about her age, and disappeared.
In this episode of BHostel, host Bryant Perkins sits down with Sar...
When Christy Balduf's world shattered with the loss of her 8-year-old daughter, she faced an unthinkable question: How do you keep living when the center of your life is gone? In this deeply human, unfiltered conversation recorded inside Austin's iconic Drifter Jack's Hostel, Christy shares her path from single motherhood and unimaginable grief to rediscovering herself through travel, community, and the unexpected sanctuary of host...
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