Coloring My Way Across The Globe
World traveler and color expert Lauren Battistini chronicles the most colorful people, places and experiences she encounters off the beaten path in her global travels. Tune in for a culturally immersive, adventurous and highly engaging journey each episode!
Episodes
What better day to launch season two of Coloring My Way Across The Globe than on INTERNATIONAL PODCAST DAY—Monday, September 30, 2024?
We begin this second podcast season with my new colleague and friend, Devaki Das, the founder of Weave A Thousand Journeys (WATJ), a travel company specializing in bespoke, luxury, curated...
This week I have the privilege and joy to talk shop with fellow architectural color consultant Lisa Jenkins. Lisa is a world renowned, certified architectural color specialist who has worked on projects both internationally—many areas in the Middle East—and domestically.
Lisa has worked in all aspects of color naming, fo...
Today’s guest is Danny Goldman, professional clarinetist and world traveler.
In this episode we cover Danny’s travels and entrepreneurial life as a professional clarinetist, his most recent performances in Paris and Dublin, and how he went about developing his unique playing style!
Danny picked up his first clar...
This week we recap season one, list all of the 28 countries from which we had listenership, and provide a preview of the upcoming season two’s focus. We thank all of our guests from season one and look forward to season two launch in September.
Join the colorful conversation in our first ever video podcast. Today I have the privilege of introducing one of the world's most prolific young artists, Clara Woods. Clara's art is vivid, soulful, animated, playful and heavily inspired by Frida Kahlo. I hope that you will watch the episode as we delve into the mind of o...
Nestled in a small pocket on the outskirts of Houston and a mere two miles from major highways to its west and east is Tomball, Texas, ladies and gentlemen.
With its very own Main Street dotted with boutiques, eateries, antique and resale shops, Tomball is a small slice of idyllic charm and an eclectic throwback to times ...
Our esteemed guest, Nicole Schumann-Sizaret, is a teacher and practitioner of the Feldenkrais method, which uses specific movements to open up thought processes and unleash creativity—while promoting wellness on many levels.
Nicole’s specialization is expressing our creative skills through conscious exploration of moveme...
A continuation of last week’s interview with Reverend Dennis Flach, this week’s episode covers Rev. Flach’s years spent in church planting, global missions and family travels to many parts of the world. Enjoy, my colorful friends!
Third generation New Orleanian, proud husband, father and grandfather, Rev. Dennis Flach joins us today with some stories and remembrances of his childhood and early adult years in the internationally blended, cultural melting pot that is New Orleans, Louisiana. We journey from there just across the Mississippi River to chat about...
Back in the mid 90s, I learned Spanish as a second language through a full immersion program in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Guatemala. Newsflash: it didn’t involve a single textbook. In today’s episode I am discussing the non-traditional learning methods I employ to learn language, and why sitting in a classroom conjugating verbs fo...
Today’s guest Carmen Sognonvi and I met in a tiny ramen bar in Tokyo, Japan last May as she and her family were wrapping up their three-week tour of the country. I was there as many of you know on my own two-week journey with my son.
Carmen owns and operates Top Flight Family, a resource for all things luxury family trave...
Join in on this week’s episode with Dr. Carmen Landrau, my long time friend and fellow entrepreneur! Carmen is a cardiologist, motivational keynote speaker and executive business coach. A proud native of Puerto Rico and long time Houston resident, Carmen offers cultural and language insights about Puerto Rico, La Isla del Enc...
Join us today for some adventure and comedy as we discuss Julie’s first global travel experience to Greece, how we merged our distinct traveling styles, and other aspects of life from real struggles of entrepreneurship to pursuing dreams at any age!
Follow all of Julie’s adventures at: www.instagram.com/livelifelehmann
As I interviewed this week’s guest Henri Sizaret, it became abundantly clear that he represents everything that this travel and culture podcast is about: that is, telling stories of colorful places, life experiences, travels, and adventures from a multicultural, multilingual perspective.
We discuss Henri’s background of ...
2023 proved to be the year of the sabbatical for host Lauren Battistini. In this episode she expounds upon what led to the “gap” year and lessons gleaned from the time away. Traveling 12 out of the 52 weeks in 2023, Lauren gained not only rest, but also direly needed family, creative and adventure time!
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Last fall I registered for a 3k open water swim competition off the island of Spetses, Greece, a 3-hour ferry ride from Athens. This proved to be the most challenging open water swim of my life, and at certain points I considered throwing in the towel! Thankfully I kept going and finished well, missing a 3rd place podium award (fo...
Last fall I registered for a 3k open water swim competition off the island of Spetses, Greece, a 3-hour ferry ride from Athens. There for a week, I stayed at the idyllic, cozy, traditional guesthouse of 7 Islands.
Family owned and operated since 1987, this guesthouse delivers what it promises to “feel like home.” Nestled ...
In today’s episode I visit with Marina Tsekoura in her quaint writing studio in a lovely Athens suburb. We are here to discuss places off the beaten path in and around Athens, as well as equally enchanting parts of mainland Greece.
Hear also about Marina’s international travel, language learning and role as contributing j...
In May of 2023, my son Christian Battistini and I set off on our first ever international adventure together. We chose Japan as the destination and spent two magical, action-packed, fully immersive weeks in this culturally rich land steeped in so much beauty and tradition.
In today’s episode we share perspectives as mothe...
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