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
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...
Today’s guest has been exploring Japan and gathering insights since 2000 to bring us an exhaustive resource library for planning our own Japanese adventures!
When my son and I planned our 2023 Japan trip, we employed the services of Rob with much success. Our two weeks in Japan were colorful, adventurous, and so incredib...
What do the terms “digital nomad” and “location independent” call to mind when you hear them? For many, this is just a dream, but for today’s guest Danielle Hu , this became her reality once she chose to walk away from a big corporate job on Wall Street.
Join us for an engaging, colorful discussion about taking one—-and sometimes...
Who better to be my first podcast guest than the world’s most prolific color expert and forecaster, Leatrice “Lee” Eiseman? Lee is my teacher, mentor and a dear friend.
Recorded from Lee’s studio in Tucson, Arizona, we discuss “color across the globe” as art form, science, business and a multi-billion dollar industry that affects a...
Welcome to the podcast, friends. Today I sit down in my color and art studio to introduce you to my latest creative pursuit, Coloring My Way Across The Globe. What began as a casual hashtag on social media has evolved into both a podcast and a newly launched art career.
This episode articulates my passion for all things travel, col...
On a layover in Amsterdam, Holland, I met late one night with my long-time Instagram friend and favorite artist, Wendy Buiter.
Woman to woman, we covered almost every topic under the sun, from single motherhood to the demands of running a globally focused business, to the almost radical confidence you must possess to have a career ...
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