Profiles Writer for Chris Guillebeau
NYT bestselling author Chris Guillebeau features community members travel-hacking around the world, integrating epic quests into their lives, and all-around living unconventional lives.
I worked directly with these adventurers, interviewing and then writing inspiring narratives about how they made their way off the beaten path.
Evo and Sheila were just your average baby boomers until Sheila’s doctor kicked them out of their home state. The dry air of Arizona was killing her, so they took the show on the road and have been traveling the world, on a budget, ever since. After funding their first year of travel by selling their car, these two have now perfected the air of international house-sitting, as well as creating their own location-independent marketing business and podcast.
Stormy’s story begins in the 80’s in Eastern Soviet Europe, with her grandma pocketing food from a buffet to give to a homeless person. Decades later while swimming with sharks off the coast of South Africa, Stormy was awestruck by the marine animals. These two experiences came together to create a young adult novel series that draw on her own international travel experiences and inspire young people with a sense of adventure, empathy and the desire to take action.
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