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Kated Travel Podcast: Stephen Bailey and Lisa Niver
Lisa Ellen Niver
Kated Travel Episode 162 – What To Do When You Can’t Travel, with Lisa Niver and host, Stephen Bailey
Kated Travel Podcast
What do you do when your number one passion is taken away? What do you do when you always travel, and then you can’t travel? It’s easy to be despondent during the great pause that is Covid-19. But some travellers see opportunity and positivity in the situation. Lisa Niver from We Said Go Travel brings her positive energy and great advice in today’s episode. She gives tips on how to use this time productivity and stay upbeat for when travel can return.
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Lisa on KTLA TV talking about travel–first segment about Napa Valley
Lisa on KTLA TV talking about Ogden, Utah: skiing and where the East and West Coast sides of the train met:
Lisa’s articles for Teen Vogue, AARP, American Airlines, Delta Sky, United Airlines, Wharton magazine, Smithsonian Magazine and many other places!!
Lisa wants to go Scuba diving: bucket list: Great Barrier Reef, Raja Ampat, Indonesia
Lisa’s bucket list: Antarctica (her final continent), Brazil, Iceland and Mallorca!
Lisa is writing a memoir! Learn about the journey to her book on Undomesticated magazine. AND she is looking for an agent!
Lisa’s 50 challenges before 50: mountain biking, sky diving and skiing with Jennifer who is blind and diving with bull sharks.
Thank you to Stephen Bailey and Kated Travel for inviting me on your show! It was great to talk about what you can do when you can’t travel!
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