Travel Minded

Bettina Campolucci Bordi is an acclaimed plant-based chef, is a fervent advocate for plant foods. With her Danish-Tanzanian-Bulgarian roots, she uses local and seasonal produce to create dishes that nourish the body and soul.

Bettina has carved a niche in recipe development for high-profile brands and the hospitality industry, focusing on maximizing the potential of plant foods. Her culinary talents are showcased in her three well-received cookbooks: Happy Food, 7 Day Vegan Challenge, and Celebrate. The latter book, as the name implies, is a joyous collection of plant-based recipes that everyone can enjoy.

Her passion for food can be traced back to her multicultural childhood. Bettina fondly
remembers haggling for the freshest produce in Tanzania's markets and being enamoured by the culinary skills of her relatives in Bulgaria, Sweden and Norway. She's drawn from these experiences and her extensive travels to infuse her dishes with a global touch.

Beyond cookbooks, Bettina endeavours span food and mindfulness retreats, plant-based cooking workshops, pop ups, food writing, and her widely popular Retreat Chef Academy. A consistent thread in all her work is her unwavering belief in eating seasonally, locally, and waste-free. Bettina’s mission is to dispel the misconception that plant-based eating is dull, pricey, or inconvenient. Her goal is to inspire more people to embrace a plant-rich diet and to celebrate food, life, and camaraderie.

https://www.bettinaskitchen.com/
https://www.instagram.com/bettinas_Kitchen/

Mimi Labesa is a luxury fashion and lifestyle creator as well as being mum to Kadima and Zanang.

Mimi worked across various FMCG companies and most recently The University of Manchester as an Analytical Chemist before quitting to pursue a full time digital creator role.

Fashion has always been Mimi's passion since she was a young girl and nowadays, she spends her time travelling and creating fashion & lifestyle content with her daughters.

On the episode we discuss travelling the world with her daughters and share travel stories.

You can find more information about her work on her website -

http://mimilabesa.com/

https://www.instagram.com/mimilabesa/

Charlotte Holmes is a qualified PT & group fitness instructor with a love of the physical elements of yoga paired with the desire to delve deeper.  She's worked in the health & fitness industry for over 10 years as a movement coach, fitness model & brand ambassador. She has worked across some of the top London fitness boutiques, internationally on fitness retreats, as a founding instructor on the FiiT app, as a PT on MTV’s Beach Body SOS & more recently as Head of Yoga for Virgin Active UK.

On the episode we discuss her love of yoga, where it's taken her and her adventures across the world.

You can find more information about her work on her website - https://www.misscharholmes.com/

https://www.instagram.com/misscharholmes/

On today's episode we are joined by Nila who is an adventurous travel creator dedicated to seeing the world. She's a 27 year old with a passion for exploring, who loves to encourage other young people to follow their dreams, and live their most exciting and authentic lives.  On the episode we discuss how volunteering can take you to some incredible places and her experiences. 

https://www.tiktok.com/@nila.marino

We sit down with ex Love Island star Matthew MacNabb to talk about moving abroad and his travel experiences. 

Emma is joined by Fatima AlMattar (Arabic: فاطمة المطر),a Kuwaiti travel influencer and an entrepreneur.

After graduating from IE Business School in Madrid, Spain Fatima pursued her dreams of travelling the world and found lucrative business in her passions. She now makes the world a smaller place for her travellers through her company Hello Explorer Travel Consulting. 

You can find Fatima here - 

https://www.instagram.com/hello965/
https://www.helloexplorer.com/
https://www.hello965.com/

Shani is one of the UK's most influential disabled people and BBC's 100 Women laureate of 2020. She helps businesses and brands break barriers and become more inclusive and accessible for their disabled employees and customers.

As a South Asian woman who experiences disability, Shani has taken the change she wants to create in the world into her own hands. Her intersectional activism has led to challenging social inequality globally through entrepreneurship, and she is the founder of Diversability, the Asian Woman Festival and the Asian Disability Network.  
 
@shanidhanda 

In this episode Emma sits down with TikTok famous Valeria Shashenok. Valeria is a 21 years old Ukrainian activist. She is spreading information with videos and photos on her social media platforms about world issues. At the beginning of the full Russian invasion she lived in a bomb shelter (her dad’s office) and recorded video in TikTok about war life.  

Her social media accounts are:

https://www.tiktok.com/@valerisssh
https://www.instagram.com/Valerisssh/

You can purchase her book here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Things-that-sense-shelter-Library/dp/3903715255

Luana and Fred are former helicopter Pilots and now luxury travel content creators.

With a background in hospitality management and customer service, and knowing that the younger generation of luxury consumers expect and demand transparency, they base their content and social media on these two important pillars.

Joanna Kenny is all about channeling that big sis energy - creating the content she needed to see growing up. Join us as we talk with the former esthetician as we discuss how she challenges the unrealistic beauty standards with the #poresnotflaws movement and how her work has taken her across the globe.