Creating Connection through Travel Storytelling with Lola Akinmade

Soul of Travel: Women's Wisdom and Mindful Travel

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In this episode of Soul of Travel, Season 5: Women's Wisdom + Mindful Travel, presented by JourneyWoman, Christine hosts a soulful conversation with author and visual storyteller Lola Akinmade, founder of Geotraveler Media Academy. Lola is an award-winning visual storyteller, international bestselling author, and travel entrepreneur based in Stockholm, Sweden. She is the editor-in-chief for Slow Travel Stockholm and has written for National Geographic Traveler, BBC, and CNN, among others. She has been named a 2022 Hasselblad Heroine and received the 2018 Travel Photographer of the Year Bill Muster Award. In addition to contributing to several travel books, Lola authored Due North, LAGOM: Swedish Secret of Living Well, In Every Mirror She’s Black, and Everything is Not Enough.

Christine and Lola discuss:

• Creating balance in our lives as mothers and travel professionals
• Our shared value of connection and how our travel values show up in our photography, travel, and life
• The question: Who Gets to Share the Story of a Place?
• An update from Lola about Local Purse, first featured in Soul of Travel Podcast Episode 26

Join Christine now for this soulful conversation with Lola Akinmade.

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Visit https://akinmade.com/ and Geotraveler Media Academy. Connect with Lola on your favorite social media network. Instagram / Instagram / LinkedIn / Twitter

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