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We're pulling past episodes from the archives to highlight Women's History Month! This episode was originally published in April 2016.

Renata Chlumska is a Swedish and Czech adventurer with a long and impressive list of expeditions, including:

• Bicycling from Nepal to Sweden
• Summiting a mountain over 8,000 meters without supplemental oxygen
• A motorcycle trip from India to Sweden
• Climbing Mt. Everest and finishing the Seven Summits
• Completing her "Around America Adventure" (439 days, 11,300 miles by kayak and bicycle solo)

In this episode, Renata and I discuss solo travel, planning big adventures, and how she turned her adventure into a career (and how you can, too!). She also shares how travel can be a way to process tragedy and why your exotic place as a traveler is just around somebody else's corner.

Plus! At the end of the episode, I share my five tips to help you meet more people when traveling.

What would be your ultimate adventure? I'd love to hear your thoughts and hope you'll share them by sending me an audio message.

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Tune In To Learn:

• Why your travel experience is all relative to your mindset
• The best ways to prepare and plan for a big trip
• Why it's important to maximize life and make the most of it
• What she took away from her expedition across America
• How she became a professional adventurer and advice for designing your life
• Her plans to adventure into the final frontier (and how you can do it, too!)
• Insight into opening yourself to new possibilities and perspectives
• The best advice for a budding adventurer
• And much more!

Resources:

• Join Zero To Travel Premium Passport
• Sign up for our FREE newsletter
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• Listen to Renata's TEDx Talk
• Virgin Galactic

Want More?

• The Only Woman To Walk Around The World: Inspiring Female Adventurers Series with Polly Letofsky
• Solo Adventure Cycling Around The World: Epic Bike Rides With Shirine Taylor
• Only $50 and a Dream: Biking Across the USA Solo with Zero Experience with Jasmine Reese

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