When you go out and travel the world is so incredibly kind and welcoming to you and in America especially and especially being a solo female traveler

There's a lot of fear mongering around it of like we're going to find your body you know like floating in the Panama Canal filled with cocaine and it's like no actually like we can get through Latin America totally fine without any issues and so I really wanted to

share those stories. The Hello and welcome to the future podcast. I'm your producer Greg Gunn and I hope you

are keeping sane safe and thoroughly entertained in these strange times. Speaking of

entertainment, today's guest is a seasoned world traveler, a writer, and a comedic performer.

This self-proclaimed Jill of all trades ventures into new countries all alone seeking out total strangers and listening to their stories.

She then reports back about the most daring and interesting ones through her own podcast called Strangers Abroad.

She and Chris talk about what makes great storytelling, the power of vulnerability, and they

keep alluding to an unforgettable travel story that led to an audience member fainting right in front of her.

I am literally going to go listen to that episode as soon as I'm done here.

So without any further teasing, please enjoy our colorful conversation with Adrian Bain.

So for people who don't know who you are, can you introduce yourself, please?

Yeah, my name is Adrian Bain and I am the creator of the Strangers Abroad podcast.

It is a narrative travel podcast.

So my first season I interviewed all of the wonderful and weird strangers that I met while I was

traveling and it really ignited my love for storytelling like I had been traveling

for such a long time but I was really disappointed with how poorly

I was documenting all of the conversations that I had with all the wonderful and weird people

that you meet along the way. And so from that, I really got into storytelling and now I'm a writer I'm a

podcaster and I do live stage performances of my stories as well. I'm a little Jill of all trade, you know?

Now somebody is going to be listening to this, like how does one get this kind of job that you just subscribe? You do podcasting and you do live stage performance.

How did this come to be?

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