167. The Woman Dancing in the Sahara Arrived Terrified - Why the Right Adventure Trip Brings You Home to Yourself
Point Me To First Class
Devon Gimbel MD
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever felt like you're so caught up in your daily roles and responsibilities that you've lost touch with who you are beneath all of that?
Dr. Stacey Funt, a radiologist, health coach, and founder of LH Adventure Travel, believes that travel has the power to help us reconnect: not just with the world around us, but with ourselves. She curates wellness and adventure group trips for women to some of the most transformative destinations on earth, from trekking the Inca Trail to exploring the Atlas Mountains to hiking in the Himalayas. But the real transformation doesn't come from the destinations themselves. It comes from what happens when women finally give themselves permission to step away from everything they're responsible for and into an experience that's entirely their own.
Dr. Stacey Funt and I discuss why that permission is often the hardest part, what changes when you remove the mental load of planning and managing everything, and why traveling with a group of like-minded women creates such a unique space for vulnerability and connection. She also opens up about how a solo trek in Nepal during one of the darkest periods of her life became the catalyst for building a business around creating these kinds of experiences for others.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Point Me to First Class, the only show for employed professionals, entrepreneurs, and business owners who are looking to optimize their higher than average expenses to travel the world. |
| 0:10.7 | I'm your host, Devin Gimble, and I believe that your expenses are your greatest untapped asset, if you know how to leverage them. |
| 0:17.8 | Ready to dive into the world of credit card points and miles so you can travel more, travel better, and travel often. Let's get started. |
| 0:29.7 | Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm so excited about today's episode because my guest |
| 0:35.3 | is someone who has completely reimagined what travel can look |
| 0:38.7 | and feel like. And honestly, this conversation might just change the way that you think about your next |
| 0:44.0 | trip. Today, I'm joined by Dr. Stacey Funt, a radiologist, health coach, and founder of LH. Adventure |
| 0:49.8 | Travel, who curates incredibly intentional wellness and adventure trips, mostly for groups of women, |
| 0:55.4 | to some of the most breathtaking corners of the world. We're talking the Inca Trail in Peru, |
| 1:00.8 | the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, the Himalayas in Nepal, and so much more. At the heart of her |
| 1:05.8 | work is a belief that travel has the power to reconnect us to ourselves, to each other, and to the world around us. |
| 1:12.9 | But this episode is about more than just travel. We get into why so many of us, especially |
| 1:17.6 | women, struggle to give ourselves permission to prioritize experiences that are just for us. |
| 1:22.9 | We talk about what actually happens when you step out of your everyday roles and routines |
| 1:26.5 | and put yourself somewhere completely new and unfamiliar. And Stacey shares a deeply personal story about a trip to |
| 1:32.2 | Nepal that quite literally changed the trajectory of her life. Whether you're a season traveler or |
| 1:36.8 | someone who's been putting off that big trip for way too long, I think you're going to find |
| 1:40.5 | something in this conversation that really resonates. So let's get into it. |
| 1:51.3 | Stacey, welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much for joining me here today. I'm so excited to have you and to share your story and your philosophy about travel. And I just wanted to dive straight in from |
| 1:56.9 | the beginning. And I wanted to ask you, what is your definition of wellness adventure travel? |
| 2:02.9 | Great question. First of all, I'm thrilled to be here. To me, wellness and adventure travel are two |
| 2:07.1 | different things. So adventure travel is when we're moving. It's not lying on a beach. It's active. |
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