Hey, everyone and welcome to Women Who Travel, a podcast from Kahnast Traveler.

I am Meredith Carey, and with me as usual, is my co-host, Lali, Eric Koglu.

Hi.

And this week we have a very exciting guest, someone who has inspired both Lale and I to travel,

which is Samantha Brown, travel expert and host of PBS's Places to Love,

which has a second season coming out soon, if I'm not mistaken. Thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you for having me. I think women who travel, we should talk more about us.

This is literally that's just this. This is just us.

We don't meet boys when we travel. You know, really, though, I don't think that's fair.

It's illuminating when you realize that for the first time.

Exactly.

We kind of wanted to start out asking you how you even got into hosting or traveling just in general.

Were you interested in traveling as a kid? Is it something that pushed

you towards hosting a travel show? Because you've been doing this for a while. 20 years.

And it's before your time, girls. But for a lot of different shows. And I think a lot of people

know you from Travel Channel or from Places to Love. but there were a lot of shows before that as well.

So how did you get started? I actually had no interest in travel. I grew up in New Hampshire. We went

to Pennsylvania and maybe Canada. I certainly loved the idea of it, but never thought it would

be my life. I went to school for musical theater, and I came to New York City to pursue that, that career. So that means I waited on tables

for eight years. And I was a very good waitress. I'm at any time I have those skills and I could

fall back on that. But I went for an audition that I actually submitted myself for. And it was for

a commercial. And I got the commercial. And then the writer of the commercial actually recommended me

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