How Travel Taught Me to Love My Body
Women Who Travel | Condé Nast Traveler
Condé Nast Traveler
4.4 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
"Plus-size fill-in-the-blank, but especially travel, is often not seen in a glamorous way," says Women Who Travel columnist Laura Delarato on this week's podcast episode. "It's often not seen at all." But thanks to communities and social media accounts that celebrate women's bodies of all shapes and sizes taking on the world, like Fat Girls Traveling, launched by our other guest this week, Annette Richmond, that's changing.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's Meredith. This week, we're throwing it back to an episode we recorded in January all about how travel can teach you confidence you never knew possible and challenge the ideas you have about yourself and the spaces that you belong. |
| 0:12.0 | It features Annette Richmond, whose voice you heard on our digital nomads episode a few weeks ago and women who travel contributor to Laura Deloado. |
| 0:20.0 | Folle and I will be back next week with a new Frequently Asked Questions episode, |
| 0:24.1 | so be sure to message us on Instagram. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm at O'Hay There Mayor and Lolle's at Lalehanna if you have a burning question. |
| 0:31.4 | Enjoy. |
| 0:36.3 | Hi, everyone, and welcome to Women Who Travel, a podcast from Condé Nas Traveler. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm Lale Ari Koglu and with me, as always, is my co-host Meredith Carey. |
| 0:45.3 | Hello! |
| 0:46.3 | This week we're talking to two women whose travels we followed for quite some time. |
| 0:50.3 | Body image advocates, they've been working to make travel more accessible and inclusive of women of all shapes and sizes. |
| 0:56.5 | You've heard of one of them before, Laura Deloardo, Sex and Wellness Writer and Women Who Travel Columnist, |
| 1:02.0 | on an episode about slowing down when we travel. |
| 1:04.8 | And joining us for the first time and calling in from Bangkok is Annette Richmond, creator of the Fat Girls Traveling Instagram. Thank you so much for |
| 1:12.9 | joining us. Thank you for having us. Laura, you came in in very cold weather of New York. Yes. Very |
| 1:20.8 | early in the morning. Thank you. Annette, I'd say thank you, but you're calling in from like 90 degree |
| 1:25.5 | weather in Bangkok. At night, it's just delightful. I'm so jealous. Yeah, it doesn't suck. It's evening here, so. |
| 1:34.0 | But I'd love to kick off by asking you both, because from what I gather, you have crossed paths on the internet before, |
| 1:42.8 | and I'd love to know how you kind of came across each |
| 1:44.9 | other's work and sort of the body positivity in travel community in general. |
| 1:51.0 | Ooh, I would say that a lot of plus-sized women who are visible on the internet have some |
| 1:57.8 | version of crossover to the point where, like, I can know people, like, I'm friends |
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