Life Beyond the Map: Interview w/ Modern Explorer, Tay Wanders
Locations Unknown
Unknown Media Group
4.4 • 897 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
A single mom and storyteller at heart, Tay creates outdoor and travel narratives designed to help women step into big, wild places feeling prepared and empowered. Through thoughtful destination inspiration, practical safety insight, and carefully built itineraries, she works to make adventure feel accessible rather than intimidating.
What began as traveling out of her truck during COVID quietly evolved into a full-scale business. By working remotely, Tay has built a life that allows her to stay present with her daughter while giving her firsthand experiences of the world from an early age.
Tay’s story is about taking calculated risks, trusting your instincts, and realizing that adventure doesn’t have to wait for “someday.” We’re excited to dig into her journey, how it all came together, and the lessons she’s learned along the way.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Thousands of people have mysteriously vanished in America's wilderness. |
| 0:12.0 | Join us as we dive into the deep end of the unexplainable and try to piece together what happened. |
| 0:19.0 | You are listening to locations unknown. What's up, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of Locations Unknown. |
| 0:57.6 | I'm your co-host, Joe Irrato. |
| 0:59.2 | And with me as always is a guy who always knows where Tay is going to wander next. |
| 1:03.0 | Mike Van Bogart. |
| 1:04.5 | Oh, thank you, Joe. |
| 1:05.8 | And thank you to all of our amazing listeners for tuning in. |
| 1:09.5 | Just a few updates before we get going. First, |
| 1:12.6 | I'd like to thank our new Patreon supporters. We have Emily Happy and Cheryl Yankovic. |
| 1:20.1 | Oh, is she related to Weird Al? I don't know. Maybe, maybe not. It might be Cheryl |
| 1:25.0 | Yankovic. Probably. Probably. |
| 1:28.1 | Awesome. |
| 1:29.0 | Today's episode is going to be a little bit unique. |
| 1:31.2 | We're just doing an interview with Taylor Hutchinson from Tay Wonders. |
| 1:36.4 | That's obviously the call up for Mike. |
| 1:38.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:39.5 | No, we actually, it's a really cool interview. |
| 1:43.9 | She has some incredible stories. |
| 1:46.0 | She has been basically living on the road and creating content. |
| 1:49.2 | And she's been selling a lot of her content to brands and different places around the country. |
| 1:57.2 | And she's got tons of stories. |
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