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The Travel Diaries

Megan Hine, Survivalist & Explorer

The Travel Diaries

Holly Rubenstein

Conversation, Arts, Celebrity Interview, The Travel Diaries, Interview, Places & Travel, Travel Guide, Wanderlust, Chef, Podcast, Destination, Society, Society & Culture, Holly Rubenstein, Travel, Culture, Journalist, Personal Journals

4.6758 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Megan Hine is a survivalist and wilderness guide who has carved her path in the fiercely competitive world of adventure travel, producing some of the biggest adventure and survival shows on TV around the world. Her big break came working alongside Bear Grylls on his hit show Man vs Wild, and from there, she’s led talent and film crews in the world’s toughest environments for over 20 years. 


A seasoned adventurer, Megan also possesses an insatiable hunger for exploration. Armed with her unwavering spirit and an arsenal of survival skills, she’s led expeditions around the world, from the arid deserts of the Sahara to the icy tundras of the Arctic. Her remarkable ability to adapt to the harshest conditions and think on her feet has earned her the admiration of both novice adventurers and seasoned experts alike. Whether it's scaling treacherous cliffs, navigating dangerous waters, or braving bone-chilling temperatures, Megan continues to push boundaries.

She is also a qualified resilience coach, and combines intimate knowledge of wilderness survival, a degree in psychology and a fascination with the psychology of survival to help clients overcome mental health struggles. Many of these techniques feature in her best-selling book 'Mind of a Survivor’, which we talk about today.


So, fasten your seatbelts, and ready to embark on an unforgettable journey with us today, full of heart-stopping adventures, invaluable life lessons, and the transformative power of travel. From Panama to Tibet, New Zealand to Mongolia, let’s get started.


Destination Recap:


  • Pearl Islands, Panama 
  • The Maldives 
  • Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, China?
  • Scotland
  • Iceland
  • New Zealand
  • Snowdonia, Wales
  • Newborough Beach, Wales
  • Black Rock Sands, Wales
  • Mongolia
  • Llŷn Peninsula, Wales
  • Tibet
  • Antarctica
  • Alaska, USA


You can follow Megan on her adventures on Instagram at @Megan_hine and read her book, Mind of a Survivor. 


Thanks so much for listening today. If you'd like to hear more from the podcast don’t forget to hit subscribe, or if you use Apple Podcasts to press follow so that a new episode lands in your podcast app each week. If you want to be the first find out who is joining me on next week’s episode come and follow me on Instagram I’m @hollyrubenstein, and you’ll also find me on Twitter and TikTok as of a few weeks ago, also @hollyrubenstein - I’d love to hear from you. And if you can't want until then remember there’s the first eight episodes to catch up on, that's over ninety episodes to keep you busy there. Don't forget that all the destinations mentioned by my guests are included in the episode show notes here on your podcast app, and listed on my website, thetraveldiariespodcast.com



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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Travel Diaries podcast.

0:09.8

I'm your host, journalist Holly Rubinstein, and here each week I'll be speaking to a very special guest about the seven chapters in their life's travel diaries.

0:19.4

From their earliest childhood travel memory and the first

0:22.5

place they fell in love with to their hidden gem and what's at the top of their travel bucket

0:27.5

list. We'll be uncovering their adventures around the world and the travel experiences and

0:32.9

destinations that have shaped their lives. How are you doing everyone?

0:38.0

How has your week been?

0:39.3

I hope that you're all keeping well.

0:41.6

Here in England, it feels like summer's finally arrived, which has been glorious.

0:47.8

So nice to spend a bit of time outside.

0:50.0

So good for the soul.

0:51.0

And today was actually meant to be my season nine finale, but as you might

0:56.8

have seen on my Instagram, after four years of trying to manifest the wonderful Joanna Lumley

1:04.7

as a podcast guest, she is finally joining me on the podcast in a few weeks' time.

1:12.2

I'm so excited.

1:14.6

This means that you'll get today's brilliant episode,

1:17.0

and then the next couple of weeks we'll be revisiting a couple of my all-time

1:21.9

favorite episodes from the archives,

1:24.1

now that we've got over 100 to pick from.

1:26.5

And then on June 20th, put it in

1:28.7

the diary. We're going to be joined for a whole hour by Dame Joanna Lumberland. And let me tell

1:36.0

you, it is everything I'd hoped for and more. Okay, on to today's extraordinary guest,

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