Nikki Vargas, CALL YOU WHEN I LAND: A Memoir

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 6 January 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Zibby speaks to Colombian immigrant and travel journalist Nikki Vargas about her soul-stirring travel memoir, CALL YOU WHEN I LAND, which whisks readers through the countries that brought her self-discovery, new love, and the inspiration to launch the first international feminist travel magazine, Unearth Women. Nikki reveals the beginning of her journey (as a runaway bride, screaming into the jungles of Argentina) and then describes her path to travel writing and the unique 3-part structure of her book (Turbulence, Changing Pitch, and Landing). She also talks about her magazine, highlighting the highs and lows of the entrepreneurial venture, and shares her plan to transition into fiction writing.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
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1:03.2	Nikki Vargas is the author of Call You When I Land, a memoir. Originally from Bogota,
1:08.6	Columbia, Nikki is the author of the bestselling, Call You When I Land, named one of the best women's memoirs of 2023 by Glamour magazine, selected as a staff pick by Apple Books, and recommended by Good Morning America, Forbes, Cosmopolitan, Shondaland, Real Simple, and more.
1:24.8	Nikki is the co-author of Wondress, a women's travel guide available in stores now
1:29.2	and featured in Refinery 29, Fortune Magazine, and Forbes.
1:33.2	In addition, Nikki is a senior editor for Photores Travel,
1:36.2	a legacy travel publication since the 1930s, reaching millions of readers.
1:40.8	She is also the founder of Unearth Women,
1:43.2	a women's travel publication set on
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