Welcome to The Nerve and welcome to our very first travel edition, The Nervie Traveler, with

none other than the iconic Belinda Carlyle, who first shot to fame as the lead singer of the

Go-Go's and then went on to build herself an indelible solo

career. So just a little, a brief thing on how this all came together and how I even know

Belinda and vice versa. When the nerve first launched, and you know, I was just such like a nervous

little, you know, whatever, but Belinda Carlisle reached out to me

on Instagram and she was like, hey, like I'm coming into New York. Do you want to have lunch? And I was

like, I would love to have lunch. As discussed, I loved the go-goes. I loved Belinda. Like, I was a fan

forever. And I went and met her and her husband for lunch here in New York City.

And you never know how those things are going to go.

But we really, really hit it off.

And one of the things we instantaneously bonded over was our love of travel.

Smash cut.

A few months later, none other than Tracy Ellis Ross gets a solo traveling show.

Always searching for places to put your camera to take pictures of yourself.

And I watched it in horror.

And I won't speak for Belinda's reaction, but we were both like, you know, you like to travel,

I like to travel, we should

have a travel show. And so we thought about it and we were like, let's do it, let's just do it.

And we did it with a real sense of adventure and fun. And the idea is to bring you a place

in such a way that no other travel show no other travel

guide you're not going to go on travelosity and find any of these places or people or things to do

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