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The Nerve with Maureen Callahan

The Nerve-y Traveler Part 1: Maureen Callahan & Belinda Carlisle Explore History & Mythology of Mexico City

The Nerve with Maureen Callahan

MK Media & SiriusXM

News, Society & Culture

4.62.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this debut episode of The Nerve-y Traveler, Maureen Callahan is joined by music icon Belinda Carlisle to rival the tourism stylings of Tracee Ellis Ross by exploring Mexican history you never knew existed. From the ancient pyramids in Teotihuacán to the Island of the Dolls, Maureen and Belinda take you to the far corners of Mexico City that you won't find in a travel guide. Belinda Carlisle: https://www.instagram.com/travels_with_mrs_mason?igsh=aWQ4OWJzd2hkMnpt Masa Chips: Ready to give MASA or Vandy a try? Get 25% off your first order by going to http://masachips.com/MAUREEN and using code Maureen. OneSkin: Get up to 30% off OneSkin with the code NERVE at https://www.oneskin.co/NERVE #oneskinpod

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:10.7

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

0:18.6

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

0:22.7

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

0:28.9

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

0:34.7

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

0:38.1

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

0:42.7

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

0:51.7

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

0:56.8

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

0:59.1

But we really, really hit it off.

1:01.0

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

1:06.0

Smash cut.

1:07.6

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

1:14.1

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

1:19.5

And I watched it in horror.

1:21.5

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

1:27.3

I like to travel, we should

1:28.7

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

1:34.3

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

1:42.5

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

1:47.1

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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