Hi there, I'm Lale Arakoglu, and welcome to this episode of Women Who Travel.

Our guest, Tracy Ellis Ross, the recent star of Blackish and American Fiction, has a new series on Roku coming out later this year called Tracy Travels,

and it's all about discovering

the world alone.

I'm super excited about this episode because this month, Tracy is also honored on our annual

Women Who Travel Power List, publishing online at cntraveller.com.

This is kind of like a little teaser, and you'll find a full list when it's published on March 8th, International Women's Day.

Today, we begin by chatting about Tracy's early introduction to global travel with her mother, Diana Ross.

I think you've described yourself once as feeling like a child of the world.

Yes.

You've traveled so much.

And so much with your mum, Diana.

What was some of those memorable early trips that stuck with you?

I mean, that must have shaped your worldview so much.

It really did.

And I come by the travel honestly.

So before it was by choice, it was by necessity staying near my mom.

And, you know, I went to boarding school in Switzerland.

So I started, I was born in Los Angeles, raised in New York, and then moved to Paris for eighth grade, Paris and then Switzerland for boarding school.

And then back to the States and then Brown.

And when we moved to Europe, my mother ended up marrying my stepfather, who was Norwegian,

and lived in London and Switzerland.

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