The People You Meet: Travel, Burnout, and Finding Yourself Overseas

Podcast: International Teacher Podcast · Current Cohosts: Hannah, Jacqueline, and Greg

Opublikowano: 2026-07-04

ITP - 151 - Melissa Rodway is an author, traveler, and former Radio Jockey. She joins Hannah, JP, and Greg to talk about travel, storytelling, and her new book The People You Meet: Luxury, Leeches, Love and Lao-Lao. Melissa shares how a childhood year in Australia planted the travel seed, how months of moving through Southeast Asia became the foundation for her book, and why the people we meet on the road often shape us more than the places themselves. The conversation moves through Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, China, Mexico, travel fatigue, solo adventures, border-crossing panic, and the strange compulsion to...