GINI's voices - journeys beyond travel - by Virginia Scheele

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🎙️ GINI's voices 🌍✨ Welcome to GINI's voices! The podcast that brings you inspiring stories about all sorts of journeys. From physical travels across borders to the deep, personal journey of self-exploration. Hosted by Virginia Scheele, founder of GINI, the travel company that goes beyond travel. GINI empowers overlooked communities through GINI experiences, including workshops, retreats and trips designed to create lasting impact and drive transformation. Discover more🌍 GINI experiences on our: Website 📸 Instagram: @gini.travel💫 Support GINI's mission: Donations If you like this podcast, please hit follow and leave a 5-star review. Your support helps us share these stories with the world!

Episodes

  1. Ep. 01 - Virginia Scheele: roots & heritage

    08/18/2025

    Ep. 01 - Virginia Scheele: roots & heritage

    🎙 GINI’s voices – Ep. 01 - Virginia Scheele: roots & heritage ✨ In this first episode, Virginia Scheele, founder of GINI, shares her personal journey of growing up in a small Dutch village as one of the few families of colour, navigating identity, bias and belonging. She reflects on: 🔸Childhood; trying to fit in with brown skin and curly hair 🔸How history stories shaped, and limited, her worldview🔸Encounters with racism in school, work and love 🔸Discovering feminism and its links to inequality 🔸Diving into her ancestral roots and family background 🔸Embracing the complexity of being Black, White and Asian This episode sets the tone for GINI’s voices: amplifying overlooked stories, honouring heritage and reclaiming erased histories. 📚 Resources & mentions: 🔸⁠De zeven vinkjes⁠ (in Dutch) - Joris Luyendijk 🔸⁠Hallo witte scholen⁠ - Anousha Nzume 🔸⁠Sexotisch⁠ - Kelly-Qian van Binsbergen (not mentioned but relevant) 🔸⁠De plantage van onze voorouders⁠ - Maartje Duin (not mentioned but relevant) 🔸⁠Omek⁠ - by Kemo Camara 🔸Connect with Virginia: ⁠LinkedIn⁠ ✨ Discover more:🌍 GINI experiences📸 Instagram: @gini.impact.travel🧡 Connect with Virginia: LinkedIn 💡 Fuel GINI’s mission: DonationIf you enjoyed this episode, please hit follow and leave a 5-star review. Your support helps us share these important stories with the world! ✨ Tune in to this episode and let Virginia’s story inspire you to see travel as a force for truth and justice. ✨

    45 min
  2. Cultural remembrance - journeys beyond travel

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    Cultural remembrance - journeys beyond travel

    🎙️ GINI's voices - trailer 🌍✨ Welcome to GINI’s voices, the podcast sharing true stories that bridge heritage, culture and connection. Hosted by Virginia Scheele, founder of GINI, a movement of cultural remembrance through travel with impact. GINI transforms tourism from extraction to regeneration by offering impact journeys and experiences that truly leave an impact. Expect episodes about: 🌱 Roots & heritage - personal stories from around the world 🌊 Impact movements - conversations with individuals and organisations driving cultural, reparations, and systemic change Discover more:🌍 Website 📸 Instagram 💎LinkedIn 💫 Fuel GINI's mission If you enjoy this podcast, please hit follow and leave a 5-star review. Your support helps amplify these voices and make travel a force for truth!

    1 min

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🎙️ GINI's voices 🌍✨ Welcome to GINI's voices! The podcast that brings you inspiring stories about all sorts of journeys. From physical travels across borders to the deep, personal journey of self-exploration. Hosted by Virginia Scheele, founder of GINI, the travel company that goes beyond travel. GINI empowers overlooked communities through GINI experiences, including workshops, retreats and trips designed to create lasting impact and drive transformation. Discover more🌍 GINI experiences on our: Website 📸 Instagram: @gini.travel💫 Support GINI's mission: Donations If you like this podcast, please hit follow and leave a 5-star review. Your support helps us share these stories with the world!

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