gottacaseofwanderlust

Lydia Schultz
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wan•der•lust (noun) the irresistible desire to travel ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ hi, my name is Lydia — i’m just a 22-year old girl with a case of wanderlust 🌎 this podcast hopes to: ✨inspire you to travel the world ✨ share travel advice with a focus on budget traveling, solo female traveling, and mindful tourism ✨ promote other amazing travelers and their experiences/wisdom + brighten your day! ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ MY SOCIALS :) Instagram: ✨ @lydiaschultzz https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ Travel Blog: ✨ gottacaseofwanderlust.com ✨ Thatch Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/

  1. what’s life like on Moloka‘i Hawaiʻi?

    6D AGO

    what’s life like on Moloka‘i Hawaiʻi?

    I spent 2 weeks on the least developed Hawaiian island: Moloka‘i. Listen to locals share their insights of what it’s like to live on Moloka‘i. To participate on a work exchange and stay with locals on Molokai, apply on Worldpackers and use code “Lydia7” for $10 OFF your membership! https://www.worldpackers.com/promo/LYDIA7?utm_campaign=LYDIA7&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=affiliate Mahalo nui loa to my amazing hosts and all of the locals who shared their insights on this episode. ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ connect with me here :) Instagram: ✨ @lydiaschultzz https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/

    12 min
  2. what it’s like to volunteer at a hostel on Maui

    12/06/2025 · BONUS

    what it’s like to volunteer at a hostel on Maui

    I spent 5 weeks doing a work exchange at Howzit Hostels on Maui — listen to volunteers’ perspectives on their experiences overall. Apply for this work exchange on Worldpackers.com find me on IG @lydiaschultzz for more info !

    26 min
  3. what if you trusted?

    10/09/2025

    what if you trusted?

    for those feeling a bit lost…

    5 min
  4. neocolonialism part 5

    09/04/2025

    neocolonialism part 5

    welcome to part 5 of a series all about modern day colonialism (aka neocolonialism) within travel! on this episode you’ll learn: * why the world is NOT your oyster * the ethics of bargaining * do’s and don’ts to be a responsible tourist find the full article here https://gottacaseofwanderlust.com/2025/07/22/a-comprehensive-guide-to-modern-day-colonialism-in-travel/ additional resources: ​https://gotravelandtalk.com/blog/travel-through-neo-colonialism-lens ​https://www.easternstandardtimes.com/episode/when-you-travel-dont-be-a-colonizer ​https://linktr.ee/baniamor ​https://rootedstorytelling.com/rethinking-tourism/decolonizing-tourism-community-diversity-nature-culture/ thank you entering this conversation with an open-mind to becoming a better traveler :) ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ connect with me here :) Instagram: ✨ @lydiaschultzz https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨ @gottacaseofwanderust https://www.instagram.com/gottacaseofwanderlust?igsh=MTJjZ2p6bWZpdXBrYw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr ✨Travel Blog: gottacaseofwanderlust.com

    8 min
  5. neocolonialism part 4

    09/04/2025

    neocolonialism part 4

    welcome to part 4 of a series all about modern day colonialism (aka neocolonialism) within travel! on this episode you’ll learn: * what is exoticism? * the ethics of responsible travel photography and posting online * the problem with the word “authentic” find the full article here thank you entering this conversation with an open-mind to becoming a better traveler :) ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ connect with me here :) Instagram: ✨ @lydiaschultzz https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨ @gottacaseofwanderust https://www.instagram.com/gottacaseofwanderlust?igsh=MTJjZ2p6bWZpdXBrYw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr ✨Travel Blog: gottacaseofwanderlust.com

    11 min
  6. don’t be a f***ing haole in Hawaiʻi w/ Celest

    08/23/2025

    don’t be a f***ing haole in Hawaiʻi w/ Celest

    “You’re always gonna be a haole, just don’t be a f***ing haole.” What does this even mean? Listen to find out… if you plan to visit Hawaiʻi, it’s the key to being an unproblematic tourist. Celest and I met on my first visit to Hawaiʻi in May of 2022. We reconnected to talk about her experience living on the Big Island for 5 years before recently moving back to LA. on this episode, we chat about: - what Celest learned from living in Hawaiʻi - how to a respectful traveler/tourist to the islands - important Hawaiian words and cultural norms to know before visiting featured questions: 1. What are some ethical guidelines to know before traveling to Hawaiʻi? 2. Did you ever experience resentment as an outsider during your time living in Hawaiʻi? 3. What’s the greatest lesson the islands taught you? ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ connect with Celest here! ✨ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/celestdablessed?igsh=bmlkdjd6a3ljd2x0 ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ learn more about Hawai’i here: 🌺 Hawaiian words to know https://www.hawaiitourismauthority.org/media/1682/maemae-glossary-of-common-hawaiian-vocabulary.pdf 🌺 https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-dark-history-of-the-overthrow-of-hawaii-sydney-iaukea 🌺 https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/learn-the-rich-history-of-hawaii/21599/ 🌺 https://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/what-native-hawaiians-want-you-to-know-about-visiting-hawaii ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ connect with me here :) Instagram: ✨ @lydiaschultzz https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨ @gottacaseofwanderust https://www.instagram.com/gottacaseofwanderlust?igsh=MTJjZ2p6bWZpdXBrYw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr ✨Travel Blog: gottacaseofwanderlust.com ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

    40 min
  7. neocolonialism part 3

    08/18/2025

    neocolonialism part 3

    welcome to part 3 of a series all about modern day colonialism (aka neocolonialism) within travel! on this episode you’ll learn: * how we objectify cultures if we are unaware * cultural appropriation vs. appreciation * cultural commodification and examples in travel find the full article here thank you entering this conversation with an open-mind to becoming a better traveler :) ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ connect with me here :) Instagram: ✨ @lydiaschultzz https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨ @gottacaseofwanderust https://www.instagram.com/gottacaseofwanderlust?igsh=MTJjZ2p6bWZpdXBrYw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr ✨Travel Blog: gottacaseofwanderlust.com

    14 min
  8. traveling within Kyrgyzstan and challenging the stigma around solo female travel w/ Aishola Aisaeva

    08/04/2025

    traveling within Kyrgyzstan and challenging the stigma around solo female travel w/ Aishola Aisaeva

    Aishola was born and raised in Kyrgyzstan, specifically the northern part of Kyrgyzstan in a town called Karakol. She currently lives in Bishkek, which is the capital of Kyrgyz Republic. Aishola is also the founder of Travel Atelier & Production 4274°, in which she leads conscious-oriented tours and assists with documentary filming in Central Asia. on this episode, we chat about: * what it’s like to live and grow up in Kyrgyzstan * Aishola’s solo travel adventures on her bike * Travel advice and recommendations to know before visiting Kyrgyzstan featured questions: 1. What makes Kyrgyzstan distinct from other parts of Central Asia? 2. What was it like growing up in Karakol? 3. What recommendations/advice do you have for people traveling to Kyrgyzstan? Specifically, solo female travelers? 4. Can you talk more about solo bikepacking and completing the Silk Road Mountain Race? 5. What’s your take on responsible tourism in Kyrgyzstan? ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ connect with Aishola here! ✨ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aishoolaaisaeva?igsh=dGZ0bzgxNXczbjlw ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ connect with me here :) Instagram: ✨ @lydiaschultzz https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨ @gottacaseofwanderust https://www.instagram.com/gottacaseofwanderlust?igsh=MTJjZ2p6bWZpdXBrYw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr ✨Travel Blog: gottacaseofwanderlust.com ✨Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

    47 min
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wan•der•lust (noun) the irresistible desire to travel ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ hi, my name is Lydia — i’m just a 22-year old girl with a case of wanderlust 🌎 this podcast hopes to: ✨inspire you to travel the world ✨ share travel advice with a focus on budget traveling, solo female traveling, and mindful tourism ✨ promote other amazing travelers and their experiences/wisdom + brighten your day! ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ MY SOCIALS :) Instagram: ✨ @lydiaschultzz https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ Travel Blog: ✨ gottacaseofwanderlust.com ✨ Thatch Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/

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  • Creator
    Lydia Schultz
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2025
  • Episodes
    96
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Lydia Schultz
  • Show Website
    gottacaseofwanderlust