There She Goes Kelly & Lavinia

You all may know us as Podcasters, but we’re also moms – and we have deep love for the mothers who raised us – so we’re delighted to be starting off Season Three in honor of Mother’s Day, traveling with Emma Morell to Qatar, where she explores the joys and challenges of motherhood and living abroad.


Emma Morell is an award-winning British travel writer, researcher, and blogger. Emma has spent more than a third of her life outside of the UK in 11 cities on 5 continents and has moved more than 30 times. She writes mainly about travel from an expat and a family angle and has been featured in publications in the UK, US, Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

There She Goes has some big changes ahead!

For our final episode of Season 2, we're proud to partner with VONA Traveling While BIPOC, the nation's first writing workshop for travelers of color.
In this episode, Christina Brobby journeys to the Faroe Islands, where she pushes through anxiety and finds herself moved to tears by an experience that awaits her.


Christina lives in Canada’s Yukon on the Traditional Territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta'an Kwäch'än First Council. Her non-fiction pieces have won a number of awards including 2022 Writers Union of Canada’s Short Prose Competition. Her photography has appeared in The Sun magazine and Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Non-Fiction. Christina is a graduate of (VONA) Voices of our Nation Foundation.

Today we travel with Sivani Babu to Antarctica, aboard a sailboat crossing the Drake Passage—the roughest sea in the world and a place of deep desolation. A place where there is no rescue.


Sivani Babu is the co-founder and co-CEO of Hidden Compass and an award-winning photographer and journalist. Her work meshes history, science, and exploration, and has appeared in numerous national and international publications and exhibits. Her stories have also been anthologized in the Best Women’s Travel Writing and recognized multiple times in the Best American Travel Writing series. A former federal public defender, Sivani teaches storytelling as a tool for advocacy to law students across the country.


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This week we travel with our own co-host Lavinia Spalding to Busan, South Korea, where, after being told her whole life she can’t sing, she finally finds her voice.


Lavinia is an award-winning author and editor who has published ten books. She’s the author of Writing Away, six-time series editor of The Best Women’s Travel Writing, and co-author of With a Measure of Grace, This Immeasurable Place, and the 2022 Frommer’s EasyGuide to New Orleans. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times’ Modern Love column, AFAR, Tin House, Longreads, Yoga Journal, Sunset, AirBnB magazine, Off Assignment, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, and many more national and international publications. Her work has won gold Lowell Thomas and SOLAS travel writing awards, has been widely anthologized.


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Today we travel with Yukari Kane to Hokkaido, Japan, where, after a kidney transplant, she skis, and bathes in hot springs, and attempts to make peace with a version of Japan she didn’t expect to find.


Yukari Kane is an author, educator and veteran journalist with 20 years of experience including at The Wall Street Journal and Reuters. She is co-founder and CEO of Prison Journalism Project and the author of "Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs." The day her book launched in March 2014, she was diagnosed with late-stage kidney failure. She had a kidney transplant with her sister as a donor a year later.