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Yulia Denisyuk
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03/06/24 • 66 min
Welcome back to Going Places! Today, we have a conversation with Amelia Bilbeisi, co-founder of Maida Olive Oil, known as Onsuri Olive Oil in North America. Amelia produces one of the world's most premium olive oils on a farm deep inside a Jordanian desert. Tasting this olive oil, designated ultra premium quality, a coveted grade only 5 percent of the world's olive oil producers meet, has opened my eyes and my palette to what quality olive oil should taste like.
Olive oil is central to Jordanian culture, and today, Amelia and her team are well on their way to elevating its status worldwide. To get the taste of this incredible oil, head to onsurioliveoil.com. And be sure to use code GOINGPLACES, all caps, to get 10 percent off your purchase. Onsuri ships free to North America.
This episode and the entire season is brought to you by Visit Jordan. Be sure to visit myjordanjourney.com to learn more about Jordan.
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What you’ll learn in this episode:
- Significance of olive oil in Jordanian culture
- How ONSURI became a top olive oil producer
- How to tell if the extra virgin olive oil is of high quality
- Challenges affecting olive oil production (e.g., climate change)
- Traditional vs. modern approaches in agriculture
- The role of women in olive oil production
- Where olive trees come from
- Cultural significance of olive oil in the Middle East
- Sustainability practices on Amelia's farm
- ONSURI's environmental sustainability efforts (it's carbon-negative)
- Amelia's journey to becoming an olive oil sommelier
- Benefits and versatility of extra virgin olive oil in cooking and baking
- Varieties of olive oil offered by Onsuri and their recommended uses
- Tours and visits to Onsuri Farm for travelers
- What it's like for Amelia to be a part of her father's dream
Featured on the show:
To get a taste of this incredible oil, head to onsurioliveoil.com and use code GOINGPLACES to get 10% off your purchase. Onsuri ships free to North America!
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Going Places with Yulia Denisyuk is a show that sparks a better understanding of people and places near and far by fostering a space for real conversations to occur. Each week, we sit down with travelers, journalists, creators, and people living and working in destinations around the world. Hosted by Yulia Denisyuk, an award-winning travel journalist, photographer, and writer who's worked with National Geographic, The New York Times, BBC Travel, and more.
Learn more about our show at goingplacesmedia.com.
Our theme music this season, Abbad El Shams, is provided by Rawan Roshni, a Palestinian/Balkan singer based in Jordan.
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Visit Jordan
This episode and the rest of this season are brought to you by Visit Jordan. Jordan is a beautiful country in the Middle East that has something for everyone: in a relatively small area, it packs diverse landscapes like the Mediterranean forests of Ajloun, deep canyons in Wadi Dana, the Mars-like desert of Wadi Rum, and the Dead Sea, the lowest point on earth. Let Jordan be your host for your Middle Eastern adventures. Go...
02/14/24 • 63 min
Today, we'll learn about the story of the world's rarest silk with writer, editor, and now book author Eliot Stein. Eliot and I first got to know each other through our shared passion for the types of stories that reveal something about a place through the lens of tradition and unique cultural practices.
Eliot has edited a few of my stories at BBC Travel, where he currently serves as the deputy editor, and where he started a column called Custom Made that highlights cultural custodians preserving vanishing customs. Eliot has recently completed a book inspired by this column that will be published this fall.
This conversation has given me a sense of joy and lightness that I haven't felt in a while. You're going to hear about our shared passion for telling stories about people preserving cultural traditions, like the last remaining sea silk seamstress in Sardinia and Japan's craft soy sauce brewer who still makes shoyu in a traditional way. We also discuss what the book writing process was like for Eliot and hear more about his upcoming book. If you want to learn more about Eliot and receive updates on his upcoming book, follow him on Instagram @Eliot.Stein.
This episode and the entire season is brought to you by Visit Jordan. Be sure to visit myjordanjourney.com to learn more about Jordan.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
- Discussion about the story "The Last Surviving Sea Silk Seamstress" for BBC Travel
- Importance of highlighting the person, tradition, and craft rather than the writer
- Insight into the process of building relationships and trust with subjects for storytelling
- Importance of traditions in shaping places and people
- Recognition of the depth beyond tourist attractions
- Discussion on changing reading habits and the impact on storytelling
- Multifaceted approaches to storytelling in the digital age
- Eliot's upcoming book "Custodians of Wonder"
- Eliot's background in travel journalism and its influence on the book
- The labor of love and intense commitment required to write a book
- Advice for aspiring authors: prioritize passion over monetary or personal gains
- Resources and opportunities for aspiring authors, such as the Writer's Digest conference
- Story behind a photo featuring traditional soy sauce production in Japan
- Importance of clear pitching guidelines for democratizing travel journalism
- Hope in the power of travel journalism to foster empathy and understanding across cultures
Featured on the show:
- Follow Eliot on Instagram: @eliot.stein
- Read Eliot’s article on BBC Travel: The last surviving sea silk seamstress
- Learn about the Barrel-aged soy sauce, also available online at trf-ny.com
- Pitch your book idea: writersdigestconference.com
- Read the BBC Travel author brief
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For more BTS of this podcast follow @goingplacesmedia on Instagram and check out our videos on YouTube!
Please head over to Apple Podcasts and SUBSCRIBE to the show. If you enjoy this conversation, please share it with others on social and don’t forget to tag us @goingplacesmedia!
And show us some love, if you have a minute, by rating Going Places or leaving us a review wherever you listen. You’ll be helping us to bend the arc of algorithms towards our community — thank you!
Going Places with Yulia Denisyuk is a show that sparks a better understanding of people and places near and far by fostering a space for real conversations to occur. Each...
06/26/24 • 43 min
Today on the show, I’m sharing with you an episode that first came out last September, in which the table is turned on me and I am, for once, in the guest seat, as my friend and podcast producer Noelia Sanchez interviews me about Jordan, one of my favorite places on Earth.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
- The origin story of my relationship with Jordan
- Yulia's favorite places in Jordan
- What people get wrong about Jordan and the Middle East
- What first time travelers to Jordan should see and experience
- Yulia's group trip to Jordan in Oct 2024
Original Air Date: Sep 20, 2023.
Featured on the show:
- Join me this Fall on a 10-day trip to Jordan
- Read my CN Traveler article about traveling to Jordan this year
- Check out Noelia's company, Noteworthy Lab
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Join our Going Places newsletter to get updates on new episodes and Yulia's travel storytelling work. Subscribe at goingplacesmedia.com/newsletter!
For more BTS of this podcast follow @goingplacesmedia on Instagram and check out our videos on YouTube!
Please head over to Apple Podcasts and SUBSCRIBE to the show. If you enjoy this conversation, please share it with others on social and don’t forget to tag us @goingplacesmedia!
And show us some love, if you have a minute, by rating Going Places or leaving us a review wherever you listen. You’ll be helping us to bend the arc of algorithms towards our community — thank you!
Going Places with Yulia Denisyuk is a show that sparks a better understanding of people and places near and far by fostering a space for real conversations to occur. Each week, we sit down with travelers, journalists, creators, and people living and working in destinations around the world. Hosted by Yulia Denisyuk, an award-winning travel journalist, photographer, and writer who's worked with National Geographic, The New York Times, BBC Travel, and more.
Learn more about our show at goingplacesmedia.com.
02/17/21 • 45 min
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Unpacking 2020 & Mapping 2021
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12/23/20 • 15 min
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In this discussion, we're going over some key questions you want to ask yourself as we close out this year. If you'd like to get a copy of the guide mentioned in the episode, visit geniuswomxn.com/guide to get yours.
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Genius Womxn explores what it means to live a rich, meaningful, beautiful creative life through in-depth conversations with brave womxn pursuing their wildest dreams and stepping into their brilliance. Hosted by Yulia Denisyuk, a published travel photographer and writer, and entrepreneur.
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In this discussion, we're going over some key questions you want to ask yourself as we close out this year. If you'd like to get a copy of the guide mentioned in the episode, visit geniuswomxn.com/guide to get yours.
11/04/20 • 56 min
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10/28/20 • 51 min
In this episode we talk about the components for pursuing your dream creative life. I'm excited about this topic because I believe that each one of these components is crucial on our journeys. Each one of the components we cover is something that I have tried and tested over the past four years as I was building my own dream creative life of becoming a published travel photographer and writer.
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Leaning into Your Gifts with Feriel Temmar
Going Places
10/21/20 • 53 min
Today's episode is all about following your curiosities and leaning into your gifts. Feriel Temmar is a dear friend who's inspired me from the minute we met in Jordan in 2019. She's truly a citizen of the world. Feriel was born in Algeria, grew up in London, West Africa, and New York, and worked in Canada before leaving it all behind and starting over in France. After majoring in economics and working as a data analyst, Feriel chose to pursue an alternate path in life by becoming a language coach.
In this conversation, she reminds us how important it is to embrace who you are without guilt and give yourself permission to breathe when going through a big change. I'm so excited to welcome Feriel on our show today, and I hope you enjoy this episode!
Get full show notes and more information at: geniuswomxn.co/podcast/05
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Genius Womxn explores what it means to live a rich, meaningful, beautiful creative life through in-depth conversations with brave womxn pursuing their wildest dreams and stepping into their brilliance. Hosted by Yulia Denisyuk, a published travel photographer and writer, and entrepreneur.
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Season Finale: Your Voice Matters
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05/25/22 • 15 min
Get full show notes and more information at: https://travelmedialab.co/podcast/63
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Travel Media Lab with Yulia Denisyuk is a podcast about people and places that make our world a fascinating place to be. Each week, we bring you stories from places near and far and sit down with the world’s most exciting travelers, journalists, creators, and people working in the travel space. Hosted by Yulia Denisyuk, an award-winning travel journalist, photographer, and writer working with National Geographic, The New York Times, BBC Travel, and more.
Learn more about Travel Media Lab at travelmedialab.co.
01/17/24 • 7 min
Welcome back to our show, everyone. It's been nearly three months since we've been on air. In these three months, a lot of things have happened, both in the world and in my own life, which caused me to go through an intense period of a lot of searching and rethinking the purpose of my work, the meaning behind it, and how what I do on the podcast and elsewhere can better address some of the stereotypes and misconceptions that plague the Middle East and other areas of the world that are feeling oppression and injustice.
So today on the show, we're going to discuss some of the results of that searching, rethinking, and questioning.
- Renaming the podcast to "Going Places" to reflect its renewed purpose
- Shifting focus from travel industry insights to storytelling
- Emphasizing the podcast's mission to explore diverse perspectives and our shared humanity
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Learn more about our show at goingplacesmedia.com.
Join our Going Places newsletter to get updates on new episodes and Yulia's travel storytelling work. Subscribe at goingplacesmedia.com/newsletter!
For more BTS of this podcast follow @goingplacesmedia on Instagram and check out our videos on YouTube!
Please head over to Apple Podcasts and SUBSCRIBE to the show. If you enjoy this conversation, please share it with others on social and don’t forget to tag us @goingplacesmedia!
And show us some love, if you have a minute, by rating Going Places or leaving us a review wherever you listen. You’ll be helping us to bend the arc of algorithms towards our community — thank you!
Going Places with Yulia Denisyuk is a show that sparks a better understanding of people and places near and far by fostering a space for real conversations to occur. Each week, we sit down with travelers, journalists, creators, and people living and working in destinations around the world. Hosted by Yulia Denisyuk, an award-winning travel journalist, photographer, and writer who's worked with National Geographic, The New York Times, BBC Travel, and more.
Learn more about our show at goingplacesmedia.com.
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FAQ
How many episodes does Going Places have?
Going Places currently has 189 episodes available.
What topics does Going Places cover?
The podcast is about Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Podcasts, Self-Improvement and Education.
What is the most popular episode on Going Places?
The episode title 'Inside Travel Media Bootcamp Part 1: Working With Tourism Boards' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Going Places?
The average episode length on Going Places is 35 minutes.
How often are episodes of Going Places released?
Episodes of Going Places are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Going Places?
The first episode of Going Places was released on Oct 1, 2020.
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