Podcast Archive (Grid, Classic)

What was the plan for your life? Were you supposed to live it? Are you currently living it now? Geoff’s plan was simple yet ambitious—go to an Ivy League school, get a law degree and…

Ski and travel writer Brigid Mander finds herself with a wicked hangover in the remote reaches of Argentina. But when her journey to find a cure takes an unexpected turn, she is detained inside a…

James spent his childhood sticking his hand in the waters of a Texas pond hoping a catfish would bite it and latch on. Now, he’s the editor of a fishing magazine read by millions of…

Kian arrived on the Hawaiian island of Molokai with a bag of clothes, a tarp and five dollars to his name. Days earlier, he’d left his home in Memphis on a Greyhound bus with no…

What is it like to be an influencer? We talk to digital content creator Jessica Doll (@hejdoll), who’s traveled the world in front of and behind a lens to find out what goes in behind-the-scenes…

American travel to Cuba has undergone a renaissance in the past decade. Thanks to recent rules that made traveling to Cuba easier than it’s been since the 1960, Cubans and Americans were benefitting from an…

Malik was raised in South Memphis. Growing up, he lost most of his close friends to violence; but for the past few years, the self-made photojournalist, filmmaker and rock climber has been on a journey…

Ally had never been to Europe until her friend asked her to come to Ireland on a whim. Within weeks, she was ballin’ on a budget while couch surfing and photographing her way across the…

Gary didn’t get on an airplane until college. Almost as soon as he did, the North Mississippi native experienced a challenge to the world view he’d grown up with. In our first episode, we go…