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This is not a travel blog
Conversations with travelers, creators, and industry leaders — and a hope that each one inspires the change you want to live.
Episodes follow themes such as reflection, fearlessness, change, and creativity, with guests including Alex Crevar, Rachel Rudwall, Kirsten Alana, and Rolf Potts.
Recent Episodes
Each episode pairs a single theme with a guest who has lived it. Listed below are the most recent conversations in the series.
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Reflection with Paste Magazine’s Alex Crevar
The podcast series at Holocene is built on a simple conviction: that a good conversation can quietly rearrange the way a person sees their own life. Rather than chasing destination tips or packing advice, each episode sits down with travelers, creators, and industry leaders to talk about what actually moves them. The result feels less like a travel show and more like a shared hour of honest reflection, the kind that lingers long after the headphones come off and sends listeners back into their own days with a slightly different question in mind.
Every episode is organized around a single theme, and that structure gives the series its character. Reflection, fearlessness, change, and creativity each become a lens rather than a label, letting a guest speak from lived experience instead of abstraction. The format keeps things focused and generous at once, because a narrow theme invites depth instead of a scattered survey. Listeners come away with something they can carry into their own decisions, whether that means leaving a familiar routine behind, starting something uncertain, or simply paying closer attention to what they already have.
The guests who join the show are people who have tested their ideas in the world rather than only describing them. Writers, photographers, and travelers bring stories shaped by movement and by the choices that came with it, and the conversation tends to follow the honest parts rather than the polished ones. There is room for doubt alongside confidence, for the messy middle of a decision as well as its clean outcome. That balance is what makes the series feel alive, and it is why the episodes reward a second listen as much as the first.
Underneath it all runs a hope that each conversation might inspire the change a listener wants to live, however small or unglamorous that change turns out to be. The show sits within a wider collective of creative travelers who share stories, tools, and hard-won perspective, and the podcast is one doorway into that community rather than a stage apart from it. Whether someone arrives through an episode or through the stories and resources gathered alongside it, the invitation is the same: listen closely, take what is useful, and let the conversation spill into the rest of your life.
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Fearlessness with Rachel Rudwall
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Change with Kirsten Alana
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Creativity with Elena Paschinger
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Possibility with Rolf Potts
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Halloween Horror Nights, An Immersive Theater Experience
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Building a Travel Startup with Zipkick’s Jason Will
Themes We Return To
The series circles back to a handful of ideas about being alive and on the move. These are the threads running through recent episodes.
- Reflection
- Fearlessness
- Change
- Creativity
Listen, Then Come Along
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