Welcome to a very special edition of Traveling for Work, I'm your host, Thais Miller. Today, March 8th is International Women’s Day and I want to take this opportunity to say how grateful I am to have the special friends and family in my life. I am a better woman for having them in my life to laugh, cry and be there for me through all the ups and downs. I consider myself so many things: a mother, wife, teacher, harpist, podcaster, voice actor, entrepreneur, friend and sister— these are the many hats that I juggle on a daily basis, and I’m sure that many other women juggle on this day. So, my hats off to this special day. Let’s all continue to move forward. And on this day, I have a confession to make: my first episode of this podcast, with my friend Heather Kaminsky of Icy Fresh Seafood, was an assignment for an introduction to a podcasting class that I attended. The original assignment (back in October of 2023) was to interview someone for 5 minutes for our podcasts and then publish it on Buzzsprout. I ended up going above and beyond as Heather and I discussed her exciting adventures juggling her own hats as a wife, mother and entrepreneur and our original interview was over 30 minutes long. I ended up attempting to cut it down to as close to 5 minutes as I could without compromising too much of her stories…So now on this day, as I think about all of these wonderful women in my life, I want to celebrate Heather Kaminsky by releasing a director’s cut of our original interview complete with bloopers at the end to honor her hard work during the shrimping season working on the boats for her company Icy Fresh Seafood as well as our friendship. So, now I present to you: the original director’s cut of Heather Kaminsky, Chief Executive officer of, as she puts it, “everything” for Icy Fresh Seafood.

In this episode we meet a couple that call themselves: digital nomads. Digital Nomads are people whose work is fully virtual and therefore they can live anywhere in the world.  They both work online as life purpose coaches, helping clients while traveling the world through their online business: austinandmonica.com. Their branding message is, “helping you work online and travel the world”.  As proud digital nomads they have traveled to 10 countries, and counting.  I was able to catch them online through Zoom before their next trip to Peru.  Please help me in welcoming Austin and Monica Mangelson.

In this episode, I had the privilege of meeting Ms. Laura Jane Layton through a Facebook group.  She was kind enough to reach out and we came together on Zoom to talk, without questions, about her experiences in traveling.  This episode is a first for me: an on-the-fly conversation where both you and I learn about my special guest: Laura Jane Layton.  She calls herself a “recovering workaholic” and we cover everything from Seattle, her experience with International travel, being a Mom on the road, to taxi drivers!  Now retired, she currently has her own podcast: The Laura Jane Layton show.  Please help me welcome- Laura Jane Layton.