Samantha Brown

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417 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 7 Jan

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Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways · Samantha Brown on Places to Love, Route 66, and the Travel Habits That Save You Money · 7 Jan 2026 podcast

Yeah, I think we've really leaned into the whole travel like a local where that felt like a nice buzzword that everyone kind of liked, but no one really, really wanted to do.

And I think COVID changed that completely because we ourselves as people had to become so isolated.

And really just in our own neighborhood, not even like our own city or town, right?

But you started to become very aware of what you had access to, whether it was a really beautiful hiking trail or this artist who made pottery that lives right down the road, but you didn't know it.

And now you're supporting that artist.

And I think after COVID, everybody got it like, hey, we could just take what we did, which was so special because we were in a community effort of survivance, right, of making sure our businesses survived.

We can take that same attitude and go anywhere in the world with that.

I think COVID made us a smaller world in that sense.

We all went through the same thing at the same time.

And we all tried to do everything we could to make sure that our community came out of it okay.

And that warrants a lot of respect.

And so there's this common ground that we kind of all have.

I certainly had it as I started traveling outside of COVID when it was finally okay to travel, feeling this feeling that, wow, we just all are on the same page right now.

That might not be where we are right now, but it got us to a good start of really understanding how important it is, not just to say, hey, I want to go where the locals go, but why you want to go with the locals.

And that is because you want to support local and small businesses.

Yeah, we always.

Affordability is the filter which everything comes through.

I think when I started this, I was in my late 20s, and I really thought that travel was for privileged people, people privileged with money, time, but most importantly, confidence.

And so in my years of travel, I've tried to take away all three of those to show that everyone can and should travel.

And so the way we kind of tackle it is if we are in sort of what we call an A-list destination, whether it's Vienna or Budapest or these places that people dream of going to their entire lives, we make sure we balance that actual trip getting there with what you do while you're there.

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