119: Family Travel to 35 Countries on 6 Continents and Making the World into a Classroom for Your Kids with Monet Hambrick
Feb 1, 2021
Monet Hambrick takes us on her journey growing up in south
Florida in a Jamaican immigrant
home, developing her passion for travel while growing up, and
continuing her world-traveling
lifestyle with her family after getting married and having kids.
Monet explains how she took
both of her daughters on international flights before the age of 1
and shares tips on traveling
internationally with babies. She talks about the dynamics of
traveling the world with her
husband and two daughters, and shares family travel stories from
Costa Rica, Kenya, and
Morocco, including spending a week alone with her 3 year old in
North Africa before meeting
the rest of her family. Monet also explains why she is intentional
about not instilling fear into
her kids, even if she is personally afraid to do something. She
then talks about her family trip to
Brazil, and how it inspired her first children’s book “The
Traveling Child Goes to Rio de Janeiro”,
the first on her forthcoming series. Monet also talks about
co-founding The Black Travel
Alliance, and gives her international travel tips specifically for
Black families. She then talks
about building her family travel blog “The Traveling Child”,
growing her Instagram following to
over 120,000, and making the leap from her corporate job to
becoming a full-time location-
independent entrepreneur. She explains that she wants her blog
content to inspire and provide
practical tips for families to travel the world, and that she posts
her kid-friendly travel
itineraries as well as tips for traveling much more affordably.
And, finally, Monet shares her
family trip-planning process and reflects on the uniquely positive
impact international travel
has had on her kids. FULL SHOW NOTES AVAILABLE AT:
www.TheMaverickShow.com