"Wandering Moms" Around the World with Libryia Jones| The Maverick Show
SEASON 4 EPISODE 2 |Flourish in the Foreign - Black Women Living & Thriving Abroad
Meet Libryia:
Libryia Jones is a location independent entrepreneur, author of the travel blog WanderWomanInc, and co-founder of Wandering Moms, a community of over 20,000 women who are literally giving their children the world. Founded in 2015, Wandering Moms provides information, support, and encouragement for mothers to travel the world with their children. Wandering Moms also organizes group trips each year for families as well as trips for moms- only that encourage women to use travel as an opportunity to take time out for themselves. As a single mother herself, Libryia has visited over 40 countries, and, in 2016, she left her 6-figure job to travel the world with her daughter for a full year, together with a group of Black Americans she organized.
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This Episode Covers:
Libryia Jones shares her experience traveling to Ghana with her daughter in 2019 for “The Year of Return” and discusses her (and her daughter’s) reflections on Ghanaian culture, learning the history of the West African slave trade, and the feeling of being in a Black-majority country. Libryia then opens up about her upbringing in Tallahassee, Florida, dreaming of world travel as a kid, and saving up for her first international trip at age 25. She then talks about traveling to 40 countries, co-founding Wandering Moms, and organizing a 12-month trip around the world with her daughter and other families. Libryia talks about the value of world travel for kids, the unparalleled educational opportunities that travel provides, and the adaptability of kids to an itinerant travel lifestyle. She emphasizes that kids can be a catalyst to travel, not an excuse to avoid travel and that you should never let other people dictate the terms of your life. She discusses travel as a parenting strategy and the opportunities for alternative education through travel. She then talks about the moms-only trips that she organizes and discusses the importance of female-only travel spaces.
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