Part 3: Grateful for talented WSGT contributing writers!

Part 3: Grateful for talented WSGT contributing writers!

We are very lucky at WSGT to have talented individuals participate in our contests and most recently, the Travel Writing Award. To say thanks, we will be featuring five contributing writers each week who are currently displaying the WSGT Travel Badge. Our next Gratitude Travel Writing Award opens tomorrow September 11, 2016. We hope you will … Continued

WSGT 2015 Gratitude Writing Contest Winners

It’s what you’ve all been waiting for: the day we find out which talented writers are the winners of the most recent WSGT Gratitude Travel Writing Contest! This is the last of WSGT’s contests as in their place, we are welcoming in the brand-new Independence Travel Writing Award. With $1000 in cash prizes to be won, this is an opportunity you … Continued

WSGT’s new Travel Writing Award: Finding Freedom

If you haven’t heard the big news yet: Starting May 4th, our contests will be no more and in their place will be a brand new award! Wanderlusters, nomads-in-training, aspiring travel writers and those looking to share a special moment are all encouraged to enter! The simple act of putting a pen to the paper (or … Continued

Week 3: #WhatDoYouBelieve @Oprah & @DeepakChopra Meditation

For the last three weeks, I have started my day with Oprah, Deepak and the Chopra Center meditations on “Become What You Believe.” What do you start your day with? Please consider sharing your story in my final We Said Go Travel Gratitude Contest. Enter by Thanksgiving 2015. Your story could change someone’s choices and … Continued

Finalists: 2015 Summer Independence Travel Writing Contest

Finalists for the SUMMER INDEPENDENCE 2015 Travel Writing Contest Thank you to Jessica Tsuzuki, Richa Gupta, Alan Seeger, Zainab Suleman, Sarah Shin, Gina Nelson, Heather Whitehall-Trochon, Amelie Gagne, Mark Schmitt and Hailey Hennessy for your incredible articles. Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2015 Summer We Said Go Travel Writing Contest!  Please find the Finalist articles below. … Continued

Survive the Unexpected: Supersurvivors

Do you wonder how you will survive something unexpected? 2014 did not go the way I expected. It was a real rollercoaster but 2015 has been better and I expect 2016 to be FANTASTIC! I hope you will share your story of gratitude in my Travel Writing Contest. I wanted to share some quotes fromDavid … Continued

Are you Grateful & Interesting? #Adventure #travel

I have been reading Seth Godin‘s blog for years. His recent post, Are you Interesting?,  intrigued me: “Which means that being an interesting person is a choice. We can choose to show up, to care enough to contribute our humanity to the next interaction. It’s a choice, but a difficult one, because being interesting feels risky. People … Continued

Lisa Oscars Red Carpet 2015

March 2015: Dublin, Gratitude & the Oscars

Exciting March 2015 updates from Lisa & We Said Go Travel: United Airlines took me to the Oscars! (video, article) My article for International Women’s Day: Do you Travel #LikeAGirl? I wrote for FLINK about Michael Lynch from American Idol. Sharing about TRAVEL and #WHTravelBloggers on Wharton Business Magazine: Making Study Abroad an Educational Imperative … Continued

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Feb News from WSGT: 2014 Gratitude Finalists

Feb News from WSGT: 2014 Gratitude Travel Writing Competition Finalists Thank you to the Fairmont Miramar for my stay at the Presidential Suite Bungalow One! Enjoy the video!  (see photo) Thank you to Jessie Voigts of Wandering Educators for interviewing me for her #StudyAbroadBecause Series: “It Will Change Your Whole Life!” Thank you to Stay … Continued

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