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episode 157: Discover Your Family Roots and Ancestral Homeland Through DNA Travel with Lisette Austin
If you’ve ever wanted to trace the footsteps of your ancestors and travel to where your people lived, worked, and called home, today you’re in for a treat.
Lisette Austin joins us to share how she’s tracing her roots, uncovering hidden family stories, and embarking on transformative trips to places her ancestors once called home, like Ireland, Italy, Charleston, South Carolina, and more.
Get inspired by the power of DNA testing, the importance of preserving family history, and the profound impact of traveling based on your ancestry.
Episodes You’ll Enjoy
- Lisette Austin Saves $110,000 in Travel Costs with Points and Miles - Episode 59
- How Money Mindfulness Can Help You Travel More - Episode 149
- How Cheap Flights Work - Episode 151
Read My Books:
- We Are Financially Savvy Travelers
- Affording Travel: Saving Strategies For Financially Savvy Travelers
- Traveling With a Full-Time Job
- Managing Your Money As A New Homeowner
- Iceland: Nature, Nurture & Adventure
Connect With Danielle Desir Corbett
Join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/financiallysavvytravelers
Website: www.thoughtcard.com
Follow on Twitter: @thethoughtcard
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Work With Me:
Email thethoughtcard@gmail.com for brand partnerships and business inquiries.
My Favorite Resources For Financially Savvy Travelers:
Thrifty Traveler Premium for finding cheap flights, flight deals, and mistake fares.
CardPointers for figuring out which credit card to use to maximize points and miles. Save 30% using our link.
Dollar Flight Club get email alerts with flight deals leaving from your home airport.
Trade and Travel by Teri Ijeoma for learning how to trade in the stock market as a day trader or swing trader.
Get Outdoors 101 the course by Olivia Christine teaches how to confidently plan outdoor adventures so you can unplug and de-stress. For $50 OFF use the promo code ‘ThoughtCard50.’
Knack Bag for stylish and functional backpacks perfect for weekend trips, business travel or carry-on; laptop storage space and pack enough clothes for a 3-4 night trip.
What does it look like to travel based on your ancestry?
To actually go and see where you’re from, to discover your roots.
Many say that being at the place where their great-grandparents were from, for example, has a profound effect on their lives. They feel more connected knowing their ancestral homeland.
If you’ve ever wanted to trace the footsteps of your ancestors and travel to the places where your people lived, worked, and called home, today you’re in for a treat.
Lisette Austin joins us to share how she’s pursuing DNA travel (heritage travel or ancestry travel) - traveling to places like Sicily (Italy) and Charleston, North Carolina, to connect with her ancestry and aspects of her family’s history and genealogy.
Lisette Austin is a travel podcaster, writer, web designer, and adoptee. Her audio project, Traveling My Roots, involves traveling to where her biological ancestors are from – North America, Europe, and Africa.
Along the way, she’s exploring ancestral places, family stories, Black history, the immigrant experience, the complexities of adoption, and being multiracial – ultimately her identity. I encourage you to sign up for Lisette’s audio newsletter at travelingmyroots.substack.com
If Lisette sounds familiar, that’s because she joined us back in Episode 59 for a listener's favorite, points and miles deep dive, where Lisette shared how she has saved over $110,000 in travel costs by travel hacking.
I’ll have the link to that episode in the show notes, plus I’ve created a Spotify playlist of episodes every financially savvy traveler should listen to — with over 9 hours of content to enjoy. This playlist features episodes that outline how to creatively afford traveling the world.
As always, each episode of this podcast is accompanied by a blog post, so you can read along or refer back to it by visiting thoughtcard.com.