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Becky Lukovic is a 20 year veteran in the travel industry. She started On the Go Travel Company in Indiana in 2001 after an âahaâ moment in Sorrento, Italy. Standing on a bridge overlooking the sparkling Bay of Naples, Becky realized planning independent and culture-centric travel was her passion. In the next 20 years, she would use that passion to design unique, custom adventures for her clients.
Becky developed an extensive book of luxury travel connections and became involved in the American Society of Travel Agents, held a position on the Mid-America Chapter board, and served on the national ASTA communications committee in the early 2000s.
In 2010, Becky rebranded her company as Bella Travel Planning, LLC. in Carmel, Indiana to reflect her passion for beautiful, engaging, life-changing travel. In the summer of 2015, she and her husband moved cross-country to beautiful Atlanta, Georgia to start a new adventure.
Becky designs adventures for her clients across seven continents ranging from private scuba dives in Costa Rica to tiger sanctuaries in India to the 2008 Summer Olympics in China to cruises at the bottom of the world â Antarctica. She is a specialist in Culinary travel, Wine tasting trips, Italy, France, South Africa, Adventure travel, Antarctica, Incentive trips and meetings, and girlfriend getaways.
Recently, Becky trekked in the mountains of Uganda to visit a family of Silverback Gorillasâwhat an adventure. Sheâs been on land in Antarctica photographing colonies on Penguins, and explored countless off-the-beaten path European Ski resorts and Christmas Villages. A well-crafted tasting menu with wine parings are her love language and she counts many hotel owners and general managers as personal friends. A quick google of her name will reveal how many times sheâs been quoted for industry publications as well as being featured on the cover of Luxury Travel Advisor Magazine.
Her mantra is âtravel, like fine wine, should be savored as an experience and not gulped down in a hurry.âBecky is a former member of the Saveur Magazine Travel Advisory Board and is currently a member of The Vast adventure travel society and the Culinary Travel Community with Virtuoso. She holds many destination and resort specialist certifications and is a preferred advisor with Four Seasons, Relais & Chateaux, Belmond, Ritz Carlton, Luxury Collection, Blackberry Farms, and Mandarin Oriental just to name a few. With these partnerships, she can wow her travelers with upgrades, complimentary breakfasts, hotel credits, and special rates for your travels.
https://bellatravelplanning.com/
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Neil Laird is a multiple Emmy-nominated director of historical films for Discovery, BBC, PBS, History Channel, National Geographic, and many other networks. He has produced over 100 programs around the globe that feature crumbling Egyptian tombs, lost Mayan cities, and mysterious shipwrecks at the bottom of the sea.
He is a TV producer turned novelist and discusses his unique career journey and the creation of his comedic time travel novels like Prime Time Travelers. Neil shares how his background in the TV industry and his passion for ancient history and mythology inspired his writing. We dive into the challenges of transitioning from TV to writing, the differences between self-publishing and traditional publishing, and the critical role of marketing for authors. Neil also reflects on the power of storytelling, his awe-inspiring travels, and the balance between preserving historical sites and the passage of time.
He loves the world and especially the Middle East where he gets even more inspire to think and write
Donât miss this insightful conversation packed with valuable takeaways for aspiring writers and storytellers.
https://www.neillaird.com/
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Elisa is a mother of 5 sons which she brought up mostly on her own and lived in Texas, Miami, Canada, France. She overcame extreme challenges and create a life that she loves.
In May 2016, she founded#happy2succeed, intending to bring awareness and wellbeing to body and mind. She inspires and and empowers women globally to discover their hidden power with a positive spiritual mindset method, to grow their Authentic Self, and powerfully fulfilled, to make an impact. Helping Women Globally with Kindness & Joy! #Body-Mind-Soul ELISA has served hundreds of individuals worldwide and created thousands of happy, empowered women.
Elisaâs advice is both inspiring and practical. She lavishes individuals with a combination of innovative personal solutions that spur miracle creation and profoundly personal advice that unlocks energy and sparks enthusiasm in dream lives. If you want to feel happy, experience inner peace, and infinite fulfillment on every day of your life, it is essential to determine what is your Life Purpose.
BUT first and foremost, you have to know YOURSELF. As Dr. Wayne W. Dyer said it so well: âHere you are in this intelligent system that has no beginning and no end, in which all of the galaxies move in harmony with each other. You must have shown up here for a reason!â
She truly believes that each one of us is born with a unique Life Purpose. To have a clear understanding of our life purpose is the ultimate way to guide you towards Happiness and Success. She likes to give the best tools and the most astonishing pieces of wisdom sheâs learned in 30 years as a be-creative mother, as a parent with a dream, as an achiever with goal-set, and as a kind spiritual-being with love for a better and happier world.
https://elisacard.com/meet-elisa-card/
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Anna-Maria Athanasiou wrote her first books, The Waiting for Summer novels in secret, firstly because she never thought sheâd finish them and secondly, it was a completely new territory for her. Throughout her life Anna-Maria had regularly created scenarios and stories in her head, thinking that one day she would finally put them down on paper. Eventually, in the September of 2011 she took the plunge and started to write down an idea that she'd been creating for almost ten years.
Waiting for Summer books one and two are the result of her small idea, and she finally had them published in September 2013 and June 2014. The love story and her characters, Sylvie and Nick, captured the hearts and enthusiasm of her readers, spurring Anna-Maria to carry on with her writing.
Anna-Maria has since been asked to collaborate with other authors on four charity anthologies and is an Inspirational Global Woman Nominee.
She lives in Cyprus and has two sons, a Golden Retriever and seven cats, and has penchant for cake, tea, whisky, wine and a healthy obsession with shoes. Anna-Maria loves the fantasy land of romantic fiction, and is passionate about bringing her stories and characters to life.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B00IZNBTAY
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Stefan was born and raised in Switzerland. He studied economics in Zurich and ended up in business journalism and wrote for Finanz und Wirtschaft, Berner Zeitung, Tages-Anzeiger and Handelszeitung.
He loves to travel and started globetrotting as a young child with his parents. He has always been fascinated by planes and airports and became the founder and editor of aeroTELEGRAPH, an online platform all about planes, flying, airports etc.
He is the author of the book âFascination Airport - The most beautiful airports and their storiesâ which is available on Amazon.
https://www.aerotelegraph.com/author/stefan-eiselin/page/169
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Susan spent 16 years gaining extensive corporate and management experience at a senior level in Equity Sales, Research and Corporate Marketing in investment banks DLJ, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup. Passionate about helping people reach their full potential, she has developed training courses, facilitated development workshops and mentored high potential individuals throughout her career. Between jobs, she travelled to France to learn French and fell in love with Carcassonne where she spent the money that she had saved to buy a studio flat in London on a house.
Today, she is an experienced and professionally qualified corporate and executive coach, award-winning speaker, best-selling author and transformational trainer.
She is passionate about creating sustainable peak performance and success for clients by helping them increase their confidence, energy and impact.
In addition to one-to-one executive coaching and VIP strategy days, she runs a High Performing Woman program for women in business, bespoke workshops/speeches, an annual De-Stress and Assess retreat, and a series of corporate career masterclasses for clients such as Barclays Bank, Expedia, Jefferies, JP Morgan, Man Grp, Deutsche Bank and InvescoPerpetual.
https://www.tedlondon.com/about.html
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Tracy lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. After realising that she didnât need to compete with the world for acceptance and belonging â that it was something within her â she was inspired to help others to do the same.
In addition to her work as a transformational catalyst and speaker, she is an independent financial consultant, as well as an accomplished photographer, specialising in portraiture.
In her spare time, she love connecting with her daughters, family and friends, spending time in nature and enjoying international travel. She is passionate about people, intrigued with how we relate to ourselves and each other, and drawn to the ocean of possibilities within each one of us.
In her book âUNLOCKEDâ she talks about being trapped in a passionless marriage. So, we become liars. We become liars trapped behind scriptures and moral facades. We learn to hide ourselves behind our reputations, as long as we look good to society. We put others, and their aspirations, before our own. We are taught that if we make a promise before God, then that covenant is cast in stone, even if your feelings do not align. That if you were once out of integrity, you can never go back. Even if it means you become a blatant, perpetual liar.We learn that there is no point of return; and no turning forward either. We learn that where we make our bed, we sleep. We learn that there is no justification solid enough to even tempt squeezing our new, evolved, wiser self through the cracks of a promise once made. We are told that we are warm when we are cold; that there are many things to be happy about, when we feel sad. When we cry out that we are hungry â hungry for more â weâre told we should be grateful for the fill we already have. We are told how to feel. And we are told how not to feel. We are moulded into an expectation of uniformity; homogenised into a fictitious ideal of normality.So, we stay. And we pretend. We mask and we ache. With a smile. We laugh when all we really want to do is cry. We close our eyes and focus on the positive and turn away from the knowing â a constant gnawing groan from somewhere deep inside of us. We tell ourselves that weâre being silly â a hopeless reiteration of what weâve been told is silly. We turn a deaf ear to the loud hungry pangs from our gut.
https://www.tracyloubser.com/why-tracy/
https://www.amazon.com/UNLOCKED-Journey-Inward-Utter-Truth/dp/B08JDXG3DL
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Agni Scott was born and raised in Cyprus and is a multilingual actress whose first language is Greek. She spent the first 18 years of her life on the sunny shores of the Mediterranean island before moving to the United States to pursue higher education.
Agni Scott is known for Bridget Jones's Baby (2016), Persuasion (2022) and Spooks (2002) but we all fell in love with her in âFind me Fallingâ, the recent movie produced in Cyprus which is trending on Netflix.
Agni has an MFA in acting from Brandeis University and earned a BFA in acting from Florida International University in Miami.
She is married to Scott Handy and she is the mother of two children.
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Rania was born during the war in Beirut in 1975 . Her childhood education was in Beirut and she studied at the very prestigious AUB (American University of Beirut)
Her journey has taken her from Germany to the UK, to Saudi Arabia and the UAE and now, she lives with her beautiful family in Cyprus. She has learned to the importance of adaptability and continuous learning. She has a mind for business, values that were taught by her family as well as love for culture, art and island life.
Ranya is a seasoned businesswoman and educator with a diverse background in journalism, banking, advertising, and consultancy. She began her career as a journalist for the pan-Arab business magazine Al-Iqtisad wa Al-Aamal and later worked in the first E-banking department in Lebanon as a Customer Relationship Service Manager at Credit Libanais. She also gained experience in the advertising industry at Memac Ogilvy. Ranya founded Miza Advantage Consultancy in Lebanon and has taught at Zayed University in Dubai and Effat University in Saudi Arabia. She is a certified SAP ERP Associate and excels in business planning, strategy, CRM, and curriculum development. Ranya has been recognized for her excellence in teaching and is a founding board member of BPWESC, among other associations. Ranya likes to learn languages and is passionate about work-life balance, sports, art, fashion, business, travel, and music. Her motto is "empower herself to empower others."
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Kelly Groehler is a corporate communications executive in the U.S. and the creator, executive producer and host of The WTAF Show: Women. Travel. Art. Food. Itâs the only women-first food & travel show out there â and a double entendre. Kelly created the show after seeing women are the travel,
food and art super consumers, yet 95% of food & travel shows are hosted by men. The stories they share on The WTAF Show are by women, about women, and told by women. Their episodes focus on the incredible creations by the top chefs and contemporary artists living and working in the places they visit. They share these stories via full episodes and shorts on their YouTube channel and Substack! And they have reels on IG, FB, Threads & TikTok.
https://thewtafshow.com/
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Petros Kkolas is a Digital Consultant in Engineering, working on mega projects in the UK and Greece. His expertise lies in Highways Engineering and the development of sustainable mobility solutions for the clients he serves. He is currently employed by ARUP, a global engineering consultancy with more than 19,000 employees and 94 offices in 34 countries. The company was founded by Sir Ove Arup, an Engineer, Philosopher, and Architect. The most significant project was the Sydney Opera House, where the principles of Total Design were applied.
In addition to his role at ARUP, Petros is also the Innovation Scout for the Midlands Region in the UK, responsible for promoting innovation activities in the region and engaging with start-up companies. Petros has also supported LGK Productions during the production of three documentaries with a primary focus on women. The three documentaries are:
Queens of Amathus - trailer linkQueens of the Commonwealth - trailer linkQueens of Cyprus. - trailer linkHe is currently responsible for all PR and Media Liaison activities in the UK and Cyprus. In his free time, Petros practices creative writing and poetry. He is working towards the publication of his poetry collection in Greek by the end of the year.
Travel is another passion that fuels his creativity and broadens his perspective. Petros has travelled to 25 countries and aims to reach 30 countries by the end of the year. Among all the places heâs visited, New York and Rovaniemi in Finland hold a special place in his heart. The bustling city life of New York (documentary premiere) and the serene beauty of Rovaniemi (chasing the northern lights at -30 degrees) have left indelible impressions on him.
In all these endeavors, Petros strives to bring together his diverse experiences and interests to create, innovate, and inspire. Whether itâs through engineering solutions, documentaries, podcasts, or poetry, he is committed to making a positive impact.
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I met Stelana at the Diaspora Forum (once more thank you Paul Lambis) and instantly liked her. She is genuine and very authentic.
Stelana Kliris is a South African Cypriot writer/director/producer and the founder of Meraki Films which is a production company based in Cyprus and established by Stelana as a banner for both her own films and those of local filmmakers, women in particular. The mission is to tell authentic stories that can travel to an international audience.
Stelana has a long-standing reputation on the island for being a reliable, persistent and hard-working professional. She has taken on multiple roles in local productions, but is most at home when she is writing, directing or producing.
Before establishing Meraki Films, she wrote, produced and directed the first independent feature film in Cyprus after the crisis caused State cinema funding to be cut in collaboration with AMP Filmworks and producer Marios Piperides, and with the generous support of the Pouroulis Foundation. Despite the low budget, COMMITTED went on to be distributed in multiple territories and optioned for a Hollywood remake. She also produced the award-winning feature film PAUSE, the feature directorial debut of Tonia Mishiali, under long-time collaborator AB Seahorse Film Productions with producers Andros Achilleos and Tonia Mishiali. She recently completed FIND ME FALLING, her second feature as writer/director and is working on several new projects under the banner of Meraki Films.
Find Me Falling has been translated to over 30 languages and will stream across 190 countries and over 260 million Netflix accounts, premiering on July 19.
https://www.meraki-films.com/new-page
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Talking to Andrea about how life doesnât always turn out the way we expected it. After studying psychology in the UK and coming back to Cyprus, she realised that things were complicated. For fun she joins an open recruiting day for flight attendants at Emirates Airlines and gets accepted. Even though her father wasnât thrilled with the idea, she moves to Dubai and spends five years working for one of the worldâs top airlines, allowing her to travel and explore cultures in over 70 countries.
On top of it all, she gets to have Brad Pitt as a passenger in first classâŠ
Today she works as a Marketing Manager at Harneys Fiduciary, a company she had joined in Dubai after she decided to end her flying career. She also organizes womenâs retreats and the best way to find out more is by following Andrea on Instagram @âbeing.andreachara
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Talking about growing up in Lahore and Guyana, what it means to be a third culture kid. Her childhood was informed by the Islamic call to prayer and her education at the American School had her playing with kids from all over the world of every color, creed and religion.
When one grows up like this, is it any wonder that the world becomes enchanted? That other humans become enchanted? She is endlessly thrilled with meeting other people and getting to know who they are and what makes them tick. She finds that developing relationships and building respectful community, as well as joy-filled community is essential to her being happy. She is a podcaster, screenwriter, author and so much more.
Also talking about walking the Camino and her adventures in France, much growth and experience await.
https://bytesizedblessings.com/
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Nitsa Anastasiades was raised in UK, London. She holds an MSc in Creative Writing Fiction from Edinburgh. Her work has been commended by the Bridport Prize and Fish Publishing respectively. With her husband who is a school principal and her family she has worked and lived all over the world.
She is the author of several books and a great storyteller.
Hamster Rats & Other Stuff Going On ⊠is her debut work, based on her experiences in 1980âs â 2000âs Britain.
OUR FOREIGN BORDERS, a collection of stories set in cities around the world, concerning themes of loneliness, alienation, the sexes, landscape, culture, prejudice and displacement, influenced by her travels and working in 11 different countries teaching English, is her second book.
She is now working on a novel - Sea With Salty Water - based on the Cypriot diaspora; her Greek Cypriot upbringing in 70âs Britain, juxtaposed with the 1974 coup in Cyprus.
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Kevin was born to an American father and a mother from El Salvador. His mother wanted him to be called Guillermo but his father decided to give the name of a basket player to the hospital administration. This is how the podcast starts. Kevin is witty and great fun with lots of stories to tell. When he received a scholarship from Georgetown Univesity, he decided to go to Lomé, Togo, where he stayed much longer than planned and discovered all of Africa, partly by moped.
Between 2010 and 2015 Kevin worked as the Associate Peace Corps Director of Peace Corps, Costa Rica where he built a project focused on improving the pedagogical practices of public school teachers in conjunction with the Ministry of Public Education of Costa Rica. A skilled Recruiter and mentor Kevin was responsible for the recruitment and retention of annual cycles of volunteers crucial for the projectsâ success. During this tenure, Kevin and his team of more than 230 volunteers assisted the Ministry in rewriting the National Curriculum of English delivering pedagogical workshops to teachers around the country.
He lives in Cyprus with his family, loves to travel and is drawn to technology and music in his down time.
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She is a Marketing Expert, an Author, a Motivational Speaker, a Presenter, a Podcaster etc. but most of all a very authentic, well travelled, beautiful woman with a great sense of humour.
During her time in London, she worked on some of TV and film's most prestigious international productions and had an amazing time working on film awards season in London and Los Angeles, getting to coordinate the production of events like the Oscars, Golden Globes, BAFTA Tea Party and Empire Film Awards for Sky was the personal highlight of my TV career.
However, she realised that family is more important than glamour and decided to move back to her hometown Limassol which she loves watching grow into a cosmopolitan city. She has since been involved in launching and promoting a handful of the Mediterranean's largest developments, while writing and podcasting to support causes close to her heart.
https://sophiaparaskeva.com/home-1
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A global collection of Balanced Travelers powers us. A shared ethos drives us: a commitment to wellness, sustainability, and eco-minded tourism. Our tight-knit guild is comprised of individuals who hold the planet dear and encourage mindful travel whose purpose extends beyond mere exploration.
It is not the start nor the finish, but the journey in between.
https://www.balancedtravel.com/
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Paola Savva is an award winning public figure and the founder of Sheinspires and She Cyprus Events and Seminars. Her why is to lift herself and others to fearless living and to empower them to find their inner strength and authentic self, living a meaningful life.
At the age of 17, she lost her dreams and everything that gave meaning to her life. This led her into a dark period of depression, which lasted for about 2 years. However, it was during this time that she underwent profound self-awareness, awakening, and empowerment. She learnt how to be unbroken and not allow outside circumstances to bring her back to such dark situations. - A frog brought her back to awareness. She can feel and recognise people suffering with depression and comfort them, as well as recognise the potential of people and use h time and love to make them find their path.
In 2013 when again she lost a career after 30 successful years and her retirement funds, losing a big part of who she was, she did not allow herself to go back to darkness. She chose Light! She made a promise to herself, to keep going, moving, acting, become unbroken, feeling happy no matter of the loss.
DO NOT ALLOW outside circumstances to affect you, and make you BROKEN. When you know who you are, you know your purpose and values then you become unbroken and you don't have to go back to darkness.
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I had been following him on TikTok and Instagram for a while and I met him at the Cyprus Diaspora Forum; thank you Paul Lambis for another useful and inspiring connection. Peter has a huge following on all his social media channels and says that consistency is key.
Peter Kypri was born in England and is now living in Cyprus and his alter ego Souvlakis has been making people laugh with his videos about Cypriot and Greek stereotypes.
As a stand up comedian he tours Australia, South Africa, the UK and all other places where there is a Cypriot and Greek Community.
He is a wonderful polite and very smart young man who turns into this crazy peasant Souvlakis with easy. His other ventures are his Youtube with Lagi Demetriou, the son of Stavros Flatley who performed on Britain;s Got Talent.
Peterâs dream is to fill a huge stadium in Cyprus in the summer when all the Cypriots from abroad are on the island on holidays and I will be sitting in the first row, supporting him.
https://cypriotsmurf.com/contact-book-me/
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