How do you cope when everything falls apart at home, and you're 8,000 miles away? Between jobs and craving a reset, TV producer Sam Schles books a solo trip to Thailand. Then, from a beach half a world away, she watches the LA wildfires close in on her home. With the help of some Buddhist monks, Sam gets a crash course in non-attachment and savoring the things that are actually worth saving. 

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How do you cope when everything falls apart at home, and you're 8,000 miles away? Between jobs and craving a reset, TV producer Sam Schles books a solo trip to Thailand. Then, from a beach half a world away, she watches the LA wildfires close in on her home. With the help of some Buddhist monks, Sam gets a crash course in non-attachment and savoring the things that are actually worth saving.&nbsp;
Follow <a href="https://substack.com/@solitatravels">@solita_travels</a> for bonus content and subscribe on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/solita_travels/">Substack</a> for Julie's big 3 takeaways from each episode.

Record-numbers of women are traveling alone. But what are the real stories beyond the highlight reel, the "Bali will heal you" fantasies and the doom warnings from your uncle? 

Hosted by solo traveler and award-winning writer Julie Piñero, Solita explores the messier side to solo travel. What happens when your Paris fling takes you somewhere the rom-coms wouldn’t dare? When your trip to honor your grandparents means facing your worst fear alone? When you say ‘yes’ and it surprises even you? 

Solita is Spanish for ‘a female alone’, but it drips with pity. This show takes that word back. Solitude - especially on the road - may be a time to follow a curiosity nobody shares, change your mind and push your limits. 

Each week, Julie and a guest unpack one solo trip and what it reveals about safety, sex, money, heritage, loneliness, identity and other nuances that make solo travel more approachable, less fantasy. Because the world isn’t always your oyster. That’s exactly what makes the story worth telling.

Record-numbers of women are traveling alone. But what are the real stories beyond the highlight reel, the "Bali will heal you" fantasies and the doom warnings from your uncle?&nbsp;
Hosted by solo traveler and award-winning writer Julie Pi&ntilde;ero, Solita explores the messier side to solo travel. What happens when your Paris fling takes you somewhere the rom-coms wouldn&rsquo;t dare? When your trip to honor your grandparents means facing your worst fear alone? When you say &lsquo;yes&rsquo; and it surprises even you?&nbsp;
Solita is Spanish for &lsquo;a female alone&rsquo;, but it drips with pity. This show takes that word back. Solitude - especially on the road - may be a time to follow a curiosity nobody shares, change your mind and push your limits.&nbsp;
Each week, Julie and a guest unpack one solo trip and what it reveals about safety, sex, money, heritage, loneliness, identity and other nuances that make solo travel more approachable, less fantasy. Because the world isn&rsquo;t always your oyster. That&rsquo;s exactly what makes the story worth telling.

Solita

Eat, Pray, Evacuate: Trying to Relax While Everything is On Fire

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What's the biggest risk you'd take to see the world? Ria Xi will be the first person to run the length of the Silk Road across Asia and Europe, and she'll run it alone. Ria believes travel should happen at the pace of a single footstep - slow enough to savor everything between point A and B. Julie catches Ria from her nomadic training route, but stick around to the end of the episode to hear an update from Ria along her record-breaking run!

To support Ria's run, check out her GoFundMe and follow along on Instagram @whereisriax for occasional chances to join her crew.

Check out Ria's podcast, Planetary Run Club, where she interviewed Julie for her debut episode!

Follow @solita_travels for bonus content and subscribe on Substack for Julie's big 3 takeaways from each episode.

What's the biggest risk you'd take to see the world? Ria Xi will be the first person to run the length of the Silk Road across Asia and Europe, and she'll run it alone. Ria believes travel should happen at the pace of a single footstep - slow enough to savor everything between point A and B. Julie catches Ria from her nomadic training route, but stick around to the end of the episode to hear an update from Ria along her record-breaking run!
To support Ria's run, check out her <a href="gofund.me/8d624216f">GoFundMe</a> and follow along on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/whereisriax/">@whereisriax </a>for occasional chances to join her crew.
Check out Ria's podcast, <a href="https://youtu.be/jw1R3Ip5ec8?is=BkvLFTrY7qwlcMJW">Planetary Run Club</a>, where she interviewed Julie for her debut episode!
Follow <a href="https://www.instagram.com/solita_travels/">@solita_travels</a> for bonus content and subscribe on <a href="https://substack.com/@solitatravels%20/%20https://www.instagram.com/solita_travels/">Substack</a> for Julie's big 3 takeaways from each episode.

How to Run 20,000 Kilometers Alone

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Are flights really cheapest on a Tuesday? How do you find a great homestay? Can you travel with just a purse? Gillian Morris built the cheap-flight app Hit List and she's perfected the art of budget solo travel. She's living proof that the less you spend, the more open you are to help from strangers, vibrant detours, and truly connecting to a place -- if you do it right! This episode is packed with tips for how to save on flights, stays and luggage, plus strategies like "playovers" that let you squeeze a whole trip out of a layover.

Follow Gillian on her Substack "Supernuclear: A Guide to Living With and Near Friends"

Follow @solita_travels for bonus content and subscribe on Substack for Julie's big 3 takeaways from each episode.

Are flights really cheapest on a Tuesday? How do you find a great homestay? Can you travel with just a purse? Gillian Morris built the cheap-flight app Hit List and she's perfected the art of budget solo travel. She's living proof that the less you spend, the more open you are to help from strangers, vibrant detours, and truly connecting to a place -- if you do it right! This episode is packed with tips for how to save on flights, stays and luggage, plus strategies like "playovers" that let you squeeze a whole trip out of a layover.
Follow Gillian on her Substack "<a href="https://supernuclear.substack.com/">Supernuclear: A Guide to Living With and Near Friends</a>"
Follow <a href="https://www.instagram.com/solita_travels/">@solita_travels</a> for bonus content and subscribe on <a href="https://substack.com/@solitatravels">Substack</a> for Julie's big 3 takeaways from each episode.

3 Cheaper Ways to Solo Travel that Skip the Tourist Script

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How far can "yes" take you before it stops feeling like freedom? Comedian Kenice Mobley grew up on rom-coms where a woman flies to Europe, accepts an invitation from a man with high cheekbones, and gets a whole new life. So when a flirt in Paris turns into an invitation, Kenice follows it... straight into an underground world that asks her to keep saying "yes". She does, right up until she hits the edge of it: the line between freedom and fantasy.

Follow Kenice at @kenicemobley and get tickets to her show, "Hot Guy Draft" on August 23rd, 2026 at Littlefield in Brooklyn.

Follow @solita_travels for bonus content and subscribe on Substack for Julie's big 3 takeaways from each episode. 

How far can "yes" take you before it stops feeling like freedom? Comedian Kenice Mobley grew up on rom-coms where a woman flies to Europe, accepts an invitation from a man with high cheekbones, and gets a whole new life. So when a flirt in Paris turns into an invitation, Kenice follows it... straight into an underground world that asks her to keep saying "yes". She does, right up until she hits the edge of it: the line between freedom and fantasy.
Follow Kenice at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/kenicemobley/">@kenicemobley</a> and get tickets to her show, "<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hot-guy-draft-first-crush-tickets-1989359961196">Hot Guy Draft</a>" on August 23rd, 2026 at Littlefield in Brooklyn.
Follow <a href="https://www.instagram.com/solita_travels/">@solita_travels</a> for bonus content and subscribe on <a href="https://substack.com/@solitatravels">Substack</a> for Julie's big 3 takeaways from each episode.&nbsp;

The Paris Sex Club Incident and the Limits of Saying 'Yes'

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Eat, Pray, Evacuate: Trying to Relax While Everything is On Fire

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