SXSW… and what a day!! 🤠✨📚So much fun signing copies of BRAVE-ish today at The Female Quotient Lounge! I loved meeting so many incredible people taking photos, and having conversations about bravery, travel, reinvention, and making your own map. 🤠📚✨ Austin, you’ve been amazing. More tomorrow!
📚✨ walk into the Female Quotient Lounge at SXSW…and discover an entire bookSHElf full of inspiring stories! I’m honored that BRAVE-ish is part of this amazing collection at SXSW. If you’re in Austin, come check it out at the Waller Creek Boathouse! 🤠📚#SXSW #FemaleQuotient #Braveish #Austin
SXSW plot twist: I was supposed to be here in 2020 as a journalist. Then COVID-19… Now I’m at SXSW — signing BRAVE-ish 🤠✨📚 at The Female Quotient Lounge.
📚 Come find me at the bookSHElf
📍 Waller Creek Boathouse
😉 SXSW + Austin + BRAVE-ish readers = the dream. 🌎✨
Ski day with Riley at Deer Valley Resort — Last year I saw the new terrain and heard about the expansion plans. From summer trails to winter corduroy, counting the days until the next visit — and grateful to have it all with my Ikon Pass. ⛷️❄️ ❄️ @ikonpass #ski #deervalley #parkcity #utah #travel
Delta Airlines March 1st. ✈️🏔️
Flight from LA and As we drove into Park City, we had bright blue skies, fresh snow, and those dramatic Wasatch Mountain views that make you want to pull over every five minutes.
#ParkCity #Utah #travel #Delta #flight @delta
Puppet Up! – Uncensored! 🎭 The performers are lightning-fast, the ideas come from the audience, see the puppeteers working in real time with puppets on screen as the “show.”
creative. funny. So impressive. I cannot wait to go again. ✨ #PuppetUp #TheMontalban #brianhenson #improv #JimHensonCompany
Honored to be featured by Shoutout LA! ✨ We talked about travel, storytelling, curiosity, and the journey that has taken me to 100+ countries and across seven continents as a journalist, TV host, and podcast creator. Thank you. #ShoutoutLA #losangeles #Travel #MakeYourOwnMap #Adventure
In her @BoredPanda article, travel journalist Lisa Niver spotlights Central Florida’s dynamic mix of luxury, adventure, and charm across Kissimmee and Orlando.
“I Expected Crowds And Chaos In Central Florida, But What I Found Was Silence, Beauty, And Real Emotion”
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Make Your Own Map — the award-winning podcast — is now streaming in 67 countries.
In the past week alone:
🇮🇶 Iraq
🇪🇨 Ecuador
🇱🇹 Lithuania
Recently:
🇮🇩 Indonesia
🇭🇷 Croatia
🇷🇸 Serbia
🇭🇺 Hungary
🇧🇷 Brazil
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From @stateofisrael @israelmfa
“🇮🇱 Israel and the United States 🇺🇸 embarked on an operation to remove the existential threat posed by the terrorist regime in Iran.
Operation Roaring Lion” @israelipm
From Manhattan and Sarasota to Hollywood Boulevard and Austin’s SXSW, After winning 1st Place Podcast Host at the NAEJ Awards, Make Your Own Map is now streaming in 67 countries worldwide. ✈️ read more: “Mapping the Year: Niver’s Feb News 2026” www.wesaidgotravel.com/feb-news-2026/
World Premiere of Hoppers 🎬✨
Thank you to Belkin 🔌Waymo 🚕and Yogurtland 🍦for The Pond Rules activations and photo 📸 opps. 🐸💚 Huge thanks to Disney, Pixar, and Chris for the invitation. We’re stronger when we leap together. 🎥
#hoppers @Disney #pixar #disney #movie @Pixar
Los Angeles–based travel journalist and podcast host Lisa Niver won First Place for Podcast Host at the 2025 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards
on #MSN @MSN www.msn.com/en-us/travel...
February 15: JFK to LAX. Travel is humbling like that. You can plan the flight, pack the bag, check the weather… and still be reminded that timing is everything. The difference a week makes. ✈️❄️ Thanks @Delta #Delta for the safe #flight. #travel #nyc
The Jet Set TV -Kissimmee and Orlando From scuba diving inside EPCOT’s Living Seas to luxury at Four Seasons Resort Orlando, my first-ever airboat ride at Wild Florida, and Top Tier by Reunion in Kissimmee — TV: 🎥✨ www.wesaidgotravel.com/jetsettv-kis...
spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4g3S...
New York at Oculus WTC. 9/ 11 Memorial fountains —NY Stock Exchange
📍 Trinity Church to see Alexander Hamilton’s gravesite
🥃 Fraunces Tavern
🌊 Battery Park & Statue of Liberty
to the Flatiron for rooftop vibes at Amalfi at Eataly with Jen — Cold hands. Full heart. New York always delivers. 🗽✨
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Life is short —Let’s see something new.
Being BRAVE-ish means booking the flight. It’s what 50 challenges before 50 taught me —don’t wait. Go.
Valentine’s Day may be over —
but love of travel?
That’s forever.
I’m still saying yes.
Who’s coming? ✈️🌎💛
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Life is short —Let’s see something new.
Being BRAVE-ish means booking the flight. It’s what 50 challenges before 50 taught me —don’t wait. Go.
Valentine’s Day may be over —
but love of travel?
That’s forever.
I’m still saying yes.
Who’s coming? ✈️🌎💛
Esplanade at Azario Lakewood Ranch blends resort-style living with championship golf, elevated dining, and beautifully designed homes by Taylor Morrison. Read @MSN #MSN www.msn.com/en-us/news/o... #esplanadeliving #taylormorrison @taylormorrisonhomes America’s Most Trusted Home Builder
Thank you @windstarcruises Read about it @BoredPanda “I Thought I’d Seen Every Shade Of Blue, Until I Sailed Through French Polynesia”
www.boredpanda.com/french-polyn...
explore the turquoise lagoons of Tahiti, Bora Bora, and beyond.#boredpanda #windstarcruises #travel #cruise #luxury
Scuba diving at EPCOT’s Living Seas is pure Disney magic — especially when the moment is shared through the glass. 🌊🫧
Grateful for Kenny, DEMA, DeeperBlue, and Mikkel for making this unforgettable. 💙read more: www.wesaidgotravel.com/epcot/ 🦈
#epcot #scuba #Disney #livingseas #diving
Happy Valentine’s Day ♥️ Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback said on this Shabbat Shekalim that “Belonging isn’t something you declare once and then walk away.
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Can we grow ten percent this year?
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more commitment can create lasting change.
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wisela.org/shabbat-shal... Photo by @sesamestreet #love #valentinesday
🐾❄️ Walking with polar bears is something you never forget- podcast interview with Terry Elliott of Churchill Wild Polar Bear Walking Safaris.
Churchill Wild guided walking safaris Would you walk with polar bears? 🐻❄️ churchillwild.com/award-winnin...
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NYC! See you tomorrow night at @rodneycomedyclub for @paulzachcomedy Get your tickets 🎫 rodneysnewyorkcomedyclub.com/shows/kicked... 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉@zacharyniver @paul_schoenberg184 @olganamer @itsoscaraydin @maxmanticof_ @derrick_yells @jharvin15 @bo_ski @ryanrizzuti
✨ So honored to share my story with Voyage LA — adventure, reinvention, storytelling, and saying yes to the unknown. 🚢 From sailing with Windstar Cruises, exploring Antarctica 🇦🇶 with Quark Expeditions, walking alongside polar bears 🐻❄️ with Churchill Wild 💛 voyagela.com/interview/da... 📸
2 brand-new 5⭐️ reviews from 2 brand-new friends I met on a Windstar cruise—for BRAVE-ish.💙
From trauma to travel, from pages to people—proof that when life takes unexpected turns, courage can grow, bravery doesn’t have to be perfect, and none of us has to do it alone. 🌊📖✨
Small Ships, Big Adventures: Exploring Tahiti with Windstar Cruises and Joanna Vapor!! 🎙️ Recorded onboard Star Breeze 🇵🇫 ✨🎧 Watch the Make Your Own Map podcast episode now bit.ly/MakeYOMap
#WindstarCruises
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🎥 VIDEOS: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
🌍✨ Make Your Own Map is watched in 64 countries across all 7 continents. From Spotify to YouTube, these conversations about courage, creativity, reinvention, and curiosity keep finding their way to new corners of the globe.
🎥 Multiple journalism awards
🗺️ Global audience
💛 Stories that connect
Grateful to the LA Press Club for First Place at the 2025 Southern California Journalism Awards for my Make Your Own Map podcast lifestyle feature at Giant’s Causeway in Ireland 🌊✨ thanks to the LA Press Club for championing journalism 🎉 www.wesaidgotravel.com/first-place-... #lapressclub #awards
