Summer Freedom: Los Angeles and Writing Contest

June 2015 News from Lisa & We Said Go Travel:

• I highlighted my two USA Today articles about Ireland with my latest video from Dublin. I wrote about The Bachelorette falling in love at the Guinness Storehouse.
• I met Scott Kirby the President of American Airlines and did a selfie video with him at LAX.
• I have been enjoying events in Los Angeles and New York. I was recently at the JW Marriott in Palm Desert and have ten videos nearly ready to share with you!
• Videos from Santa Barbara are LIVE: Exploring Santa Barbara, My Stay at the Goodland a Kimpton hotel and Dinner at the Outpost.
• Camping with the Cows 2015 was fantastic! I made a video and Sage wrote an article about our time on a dairy farm near Fresno. We won a social media award and the cows gave us free raw organic milk.
• Looking for a treat for yourself in Los Angeles: Try out The Remedy Spa at Luxe Sunset Boulevard Hotel. I can highly recommend a massage by Steve Oskard. I have been back many times already!
• Thank you to everyone who has joined me out and about–Wendy and I drank Veuve Clicquot and sent postcards from Santa Monica because you’ve got #Clicquotmail!

Brene Brown’s book: Daring Greatly takes its title from a quote by Theodore Roosevelt:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

Independence Writing Contest

Winners from the Inspiration Contest will be announced in July. Thank you to everyone who has participated in all my contests!

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Lisa Ellen Niver

Lisa Niver is an award-winning travel expert who has explored 102 countries on six continents. This University of Pennsylvania graduate sailed across the seas for seven years with Princess Cruises, Royal Caribbean, and Renaissance Cruises and spent three years backpacking across Asia. Discover her articles in publications from AARP: The Magazine and AAA Explorer to WIRED and Wharton Magazine, as well as her site WeSaidGoTravel. On her award nominated global podcast, Make Your Own Map, Niver has interviewed Deepak Chopra, Olympic medalists, and numerous bestselling authors, and as a journalist has been invited to both the Oscars and the United Nations. For her print and digital stories as well as her television segments, she has been awarded three Southern California Journalism Awards and two National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards and been a finalist twenty-two times. Named a #3 travel influencer for 2023, Niver talks travel on broadcast television at KTLA TV Los Angeles, her YouTube channel with over 2 million views, and in her memoir, Brave-ish, One Breakup, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty.