We’re hosting Lisa Niver as she discusses BRAVE-ish! Lisa will be in conversation with Chris Palmeri of Bloomberg News.
Date & time: Saturday, October 14, 2023 at 3 pm PDT
Location: Zibby’s Bookshop, 1113 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90403
EVENT RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/author-event-lisa-niver-with-chris-palmeri-tickets-720153056177
Event format: 30 minute conversation, followed by audience Q&A and book signing
About the book:
Although Lisa Niver has traveled in far-off locales from Vanuatu to Nepal and received numerous accolades for both her writing and her top ranked website, what people don’t realize is that this began from the wreckage of a rotten romance.
Newlywed Niver was on the adventure of a lifetime. She had quit her job, rented out her condo, and was traveling around Asia. To the outside world, Niver was a woman living out her dreams of exploring ancient ruins in Cambodia and seeing orangutans in Borneo. In private, she was keeping a dark secret. But, when she found herself lying on a sidewalk in Thailand, looking up at the sky in severe pain, she knew things had to change. At age forty-seven, Niver found the courage to set course on a new life.
Feeling like a failure, pushing fifty, and moving home to her parents’ house to start again from scratch, Niver started taking one tiny “brave-ish” step at a time to take her life far away from the old one and into the adventurous world of travel writing. These small hurdles led to the challenge of trying fifty new things before turning fifty. From diving into shipwrecks, swimming with sharks, bobsledding at 3 Gs, to indulging in wild escapades, Niver found herself traversing the world on a journey of reinvention, personal growth, and discovering what it actually means to be “brave.”
While Brave-ish chronicles Niver’s inspiring expeditions to distant corners of the world including Myanmar, Cuba, Morocco, Kenya and Mongolia this is more than a travelogue. Niver’s story is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of perseverance. Brave-ish inspires readers to dream big, take risks, and embrace the unknown to create a life filled with wonder and excitement, even when courage seems elusive.
About the speakers:
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 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 times.
Chris Palmeri oversees entertainment industry coverage for Bloomberg, a team that stretches from New York to Seoul and involves movies, TV, video games, and casinos. Bloomberg. Lisa met Chris when he was the president of the Los Angeles Press Club.
Bloomberg article about Lisa Niver: “To Stay in Shape on the Road, One Travel Expert Packs a Hula Hoop; Writer and podcast host Lisa Niver has visited more than 100 countries. Here’s her advice on scuba diving, hydration tablets and exercise.”
LEARN MORE about Zibby Owens in Lisa’s interview of her: Zibby Owens, Book Messenger Extraordinaire, Igniting Literary Enthusiasm
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