Thank you for all of your support and interest in my travels. Many of you have asked me how to get started so I decided to build my first interactive course, “So, You Want to be a Travel Writer, AKA- How do I get a FREE Trip?”
We will work together in six modules on skills from writing, video, social media, press trips, networking, travel conferences to interviews with travel professionals including magazine editors, travel writers and PR teams from luxury hotels, tour companies and destinations.
I have been a traveler all of my life and am fascinated by new places. I worked for seven years onboard cruise ships and backpacked for three years in Asia. I am honored that many hotels, destinations, PR firms and tour companies have invited me to share their stories.
I have a Masters in Education and have been teaching for decades; I even worked at Nickelodeon. I am a highly requested speaker and recently spoke at the Scuba Show, the Southern Travelers Explore Conference, Metro Women’s Leadership Summit and Women in Travel Conference.
Lisa Niver in Tanzania, country #100 with Abercrombie and Kent
This first beta course will be at the discounted rate of $449 which is less than you might spend on your next hotel room! By the end, you will be ready to share your first travel adventure and build your clips to pitch yourself as a travel content creator!
I am targeting September 2022 for my first group to take off! Please fill out this short survey (name, email, time zone) to get on the waitlist and receive your special early bird discount. By the end of this course you will have a blueprint and be ready to network with travel professionals and find yourself invited to your bucket list destination.
Lisa Niver in Jellyfish Lake, Rock Islands, Palau on her first press trip
I hope you will join me for this brand new adventure! There will be tips, tricks and many chances to ask me questions as well as community discussions, support and maybe even an ongoing Facebook group and the chance to travel with me or publish on my website.
REMEMBER: There’s no payment or commitment yet! This is just letting me know that you’re interested in learning more about the course when the time comes.
If you’ve been waiting for a sign, this is it. If you’ve been waiting for someone to walk with you, I’m here. This is going to be big. I’m excited to meet you. Are you in for the beta? Enter your name, email address, and timezone to get involved.
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Lisa Ellen Niver is an award-winning travel expert who has explored 102 countries and six continents. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, she worked on cruise ships for seven years and backpacked for three years in Asia. She is the founder of the website WeSaidGoTravel which is read in 235 countries and was named #3 on Rise Global’s top 1,000 Travel Blogs. Niver is a speaker at the Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Dallas Travel and Adventure Shows for 2023. Her podcast, “Make Your Own Map,” has been watched in more than 11 countries on 4 continents. Niver is represented by Chip MacGregor of MacGregor Literary, Inc. Look for her memoir in Fall 2023 from Post Hill Press/Simon and Schuster.
You can find Lisa Niver talking travel on broadcast television at KTLA TV Los Angeles, Satellite Media Tours, The Jet Set TV and Orbitz travel webisodes as well as her YouTube channel, where her WeSaidGoTravel videos have nearly 2 million views.
With more than 150,000 followers across social media, she has hosted Facebook Live for USA Today 10best, is verified on Twitter and listed on IMDb, and is the Social Media Manager for the Los Angeles Press Club.
As a journalist, Niver has interviewed Deepak Chopra, Olympic medalists, and numerous bestselling authors and been invited to both the Oscars and the United Nations. She has been a judge for the Gracie Awards for the Alliance of Women in Media, and has run 15 travel competitions on her website, publishing over 2,500 writers and photographers from 75 countries.
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.
Niver has published more than 2000 articles, in more than three dozen magazines and journals
including National Geographic, Wired, Teen Vogue, HuffPost Personal, POPSUGAR, Ms. Magazine, Luxury Magazine, Smithsonian, Sierra Club, Saturday Evening Post, AARP, AAA Explorer Magazine, American Airways, Delta Sky, enRoute (Air Canada), Hemispheres, Jewish Journal, Myanmar Times, BuzzFeed, Robb Report, Scuba Diver Life, Ski Utah, Trivago, Undomesticated, USA Today, TODAY, Wharton Magazine, and Yahoo.
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Awards
National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards
2021 Winner: Book Critic: Ms. Magazine “Untamed: Brave Means Living From the Inside Out”
2019 Winner: Soft News Feature for Film/TV: KTLA TV “Oscars Countdown to Gold with Lisa Niver”
2019 Finalist for: Soft News, Business/Music/Tech/Art
Southern California Journalism Awards
2022 Finalist: Book Criticism
2021 Winner: Technology Reporting
2021 Finalist: Book Criticism
2020 Winner: Print Magazine Feature: Hemispheres Magazine, “Painter by the Numbers, Rembrandt”
2020 Finalist: Online Journalist of the Year, Activism Journalism, Educational Reporting, Broadcast Lifestyle Feature
2019 Finalist: Broadcast Television Lifestyle Segment for “Ogden Ski Getaway”
2018 Finalist: Science/Technology Reporting, Travel Reporting, Personality Profile
2017 Winner: Print Column “A Journey to Freedom over Three Passovers”
Social Media Presence
YouTube Channel: We Said Go Travel (1.7 million views)
Short form video:TikTok, Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels, YouTube Shorts
Twitter: lisaniver (90,000 followers)
Instagram: lisaniver (24,000 followers)
Pinterest: We Said Go Travel (20,000 followers and over 70,000 monthly views)
Facebook: lisa.niver (5,000 followers); We Said Go Travel (3,000 followers)
LinkedIn: lisaellenniver (9000 contacts)
