In the latest episode of Plant Based On Fire, Bryan speaks with Brighde Reed, co-founder of World Vegan Travel—a company redefining luxury travel for vegans and the vegan-curious. With a career background in tour leading and a passion for plant-based living, Brighde and her partner Seb launched World Vegan Travel to create all-inclusive, luxurious travel experiences that prioritize vegan values. For vegan entrepreneurs and business enthusiasts, Brighde’s journey offers key insights into building a mission-driven company that combines passion, ethics, and quality service.
The Spark Behind World Vegan Travel
Brighde’s journey began when she and Seb discovered the world of travel hacking, enabling them to experience higher-end travel without a hefty price tag. However, even luxury travel revealed its limitations: while non-vegan guests enjoyed gourmet spreads, vegan options often fell short. Inspired to make luxury travel inclusive and satisfying for vegans, Brighde and Seb combined their travel industry skills to create World Vegan Travel.
“Our tours are about doing it in style! We want our travelers to have an unforgettable luxury experience and not be short-changed in terms of food or activities,” Brighde shares.
What Sets World Vegan Travel Apart
World Vegan Travel meticulously curates trips that combine comfort and adventure without compromising on ethics. By working closely with local hotels, restaurants, and guides, the company ensures that every aspect of the experience—from the cuisine to accommodations—is vegan-friendly and environmentally conscious.
“We let hotels know that we want a very high-quality breakfast, vegan bedding whenever possible, and no animal-based items in the mini bar,” Brighde says.
The company’s dedication to quality allows vegan travelers to experience the richness of regional cultures without dietary restrictions or ethical compromises.
Insights You’ll Gain from This Episode
Building a Business with Purpose: Brighde’s journey from educator to vegan tour operator demonstrates how aligning business with personal values can create a fulfilling career.
The Importance of Quality and Consistency: World Vegan Travel goes beyond travel basics, carefully vetting each aspect of the trip to meet high standards.
Growing Through Community: Collaborating with like-minded vegan influencers like Colleen Patrick-Goudreau was a key factor in World Vegan Travel’s growth.
Leveraging AI for Efficiency: While AI streamlines some processes, Brighde emphasizes the irreplaceable value of personalized service in making trips seamless and memorable.
Embracing Patience and Persistence: Building a successful vegan business takes time, patience, and consistent effort—a sentiment that resonates across all industries.
Key Highlights
Curated Vegan Luxury: Brighde explains that her company’s trips are luxurious, not just functional, with exquisite attention to vegan-friendly details.
Ethical and Cultural Immersion: Travelers engage in cruelty-free experiences, like visiting animal sanctuaries and dining with local vegan advocates.
The Future of Travel and AI: While AI helps automate tasks, Brighde believes true personalization—key to luxury travel—is irreplaceable.
Overcoming Challenges in New Destinations: Each new destination, such as Japan, brings unique challenges that require careful planning and adaptation.
Insights from Brighde
“Traveling with a group of like-minded people means that our guests not only enjoy the destination but also build a sense of community,” Brighde says.
Her passion for vegan travel as a form of ethical business shines through every aspect of World Vegan Travel’s operations, showing that conscientious travel is both possible and powerful.
Ready for Your Next Adventure?
If you’re ready to explore the world while supporting cruelty-free practices, consider World Vegan Travel for your next adventure. As Brighde’s story shows, a successful business is built on dedication to quality and a commitment to purpose—a combination that fuels every aspect of World Vegan Travel’s unforgettable experiences.
For more stories like Brighde’s and insights into the vegan business world, listen to the full Plant Based On Fire episode and visit World Vegan Travel for more information on their upcoming trips.
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Episode’s Transcript
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Bryan (00:01)
Hello everybody and welcome to Plant Based on Fire where we talk about plant based businesses and their inspiring stories to thrive in our industry. I'm your host Bryan and joining us today is Brighde Reed. She is the co-founder of World Vegan Travel, a tour company taking vegans all around the world on unique, unforgettable travel adventures. Welcome to the show. Thanks for being here.
Brighde Reed She/Her (00:25)
Bryan, thank you so much for this opportunity.
Bryan (00:29)
Really appreciate you grabbing a few minutes with me this afternoon. inspired, I'd like take us back in time a little bit. How did your journey get started? What inspired you to create world vegan travel?
Brighde Reed She/Her (00:42)
question. So my partner and I, Seb, we met when we were tour leaders. I was vegetarian back then, this is like 20 years ago, and Seb wasn't even vegan, sorry, vegetarian, let alone vegan. And we absolutely love traveling, you know, we've made it our career for many years. I
In about 2014, so I guess about 10 years or so ago, Seb discovered travel hacking. I don't know whether your listeners are familiar with that, but it's basically this idea of paying things with credit card and then redeeming them for flights, hotels, travel experiences, things like that. So we had become vegan in 2009 and Seb started this hobby which became a bit of a passion.
to collect points and we started having amazing travel experiences, travel experiences that we never would have been able to afford otherwise and I will say by this point Seb and I had done our fair share of backpacking and traveling very very cheaply, we had done that and honestly we really quite like the idea of traveling with a little bit more comfortably.
So we had started having these incredible travel experiences and honestly we would get a little bit irritated because we found that the value that we would get from these luxury travel experiences was a lot less than what the non-vegans would get, you know.
The breakfast buffet was pretty ordinary for us. I mean, don't get us wrong, we were very grateful to have these experiences, but you know, it was kind of like a little bit frustrating that, you know, the people next to us were getting caviar and very expensive things. And we would get like a, like a pasta with a tomato sauce or sliced fruit. And it was just a little bit frustrating.
Bryan (02:40)
Fruit.
Brighde Reed She/Her (02:47)
So as I mentioned, Seb and I had worked in the travel industry. We were tour leaders for Intrepid way back in the early 2000s. And sort of at around this time in 2014, Seb was working in TV production. I had put travel to one side. I was working as a teacher in an international school, but we became good friends with Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, also known as the Joyful Vegan.
She had actually been the person that had inspired me through her podcast back in 2009 to go vegan and it you know as soon as I became vegan it was like a huge passion project I was like doing some activism and I was like cooking like a woman possessed. I just absolutely loved everything about veganism and To cut a long story short me and Seb became very good friends with Colleen and David
And because they also don't have children, we just started traveling with them. They just became really great friends and we started traveling with them. And over these many trips, Seb had this idea of like, Colleen, have you ever considered like hosting a trip? you be interested in us, you know, creating a trip to Thailand that you would then promote to your followers and then they would join?
This idea is not so unusual now, but back then not so many people, not so many vegans were doing this. So would you be interested in hosting a trip that Brighde and I would run? I was still working full time at this point and I was like, my goodness, this seems like a lot of work. I thought I'd left that period of my life behind me. But at the same time, it did sound like a really cool project.
Bryan (04:22)
That's right.
Brighde Reed She/Her (04:43)
Many thanks to Colleen, we really do have a lot to thank her for. She agreed. So we put together an itinerary and she liked it, she promoted it to her audience and it sold out. So that really was the start of it. After a couple of trips, I started saying to Seb, well, this is great and all, but I'm still working full time and I'm running these trips in my holidays. That's kind of a lot.
So very slowly in 2019 was when I finally quit teaching and started working on WellVegan travel full time. obviously barring the pandemic where we didn't run any trips in 2020, in 2021 we ran one trips and things have slowly sort of snowballed since then. Now this is what we do full time.
Bryan (05:24)
Yay.
Yeah.
That's awesome. Such an amazing story. And I have, I have gotten to go on a vegan trip to Thailand. kind of planned it myself, I guess. So I'm so glad that you and your company exists to help other people that maybe aren't as motivated as me to plan this all out. But like, just trying to make sure you tackle some of those ethical sides of it and everything else. So I'm just curious, like,
How do you, what's your process and how do you sort of ensure that the travel tours are truly vegan, ethical, all that kind of stuff along the journey there?
Brighde Reed She/Her (06:13)
question well it's it's a lot of work I will say that our trips our trips are really just kind of like a normal luxurious sightseeing group trip made vegan so I wouldn't say that you know our trips are like you know super foodie trips in that we spend all day talking and thinking about food
Bryan (06:36)
Mm-hmm.
Brighde Reed She/Her (06:40)
or preparing food or anything like that. Of course, our food experiences are very nice, but our travelers, want to learn about, know, in Thailand, for example, they want to learn about Thai culture and meet Thai people. We do have experiences in there, like we go to sanctuaries. We have dinners with we invite local movers and shakers in the vegan scene in Thailand to, you know,
dinner or two so that our travelers can learn about what is being done in Thailand to help protect animals and move the vegan scene forward because I think that's really interesting and of course you're traveling with like-minded people because our trips are group trips. So in terms of our process, we obviously
Bryan (07:25)
Mm-hmm.
Brighde Reed She/Her (07:37)
reach out to mainly hotels are like the first step because we have breakfasts there and we reach out to them and we let them know that we're interested in taking over their hotel or making a big booking. Obviously there's power in numbers. You can get a lot more from a hotel when there are 20 of you than you can if it's just an individual traveler by yourself.
Bryan (07:41)
Yeah.
Brighde Reed She/Her (08:03)
So we reach out to them and we let them know that we're interested in staying, but this is what we would expect. And those things are of course like vegan food, vegan bedding, whenever it's possible and practical to do so. We're not gonna ask a hotel to buy 20 feather free pillows if they don't have enough, for example. I don't think it helps.
Bryan (08:03)
That's right.
Brighde Reed She/Her (08:30)
helps animals in that way. So we try to be kind to our hotels in that sense, and sometimes we have no choice. So we let them know we don't want any non-vegan things in the mini bar. We let them know that, you know, we obviously we would want a very high quality breakfast. We would basically want the equivalent to what the non-vegans are getting. We very often require like our own private areas so that we can't smell the bacon because that's not so fun.
Bryan (08:32)
Mm-hmm.
That's right.
Brighde Reed She/Her (09:00)
and we let them kind of know what we want and we say, look, you know, if you've never done this before, there's gonna be quite a bit of work. Are you prepared to embark on this learning journey with us? And most of the time they say, yes, a couple of places have said, we don't have the time for that or we're not interested. And of course that's fine as long as we know it upfront. And if they're interested, then we start working with people.
Bryan (09:14)
Mm-hmm.
That's right.
Brighde Reed She/Her (09:29)
Obviously, once we've worked with the hotel once, it's very, and we run another trip, it's very much rinse and repeat. Of course, we want to make sure the standards stays high. So sometimes it'll be a few years before we go back to a hotel. So, you know, I'm sending them pictures and videos. Okay, do you remember this set up? Do you remember this menu? This is what we are. And we will, we don't leave anything to chance. So we will send, if we can't go ourselves, and we do try to go ourselves,
Bryan (09:36)
Mm-hmm.
Brighde Reed She/Her (09:59)
But we, you know, for example, we're going back to Thailand in February. We're thinking of doing an activity a little bit differently. So we will send a friend of ours and we'll get them to do it and check for, know, if it's fun, is it, you know, can we tweak it to make it vegan? Is it safe? And all of those things and get them to write a report for us. So we usually start working with restaurants and
and things like about three or four months before we'll send people to do tastings if we have any doubt, like if it's at a non vegan restaurant, just to give that in-person feedback. And yeah, that's really how it goes. so the vegan part is a big part, but it's also sort of like logistics and planning and making sure the buses are there on time and all of this. So there's a lot that goes into it because
Bryan (10:37)
Mm-hmm.
I love it.
Mm-hmm.
Brighde Reed She/Her (10:55)
We really try to make it like a well-oiled machine in that, you know, our travelers shouldn't need to worry. They shouldn't be needing to wait. They shouldn't be thinking about, my goodness, when's this bus gonna get here? It's almost like a wedding, like a wedding planning, except it lasts for like nine or 10 days.
Bryan (11:09)
That's right.
Yeah, I love it. I, you sparked two big questions in my head. So let me, let me throw them at you here. So number one, I really want to know what has been your favorite tour so far that you've created and tell us about that experience. But then the second one is like the, inner computer nerd in me, cause I'm a chief technology officer, for bigger companies. And what I, what I find is like, everybody's scared of AI and
And everybody that I speak with feels like travel agents are dead. Just go to Expedia or whatever kind of a thing. And I disagree because I know how much time and effort that you just explained goes into planning these trips and taking a trip that I could do myself to the next level is just phenomenal. So I see the advent of AI pushing people into travel agents again or crafting these unique
beautiful experiences because we don't have to worry about some of the minutiae anymore. The AI will help us with that. So I'm just curious on your thoughts as you, as you, I think it's well worth paying whatever your additional fee is to help coordinate the stuff. know I could do myself if I had the time. So I'm just curious on your thoughts there, but you know, hit us with your favorite trip first. Cause that I'm so, I'm so I've been to Thailand, but I'm just curious. What's your favorite been?
Brighde Reed She/Her (12:38)
Sure, sure, okay. This is really, it's like choosing a favorite child. It's really hard because we're so invested in each of them. Okay, all right. Maybe I could choose one and explain why that is a favorite one.
Bryan (12:44)
Hahaha!
I will have you back on the show again and you can pick a different one next time.
Brighde Reed She/Her (13:02)
okay, perfect. All right. Well, I think like our Japan trips are very interesting. We ran two Japan trips, our first Japan trips earlier this year, like during the cherry blossom season, my goodness, was, that made it even more challenging. And I mean, I wouldn't say that Japan is one of my favorite countries in the world. Don't get me wrong, I really, like it.
but I think I really appreciate this trip because we managed to pull it off. Because Japan is kind of a tricky destination and I'm sure that most listeners probably would know that Japan isn't the most vegan friendly place. That's not to say that there are no vegan restaurants in Japan. That's not correct.
Bryan (13:38)
Hahaha!
Brighde Reed She/Her (13:58)
There are lots, especially in the cities that we go to, but I will say that most Japanese vegan restaurants are very small. They can't host a group and they're not necessarily serving vegan Japanese food. And actually, like...
This idea, you know, we have some great vegan sushi options that are incredibly creative in North America. It's hard to believe, but this really does not exist much in Japan. It's incredible to believe, but it's true. So when it comes to sourcing restaurants in Japan, it's really hard because there might be a good one, but it is like an hour away.
Bryan (14:35)
Yeah.
Brighde Reed She/Her (14:49)
You can't be driving an hour to go to a restaurant for like a half an hour ramen. That makes no sense at all. But at the same time, you have to be making sure that overall over the course of the trip, our travelers will feel like that they have experienced what is essentially world-class, Japanese food is world-class.
Bryan (14:59)
Right.
Brighde Reed She/Her (15:16)
in terms of it's considered the best cuisine in the world. So we want to show people a wide range of that made vegan. So that is what we're trying to do. And also Japan is kind of an interesting, they're very different to like Vietnamese people in that Japanese people are not, this is obviously, you know, overall, this is not everybody.
But generally speaking, they're not super flexible. It's what they have written down. It's what they can do. And they're not really willing to deviate from that. Even if you say that you will pay extra for the inconvenience, they're just not interested. So an experience comes to mind where like there's this incredible ramen place as mentioned in the Japan Michelin guide.
Bryan (15:55)
Yeah.
Brighde Reed She/Her (16:09)
there in Kyoto. It's fantastic. I've been there by myself. It's an incredible experience. It could just about fit in our group. We asked if we could have exclusivity to this restaurant for an hour. We would do whatever it takes to make that happen. They're not interested. That's because they're so busy and full most of the time. It's just not in their interest. And of course, I respect that, but it's what makes
Bryan (16:28)
Mm.
Brighde Reed She/Her (16:37)
bringing it together so challenging and also creating experiences that people will really, really love. So for example, we have a Geisha come, which is not something that you can normally do. It's very expensive to hire a Geisha for your own private party, but that's something that we can do. Yeah, it was,
Bryan (16:56)
Yeah.
Brighde Reed She/Her (17:02)
hard but I do love this trip because I'm very proud of what we were managed to put together despite many challenges.
Bryan (17:10)
It does sound like an amazing trip. Yeah, absolutely. You make me inspire. I think you should have the New York City vegan tour because there's so many great vegan places in New York City sometime too. But that's great. What's your general thoughts on the travel agent industry as it relates to AI and this changing world we're living in?
Brighde Reed She/Her (17:34)
Yeah, yeah, can I speak to that? Okay, I think I can share some insights. First of all, I definitely use AI for many parts of my business. I know there are some ethical problems that people are very concerned about, but you know, being transparent, I do use it. I do use it for my sales and marketing. I'm not the best writer, so it's a fantastic tool.
Bryan (17:46)
Mm-hmm.
Brighde Reed She/Her (18:02)
And I do know that there are, you know, you can use ChatGPT to create incredible itineraries. So I definitely would say that ChatGPT and other AI tools are helping individuals create travel experiences. You know, I wanna, wanna, I wanna one week trip to Bangkok, sorry, a one week trip to Thailand. I wanna...
This is what I'm interested in. I definitely want to include these sites, explain what would be the quickest, easiest ways to get between each destination, craft it to minimise. That's what I would do. And definitely people can do that. And definitely we use AI to help with our itineraries as well. But then there's still a big headache with actually
booking the things and people can doubt whether they're making the right decision. You still have to triple check the information that AI is spitting out at you. You know, does that hotel still exist? you still have to book it. And I think what I've noticed with our travelers, because we would really not really call ourselves a travel agent, we would call ourselves more like a tour operator. We're not like a full service travel agent where people can contact us and book.
Bryan (19:00)
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Brighde Reed She/Her (19:29)
flights or a hotel that's not what we do. definitely our travelers are a little bit on the older side. So maybe and they also have more disposable income. Our trips are definitely at the higher end and our travelers they just want somebody else to deal with everything. They want they just want to turn up
and have a packing list and just trust that they can just like turn off their brain and not have to do any decision making because even if you have this perfect itinerary created with AI, you still have to figure out how the taxis work to take you to the train station. You still have to buy the actual train ticket. So we kind of alleviate all of that. So if you're really looking to just
come and enjoy a place and turn off your brain, then a group tour situation is definitely something you consider, whether it's with World Vegan Travel or whether it's with a non-vegan company that might be able to accommodate you. Of course, vegan is going to be, I think, better. Or whether with one of the other amazing vegan group tour companies that are out there in the world now.
Bryan (20:34)
You
That's right. I love it. Absolutely. And yeah, I don't know. I think it's going to change every aspect of it. I think it's going to bring more people to the vegan world, I hope. And I hope it's going to bring more people to travel as we go. But I appreciate your thoughts and insights on that. I'm curious, like what is next for world vegan travel? Are there new destinations, new tours? What's on the horizon?
Brighde Reed She/Her (21:12)
That's a great question. Okie dokie. Yes, we're always planning new trips. mean something that's, we often get emails from people saying, have you considered Mongolia? Have you considered New Zealand? Have you done all of these things? And I'm like, yes, we have, but we have to prioritize because we're not just, when we're running our trips, we're not just...
Bryan (21:28)
Yeah.
Brighde Reed She/Her (21:37)
contacting a destination management company in the country that we're going to and saying, can you create like a vegan trip and book everything and do it and then we sell it. That's not really how we're operating. Really everything is based on our research and what we think our travelers would like. So it takes a lot of time. I would say that we...
have like one new big destination per year. So for example, this year we ran our first Japan trips based on about $30,000 worth of research and development that happened the year before. This year we are researching and we have Croatia that will happen next year. I
Bryan (22:22)
Mm-hmm.
Brighde Reed She/Her (22:30)
think our big research for next year that will be released in let's say that would be 2026 I think is going to be maybe Spain, maybe Sicily, maybe a small boat cruise to the Galapagos. We're not quite sure yet, but there's always a ton of things on the list, but we really have to make the decision based on what we feel comfortable about doing.
Bryan (22:50)
Very nice.
Brighde Reed She/Her (23:00)
what we think people will actually want to go to and what our capabilities are. So we have to be really smart about what we choose is up next.
Bryan (23:14)
I love it. Absolutely. I am signing up for several of those trips. Those sound amazing. So what I you're you're obviously have the strong business acumen as well. And we are trying to help other plant based businesses and vegan businesses get off the ground. So what's the top piece piece of advice that you'd give somebody starting out in the plant based business sector or maybe even the vegan travel world that you're in to help leapfrog their business?
Brighde Reed She/Her (23:43)
Okay, well thank you very much for saying that I have business acumen. That feels very weird to say.
Bryan (23:49)
I felt it throughout this interview here. You definitely do. I mean, you've got the right process and system down. People don't think of all the nuances that go into some of these things. So I can see it and I'm sure you can impart some wisdom on some people that are just getting started.
Brighde Reed She/Her (23:59)
You
Sure, sure. Well, I would say, well, first of all, I learned everything in the past few years. Everything has been self-taught and I have gone through so many frustrations over the years, but I've also had some successes. So, there's a lot I could say, but let's just start with a couple of things, I guess. So when I first,
decided to work on WellVegan Travel, like it became evident that I was going to be like the marketing person and I literally had no idea. So what I did was, I know there are different choices available these days, but this is what I did back in 2019, is I worked with Stephanie Redcross from Vegan Mainstream for about six months or so and she just
I stopped working with her then. I since sort of started working with her like for to get work through any challenges that I've got because I just find it so great to just have my thoughts confirmed. Anyway, I worked with her for about six months or so to kind of help me get things set up. And this was really good. Could I have Googled it myself and figured out probably, but I just had no clue.
what to do and how to do it. So what she told me was that obviously I needed to start creating content and I needed to obviously have a working website and she gave me a lot of information on how to
do to make the website as good as it could be. Definitely my website needs a bit of a refresh, I think, and maybe a rebranding, but that's low on the list right now. But I would say like, it just felt totally unfathomable to me back in 2019 that these blog posts that I was writing as somebody who could not really write very well was actually going to help my business. And that...
these social media posts that I was writing for like 10 people was actually going to make much of a difference. And that this email that I was sending out to like five, 10 people, 20 people, surely that wasn't ever going to actually work. But surprise, surprise, it did.
And the reason why I started to know this is, you know, over time, and this is the thing that I think a lot of people give up on, is that it takes so long for these things to actually make a difference. And I'm talking like years, investing this time and, you know, sometimes giving up for a while and then starting again, just...
Bryan (26:49)
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Brighde Reed She/Her (27:16)
And then it was when we started getting like, how did you learn about the trip? I found it on Google when I searched vegan travel Japan. And it's like, my gosh, that it worked. It worked. And then, and then I would say also like getting on other people's podcasts as well. Obviously the listeners, obviously, hopefully the people that listen to your podcast might be interested in us now, but also, you know,
Bryan (27:24)
Mm-hmm. It worked. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah?
Brighde Reed She/Her (27:45)
your backlink from your site to my site is great. And I've learned a lot about like SEO and domain authorities and things like that. And I've seen this increase over time. And because I had invested a lot of time on that, when the New York Times decided to do a feature on vegan travel a couple of years back, they found us. And as a result, they
Bryan (27:49)
Mm-hmm.
Boom.
Brighde Reed She/Her (28:15)
you know, put something in the New York Times to get a backlink from the New York Times is huge. And that really made everything jump. So you're just constantly sort of chipping away at this thing, at this, at this, and eventually you will see it, you will see some results that will happen from it. So I guess that's the one that really sticks in my mind because
Bryan (28:23)
Absolutely.
Mm-hmm.
That's right.
Brighde Reed She/Her (28:44)
I honestly didn't think back in 2019 that this would make the least bit of difference, but then things start to sort of snowball and you get repeat travelers and then they're writing testimonials and or they will book with you again. And all of these things start to add to like people trusting you because I didn't understand this. But when people are paying like $10,000 for a 10 day trip,
Bryan (28:53)
Mm-hmm.
Brighde Reed She/Her (29:13)
It's not like buying a T-shirt on a $20 T-shirt. This is a huge investment that they're making. So they need to know that they can trust you, that you're legit, that you've got repeat travelers, that you've got testimonials. For a while, I was really reluctant to actually talk to any potential customers. I don't know why. I was like, well, if they can't book from the website, then...
Bryan (29:20)
Mm-hmm.
That's right.
Brighde Reed She/Her (29:43)
Seriously, but now talking to travelers, they wanna know, they wanna meet you and you can allay so many fears from potential travelers. Maybe it's not because they don't know, they don't trust you. Maybe they trust you, but they're not sure about the destination. So, you know, getting people on a call can be super helpful in helping them make the leap. And I don't know, they're those, that's.
Bryan (29:44)
You know, yeah, yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Brighde Reed She/Her (30:12)
I guess I could say more, but maybe that's enough.
Bryan (30:13)
That's a ton of wisdom there. No, that's plenty, plenty of wisdom. mean, I, I echo that. mean, I helped coach so many plant-based businesses and I can't underscore that enough that you need a coach. need somebody to help hold you accountable and drive things forward. You do have to chip away at it. mean, I launched this podcast and I had zero listeners the first couple of episodes, you know, other than my parents. Right. So
Brighde Reed She/Her (30:27)
Yeah.
Bryan (30:39)
And now here we are almost two years later now and we have, you know, hundreds of followers, thousands of downloads. And it just is growing and establishing that authority and trust that we're trying to provide more insights into this vegan space. I commend you on your efforts and thank you for chipping away at this. What can we do as a community to help all the people that are going to watch this episode?
Brighde Reed She/Her (31:01)
Thank you.
Bryan (31:07)
They should know they can come on the podcast themselves, but how come they all help you and what are the best ways to get in touch?
Brighde Reed She/Her (31:15)
Sure, absolutely. Well, if they're interested in learning about WellVegan travel and what we do, they can of course, they can go onto the website and they can book a call with me if they want to have any questions answered. We do have a very sort of active mailing list. So we send out emails every seven to 10 days. I do try to make them.
interesting and valuable. It's not always sell, sell, sell. We're trying to educate people about possible destinations. I also have a podcast as well called the Well Vegan Travel Podcast, which Bryan, I would love to have you on if you're interested. we talk about, again, it's not purely a sell, sell, sell thing at all. But we speak with vegans who have
Bryan (31:59)
Absolutely.
Brighde Reed She/Her (32:14)
the authority to talk about a destination. So think of it as like an audio travel guide. We also talk with, for example, today I had a podcast interview recording with Hidden Forest. They are an ethical elephant sanctuary in Thailand that we go on our trips to, but you can also go on there as just an independent traveler.
Bryan (32:36)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Brighde Reed She/Her (32:40)
We speak with like vegan hotels and people that offer vegan travel experiences or very vegan friendly travel experiences that we think vegans would like that would align with our values. So we have the podcast, we have the email. We're trying to do a bit better on social media now. You can find us at WellVeganTravel on all of the links. And I guess that's it.
Bryan (32:52)
Mm-hmm.
No, those are some great ways to do it. Like definitely check out the world vegan travel podcast. I would love to be on there. I've been to quite a few trips myself. I'd love to geek out with you on all the cool vegan gems from around the globe that we know about. and, definitely check out worldvegantravel.com and subscribe to the newsletter. Cause you never know when you might want to take that vegan trip and hang out with, I think that's half the battle with us as vegans is
We do want to go on vacation. We don't want to feel like outsiders to a degree. And I would love to go on a trip. I've done many of these group trips throughout my life, but I would love to go on a group trip and not be the only vegan in the group and hang out with 10 other like minded people and geek out. So that that would be amazing. So this has been so insightful and so helpful for all of our listeners. So we really appreciate you being here today.
Brighde Reed She/Her (33:58)
Thank you, Bryan. Thank you so much. I really appreciate this opportunity.
Bryan (34:03)
That is all the time we have for this episode of Plant Based on Fire's podcast. Thank you so much, Brady, for joining us and sharing your insights and experiences with our community. Until next time, everybody, keep that fire burning.
Brighde Reed She/Her (34:17)
Thank you.
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