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Kristen Sarah is one of the top travel videographers and travel video creators on YouTube. Her channel, Hopscotch the Globe, has over 26 million views and over 157,000 subscribers. Over the past 6 years, she has written, produced, and hosted dozens of video campaigns for some of the biggest international brands, companies, and tourism boards. She’s worked both behind and in front of the camera for major Canadian and US television networks such as Travel Channel, MTV, YTV, and Much Music. Just in the last year, Kristen hosted two web series with Travel Channel, a television pilot and produced the largest and most successful multi-media campaign with Toyota Motor Corporation to celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday. Kristen is a Lonely Planet and Sony Ambassador, and has been named one of USA Today’s top travel videographers, one of Matador’s top travel YouTube creators, and one of the most influential women in travel by Flight Centre.

In this episode we talk about the trip to South America that started it all, studying video production in college, advice for building a career, living in a 200 square foot refurbished airstream, perks of living in an airstream, her first gig being paid to travel and create, how money was talked about when she was a kid, living a minimalist lifestyle, where to travel if you are on a tight budget want your money to go further and where she would go if she has 1 week and $1,000.