ITP - 151 - Melissa Rodway is an author, traveler, and former Radio Jockey. She joins Hannah, JP, and Greg to talk about travel, storytelling, and her new book The People You Meet: Luxury, Leeches, Love and Lao-Lao. Melissa shares how a childhood year in Australia planted the travel seed, how months of moving through Southeast Asia became the foundation for her book, and why the people we meet on the road often shape us more than the places themselves. The conversation moves through Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, China, Mexico, travel fatigue, solo adventures, border-crossing panic, and the strange compulsion to write it all down before the memories get eaten by time, bad Wi-Fi, or another questionable bus ride.
You can buy her first book in multiple formats on Amazon.com
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Books (on Amazon) By Gregory Lemoine:
Stay for the Show (2026) | Greg’s first Childrens Picture Book
International Teacher Guide: Finding the "Right Fit" 2nd Edition (2025) | by Gregory Lemoine M.Ed.
"International Teaching: The Best-kept Secret in Education" | by Gregory Lemoine M.Ed.
Apps by Greg:
https://apps.apple.com/app/6755244840 1. Who’s That? Name & Face Trainer Nov 21, 2025
https://apps.apple.com/app/6756509803 2. Facetag | Memory Trainer Dec 16, 2025
