Can Travel Heal Grief? - with Jessica Nabongo

She visited every country on earth, becoming the first Black woman to do so. But the real reason she did it only became clear years later. Jessica Nabongo joins Rajan Datar on Travel That Made Me to trace a journey that started not with a passport but with a murder: her father, killed two days after her 19th birthday. From quitting a six-figure pharmaceutical job over a three-figure bonus, to rerouting through the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights when Syria denied her visa, Jessica reveals the disconnect that drove her to 195 countries. She explains how traveling solo through 100 of them taught her that most people are good, and that her scariest moment wasn’t in the countries she was warned about, but in Miami, staring down the barrel of a police officer’s gun. This is a woman who has seen everything, and is still working out what she was running toward. Check out more from Jessica: https://www.jessicanabongo.com/ https://thecatchmeifyoucan.com/ https://www.instagram.com/jessicanabongo/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicanabongo/ https://www.tiktok.com/@thecatchmeifyoucan https://www.facebook.com/thecatchmeifyoucan/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit travelthatmademe.substack.com