Beth Santos on AI: Are Stories in Danger?
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SHOW DESCRIPTION
Beth Santos is the CEO of Wanderful and author of WANDER WOMAN: How to Reclaim Your Space, Find Your Voice, and Travel the World (2024). In this conversation, we discuss the stories that make this book so special, the challenge of not only writing , but also marketing and promoting the book, breaking through the noise, and what we can do to reclaim our space as women in travel, a true majority in the travel industry that still gets treated as a niche.
We also talk about AI and its impact to our fragile storytelling and media eco-system. I try to surprise Beth by asking my ChatGPT bot questions about Beth and her work and prompting the bot to impersonate Beth. What we learn about AI in the process is fascinating!
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TIMESTAMPS
02:15 Beth reads an excerpt from Wander Woman
07:46 The challenge of writing a book
13:11 Rethinking the traveler vs tourist narrative and the privilege of travel
19:30 Reclaiming our space as women in travel
22:18 The myths of women traveling solo
23:02 Is it selfish to travel solo as a woman?
26:15 Body positivity through traveling
30:35 The vulnerability of writing and promoting a book
31:29 How do we break through the noise of content?
33:13 Book publicity and the fairy godmother complex
35:10 Decolonizing the definition of book success
42:02 Yulia talks to AI about Beth
41:00 The impact of AI on travel creators
43:20 How Wanderful plans to use AI
47:06 Beth responds to ChatGPT impersonating Beth
48:53 Is there a digital space that is safe to build a business around?
50:48 Celebrating 11 years of Wanderful
53:44 Building a one big DEI table in travel
55:39 Beth’s new TV show: World Herstory
FEATURED ON THE SHOW
📘 Beth Santos's book, WANDER WOMAN: How to Reclaim Your Space, Find Your Voice, and Travel the World: https://thewanderwomanbook.com/
📕 Dr. Anu Taranath's book, Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World: https://www.anutaranath.com/books
🎧 Beth's podcast, The 85 Percent: https://85percentpodcast.com/
✈️ Free solo travel guide from Wanderful: https://sheswanderful.com/wts101
🫂 WITS, a conference for women in travel: https://witsummit.com/
🌎 Black Travel Alliance: https://blacktravelalliance.org/
🌲 Native Women Wilderness: https://www.nativewomenswilderness.org/
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🌐 Website: https://www.bethsantos.com and https://sheswanderful.com/
📸 Instagram: / maximumbeth and / sheswanderful
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