Our first guest this season is Lale Arikoglu, the Director of Special Projects at Condé Nast Traveler and host of the award-winning Women Who Travel podcast.

Lale has been working as Condé Nast Traveler editor for the past ten years, and her reporting has taken her from horseback riding in Patagonia and hiking in the Andes to sailing down the Amazon River, chasing the Iditarod in Alaska, and clubbing in Kosovo.

If you’re interested in working with Condé Nast, don’t miss this episode: Lale gives tips on how to pitch her, what she looks for in the pitch, and how the current moment informs the types of stories she’s looking to champion at the magazine.

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1. What gives YOU hope in this moment in time
2. Which place you are going to next

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Thanks to our Founding Members:

1. RISE Travel Institute, a nonprofit with a mission to create a more just and equitable world through travel education
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What you’ll learn in this episode:

1. What fuels Lale's reporting right now
2. What it was like for Lale crossing borders with her Turkish father
3. What our show’s concept (travel through a decolonial lens) means to Lale
4. Discussions inside the editors' room: borders, visa equity, and the privilege of travel
5. What Lale learned from interviewing women like Tracee Ellis Ross & Brooke Shields
6. Lale's tips on how to pitch Condé Nast Traveler
7. Lale answers our listeners' questions

Featured on the show:

1. Follow Lale on Instagram: @lalehannah
2. Read Lale's Istanbul article, In Charismatic Istanbul, the Past Still Shapes the Present
3. Read Yulia's article edited by Lale, In Okinawa, the Enduring Legacy of Bingata Textiles
4. Listen to the Women Who Travel podcast
5. Check out this Brooke Shields episode, this Antarctica episode with Preet Chandhi, and this episode where Lale interviewed Yulia
6. Check out CNT pitching guidelines

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Going Places with Yulia Denisyuk is a show that sparks a better understanding of people and places near and far by fostering a space for real conversations to occur. Each week, we sit down with travelers, journalists, creators, and people living and working in destinations around the world. Hosted by Yulia Denisyuk, an award-winning travel journalist, photographer, and writer who's worked with National Geographic, The New York Times, BBC Travel, and more. 

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