Maggie Downs is the award-winning author of the travel memoir, Braver Than You Think: Around the World on the Trip of My (Mother’s) Lifetime. Her writing has appeared in national and international publications, such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Travel + Leisure, BBC Travel, and Afar, among others, while her essays have been widely anthologized in Best Women's Travel Writing, True Stories From the World's Best Writers, and Lonely Planet's You Only Live Once. Her second book is forthcoming from Chronicle Books in spring 2024. She is based in Palm Springs, California. In this episode Maggie shares with us her inspiration behind her storytelling and about her career journey and rise to success.