Judi Wineland: Why Women Travel Better

Feb 26, 2026

Judi Wineland, founder of Adventure Women and longtime safari and adventure operator, shares how immersive travel sparks aliveness and resets expectations. She discusses women traveling together, the role of awe, discomfort, and laughter, and transformative trips in places like Tanzania, Japan, and the Canadian Rockies.

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How A USO Tour Sparked A Travel Life

Judi described her start in travel after touring with the USO as a young suburban woman who'd never flown before.
That early awe led her to quit teaching, start Overseas Adventure Travel, and later a safari company in Tanzania with her guide Rick Thompson.

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Raising Kids By Bringing Them To Tanzania

Judi and her husband took their two daughters to Tanzania regularly and treated travel as a family immersion, not a vacation swap.
One daughter later joked about preferring Hawaii as a teen, highlighting how travel became a family norm rather than an optional pastime.

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Passing The Baton Created Adventure Women 2.0

Judi acquired Adventure Women after Susan Eckert sought someone to continue her legacy while ill, and Judi teamed with her daughters to relaunch it in 2016.
They shifted the brand toward soulful, women-only trips focused on connection and challenge.

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Judi Wineland, world traveler and founder of AdventureWomen explains how a lifetime of extreme travel shaped her idea of “aliveness,” and why the right trip can change your relationship to your body, your confidence, and your attention. She breaks down what happens when women travel together without the labels and expectations they carry at home, and why that can unlock sharper honesty, better friendships, and a renewed sense of play. You’ll hear how awe, discomfort, and laughter become practical tools for building resilience, whether you’re walking an old pilgrimage route in Japan or feeling tiny on the Serengeti. If you want a clear-eyed take on how travel can support wellness, fitness, and personal momentum at any age, this episode is a blueprint.

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Key Moments

“It’s not just about travel. And we had these wonderful conversations and we laugh a lot because we also do these trips and go out and challenge ourselves a bit.”

“You have to be open to it. You have to be ready and vulnerable, ready for vulnerabilities.”

“Well, I would want to maybe challenge the fact that not all of us, not all people are as brave. You have to be a little bit vulnerable to allow yourself to be open, to allow others in, to allow the earth in, to allow the air in, to allow things to affect you.”

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