{"podcast":{"title":"gotacaseofwanderlust","slug":"gotacaseofwanderlust-6459737","podcast_index_feed_id":6459737,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/3c61510c/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://gottacaseofwanderlust.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/10030107/10030107-1784058619800-d876a50525856.jpg","author":"Lydia Schultz","episode_count":100,"summary":"wan•der•lust (noun) the irresistible desire to travel and explore meaningfully ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ mindful and responsible budget travel through the lens of solo female travelers 🌏💖 ✨ solo female travel advice ✨ budget travel hacks ✨ mindful & responsible tourism ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ connect with me here :) Instagram: ✨ @lydiaschultzz https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨Travel Blog: gotacaseofwanderlust.com ✨https://linktr.ee/gotacaseofwanderlust","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T10:21:05.466251+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gotacaseofwanderlust-6459737"},"episode":{"title":"the gift of a gap year in Scotland w/ Shania Stewart","slug":"the-gift-of-a-gap-year-in-scotland-w-shania-stewart","published_at":"2025-03-07T09:51:07+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gotacaseofwanderlust-6459737/the-gift-of-a-gap-year-in-scotland-w-shania-stewart","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gotacaseofwanderlust-6459737","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gotacaseofwanderlusty/episodes/the-gift-of-a-gap-year-in-Scotland-w-Shania-Stewart-e2ve0ee","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/3c61510c/podcast/play/99073934/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-1-26%2F4c9cf934-ad11-e5a9-33fb-f6280dd6c567.mp3","summary":"Shania Stewart, who also goes by Kya, who was born in South Africa but raised in Switzerland. Kya started backpacking when she was 18 after deciding to take a gap year before university. Since then, she has solo traveled to dozens of countries — Scotland being one of her favorites. on this episode, we chat about: - the value of taking a gap year - travel tips before visiting to Scotland - meeting people while solo traveling featured questions: 1. What would you say to those hesitant about taking a gap year? 2. How did you spend your gap years and what were some of your favorite involvements? 3. For first time travelers to Scotland, where are the best places to visit and what should they know beforehand? ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ name of hostels mentioned: connect with Kya here! ✨ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shaniatstewart?igsh=MWF6bXEwY3QxMW5keA== ✨ Travel guides: https://www.thatch.co/@shaniastewart ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ connect with me here :) Instagram: ✨ @lydiaschultzz https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨ @gottacaseofwanderust https://www.instagram.com/gottacaseofwanderlust?igsh=MTJjZ2p6bWZpdXBrYw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr ✨Travel Blog: gottacaseofwanderlust.com ✨Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━","meta_description":"Shania Stewart, who also goes by Kya, who was born in South Africa but raised in Switzerland. Kya started backpacking when she was 18 after deciding to ta…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1726,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/gotacaseofwanderlust-6459737/episodes/the-gift-of-a-gap-year-in-scotland-w-shania-stewart/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gotacaseofwanderlust-6459737/the-gift-of-a-gap-year-in-scotland-w-shania-stewart.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}