Not All Who Wander Are Lost: Travel as Medicine for Mind, Body & Spirit
There's a version of ourselves we buried a long time ago — the one who made collages out of magazine cutouts, who colored images darker because she didn't see enough of herself represented, who rode her bike until the streetlights came on and didn't think twice about it. In this episode of Seva: Science + Soul, I sat down with Janna Zinzi — "Jazz" — founder of Wander Womxn Travels, and we spent the hour trying to find our way back to her.
We didn't start with travel tips. We started with the question I ask myself every January: what would little me think of who I've become? Jazz and I talked about the parts of ourselves that existed before the shoulds — before the algorithms, the curated feeds, the constant self-consciousness of living out loud online. She shared how she's using that inner-child question as a rubric for 2026, and it cracked the conversation wide open.
From there we got into what travel actually does for the nervous system and the spirit — not as escapism, but as a tool for developing our spiritual, psychological, social, and cultural consciousness. Jazz talked about the freedom of being somewhere no one knows you, the safety of feeling like you belong in a place, and the particular medicine of connecting with people across the African diaspora and realizing, as she put it, "we're all country cousins" — just dropped off in different places.
We also got real about the moment we're living in. The guilt of traveling when things feel uncertain. The way social media thrives on outrage and keeps us fighting battles that were never ours to fight in the first place. Jazz named something I think a lot of us feel but don't say out loud: sometimes we need to get the hell out of here — not to run from our lives, but to remember who we are outside of the feed.
This conversation is for anyone whose inner child has been trying to get their attention. Give her a listen.
Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart, or YouTube. Follow Jazz and Wander Womxn Travels for more on cultural, community-centered travel.
