🚢 Todd Smith, Founder & CEO of  @AdventureSmith_Explorations , believes small-format expedition cruising is one of the most powerful tools for transforming travel — and maybe even diplomacy. 🌍 In this latest  @vanbassador  interview, hosted by me, Josh Halpern, Todd shares how he went from guiding in Alaska to building a global brand that brings travelers face-to-face with breaching whales, calving glaciers, and delicate ecosystems — from the Galápagos to the Mediterranean. But this is more than just adventure travel.

🌎 The full interview is LIVE! I sat down with Heidi Durflinger, CEO of EF World Journeys , to unpack how a global mindset can take you from a small farming town in Kansas to leading one of the world’s largest educational‑travel powerhouses. ✨ Highlights you’ll hear in the episode: - How hosting nine exchange students ignited Heidi’s lifelong curiosity - Why EF’s “nothing‑is‑impossible” and entrepreneurial spirit values unite 50+ country teams - The Gallup Strengths trick Heidi’s crew uses to keep multicultural collaboration humming - How the newly launched EF Adventures is crafting culturally immersive, active trips for travelers who want their feet wet & minds global - AI, solo‑travel communities, and what’s next for connecting people and cultures worldwide

Find out the most effective tactics to drive brand awareness and sell their products overseas through word of mouth, advertisements, influencers, and social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and more.

Kai Li from REVOLVE and the guru of cross-border ecommerce, spills his secret sauce on fulfillment, returns, duty-drawbacks and more.

Today’s road trip is taking us to Africa. I stopped in on Juliet Anammah, Chairwoman at Jumia Nigeria and Head Institutional Affairs Jumia Group. If you don’t know Jumia, in their own words, they are the largest pan-African eCommerce platform, running across 11 countries and 6 regions and over 40 million products, restaurants, and other services listed to date. They have Jumia marketplace, Jumia Logistics and Jumia Pay.

So if you haven’t placed Africa on your global expansion roadmap, you may want to listen in to see what Juliet has to say.

Dropping a few quick tips to optimize your website for cross-border success

Stephen Sullivan is a Senior International Trade Specialist at the Small Business Administration’s Office of International Trade. I know, you didn’t even know they exist. What do they do? They build out services that support small businesses across the country in their global expansion. So this is for all of you! How do they do this? They have programs like the State Trade Expansion Program (STEP).

Pandemic Pivot: From Cruise Industry B2B sales to Building a DTC Sportswear Brand Online - Vivian Sayward talks about optimizing her ecommerce cross-border business

It all begins with an idea and ends on a horse.

It all begins with an idea.