Lisa Lubin
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Lisa Lubin is a three-time Emmy-award-winning television writer/producer/editor/video consultant with more than fifteen years of experience. Lisa has recently launched LLmedia Video Consulting and is now using her expertise to help others improve their video for the web & their business. She produces a variety of broadcast specials, including, most recently, food & restaurant segments for Chicago’s Best on WGN-TV. For nearly ten years, Lisa produced an award-winning weekly lifestyles, travel, and entertainment magazine show on ABC Chicago.

After 15 years in television, she took a sabbatical of sorts, which turned into 3+ years traveling and working her way around the world.  Lisa writes about travel and the (mis)adventures that ensue as she traipses around the globe on her travel website, LLworldtour.com, which has readers and subscribers from all over the world.  She was interviewed live on WGN-TV’s Morning News and ABC’s Good Morning America about travel. Her site was a finalist in the 2008 Weblog Awards and listed as one of nationally-syndicated-columnist, Chris Elliott’s, Travel Blogs I Can’t Live Without and Top 20 Most-Inspirational Blogs.”  

Lisa has also been featured on MSNBC.com, Frommers.com, the Chicago Daily Herald, the NJ Daily Record, Women on the Road, The Travel Chicks Radio Show, Amateur Traveler Podcast and Chicagoist.  Furthermore, her articles and photographs have been published by Sunset Magazine, Smithsonian Online, The Chicago Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Go Nomad, Brave New Traveler, and Briefcase to Backpack.  Lisa’s writing is also syndicated on Encyclopedia Britannica, the Huffington Post, USAToday, and eHow.  

Lisa has teamed up with Whole Foods, REI, and Hostelling International for 'traveling solo' talks and several 'Travel & Food' lectures.  She also hosts the Chicago portion of the annual national "Meet, Plan, Go!" event encouraging working Americans to take career breaks and sabbaticals.  She was recently a panelist at the third annual Travel Blog Exchange (TBEX) Conference speaking about travel video. Lisa grew up in New Jersey and lives in Chicago when she's not traveling the world.

Blog Entries by Lisa Lubin

Diverse Wine Festivals Around The U.S.

(2) Comments | Posted May 7, 2012 | 8:00 AM

It's springtime and besides sunny days, tulips, and baseball that means food and wine festival season all across the country!

What better way to shake off the winter chills than enjoying a glass (or three) of vino accompanied by artisanal foods and cheeses?

Here's a roundup of...

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How I Worked My Way Around The World

(14) Comments | Posted December 14, 2011 | 7:45 AM

Courage to Quit Your Job

Five years ago, I quit my full time job and, in essence, my full-time career in television. Since university, I'd worked in broadcast journalism, starting after my sophomore year with my first internships, including one at "Late Night with David Letterman." I graduated college and...

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Quit Your Job to Travel With Meet, Plan, Go

(0) Comments | Posted October 17, 2011 | 8:00 AM

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

Have you ever dreamed...

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How Could I Afford to Travel Around the World for Two Years?

(106) Comments | Posted June 29, 2011 | 4:13 PM

One of the most common questions I am asked is: "How did you afford to travel around the world?"

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Here is the simple answer:

I saved money by traveling. In other words, it would have cost me a lot more to stay and...

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Traveling Solo -- It's Easier Than You Think

(12) Comments | Posted April 13, 2011 | 5:01 PM

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During my two and a half years traveling solo around the world, the most common comment I heard was, 'Wow, you're going alone. That's so brave.' Many told me they didn't think they could ever do something like this, let alone do...

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