Episode 447

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23rd Jun 2023

House-sitting & Pet-Sitting Sustainable Travel | talk with HouseSitDiva Kelly Hayes Raitt

Housesitting or Petsitting around the world is a great way to save money and live like a local, but it is also a more sustainable, slower style of travel that has greater benefits for local communities and less negative impacts on the environment.

Kelly Hayes-Raitt talks about how house and pet sitting around the world has been an important part of her life for the past 13 years.

This is the AUDIO version - watch the video of the interview with Kelly here: https://www.youtube.com/live/ku9j9XCcEro

#sustainabletravel #housesitting #petsitting #travel #housesitdiva #howtohousesit

Author, volunteer, coach, world traveler and expert house and petsitter Kelly Hayes-Raitt joins the Seek Sustainable Japan talkshow-podcast this month to share some of her book tips for housesitting as well as insights from the amazing research, volunteering projects, and journalistic writing she does while she is housesitting around the world for publications in the USA.

I had the chance to meet Kelly when she came to Hiroshima for the 70th anniversary of the A-bomb attack commemorations. Kelly has traveled through many parts of Japan and she has so many great insights from her world travels including doing volunteering while she travels. As a politician in the early part of her career, Kelly talks about how she is drawn to interviews and stories of refugees from conflict and climate and we talk about some of those stories from Iraq, central America, Japan, Korea, Israel and Palestine, and Syria.

== Kelly Hayes-Raitt LINKS==

https://housesitdiva.com/about-kelly/

Join www.Housesitmatch.com and use Discount Code FREE12 (all caps, no spaces) for a FREE 12-month Membership ( until June 30th 2023)

Editor & Book Coach

www.JumpStartMyBook.org

Travel Writer

www.TravelAwaits.com/author/kelly-hayes-raitt/

Blog Editor

www.HouseSitMatch.com

Thanks to Casey Bean for the Background Music on the 2023 Podcasts - now 2 original albums on Bandcamp where you name your price to buy his music https://caseybean.bandcamp.com/

Joy (JJ) is originally from Hawaii and long-time Hiroshima-jin (local) since 1996. Cofounder of GetHiroshima and founded the sustainably-focused InboundAmbassador. Hiroshima tour guide, educator, entrepreneur, writer, content-creator, and inbound tourism and travel consultant.

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Seek Sustainable Japan launched in 2020 to entertain and inspire us all, sparking ideas through discussions about Japanese culture, travel & traditions with insiders and experts across Japan. All of the guests on the show are creating a more sustainable [i.e. better people-planet-profits balance] Japan in some way through their work, projects and way of life.
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Hi I'm Joy (JJ) originally from Hawaii & long-time Hiroshima-jin (jin=person). My work and content is focused on sustainability & how we can make better choices to balance the needs of people, planet and profits in our lives, work and travel. Join me as I talk with wonderful people and visit interesting places in Japan.
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