53. Bored Between Mountains with Pashmina Binwani

In this episode of Before We Get There, host Nicholas Braman interviews Pashmina Binwani, the Malaysian creator and writer behind The Gone Goat. She didn’t learn to cycle or hike until her late 20s. Then she quit her corporate job with 10,000 ringgit in the bank and spent three months alone in the Himalayas.
Almost 10 years later, she’s traveled overland from Iran to Europe, cycled Kyrgyzstan for 45 days and built a career on stories from the places most people pass through. They talk about being called brave when it doesn’t feel that way to her, doing work people still treat as a hobby, and…