We were lucky to catch up with Brooke Bobincheck recently and have shared our conversation below.
Brooke, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Can you tell us the backstory behind how you came up with the idea?
I think the spark to create a travel vlog first came to me when I was in graduate school and traveled from Virginia to Northwest Ohio via New York City (LaGuardia) for a guest lecture. I dealt with my failing marriage and subsequent divorce primarily by watching YouTube travel videos. I started with the major personality – Anthony Bourdain – and moved to my contemporaries, Noel Phillips, Josh Cahill, and by channel name: Trek Trendy and Vicarious Voyager, there are others but those channels and creators became my primary inspiration. But I realized something. Very few travel vloggers are women. There are numerous reasons for this but for me, this signified one thing; a glass ceiling waiting to be broken. Ninety percent (or more) of women travel vloggers are so with their husbands or boyfriends. There’s nothing wrong with that but I am on a quest to prove that a woman can travel the world alone and bring the joy of travel to the people. Let me add context, I have a deep passion for aviation and travel but I didn’t just jump in to this industry while waking up ont morning and thinking “I’m going to quit my job and be a YouTube travel vlogger!” No, it just wasn’t that simple. It required months of thorough research, and knowing the inside tricks and tips of the airline industry, I’m still learning as the airline industry evolves. I seek to pass on my love of travel to others – thus my travel agency being born: Brooke In The Air LLC. I offer travel tips, advice, and general aviation knowledge, I post new blogs and vlogs every week..
Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
I provide travel and aviation knowledge, news, tips, and tricks as the aviation industry evolves, every week in the form of blogs and vlogs. I offer travel services to the general public in order to share my absolute love of travel and adventure and to show how it of possible for anyone to experience luxury when traveling.
My website and blogs can be viewed at: https://brookeintheairtravel.squarespace.com/
My vlogs and hotel/flight reviews can be viewed on my channel at: https://youtube.com/@brookeintheair?si=JCzm2hxQwRJN_hJU
I also offer merchandise through Amazon. contact me for details.
We’d love to hear your thoughts on NFTs. (Note: this is for education/entertainment purposes only, readers should not construe this as advice
NFTs of non-fungible tokens, are, in my view, a waste of time and money. They (the tokens) are great for selling but disingenuous to customers.
We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.
I would say the one story of my resilience that supercedes others is my coming out story. I went from an unhappy little boy who didn’t know what to do in life, to a successful woman who knows exactly what she wants in life. I’ve overcome more than many in order to transition during undergraduate and grad school especially.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://brookeintheairtravel.squarespace.com/
- Instagram: @brookeintheair
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BrookeInTheAir?mibextid=ZbWKwL
- Twitter: https://x.com/BrookeintheAir?t=uaI7YmqkFqXIe3K8nkJiyg&s=09
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@brookeintheair?si=OR0zC5WwNPa3cGzi
- Other: Patreon; https://patreon.com/BrookeInTheAir?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link