The team

Five people. Five disciplines. One standard.

Built by people who have spent careers studying what separates good from exceptional, and who bring the craft to prove it.

Shawni M. Young, Founder & Executive Producer

Founder & Executive Producer

Shawni M. Young

Art by Shawni

Vice President of Marketing and Technology with 20+ years leading brands, marketing, and technology across multiple industries. Travel architect by conviction. The curation behind every recommendation comes from two decades of studying what separates good from exceptional.

20+
Years

VP Marketing & Tech

Lauren Fash, Director & Story Producer

Director & Story Producer

Lauren Fash

USC School of Cinema-Television

USC School of Cinema-Television graduate, writer and director of a distributed feature film, and a four-time film festival award winner. Her short Quiet played roughly 35 festivals. She builds the story architecture and directs the Season Two shoot in the Philippines.

4×
Festival Awards

USC Cinema-Television

Paul Mercado, Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Paul Mercado

Pink Media Productions

California-based DP with 222+ productions across commercial, documentary, and branded work. Years spent filming high-end hospitality taught him to shoot craft the way this series demands it, as something monumental, never a backdrop. He runs camera, drone, and sound, and steps in front of the lens when his read on a place is worth hearing. FAA Part 107 certified for commercial drone cinematography.

222+
Productions

FAA Part 107 Drone

Liz Medrano, On-Camera Host

On-Camera Host

Liz Medrano

@medrabelle

Our host, and the heart of the show. Liz is 32, lives in LA with her dog, and works in social media, which means she spends a lot of her life online. Somewhere Worth It is what happens when she puts the phone away. Endlessly curious, she never just watches: she learns with her hands, cooks over the fire, jumps the cliff, and asks the question everyone else was too polite to ask. Season One is where you get to know her, sincere and unfiltered, as she finds out that life’s most meaningful connections happen offline. In Season Two that growth turns outward, from being the reason you come to being the reason the maker lets you in. She carries an engaged travel and lifestyle audience of 30,000+ and 5M+ campaign views.

5M+
Campaign Views
30K+
Followers

Livia Wippich, Content Producer & Photographer

Content Producer & Photographer

Livia Wippich

Editorial Photography & Social Media

Editorial and documentary photographer whose work has appeared in Variety Brazil, Veja, and the Los Angeles Times. Livia captures the still photography and behind-the-scenes moments that document the journey, manages the series’ social media, and occasionally steps behind the B-camera to support production.

3
Int'l Bylines

Stills & Producer

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