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NICA LINA | creative director & founder

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What does it mean to be a travel influencer? I get asked that a lot.<br /> <br /> And you know what? I’m not sure what it means to other travel influencers, but this is what it means to me.<br /> <br /> My whole life was centered around travel. I was born in a small city outside Los Angeles but very quickly at 2 years old I started traveling between LA and Vigan (a small rural town in the Philippines) every year until I was 7.<br /> <br /> I started grade school at a small mountain town called Baguio and I went to an international school (which meant opportunities to meet a diverse range of people in an otherwise not so diverse country, especially in a small city called Baguio). <br /> <br /> I moved back to LA and still I was always on the road. We had a home in Las Vegas and my grandfather would always bring me along for the ride.<br /> <br /> I had no real definition of home, but I knew that traveling always made me feel like I was at home.<br /> <br /> I never went to school — and I was notorious for missing school because I was out of town or I just simply chose to hang out with my mom instead and read travel blogs while at cafes. <br /> <br /> I knew I wanted to travel and I knew I wanted to be something like Anthony Bourdain. The term “influencer” sucks and although it is technically what I am, it’s all that I’m not.<br /> <br /> To me, my job is centered around changing the way you would look at a place. To make you say, ‘wow, never saw it that way before.’<br /> <br /> My job is to change the way you view travel. My job is to photograph and edit photos/videos that make you feel like you’re someplace else.<br /> <br /> My job is to talk about beautiful places that are more than pretty places to stay, but take you out of your comfort zone.<br /> <br /> My job is to inspire you to get out of your comfort zone and book a one way trip to Europe or South America or wherever your heart desires.<br /> <br /> My job is more than just being online and sharing the top 5 different places to eat at in San Francisco, it’s more profound than simple video edits of me eating/doing my skincare, it’s like a diary into my heart and my world.<br /> <br /> The term “influencer” dilutes the depth that I’m trying to create with my content, with my platform, with my life.<br /> <br /> Did that answer your question?

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