From Afghanistan and Iran to Ukraine to Yemen and Beyond: Hollie's "Inside" series is now available

Travel Diaries and war zones from a reporter's lens...

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Part One: INSIDE AFGHANISTAN

Part Two: INSIDE UKRAINE

Part Three: INSIDE IRAQ

Part Four: INSIDE IRAN

Part Five: INSIDE YEMEN

Part Six: INSIDE SAUDI ARABIA

Part Seven: INSIDE HEMINGWAY’S IDAHO HOME

Also…

An excerpt of my contribution to a feature BUILDING RAPPORT: TIPS ON WORKING WITH FOREIGN POPULATIONS in the latest "Off Grid Recoil" Magazine...

"I always say the number-one rule, no matter what, is to learn the word thank you in their language. I think thank you is the most important word in any language. If you can’t say anything else, you can nod and smile and say thank you, and that will get you a long way. Just in terms of assimilations and in terms of being welcome and accepted in that community...

I’m not even a soccer fan, but I call it the universal language. Pretty much every country you go to, you have this soccer-loving population, whether they’re 65 years old or 5 years old. So, I always have a soccer reference ready to go, and that really breaks the ice too. I think that’s a universal sport that people automatically warm to and they feel that they can share. I will learn very basic soccer knowledge about that particular country before I go just to be able to break the ice with that conversation."

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