MEET NANCY J. REID & LISA D. SMITH
Hello and thanks for stopping by! We’re Nancy J. Reid and Lisa D. Smith, Big Blend’s mother-daughter travel, radio podcasting, and publishing team. Nancy, “Madam Geek” is the Mom and Lisa, “Social Secretary” is the Daughter. We’ve been sailing the Big Blend media ship since 1997, and together have over 50 years of combined experience in tourism, hospitality, retail sales, marketing, publishing, media, writing, and photography.
Through our Big Blend Radio podcasts and videos, and digital Big Blend Magazines, we co-create and share content that educates, entertains, and inspires a national and global audience of over 4 million. We believe that “Variety is the Spice that Brings Quality to Life,” and so we cover a multitude of topics that include Music & The Arts, Food & Drink, Travel & Parks, Family & Lifestyle, Health & Self-Empowerment, Nature & Environment, Business & Career, and History & Culture.
Big Blend Magazines: Big Blend Magazine has transformed from being a variety print publication that covered Southern California and the Desert Southwest to being global in coverage and digital in format with a variety of themed publications. Big Blend is going through an expansion in publishing a new themed magazine every couple of weeks. Featuring expert podcast interviews, articles, and photo features, these digital Big Blend Magazines include “Celebrate The Arts,” “Eat, Drink & Be Merry,” “Garden Gossip,” “Nature Connection,” “Parks & Travel,” “Quality of Life,” “Success Express Business,” “Vacation Station,” and “Way Back When History.” Watch for some specialty publications coming out this year, such as one covering the Historic Jefferson Highway that runs from Winnipeg, Canada to New Orleans, Louisiana. The best way to receive your copy is to sign up for our Big Blend e-Newsletter.
Check out our archive of Big Blend Magazines on Issuu.com.
BIG BLEND RADIO: New Big Blend Radio podcasts air Monday-Sunday, from 4pm PT / 7pm ET. You can listen from all major podcast outlets such as Spotify, Google, Apple, Podbean, Amazon, and iHeartRadio, and watch the video recorded interviews and panel discussions on YouTube. Plus, we now have a new music + chat podcast that you can listen to exclusively on Spotify.
LOVE YOUR PARKS TOUR: We travel full-time on the Love Your Parks Tour, our quest to visit and document all of America’s parks and public lands and showcase their local community stories and treasures. Most of our park stories and destination coverage is featured on our site NationalParkTraveling.com and in its digital Parks & Travel Magazine. We’d be remiss if we didn’t mention our pink sock monkey travel mascot Priscilla, she’s known as the “Queen of the Road.”
BIG BLEND MISSION STATEMENT: Big Blend is a company based on the belief that education is the most formidable weapon that can be waged against fear, ignorance, and prejudice. It is our belief that education starts at home and branches outward. Education leads to travel, and travel leads to understanding, acceptance, and appreciation of cultures and customs different to our own, and ultimately to world peace. Our company is further based on the principle that networking, communication, and helping others to promote and market themselves leads to financial stability; thus paving the way to better education, travel, and the spirit of giving back to the community.
We believe that “Variety is the Spice that Brings Quality to Life,” and so we cover a multitude of topics that include Music & The Arts, Food & Drink, Travel & Parks, Family & Lifestyle, Health & Self-Empowerment, Nature & Environment, Business & Career, and History & Culture. More at www.BigBlendMagazines.com.
BIG BLEND MISSION STATEMENT: Big Blend is a company based on the belief that education is the most formidable weapon that can be waged against fear, ignorance and prejudice. It is our belief that education starts at home and branches outward. Education leads to travel, and travel leads to understanding, acceptance, and appreciation of cultures and customs different to our own, and ultimately to world peace. Our company is further based on the principle that networking, communication, and helping others to promote and market themselves leads to financial stability; thus paving the way to better education, travel, and the spirit of giving back to the community.
LOVE YOUR PARKS TOUR: Along with creating podcasts, videos, web and magazine editorials, we travel full-time on the Love Your Parks Tour, our quest to visit and document all of America’s parks and public lands, and showcasing their local community stories and treasures. We’d be remiss if we didn’t mention our pink sock monkey travel mascot Priscilla, she’s known as the “Queen of the Road.”
8 KEYS OF EXCELLENCE: We are also proud ambassadors of the “8 Keys of Excellence Character Education Program” that embraces the challenge of bringing excellence to 50 million children and young adults. This free program builds excellence in communities by guiding young people and families toward a positive future full of confidence, motivation, creativity, team work, leadership and valuable life principles. More at www.8Keys.org.
“We are inspired by the admirable commitment of Lisa and Nancy to our parks and thrilled the 8 Keys of Excellence are traveling with them to each park! The 8 Keys are principles to live by that have impacted over sixteen million kids and people of all ages. We are excited to have Big Blend as our champion partner in our campaign to bring the 8 Keys of Excellence to 50 million people – creating a nation of excellence, a world of excellence!” Bobbi DePorter, president of Quantum Learning Network.