How a physician and coach turned grief and transition into awe-filled adventures that restore perspective, vitality, and connection.

In this episode, Karen Cleveland sits down with Stacey Funt, founder of LH Adventure Travel, to explore the transformative power of travel for the mind, body, and soul. Stacey shares the deeply personal story that changed everything. Becoming an empty nester. Losing her father and her husband’s father within weeks. Facing the age her mother died. Then hearing the unmistakable pull toward Nepal.

Stacey takes us into the sensory, spiritual reality of Kathmandu, a crematorium that reframed grief through the lens of life’s cycle, a Hindu place of worship that revealed pure devotion, and a five-day Annapurna trek that became a moving meditation back into aliveness. From there, her work was born. Awe-filled adventures that blend wellness, nature, culture, and community for women and couples ready to come home to what truly matters.

Guest Bio

Stacey Funt is a physician, health coach, global traveler, wife, and mother, and she believes deeply in travel’s ability to transform us. Mind, body, and soul. With training in Lifestyle Medicine, Stacey understands how daily choices shape our well-being, and she brings that wisdom into the world through Lifestyle Health Adventures, the heart of LH Adventure Travel.

Her mission is to create awe-inspiring adventures for women and couples that immerse guests in nature, support whole-person health, and foster meaningful connection. Stacey’s trips are designed with intention. Moderate movement. Nourishing whole foods. Restorative experiences like spas, yoga, and sound healing. And most importantly, a sense of community that helps travelers feel held, seen, and expanded.

Host Bio

Karen Cleveland is the creator and host of Travel That Touches Your Soul. She is a safari host, spiritual teacher, and animal communicator devoted to helping people reconnect with what matters most through meaningful travel. Her work centers on connection with animals, land, culture, and inner truth, and the quiet inner shift that happens when you feel part of life again.

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Episode Topics and Timestamps

• What do physician, coach, traveler, wife, and mother have in common. Meet Stacey (00:00)

• A season of loss and transition. Empty nest, grief, and the question, is the best behind me (01:30)

• The call to Nepal. Training, preparing, and returning to life through a single decision (02:30)

• Kathmandu’s energy. Smog masks, raw beauty, and being surprised by a city you didn’t expect to love (03:20)

• The crematorium visit. A Hindu perspective on death as cycle, release, and sacred duty (03:56)

• How new beliefs can heal even when they are not yours. Perspective as medicine (04:44)

• The underground temple and holy day surprise. Experiencing devotion without language (07:22)

• The five-day Annapurna trek. 10,000 feet, steps for hours, and solitude as healing (10:00)

• Prayer flags, snow-capped peaks, and awe as a doorway back to your own life force (11:40)

• Joy in community. Dancing with locals during a New Year celebration (15:00)

• The mission behind LH Adventure Travel. Wellness plus adventure, designed for real women and real lives (17:00)

• What Stacey builds into every trip. Movement, nourishment, restoration, and sisterhood (17:55)

• Nepal and Bhutan. Why it sold out, what’s coming next, and how Stacey plans trips (19:00)

• Travel as a marker of life transitions. The deeper reason we go (21:10)

• A final video moment. Unexpected connection with a Sherpa and a love dance (22:15)

LH Adventure Travel

https://lhadventuretravel.com

Contact Stacey

info@lhadventuretravel.com

Follow Stacey

Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/stacey.funt

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