As my nickname implies, I’m a traveler. That is why all the content on this site is travel and adventure related. However, I do more writing than just travel. My real name is Heidi Siefkas. I’m an author, speaker, and adventurer. In this portfolio page, I wanted to share with you some of my writing, including books, articles, posts, and interviews with links as to where you can learn and read more.
When All Balls Drop is my inspirational memoir about survival and life change. It follows me on a journey of recovering from a broken neck, failed marriage, and career loss all simultaneously. As a result of a freak tree accident in 2009, I lost everything, but I found an upside to losing everything.
Heidi Siefkas lost her health, her career, and her marriage after she was struck by a one thousand-pound tree branch. While she made great strides in her physical and emotional recovery in the months that followed—an arduous process that she chronicled in When All Balls Drop—Heidi wasn’t content to merely survive her setbacks. The time was right to build a new life. One she could live on her own terms.
In this introspective travelogue, author, speaker and adventurer Heidi Siefkas shares her transition out of the corporate world’s Cubicle Land to life on the road in Cuba and beyond. Heidi highlights another side of Cuba as well as perspective gained from years of travel to the once-forbidden island. Along the way, she seizes opportunities for adventure in Kauai, Italy, Peru, New Zealand, Australia, and other far-flung places, but always returning to Cuba for more.
Whether TV, radio, podcast, print, or online Q&A, you will find my interviews here.