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Travel entrepreneur Jessica Nabongo encouraging founders to get out of their comfort zone

She rates Japan, Italy, and Jamaica among her favourites and has a blog highlighting trips to countries like Jordan, Iran, and Myanmar.

Travel entrepreneur Jessica Nabongo encouraging founders to get out of their comfort zone
The Catch Me If You Can founder and CEO Jessica Nabongo. LINKEDIN PHOTO 

Entrepreneur Jessica Nabongo is the first Black woman to travel to all 195 countries. Now, she’s using her experience to encourage others to travel the world, according to Fox 5 New York.

Born in Detroit, she started travelling internationally at the age of four. Nabongo wrote a book, “The Catch Me If You Can,” and founded a company under the same name about some of her experiences eating street food in Senegal, Georgia, Trinidad, and other places.

“When choosing the location, choose a place you think that you’re going to be comfortable. Because when you’re comfortable you’re going to be confident, and when you’re confident you’re less vulnerable,” Nabongo told Fox 5 New York.

She also rates Japan, Italy, and Jamaica among her favourites and has a blog highlighting trips to countries like Jordan, Iran, and Myanmar.

“We have to be more trusting of strangers,” she said during a TED Talk. “Be positive — you’ll be fine. You’ll meet incredible people and, you know, enjoy.”

Nabongo said she has been to 89 countries by herself on six continents.