That’s Bor-shev-ski
I’m Laura Borichevsky
A few things about me: I’m originally from the Pacific Northwest, my pronouns are she/they, and I’m well-seasoned in the worlds of digital marketing and media, team leadership, and the outdoor industry.
Professionally, I’ve been known to wear a good number of hats and I like it that way. My origin story places me in leadership roles, such as the co-founder of Ravel Media where I helped to elevate underrepresented voices within the outdoor industry through social media and podcasts. For a time, I re-entered the non-profit sector (returning to my roots from my undergraduate degree), where I combined my experience in digital marketing with my desire to make the world a better place— especially where people and environment intersect. Currently, you’ll find me in the ski industry where I’ve been utilizing my leadership role in social media to expand the idea of who is skiing and riding out on the mountain.
Outside of the 9-5 realm, I’m a Certified Holistic Sex Educator and, as a passion project, I develop digital sex education and podcast content for outdoorsy adults and rural communities through a platform called Sex Outside.
Besides working in my home base of Winter Park, Colorado (Indigenous Arapahoe, Cheyenne, and Ute land), I’m likely spending time sipping on decaf and keeping up with my tiny herd of fur babies, or adventuring with my partner on the road, trail, or river— usually with an instant film camera in hand.
“Whoever you are today:
she’s enough.”
a little light reading
Featured Media
Get to know more about me and my adventures in the outdoors, travel, and sexual wellness spaces through select written articles and podcast episodes.
She Explores
A Meet-Cute with Sex Outside
Hosted by Gale Straub, She Explores is a podcast about women who are inspired by time spent outside.
Laura Borichevsky wants to open up more conversations about sex, gender, and love: all through digging into the many connections we can find between them and the outdoors. Gale links up with Laura to learn more about her vision for her exciting new podcast, Sex Outside.
Outside Magazine
A New Podcast explores Sex in the Great Outdoors
Written by Heather Hansman, this article in Outside’s online publication features the launch of my new podcast, Sex Outside.
“I want to be a listener, guide, [and] researcher so we can break open conversations and build up a community,” [Borichevsky] says. She’s hopeful the project will help us better understand why we don’t talk about sex and sexual health publicly—and, ideally, start to walk back puritanical norms about bodies and appropriateness. Just like sex, or being outside, she wants it to feel adventurous and creative, and most of all fun.
She Explores
A Send-Off for Laura Borichevsky
Hosted by Gale Straub, She Explores is a podcast about women who are inspired by time spent outside.
Laura Borichevsky’s been working with She Explores for many years and helped co-found Ravel Media. With the launch of her new podcast Sex Outside, Laura’s moving on from Ravel to grow it into a show and education platform. This special episode is our team’s tribute to Laura and our thank you for all she’s given us in our time together.
GORVING
Faces of RVing: Women on the Road
GoRVing believes that “there’s an RV for everyone. Whatever your interests, wherever you want to explore, whomever you want to take along-- an RV is the best way to travel.”
In this video project, one in the GoRVing series “Faces of RVing”, we meet in my mobile office where the Women on the Road podcast has recorded over 100 episodes to talk about the value I find in sharing stories from female road travelers while also staying connected to the road through my travel trailer workplace.
BUST MAGAZINE
Safe Spaces On The Road: Why More Women Are Embracing #Vanlife
Founded in 1993, the BUST brand is the groundbreaking, original women’s lifestyle magazine and website that is unique in its ability to connect with bright, cutting-edge, influential young women.
Article by Erica Lies.
“All over North America, women are turning vans into tiny rolling homes and living life on the open road. Documenting their adventures with the hashtag #vanlife, these solo female travelers are claiming space and creating mobile communities.”
BON APPETIT / HEALTHYISH
Whatever Happened To #Vanlife? Well, Things Are Changing
Healthyish is a website for tips for healthy living. Article by Allison Gibson.
“[#Vanlife] has over 5 million contributors, including a growing number of women with experiences as diverse as their rigs, candidly documenting the way they camp, cook, and manage self-care. They’re proving that a life of tiny living and big adventure isn’t limited to digital nomads, the independently wealthy, or paid influencers—and they’re driving vanlife culture toward a more inclusive future.”
REAL TALK RADIO
Laura Hughes on Van Life and What It’s Like to Live and Work on the Road
Hosted by Nic Antoinette, Real Talk Radio is a podcast filled with refreshingly honest conversations about the wonderful mess of being human.
In this episode, Laura goes into detail about what her life on the road is really like. She talks about her decision to pursue full-time travel, what it was like to build out a van with her former partner, as well the split from that partner that lead her to build her own van and set out solo on the road.
SHE EXPLORES
Episode 76: Something New
Hosted by Gale Straub, She Explores is a podcast about women who are inspired by time spent outside.
We meet up with Laura Hughes in Denver and hear about her recent rafting and hiking trip in the Alaskan Yukon with MT Sobek. She talks about some of her fears to saying “yes” to photograph the trip for The Outbound, but why she’s glad she did.
HIGH SNOBIETY
We Talked to Van-Lifers About Living as a Digital Nomad
We talked to a few people who know the game more than most: Foster Huntington, who coined the #vanlife hashtag back in 2011 and then penned the 2017 book Van Life: Your Home on the Road; Laura Hughes, who runs How She Views It and the Women on the Road podcast; and Lisa Jacobs of Vacay Vans. Via email we discussed the honesty of the #vanlife feed and how the movement has boomed, as well as more practical advice for aspiring road warriors.
ROADTRIPPERS
This 29-Year-Old Podcast Host Left a Comfortable Career Behind to Live on the Road
Laura Hughes is ready for round two. After six years together, Laura and [her ex] separated in the summer of 2018. He took the van. This forced Laura to bid farewell to a project for which she’d quit her job, sold her possessions, and said goodbye to her family. What’s more, the split left Laura without a home base.
That’s where we find Laura for this interview: camped out in her parents’ backyard in Whidbey Island, Washington, on the cusp of her new vanlife project.
BIOLITE
What it’s Like to Live and Work as a Digital Nomad
Hitting the road as a van-lifer sounds like an ideal situation for those hungry for more adventure. And these days we are seeing more and more people balance living nomadically while holding down a job. For those who might be considering van life or a more mobile lifestyle this year, we’ve rounded up actionable tips from three digital nomads. They’re living life on the road and off the grid and have some honest advice on the reality of the daily hustle.
ROGUE HABITS
Women On The Road Podcast Delves Into the Beauty (and Realities) of Alternative Living
With no passport required, Women On The Road takes listeners on exclusive adventures across the U.S. featuring candid, compelling, and vulnerable conversations with female travelers in different stages of life on the road. Rogue Habits caught up with Laura Hughes to discuss how she came to host WOTR, why the podcast resonates with so many women across the nation, and some of Hughes all-time favorite interviews to date.
YOU’RE NOT GETTING ANY YOUNGER PODCAST
Laura Hughes: Pack Up Your Life and Just Go Your Own Way
This episode offers a glimpse into life on the road and what it’s like to bring your home with you wherever you go. We deep dive into #vanlife with Laura Hughes, a traveling podcast host/producer, writer, and photographer who left her full-time 9-to-5 in the spring of 2017 to pursue the open road.
PLAYBOY
Are Roving RV Neighborhoods the Future of Community?
A first-person experience detailing the first annual Women On The Road Gathering in partnership with Vanlife Diaries.
In New Mexico's high desert, a society of nomadic women seek independence through nature.
