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Marybeth Bond is CEO of GutsyTraveler (www.gutsytraveler.com), a tourism and media company. She has been a pioneer in women travel, digital media, and wrote 12 travel books, three published by National Geographic. Six years ago, Marybeth bicycled 3,000 miles from California to Virginia with her 22-year-old daughter. They used social media, a blog, television appearances, and a corporate sponsor to raise over $52,000 in support of the National Osteoporosis Foundation. Recently Marybeth tracked polar bears and swam with Beluga whales in the Canadian Arctic, and kayaked through icebergs in Antarctica. She was recently profiled in a half-page Q & A in the New York Times Travel Section: “Marybeth Bond was a pioneer in women’s travel long before books like “Eat, Pray, Love” made the concept popular.” Marybeth has travelled to over 100 countries on a all 7 continents and learned a lot along the way. She shares that knowledge with her readers. Through her stories and her example, she shows everyone that ordinary people can live extraordinary lives. Her best selling book: A Woman's World won the Lowell Thomas Gold Award for the Best Travel Book of the Year. Her book Gutsy Women led her to the Oprah Winfrey Show among other media outlets.