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Robin Esrock

Global Adventurer | Award-Winning Travel Writer | Bestselling Author | International TV Personality

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Robin Esrock’s career as a global adventurer, award-winning travel writer, bestselling author, and international TV host began with an unexpected twist. After a bike accident left him with a broken kneecap and a $20,000 insurance payout, Robin set off on a solo year-long backpacking journey to 24 countries. Sharing weekly reports, photography, videos, and interviews, he helped pioneer modern travel journalism across digital platforms.

Before discovering travel writing, Robin explored careers in media and music. In London, he worked with the Sunday Times, BBC, Reuters, and FilmFour. After immigrating to Canada, he founded a record label and worked with global artists like Coldplay and Norah Jones.

Robin’s travel stories have appeared in National Geographic Traveler, The Guardian, Chicago Tribune, Sydney Morning Herald, Reader’s Digest, and more. He has featured on 60 Minutes, CNN, MSNBC, and Forbes Travel, and contributed columns to The Globe and Mail, MSN, and Canadian Geographic.

Robin Esrock co-created and hosted Word Travels, a groundbreaking TV series filmed in 36 countries. The show aired in over 100 nations on National Geographic, OLN, Travel Channel, and Amazon Prime. He also created the award-winning food series Get Stuffed.

Robin has inspired audiences at Scotiabank, IBM, Deloitte, Tourism New Zealand, and more. His TEDx talk on travel’s transformative power has over one million views.

He is the bestselling author of The Great Canadian Bucket List, The Great Global Bucket List, and The Great Australian Bucket List. Robin has earned numerous awards, including a 2024 Lowell Thomas Gold Medal, and holds fellowships with the Royal Canadian Geographic Society and SATW.

Now having reported from over 120 countries on 7 continents, Robin Esrock continues to write, blog, share, talk about and film his ongoing adventures. He lives in Vancouver with his wife and two children.

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Refill Your Global Bucket List

There's never been a better time to dream big and go...everywhere. From pole to pole and in-between, renowned travel personality Robin Esrock takes us to some of the world’s most stunning destinations and activities, in this fun, punchy and inspiring 50-minute presentation. There's something here for everyone: thrills, food, history, nature, beaches, and plenty of ideas to fill up your bucket list.

Refill Your Canadian Bucket List

​Across every province and territory, Robin introduces us to Canada’s most unique and fascinating destinations and activities. There’s something here for everyone: nature, food, history, thrills, culture and plenty of ideas to fill up your bucket list. Packed with inspiring insights, engaging storytelling, and stunning visuals, join us for a celebration of Canada, and a one-of-a-kind adventure.

Adventure Awaits

Over the course of his career, renowned travel journalist, TV host and bestselling author Robin Esrock has dived with giant crocs and great white sharks; sand-boarded an active volcano; visited war zones; leaped the world’s highest bungee jump; biked jungle death roads; swum with piranha, and been set on fire. With hard-won insights from a lifetime of adventure, Robin demonstrates that staying safe on the road follows the same principles as managing risk with our careers, projects, investments, and life in general. Illustrated with eye-popping photography, incredible experiences and engaging storytelling, Life on the Edge invites everyone to dream big, overcome both personal and professional challenges, and build a better bucket list.

The Power Of Story

In a competitive industry cluttered with information, how do you get your story through? Using real-world examples, Robin discusses the impact of storytelling as a means of connecting with clients and consumers, offering advice and practical suggestions gleamed from working with dozens of major publications, and hundreds of local and international tourism organizations.

Breaking Boundaries

Robin explores his unlikely odds of one becoming an international jet-setting explorer, and what it takes to achieve any big, hairy audacious goal. He also delves into the value of thinking (and sometimes failing) big, and the crucial role of taking on projects with the right intention.​

Finish The Sentence

Technology stitches our world together, even as uncertainty pulls us apart at the seams. It’s too easy to forget just how similar we all are, and how every voice has something to say. Robin once asked thousands of people from every conceivable background, to answer the same three questions. Shared along with his own unique background, the results are poignant, funny, and thought-provoking, shining a much-needed light on universal passions and challenges.

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