Media Interviews, Podcasts, Speaking Engagements
MEDIA INTERVIEWS:
Podcasts -
2023 BlogTalkRadio.com: https://www.blogtalkradio.com/big-blend-radio/2021/09/14/elsa-van-der-byl--hippos-hotspots-and-homelands
Direct podcast link to audio podcast on Spreaker.com: https://www.spreaker.com/user/big_blend_radio/hippos-hotspots-homelands
YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0V_VU5ZOQ9qLGNRAKbZCVQ
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/bigblendradiomags
June 15, 2021 SA Podcast Interview with Hennie Maas: Book Hippos, Hotspots, and Homelands
October 14, 2023 Podcast on Amateur Traveler Interview with Chris Christensen: Bay of Bengal OR Read the episode on the website
Radio Interviews-
December 5, 2018 Interview with Ignatius Vlok, RSG.
July 9, 2019 PIET wat POMPIES was Interview with ...
2023 New show on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0UVvJMA5wmX2dE7YXF6yxP?si=ec93c236a0bc4231
2023 Interview on YouTube - https://youtu.be/1DBlg7OnA2s
Interview on SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/bigblendradio/msc-sinfonia-cruise- Big 2023 Blend Radio (all interviews): https://shows.acast.com/big-belnd-radio-shows
Vacation Station (travel interviews): https://shows.acast.com/bigblendradio-vacation
TV Interviews
2003 USA TV2 Interview at McClellanville Middle School as VIF Teacher from South Africa
December 6, 2013 USA TV2 Interview: Death of Mandela
Speaker Engagements
2021 Daniel Island Club: Launch of book Hippos, Hotspots, and Homelands
2022 Mt Pleasant Book Club
March 10, 2022 Daniel Island Library
April 19, 2022 Daniel Island Book Club
April 22, 2022 Mt Pleasant Book Club
January 14, 2024 Books and. Brunch, Striped Pig Distillery, North Charleston
April 8, 2025 Daniel Pointe: Apartheid PowerPoint Presentation
Guest Blogs
A South African in Charleston, South Carolina Elsa Dixon February 2022
SAWITU Essentials Magazine (SA women living in USA and Canada – Editor Antonet de Ridder
Promotional Articles
Date? Daniel Island News
April 2023 Top Shelf - Author Feature
Awards:
2nd prize in an International Travel News competition (2018)
Bronze Medal in a Travel Writers Café from Travel Writers University contest (February 2022)