Phoebe is an adventurer and multi-award-winning travel writer (most recentlyBroadcast of the Year; Travel Media Awards 2025 and SUstainable Travel Writer of the year; TravMedia Awards 2025), photographer, presenter and broadcaster (specialising in adventure, sustainable travel, walking, family adventure and wildlife conservation). She has presented pre-recorded and live TV segments for BBC Countryfile, BBC Breakfast, C5 Saturday Live & ITV’s Britain’s Best Walks.
She is Sleep Storyteller-in-Residence at Calm where her stories have been listened to over 30 million times and been narrated by Stephen Fry, Joanna Lumley, Cillian Murphy, Jerome Flynn, Bindi Irwin and Danai Gurira to name a few.
She is the author of 11 books, with her 12th currently in progress. Her most recent one – Wayfarer: Love, Loss and Life on Britain’s Pilgrim Paths was shortlisted as the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year 2025 and named Travel Book of the Year at the Inspire Global Media Awards 2025. Phoebe is also the co-founder of the #WeTwo Foundation (with Dwayne Fields), a charity that empowers underprivileged young people through carbon negative expeditions.
Wander Woman: A Travel Podcast
The Wander Woman Podcast frequently charts in 'Travel and Places' in hundreds of countries around the world and, on all of Apple Podcasts, has been ranked in the top 1000 out of over half a million podcasts. It is the first travel podcast to take on a magazine style - rather than just the format of an interview with a celebrity – and has been listened to and downloaded thousands of times. It has been selected as “Best travel podcast” by The Telegraph, The Guardian and The i newspaper, Wanderlust, Globetrender and Tech Times - to name a few.
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Books
“Phoebe Smith is a splendid writer and an inspiring traveller”
Calm - Sleep Stories
Phoebe is Sleep Storyteller-in-Residence at Calm where her stories have been listened to over 30 million times and been narrated by Stephen Fry, Joanna Lumley, Cillian Murphy, Jerome Flynn, Bindi Irwin and Danai Gurira to name a few. In 2020 she penned the script for HBO’s World of Calm.
In 2019 Phoebe co-founded the #WeTwo Foundation (Registered Charity No. 1196799) with fellow adventurer Dwayne Fields. This non-profit works to empower underprivileged young people (aged 16-19) through life- and perspective-changing adventures, giving them experiences to bolster their CV and open up work opportunities to help them overcome the challenges associated with poverty and to become positive role models in their communities.
“Planting seeds, not flags”
#WeTwo Foundation
What’s Wander Woman up to?
Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year 2025
A Financial Times best summer travel book of 2024
Travel Book of the Year at the Inspire Global Media Awards
'A powerfully delicate book of love, loss and discovery, along paths of emotional understanding and physical wonder.' Raynor Winn
On an assignment to walk the most famous pilgrimage in the world – the Camino de Santiago, in northern Spain – Phoebe Smith somehow lost her way.
Having spent a lifetime exploring unfamiliar places, she quit her dream job, ended her long-term relationship and headed home to North Wales to discover the point to… everything.
In her search for answers she found herself – quite by accident – walking some of Britain’s oldest pilgrim paths. And by following these old ways, she ended up confronting past traumas that she thought she had laid to rest.
But while it follows holy trails, this is not a book about religion. From losing her mother as a teenager to surviving toxic relationships, Phoebe offers an unflinchingly honest look at her battle with an eating disorder, depression, and the pitfalls of newfound singledom.
Skilfully weaving together Phoebe’s own story with those of countless travellers past and present, Wayfarer reveals how nature and place can heal past wounds, offering a pathway to salvation she’d never thought existed.