Carrie Patsalis spent 25 years in traditional broadcasting before making a move that didn't follow any conventional career path - trading commissioning editors and production budgets for a camera and a one-way ticket to the places most travel creators won't consider. Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Pakistan - she's brought a producer's eye to all of them on her YouTube channel, finding the human stories that sit completely against the media narrative and building an audience that comes back because they genuinely trust her perspective on a place.