Jeff Johns

Jeff Johns is a lifelong adventure traveler and filmmaker who has spent the majority of the last two decades abroad, the last ten as an expat living throughout Asia, The Middle East and Europe. Graduating with honors from the Brooks Institute in 2010, Johns is passionate storyteller with a degree in documentary filmmaking and visual journalism and has traveled throughout nearly 100 countries telling stories focusing on natural disasters, public health, extreme sports and adventure travel.

As a successful television producer, he created popular shows for Discovery Channel, National Geographic and the BBC filmed in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Morocco, Oman, Lebanon and the UAE. As the co-creator of the adventure travel platform “What Doesn’t Suck?”, he has filmed and published episodes from Everest Base Camp to the Great Pyramids, the Albanian Alps to the Greenland ice sheet. Watched over 15 million times by a growing worldwide audience of 250,000 these travel guides highlight unique and off the beaten path locations. Additionally, Jeff has authored dozens of articles, guides, travel itineraries and short stories published in the adventure travel space and has been featured in or interviewed by Business Insider, The Travel Channel, Lonely Planet, Huffington Post and The Daily Mail as well as worked with numerous travel brands, tourism boards, newspapers and magazines including GoPro, Hyatt, Bose, Four Seasons, Visit California, Visit Iceland and Visit Greenland.

Johns continues to work in the travel space and resides in Haarlem, Netherlands with his French wife and their two tri-lingual third culture daughters whom he struggles to keep up with.