03/29/2025
“But how did you START traveling full time?”
I guess it started with knowing I needed a change. I wasn’t happy with what I’d been told to strive for - the “stable” job that would lead to more opportunities down the road. I was supposed to feel motivated to advance in the company, but I really just didn’t care about that.
When I started posting my travel tips online, I didn’t expect anything to come of it. But, I’d get comments from all types of people saying that they never thought they’d be able to afford to travel, but that I helped them take their first trip.
I remember one of my first comments like that was from a single mother of 4. She told me because of my travel tips she was taking her family on their first trip EVER. That was who I was posting for & I loved doing it ❤️
The next phase was pure luck. My posts started taking off, and brands started reaching out to me to create content for them. Some of it was for my page and some of it was UGC for their pages. I took the leap and quit my job SO early on that in hindsight it was a little reckless, but I knew what I wanted. I wanted to travel and I wanted to grow this “side gig” to see where it could go
My boyfriend was with me every step of the way. We had periods where we were incredibly financially stressed, when neither of us had a consistent income. But we grew together and found ways to make the unknown less scary and less unstable. He built a business and I started diversifying my income streams.
We now have a home base (after burning out from full time travel), but we’re still traveling all the time. If you’ve been looking for a sign to do something different with your life, let this be it!
If nothing changes, nothing changes 💛