Episodes
Meet Nathan Aguilera, a flashpacker, foodie, photographer, and travel blogger. Nathan runs the very popular Foodie Flashpacker website that helps people all over the world find great restaurants and discover new dishes. In this episode, we chat about how the pandemic has affected travel blogs, Nathan's favorite cuisines, how he makes money from his blog, what influencers get paid, how he simplified his business, and the pros and cons of monetizing a blog with ads. Click here for Full show...
Published 01/16/22
Travel entrepreneur David McNeill runs Expat Empire and currently lives in Portugal. His company helps expats get residency in another country, handle taxation, and find housing and work. Full episode show notes David has been living just outside of Porto for several years with his Japanese wife. He previously lived in Japan and Germany and has traveled extensively. David is originally from the United States and mostly works with US expats. ๐Ÿ“ On moving to Portugal "We decided to...
Published 01/02/22
Todayโ€™s podcast interview is with the founder of Spotted By Locals,ย Bart van Poll. Learn how Bart took an idea and turned it into a network for local experts to share their best tips. The blog and community Spotted By Locals is a great resource for travelers. Tips in their city guides are written by locals who actually live in these cities. Bart, who is originally from the Netherlands, will explain how he monetized the Spotted By Locals website and made it profitable. For most people, just...
Published 12/06/21
Jason Moore is the founder of two popular websites and podcasts, Zero to Travel and Location Indie. Heโ€™s an all round great guy, superb interviewee (and interviewer by the way) and has a lot to say about the future of travel and where we can all make a difference. Jason is passionate about helping people grow businesses online, whether they be travel-related or not, but most of his audience are digital nomads or travel fans. His community is made up of like-minded individuals who all...
Published 07/05/21
If you've ever wanted to get into the world of travel and adventure tours, this interview will give you some insights into how it's done. If you're interested in visiting emerging destinations but you don't fancy going it alone, check out the fascinating parts of the world that Sam's company, YellowWood Adventures, visits. Sam talks about staffing, marketing channels, marketing tools, and how the business developed ๐Ÿ”— Full Show Notes
Published 07/05/21
Nate Hake is the founder of Travel Lemming, a blog about emerging destinations and travel trends. Nate started the blog as a hobby but has since taken it full time and lives as a digital nomad. ๐Ÿ”— Full Show Notes
Published 07/05/21
The Portugalist is a blog about travel and living in Portugal. James Cave founded the blog in 2016 to create travel content for people interested in visiting the country's many tourist attractions. But over the last few years, there has been a shift towards helping people who want to move to Portugal on a short-term or long-term basis. ๐Ÿ”— Show Notes In 2020, with so few tourists visiting the country, James has taken the opportunity to work on an aspect of the blog that he had avoided in...
Published 07/04/21
Peter Santenello is a YouTube travel video creator. His videos focus on the people that live in less-visited countries. He travels to places that are generally misunderstood in the West and documents the lives of regular people. It's less a travelog and more a way to show the humanity on the streets of countries that are poorly represented around the world. ๐Ÿ”— Show Notes Peter's videos are thoughtful, thought-provoking, entertaining and always fascinating. It's one of the few travel vlogs...
Published 07/03/21