The Working Traveller

In the final episode of The Working Traveller podcast’s 5-week series, we’re bringing it all together with a focus on creating consistent, lasting progress in 2025.Over the past month, we’ve clarified your goals, built habits, explored financial freedom, and tackled mindset blocks. Now, it’s time to map out a simple and effective 90-day action plan to turn your dreams into reality.In this episode, we’ll cover:* How to identify your top 3 priorities for the next 90 days to make the biggest impact.* Breaking goals into monthly milestones and actionable weekly tasks.* * The importance of accountability and regular reviews to stay on track and celebrate your progress.💫 Quick Win Challenge: Take one hour this week to map out your 90-day action plan. Break it down into small, manageable steps and start building momentum for 2025!Let’s make 2025 your best year yet!

This week on The Working Traveller podcast, we’re tackling a critical topic in our 5-week series: crushing self-doubt and unlocking your full potential.Over the past three weeks, we’ve set inspiring goals, built habits, and explored ways to create financial freedom. But even the best-laid plans can be derailed by fear, limiting beliefs, and that nagging inner voice.In this episode, we’ll explore:* ​How to recognise and reframe negative beliefs that hold you back.* ​Mel Robbins’ 5-Second Rule to take bold, decisive action.* ​The importance of surrounding yourself with positive influences and letting go of perfectionism.* ​Why imperfect action beats inaction every time and how to create momentum.💫 Quick Win Challenge: Identify one limiting belief and reframe it into a positive statement. Take one imperfect step this week toward your dream life.It’s time to silence self-doubt and build the confidence you need to make 2025 your best year yet!

This week on The Working Traveller podcast, we’re tackling one of the most transformative topics in our 5-week series: creating financial freedom.Over the past two weeks, we’ve clarified your goals, mapped out your dream life, and started building habits to make it a reality. Now, it’s time to address the financial piece of the puzzle.In this episode, we’ll explore:✨ What financial freedom truly means for you (hint: it’s about choices, not just money).✨ How to calculate your freedom lifestyle budget and set realistic income goals.✨ Creative, actionable income streams to fund your dream life, whether you want to start a side hustle, sell digital products, or build an online business.You don’t need to quit your job or have a huge savings account to begin. Financial freedom starts with clarity, planning, and small, consistent actions.💫 Quick Win Challenge: Spend 10 minutes this week defining what financial freedom means to you and pick one income idea to explore.Let’s start funding your dream life in 2025!

This week, we’re diving into the second step of making 2025 your best year yet: designing your ideal life and building daily habits and routines that align with your big, juicy goals. In this episode, we’ll cover:✨ How to map out your perfect day and design a lifestyle you love.✨ The key habits that will bring your vision to life, one small step at a time.✨ Morning and evening routines to anchor your progress.✨ Why consistency beats perfection when creating lasting change. Your dream life is built through small, intentional actions. Ready to start creating yours? Tune in now and let’s take the next step together! 🎧

Welcome to The Working Traveller podcast! In the first episode of our 5-week 'Kickstart Your 2025 Goals' series, we’re laying the foundation for your best year yet by uncovering the why behind your dreams. Forget resolution lists—this week, it’s all about clarity. Join me as we explore:✨ Powerful journaling exercises to uncover your deepest motivations.✨ How to map your North Star with 3 meaningful goals for 2025.✨ Actionable steps to turn your dreams into reality (even if they feel big and bold).✨ Common pitfalls like perfectionism and overwhelm—and how to conquer them. Dream big, set aligned goals, and take your first step toward a life you love. Ready to start? Let’s do this together! 🎧 Listen now and set your dreams in motion.

🎙 Life lessons, big dreams, and a whole lot of reinvention. Join me, Jo Barnes, 50+ nomad, entrepreneur, and adventurer, as I share the top 10 lessons that shaped my year. From navigating health challenges and embracing imperfection to rediscovering purpose and proving it’s never too late to start fresh, this episode is packed with personal insights, stories, and inspiration. Whether you’re dreaming of a nomadic lifestyle, building your next chapter, or simply looking for a nudge to follow your own path, this podcast is your reminder that every day is a chance to grow, learn, and create the life you love—at any age. Let’s dive in and make 2025 your best year yet!

In this episode of The Working Traveller, we’re tackling one of the biggest challenges of a location-independent life: staying disciplined when every day feels like Saturday. Join me, Jo Barnes, as I share seven actionable tips to help you build self-discipline without sacrificing freedom. From creating daily routines to mastering your environment and embracing the 20-minute rule, these strategies are designed to keep you on track while enjoying the lifestyle you’ve worked so hard to create. Tune in and discover how to make progress toward your goals one step at a time!

Tired of hearing the same old advice about building a massive Instagram following or becoming the next viral TikToker to fund your travels? This episode flips the script and dives into practical side hustles that don’t rely on likes or trends but on real-world travel know-how. From crafting custom itineraries to becoming a vacation property reviewer, these ideas turn your unique skills into steady income streams—whether you're already on the road or just dreaming of it. Tune in to learn how to leverage your travel experiences, tech-savviness, or creative flair to create a lifestyle of freedom and adventure. No fluff, no influencer hype—just smart, actionable ways to fund your next journey. Let’s turn your skills into opportunities!

In this episode I’m diving into the transformative power of taking action—right here, right now. Inspired by Noah Kagan's new book & insights, and my own journey, I explore why so many of us get stuck in the planning phase, endlessly waiting for the 'perfect' moment that never arrives. From personal anecdotes of triumphs and setbacks to the common pitfalls of overcomplication and the fear of imperfection, I unravel the threads that hold us back. But more importantly, I'll arm you with practical, actionable strategies to break free from the cycle of procrastination. Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting out on your journey, this episode is a call to embrace the beauty of action, to learn by doing, and to redefine failure as a stepping stone to success. So, if you're ready to shed the weight of 'how' and embrace the liberating simplicity of 'now,' tune in and take the first step towards turning your dreams into reality.

Returning guest Dan Worthington updates us as to his ecommerce progress having moved from Amazon to his own store on Shopify in the last year. Working with influencers and now creating celebrity collaborations all over the world Dan is on a meteoric rise with his brand, and the future looks so exciting. I managed to catch up with Dan at a little marine cafe not far from my house here in Phuket, Thailand where we have an in-depth chat about why he moved to Shopify, how he’s grown his brand, how to approach influencers, a crazy exciting surprise he didn’t tell me about before the podcast and what’s next on his journey both for his business and his travel plans. A very inspiring talk with a true action taker! I hope it puts a fire in your belly! Find Dan here - https://instagram.com/wanderingworthy Dan's Store on Shopify - https://www.craftamo.com/ Full podcast playlist available at - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast/ Come join the Your Lifestyle Business FB Community - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/fbcommunity Find us on Instagram here - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/instagram

What a year it has been! It's certainly been a challenge for many around the globe. It's been an interesting year for me personally with regards to starting and growing a new business and in todays episode I'm sharing my 12 biggest lessons, not just from the last year, but what I've learned about myself in preceding years and how I'm now growing my business to both meet the needs of my customers and to ensure I'm putting my lifestyle first! I'm hoping this both inspires you to action and reduces the chances of you making some of the silly mistakes I have! Happy New Year! :) Full podcast playlist available at - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast/ Come join the Your Lifestyle Business FB Community - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/fbcommunity Find us on Instagram here - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/instagram

Welcome to the final episode of my blogging series. Part 1 - How to Make Money Blogging Part 2 - How to Setup Your Money Making Blog Part 3 - Essential Pages & Plugins Part 4 - Your Money Making Blog Content Strategy Today I'm going to share with you the strategies I'll be using over the next 12 months to 100x my traffic! Yep, my goal is to get to 100k sessions by August 2021, up from 1000 in August 2020.  Here's how I'm going to do it; 1. Massive Content 2. Guest Posting 3. Networking (Dream 100) 4. Link Building 5. Social Media 6. Reviewing Priorities  7. Experimenting 8. Email List Listen in to hear how you can incorporate these strategies into your own blogging business. Links Mentioned in Todays Podcast; adamenfroy.com How to Build an Email List Full podcast playlist available at - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast/ Come join the Your Lifestyle Business FB Community - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/fbcommunity Find us on Instagram here - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/instagram

Welcome to Part 4 of my blogging series. Ep 78 - Part 1  - How to Make Money Blogging Ep 79 - Part 2 - How to Setup Your Money Making Blog Ep 80 - Part 3 - Essential Pages & Plugins Today we're going to start creating the content for your money making blog! Listen in to discover; How to get clear on your long term goals and how these will determine the kind of content you create How to ensure the content you create is precisely what your audience is searching for How to do some basic keyword research to ensure what you create can rank in the search engines The basic rules for creating content that both meets the needs of your audience and ranks on google. Lots to get through! Links Mentioned in This Episode Episode 78 - How to Make Money Blogging Episode 56 - 10 Ways to Find Awesome Content Ideas ahrefs.com ubersuggest.com backlinko.com Yoast plugin Full podcast playlist available at - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast/ Come join the Your Lifestyle Business FB Community - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/fbcommunity Find us on Instagram here - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/instagram

Welcome to Part 3 of my blogging series! See Episode #78 & #79 for parts one and two; How to Make Money Blogging and How to Set up Your Money Making Blog. Today we're going to run through the essential pages & plugins you need for your money making blog. Essential Pages; Privacy policy Terms of service Contact page About page Home page! Ideally - list building page Recommended Plugins 1. Nitropack (or WP Rocket) 2. Yoast (or rankmath / SEOpress) 3. Monster Insights 4. Grow Social 5. Mammoth .docx converter 6. Easy Table of Contents 7. Thirsty Affiliates 8. Fusebox Player 9. Smash Balloon Instagram Feed 10. Pretty Links Other Links Mentioned Canva.com Unsplash.com https://privacyterms.io/en/terms-conditions-generator/ https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/contact/ Upwork.com https://convertbox.com/ https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast

Last week we discussed how to make money blogging. In this weeks episode, I'm walking through in detail how to set up your money making blog. I'm covering; 1. Choosing Your Money Making Model 2. Picking Your Blog Topic 3. Researching Your Topic 4. Picking a Name & a Domain 5. Choosing Your Hosting Package - (I’ve been researching this a lot over the last few weeks for my own site and have some very interesting findings!) Links Mentioned Include; Adam Enfroy https://namelix.com/ https://cunningbot.com/ bluehost.com wpengine.com https://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/blogging/fastest-wordpress-hosting/ Full podcast playlist available at - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast/ Come join the Your Lifestyle Business FB Community - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/fbcommunity Find us on Instagram here - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/instagram

Welcome to the first in my blogging series! This is what I love about podcasting, the opportunity to share my own journey with you and right now that journey is in growing and monetizing my website. In this first episode I'm starting with the end in mind and exploring all the various ways you can monetize a blog as you grow, including digital products, physical products and services. By choosing what you'd like your outcome to be, the path to get there becomes infinitely clearer! So make a decision this week as to how you think you'd like to monetize your website and next week we'll start building your money making blog! Links Mentioned jamesclear.com masalabody.com jennakutcher.com talkingshrimp.com patflynn.com adamenfroy.com fatstacks.com markmanson.com msrachelhollis.com nomadicmatt.com Full podcast playlist available at - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast/ Come join the Your Lifestyle Business FB Community - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/fbcommunity Find us on Instagram here - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/instagram

Are you holding yourself back from starting your online business because you just can't decide what niche you'd like to pursue? Perhaps you've got your business off the ground, but have found your niche is so broad you're not sure where you can compete. If either of these scenarios run true or you're unhappy with the niche you've chosen and want to make a switch, todays episode is for you. Here are 7 steps to get the creative side of the brain working and give you inspiration towards choosing your perfect niche.  Complete with examples of various niches and how to grow/monetize, by the time you've finished listening you should be ready to get started building your ideal business! I hope it helps! Links Mentioned in Todays Podcast 189 Lifestyle Business Ideas How to Start a Life Changing Online Lifestyle Business A Beautiful Mess iPhone Photography School Masala Body Nomadic Matt Full podcast playlist available at - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast/ Come join the Your Lifestyle Business FB Community - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/fbcommunity Find us on Instagram here - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/instagram

I wish someone had sat me down 10 years ago and said 'Jo, if you do anything, do these two things. If you focus on these two strategies and do them well, your chances of long term success are greatly increased'. Not that we haven't had success over the years. We've had some great successes, but what I'm talking about here is setting up your business so it stands the test of time. Creating a lifestyle business that once you've put the hard work in up front pays you over and over again for years to come, without having to be on Instagram or TikTok 24 hours a day. No matter what niche you're in or what business model you're pursuing (including selling physical products or building a business on Amazon or Etsy, etc,) if you truly want to set up an online business that funds your lifestyle without eating into all of your time then master and focus on these two strategies. I promise you, you'll thank me later! Full podcast playlist available at - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast/ Come join the Your Lifestyle Business FB Community - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/fbcommunity Find us on Instagram here - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/instagram

Welcome to Part 4 of my 3 part email marketing series. Part 1 - 6 Steps to Building a High Converting Email Funnel Part 2 - How to Create an Irresistible Lead Magnet: 6 Types Part 3 - 6 Ways to Engage Your Email Subscribers Part 4 - 21 Ways to Promote Your Lead Magnet This was an unplanned episode, added at the request of a subscriber. We talked about how to build your funnel, then how to create your lead magnet and then how to nurture your growing audience, but I didn't include where and how to promote your awesome list building free gift! So in todays episode I'm running through 21 different places you can promote your lead generator! I hope it helps! Links Mentioned in This Episode Biteable Kapwing Typorama Headliner Wavve Amy Porterfield Backlinko Best Webinar Software Full podcast playlist available at - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast/ Your Lifestyle Business FB Community - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/fbcommunity Your Lifestyle Business Instagram - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/instagram

Welcome to Part 3 of my 3 part email marketing series. Part 1 - 6 Steps to Building a High Converting Email Funnel Part 2 - How to Create an Irresistible Lead Magnet: 6 Types Part 3 - 6 Ways to Engage Your Email Subscribers It's all good and well building a fabulous lead magnet and a high converting funnel, but what happens once someone signs up? How do you keep your subscribers engaged; consistently opening and consuming your content and clicking your links? That's what today's episode is all about. Here are six ways to ensure your subscribers not only love receiving your emails but look forward to them! (ok ok a bit far fetched but you know what I mean) 😁 1. What's your objective? 2. Be human 3. Add value 4. Test & Measure 5. Show up 6. Share scars not wounds I'm also giving you 8 email types you can start sending your subscribers today; 1. The Relationship Builder 2. The Expert 3. The Value Added Offer 4. The Link Roundup 5. Purely for Fun 6. The Reviewer 7. The No Sales, Sales Email 8. The Combo Links Mentioned in Todays Episode How to Build a Huge Email List of Hot Leads for Your Business 5 Bullet Friday Marie Forleo Amy Porterfield Full podcast playlist available at - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast/ Your Lifestyle Business FB Community - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/fbcommunity Your Lifestyle Business Instagram - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/instagram