The 50+ Nomad Podcast

How many adventures have you missed because you didn't have anyone to go with? After 16 years of travelling the world with my husband, I'm heading to Chiang Mai, Thailand, on my own for eight weeks. And while I'm excited, there are definitely a few things making me feel wobbly! In this episode, I'm chatting about the freedom of doing things independently after 50, why we so often put our own plans...

My Current Favourite Email Subject Line 🥳 Small wins, big dreams and the projects funding my freedom right now. In this episode, I share the email subject line that makes me smile every time it lands in my inbox, plus what’s been happening since my Shopify store went live: 15 packs of Travel Challenge Cards sold in 11 days, and finally being back up and selling on Amazon. I also chat about fallin...

I’ve been saying I’m going to write and publish books for years, so when I reconnected with my old friend and independent author Sharon E. Buck, I basically hijacked her for an hour and asked her everything I wanted to know. 😂 Sharon has written 26 books under her own name, ghostwritten another 10 or 12, and built a successful independent author business along the way. We chat about Amazon KDP, s...

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I turned 54 this week, which got me thinking about how I want to live the next 20–30 years, however many I’m lucky enough to get. In this episode, I’m sharing 20 rules I want to live by, from looking after my health and building financial freedom, to travelling more, creating before consuming, investing in relationships, trying new things, making more memories and refusing to let fear make my deci...

I was in a particularly buoyant mood recording this episode and had far too much fun with it, including a spectacularly bad impression of dramatic TV “voiceover man” at the end. 😂 The question at the heart of it is one I genuinely don’t know the answer to: Can I build This Big World into a $10,000-a-month profit ecommerce brand while travelling full-time? Right now, I have one main product, aroun...

What if your most exciting years aren’t behind you at all? At 53, I’ve become slightly obsessed with time. Not hours and minutes, but the years I might still have ahead of me, and everything I could potentially do with them. Travel further. Build businesses. Write books. Get stronger. Learn new things. Meet fascinating people. Make questionable decisions. Embarrass my daughter occasionally. 😂 In...

Hey adventurers, a slightly different Sunday post this week as I managed to get the amazing Chris Englert, a fellow nomad, on a call! Chris & her husband Steve have been on the road full time for 5 and a half years, so as a full time ‘newbie’, I was keen to hear about her lifestyle, how they manage their relationship and all her tips and tricks! If you’ve ever wondered what life as a full-time nom...

What’s really stopping you from hitting publish? After telling others to just ‘start showing up’, I finally took my own advice yesterday and did my first-ever solo live. I didn’t send an email, warn anyone, or promo it before I started. I put my lippy on at 9am all ready to go, then spent the next three hours doing every other job on my laptop to avoid it, and eventually just pressed “live” and st...

What would you do differently if you could go back and start your business again? After 16 years building online businesses while travelling the world, I've made plenty of mistakes, spent money I didn't need to spend, chased shiny objects, changed brands too many times, and learned some valuable lessons along the way. In this episode, I share seven of the biggest lessons I'd pass on to any creator...

“What’s that?” I said out loud to myself as I plucked a half-eaten plastic bottle top from under Bailey’s leg. Bailey is the gorgeous 3-year-old German Shepherd–Husky cross we’re currently house sitting in Vancouver. She was laying across my bed looking slightly sheepish. I walked out to the kitchen to see if I could find what the lid belonged to, left it on the counter and went to get dressed. As...

My daughter Cerys has just spent four weeks with us: 2 in Vegas, 2 in Cabo. Last week she flew back to London 😢, and shortly she’s off to Paris with her friends to celebrate her 20th birthday, because at 20, Paris with your mates beats Cabo with your parents right? 20 years old. 😳 Which means twenty years ago I didn’t have a child. I hadn’t met Rhett. I didn’t know what an online business was, I...

Gordon Ramsay is everywhere here in Vegas. And I mean everywhere! * Gordon Ramsay Burger. * Gordon Ramsay Fish & Chips. * Gordon Ramsay Steak. * Gordon Ramsay Pub & Grill. Love him or hate him the guy is a personal branding genius. Personally I have no strong feelings either way about him. I quite enjoy the odd episode of Hells Kitchen, he’s obviously very good at what he does, and as a fellow Bri...

Yesterday afternoon, very decadently, Cerys (my daughter) and I were lying by the rooftop pool here in Vegas, sun on our faces, drinks in our hands, with the sounds of the strip in the distance. Cerys is ( almost ) 20 and studying music at college in London, so when she starts talking about how the music business works these days, I listen. ( How the tides have turned - for the last 2 decades I’ve...

I’m poorly. 🤒 Seriously you couldn’t make this stuff up. Almost 6 weeks ago now, I found myself at 2am in a dodgy back street hospital in Cartagena with severe stomach pain, that a week later turned out to be a blocked gallstone and swift gallbladder removal in a hospital in Costa Rica. And here I am now, in a lovely city just north of San Diego having picked up a chest infection of sorts and fee...

Travel safety is one of those topics many of us don’t think deeply about until something happens, or until we start travelling more extensively and realise the world isn’t always as straightforward as our home environment. In this episode, I’m joined by Erin, Nomad Life , a long-term nomad and newly certified Empowerment Self-Defence (ESD) coach, to talk about practical travel safety, situational...

Today’s post is about practising the thing that moves you closer to the result you want. For me, the result I want right now is more engagement on my daily posts. And the thing I need to practise to get there is brevity. Because even the most interesting content in the world gets skipped if it’s too unwieldy and we’ve got more important things to focus on. So this is a post about writing a post th...

What does healthy aging actually look like when you’re over 50 and still travelling, building things, and living life fully? In this episode, I’m joined by naturopath, long-time nomad, and founder of Power Aging Women , Judy Seeger, who at 68 is living proof that strength, mobility, and energy don’t have to fade with age. We talk honestly about the stuff many of us are quietly worried about — meta...

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In this episode of The 50+ Nomad Podcast, I’m walking you through the four micro hustles I’m personally building this year, based on what I’m actually doing right now. After 15+ years online and building everything from newsletters to digital courses, coaching businesses and seven-figure e-commerce brands, I’ve become very intentional about how I work, especially at this stage of life. These are b...

Do you want to make 2026 the year your Substack takes off? Then Dereks upcoming cohort is the perfect next step for you! Over 6 live sessions he’ll break down the steps he’s taken to not only grow his writing business, but to turn it into a money machine! He’ll walk you through how to write articles that grow subscribers, post notes that get noticed and turn your publication into a subscriber magn...

Is there a chance you’re still living according to a moment that maybe happened years ago? A comment, a failure, an email, or a criticism that stuck with you longer than it should have. In this New Year episode of The 50+ Nomad Podcast , I’m sharing a very personal story about something I didn’t realise was still shaping my behaviour. A confidence knock from nearly a decade ago that’s sneakily sto...

Fear doesn’t always stop you from starting. Very often, it shows up after you’ve built the thing, launched it, and made it real. In this episode, I unpack a pattern I’ve lived with for years: loving an idea, taking action on it, creating something meaningful… and then suddenly doubting it the moment it’s visible and open to judgement. From my first six-figure launch back in 2011, to our Amazon bus...

I recorded this episode this morning from a little hotel room in London after just getting back from Morocco last week. I’m still buzzing from the adventure and thinking a lot about what it means to build a freedom-funding business in our 50s, 60s and beyond. And today I’m sharing why I’ve gone all in on Substack, and why I genuinely believe it’s the most powerful, ease-filled platform for 50+ nom...

Stepping into solo travel can stir up a lot of ‘what ifs’, especially if you’re doing it later in life or heading somewhere unfamiliar. In this episode, I sit down with the incredible Erin Michelson — writer, adventurer, ethical-tour creator, and all-round powerhouse behind Nomad Life — to talk about what it really means to feel safe, confident and capable on the road. Erin has travelled to 130+ c...