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 episod...

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...

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 tru...

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 an...

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 meani...

🎙 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 dreami...

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...

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...

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 imper...

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, Th...

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 a...

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...

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 en...

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. N...

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...

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 w...

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 ar...

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 lifest...

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 y...

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; consisten...

Welcome to part 2 of my 3 part email marketing series. Last week I walked you through the 6 Steps to Building a High Converting Email Funnel. Today we're looking at how to create a lead magnet people can't help but sign up too! I'm going to demonstrate six different types of lead generation offer, how you create each one and then where and how to upload to make it easily available to your brand ne...

You may wonder in the instant messaging, social media world we live in now, whether building an email list is still worth it. The resounding answer is YES! As fabulous as social media is, building an email list means building a database of very targeted subscribers. Anyone who’s willing to trade an email address for your information is someone who’s very interested in what you have to offer. It do...

Wouldn’t it be awesome if on any given day you could choose to work from anywhere? Your favourite coffee shop, your kitchen table in your PJ’s, a beautiful beach.  Well, that’s why we start lifestyle businesses. So we have that kind of choice.  This week I decided to head down to my local beautiful beach here in Phuket for the day & record today’s podcast! I felt recording on the bea...

This was such an energetic chat with Paul Holman founder of Duchy Digital Publishing .  Paul contacted me a few weeks ago and asked if he could publish my free ebook ‘6 Ways to Build a Business You Can Run From Anywhere in the World’ on kindle as an experiment. Always fascinated to learn new things I was curious about the process and so as soon as the book went live I jumped on a live with Pa...

If you’re looking to build a small side income and would love to sell physical products without any upfront investment todays episode is for you! The lovely Caroline Jones of Playful Pixel Designs kindly jumped on an FB live with me to talk through how she set up her Zazzle business. Zazzle is a print on demand site meaning you create your designs and images, upload to various ‘blank’ products on...