The Working Traveller
by Jo Barnes
If you want to build an online lifestyle business you can run from anywhere in the world whether that be your kitchen table or a beach in Fiji, you're in the right place! Nomadic solopreneur of 14+ years, host Jo Barnes is on a mission to arm action takers like you with the knowledge, tools, strategies & inspiration to do just that! Join Jo & guests to explore the world of living life by your own design.
Episodes
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#93-Kickstart Your 2025 Goals: Week 5 - 90 Day Plan for Success
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…
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#92-Kickstart Your 2025 Goals: Week 4 - Conquer Self-Doubt
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...
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#91-Kickstart Your 2025 Goals: Week 3 – Create Financial Freedom
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...
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#90-Kickstart Your 2025 Goals - Week 2 – Design Your Dream Life & Build Habits That Stick
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...
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#89 - Kickstart Your 2025 Goals - Week 1 - Set Your Dreams in Motion
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: ✨…
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#88 - 10 Transformative Lessons Learned in 2024
🎙 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…
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#87 - 7 Tips for Building Self-Discipline When Every Day Feels Like Saturday
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...
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#86 - 6 Travel Side Hustles Nobody's Talking About
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…
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#85 - Now, Not How: The Art of Immediate Action
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...
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#84 - From Architect to Amazon Seller to 6 Figure Shopify Seller & Full Time Traveler - Dan Worthington
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...
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#83 - Lessons Learned in 2020
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...
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#82 - The 7 Strategies I'm Using to 100x My Website Traffic
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...
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#81 - Your Money Making Blog Content Strategy
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…
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#80 - Essential Pages & Plugins for Your Money Making Blog
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...
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#79 - Setting Up Your Money Making Blog
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…
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#78 - How to Make Money Blogging
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...
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#77 - 7 Steps to Choosing Your Perfect Online Lifestyle Business Niche!
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...
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#76 - Two Strategies You Must Implement for Long Term Online Business Success!
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...
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#75 - 21 Ways to Promote Your Lead Magnet
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…
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#74 - 6 Ways to Engage Your Email Subscribers
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...
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#73 - How to Create an Irresistible Lead Magnet
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…
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#72 - 6 Steps to Building a High Converting Email Funnel
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…
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#71 - 8 Steps to Building Your Online Lifestyle Business
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...
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#70 - Getting Your Own ISBN No with Paul Holman
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…
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#69 - Selling on Zazzle with Caroline Jones
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...
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#68 - Build a Book to Build a Business with Sandra Spence
Wouldn’t it be awesome if there was a way to create almost instant authority & credibility to our brand. A way to help us stand out from the crowd, get noticed and create opportunities we might not otherwise have! Well, I’m happy to say there is. It involves a little up front work but according…
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#67 - Locked Down in Cambodia with the Roaming Rebels
Cambodia is one of my favorite places in the world. I was especially excited therefore to interview the awesome Roaming Rebels who at the time of interview were locked down in Cambodia due to the Covid 19 outbreak! Barbara & Louis (aka Roaming Rebels) decided to pack up their lives in South…
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#66 - Share Your Passion with Renee Hasseldine
Renee Hassel - like tassle - dine, is the creator and founder of shareyourpassion.com.au an Australian based business built to help thought leaders & experts find their voice and core message and turn it into powerful visual models & online content. What I loved about todays chat apart from…
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#65 - How to Start & Grow a 7 Figure Amazon Business
In 2015 my husband & I started selling on Amazon. Within 12 months we'd grossed 1.2 million dollars with one product! It blew our minds. We continued to grow our business over the following years topping $3 million (per year) with net profits in the region of 15 - 18%, until we sold it in early...
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#64 - Dare to be a Badass with Pam Vincent
If you’d love to feel more confident building your business, more productive during your week, understand how to create an automated funnel that makes money while you’re doing important jobs and work from home so you can spend more time with your loved ones (phew, that’s a lot). Then todays…
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#63 - Becoming a Published Author with Julie Cordiner
I loved this interview with Julie! (I know, I know, I love them all). But I particularly love interviews that inspire me to action. I have been meaning to start my book for a long long long time now, but for whatever reason it just gets pushed to the bottom of the pile. But after this interview I...
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#62 - Is Email Marketing Dead? with Helen Lindop
I started a little commerce store last year as a bit of an experiment and along the way hired the lovely Helen Lindop to organize all my email campaigns. She did a fab job and is the founder of her own email marketing agency helping clients the world over organize and manage their email clients,...
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#61 - 16 Lessons Learned from a 10 Day FB Live Challenge
I recently did a 10 Day FB Live challenge. The goal being to get my head around how lives work, the best software to use, ideal length, how to engage an audience etc. I’m not going to lie, I was nervous! I haven’t done a webinar in years, I’m used to editing mistakes out of my videos and I don’t...
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#60 - How Big Brands Grow Their Social Media Audiences - #startwithone!
There isn’t any one magic secret that leads to all success in business, but there are a few big ones which if you get right will have an exponential affect on your efforts. This is one of those ‘big ones’. What I mean by platform is the place from which you will build your audience. Where you’ll...
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#59 - Obliterating Overwhelm & Getting More Done with Pip Meecham
Who doesn’t love the thought of speeding through your tasks and ticking off your to do’s with that gleam of satisfaction you feel as you mark each job - DONE! Truth be told, I sometimes add a task to my to do after I’ve done it just to cross it off!!! (Come on, I know you do too!) In todays…
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#58 - 16 Ways to Grow Your Facebook Group
When I first started online back in 2010, FB pages were all the rage. In fact I made my first 6 figures off the back of becoming an expert on how to launch and grow your FB Business Page. These days it’s all about groups! FB want more close and personal relationships and so are propelling groups…
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#57 - How to Fund Full Time Travel with Dan Worthington
Imagine flying into a country you’ve never visited before for a friends wedding and then getting locked down there for over 4 months! This is exactly what’s happened to my good buddy Dan & his folks. They flew over to Phuket for my wedding at the end of February and as I write this mid June…
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#56 - Top 10 Ways to Find Awesome Content Ideas
Do you ever get stuck wondering what content you should create to resonate with your audience? Even when you know your niche super well it can be challenging to constantly think up new and engaging content ideas. The trick is to get inside the mind of your target audience and find out what…
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#55 - How to Start a Digital Marketing Agency with Leanne Cohens
I loved this chat with Leanne! Leanne is the founder of marketingleap.net, an Australian based Digital Marketing Agency offering everything from social media marketing, ads, content marketing and training & coaching. Everything a small business needs to grow its profile on the web. She didn’t…
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#54 - The Your Lifestyle Business Easy to Follow Content Strategy
I must admit I have a love hate relationship with content. I so want to create lots of valuable information and share other awesome content I find online, but it’s also so easy to get completely overwhelmed with the sheer amount of stuff you could share that you end up sharing nothing! That’s why...
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#53 - How to Build & Sell a Profitable Ecommerce Business at Only 14 Years Old!
I love today's episode! Earlier this year my husband & I sold our Amazon business and started to buy small e-commerce businesses with growth opportunity. We came across an EarPod business and fell in love with the founder more than the business! Peter Samios is 14 years old and spent 18 months...
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#52 - How to Stand Head & Shoulders Above Your Competition
I'm so passionate about todays topic. I honestly believe this is the magic ingredient to ensuring your uniqueness no matter who you're up against in your niche or industry. If you can clearly define the higher purpose of your business, the whole reason for it's existence and how it impacts your...
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#51 - What Business Are You In
So you’ve got as far as knowing you want to run a lifestyle business. You may even know that you definitely want to be a blogger or an affiliate marketer or sell products or services online. But what ‘business’ are you actually in? Perhaps you haven’t quite defined the niche you want to go into,...
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#50 – Planning Your Ideal Lifestyle Budget
How much money do you actually need to live your ideal lifestyle? Do you know? Have you worked it out down to the penny or are you plucking a number out of thin air? Have you even thought about it? Perhaps instead you simply say to yourself ‘I want to make more money’, so I can; travel the world,...
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#49 - 5 Key Steps to Build a Six (or Seven) Fig Online Lifestyle Business
An online lifestyle business is a business that funds your lifestyle. Not a million dollar VC funded startup, or an idea that requires a trip to the bank with a business plan. This is about creating something, preferably from a passion you already have, that you can run totally remotely from...
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#48 – The Mind Game of Ecommerce with Nick Peroni
“It's really all just one big mind game. Which can be frustrating until we understand how liberating that really is. Within our thoughts, we have the power to achieve anything we're willing to work for, if we only have the discipline to control our thoughts towards the goals we have.” Nick Peroni...
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#47 - How Mom & Daughter are Helping Change the World with Ecommerce
How Mom & Daughter are Helping Change the World with Ecommerce “You really need to know where your products are coming from and we think that every purchase should have a purpose.” Christine Sacramone This Monday, I interview Mum and Daughter duo Christine and Madison Sacramone, founders of High…
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#46 - Women! Find & OWN Your Unique Voice
Are you aware of how powerful & unique you are, just as you are? How many times do we second guess or doubt ourselves. Maybe we stop ourselves from doing things we know would take us closer to our goals because we're worried that maybe we're not as good as we think we could be or we're worried...
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#45 - Passport to Fitness (for home based entrepreneurs)
There is nothing worse than feeling tired, sluggish & desperately lacking in energy, particularly if we’re trying to build the business & life of our dreams and even more so when we want to go bounding around the world exploring new places & cultures. It’s easy to simply say eat more fruit & veg,...
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#44 - 12 Steps to Get More Done & Love Every Minute!
I’ve recently increased my own productivity beyond measure. I’m getting more done in a day now than I used to in a week, sometimes even longer. I’m no longer spending my days thinking or planning or getting distracted on social media. I’m just ‘doing’! And the great part is I’m loving it! There…
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If you want to build an online lifestyle business you can run from anywhere in the world whether that be your kitchen table or a beach in Fiji, you're in the right place! Nomadic solopreneur of 14+ years, host Jo Barnes is on a mission to arm action takers like you with the knowledge, tools, strategies & inspiration to do just that! Join Jo & guests to explore the world of living life by your own design.
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