New Season: Ep 101: Mapping Megan Around the World
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2 min readAug 30, 2018
Megan Jerrard from Mapping Megan has one of the most popular travel blogs around since 2007.
Her adventure and adrenaline filled stories with her husband Mike have been featured in places like National Geographic, the New York Times, and Forbes.
Listen to find out how she has made such a name for herself in the competitive world of travel writing.
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Show Notes:
- Where in the world she is and how she travels now (1:20)
- How she got started on the travel and how different cultures view it (4:40)
- Funding her travels in the beginning of the travel bug (*Hint: It’s a lot of work)(6:20)
- How her long-running hobby travel blog turned into a professional brand after a chance chat on a plane with one of the biggest travel bloggers in the world (7:40)
- Steps to monetizing a blog in such a crowded space, and why your plan is probably not going to work without the work while you wear more hats than an army battalion (11:02)
- Relaxing mountain bike riding on the death road in Bolivia, and other vacation ideas (14:30)
“Make sure you diversify your income streams, because something could dry up.”
