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#949 - Type 1 Diabetes Doesn’t Stop This Nomadic Blogger

2019-08-07

A couple’s travel blog becomes a resource for other travelers with type 1 diabetes.

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well over one million Americans, are living with type one diabetes. My god is what I am very glad that both medicine and technology have evolved to point where managing the condition, its lot easier and less scary was a few decades ago. Still serious conditions requires careful, adherence to diet and lifestyle nor to remain safe and healthy. So what does this have to do with travel blocking which will look out today and the programme by the way? This is sort of school blog, your host critical about what one half of the travel blogging couple I'll tell you about, has type one diabetes, and they have wisely decided to write about that. Focusing on how people with this condition can still travel and live a life of adventure. They just have to prepare and plan. Well, so wise it wise, while because they are way too many travel bloggers out there, you can't, through a rock in Thailand without taking out an entire web hosts worth of them. Thus running a dozen beat
on set put ozone instagram. So if you're gonna be a travel blogger, you can either be the very best one in the world which of course is difficult, or you can wisely find a unique focus in approach. As with this couple is found in there now earning more than thirty five hundred dollars a month, so good for them will hear about how they made it happened. Can a couple of tips for you. That story is coming up after the shut out to our sponsor stated. It would seem that, no matter where you look online these days, there is another travelled walk. Does that mean that there are no longer any opportunities? Those looking to monetize that oversees adventures, while as college students, Bradley Williams, Kazi Mcguinness discovered it still possible? But if you want to stand out, you need to
this your efforts, causing it always dreamed of traveling the world and she started saving up for granted pinchers from an early age. That dream came to a halt when she was diagnosed with type one diabetes. Those not familiar with it just type one. Diabetes is not preventable and there is no known cure its condition that must be constantly and carefully managed, with insolent, either via injections, or an insolent pop diabetics measure, their blood sugar levels throughout the day, with finger pricks or by wearing a continuous glucose monitor on top of all that, if insulin gets too hot or if it freezes becomes ineffective, adding another complication when travelling having hope for a tear
Ray Vagabond Life Kazi was devastated, but she also wasn't interested in learning. That diagnosis become her only reality. Three months later, Kazi set off insulin, pump in hand to see the world was no is easy, but she found ways to make do even in countries like Bangladesh. In Thailand, where there is little diabetes care, nothing was going to keep her from hanging out with elephants over the years she learned
About type one diabetes and the impact they have on our travellers and somewhere along the way it occurred to her, this was valuable information she could share with others. So when she and her boyfriend Bradley graduating from university with a four month, backpacking Stent South America, on the horizon, they decided it was time to make a leap with less than five hundred pounds more about six hundred and fifty dollars. They launched a website called their new project dream big travel far and instead of creating an all purpose, travel blog, they ought to focus on giving others with type one diabetes, the tools they needed to meet their travels without compromising their health. They started out by running detailed post with short, accurate entrusted answers, all the questions, people with a condition naturally have before setting up to a new country.
Questions like do you need a doctor's note to justify the amount of insulin you travel with, and can you go through security, with an insolent up in between Amazon River, about cruises, in tracking, through national parks, Kazi and broadly publish their advice and taking medication and syringes through t essay travelling to high altitude and even location specific? What to do in case of emergencies guides? The ladder of these was especially important because, following a night with her sister at a bar in Thailand, has he knew all too well how easy it was for someone Mistaken glucose, monitor for a cell phone and walk off of it. Although they were clearly filling a need, it wasn't always easy to keep up the motivation. In the early days they monetize the site using Google adds an affiliate links for products. The pair relied on freelance copyrighted gigs to fund their travels for the first couple of years. Fortunately, it was steady income. Their expenses were low enough that they allow you to do client work about two hours a day.
To stay afloat, freelancing as a common approach for generating income while building up a passion project. However, Bradley says that if he could go back, he would have more of a financial buffer prior to setting out on their troubles. This way they can work on their blog more without needing to prevent so much ass. It was each article. They wrote for a client, less time and energy they could put towards running for their own block in scaling it as a business, although slow to grow, their hustle eventually did pay off. They centre themselves, as authorities for travellers with type one diabetes in dream. Big travel far currently gets more than a hundred thousand patriots per month and brings in about three thousand pounds or thirty. Seven hundred dollars in profit each month as well, has even been successful enough for them to quit. Freelancing entirely and sustain their travels. Demonetized. This growing traffic they ve installed, adds through a network called media vine.
They also generate commissions from looking to products on Amazon, another affiliate merchants hand they sell their own e book any course for travellers with type one roughly. Forty percent of their income comes from ad revenue, forty percent from affiliate commissions and twenty percent from miscellaneous sources like they're only products, an occasional brand collaborations being able to earn passive income while exploring waterfalls and having around islands is obviously a huge benefit, but its cumbersome secondary benefits as well for Bradley having a place to channel his overactive mind has led to better mental health on the road. Kazi has become a leading voice within the travel market. Speaking at a number of events around the UK, this adventurous couple now has lofty goals to triple their blog traffic this year and find new ways to continue growing their income. Eventually, they love to hire a virtual assistant to cover tasks like email and.
She'll media, so they can focus on what they do best, namely getting traffic through Google. Meanwhile, there making their way from Ireland to Indonesia. It just goes to show that a diagnosis can't stop you from dreaming big and travelling far. I'd so here's some tough love for you here today, waste for somebody out there. There are just too many travel borders there. Also too many life, coaches, health, coaches, business strategists. All of these things are far too general so hard to succeed. If that's all, you are a travel, blogger, life, coach, half coach business strategist, probably some other examples that I am not mentioning. That doesn't mean you can succeed. Of course it just means you have to do something like apply. Cassius I did a story a while back about this guy, who was a networking lawyer
So he was a lawyer and he goes out on his own. What's been, entrepreneur starts writing about general entrepreneurship and its fine, but you know his friends say nobody's going to really care about this. What what's your angle here and he realized tat- he was really good at networking- is really good at what are essentially called how to make friends. That's what have led him to be a speechwriter for the president, you're much other stuff for get exactly where this is in the archives, but its fairly recent, and by focusing on networking by helping other people, create the connections they want or to interact and make friends and be helpful and all that kind of stuff. He now makes three thousand dollars a year with this focused approach when he was just running about general entrepreneurship. Not so much so remember
lies in doesnt limit you, it grows you specializing, just like cats. You did in this case lots people out there were type one diabetes. It said my dad who might be interested in going to Bangladesh, but can you even do that? What seems like you can, but course you have questions. Kazi and probably have answers so good for them help. We can bring them a small amount of exposure here, and I hope it helps some of our listeners out there as well forget to specialise. It's ok to may travel bloggers out their inspiration is good, but inspiration with action. Is so much better today. Show notes: are it's out of school dot com, slash, nine for nine nine hundred and forty nine? We are approaching one thousand so excited to share this journey with My name is critical about this site, us of school.
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