Adventure Travel Podcast - Big World Made Small · Jason Elkins - Big World Made Small Adventure Travel Marketing

Adventure Travel with Jackie Nourse - Traveling Jackie

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Jackie says a year abroad is not lost time, but time gained.

1. Adventure Travel Podcast - Big World Made Small centers on Jackie Nourse and her travel path through Costa Rica, Italy, and Brazil. 2. Jason Elkins hosts the conversation, and Jackie Nourse appears as the guest, podcaster, and creator of Traveling Jackie and Jump with Traveling Jackie. 3. The episode asks what a year abroad, a travel blog, and a podcast can do for a person’s life and career. 4. Jackie says she has about 22 years of travel experience, starting with moving abroad at 18 to study Spanish in Costa Rica. 5. She explains that studying Italian in Italy and Portuguese in Brazil followed the Costa Rica year, turning language study into repeated long-term travel. 6. Jackie says she started a proper travel blog about 10 years into travel and began podcasting one year later. 7. She describes organizing trips for her listeners about 10 years ago so people could join her rather than only watch from afar. 8. Jackie says the business grew organically and brought her audience along with her. 9. She says Jump with Traveling Jackie won Best Travel Podcast 2025 by iHeartRadio. 10. Jason asks whether she still blogs, and Jackie says she writes every day but no longer considers herself a blogger. 11. Jackie says her website, travelingjackie.com, is the place where her projects come together. 12. She says the book she is writing begins with the decision to move abroad at age 18. 13. Jackie says she kept journals from that period and is using them to support the book. 14. She says the podcast name Jump comes from a tradition of group jumps in epic places around the world. 15. Jackie says Jump also means courage, taking the leap, and getting outside the comfort zone. 16. She says her year in Costa Rica taught her that she was not known there and could choose who to be. 17. Jackie says a full year abroad matters because four months is not enough time for the hard parts and the growth. 18. She says returning home for Christmas made her realize she was not missing anything and helped her commit to the second semester. 19. The conversation is a casual interview with direct back-and-forth questions, travel anecdotes, and personal reflection. 20. Listeners who like study abroad, language learning, and travel entrepreneurship will get the most from it.

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