The Travel Transformation Podcast: Self-development & personal growth tips for travel lovers & adventure seekers · Jessica Grace Coleman

140. Workations, Writing Retreats & Accountability Adventures: How I Combine Remote Work & Play On Shorter Trips

August 13, 2024·21 min·1 clip

Booking an Airbnb in advance can force her to finish scripts because she does not want to waste the money.

1. Travel Transformation Podcast episode 140 is about workations, writing retreats, and accountability adventures on shorter trips. 2. Jessica Grace Coleman is the host, a travel coach and author who also runs the Travel Transformation Company. 3. She frames the episode around the question of how to combine remote work and play on trips that last a weekend, a week, or two weeks. 4. She starts with writing retreats because she writes nonfiction books, fiction books, short stories, and editing work for Coleman Editing. 5. She says writer's block can improve when someone leaves a usual routine and writes somewhere new. 6. She explains that writing retreats can be solo trips, friend trips, or paid retreats with workshops and feedback sessions. 7. She describes a solo retreat in the New Forest in England with Annie, an ex-BBC writer. 8. She says the retreat had an annex, a balcony, homemade vegetarian meals, and very little internet. 9. She recalls hearing rustling in the bushes, thinking about wild boars, and skipping most walks. 10. She says the retreat helped her work on The Downfall and talk through its time-travel plot with Annie. 11. She gives a Stratford-upon-Avon example with Gemma and Lauren, who are both writers and readers. 12. She says that trip included afternoon tea, a ghost tour, movie nights, and writing breaks near Shakespeare's birthplace. 13. She notes that the trip became more social than productive because Stratford-upon-Avon had too many tourist distractions. 14. She then moves to short Airbnbs with her brother, Dave, who is also self-employed. 15. She says they used places in Nottingham, Bude, and Newquay for work, admin, and planning, including Movify Your Life documentaries. 16. She mentions using AI music generation because she cannot afford a band or famous-song rights for documentary music. 17. She also describes filming online course content in Airbnbs with Dave's cameras, teleprompters, and lights. 18. She shares the Derbyshire filming problems, including road noise, airplane noise, a loud heating system, and freezing temperatures in an old chapel conversion. 19. The episode sounds conversational and practical, with Jessica moving between examples, lessons, and cautions in a solo format. 20. Travel coaches, remote workers, and self-employed listeners may get the most from it, while people who dislike work-and-travel planning may skip it.

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A grounded nudge toward making shorter trips feel workable and worthwhile.

Workations, Writing Retreats and Accountability Adventures treats shorter trips as a workable way to bring travel, work, and fun into the same frame.

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Make a short trip do more than just feel like time away.

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