S2 E21: You Get to Decide What Success Looks Like with Yulia Denisyuk

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Today, we have a very interesting subject, so buckle up!

Today, I'd like to talk to you about what success looks like in the travel media space. Many people I speak to are interested in pursuing this career path, but many are also worried about leaving their job behind and taking the plunge.

So today, we explore different ways in which this career can be an option.

“There wasn't a single day in the past five years where I said, ‘Oh, I really hate to go to work today.’ And that to me is the definition of absolute success.”

Want to know how you can start publishing your travel stories? Download my step-by-step guide to publishing your stories and start sending your ideas out into the world!

What you’ll learn in this episode:

  • [02:34] There are lots of minuses to the travel media industry

  • [03:53] A quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb I gravitated to before leaving my corporate job

  • [04:45] There are also pluses!

  • [06:25] Dispelling the myth that you need to make all of your income from one source 

  • [07:45] Three steps to consider before starting in freelancing, storytelling, and travel journalism

  • [18:34] Choosing projects that light you up

  • [23:13] More on the myth of a successful creator

  • [26:30] Three questions to ask yourself if you want to get started on the creative path

Featured on the show:

  1. Check out this conversation we recently had with Breanna Wilson, a travel writer who left her life in LA behind and moved to Mongolia to pursue travel writing

  2. Check out my photo story for National Geographic Traveller | The Nomadic Bedouins of Jordan

  3. Interested in travel writing or photography? Join the waitlist to be the first to know when our travel journalism masterclass, Storytellers In Action, opens! In this class, we help womxn creators get a footing in the travel media space, dream big, work through our fears, and take action. And trust me: you’ll want to be on that waitlist when the class opens soon!

  4. Check out our membership community, The Circle, the place where brilliant womxn creators in travel media go to claim their dreams, get support, take action, and build their dream creative lives

  5. Come join us in the Genius Womxn Facebook Group

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