5th Birthday and 500,000 Downloads: Episode 232 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast

I can barely believe that it’s five years since I first hit publish on The Thoughtful Travel Podcast. (Even more, I can’t believe that people have downloaded episodes of this podcast over half a million times, now!)

Welcome to this celebration episode – and a massive thank you to every one of you who’s ever listened to an episode, told a friend about it, chatted with me in the Thoughtful Travellers group and most especially, thanks to every one of my brilliant guests over the past five years.

Here’s to five more, I reckon! Enjoy this episode.

Show notes: Episode 232 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast

5th Birthday and 500,000 Downloads

It’s party time!!

The Thoughtful Travel Podcast, in the past week, has both turned five years old (ready to start school now!!) and download numbers have hit half a million. It’s been a very exciting week in our household!

In this special celebration episode, I start off with a quick chat about podcast statistics and where The Thoughtful Travel Podcast fits into download numbers in general (remember, I like statistics – I love maths!).

But then I digress to chat about how I’ve reached this stage, and reference psychologist Angela Duckworth’s book Grit, which I’m currently re-reading – it’s an interesting thing to consider how passion and persistence can work hand in hand and then suddenly, I have a five-year-old podcast and a much clearer vision of what else I want to do with it (and thoughtful travel in general) in the future.

Finally, I give in to a directive from my son who, on listening to some older episodes, instructed me to tell more of my own travel stories. I’ve linked them to this fifth anniversary in a typically quirky fashion but just bear with me and enjoy the tales!

Links:

• Average podcast stats from The Podcast Host 
• Grit – Angela Duckworth
• Join our Facebook group for Thoughtful Travellers

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