Ash Bhardwaj on Adventure With Purpose and Becoming a Travel Journalist.

How can you travel the world and get paid for it? Ash Bhardwaj is a travel writer and storyteller - and also co-host of The First Mile. He’s reported from around the world for global broadcasters such as the BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4, has a monthly travel column in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, and has made films for Channel 4, Discovery and the BBC.

In this special episode, Pip interviews her co-host about launching and sustaining career in adventure travel. If you want to travel with purpose, or make a living out of travel, this is the episode for you.

In this episode, discover:

• How Ash got into travel journalism.
• Why Ash was a terrible cowboy.
• How a trip to India to take his Dad’s ashes back shaped his curiosity for travel journalism and travel with purpose.
• Ash’s steps to achieving in any industry - skills, network and portfolio.
• How to network.
• Why you should say yes to opportunities.
• Why you should just keep turning up.
• Why travelling with purpose enhances your travel experiences.
• The importance of managing your mental health.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Ash website https://www.ashbhardwaj.com/bio
• Ash Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ashbhardwaj/?hl=en
• Ash Twitter https://twitter.com/AshBhardwaj
• Levison Wood http://www.levisonwood.com
• Secret Compass https://secretcompass.com
• Walking with The Wounded https://www.walkingwiththewounded.org.uk
• Nick Crane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Crane
• Rise and Shine Audio Network https://www.riseandshineaudio.com/
• The Army Reserve https://www.army.mod.uk/who-we-are/the-army-reserve/
• Edgelands https://www.telegraph.co.uk/edgelands/
• AA Gill https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/177627.A_A_Gill
• Michael Palin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Palin

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