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Hello Seven Podcast

The Secret To Monetizing Your Passion With Jeff Jenkins

Hello Seven Podcast

Rachel Rodgers

Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business, Education

4.8601 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Ever dreamt of turning your passion into your income stream? We’ve all been there. But what’s stopping you from actually doing it? One person who’s turned their passion into their full time income is Jeff Jenkins. Jeff Jenkins is an award-winning content creator, travel journalist, TV host, and entrepreneur. Named one of Travel + Leisure’s 50 Notable People in Travel, he is the founder of Chubby Diaries and co-founder of Black Travel Alliance. Rachel caught up with Jeff at the ROI summit to...

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0:00.0

Every single year, I was like, oh, this is going to be my last year.

0:02.9

I was like, do I want to keep doing this for the rest of my life?

0:05.7

I want to travel the world, help people and get paid to do it. I'm sure folks here are wondering, how are you making money? Brands just started nonstop reaching out. And the lady was like, are you shocked at like Nat Geo's like reaching out to me right now? And I said, no, mail. and I brought up my phone. And I was like, every single day,

0:21.1

I read off my affirmations. It says, one day you'll have a travel show. And she's like, oh, I have goosebumps. When you got direction, people follow in line. But Brandon was one of the biggest things. The richest is in the niches. And I was like, I don't know my niche. And she was like, It's right there. You're fat and black. Talk about that.

0:20.0

And I say, hey!

0:22.3

The other thing is, what the hell? my niece. And she was like, it's right there. You're fat and black. Talk about that. And I said, yay!

0:40.1

The other thing is, what the hell are we waiting for? What's special about five years that it's

0:45.0

not now? Just do it. When you run from the challenge and you run from the heart, you ain't living.

0:50.0

You might be alive, but you ain't living. You want to make more money?

0:54.6

You are in the right place.

0:56.6

Welcome to the Hello Seven Podcast.

0:59.2

That's seven as in seven figures.

1:02.0

I'm your host, Rachel...

1:03.3

Hello, hello, and welcome to the podcast studio.

1:07.3

Woo!

1:09.6

Yes.

1:18.5

So I am so delighted today to be hanging out with my friend Jeff Jenkins.

1:24.1

I'm so excited for you to meet him, to get to know him, and we're going to get all up in his business, okay?

1:26.9

He told me it was okay, so we're doing it. So just my first question for you is,

1:32.6

what did you want to be when you grew up? Like, what were you like as a kid? So, I mean,

1:38.0

growing up, uh, before everything came at me, I was like, oh, I'm going to be an astronaut.

1:43.9

You know, like an astronaut.

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