From Passion for Travel to Award-winning Stories with Jessica Vincent

In this episode, I talk to Jessica Vincent, a multi-award-winning travel journalist with work in BBC Travel, National Geographic Traveller, CNN Travel, and more. Since graduating with a literature degree in London, Jessica has been living out of a backpack and reporting from countries across Europe, Africa, and Central and South America. From completing a rare trek through indigenous land in southern Mexico to meeting Belize’s first female drum maker, Jessica’s stories aim to inform, inspire and challenge misconceptions about people and places that are often misunderstood. Jessica is the current Global Travel Writer of the Year, and has been nominated for three more travel journalism awards, including Specialist Writer of the Year and Best Wider World Feature, in 2021. She is also a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers and the host of Inside Travel Media, a weekly IGTV series that interviews some of the world’s best travel journalists, photographers and filmmakers. In our conversation, Jessica gives us poignant, real, inspiring, and uplifting advice about starting a path into travel journalism. I loved talking to Jessica about her experiences and the very real challenges faced on this path like facing fears, taking action, and how we can better support ourselves while developing our portfolio.